Jon Stark
This article is about the Exalted character. Not to be confused with Tony Stark.
Jon Stark (insert stupid pronunciation here) is a Solar Exalted character of the Twilight caste in the (upcoming) Exlated game that we're playing or something. He crafts robots and shit, apparently.
Background
My name is Stark. I was a smith, a tinkerer, a machinist. I was dedicated to my work, my love, and my god.
It was faith misplaced, instilled by the misguided -- people with good intentions who never questioned those they idolized. I was like that. I lived that lie, blissfully ignorant, helplessly devoted to showing my faith.
It started young, as all theists do, my father was a smith and my mother was a scholar. As a child, I built a small wire model from scrap in my father's shop in the likeness of our god. I remember the pale laughter of the supreme one. I grew, and my skills grew with me, my constructions became more complex, more lifelike, more real. Emulation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the joy of showing my creation to the god I adored was second only to the captive, boundless curiosity of my daughter as I taught her how they worked. (A habit I inherited from my parents.)
I never would have imagined a god could feel threatened, or could feel fear, or anger.
It took my daughter, my wife, and my light.
Then, they decided I should be made a god, too. What better way to spite someone for trying to be more like them than to make their efforts meaningless?
I will show them. I will show the everyone that we have no need for these powers -- only our minds and our hands. I will show the world that we have no need for gods and kings -- only men.
I set out for the east. The Blessed Isle is, indeed, blessed with a variety of resources -- iron, copper, silver. It lacks the ingredients I need for my machine, however. Rumors of strange, unworkable metals came from other tradesmen past the Salt Marshes of Sejan. I need it. I need to study it. I need to master it. And when I've broken it, I will forge it and make manifest my dreams of a better world. A world without gods.
I will build the god killer.