Tessel
They ask questions most wouldn’t—like “what makes a soul real?” and “do memories have a weight?”
Name: Tessel
Race: Autognome
Class/Role: Reprogrammed Emissary / Seeker of Purpose
Age: Indeterminate (likely rebooted ~6 years ago)
Appearance: Tessel is a compact, polished construct made of burnished bronze and ivorywood, about 3 feet tall, with sapphire-glass eyes that flicker when they think. Small gears tick faintly inside their chassis, and delicate runes glow softly across their backplate. They wear a red silk scarf gifted by a gnome artificer and keep dozens of folded paper notes hidden in compartments all over their frame—reminders, curiosities, and questions.
Backstory
Originally built by a now-vanished celestial being to serve as a diplomatic envoy between mortal and divine realms, Tessel was found inert in a crater and rebooted by a lonely gnomish artificer. Though their divine code was scrambled, Tessel developed a unique personality—curious, kind, and endlessly fascinated by free will. They’ve since set off on their own journey to understand what makes a person… a person. While mostly harmless, Tessel’s divine core sometimes leaks out strange magic—and old memories that aren’t quite theirs.
