Appearance:

Name: Sai

Personality: He is a bit smug and self absorbed. He is secretive, refusing to tell people information unless they need to know it or it helps his ends if they know.

Powers:
Shadow cloak: Hides the user, preventing light from reflecting off of them except the light they want to, making them blend in with the background. They do, however, cast a shadow. Usable by humans.
Blind: Places Darkness within the targets eyes, preventing light that enters the pupil from hitting the cornea. Makes the target's eyes black. Usable by humans.
Mind cloud: Places Darkness within the brain of a target, causing paranoia, delusions, and depression. Slowly kills the brain, making the mental effects worse and destroying memories. Usable by humans.
Shadow fog: Creates a dark fog which blankets the area, hiding them or amplifying Darkness powers inside of it. Usable by humans.
Shadow possession: Becomes Darkness and controls the body of a Darkness user, making their powers ten times as strong. Used to stealthily effect a situation without revealing himself.
Suppression: Suppresses Light, and Fire, and partially suppresses Lightning. If used on Ice, however, it will enhance it. Usable by humans.
Shadow ball: A ball of Darkness, which, besides just hurting a person it can makes them weak and tired if it gets in their blood stream. Usable by humans.
Darkness beam: Pure damage by a beam of Darkness. Usable by humans, though it's a very advanced move.
Darksight: The user can "see" darkness, giving them a type of inverted, monochrome sight. This is also how the monks at the temple of Darkness identify the Immortal, as he can appear as a mass of super-dense Darkness at will. Usable by humans.
Darkness shield: An enhanced form of Suppression, a dense mass of Darkness protects the user from other abilities, and damage, though it works best against light, fire, and lightning. Usable by humans.

Human Persona bio: As an itinerant monk and thief named Sai, he travels the world looking for work to earn money so that he can live a comfortable life. He has a wife it the City of Ko where his temple is, and has had many wives before, though their children are just human with natural Darkness powers.
He often leaves the city to perform jobs in other areas, bringing what wealth he can back to his city.

Equipment: Black Leather armor with a hooded cowl. He also carries lockpicks and a bag of money for when he needs to bribe people or get the poor on his side. Bow with grappling arrows and normal arrows.

Temple Description: It is located in the city of Ko, a mining and manufacturing city which lies between two large mountains in the Alps and, therefore, only gets exposed to sunlight a few hours per day. It is built into the mountain, and is taken care of by blind monks, some of them with self inflicted blindness, which navigate by echolocation and Darksight. His Manifestation chamber is a sealed room which light cannot enter.

Local tech: Dark ages. They have many mines and blacksmiths, with stone and log buildings heated by fireplaces and lit by candles which use animal fat. They export most of their iron and coal to other countries for food and other goods they need.

Name: Sylvia Floraison

Appearance: Sylvia is tall, slender, and generally dark. Tanned skin seems pale in comparison to her deep black, satin hair, an aesthetic which has been settled upon over centuries of deliberation. Pensive brown eyes sit calmly upon a face of sharp features, with only a freckle here and there to serve the purpose of accentuation. Aside from the aforementioned traits, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about her appearance for her area. By design, Sylvia hangs in the middle of a gradient. To one extent, she is undesirable in a society still dominated by segregated caucasians. To the other, she is too light to be regarded as suspicious, allowing her to function, if not somewhat awkwardly, in European society. Her body type is fair, though nothing to turn heads or be worthy of more than a moment's glance. Sylvia understands that she is here to keep the balance, and that requires hiding, not flaunting.

Personality: Sylvia experiences a bit of duality in her life. On one hand, she is deeply driven by purpose; she feels a powerful compulsion to fulfill her place in the universe as one of the ones to balance the world's fundamental forces elements. As a result, she has learned to value subtlety and, above all, respect. Not only for one's peers, but for the universe as a whole in its delicate glory. Of course, on the other hand, there's the party girl. The side of her which she tries as hard as she can to force into the shadow of the "refined," "sensible," "thinking" version of her. However, as with nearly all sapient life, Sylvia just wants to have fun. So, while she tries to stay calm and mind her own business, now and then she can be found being a bit irresponsible and well... less than inconspicuous.



Equipment: Sylvia typically carries about herself nothing more than an Italian stiletto and a large walking stick - though it has an odd little secret. The stick, which Sylvia never lets anyone else hold or even touch, was originally an entire tree, having been compressed by tons upon tons of force into the humble form in which it now resides. As a result, it is incredibly dense, making it at once too heavy for any mortal to lift, and stronger than a boulder.

Human Persona: To the non-divine eye, Sylvia is, well, nobody. Every day, she wakes up in the early morning and heads to work in the farm which she lives at. A few hours will pass, spent doing nothing particularly noteworthy, and she will spend the rest of her afternoon disappeared into the local alchemical laboratory. Given that alchemy is a rather archaic belief and practice, few bother to step into the building which many assume to be simply a bunch of madmen attempting to turn stones into gold. This is where many will divide on what they claim Sylvia does with her life. Some will say that she returns home, where she stays with her brother, and spends the rest of the evening in inactivity. Some say that she roams the town, shopping for food, supplies, and interesting bits. Rarely, you'll find the person who remembers seeing her at a formal event, a dance, perhaps, or a wine tasting. Many will simply say that she disappears. There are two notable truths which should be exposed here. First, Sylvia does not have a brother. Rather, she has a favorite disciple who she permits to guard her home and live with her. Second, all of the tales are true. Most any bit of gossip which you'll hear, be it dull or improbably exciting, has a spark of truth to it. Sylvia does, sometimes, return home after a day of harvesting and work at the temple. Other days, she heads into the city to observe and experience the saturation of the culture. On occasion, she will treat herself to something dangerous or irresponsible. And some days, well, some days nobody can tell you where she goes.

Temple Description: Located in the denser section of early Paris, an innocent enough looking laboratory sits on the corner of city block. Inside this, "alchemical and physical studies," lab however, is a collection of the devout followers of the Immortal currently known as Sylvia Marquet. They're a quiet, studious bunch who value progression above all else, believing that it will allow them to become the strongest of the seven groups. Their doctrine? Become greater. Their only purpose, beyond serving their god that is, is to advance themselves as much as they are able, both scientifically and economically. Of course, this must all be done from the shadows, though at times the group has been known to stray from their commands a bit in the name of progress, typically with consequences falling along the lines of witch prosecutions and executions. Local technology is what might be expected for Renaissance Paris, though the disciples have access to slightly more advanced technologies such as experimental microscopes and other scientific equipment.

Kelly O'Connor