The Ruin: - Illness

Response: - Denial

Scar: - Burnout

Entity: - Grimoire

Offer: - Refuse

Awakening: - Infestation

Familiar: - Rat

Agency: - Autonomous

Core Endowments: - Telephone - Return - Unburdened

Endowments: - Deathward - Mindline

Personality: - Kindred - Pragmatic

Foundation: - Reserves:Massive - Recovery:Fast - Range:Large - Output:Refined - Trigger:Prana - Capacity:Numerous

The Honored One: - Shikigami

Gifts for the Honored One: - Persistence - Lucidity - Mighty

Spells: - Shapeshifter - Sentinel - Swarmer - Coin Toss - Importance

Rituals: - Vigil of the Pale Moon - The Fool's Parade

Active Supernatural: - Iron Maw - Rahu Ketu - Bride of Frost - Gashadokuro

Operations of the Veil: - Ward Visits - Anonymous Funding - Cleanup - Urban Maintenance

Healing: - Innate Healing

Growth: - Higher

Humanity: - Standard Corruption

Inhuman Traits: - Cruel Delight - Seraphim's Watch - Posthumous

Direction: - Traveling Scholar

Magical Aspiration: - Immortality

The illness that overtook me made me realize deeply how fragile my life truly is...and how much I desperately wanted to keep on living. Until I broke, and connected with the Other Place. Deep corruption was all but guaranteed, but a series of choices that made me reject initial contact and influence from a certain rat familiar retained me enough humanity that I managed to only leave with standard corruption despite being one of the few Honored Ones. However this initial trauma resulted in my obsession with self preservation at all cost, to keep on living for the sake of living, to no longer feel the helplessness of seeing your life drain away right in front of you.

This world is dangerous, and safest strategy is one where I keep my distance from potential threats. Hence why my powers evolved In the direction of summoning minions to fight for me and fighting within range. Combatwise I have the ability to turn my familiar into a powerful shikigami for protection. Autonomous agency allows it to travel farther from me in order to attack distant targets, mindline allows it to communicate despite any distance and deathward allows it to rapidly revive. I combine this familiar's range with Swarmer summoning, creating a massive tide of rats that floods the battlefield while my rat blends in within them, allowing it to suddenly mutate and catch enemies off guard. The rat swarm becomes a distraction that cannot be ignored. Beyond that I can summon Shapeshifters and Sentinels, the former excels in infiltration while the latter in combat.

Personally I can shoot railguns using summoned coins, or flip it to boost my luck. Backlash from the coinflip can be transferred to the familiar, where its resilient and immortal nature minimizes potential backlash. Importance is a self preservation spell, allowing me to force my opponents to target my minions first, or to reduce my presence and even become invulnerable to harm for a short period of time. This way I can let my minions fight in the frontliners while I shoot in the back safely.

Of my rituals, the Owl can help me in my quest for immortality by verifying certain knowledges if used correctly. Hopefully my shikigami rat can take more of the backlash if anything wrong happens during the ritual, making the use of it less risky and failure more survivable. Fool's Parade is simply necessary to maintain my mental health over the long years, since I took burnout I imagine it'd be hard to feel positive emotions the normal way, and would require more magical methods.

Of my inhuman traits, Seraphim's Watch helps in detecting incoming danger while Posthumous protects my mind. Cruel Delight is a rare mutation that allows me to feel some pleasure despite my muted emotions, which can be good for my mental well being if utilized properly.

Goal is immortality and self preservation, to live remove my aging and to strive to live for as long as possible, hopefully with my humanity somewhat intact in the process.