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Name: Jack Daniels (Real name: Elliot Donavan)

Race: Lycan, Wolf

Legacy: yes (very end)

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Appearance: A tall man of about 6"4, visibly muscular but not entirely ripped. His hair is black and tends to be in a spiky bedhead state. His eyes are ice blue. In his wolf form he stands at about 6"8 and his legs are digitigrade in form, allowing him to move swiftly on all four limbs, but still allowing him to move at a brisk pace on two. His eyes remain blue in his wolf form and his face remains soft, his muzzle covering his straight and in line teeth (as opposed too gruesome teeth protruding from his closed mouth like a beast). In his wolf form, his muscular but not ripped figure remains but his chest is noticeably bigger in comparison with his waste. His neck and back are naturally leaned forwards, properly distributing the weight on his feet. In his wolf form, his fur is solid white, except on a full moon when his body comes under the control of another force, at which point his muscles grow bulkier, his fur becomes black, and his teeth become large and crooked and protrude grievously from his mouth.

Weapons: A hand gun that can optionally be charged with mana to increase the power and velocity of the bullet.
 Gauntlets equipped with retractible blades and grappling hooks. The grappling hooks like the hand gun can be charged with mana to increase the firing velocity. The grappling hooks can retract to pull Elliot forwards or pull a victim closer to him. The gears that handle the retraction of the cable can also be charged with mana to increase their power and speed. Lastly the 'hook' can be charged with mana to make it stick to a surface even if the surface wasn't properly 'hooked'.
 A serrated whip.
 Several vials of paralyzing poison.
 A survival knife.
 Throwing knives
 A double edged one handed sword.
 Big black book of deals, and soul sealing. For souls to be sealed in the book two conditions must be met simultaneously. Blood of the sealie must make contact with the page, the sealies hand must make contact with the page. The usual result of a successful seal is a bloody hand or finger print. The sealie's soul is immediately sealed into the book and can be transferred or traded at the sealers whim. The book gives off an unholy aura that is hazardous to weak holy entities.

Powers:  Transform into wolf form.
 Extreme mental ressiliance from all psychic attacks, can assault another characters mind if that character forms a connection with his mind first, can portray false thoughts and memories to those who read his mind. Can make his mind appear blank to those who read his mind. Can always tell if a force is making contact with his mind.
 (All of the following powers and traits are the result of deals Elliot has made with various deities.)
 His mana is in an un-natural form that can be used with his weapons and equipment. His equipment cannot be charged with normal mana. He cannot use normal mana. He cannot use or learn any powers that require normal mana.
 Mana regeneration severely stunted (recharges very slowly).
 Mana pool (capacity) is extremely large.
 Can use mana to toughen his body or increase his strength.
 Adversely physically affected by holy auras (but mentally immune).
 Highly resistant to radiation.
 Adversely physically affected by physical contact with silver with any part of his body besides his skin and bones. (Cuts, raw flesh, and organs are severely damaged by silver.)
Elliot has an extended life span to roughly 170 years if he dies of natural causes.
 On each full moon of the moon cycle Elliot's body shifts to it's wolf form and comes under the control of a malicious demon. (wolf form shift and full moon date was a compromise made by Elliot and the demon, Elliot selected the date as it makes for an easy comparison to werewolves when explaining the situation to another person.)
 Can summon a familiar that is equipped with needles that can drain mana and paralyze (via poison) victims. familiar can use mana to regenerate from physical damage, increase strength, and teleport short distances (larger distances require exponentially more mana). Familiar cannot generate it's own mana. Elliot can transfer his mana remotely to the familiar and the familiar can do the same vise versa. Familiar can screech loud enough to temporarily deafen victims. Familiar is highly resistant to holy auras but not immune. Familiar is controlled directly by Elliot's mind meaning he can control it even when he is not in control of his body.

Personality: Jack is very friendly. He is also quite intelligent, but he's also a good actor. In certain circumstances he will portray himself as someone with a low intelligence. He is so used to doing so that he now sometimes does it for his own amusement. In truth though Jack is capable of being sharp, quick witted and professional, but outside of a business setting he is usually too laid back to behave in such a way. Jack shows signs that he does care for and sympathise with the souls he has captured, he never sells the souls in his possession into permanent servitude but instead sells them temporarily in exchange for the service he requires. Jack's dark side (In addition to the fact that he collects souls, even if they are the souls of corrupt people) is that he does enjoy fighting substantially. He usually tries to make up for this by fighting for the 'right' side.

Biography : Backstory: Elliot's family was esteemed with a place in the catholic church. His father was thought to be sterile, but after months of trying a child was finally conceived. However on the fateful day Elliot was born, a terrible omen was passed onto the family. The mark of the devil appeared on Elliot's belly as infant in the form of a birth-mark. Ashamed and distraut, they hid the mark from the eyes of their peers until it thankfully healed. A miracle they called it, a miracle they would keep to themselves.

From then on Elliot was raised as a good catholic boy, in the relatively large town he resided in. The town was a mix of humans and Lycanthropes who lived in harmony. When he came of age Elliot immediately became a priest. It was his desire to carry on the will of the Lord and to serve and care for the people of his community, he wanted as well to make his parents proud. And they were proud. Elliot carried on his duties as a priest for 5 years, but in those five years he saw all of the vile corruption that was housed within the church.

One day rumor came that there was a very sick boy being taken in by the church to be cared for, aged about 17. Whenever he would ask the head priest about it however, he would be given no answers. Then on one fateful night his mother and father along with 97% of the town spontaneously asphyxiated themselves to death. On that night Elliot lost his faith in God, but he prayed anyway, it's all he knew to do, he didn't even know who he was praying too.

Hours later into the night Elliot grabbed his fathers handgun and made his way to the church to try and discover what had happened, the church being the center of the town must have surely held some evidence. Upon arriving Elliot discovered the corpses of several priests and deacons, but it was what he last discovered that was to change his life.

A boy of 17 sat in the center of the chapel with a wide stimulated eyes. He stared back at Elliot and raised his hand high. The boy spoke and grabbed his own throat with his free hand,
 "Starve,"
 and with a flick of his wrist Elliot felt something vile try to push it's way into his mind. But in that moment everything seemed to stop. He heard someone speak. He knew who the voice belonged to, for he had been expecting his presence; the Devil himself.
"This boy is the one who caused all of this, but you have figured that much out yourself haven't you?"
Elliot did not reply.
"I never told him to kill your parents, some people just can't handle power. Do you want to take vengeance on this boy of mine?"
Elliot nodded.
"Splendid... then.... will you just sign here..."

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The boys face suddenly shifted to one of shock, he gasped for air and screamed falling backwards, he scramble away in the opposite direction from Elliot, eventually pressing his back against the alter. "S-satan help me!"

Elliot stepped slowly towards the boy, slently, his deathly gaze fixed on him. As he drew closer the boy began to beg. "F-father" he refered to Elliot. "Father please don't-GAH!" Elliot planted his planted his foot harshly on the boy and forced him to the ground. The boy trembled as Elliot lit up a cigarette and stared down in disgust. Elliot drew his handgun "FATHER PLEASE!-" Elliot fired the handgun. He shot the cursed boy, he shot him again, and again, he shot the corpse over and over, his cigarette quivering violently in his mouth as tears ran down his cheeks. He fired until his magazine was empty. The boy was riddled with holes, and it was only then that he realized who the boy had been, he was the head-priests son.

In anger Elliot ripped the cross necklace from his neck and through it across the chapel. "**** you!... all this could have not happened if you only did something!.... If only you did anything besides sit up there and watch!" Elliot cursed God with all of his might before he finally settled down.

It took him time but eventually Elliot turned around and left the church, but not before he said one last prayer. It wasn't God, and it wasn't to Satan... and for the first time that night... he smiled. "thank you..."

Following that night, Elliot was now to roam the earth as the one who was to become 'The Man In Black', deal maker and trader of souls. He would in time come to go by the name Jack Daniels (yes, like the whisky).

Name: Chrysanta Fae Blythe
Age: 13
Race: Lycan (a weretiger)
Legacy: Yes
Time Skip: In the past 6 months, Chrys and Ray wandered around with Carlos and Selena. They spent some time in various fiefdoms in their search for the Blythes - Coyote's, Lord of the Masks's, Bai Ze's... With this much time passing without finding any clues, it seems inevitable to go to the source of information in the New San Francisco - Anansi, so that's where they are currently headed.
Appearance: Chrys has medium-length wavy brown hair that has a yellowish sheen where the colour got drained out by sunlight and her eyes compliment it; they are very light brown, one could call them honey-coloured, with tiny specks of green and darker brown. Her skin is easily tanned and naturally darker and she has a triangular face with a dimple on her small chin. More dimples appear on her cheeks when she smiles. With 160 cm (5.25 ft), she is slightly taller than an average 12 years old girl, and she is quite slim, weighting about 43kg (95 lbs).
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Weapons: A sport composite bow with wooden and iron arrows (10 of each kind). Chrys found it in one of the abandoned sports equipment shops on one of her ventures to the city.
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Name: Jasmine Bouillabaisse

Age: 26

Race: Vampire (Warlock)

Legacy: Yes

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Name: Zai

Race: Impundulu

Legacy: n

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Vampire - Zai drains a human's energy by drinking their blood, thus restoring his own. As he is a living creature he only needs to do this when his powers are low after a fight.
Witch familiar - Zai gains huge power by entering a contract with a female witch at the cost of his free will, however as his old contract was not correctly ended he is stuck on earth in his human form.
Thunder Claw - As an Impundulu Zai can generate an electrical charge within his body that he can use to shock people in close combat. Currently it can only paralyse targets.
Cold Body - Zai's body is simply a fake made 100 years ago. As such it does not age nor change, not even generating heat or waste, this means that he is invisible to infer-red scans.
Bones of a Bird - Zai weighs next to nothing, letting him move silently and quickly, however this has the draw back of making him fragile to crushing and blundering.
Strength - By using his energy he can increase his strength, letting him hit harder and move faster. however due to Bones of a Bird this can lead to him hurting himself.
Bird Demon - Zai can communicate with birds and others that inhabit the sky as well as those from the hell realms as he is considered their cousin. This also means he has safe passage where the boundaries have weakened although he may not leave the human realm even when the gates are open and the inhabitants will still hunt him.
Glamour - As a sex Demon Zai will always look wonderful and never smell, tire or get dirtied, this also means that any damage heals faster than normal and anything that mars him, cuts or bruises for example,  heal far faster than anything else.

Personality: Zai is a loner who's only wish is to remain free, to this end he has been travelling the world, never staying in one place for long and avoiding all women. Not that the last part was too hard on him, Zai hates human women due to the horrible life he suffered at the hands of his old masters, serving them for years only to be passed on to their daughters with no free will. Even when he was let out that only meant that he would be of to seduce some one else who would with out fail hate him by the end. He's a skilled survivor, thanks in part to the fact he does not need to eat at all, letting him live in the harshest of places as long as there is a human near by when his energy gets low.

Biography : Zai is an Impundulu from Africa, a Lightning Bird in human form he has spent the last 100 years wondering the earth, being free. Before then he was the slave to a family of witches, passed down from mother to daughter and used as a tool, whether for his bodies' magical proprieties or as a doll to be used to vent stress. In all of this he had no will of his own, he was simple the knife held in his masters hand, that was until while out collecting plants for her he found himself free. His current master had angered the local tribe and so in revenge they had attacked her and killed her while Zai was away; he was now free. Not hesitating at all Zai started to run as far as he could, away from where people would know what he was, like any one who had been given their first taste of freedom he would never be content losing it.

Name: Prayer Night

Race: Human

Legacy: N

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Weapons: 7 holy bracelets on each arm.

Powers: Using the dark spirit, Exodia's powers, He can heal wounds and illnesses, which exodia 'extract's and 'devour's. When doing so, Exodia manifests in the form of a shadowy, slightly humanoid wolf, twice Prayer's size, with large clawed hands. The 'healing' process takes several minutes or hours depending on the severity of the wound. Small cuts and bruises taking only a few seconds. It is thus, not very useful in battle.

For battle situations, He can take Exodia into his body, giving him heightened speed, agility, strength, claws and beast-like senses. When in this 'form' he can't use the healing abilities, and vice-versa.

Due to Exodia being bound to his soul, he cannot be 'turned' by vampire bites, etc.

Personality: (I'll get to this)
Biography : Born to exorcists on a mission to eliminate the powerful and sadistic Dark Spirit, Exodia, who fed on wounds and illnesses, who enjoyed inflicting these wounds, Prayer was born with incredibly high levels of holy energy. The place had been Exodia's hunting grounds for a long time, and nothing anyone did could subdue him.

When Prayer was born, Exodia attempted to devour his soul completely, which would have been possible due to it being new. However, Due to his high amount of holy energy, instead of being devoured, or Exodia being destroyed due to his own high level of power, the two's souls fused, binding Exodia's will to that or Prayer's. Due to Exodia being essentially defeated by Prayer, he was given the name Prayer, as in "The answer to [the people's] Prayers"

Character creation
Name: Vela Aqil
Age: 19
Faction: Vampire, Warlock
Legacy: Y
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Weapons: Shotgun: powerful but has to reload after one shot with one round of silver ammunition, along with a whip that been attuned to Vela's life energy allowing her to run the energy through it easier and to others.

Pet: Radiant - A black and cold raven that is brimming with life energy that links with Vela.  The bird has lost its ability to breath fire after turning.

Personality:  Vela used to be very patient and caring towards those she respects, but over the events of the past book Vela has grown more pessimistic and rushed.  She doesn't like to stop for anything and keeps moving and practicing if she needs too.  Most of her noble grace has faded and her jargon has become more vulgar lately, but she still some of that grace clings to her which can be seen from time to time.

Her hatred for the church still looms in her blood, and will give any member of the former church a glare or two expect for a chosen few.  She still has ambitions for rebuilding a new church under her image, but she is much more silent and closed about it now.

Biography:  Vela grew up in a very rich family that used their wealth to bribe high seated church members to protect and shelter Vela as she grew up.  She spent her time playing in her family’s mansion or yard, and was actually taught that there was no world outside of her home.  If she was to leave, she would fall through the ground and be cursed to fall for all eternity in the endless abyss.  Of course this wasn’t true, but she believed it being as young as she was.

One day she was outside starting at the giant walls that symbolized the outer regions of her home.  She blankly stared at it for what seemed like hours, wondering what it truly looked like outside.  Was the ground dead?  Did it look demonic?  All these thoughts flowed into her head, holding her gaze towards the endless walls.  Then something weird happened, a bird flew over the wall!  It was a beautiful, pure, and white bird soaring high into the sky.  She warmly smiled, holding up her hand to for the tiny creature to land on her finger.  It gracefully landed on her finger, accepting her kind offer.  With its little eyes gazing at Vela, twitching its head from side to side every so often until it did something a little weird.  Fire, yes fire, came out of the bird’s beak and Vela thought this was absolutely amazing, she cheered in excitement throwing her hands in the air, and the bird didn’t even fly away during this careless action nor leave her finger.  Immediately, she ran over to her parents, who were graceful like always, drinking tea at an ebony table.  Vela showed them the bird, but their response wasn’t their usual kind smile like she suspected.  It was one of utter disgust, as they immediately knocked the bird off her finger.  She cried, and cried while closing herself to the world around her.  The parents didn’t even bat an eye at this, they simple returned to drinking their tea expecting her to get over it.

She didn’t, and in the middle of night she awoke with little tears on her cheeks for the little bird was nowhere to be found and assumed dead.  So she decided, she would leave the walls and fall endlessly into the abyss.  that will teach them.  She snuck out her house, while her parents were sleeping and worked her way to the giant gate which complimented the size of the insanely high wall.  A faint whisper was heard, and she immediately ran for a bush nearby expecting her annoying parents.  It was a man, she didn’t know garbed in robes of some sort.  They spoke of how the family could no longer make the payment, and planned on kidnapping her daughter for the months they stalled, saying “Oh, sorry, we’ll be sure to sell off some furniture to pay you next month with interest of course .“  Vela noticed them open the gate to let more men in, and she took this chance to run past all them and to finally be outside.  She looked down at her visible feet and noticed she wasn’t falling through the ground, and smiled a lot bigger than she ever done before.  This was followed with the return of the white bird, and she smiled even larger than she ever thought possible when she saw this.
“I think. I’ll name you Radiant” she said.

Her situation at the start of book 1

She is building up her own force and religious beliefs to overthrow the church.  In all honesty it’s very similar but she believes her religion is less corrupt.  She believes more in spreading her beliefs peacefully as the majority of the church is good to her, and hopes that once people accept her beliefs it will get rid of the corrupt.  It’s unknown as to how her old home is doing today.  She still has a lot of wealth from the jewelry she wore during her days at the mansion.

Name: Ember Crusic
Age: 24
Faction: Exorcist
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Weapons: Two handguns 6 bullets per round and a few sets of silver bullets.
Powers: Ember has the ability to infuse her handguns with holy incantations, to add various effects
Holy Enchantment: Adds holy effects, and will automatically stop the bullet if it is about to collide into something enchanted by a holy aura. This is used to prevent friendly fire.
Fire Enchantment: Adds fire effects and has more destructive power but it’s very easy to cause friendly fire or even burn herself at close range.

Biography: Ember was born inside a normal family with a normal life. She had a very kind father who always smiled, and helped everyone he could. Her mother was even better, going around the neighborhood for charities, and preaching for her religion, which has had an increased number of applicants ever since the wars started. She was 4 and her mother asked if she wanted to come with her while she preached. Ember happily obliged and on the first house there was a very friendly man who was already willing to convert to her religion. Ember’s mother was ecstatic especially since Ember was here, and handed the man a paper to show him the place and times he could show up to the church. The man took the paper with a very calm smile and said “Oh, I’m sorry there seems to be a small complication with me joining your religion.” The mother was confused at first but soon regained her composure, and asked “Anything I can do to help?” The man’s smile turned into a frown of arrogant pity, as he pulled out a demonic handgun and shot the poor mother in the head. “No, I’m afraid you can’t” he said while he began to reveal his ghastly fangs.
She woke up next to an old priest who informed her that not only did her mother get killed, but her family was overrun by undead moments after. The old priest adopted her, and she spent the next 10 years alone in her room pondering why they would kill someone like her mother. They were always demonic? Are they evil? These thoughts went through her head, as she tried to find her solution. Then someone called Leo Sain showed up, and told her of his beliefs. It made sense to her. They were just corrupted, and lost their way. She could save them. Her mother and father made many people happy, and why would these creatures be any different. She has been practicing throughout her entire life her in the church, while she looked for the answers, so she won’t be killed like her mother did. She’ll live long enough to bring about the light in them, and then things will return to normal with her new friend Leo.
She was ready now, and today she planned on showing Leo what they were up against. This way he won’t die like her mother would…. Right?

Name: Leo Sain
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: Wears a few holy markings across his armor, as a memory of his old days.

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Faction: The Covens

Weapons: A pistol with 5 bullets per clip, a dagger, and a few grenades for more desperate situations
Abilities: Leo can manipulate the aura of the ground around him to create plants. In desolate areas it’s more difficult to grow plants.
Forest’s Entrapment: Vines slowly grow at the location Leo designates. The roots take a few seconds to bind a target and will take longer the farther away Leo is. Fast moving targets are practically impossible to bind.
Venom of the Vines: Leo can grow a plant next to him to apply a non-lethal venom to his knife. The venom will slowly weaken, and it can cause exhaustion. The poison cannot affect Leo.

Personality: Leo prefers not to talk to others and think out ideas alone, even if talking to somebody else will solve the problem immediately. He is merciful and prefers not to turn or kill enemies but if he feels him or his coven are threatened enough, he will fight to kill. His mercy does not apply as much to the serpents. Panics easily if caught off guard, but he is very efficient if he has time to plan out a strategy.

Biography: Leo was originally very friendly and very devoted to his religion. He planned to become an exorcist and dreamed about saving the monsters from their poor states. One day he was talking with another girl who planned to be an exorcist and had a similar idea to him. “Come with me, I want to show you what we plan to deal with” she said. He knew this was a horrible idea, he decided to trust her, otherwise he would never be able to trust a monster he wanted to change. They approached a base of the coven and even ran into a vampire on the way there. The girl somehow was able to make him flee in terror with some sort of ability like the exorcists used. After she got rid of the vampire, she smiled and said “Just a little further, there are more than vampires I want you to see.” The two were passing the coven when Leo heard something behind him. He quickly turned around to see if something was there but nothing. He asked if the girl heard something, but when he turned around he didn’t face the girl anymore. He was now face to face with five bloodthirsty crazed vampires, who were probably alerted from the fleeing vampire, and the girl had already turned around and ran, not looking back. Leo blacked out at that point waking up in the coven of the Warlocks, and the Warlocks told him they saved him from the Serpents, and only saved him because the girl who left him to die made him sick. Leo left the warlocks for a while, to find the girl, but she was now an exorcist. She did not take kindly to the fact he was a vampire and yelled with zeal “Filthy Vampire! I’ll murder you here and now, so you’ll never harm another human again.” She didn’t seem to care it was Leo, and no longer held the same dream she once had. He ran barely with his life, and returned to the warlocks. He too no longer had the same dream but, he will protect his coven, the ones who saved him, and get rid of the serpents who caused all of this. This will be done, one way or another.
“A lot of life still exists in these corrupted lands, just watch.” (Leo)

Name: Baal "Incarnation of Sin"
Gender: depends on current body
Age: Unknown
Appearance: original human form

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Weapons: none since they are sealed away
Abilities: Possession: can possess a living creature/undead using one of the 9 sins (the host must be very greedy/enraged/arrogant/whatever)

Demonic regeneration: increases the host's regeneration(only when he is inside the host's body)

Immortality: upon the destruction of the host Baal's spirit will simply seek out another creature to poses, down side is that without a host he's pretty much powerless  

Mark of corruption(9 types, only one can be used per person/creature) : each of the 9 sins grants the the host 1 ability based on the sin that was used to possess him:
-Mark of Famine(gluttony): grants the host the ability to absorbs magic,energy,elemental attacks(unable to move while absorbing,stronger attacks take more time to absorb)
-Mark of Cresil (sloth): alters a creatures sense of time making everything apear to moving slower/faster then they really are (doesn't work on objects)
-Mark of the succubi (lust): cannot be attacked directly by the target,can still attack indirectly(example target cannot shoot the host directly but can shoot a gas tank next to the host causing an explosion)
-Mark of envy: host can copy 1 ability from the target
-Mark of fury(wrath): increases the host's combat ability beyond its natural potential
-Mark of Vanity(pride): ability to nullify attacks with his hands (can only block 1 attack at a time)
-Mark of Avarice(greed): can grant the targets deepest desire for a price, the stronger the desire/harder to achieve  the higher the price required
-Mark of Mephisto(herrecy/treason): host can infect 1 target at a time(infection occurs like a normal virus infection,blood,saliva,etc NOT airborne) the infected will be compeled to go against his greatest belief/wish/desire seeking out to destroy it, once it's mission is accomplished the infected returns to normal.
-Mark of Insanity: The host is able to project his twisted thoughts and ideas as illusions in order to spread chaos and insanity.

Personality: sarcastic,sadistic,deceiving,"evil", ambitious, cold-hearted,rebelious
Biography: Baal is a half demon, the son of Vetis(demon of corruption) and a mortal human. Long ago his greed got the better of him rebelled against the demon lords in a failed coup'd etat, as a "reward" for his little fiasco his body and powers were sealed away. Now his spirit travels to the human world where he corrupts and posses other creatures but most of his powers and original body remained sealed away in the demon world.

Name: Zhi Jing
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Faction: Refugee
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Weapons: wards and talismans he made himself.

Ability: Master of Martial Arts: he has been constantly training in martial arts since a very young age, this allows to be able to fend off creatures that are still somewhat in human range of physical attributes.

Enlightened: He has been studying and learning the ancient teachings of Buddha since he was born has given him great knowledge about the world and its creatures(allows him to create warding spells/talismans), also gives him a higher resistance vs illusions.

Sealed: His spiritual powers were sealed away and now only has a fraction of them left, in an ironic twist though this helps protect him from spiritual/astral attacks( like possesion) which is how he managed to avoid Baal's possesion.

Growth: either by training or the seal weakening(unknown), Zhi's spiritual powers are slowly returning.

Personality: Thinker,Open Minded, Calm, self indulgent, nihilistic.

Bio: Zhi was abandoned at a Buddhist monastery since he was an infant and has been raised by the monks as one of there own for as long as he can remember. Zhi quickly became one of the top disciples and earned the head monks recognition, the head monk even believing Zhi would become the next Buddha... but, despite the head monks wishes and guidance Zhi's behaviour was anything but a monks one, he loved drinking, partying,women,gambling,etc. Zhi was well aware that they were all just fleeting moments and traps that kept him bound to Samsara(cicle of death and rebirth) but he did not care and choose to indulge himself in his worldly desires rather then attain nirvana. The Monk was haunted with sadness and regret at the wasted potential, as if summoned by the weakness of the head monk Baal showed up and started "whispering" ideas into the old monks head, among which was a sealing spell that would paralize the targets body completely but leaving the mind intact, the spell was ment to force and help people into meditation like state for a couple of days without being burdened by the desires of the body. Even though the old mans wishes were pure that did little to nothing to stop baal from taking control of the monk and altering the spell, Zhi would be sealed forever unless he would let himself be possessed by baal, well even if he refused baal figured that the betrayal and rage Zhi would feel would allow him to control the young disciple even against his will. Baal was right the young disciple refused his offer but the regret,betrayal and anger he felt was enough for Baal to posses him, but there was one miscalculation, the altered spell had a side effect which acted as ward preventing Baal from taking control of Zhi. Deciding that there was nothing he could right now Baal just left thinking after a while of being stuck like that the young disciple would give in but this was his second miscalculation, Zhi's spiritual power was to great and it started weaking the sealing spell. Now a few years later Zhi finds himself in SF, a city overrun with creatures of the Asura realm, while he has regained full control of his body most of his spiritual power is still sealed away.

Name: Faust
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Faction: Exorcist
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Weapons: A powerful revolver with silver bullets designed for taking down lycans and shapeshifters
A silver holy hidden blade, for when things get to close
Blessed Cards: they look like a harmless  deck of cards but they are blessed with holy incantations to use against undead and creatures weak to holy artifacts.
Blessed Armored Clothing: while his clothes looks normal they are made out of special fibers which are bullet proof and also blessed to offer him some protection against the hordes of monsters out there

Ability: Mark of Avarice: mark appears as a random tatto on his chest (see baal above for how the marks work)

Degenerate Gambler: Due do his need for gambling he used the marks power upon itself to alter it, now everytime the marks is used a gamble needs to be involved. example: someone would ask for a gold statue, the easiest to pay the price required would be for him to provide the gold needed for the statue, well that's how the mark would normally work(think equivalent exchange from fma). now in this case a gamble must be made, lets say rolling a dice, if the dice lands 6 then faust gets to keep the statue, while for a 5 faust would need to pay the price( in this case the gold) for the statue,etc (you get the point, depends on situation but there's a chance factor involved)

Conartist: very good at persuading and tricking others, also great at "reading" other people

Chaos Form: By mixing holy and demonic energies into a volatile state, Faust enters a special form that allows him to wield a strange form of energy which he calls chaos energy. This energy is has the special ability of being able to affect any sort of creature equally but as a drawback it has no special advantage over any type. A second (dis)advantage is the fact that this also applies to his defense, meaning he will not be able to reduce incoming damage with elemental defense (such as defending with holy against demonic, fire vs ice, etc)

Chaos Infuse: infuses an object or attack with chaos energy.

Personality: Opportunist, Con-Artist, Gambler, Disloyal, Survivor, Sociopath

Bio: Faust is one of the best Conman that ever lived, trained from an early age by his parents into the "family business", he knows every trick in the book and more. His hole life he moved from one place to another living from tricking and deceiving others, never settling down or caring about others. After all hell broke loose,literally, he joined the exorcists figuring it was his best chance at staying alive. While he was more of the agnostic/that has nothing to do with me tipe and his behaviour was less then "appropiate", he was able to con his way into the church udner the facade of "someone who wants to rid the world of these unclean beast"
 

Name: Carlos Delmont
Gender: Male
Age: 25

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Faction: Lycan, (snow leopard)

Weapons: desert eagle, revolver,glock, bereta (basically a bunch of hand guns), the bullets he usese are either silver,normal or armor piercing.

Abilities: Marksman: he could rival sogeking in a snipping competition :p

Richoche bullets: his accuracy is so high he can even hit things by bouncing bullets/projectiles of walls/ground/whatever

Marksmanship: a natural with guns and projectile weapons

Mark of Vanity: mark appears as a tattoo on his right shoulder

General Lycan powers

Feline Lycan: more agile then his canine counterparts

Snow Leopard: more resistant to the cold

Magic amulet: an amulet that allows the user to enchant an object with magic powers for a short time, Carlos uses it to enhance his bullets and guns.

Personality: cocky,arrogant,hot headed, easy going, impatient, likes things simple, bit xenophobic

Biography: His fascination with guns dated from an early as his father was a special forces op and his mother a police officer so he virtualy grew up with guns. When the war started it gave him the chance to test out the skills he learned from his parents. Carlos was one of the easiest targets Baal ever possessed, he willingly accepted the possession due to the benefits it would bring. A little while ago after an encounter with a golem, another refugee crashing a truck into it, and provoking a horde of monsters just for the hell of it Carlos almost got killed, what saved him was lycan, a werepanther, carlos managed to befriend the lycan girl during that crazy ass trip but his injuries were to much for his human body and the only way he could be saved was to be converted to a lycan, something he is still not comfartable with, which is why he almost always staying in human form but he is still grateful to the
lycan girl that saved his life.

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Name: Katarina
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Faction: Warlock
Appearance:

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Weapons: 2 Runic Blades(a combination between a knife and a short sword), the blades are made out of a special durable alloy and coated with silver. The blades are also enhanced with dark magic increasing the sharpness and durability while also preventing anyone else exept katarina from wielding the blades. The blades can be "pulled" to her(as if she had a magnet in her hands) is she dropped them or threw them.

Throwing knives,Katana and some paralizing poison to apply on her weapons if needed.

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Personality: patient,resourceful,prideful,eager,cold hearted,vengeful

Bio: Katarina is what they sometimes refer to as a pureblood, she was never human instead she was born a vampire into a what you may call vampire nobility. Ever since she was born there were high expectations placed on her and riguros training. Katarina somehow always managed to handle the pressure and expectations but that couldn't not be said for her younger brother who just didn't seem to have what it took. One day katarina's father had enough of the boy's failures saying he was the shame of the family and had him killed, once Katarina found out about what happened she overcome by rage and hatred towards her parents especially her father and in the spur of the moment blinded by rage she attacked and killed her father who was caught offguard. Thanks to her berzerker moment she was now a hunted outcast, this was where Baal came in, fueling her hatred he half forced her into making the contract with him. With Baal's help katarina hunted and slayed the rest of her family, but she was still not free... there was still baal who she despised and wished to get rid of.

Name: Zack Karan
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Appearance:

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Weapons: 2 special claws made out of a rare and powerful mineral(more durable and sharper then normal weapons), the claws itself are coated in silver while the "glove" part has an iron planting on top of it, his boots also contain iron plates and a hidden dagger at the tip(dagger also coated with silver).

Ability:

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Personality: bloodthirsty, psychopath, insane, sadistic, serial killer

Bio:

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Ladd

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Vino

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Name: Jack Daniels (Real name: Elliot Donavan)

Race: Lycan, Wolf

Legacy: yes (very end)

Time skip: Aside from his con-ish business affairs with the darker forces in the world, Jack has taken up both hunting demons, as well as hunting humans/vampires/lycans of psychotic nature, using his demon-like power's he has acquired against them. It's become something of a hobby for him, as it reinforces his once fading belief that his dark deeds were for a good cause. It's an almost euphoric practice for him. He generally hunts by using himself as bait, wondering around shady parts of town late at night

I'd really only like to make 1 change to Jack's powers over these 6 months, I'd like to add 1 additional familiar (read below)

Now if I understand the Barons correctly, Jack would likely base himself in Dionysus' fiefdom, as it supports his drinking, and perverse habits, in addition to actually lining up with his personal religious beliefs. He would also likely have some business affiliations with the Dragon. Jack as I previously stated would make sport of hunting demon's he could isolate and separate from the others, but he has sense enough not to go straight into their liar alone and without good reason. Jack would likely also have it out for Winters for his needlessly cruel nature, the same can be said for the Witch of thorns and the Rakshasa, but Winters' roaming nature would make him a more viable target for Jack. Lastly Jack has a VERY acute interest in the Shadow, and can often be found trying to gain information on it, trying to make it appear, or even trying to hunt it down. He consider's it the ultimate target for his hunts.

(Ultimately if the Shadow is a large part of the story id like to focus my character on hunting it.)

Appearance: A tall man of about 6"4, visibly muscular but not entirely ripped. His hair is black and tends to be in a spiky bedhead state. His eyes are ice blue. In his wolf form he stands at about 6"8 and his legs are digitigrade in form, allowing him to move swiftly on all four limbs, but still allowing him to move at a brisk pace on two. His eyes remain blue in his wolf form and his face remains soft, his muzzle covering his straight and in line teeth (as opposed too gruesome teeth protruding from his closed mouth like a beast). In his wolf form, his muscular but not ripped figure remains but his chest is noticeably bigger in comparison with his waste. His neck and back are naturally leaned forwards, properly distributing the weight on his feet. In his wolf form, his fur is solid white, except on a full moon when his body comes under the control of another force, at which point his muscles grow bulkier, his fur becomes black, and his teeth become large and crooked and protrude grievously from his mouth.

Clothing: (designed so that they will still fit when he transforms)
1. Black, cotton-lined, canvas trenchcoat. (large enough to fit both forms)
2. Black, cotton-lined, loose fitting, canvas pants with belt loops, a belt, and an elastic waistband. (fits around waist when transformed, baggy leggings accommodate changing leg shape.)
3. Oversized fishnet shirt with pins in the back holding it relatively tightly around his body. (pins release when he transforms allowing the fishnet to fit around his body better.)
4. Light but reinforced armor on his shins/calfs. These leggings have inward facing hooks on the front and back, at the ankles and knees, to catch swords, preventing them from continuing on to his torso or exposed foot if he chooses to block a weapon with his leg.(These leggings are designed to pop off when he transforms into his wolf form as his leg type would become incompatible with the leggings.)
5. Celtic cross necklace.
6. A pair of black flip flops. (allowing him to step out of his shoes easily for a transformation)
7. Diapers (when he sleeps)

Weapons:
1. A hand gun that can optionally be charged with mana to increase the power and velocity of the bullet.
2. Gauntlets equipped with retractible blades and grappling hooks. The grappling hooks like the hand gun can be charged with mana to increase the firing velocity. The grappling hooks can retract to pull Elliot forwards or pull a victim closer to him. The gears that handle the retraction of the cable can also be charged with mana to increase their power and speed. Lastly the 'hook' can be charged with mana to make it stick to a surface even if the surface wasn't properly 'hooked'.
3. A serrated whip.
4. Several vials of paralyzing poison.
5. A survival knife.
6. Throwing knives
7. A double edged one handed sword.
8. A collapsable combat stick with a small retractable spring loaded spike at the tip. The is held within the stick for the majority of the time but can pop out with enough force to penetrate armor to deliver paralysis poison. Also serves as a standard battle staff, collapsibility allows for easier storage.
9. Big black book of deals, and soul sealing. The book possesses strange seemingly impossible properties:
A. For to cause any of these properties to present themselves access the book must be wielded by a user has signed the blood contract in the back of the book.
B. The book contains seemingly infinite pages (despite not being overly thick) that can all either be used for writing information, or for sealing souls into the book, and will appear blank and/or the pages missing if a signed wielder isn't touching it.
C. A voice presumed to be satan himself will speak to the wielder of the book, this has been negated and silenced by a strange force for Jack.
D. For souls to be sealed in the book two conditions must be met simultaneously. Blood of the sealie must make contact with the page, the sealies hand must make contact with the page. The usual result of a successful seal is a bloody hand or finger print. The sealie's soul is immediately sealed into the book and can be transferred or traded at the sealers whim. This process must be carried out before death or no more than 3 minutes after a person's brain goes dark. (Shayu doesn't trade any of the souls he has sealed within the book he holds onto them for some unknown purpose.)
E. The book if ripped burned or destroyed in anyway will put itself back together once the destructive force has left.
F. A wielder may telepathically communicate with those sealed inside the book.
G. A wielder owes their "immortal soul" to Satan.
H. The book gives off an unholy aura that is hazardous to weak holy entities.

Abilities:
1. Skilled in speechcraft and bartering.
2. Skilled in running and leg based combat.
3. Fairly skilled with melee weapons.
4. Fairly skilled at using fire arms.
5. Skilled at manipulating his posture and position in midair.

Powers:
*Transform into wolf form.
*Extreme mental ressiliance from all psychic attacks, can assault another characters mind if that character forms a connection with his mind first, can portray false thoughts and memories to those who read his mind. Can make his mind appear blank to those who read his mind. Can always tell if a force is making contact with his mind.
(All of the following powers and traits are the result of deals Elliot has made with various deities.)
1. Due to a demonic mana parasite he has bonded with himself, his mana is in an un-natural form that can be used with his weapons and equipment. His equipment cannot be charged with normal mana. He cannot use normal mana. He cannot use or learn any powers that require normal mana. His mana regeneration severely stunted (recharges very slowly). He can use mana to toughen his body.
2. Because of a deal made with an unholy deity, he is Adversely physically affected by holy auras (but mentally immune). He is highly resistant to radiation, but is adversely physically affected by physical contact with silver with any part of his body besides his skin and bones. (Cuts, raw flesh, and organs are severely damaged by silver.) Elliot has an extended life span to roughly 170 years if he dies of natural causes.
3. Because of a deal made with a malicious demon,on each full moon of the moon cycle Elliot's body shifts to it's wolf form and comes under the control of said malicious demon. (wolf form shift and full moon date was a compromise made by Elliot and the demon, Elliot selected the date as it makes for an easy comparison to werewolves when explaining the situation to another person.) However elliot's mana pool (capacity) is extremely large.
4. Can summon a familiar that is equipped with needles that can drain mana and paralyze (via poison) victims. familiar can use mana to regenerate from physical damage, increase strength. Familiar cannot generate it's own mana. Elliot can transfer his mana remotely to the familiar and the familiar can do the same vise versa. Familiar can screech loud enough to temporarily deafen victims. Familiar is highly resistant to holy auras but not immune. Familiar is controlled directly by Elliot's mind meaning he can control it even when he is not in control of his body. In return Elliot owes 147 years of servitude to a dark entity after death.


Personality: Jack is a very friendly and extremely open person. He does display tendencies and interests that would lead others to label him as perverse and as having a problem with alchohol and a few lighter recreational substances. Jack is also quite intelligent as well as a good actor. In certain circumstances he will portray himself as someone with a low intelligence. He is so used to doing so that he now sometimes does it for his own amusement. In truth though Jack is capable of being sharp, quick witted and professional, but outside of a business setting he is usually too laid back to behave in such a way. Jack makes an effort to capture the soul of everyone around him that dies or is killed by him. He shows great sympathy to the dead and is very kind to the souls he has captured, he never sells the souls in his possession although it's an option available to him. Jack's dark side is that he does enjoy fighting substantially. He usually tries to make up for this by fighting for the 'right' side.

Backstory: Elliot's family was esteemed with a place in the catholic church. His father was thought to be sterile, but after months of trying a child was finally conceived. However on the fateful day Elliot was born, a terrible omen was passed onto the family. The mark of the devil appeared on Elliot's belly as infant in the form of a birth-mark. Ashamed and distraut, they hid the mark from the eyes of their peers until it thankfully healed. A miracle they called it, a miracle they would keep to themselves.

From then on Elliot was raised as a good catholic boy, in the relatively large town he resided in. The town was a mix of humans and Lycanthropes who lived in harmony. When he came of age Elliot immediately became a priest. It was his desire to carry on the will of the Lord and to serve and care for the people of his community, he wanted as well to make his parents proud. And they were proud. Elliot carried on his duties as a priest for 5 years, but in those five years he saw all of the vile corruption that was housed within the church.

One day rumor came that there was a very sick boy being taken in by the church to be cared for, aged about 17. Whenever he would ask the head priest about it however, he would be given no answers. Then on one fateful night his mother and father along with 97% of the town spontaneously asphyxiated themselves to death. On that night Elliot lost his faith in God, but he prayed anyway, it's all he knew to do, he didn't even know who he was praying too.

Hours later into the night Elliot grabbed his fathers handgun and made his way to the church to try and discover what had happened, the church being the center of the town must have surely held some evidence. Upon arriving Elliot discovered the corpses of several priests and deacons, but it was what he last discovered that was to change his life.

A boy of 17 sat in the center of the chapel with a wide stimulated eyes. He stared back at Elliot and raised his hand high. The boy spoke and grabbed his own throat with his free hand,
"Starve,"
and with a flick of his wrist Elliot felt something vile try to push it's way into his mind. But in that moment everything seemed to stop. He heard someone speak. He knew who the voice belonged to, for he had been expecting his presence; the Devil himself.
"This boy is the one who caused all of this, but you have figured that much out yourself haven't you?"
Elliot did not reply.
"I never told him to kill your parents, some people just can't handle power. Do you want to take vengeance on this boy of mine?"
Elliot nodded.
"Splendid... then.... will you just sign here..."
A book appeared in one hand with the last page open and in the other hand appeared
a knife. As if knowing exactly what to do, Elliot sliced his hand open and placed it on the page. The voice began to cackle, "perfect now- wait!" The voice began to shout something Elliot did not understand, and he began to feel violently sick, but suddenly his mind became quiet, and his sickness ended as abruptly as it had begun.

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The boys face suddenly shifted to one of shock, he gasped for air and screamed falling backwards, he scramble away in the opposite direction from Elliot, eventually pressing his back against the alter. "S-satan help me!"

Elliot stepped slowly towards the boy, slently, his deathly gaze fixed on him. As he drew closer the boy began to beg. "F-father" he refered to Elliot. "Father please don't-GAH!" Elliot planted his planted his foot harshly on the boy and forced him to the ground. The boy trembled as Elliot lit up a cigarette and stared down in disgust. Elliot drew his handgun "FATHER PLEASE!-" Elliot fired the handgun. He shot the cursed boy, he shot him again, and again, he shot the corpse over and over, his cigarette quivering violently in his mouth as tears ran down his cheeks. He fired until his magazine was empty. The boy was riddled with holes, and it was only then that he realized who the boy had been, he was the head-priests son.

In anger Elliot ripped the cross necklace from his neck and through it across the chapel. "**** you!... all this could have not happened if you only did something!.... If only you did anything besides sit up there and watch!" Elliot cursed God with all of his might before he finally settled down.

It took him time but eventually Elliot turned around and left the church, but not before he said one last prayer. It wasn't God, and it wasn't to Satan... and for the first time that night... he smiled. "thank you..."

Following that night, Elliot roamed the earth under the alias 'The Man In Black', maker of dark deals. He would in time come to go by the name Jack Daniels (yes, like the whisky) rather than his own name in personal situations.

Arcane Staff ~ imbued with the energy of the Pagan Goddess Moréna, linked with one part of the soul energy of Surge the zmajevit; grants the wielder of the staff full control over the ancient-element-Water. This Arcane Staff is specifically linked to Surge Maxwell making him alone able to wield the power within; which is visibly active with the illumination of the Blue Dragon molded at the staff’s head.
Nature Ability: Combined with the innate ability of Surge’s physical body of control over the Mutual Storm Element – Wind; Surge Maxwell is able to manipulate Nature’s weather itself, albeit limited to that linked with the Water – Element only.
Mystic Ability: By channeling the energy of The Goddess of Nightmares – Moréna; Surge Maxwell is able to summon forth a veil in a target(s) mind plaguing it/them with Nightmarish visions.
Mystical Nature Ability: By combing all his powers, Surge Maxwell can cast the impression of a living Nightmarish World in a given physical targeted area. The targets caught under the “Mirage” will view the landscape in a specifically tailored environment solely for them; while those who were able to shield themselves or recover from the “Psychic Spell” or those not targeted; will view the world at a lesser degree. (Eg: Under-Mystic-Spell ~ Fire breathing Nightmarish Horses with razor sharp teeth galloping towards them. Under-Reality-Zone ~ Solid or vague images of horses constructed out off Fog/clouds/mist/etc blowing at the target.)

Runic Sheathe ~: Upon his arrival to Moréna’s Realm, the Rune Blade along with the Ebony sheathe, disintegrated into energy particles. At first Maxwell believed it to have been destroyed, but later found out that Moréna had summoned it. Originally, the Rune blade was imbued with Surge’s spiritual energy which was extracted from within his dying body. But when Maxwell used up the lightning attributed stored energy, during a reckless attack; the blade was not able to recover from such a feat. Because Moréna was the one to initially imbue the forged rune blade with Surge’s dying energy; she was easily able to fully extract a crucial part of that energy and transmute it with Surge’s essence present inside her plane of existence. With the defining power completely removed from the blade, the remaining power which was of the frost demon, took precedence over the entire artifact. Moréna, at a later time had the blade forged into the weapon specialized for the future water Elementalist. The runic sheathe which always served another purpose, was crafted into a minimalistic design. It still served its purpose of alerting Maxwell of impending doom.

Rune Stones~: Usually, Maxwell, need only to rely on his Arcane Staff for battle, but Moréna entrusted him with special stones and taught him, how to use them in various situation and needs. One such example would be on how to initiate a two-way Spell for contacting her from earth realm to the Moréna Plane.

Mystic Scrolls ~: Apart from the stones, Maxwell, as well received a few scrolls for varied purposes. Some, a single time use only, while others, which could be used more than once. Scrolls of entrapment, scrolls of summoning, scrolls of blessing; were names of just a few of the tricks that they could be used for.

The Rune Stones, Mystic Scrolls, and the Runic Sheathe are only accessible to Maxwell whenever he is not using the Darkness’s aided transformations and is not currently occupying any kind vessel, apart from Surge’s Body. The same goes for wielding the Arcane Staff.

He has the ability to transform his body into a corporeal state, enabling him to transfer his essence into another vessel.
Once inside the host vessel, Maxwell may not be able to physically control it but he may place any kind of suggestive thoughts directly into the mind of its host, thus making them believe that they are their own dominant thoughts.

When taking over an undead vessel, Maxwell gains complete control over the undead creature’s limbs and is able to move freely through it.

Almost all sentient beings that Maxwell would come across have the potential to be Mind-jacked.
Except for few exceptions such as:

Smarter more sentient creatures with high spiritual presence would be hard or impossible to possess
Humans/Vampires/Lycans are few of the major species which become impossible for Maxwell to latch on to.

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Maxwell while in Surge’s body can initiate a chain jump consisting of animate to inanimate objects (with the exception of higher beings with greater spiritual presence). Once inside a targeted object, Maxwell can then further jump into another object for long as they are within the scope of his inner radius. The chain stops at a maximum of five jumps per cycle. Once in the fifth object, Maxwell must reform into Surge’s body to begin the recharge process which varies depending on the accumulated time spent within all five objects. Maxwell can reside in an object for an indefinite time, granted that he does not attack the mind of the taken over object. This rule only implies on living animate objects, such as: Animals and varied Plant Life.
For when Maxwell takes over an inanimate object, the targeted object can come under complete control over all motor actions; such as: if Maxwell takes over a metal pipe, he is able to disfigure that particular metal pipe, but he will be limited to that single part of a larger structure. E.g.: Maxwell can reside inside a single suspension of a bridge and by pulling itself out of its hold; he can eventually affect the entire bridge, granted that it takes only five suspension strings to keep that part of a large bridge stable. Maxwell can only manifest himself inside a single part of a complex object during a jump. Movement speed may be affected by the thickness of the inanimate object, e.g.: A hollow structure will be easily altered, while a solid compact item may be disfigured at a much slower rate. Just like how the mental drain is affected in animate objects; which move via implanting suggestive thoughts in one’s core psyche; the more thick the object is, higher will be the endurance depletion rate and Maxwell will be forced to exit out of such object and into Surge’s body to regain stamina.

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Energy Vision:
Maxwell’s eyes turn into dark orange globes when he activates Energy Vision.
It can be activated from within any object that Maxwell has jumped into.
It enables Maxwell to view the energies of the World and its inhabitants. In a 360 degree perspective
All same species vessels have their fixed energy spectrum.
In Energy Vision, aside of living and inanimate objects, Maxwell is also able to view the arcane and mystic aura energies of an individual object, which may be around a living being, a cursed object or even an entire landscape.

The Shades of Arcania:~

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Hawk Eye :: Tunnel Vision
Sub shoot of the Energy Vision. It enables Maxwell to zoom his vision into the desired viewing angle.
Everything outside the selected direction blurs out, creating potential blind spots.
The zoomed in vision acts just like when an object enters Maxwell’s inner radius.


Energy Vision inner range: 150 Feet (45 Meters.approx.) 360Degree on all Axis (The mid Width of the larger Galleon [ship] = 150 ft. The full length is 400 ft)

This is the field where the shapes of all objects appear as their real life counter parts. Their individual layered energies are easily distinguishable, alongside their shape and structure. Closer the object is in the inner range, they are much quickly jumped into / taken over.
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Energy Vision outer range: Horizon (everything beyond is humanly impossible to view due to the curvature of the Earth) 360Degree on Z-Axis (when vision reaches outside the inner range)

This is the field where all objects display their predefined energy cores as blobs in the distance. Those beings, which are under multi-layered aura energy, the spectrum blends together with their main defining energy, illuminated with a stronger glow. The further the vessel, smaller will be the blob. As Maxwell gets closer to the source, meaning that the object is reaching the inner range; the blob would grow proportionally and begin to show some resemblance to its original structure.


Frequency Detection:
Range 1: 150 Feet (45 Meters.approx.) 360Degree on all Axis [Corporeal Displacement, entry and exit, is only possible within this range]
Range 2: 400 ft (121 Meters.approx.) 360 Degrees on all Axis

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Frequencies are emitted by everything present in the universe. Each element has its own unique frequency that it transmits.
Maxwell, when he activates the Energy Vision, using Surge’s eyes, frequency detection is automatically activated and there is no way to block them from being received by Surge Maxwell’s mind.

F.D. works with two ranges:
The First Range, that encompasses the same range as the Energy Vision’s Inner Range; the frequencies within this range are all filtered and easily distinguishable with pin-point precision.
The Second Range, this range takes over a wider transmission area, but the signals being received herein, are all muffled, jumbled. It becomes possible for Maxwell to establish that there may be mobile objects in the distance, but he may not be able to properly identify such objects. It could be a cat running towards its destination or simple tumbleweed, being blown around by the wind.

It is safe to say that both of these abilities work hand in hand. It is not possible, that one is activated, without the other, not being present.
Surge Maxwell’s Energy Vision, drastically changes the way he views the world. The Frequency Detection, drastically changes the way he perceives objects and the world, in close quarters.

By activating Frequency Vision; Surge Maxwell may be able to view far away objects in a new light and be able to discern closer objects with more detailed information than by simply viewing the world with the naked eye.

But even such ability is not without its limitations: Yes he can spot differences in the objects far away, but the picture would be clearer, when there are objects with mystic properties spread about. It is like looking at a city, sunk under water, just that the structures themselves are of the same color of the sea. Clear, transparent, and blended with the surrounding itself. Though if an object of power is camped behind; it would be viewable, though as it would be beyond the range of transmission, the exact distance, shape, size, layers, type, etc, will not be discernible. Unless, it is of a pre-registered, classed object; I.E: an object which gives off a unique color/energy spectrum that has been classified as a trait of a certain specie; Maxwell will be able to arrive at a conclusion of what that hidden object may be.

His aesthetic looks may have changed but the core body that Maxwell inhabits is still the one of the Zmajevit, Surge. This meant that he still retained the abilities, prior to his change in the Water Elemental. Such as:
His body is able to withstand high physical impact damages to much extent.
The body may only be severely harmed when attacked by weapons constructed out of pure gold or silver, where gold being the more lethal of the two. Weapons which contain impurities and thus are not pure, may too damage Surge Maxwell’s body. The attacks from these weapons take longer to recover from.
Longevity was the key ingredient in preserving the age’s long body of the Demon Hunter. The Goddess of Death had a hand in this, thus Surge’s body is forever kept in prime condition. Any damages, small or big, will eventually get completely healed over time; reverting the body back to its unblemished self. Though, Moréna did warn Maxwell that some attacks which appear to be fatal wounds may leave scars behind.
Along with high physical defense, Surge’s body can also withstand attacks/conditions similar in nature of the mystical abilities that it is able to naturally perform. Such being: impervious to frigid cold temperatures and absorbing energy attacks that reach Thermal Heat (30,000 Celsius), which is like being struck by Lightning bolts. The same would apply for any internal attacks with their origin being the ice cold or lightning elements. Surge Maxwell, being a creature that can control natures Stormy weathers; Wind is another element that works hand in hand with his abilities.

Now with the Frost Demon’s dormant powers being awoken inside of Surge’s body; at times, one could notice mist emanating from Surge Maxwell’s skin and his breath being icy cold which matches his outside skin temperature. Though his touch may be like a grasp from Death’s icy fingers, they do not have the potency to chill a held target to its core, but may send a shiver down their spine or leave an extremely thin layer/membrane of frost at the touched area on any objects held for too long.

The loss of his parents at quite an early age, barred Maxwell from having a normal childhood. The paths he kept taking without guidance, was not the kind that a young child of Seven years, should be exposed to. But then again, the young child was presumed dead in the world’s eye; when the passenger plane was shot down by some unknown terrorist group, trying to make a name for them. All passengers died on impact, when the already blasted plane crashed into the Grand Canyon. Maxwell, whom by some miraculous or Mystical interference or simply by force of nature; was blown into a cave, alongside some shrapnel, creating a path of molten metal and debris in front of him.

The young survivor of the plane crash, later that day awoke to find himself bathed in the stench of blood and burnt flesh, among other scents. Looking about himself, Maxwell found out that the reason he was not bruised as much, upon being blown deep inside the cave, was due to the fact that his body rested upon the carcass of a large Black Bear. The dead animal was severely wounded by the molted metal and other shrapnel that had plunged deep into the beast’s body. Maxwell presumed that the creature might have received a quick, yet painful death. Making his way out of the shadowed cave, Maxwell stood out under the dusky sky. Peering below to where smoke still rose, were the remains of the plane that he was thrown out from. From his height, there wasn’t much that he could make out but one thing was clear, the damage below, clearly told a horrific story. The image itself scarred him for life.

When the entire entourage of media and federal government began pouring in, Maxwell sought refuge within the cave and hoped no one would come looking for him. Thinking that him, being the lone survivor, would make him highly suspicious or just that the fact that the spotlight would forever shine brightly onto him; Maxwell thought it better to let the entire incident die out before re-entering civilization.

Days passed by before Maxwell finally decided to find a way out of the Grand Canyon. Living on the meat of the dead animal that had saved him on that sorrowful day, Maxwell was not void of hunger. He had kept to himself during the Day and would venture out only at Night. For the first one week that he spent living, the rescue teams would be crawling the crash site, clearing out the charred bodies from within the rubble, but only during the day. For the one week that Maxwell was cooped up in the cave, the young boy felt severely trapped. He wanted his freedom, yet trekking too far away from the cave during the Night would not bode him well. The cold Nights would force him to retake shelter within the cave and wrap himself with the bear’s hide for warmth. Moving about in the Day was risky for there was a chance of him being caught by the humans below and occasionally from above, via the helicopters that had news reporters covering the crash site with an aerial view.

A week later, when only the scorched marks of the news that had become already old, remained visible; Maxwell was finally free to move in the day and night as he pleased. From that day onwards, Maxwell’s life was started anew. In a world that he barely knew, a country that he had never visited before, Maxwell took the first initial steps that would later turn him into the cold blooded hunter that the underworld would come to know, fear and respect.

Starting from the wild life and then to human civilization, Maxwell feared nothing and took whatever he desired. After all he did survive a plane crash where no one else did. That fact in itself made him ignorant to a risk filled world. Yet he survived and kept on doing so, alone, till the faithful day arrived when he was finally able to locate the men that he blamed responsible for warping his life. Several years had passed by, at the ripe age of Seventeen; Maxwell hunted down and massacred the entire terrorist cell, which had by that time, grown into a disdainful clan that held no remorse for their actions which included vast collateral damages during huge heists; it had become common knowledge in the underworld that they were the group responsible for carrying out that heinous act, Ten years ago.

A rival group found the young Maxwell in the bloody mess, surrounded by the dead bodies of their enemies. Impressed by the actions of this unknown person, they made him an offer to work for them, in exchange for a newer, richer, safer, easier life; when compared to his then life of petty thieving and always trying to keep clear from the other clans when he targeted the areas under their control; Maxwell accepted the offer that granted him an ease of life.

With his raw abilities, Maxwell soon rose in the ranks of his new family. He was then taught the ways of the Assassin which he grasped quite quickly. It was as if he was a born killer. His name rose within the entire underground network and soon began raking in offers from all over the continent.

Maxwell, now a seasoned veteran of his art, left his first family and went completely freelance. Taking in orders of high profile hits from varied groups, alongside, protection services where he was paid a high price for his services and even officially sanctioned hunting of known criminals governed by the bounty hunting law; Maxwell was inadvertently turning into the very men who had taken the innocent lives of his parents and his fellow passengers. Yet he was still different from them for the image of the unrecognizable bodies of the charred passengers would always haunt him during his troubled sleep. He knew what he was and knew the path he had chosen but still for that sole image, his only motto was to minimize collateral damage as much as possible. Thus that one time due to his inexperience, when an innocent family died due to collateral damage while trying to do a big, loud job; Maxwell recalibrated his life and attempted to once again hide under the radar.

It was already ascertained, as the gears of the world were sprung and was thrown towards the new chaos, Maxwell had already entered his metamorphosis. The first was the mental change when Surge Maxwell came in contact with the Darkness sealed within the Dark Grimoire Serpentine. Maxwell later found out that the cursed book, housed a formidable entity who represented itself as Darkness Incarnate. This being was used by another much more extremely powerful entity for acts that may be considered as Unholy. The power that it held within itself was sinister enough to corrupt a lesser than itself demonic creature into something far more dangerous than its original self. The Darkness within the Grimoire, attempted to take over Maxwell more than once, but it soon learnt that after making the pact with the unique being Surge Maxwell, that task would not be so simple. Thus he acknowledged Maxwell as its new master and vowed to aid him in his quests. The ownership of The Darkness is transferable thus Maxwell was not its first master. Though the Darkness has claimed that Maxwell is its current Master, Maxwell knows not to trust such an entity, no matter what story it sticks too. Maxwell will use this Darkness within himself to reach his goals and he is sure that no matter what the Darkness states, it too would always have its own agenda.

The Darkness can for the most part, read Maxwell’s mind and gain access to his memories. But Maxwell cannot do the same with the Darkness entity.


1^st year à Water Elementalist

During his time spent in Moréna’s Mystic Realm, The Goddess of Winter informed Maxwell that due to the presence of The Darkness, and the scarce, remnant of Surge’s Core spirit energy, which was greatly depleted during the attack on the Demon at Treasure Island, Surge’s Demonic power had grown stronger. Maxwell was no longer able to wield the latent lightning attribute that Surge was once known to harness. But the later powers that he had received before his death, during his encounter with the Ale, the Frost Demon that attacked his village, Maxwell was now able to unleash the dormant Frost Demon’s power imbued within the zmajevit Surge’s body.

Maxwell had already begun to exhibit the Ale’s abilities after he reverted back from his primal transformation that the Darkness had bestowed upon the demon hunter, after the pact was sealed. With the added guidance of Moréna and her Mystic knowledge, it took Maxwell an entire year, to control and Master the Ale’s attributed mage craft. No longer a dual storm summoner; Maxwell had now become a single element caster, a Water Elementalist. With direct control over one of the arcane elements, Water, Maxwell was now able to transfer his will into utilizing this element at a cellular level. Though Maxwell’s spirit was still confined within Surge’s body, limitations were apparent. Maxwell could not alter his own physiology, meaning; he couldn’t turn his body into a mass of water; liquid, solid or gaseous for that matter. Though occurrences like creating solid pillars out of a lake, raining down a hail storm or even summoning a mist covering a land of mass was no difficult task to this Arcane Elementalist.

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Hybrid

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Humanoid

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Blade of the Valkyrie:

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Moréna the goddess of Death and winter, chanced upon this bird, that which despite the sever conditions she was in, would not leave the side of her dead mistress. Kept as a pet from birth, Raven adored her owner and would always be seen around her. But when Katya was murdered by her servants, in an assassination orchestrated by her envious uncle who hoped to take over the land and title that was Katya’s birthright; the Raven who with her underwhelming strength was unable to save her mistress, could now only stay close to her dead body as it floated around in the castle’s icy lake.

Soaked in bone chilling waters, the raven would not budge from atop her owner’s gashed open chest. Every time her consciousness slipped towards the darkness, the raven would manage to jolt herself awake by slicing herself at her own chest by her sharp talons at her feet. The pain and anger would overwhelm her mind and halt it from loosing itself.

Moréna spotted the little animal and took pity on her, as well as impressed by her strong desire to live when her mistress was no longer breathing while at the same time harboring vengeful thoughts against the people who brought her such great sorrow. The raven was an only bird and animal of the court; she knew none other than the person who raised her, fed her, loved her and took care of her. She accepted Katya as a mother, a guardian, a friend, a companion, her reason to live. And when she was so easily and suddenly, brutally ripped away from her, the raven did not allow losing herself in grief over the loss of the very reason of that which she considered living for, but instead her soul began gearing towards that of a vengeful spirit.

Before her spirit could completely turn into that of a solely vengeful creature or finally freeze to death; Moréna plucked the little bird out and away from the freezing lake. The bird instead dropped out from the goddess’s cupped palms and settles herself once again onto her dead mistress’s body. Realizing that the little black bird won’t leave the body of the woman in the lake; Moréna carried the bird away with her as it pressed down hard on Katya’s bosom so as to not be parted from her dead mother.

During the full moon of that month, the grounds of Katya’s castle were turned into a valley of crimson. Blood gushed down towards the lake as every member of the household was torn, ripped, shredded and or gutted apart by a lone hunter under the Moonlit Night, while all the time a single word could be heard echoing through the walls and hallways before they were blasted apart… SILVIU!! The name of the man who had taken ownership, over that of which was not for him to have.

When the night cleared and the sun of the next day arose; sending the golden rays over the crimson land; not a single sound was heard in the ghastly ruins of Castle Romanoff. Even the wind dared not howl at that place of death.

A bright light flickered in the throne room and booming thunder was heard roaring in the sky above that completely shook the serenity of the castle grounds, but only for mere seconds before silence once again blanketed the land of the dead.

Seated on the throne was a woman dressed in black garments, shrouded by a sinister red aura, illuminating her body and clothes which covered her complexly, except for her face. Her pasty face, void of emotion; her eyes, lacking of soul behind them though glowing with a ghastly energy; and holding in her left hand was the chopped head of the man that had killed the very person now seated on the dark throne.

Moréna stopped in front of the motionless woman, for a moment there was simply silence. Finally Moréna turned around and said; “We need to work on that rage of yours. Come now, let us leave this in the past and follow me… Katya Romanoff.”

Moréna walked a few steps before a thud was heard, signaling the head of the late ruler, Katya’s uncle Silviu, being dropped next to his ill achieved throne. A shuffle was heard from behind as the person, formerly known as Katya Romanoff, rose from the cursed throne, “Call me Raven”.

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The sound of wings fluttered as they unfolded from behind the creature. Soon Moréna and Raven left the land behind as they both soared into the sky above the winter clouds.

The Raven whom by the Goddess of witchcraft, Moréna’s magic, was finally one with her former mistress, though in some horrific, bizarre sense. The once black bird of the sky was now a creature of beyond imagination. Yet it was grateful to this being that had allowed her to fulfill her dying wish; which was to have vengeance over the evil doers who had ruined her lovely, peaceful life with her loving mother.

The Raven gained via mystical means to transmogrify her body into that of her loving mistress, she had still yet to learn how to control her rage and that was where Moréna guided her in; leading the goddess to become her new master who she felt forever indebted to.

The Raven was later sent to spy, keep track of and report to Moréna as she was to accompany Maxwell on his quest.

(A warrior’s mentality, that does not discriminate between the various species born of any Realm. He views all creatures as equals, even if they don’t and he would fight them as such. Surge would not deny any aid presented to him, if it is in his and his companions favor. Loyal and protective to his friends, Surge would rather charge forward and attack a group first than let other head out. A sacrificial mindset, which makes him at times act recklessly; if it means that his friends would survive, he would gladly lay down his life for them.)

Surge was born a zmajevit. A human, said to be born of a female human, mating with a Dragon who had taken a male human’s shape. But then again in those times, everything supernatural was blamed on ancient or demonic entities or the likes. Nonetheless, Surge being a zmajevit; this meant that he was a being, which would have the abilities to fight their tribe’s natural enemies, the Ale, which appeared as Giant Birds that flew with strong blizzards of their own creations. These future warriors had the latent abilities of releasing the soul outside from their physical bodies and soar into the sky. These astral projections would be often seen taking the shape of large animals and would fight off against the Frost Demon Birds with their own storms, consisting of Lightning strikes.

Surge, who was one of the few warriors present in his tribe, received a fatal blow from an invading Ala, before he could leave his body. The direct attack should have killed the warrior, though miraculously, Surge survived the attack. It wasn’t unheard off a human surviving an attack from the Ale; it was after all one of the ways how the Ale chose their loyal subjects. A creature, in our case a human, would visit these Frost Demons and pray to them for their leadership. The Ala in turn would blow onto them with their breath, and if the human would be to survive, they would consider them worthy a disciple. Those humans, who would survive these breaths, would gain some of the attributes of the demon, such as being able to survive harsh cold weather, or being close to impervious to most physical attacks, or even gain the ability to affect the weather itself, bringing cold winds down on areas when it wasn’t naturally the time to be so. These humans who willingly risked their lives to gain such boons from the Demon Birds, would be then become loyal to their new masters and serve them by fighting the demon’s enemies or eradicating the targeted towns who weren’t fortunate enough to have a zmajevit born amongst them.

Surge, who was already a strong willed and a veteran demon hunter; upon his body subjugated to the Frost Demon’s Breath; Surge, instead of dying, as such a thing was considered fatal for a zmajevit, the warrior instead came out alive. He quickly dispatched the enemy creature and gained victory for his town. At the time, everything seemed to be in Surge’s favor, he even felt extremely energized for the following days, even easily winning his future battles for he had gained the Demon Birds attributes; combined with his own latent abilities, he had become a force to reckon with. But as the days did past by, overtime, Surge’s energy began failing him in mind, body and soul.

As he lay on his death bed, the Goddess of Death came to him in person. Surge made her a final request. It was that he wished for at least one last time, once again, become a helpful member of his clan. Moréna the Goddess of Winter, was taken by the warriors ambition and promised him that he would be granted that wish, when the time would be right. Moréna later on prepared a special ritual in which Surge’s consciousness was removed from his dying body and his mystical energy was trapped inside the specifically forged blade. It was then bind to that blade via mystical rune craft. Though unknown to her at the time, Surge’s fighting will, some remnant of it too got sealed within the Rune Blade, alongside his Spiritual energy. Once, Surge’s consciousness was freed from his body, Moréna set to begin healing the lifeless body and attempted to preserve it for her long term plan.

Centuries and more later, Moréna continued her ritual when she acquired the dying body of Maxwell, who unknown to him was a direct descendant of Surge the zmajevit. The ritual consisted of Maxwell’s consciousness to be transferred into the mystically preserved body of the Demon Hunter of the past. The successful genetic partnership between ancestor and descendant, created the pristine warrior. The Original Demon Hunter may have passed away, but unbeknownst to anyone at the time, a link of his fighting essence was still preserved in the Rune Blade held by his descendant, Maxwell. This link was the initial spark which activated the entire process of Maxwell new fighting powers. Initially, a person’s will, inhabits a person’s body, mind and soul. But due to the bizarre nature created by Moréna, Surge’s will was concealed inside the rune blade. This blade, when touched by the original body, with the descendant’s energy acting as the catalyst, completed the circuit and thus was able to affect the Natural weather itself. With the original before his death able to summon forth both Hail and Lightning storms; so could the new warrior, albeit with the help of the blade that possessed the original’s energy.

Though the blade being an inanimate object, it could not interact with the world like a human or beast could, but the fighting will of the original warrior in the Rune Blade that also contained Surge’s Dying wish, would allow itself to be fulfilled. Thus it so happened that it believed it’s time had arrived for that wish to be granted, during the attack of the Demon at the Island Church. The consciousness at its peak used up all its energy to connect with the nature and summon forth a storm by pure will of its own. This enabled Maxwell to defeat his enemy but at the same time the consciousness with the dying will felt that its part was done; that he, Surge, had fulfilled his last wish of becoming a useful being to his family, thus it couldn’t hold itself inside the Rune blade and broke free from the rune spell in hopes of finally being reunited with the æther.

This consciousness by itself, felt that it was the one and original being but upon travel to the æther, Moréna sensed the mystical phenomenon and instantly acted upon it. She reunited the dying will with the consciousness of Surge Prime that had flown into her, the Goddess of Death’s Plane of Existence upon his earthly death off mystical nature. When both consciousnesses collided, memories were shared and all was one. This led to the start of a new experiment. Surge was partially resurrected and as a trial run, was sent to Maxwell, just in time of protecting him from an attack onto his life force. The experiment produced promising results, but it still lacked a crucial factor. Moréna preformed a second attempt, which led to a startling discovery on her part.

Third time seems to be the charm. Upon Maxwell’s arrival to the Moréna Realm; she instantly set upon conducting her experiment. Taking back the rune blade that she had presented to Maxwell; Moréna extracted Surge’s original energy that contained his mystic powers and transferred into the floating consciousness, kept inside her in a special zone. The consciousness, the warrior spirit and the powers of a zmajevit were once again brought together and out forged the age long Demon Hunter known as Surge. Constructed by the very energies that he wielded, compressed into a form factor bound together by Moréna’s Mystic energy itself; the Lightning elemental Surge, once again graced the realms as its own entity.

Three years in Moréna’s Realm, which accounted for six months of the Earth realm; Surge extensively trained to get used to his new form. A form that did not consist of any physical body, yet gave the illusion to be of one. As a lightning storm elemental out into a physical realm, Surge had become a walking natural disaster. But due to the earlier experiments where he was transferred into Maxwell’s psyche via a direct connection from Moréna’s plane of existence; he had backbone to work upon. Thus his self training began alongside Maxwell’s trainings of mastering his Darkness.

Finally Surge got a hang of how to keep him from instantly connecting with the natural environment, which used to cause an instant storm at his spot. Now, able to once again resemble himself as to how he was in Maxwell’s mind, Surge can safely walk the earth realm in a humanoid form factor alongside his descendant and their partner, without causing any collateral damages.

- Custom Dual weilded kukri swords (enchanted)

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- Set of 5 small knives
- Chainmail vest (light weight)
- Cloth gauntlets and boots

- One sword enchanted with the power of holy fire and the another imbibed with the element of wind, the dual swords make a powerful combination of his arsenal. The fire cannot harm himself, since it only harms unholy beings.

- Hardened body due to scales, Superior strength and agility in quick bursts, almost a semi-assassin type power.

- A powerful poison inflicting damage and drains power and stamina over time, occasional cases of momentary unconsciousness. originating from the glands inside his mouth. Sharp teeth and claws to add to the fatality.

- Pit organs, Able to sense vibrations in the vicinity and detecting even the slightest movements in a limited area around him.

- Special moves

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Siegfried shouts in the voice of his clan, concentrating his power on his lower body and increasing his movement speed for a short period of time. As a cost, his vitality is reduced for the duration.