Tvashtriyas are an artisan class of Wraiths, responsible for maintaining the City of Delights.[1]
Overview[]
Death strands numerous Rajput, Punjabi, and Bengali troops and trench-diggers, whom the British exported from colonial India, in the Dark Empire of Iron. Unlike wraiths of the other Dark Kingdoms who turn up in Stygia, the Tvashtriya are not necessarily Renegades in the Dark Kingdom of Iron. Stygia has no treaties with Swar, so the Hierarchy is not opposed to seeing such wraiths enthralled or integrated into the bureaucracy in more pleasant ways. However, all Tvashtriya experience dreams of Swar, with its seeming ease and plenty. Stygia's relative bleakness is something to be fled for most of these wraiths.
Once such wraiths master their Arcanos, they can render another wraith into amorphous soulstuff, a substance they can then reshape into all manner of Artifacts. What distinguishes Displace from Moliate and Usury is that a Tvashtriya must wraithride a target before he can have any other effect on her. Although Straddle (and the detection of other wraiths using it) is a basic ability for practitioners of this Arcanos, Tvashtriya can have no further interaction with objects across the Shroud. Every other aspect of this art involves wraithly Corpora.
A Tvashtriya wraithriding another faces risks similar to the ones that affect someone who is Straddling: damage inflicted on the ridden wraith affects the wraithrider equally. This rule includes Arcanos damage such as what Early Withdrawal might inflict (i.e., a Usurer directing that art at someone who is wraithridden gets double Corpus levels). Tvashtriya cannot insert their Corpora into mortals, relics or Artifacts. Practitioners of Displace obviously make great spies, a fact that makes these wraiths welcome in any Renegade Circle and hunted by the Legions. The Artificers', Usurers', and Masquers' Guilds pursue them relentlessly in effort to learn the Displace Arcanos — which they can never do. Many individual wraiths are uncomfortable with the invasiveness of the Arcanos and therefore seek Moliation by Tvashtriya – or Pathos infusion from them – only as a last resort.
References[]
- ↑ WTO: Shadow Players Guide, p. 82
- WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 463-464
