Stig

Rank 10 Techpriest Magos and the Weaponized

Played by P. Content contributed by P.

Stig (a.k.a. STYG-0, Styg)

Stig in An Apostasy Gambit

Stats

Weapon Skill	Ballistic Skill	Strength	Toughness	Agility	Intelligence	Perception	Willpower	Fellowship
47	45	100	62	24	61	43	43	33

(TBC)

STYG-0 in The Overgrown Wilds

STYG-0, Stevedore and Walker are somehow linked via the wireless connections of their cybernetics in The Overgrown Wilds. They each occasionally catch glimpses of the others, from their own points of view.

First Impression

Yikes, absolutely horrifying lower facial scars. Very unnatural green eyes. Speaks the language badly, with a guttural Germanic-sounding native tongue.

Bio

A tall wiry man in his late thirties, always wearing a red robe. His eyes are an unnatural green, lit from within. His lower face is very very scarred, and the stained cloth wraps over what was once his mouth do not conceal enough of the fleshy horror below. The ornate axe he carries on his back is distracting - a huge spiny thing made of rare metals and carved with deaths-head symbols. Look more closely, and see that it is attached to his spine by a tentacle of living metal, like a snake. The same scales cover, or perhaps replace, the skin on his arms. He speaks the local language crudely and hesitantly. His native tongue sounds guttural and germanic. Occasionally, he makes a deep hissing static noise that also seems to be a form of speech. These foreign sounds alternate when he performs his compulsive rituals around machines. He can scrawl very good copies of the letters inscribed on old buildings and tech from Before. STYG-0 says that he has devoted himself to the worship of three things that are also one thing:

The thousands of thousands of little ghosts that live inside all clever things built by human hands,
The great flowing-forward of all things and especially of people and animals and the little ghosts,
A metal god-dragon that lies below the holy red sands of a desert that is so far away that it cannot be walked to, even in a hundred lifetimes. Asked to point to the place, he will raise his plated hand to the sky and not to the horizon.

Lifestyle

STYG-0 travels around cataloguing technology, searching for an STC. You don’t eat for pleasure, you need only fuel. You don’t care for comfort. You sleep little and in silent dreamlessness. You collect no wealth.

The World's Psychic Maelstrom

STYG-0’s maelstrom is a data connection to what he believes to be the local noosphere. He experiences it as raw data, but with a visual element that presents as black feathers. The “connection” can access all beings and maybe more, but he might not realise that because of how he rationalises it.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Early Life

Stig was born in the lower levels of Vaxanide’s capital Hive. He was raised by his grandfather and went into his dead mother’s trade of tending the lumens in the higher levels of the hive. He was curious about the electrical circuitry he worked with and by lucky coincidence was able to demonstrate his understanding to an enginseer visiting his workplace. He was invited to study at the seminary in the Mechanicus enclave on Vaxanide and his grandfather insisted he accept the offer. Stig converted to the new religion and did well with his studies. He specialised in Technography, but had limited opportunities for further research into STC libraries. The enclave was not set up for scholarship like a Forge World would be and the expectation was that the newly ordained priests would staff the servitor production plant. Stig was horrified by the factory and the fates of the condemned people. He felt himself wavering in his new faith. He was tempted by a job offer from an upper-hive noble, as a means of escape from the situation. The job was to assemble strange parts of machinery, guided by grainy picts of structures which didn’t seem to make geometric sense. A week into Stig’s new job, the mansion was violently raided by the Ordo Malleus. Stig complied with the Inquisition completely and was subjected only to comparatively mild interrogation. The information he provided resulted in the burning of all of the members of the tainted noble household, but he withheld mention of his grandfather or of the hallucinations of birds and feathers he’d experienced when working on the heretic machinery. While recovering from his torture, he was visited by Inquisitor Gallia Euphrati, who offered him a place on her staff.