Noe Montblanc

Montblanc was born to a wizard conclave in the secret reaches of The Salt Lands. A changeling from birth, it was trained to infiltrate the government of Zanthier to sow chaos between the governments of Zanthier and Valentine. Montblanc showed an aptitude for combat and magecraft, and was placed by the Changelings into the Zanthiri Duskblades, an order founded during the Great War as a special forces organization designed to disrupt battles before they began. During the Detente, the Duskblades were mostly deployed as covert ops in proxy wars between the great nations, and though Montblanc completed its work with efficacy and precision, something weighed on its conscience — was the life of a changeling really worth more than the lives they destroyed through their subterfuge

Despite its reservations, Montblanc made a name for itself through its skill with a spear and its creative use of tactics to win skirmishes, and was eventually promoted to a leadership role in the Zanthiri Government. From this position, Montblanc was able to stoke the flames of conflict among the Four Worlds, losing a little of their soul with the news of every death caused by the actions of the Zanthiri government. After a years of ingratiating itself in the Zanthiri capitol, The Ark, Montblanc received a set of orders from the changelings — news of state-sponsored terrorist attacks propagated by the Valentines would soon be hitting city-nets everywhere. With instructions to spark conflict by whatever means necessary, Montblanc decided it had reached the limits of its cruelty toward these people that it considered its friends and colleagues and people on the other side of the world who had done nothing but try to protect their way of life. As the treaty between Zanthier and Avium was signed, Montblanc retired its commission and returned to The Salt Lands where it was born, hoping to hide from the changelings under their noses while it searched for a way to end their chaotic influence over the world and restore the world to peace.