User:Alicila/Sixth of the Dusk (character)

Sixth of the Dusk
by Shuravf
Bonded With	Kokerlii, Sak
Ethnicity	Eelakin
Homeworld	First of the Sun
Universe	Cosmere

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“For Patji would try on every possible occasion to kill him. ”

—Sixth of the Dusk

Sixth of the Dusk is a traditional Eelakin trapper on First of the Sun.

He breeds Aviar and catches and forages other goods on the Pantheon isle of Patji.

Appearance and Personality

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He doesn't speak much and isn't used to being with people due to the lifestyle of a trapper.^[expand]

He is a practical person. Although he loses some of the trappers' traditions by using creations of modern technology, he considered survival to be of higher importance.

He is calm, patience, but also alert at all times, for every step on Patji cannot be stepped without care.

History

He was trained from a young age in woodcraft and surviving in the isles of the Pantheon, mostly on Sori, the smallest and tamest isle. His mentor, Dusk's own uncle, died during a trip to Patji, and Dusk became a trapper exclusively for that isle, as was tradition for his people. He spent much time breeding and raising Aviar to sell in the homeisles and to the mainlanders. At some point he also raised a bird from the mainlands on the islands, Sak, and she gained a unique mental ability; the bird could send premonitions of Sixth's corpse, based on threats in the local area. Along with Kokerlii, Sak traveled with Dusk and helped him survive the dangers of Patji.

He was contacted by the Northern Interests Trading Company in an attempt to ask for his consultation and help in settling the Pantheon isles, which he highly disapproved of. He was present on Patji as they attempted to begin "taming the island" by setting up a scientific experiment that would locate all of the Island's Aviar using technology from the Ones Above. After observing a brief, but deeply disturbing glitch in Sak's abilities and the panic of every Aviar of the island, Dusk questioned Vathi about the current actions of the company and concluded that a preliminary activation of the Aviar-locating machine had caused it. With this in mind, the pair set off to prevent the larger machine's activation. En route, they encountered a nightmaw and though they eliminated the immediate threat with Vathi's new, destructive technology that excited Dusk with it's potential, they were forced to run at a dangerous pace when the nightmaw called the rest of its brethren. The two escaped by hiding in Patji's Eye, the basin at the center of Patji in which dwells the Invested parasite that gives the Aviar and all of the cognitive life on First of the Sun their powers. As Vathi learned about the truth of the Aviar's powers, Dusk worried that he had inadvertently brought about the end of the Pantheon and his life as he knew them. When the nightmaws found them, Dusk was prepared to sacrifice himself by leading them away, but instead made ingenious use of Patji's Fingers and Vathi's cannon to draw the predators away.

Upon reaching the fort, Dusk and Vathi found out that the machine had never been activated at all. Despite Dusk's ineptly-worded protests that something was still wrong, Vathi left him and entered the fort. In the throes of despair and anger, Dusk raged against Patji as he made his way back to his safecamp, despairing the oncoming loss of his world. Sak then flew away, leading him back to a terrified Vathi who had also realized the truth; the machine was a trap. Just as Dusk left Aviar mating plumes to lead rival trappers to their demise, so the Ones Above were deliberately leaving seeds of their technology for the mainlanders in hopes of artificially speeding up their technological progress in order to make it legal for them to trade with the Shardworld's inhabitants and exploit the entire planet of First of the Sun.

Knowing that the mainlanders would need his help to prevent this terrible eventuality, Dusk entered the fort in spite of Sak's warnings of danger and his own hatred of such places in hopes of gathering other trappers and saving the world as he knew it.

• Images of Sixth
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  Sixth and Vathi by Shuravf

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  Portrait by Kekai Kotaki

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  Seeing his death by Ben McSweeney

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  On Sixth of the Dusk cover by Jorge Jacinto

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  On Patji by Matthew Johnson

Attributes and Abilities

As a proficient trapper, Dusk has full knowledge of the spectacular flora and fauna on the island. The ability to identify the deadly lifeforms is what allows him to survive in the jungle. Moreover, he uses these threats to his advantage, for example, setting various traps for his safecamp with deathants, nightwind fungi and jellywire vines. He utilizes modern technologies; among his equipment are steel machete, firestarter and thick clothes. However, the most notable abilities he has are those associated with Aviars.

Aviar

One of the most profitable skills Dusk has acquired is the breeding of Aviar. While most of the Aviar he raises are tradeded with mainlanders to meet the ever-high demand, two of the Aviar, Kokerlii and Sak, have bonded with him and travel around with him. Kokerlii has typical cognitive disguise ability, which protects Dusk from predators that hunt by seeking out mind. This type of Aviar is a necessity for Eelakin trappers as both traveling on water, where deaths from beneath can consume a ship in one gulp, and traveling on land, where being found by a Nightmaw means almost certain death, requires mind-shielding ability. The other Aviar, Sak, has a rare and unique ability: its blessings, when bestowed, can reveal possible dangers for its owner by creating illusions of corpses on dangerous spots. Although Dusk doesn't like to rely on this ability, as it might gradually make him lose his skills, it has been proven extremely useful on several life-saving occasions.

Trivia

Dusk has tried Herdazian food, and he hates it.

Notes

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