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An exceedingly powerful baishouren (Guardian Beast), the embodiment of the sacred wisdom coalescing around a vast, blazing star whose stellar corona is a liminal space between the physical and heavenly realms.
TODO: change association from gwemoueb hweba to dragonfolk
It is not known whether the slumbering wisdom of this star's domain awoke when the gwemoueb hweba arrived to construct their enormous planet-sized particle accelerator, or whether the gwemoueb hweba somehow induced the star's wisdom to awaken and coalesce into this being. However he took on corporeal form, he found himself intrigued by the hyenafolk and their attempts at brute force Delineation. He suggested to them that they instead build for him a grand forge, one where he could practice the ancient craft of divine artificing, and that in return he would himself make for them the arcane machinery that they so desperately desired. (And he warned them that, should they make a foe of him, he would not only drive them away from his star, but that all of its brethren within a thirty-parsec radius would reach out and scour the gwemoueb hweba from any world encircling them.)
Within the raging heart of the enormous fusion reactor he works his craft, wreathed in plasma and yet seemingly unharmed by it. Gwemoueb hweba physicists are at a loss as to how this is remotely possible. They hypothesize that his corporeal form is consumed when the forge's great fires are ignited, leaving only ethereal energies to maintain his likeness as he works, and that these energies in turn shape cooling plasma back into a physical body once he has completed his work. Unlike mortal artificers he needs neither Patterning Stone nor thrice-blessed maul to perform his work; as a living flame he sings matter and spirit alike into implements the likes of which are barely comprehensible to First-Awoken ingenuity.
He has, on rare occasion, befriended exceptionally skilled artificers. Some of them he has invited into the great flame so that they may join his work. Most of these return, their souls forever changed by what they describe as an utterly transcendent experience. A few do not come back. It is not known whether they have decided to join themselves with his gestalt of wisdom voluntarily, perhaps hoping for an escape from the dread maw of the god of death, or whether they have been overpowered and consumed by him as tribute, or whether their souls were simply too weak to withstand the glory of the star's heart.
Many of the tools and weapons he builds are meant explicitly for the tianhunren in their celestial war, which makes him one of the rare Guardian Beasts known to have taken sides in that great conflict. This, perhaps, has made him a target for the heiyao. Against his wishes the gwemoueb hweba have volunteered a huge fleet of space warships to guard his star system; he sees their presence as largely superfluous and has said he would rather fight any would-be foes himself.
