Marlo Aphelion
Marlo Aphelion
After a ruins accident in his youth, Marlo was endowed with a gift of Numenera: biological parts exchanged for those of a machine. As he tries make peace with a world wary of a face with a lens, he seeks more ruins to understand what happened.
Physical Description
Apparel & Accessories
A thick set of gloves, practical.
A scarf wrapped around the right-half of his face when among people to conceal his steel aspect.
Wears a cloak which, in hot weather, opens a series of little round mirrors over the head and shoulders.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Marlo grew up in Rodal, a village on the frontier, with his family. The death of their mother, Mila, has given Marlo and his sister empathy for loss. They spent much of their time growing up helping at the family clinic, which was run by their father Threndor, an aeon priest, who used his understanding of Numenera to heal and aid the community.
As time went on both developed other interests to occupy their time. Valeyn studied their father's scriptures, while Marlo took to learning how to navigate the dangers of ruins and explore.
Marlo's mechanical aspect made others wary to look upon him, so he learnt to put others at ease, and to conceal his 'endowments'.
His interest in ruins and Numenera was looked down on, until he uncovered an artifact capable of repelling the iron wind (and even some of the machine monstrosities that roam the Beyond), creating a pocket of further safety for the village. Further discoveries would turn the tide of plague. He became respected by his neighbours.
Valeyn left for the Steadfast to study to become an aeon priest of Order of Truth, while Marlo and his father began to take on students to help run the clinic.
Between his father's death and the lack of unexplored ruins left near his childhood home, Marlo left for the Steadfast to bring word of the former to his sister, and to seek new ruins.
Ultimately, he found Valeyn in Charmonde.