🔥 Master Lume Jarra

“Stillness is for statues. We make gods that move.”

Overview

Lume Jarra is Embervault’s most influential Antipriest of Motion — an inventor-philosopher, civic agitator, and the molten heart of the forge-city’s identity.

He embodies Embervault’s central paradox: spiritual heresy through mechanical innovation, treating motion itself as sacred.

To Serendahl’s faithful, he is a dangerous radical.

To Embervault, he is the spark that keeps the city alive.

Origins

Lume Jarra grew up along the molten canals of Embervault, raised in a workshop where heat, clangor, and half-finished experiments were simply part of the household air. His early life was steeped in:

furnace heat

the shriek of pressure vents

prototypes that rattled awake in the night

Nothing in his upbringing was symmetrical or orderly — a foundation that would later become his theology.

The Stillfire Incident

As an apprentice, Jarra was present during the Sanctifiers’ failed “Stillfire” purge — an attempt by Silverwake to seal multiple Embervault forges under claims of “safety regulation.”

At dawn, Jarra and a group of machinists rerouted pressure vents and reignited every sealed forge at once, creating a controlled backdraft so powerful it carved new molten channels through the caldera.

Silverwake called it sabotage.

Embervault called it rebirth.

It cemented Jarra as both heretic and hero.

Role in Embervault

Jarra rose to prominence as the first Antipriest ever elected to the Council of Sparks, representing the Forgewrights of Motion.

He codified the city’s founding philosophy into the Liturgy of Sparks, a living manifesto recited at the start of every council session.

He is also credited with designing the Combustion Archive, an underground repository where outdated inventions and burnt laws are preserved as ash for study. Jarra calls it “our scripture of failure.”

To this day, no major decree in Embervault passes without his comment — even if it’s delivered as a smoldering note left on a forge-anvil reading “Try again.”

Philosophy

Lume Jarra’s creed rejects the still perfection of Serendahl in favor of eternal becoming.

He teaches that creation must contain imperfection or it risks becoming divine — and therefore stagnant.

He believes Serendahl’s flaw is her desire for completion, and Uldrun’s virtue is his struggle to remain unfinished.

Core Tenets of Jarra’s Doctrine:

• “All progress is combustion — controlled, never quenched.”

• “Entropy is not decay; it is freedom without symmetry.”

• “To perfect a thing is to murder its motion.”

• “We build, not to last, but to continue.”

Relationship to the Antipriests

Within the Antipriests of Motion, Jarra is considered their First Igniter — not a prophet, but the flame that set the order alight.

His writings emphasize practical heresy: weakening Serendahl’s divine geometry through invention, rhythm, and deliberate imperfection rather than ritual defiance.

He often says, “You cannot fight a goddess of stillness with war. You fight her with change.”

Relationship to the Council of Sparks

Lume Jarra is both a mentor and an irritant to the Council.

He refuses any permanent seat, instead reappearing whenever the city drifts too close to order.

Cindermark the Reforged tolerates him, regarding Jarra as a necessary instability — the moral heat that keeps the molten economy alive.

Rumor claims that once every decade, Cindermark and Jarra argue for three days beneath the volcano’s heart, measuring theology in temperature.

Appearance and Habits

Lume Jarra is an older human with skin freckled by furnace scars and silver eyes that reflect open flame. He wears robes of soot-stained copper cloth and carries a molten staff called Continuum, which glows brighter when near invention.

He lives in a rotating tower above the caldera rim.

Influence Beyond Embervault

Though he rarely leaves the caldera, Jarra’s influence radiates outward:

• In Harlequin Vale, his writings on “performative entropy” inspired new stage mechanics and artistic guilds.

• In Fenmarrow, Rational Coin scholars cite him (carefully) when defending market volatility.

• In Silverwake, his name is banned from official texts — yet whispered by young engineers tired of symmetry.

His students include both Antipriests and Rational Coin mathematicians, who paradoxically revere him as the founder of “chaotic precision.”

Rumors & Legends

• It’s said Jarra once built a clock that ran backward, predicting inventions instead of measuring time.

• Some claim he once argued a furnace into sentience by refusing to let it cool.

• Others believe he has died dozens of times and simply rebuilds himself each cycle, like a forge relit.

Whether man or myth, every ember in Embervault traces its origin back to his spark.

Legacy

Lume Jarra is not worshipped — that would insult him.

But every forge that flares unevenly, every machine that refuses to run the same way twice, bears his unspoken blessing.

He remains the living contradiction Serendahl cannot silence:

a priest of motion in a world terrified of change.