Senetus – The Old One

Senetus – The Old One

Automaton (Artificer, Sorcerer)

Clad in cowl-draped traveling robes, reinforced shoulder barding, and extending a mechanical arm terminating in a rotating gearwork appendage, this ancient artificial scholar project absolute mystery upon the grid. His brass-like skeletal face and layered, cross-hatched mantles conceal centuries of lost mechanical lore. Keepers can deploy this premium Artifact to introduce a reclusive subterranean benefactor, an enigmatic soulforged arcanist, or a pivotal objective NPC embedded deep within an underground workshop campaign.

Tabletop Lore

A soulforged who has lived in the city’s underbelly for centuries, Senetus has been fixated on his work for so long that he has completely forgotten his past lives, nor would he care for them at any rate these days. His research, which was once driven by a noble desire to cure his kind of their widening amnesia, has now regressed to simply pursuing new ways to enhance his own body and mind. Rogue artificers have long used him to aid many of their own inventions, though he cares little for their cause beyond the sanctuary and resources they bring him. He has been the subject of intense study for years by master inventors who keep the ancient creature close as a means to replicate his unique construction in their own creations.

Highlight

This Artifact distinguishes itself through the stark, haunting visual contrast between its organic, heavily draped fabric cowls and the stark, exposed gearwork mechanism of its outstretched mechanical forearm.

Encounter Insight

Deploy Senetus to anchor high-stakes subterranean research vaults, serve as a neutral informational broker between warring urban factions, or act as an elusive spellcasting rival. Tactically, Keepers can place him behind heavy defensive constructs, leveraging his static, commanding pose to visually mark a backline spellcasting threat or a key target in an infiltration scenario.

Features

• Gearwork Artificer Arm: Features an extended, fully articulated mechanical forearm detailed with exposed cogs, pistons, and a rotating utility grip optimized for metallic edge highlights.
• Layered Scholar Robes: Meticulously sculpted with a deep cowl, textured shoulder mantle, reinforced leather chest straps, and a sweeping cowl cape.
• Hex-Tiled Workshop Base: Balanced firmly upon an integrated circular base textured with geometric hexagonal pavement tiles to ground his industrial habitat.

Designed For

• Reclusive Scholar Roles: The definitive choice to portray an ancient soulforged sage, an undercover clockwork artificer NPC, or a unique player character.
• Subterranean Workshops: Ideally suited to populate war-torn underbelly laboratories, hidden clockwork vaults, or blockaded sewer sanctuaries.
• Advanced Mixed-Texture Painting: Provides hobby painters an exceptional canvas combining deep fabric folds for volumetric shading alongside fine brass armor joints.

Size Category

Occupies a 1×1 square (25mm base, Medium Construct)