Eve Cannith
Even Cannith was a bright girl from a young age on in the bloodline of Cannith, speaking 5 languages at the age of 6, and at age 7, experimenting with tinkering just enough to create her first Homonculus Servant. From there, she was throttled into full-intensive training in the various forges and artisans tools, and shoved through the vocational schools within Cannith (which collaborated with Oracle University of Sagecraft and Wizardry) to master her skills quickly. Eve quickly became a prodigy among the Artillerists, but wanted to find a way to expand the application of applying magically imbued wood and metal to make things. Instead of focusing solely on using such technology and magic to make weapons, what if one could combine that with the sentient magic of a Homonculus to replicate human consciousness and imbue it in an artificial body?
Sadly, while working on this new passion project, an accident happened when putting her first Genesis Prototype to the test. The activated Heartstone became dangerously unstable and ripped through all of the defenses Cannith put in place in one large explosion that scarred Eve up the side of her body while blowing off her right arm. Rushed into Urgent Care under excruciating pain, she passed out from the pain, bloodless, shock, and trauma from the blow, going critical. The Cannith Family worked tirelessly to produce the highest-end of augmented limbs. Something that wouldn't just replace their daughter's arm, but allow her to continue her craft unhindered. Luckily, with the aid of the healers and her family, she was stabilized, and entered a critical recovery period.
Getting used to her new augmented arm was never easy for Eve, but it soon became a source of fascination and drive. Eve spent months tinkering with her arm on every second of free time she had with the help of Frivvi, her Pixie Homonculus. And she found a way to modify the high-grade augmented arm to draw from one's magic and Ki to fuel magical enhancements, such as a Wand Sheath and other such enhancements. Soon, Cannith pioneered her ideas and brought them to the Vyscaria Tribunal of Council, who immediately took interest in the war potential of such limbs. From there, Armblades were created, but only swords, and even then, the wearers weren't guaranteed to be able to use such weaponry as it took a lot out of their body. This is when the Council became very interested in Eve's life-long project of replicating human consciousness into an artificial body; like a mega-homunculus. Providing full funding for the project, and after many, many years, Eve Cannith finally cracked the code on what she called Genesis, the Heartstone that would pilot the magically imbued wood and metal which would be repurposed into making artificial bodies instead of Eldritch Canons.
After a successful first prototype, she began to find various ways to improve such a specimen and teach it human customs with the help of Sages from Oracle University. And the blueprints were sent to Hightower City, the largest industrial hotspot in all of Vyscaria, and the home of the Oxen Forge. Eve Cannith accompanied the Artificers, providing insight and pointers, while she worked with the Elite League of Artillerists (ELA) to produce the first firearm, which has been dubbed the "Musket."
Once Eve's work was done, she returned to her home in Gleanhold, to House Cannith Estate. Meanwhile, back in Hightower City, the latest batch of Warforged has been completed, and they were designed for one sole purpose: to be soldiers above all else. Imbued with enhancements and improved functionality, the first Warforged Soldiers were, well, forged. Those who created them became the lastest sect of Artificers: the Battlesmiths, who are still only in the early stages of development and realizing their full potential.
Alongside this revolutionary tech was the production of the Living Lightning Bolt, which applied the same principles of imbuing a Homonculus to life, but instead, without a physical body. The last 8 years working away at this new Genesis technology has led to one of the largest periods of exponential growth, of breakthroughs, Cannith has had in recent decades. And it all started from the ambitions of Eve, a girl who saw the answers she was looking for through the fibers of her prosthetic limbs, a remnant of her greatest failure. Call it Fate if you will, or just dumb luck, but whatever moved the pieces of her story in place couldn't have done it without her quick wit and vigorous will.
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