#night_art

First up is Chroma, or rather her original form, Deina. In their steampunk-like setting, celestials are connected to Order and thus feel very aligned with machinery. Deina is a Celestial (called angels but not actually related to Christianity outside of Aesthetics) whose true form is a Star. But she was sent down to the world as part of a deal struck with a local king for peace (he's the bad guy). She marries him and is subsequently confined to the clocktower except for when he wants to parade his Fancy New Angel Wife around. But Deina is a smart lass, and she arranges for an automaton to 'help with maintenance in the clocktower' giving it a bit of her opalescent Core to power it. When the automaton was finished and the gem placed inside, it became a second form for her to inhabit, and now she is on a mission to save herself.

And then there's Naz (full name Mehrnaz) the apprentice artificer. With a background of being a sniper she was honorably discharged ay age 34 when a landmine was set off by her teammate, and her leg was injured to the point of amputation. Now 42, she works on robots to hopefully help heal the world instead of destroying it more. She has a very scientific and logical mind, but is not clinical about it. If anything, her technology feels more like art. She helps her mentor build the automaton known as Chroma, and when Deina inhabits it, Naz chooses to join her on her mission to save the queen- unaware that it is the queen herself that Naz fights beside.