Name: Belphegor Stanislavski

Codename: Dark Phoenix

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Place of Birth: Balkan State

Affiliation: Ex Mercenary for Mob families, street crooks and information brokers.

Occupation: Mercenary

Appearance:


175 centimeters tall. Always wears a white mask on his face.
Just a few have managed to see long, brown hair hanging out of his hood, but almost none kept their mind long enough to share the story.
Has three different robes:

- The Magister's robe - The one shown on the picture.
- The Apprentice's robe - One that he no /obviously/ longer wears. Used to be a plain black cloak.
- The battle Mysteria - Personally sewn for him by the elfae themselves. It empowers him beyond his mortal capabilities, but at a costly price. It is pure black, with three red stripes hanging down. Two from the shoulders and one down the middle of his chest.

Powers:

- Shadow melt - Works only during night or in dark places. He can become one with the darkness, making him invisible, even to those with night vision. Downside is that it works for no more than twenty seconds.

- Light Consumption - He's capable of creating "pockets" of darkness even within well lighted places /as long as it is not sunlight/. These pockets may vary in size, from a few cubicle centimeters to a few meters. The largest one can be 5X5X5 meters. All pockets could hold up for no longer than five minutes.

- Concentrate Darkness - Takes him a few seconds to concentrate darkness around him. Work only in darkness or dark "pockets".

- Powers of the dark - Can use concentrated dark materia to create different figures and shapes. Spikes, balls of darkness and almost anything he could think of, as long as he has enough concentrated darkness around. The bigger the creation the more darkness needed.

Skills:

- Infiltration - Master of shadows and darkness, he accepts all infiltration jobs from cat burglary to corporate espionage.
- Negotiations - Thanks to his frail figure, he had to learn how to talk his way out of trouble. When he became better at it, he started using this skill to his advantage.
- Cooking - he's a pretty good chef.

Equipment:

- battle Mysteria - The secret robe of the sorcerer. Wears it only at the most dreadful of tasks. The cost is in his own power. He can use the Mysteria for no longer than six hours, but afterwards looses all his magic for ten times the time he spent using it.
- Staff - It's a darkness imbued staff, which help him concentrate darkness faster. Without it it would take him minutes instead of seconds. /Almost any item could be crafted into a darkness staff, but the ritual is long and complicated/
- Book of counted shadows - The book from which he learns his spells. But to be able to read the text, he has to beat the spell's demon, which is never an easy task.
- His mode of transportation is by foot, any vehicle or shadow rifting, which allows him to fast travel between "pockets" of darkness.

Weaknesses:
- Need of food, water and anything other that keeps a human alive.
- Sunlight. It is the only form of light within which he cannot concentrate darkness, nor make pockets or use any of his other powers.
- Physically frail, but has mid-level mental resistance.

Psychological Profile:

One who keeps silent. Rarely speaks, unless directly addressed, or when situation really needs some explanation.
Like the wizard before him, he always keeps his word, even promises made to an enemy.
Used to living alone, he's become used to surviving alone.
In dire situations he rarely looses his cool and almost always manages to keep a tactical mind.
The few friends he has, are the people who helped him settle down in America, but none of them are aware of his alias.

Biography:

Born somewhere in the Balkans states.
At the frail age of three, he was taken away from his family, by the shadow wizard Roman Strashni, who himself spent an year, following the strange emanations he had felt coming out of the child.
Just like Roman, the child had an inborn talent for manipulating dark materia.

The next ten years, the child spent as an apprentice to the sorcerer, studying basics of the art of Magic.
At the age of thirteen he was finally ready to face his final challenge.
Roman showed him the book of shadows and explained to him, exactly how it works. Upon choosing the spell which he wanted to learn, he accidentally activated the seal of "Shadow melting", protected by the demon Azzazel.
A huge fight sprang out between the two sorcerers and the mighty demon. The dark one had fallen, But Roman also with him.
With his last breath, Roman gave him the blessing of the teacher, giving him a new life and a new name: Belphegor.
Everything before that was lost, everyone before that was forgotten.

The next years of his life, Belphegor spent granting his skills to the highest bidder.
During the days of the great awakening, he felt like his place was in the center of the events.
So, one night he decided to leave his ex employers and seek his fortune on the American continent.
In attempt to keep a low profile, he became roommates with two university students with which he shares a flat.
In the year he spent with them, he had the first real opportunity for normal human contact and even though things weren't going well in the beginning,
now he's ready to accept those people as his two and only close people. Almost friends.
Now he swings from side to side, trying to pick the best jobs for himself and trying to discover what lies beneath the white mask of the Dark Phoenix.

In the face of the League he sees the only people capable of protecting him from the grasp of his former employers and their forces.