Race: Ascended hairworm, satellite being.
Age: Not applicable
Gender: nonsexual, appears male
Overbeing/Faction: Myrkul's Vein
Birthplace: Black Storm.
Religion: Apatheist
Identifying characteristics: Unable to imitate a human face, otherwise identical to others of its size when a worm.
Physical Condition: Excellent but generally suffering from overexposure to sun.
Languages: English, Draconic, Loross, High Gothic, Low Gothic
Current residence: Iterant
Occupation: Discoverer, Construction servitor
Personality: Jinhai can be curt but it isn't out of malice. Generally a slow thoughtful sort Jinhai is prone to bouts of self-consideration and is impossible to offend. Though Jinhai appears male it has no sexual needs but for a deep appreciation of beauty. As long as there is something to learn from a being Jinhai has a rather flexible morality and will follow anyone that will let it. While following someone it cares to learn from it generally prefers to remain in its humanoid form except when eating. Jinhai has little inherent appreciation for social constructs between individuals even its allies but isn't malicious. The notion of a giant segmented worm chewing rocks at a table causing fear isn't something it generally concerns itself with. Its lack of social learning mostly evinces in an inability to understand itself as a stranger to others or the concept of personal space and territory. Jinhai's flexible morality often means it has no scruples against prioritizing the life of a title of interest over unknown life whether sapient or otherwise. It will use its loci to kill lesser creatures so one of interest stays alive without much hesitation especially if the person of interest is Humankind.
Background:Myrkul's vein created Jinhai as a being in its own accord to come and go as it pleases to serve construction tasks. This frequently leaves Jinhai moving through the planar network called the way currently connected to Terra. It is interested in learning all there is to learn to further the intellect of its overbeing.
If attacked, even if a gross violation of social niceties make it Jinhai's fault, its predatory talents can emerge in defense. If defending itself to a lethal degree Jinhai rapidly loses its placid peacefulness in favor of a sociopathic bent unless outside forces it respects ask it to stop and ponder. In either case Jinhai is unlikely to express remorse but if not threatened will at least express a distaste for what occurred.
Equipment: Though Jinhai frequently looks like it carries a backpack that is only to accommodate extra mass it is not investing into the humanoid form. Jinhai carries little with him but has various crystals and tools floating in its mass. This is used for his channeling of magical energies as an ascendant hairworm. Jinhai has taken to carrying metal projectile weapons inside its chest mass for deterring or killing unsuspecting targets and they are often seen bobbing to the surface.
Limitations: The nature of what composes Jinhai makes sight problematic. Jinhai cannot see very far though it can read quite well. Some larger details such as color, texture, or writing are sometimes lost on Jinhai if not close enough. Its name is kept as a distinct part of its being as the only real natural "organ" on the inside of its mass. If this worm is disrupted it will take time to reform and Jinhai will have difficulty recalling or forming memories. As the worm is frequently on the move it is difficult to target specifically without some way of tracking the creature.
Its 'Eyes' have a similar behavior but while in humanoid form they are not necessarily all under the hood it generally shapes to contain its non-face. Wherever Jinhai puts a eye-bump is where it looks from whether on the palm of a hand or the back of the neck. It cannot usefully see from an arbitrary surface on its body though the eyes can be easily reconstituted if dispersed.
Powers:
- Loci Crystals - Some of the loci crystals are for the carving into hard asteroids, many for manufacturing homes for groups of satellite hairworms, and others for defeating threats local to its home plane. Using these tools Jinhai is capable of transmuting comparatively vast quantities of living creatures or small amounts of mass into psimass. Other darker arrangements destroy matter though it causes significant strain to Jinhai in channelling disintegration rays. This is both to defend Myrkul's Vein from interlopers as much as to keep its targets of interest alive.
- Discrete Levitator - The microscopic creatures composing Jinhai are only bound to gravity when in humanoid form and can disconnect from the main mass for a short while. As a worm it careens easily through mid-air without apparent lift. It can carry a passenger though past unless very small will not be able to maintain much altitude. It can dispatch smaller copies of itself to deal with necessary tasks which have similar if more limited properties. The lack of true tissues inside of a hairworm make sharp objects without signifigant force behind them impractical to cause any real damage.
- All-consuming - Though a true omnivore its humanoid form isn't distinct or solid enough to engage in lithovore behavior. If the 15' long 2' wide hairworm is presented with a weapon held still too long the metal object is more likely get bit in half and chewed into dust than batted away. The worm can otherwise dessicate small creatures into carbon dust in but a few seconds.
- Manifester - While it can use psimass to manifest objects and weapons out of nothing such objects degrade spontaneously into piles of ectoplasm if the process is disrupted. What composes Jinhai can use these abilities in aggregate to shape actual material but Jinhai has to actually know how to make the object in question and have the right material rather than just know how it should work. Given the Almanac is quite expansive it is capable of at least repairing nearly anything.