Irie

Irie
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Race	Human
Birthplace	The Low City, Fiora
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Irie is the young human apprentice to Muzzio at the High City of Paliano on the plane of Fiora.

History

Irie did not have the funds to enter the academy in Paliano, but Muzzio had seen the potential in him and brought him on as his apprentice. Irie kept up Muzzio's workshop in exchange for the same lessons others spent family fortunes to obtain, even if most of his time was spent retrieving parts and books from the Grand Library.

After Muzzio had failed to secure the vote to become Chancellor of the Academy at High Paliano Board of Senior Advisors, he summoned Irie, who came as quickly as he could. Muzzio revealed the secret entrance to the lower level of his workshop, although he knew Irie had already found it a long time ago.

They walked down the brightly lit stairwell and emerged in a large room, where more than a hundred mechanical constructs stood in rows. This was Muzzio's true workshop, where he could tend to his creations. The centerpiece of the room was a scale model of Paliano, with both the High City and Low City replicated in amazing detail. Irie had spent hours vetting its accuracy and was unable to find flaws in its design. The High City towered over the Lower, just as its full-scale version. The Corru River was painted through the Lower City, and every twist and turn was replicated. The houses themselves were not as intricate as they were in reality, but important locations, like the palace or the academy, were ornate and delicately painted.

Above it, a cogwork device built into the ceiling moved a false moon, and in a day was replaced with a bright light that traveled across the fake city in real-time. When it rained, Irie noted that the device ran tufts of cotton across tracks in the ceiling to replicate the clouds. Muzzio had already begun working on a construct soldier and asked if Irie had ever killed anyone. Taken aback, Irie refuted the question, but when Muzzio asked if Irie thought Muzzio had killed anyone, the apprentice had to admit that he did. Muzzio denied having ever killed anyone, nor would he think he ever would need to, to Irie's relief.

Muzzio then explained that every construct in Paliano is either built with or from Muzzio's designs. And for every obstacle toward his grand design, there was a very simple, nonviolent solution - information. Within each of the constructs is a series of needles that transcribe all that they hear onto wax cylinders, which his sneak constructs coukd retrieve. It was amazing what people spoke of when they thought they were in the presence of a nonentity.

Muzzio then went on to tell Irie that he had met some who had been to amazing places and spoken of ancient warring artificers and of the perfect worlds they wanted to create. There were even rumors of a place where the perfection of machines blended inseparably with the vitality of organic life. Muzzio hoped Fiora one day could be like those places, and it was up to him to mitigate the variables, as best he could to help society move forward. And Irie was there to watch, listen, and learn.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Like Cogwork	Matt Knicl	2014-05-28	Conspiracy	Fiora	Muzzio, Grinaldi, Alendis, Emralla, Fimarell, Tulando, Regness, Sydri, Daretti, Irie

In-game references

Depicted in:

• Iterative Analysis