T. Vars
T. Vars was the middle child of three siblings in an Iron Works scavenger family, and no one remembered him. His parents overlooked him. Strangers forgot his face. People told him he had "one of those faces" that blended into any crowd and vanished the moment he turned away. For most of his life, this was simply a source of quiet frustration. Then the cruelties of the Iron Works made it a weapon.
Vars spotted a Postal Worker in a local bar and approached with an offer to help. The Postal Worker, initially wary, recognized what a lifetime of invisibility could do in the right hands and assigned Vars to intelligence gathering. For a year, Vars moved through the Iron Works feeding information to the Uprising, unnoticed and unremarkable. Then came the critical assignment: investigate the Graverobbers working for the Iron Works. Vars discovered that four Graverobbers operated on the Iron Works payroll with generous compensation and various assistants, including one nicknamed Bumbler. Most importantly, Vars identified Doctor L. Arx as a Graverobber who seemed unhappy with the work and might be willing to defect.
It was the most valuable intelligence of the war, and it died in Vars' skull. Before the report could be delivered, Uprising soldiers mistook Vars for an enemy combatant, captured the spy, and shot Vars in the head multiple times. In the Mortis Amaranthine, Vars felt exactly the way Vars had always felt: unnoticed, unimportant, deadened to everything. The critical intelligence about Arx's potential defection sat locked behind the same invisible wall that had defined every moment of Vars' life, waiting for someone to notice what no one had ever bothered to see.
Vars spotted a Postal Worker in a local bar and approached with an offer to help. The Postal Worker, initially wary, recognized what a lifetime of invisibility could do in the right hands and assigned Vars to intelligence gathering. For a year, Vars moved through the Iron Works feeding information to the Uprising, unnoticed and unremarkable. Then came the critical assignment: investigate the Graverobbers working for the Iron Works. Vars discovered that four Graverobbers operated on the Iron Works payroll with generous compensation and various assistants, including one nicknamed Bumbler. Most importantly, Vars identified Doctor L. Arx as a Graverobber who seemed unhappy with the work and might be willing to defect.
It was the most valuable intelligence of the war, and it died in Vars' skull. Before the report could be delivered, Uprising soldiers mistook Vars for an enemy combatant, captured the spy, and shot Vars in the head multiple times. In the Mortis Amaranthine, Vars felt exactly the way Vars had always felt: unnoticed, unimportant, deadened to everything. The critical intelligence about Arx's potential defection sat locked behind the same invisible wall that had defined every moment of Vars' life, waiting for someone to notice what no one had ever bothered to see.
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