The Origin
As a child, Manuel "Manny" Pineda loved the wild places near his home on the outskirts of Butuan City in the Philippines. When his family emigrated to the USA when he was 10 years old, he found a whole new ecosystem to fall in love with. In college, he studied ecology and population biology, and went on to get his Ph.D. studying the effects of people on a changing climate. He started a foundation called Soil Saviors to teach regenerative farming to people all over the world. That program continues, though Manny only occasionally shows up in person to run the foundation. Because after his intersection with the Crash, he developed elemental abilities allowing him to control the landscape around him in large ways and small. He has a particular affinity for nurturing plants, but has also instigated storms, sea waves, and even earthquakes in defense of natural places and peoples as Diwata. While he avoids hurting people and animals, he's not so kind to equipment and structures.
Motive: Safeguard ecosystems
Environment: Anywhere natural landscapes are threatened
Health: 40
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (13 points)
Armor: 5
Movement: Short; long when flying
Combat: Diwata usually attacks earth-moving equipment trying to break ground for new developments in sensitive ecosystems, but can attack overzealous defenders of that equipment by calling down a tornado, summoning a storm with lightning bolts, or invoking an earthquake. In such a case, all targets Diwata selects within short range must succeed on Speed defense rolls each round for up to one minute (or as long as Diwata continues to concentrate on the effect) or take damage. Targets hit by a lightning strike must also succeed on a Might defense roll or descend one step on the damage track and lose their next turn. Diwata is immune to electricity damage, and is healed by electrical attacks for the amount of health the attack normally inflicts.
Interaction: When acting as Diwata, he doesn't talk much, if at all; he lets his actions convey his meaning. But in his alter ego as Manny, he is engaging and empathetic, interested in convincing people that the Earth is facing a catastrophe of its own making, but quick to assure that many solutions could mitigate the worst outcomes.
Use: A fracking natural gas extraction operation is destroyed. Sabotage is suspected. (The House of Nibiru asks PCs to make contact with the vigilante they think is responsible.)
GM Intrusion: The character who fails a Speed defense roll is grabbed and held by nearby (or suddenly sprouting) vegetation, unable to take physical actions until they can escape, or Diwata frees them. Regenerative farming revives indigenous traditions of cover-cropping, avoiding tilling, and diversifying crops to greatly enhance soil nutrition, water retention, and overall health, leading to higher yields with decreasing need for fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides.