Illegitimate Sun

Name: Unknown

Appearance: Hewn is an animated statue. His appearance is that of a 7’0″ roughly carved humanoid made of granite. His facial features are crudely shaped, but his hands appear to be finely crafted. He has a voice that sounds like the grinding of gravel.

Known Talent Abilities: Hewn is superhumanly strong, having demonstrated the ability to lift 1,600 lbs. Hewn’s strength appears to be somewhat uncontrollable. He is unable to perform fine manipulations or use less than his full strength when required.

His body is also incredibly resistant to damage. Small arms fire at the most takes off chips of rock and leaves scratches. Hewn appears to need neither air nor food.

Finally, Hewn has been observed to have some type of remote viewing or precognitive abilities. Usually this occurs after Hewn has entered a stasis or rest period. During these periods he is unable to be roused by outside stimuli, but when he comes awake he often has knowledge of events far distant to his current location.

History: Florida politics are a mean and dirty business, but a man can make a small fortune if he’s willing to sell his soul. Mark Firberg was such a man. Utilizing connections he made in business school, Mark served as an operative for the Republican Party. He was a part of every quasi-legal fund raiser and dirty trick pulled by the party to control the Sunshine State.

In the year 2000, Mark was one of the ‘consultants’ paid to remove thousands of African-Americans and low-income voters from the rolls under bogus pretenses. These voting blocs tended to vote Democratic. Denying them the ability to vote was seen as a way to insure a Republican victory in a tightly contested election. No one could predict the chaos that followed the voting in Florida.

The media and court circus that followed the 2000 election also created a lot of work for Mark. From creating phony protests to circulating spurious slander to the press, Mark’s work took him all over the contested state.

When one of Mark’s phony protests met real demonstrators – enraged by the illegal stripping of their votes – Mark got to see the effects of his actions up close. Riot police were sent in by the local Republican mayor to quell the legitimate demonstrators who were violently clashing with Mark’s hired actors and political staffers. During the ensuing confrontation, Mark was attacked by a riot cop who clubbed Mark repeatedly on the head.

Mark’s skull was fractured and he died when his comatose body was left handcuffed in the gutter. The riot cops had more protestors to club.

While Mark’s body died, his soul stayed on for some reason. For years, his consciousness wandered as an invisible and intangible spirit. Mark was unable to affect or communicate with the world. His anguished cries and ravings echoed in a space untouched by the real world.

Taking his cues from bad movies, Mark tried to find his killer and wrap up his life’s affairs. His intangible wanderings did reveal that his death was no accident. It appears that someone in his political circle was covering their tracks before the media scrutiny grew too much. This person paid several cops to kill Mark in a seemingly accidental manner. To this day, Mark has no idea who actually ordered his death.

Two years ago, Mark was wiling away eternity visiting a museum. His quest for vengeance had been halted by his inability to actually use a computer or turn pages in a file. He raged about his lack of a body when all around him, sculptures perched like ancient guardians. When Mark screamed his silent cry to the heavens for a thousandth time, a statute turned its head, stood, and look right at Mark.

This was the first thing to look at Mark in over six years.

Mark soon found he could order the statue about. Through the statue, he cantouch the real world. The statue could touch, speak, and interact in ways that Mark no longer could.

The statue soon became known as a local hero. Already, Hewn has exposed corrupt police throughout Florida.

Mechanics: Hewn is a character with a unique Custom Stat (Body) that accounts for his actual spirit status. He has no body.

All of Hewn’s powers are attached to his focus: the statue. It is an easily replaced Focus; when destroyed Mark can possess another statue.

Mark controls the statue through the Sidekick Miracle; with Hyper-Body and Ablative Heaver Armor attached to the Sidekick Miracle.

Hewn’s precognitive abilities are not additional powers, but merely Mark’s bodiless wanderings when he is away from the statue.