Xiao Xian, "Machine Kin" is a powerful Glass Walker Theurge.
Overview[]
As a child, Xiao Xian wanted to communicate with machines and she treated her favorites like pets. As she grew older, she began to worry about her feelings until her First Change.
Her house realized that she was a powerful Theurge and taught her to communicate with the spirits within machinery. Xiao Xian was greatly disheartened at their limited communication ability. After several years of adjusting to Garou society, she returned to human society and found a job in at Nippon International Robotics (NIR). By talking to the spirits within machinery, she could easily determine how to fix them and rapidly rose through the ranks of skilled repair technicians.
Xiao Xian secretly hoped to expand the intelligence of technological spirits in order to increase the computational ability of physical machinery. Xiao Xian found technological spirits hard to train because a majority of them are Gafflings with a specific purpose and virtually no free will. When working with human scientists, she researched the Glass Walker theories that humanity's link to the Weaver is similar to the way that most Garou link to the Wyld and that humanity has an innate ability to manipulate the structure of the Weaver's web.
Though the major computer companies try to over-shadow her work, Xiao Xian had managed to create a computer system with an interactive environment which helps unlock the creativity of its users. She feels that humans innately communicate with machinery on a subconscious level. Even if these computers don't sell as personal computers, the company still stands to gain through their use in industrial robotics and video manipulation.
The CEO of NIR, Johnny Yin, allows Xiao Xian an unlimited budget for research and development. He has had pressure from Ardus Enterprises to stop the manufacturing of the personal computer line. He believes that Xiao Xian's work will lead the world of computing away from the antiquated Ardus hardware that requires constant repairs by Ardus trained employees. Mr. Yin's belief in the system stems from the fact that Tellus Enterprises, one of the world's leading video game producers, is very interested in buying the rights to Xiao Xian's hardware design for use as the "brains" of their updated 128 mega-byte video game system.
References[]
- WTA: Glass Walkers Tribebook, p. 67
- WTA: Litany of the Tribes Volume 2, p. GW: 67