Sphere: Vitalis · Age: 1037 years · Epithet: Keeper of the Breathing Ledger
Oren has spent a millennium studying the boundary between preservation and intervention, and remembers healing practices whose original religious language has since vanished. His laboratories welcome both ritual healers and bioengineers, provided each records failures as faithfully as successes.
His longevity and achievements precede much of contemporary Vitalis practice; the date and mechanism of his latest Elevation are unspecified.
“To preserve a life is not automatically to improve it.”
Soft-spoken and unsettlingly attentive; never uses his age to end an argument.
Opposes policies that make longevity the privilege of those with political influence. Some call him a Patron, but his divine or archetypal status is not settled.
Advises Nera on equitable care and disputes some of Thessa's risk assumptions about experimental energy therapies.
An ancient treatment restores a patient's memories of a city no modern archive admits existed.