The Wroth General Calescence

Required: (Mantle •••••)

Often known as simply “The General” or “The Calescent,” the changeling who fills this role is some times equal to the ruler himself (and in a rare few freeholds, actually has a greater authority than the figurehead king). He is, for all intents and purposes, the military leader of the Crimson Court. The General may have potent prowess with hands, a blade, a rifle, but he’s no longer expected to be out there cracking heads and hacking limbs. He’s a strategist, prized for mind over body. And some are just that thing: a one-man council of military wisdom, plotting attacks on local Loyalist hollows or arranging the freehold’s proper defenses. Others, though, find themselves hungry for a greater slice of power. They see opportunity to move against the other Courts. Such Generals are no longer a proud bull, but the worm inside that bull’s heart: a tiny mote of the monstrous amorality gifted by their Keepers. In one freehold, it’s said that the only one to have recognized the Calescent’s secret machinations was the Red Victor (above), and that the two expired in a brutal and blood-soaked fracas in a high school gymnasium (the gymnasium served as the Crimson Court’s “control center” seeing how school was out for… well, the summer). Regardless of corruption, the Wroth General Calescent is always a figure both feared and respected.

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