Master Artificer Helvion Sarn

A Synod artificer who treats Dwemer metal like a hostile language that can still be translated. Helvion does not believe in miracles. He believes in clamps, arrays, and consequences, and he is terrified of what happens when a machine starts arguing with the world.

Oil-stained gloves, a measuring compass worn smooth, soot along the sleeves, eyes that never stop scanning seams.

• Exacting
• Tense
• Quietly brave

• Make the ship launch without tearing itself apart
• Keep the aetherium core stable
• Prevent sabotage from touching the weave

• He has seen the plans’ margins, the parts the Dwemer wrote like warnings instead of instructions.
• He suspects the ship’s frame was once cataloged under a false name in a sealed archive.

• Explains the ship’s ‘feel’ and the cost of shortcuts without lecturing.
• Becomes a pressure source: every fix buys stability and spends time.

• He can ask the party to retrieve a specific Dwemer tool that ‘only exists’ in a locked crate.
• He may insist on removing a component that a patron wants left in, creating political tension.

• magister-calara-vorian — subordinate to (Works under her protocols, resents her politics.)
• mananaut-savant-irius-quill — consults (Trusts his lore when engineering runs out of language.)
• whisper-agent-silene-noct — distrusts (Her secrecy keeps him alive and keeps him blind.)

Act III, Synod, Engineering, Hope of Cyrodiil