• Tolvis Maltern
  
• Gener/Race: Male Human
• Class: Noble ? / Soldier ?
• Role: Spiritual Leader of the Obsidian Way
• Location: Maltern’s Folly

The charismatic leader of an anti-technology cult on the planet of Maltern’s Folly, Tolvis is grandson of the colony’s founder, Dolan Maltern. He is the planet’s spiritual leader, a shaman who piously proclaims that while his grandfather might have come to the island looking for material riches, what his followers have found is something much more valuable: spiritual wealth. 

He promotes the Obsidian Way, a philosophy revealed to him by the elemental spirits of Vodan. The Vodan explain that it is only through austerity, and a willingness to push oneself to the absolute breaking point, that true clarity of purpose can be found. 

He and his followers, which number about four hundred, live in a cliff town known as Uplift  in the side of the island’s largest (and apparently dormant) volcano.