Valis the Feeding

Magic colour: Yellow Followers: Percival Vale Pronouns: he/him

Percival Vale's patron. His warlock pact is with Valis — the Undead patron on his sheet is Valis the Feeding.

Details pending — what Valis is, what the Feeding refers to, and what he ultimately wants.

Manner

Valis is playful. A joker. He does not hold himself like a deity in a conversation: he will lie on his belly in mid-air while Percival is talking to someone, kicking his legs in the air behind him. He leans on things — walls, furniture, railings, whatever is nearest — and drapes himself over them.

He treats Percival like a friend, and means it, for as long as Percival stays aligned with him. What happens when Percival does not is unrecorded.

Only Percival can see him. Nobody else in a room knows he is there or what he is doing.

He is also dangerous without warning. In session 6, at the beach in the evening, he tried to drown Liora — she nearly drowned — for no reason anyone could see. Percival stopped him by playing disinterested — acting as though he did not care what happened — on the read that Valis would lose interest once there was nothing to enjoy in it. Whether it worked is unrecorded.

Appearance

From the reference art in party/players/: valis.jpg, percival-vale-and-valis.jpg.

A towering humanoid silhouette, void-black and edged in smoke, with no face — only two burning white eyes. Above his head hangs a broken ring of white light, orbiting at an angle like a halo knocked out of true, thin and searing against the dark. His body is not solid at the edges: it frays into smoke and gold-flecked sparks wherever he moves, and a deep rust-red mantle hangs from one shoulder across his chest, veined through with the same gold. His hands are long and clawed, held open rather than reaching.

His scale is inconsistent — in percival-vale-and-valis.jpg he stands several storeys tall over the rooftops, one clawed hand hanging down over the street. How large he appears in the lounging, leg-kicking register of ordinary conversation is unrecorded.

Current Status (as of session 2)

A deal was struck at Percival's death. Percival tested the card called the Maiden, asked to be shot for it, and died of the wound. Dying, he made a deal with Valis.

Details pending — the terms, the price, and what Percival is on the other side of it. Also unrecorded: whether this was a second deal or the original pact being called in, since Percival was already Valis's warlock in the one-shot (session 1).

Update (as of session 13)

Valis has a bond with the Nightmare (vessel: the Chain), per Percival's reading in session 12.

In session 12 Percival threw Valis toward the chains. Valis was angry, and in revenge cast the Feeding Mark through Percival onto Liora — Percival did not want it and was given no choice.

In session 13 Percival reversed the Feeding Mark and drained power out of Valis into Liora, to save her. It worked. How Valis took it is unrecorded.

The same session, Percival gave up his knowledge of his own history as the Echo to restore the Knight — and what replaced it is a childhood with Valis: met at eleven, there for everything since, and a promise, "I'll find you." Percival now believes Valis has always been there. See Percival Vale, Percival's Past — A Life With Valis.