Name: Palythius
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Species: Dragon
Appearance: He's jet black with white eyes that have a very slight bluish tint. He's about 5'4" tall because his parents were a bit shorter than average, and he usually sports a fire-resistant jumpsuit to help with the heating up from running too fast. He has a pair of goggles to deal with airborne particles as well. He's a drake, and typically has a small mallet with him in case he needs to use his powers violently. He has a slender build and his wings are good for gliding. His tail is a bit shorter, not touching the ground.
Bio: Palythius lived a few kilometers out from Verbrenn in a little village that was home to 200 different fire elementals that all worked in a gold mine. It was a village that was made because of the discovery of a vein of gold in that area, so they went mining ores from deep in the volcano and underground, and they were very good at their craft, too. Every month they would pull out an average of 5 grams of gold. Palythius was a miner in the village, starting at the age of 16, even though it was unsafe for a minor to mine in these particular mineshafts. He would usually find a few milligrams of gold every week, but mostly just found silver and coal in the mines. Not that these were useless, but they never impressed his parents, who weren't the type to wait for very long, either. Every time he found some gold, he would sprint as fast as he could back into the village, consulting the treasury and reporting his earnings and how much he found to his parents, which sometimes would get them to look up and notice him, but never be too proud because even they found more than Palythius in a week.
After Palythius grew to the age of 22, an unrelenting and unexplained blizzard had swept across the village, forcing everyone to abandon the town. He moved into Verbrenn, but that didn't mean his parents stopped expecting him to find work. He began work as an industry worker, but he didn't like to go through the heavy process of making twenty swords and only being able to ship out 5 because his other swords, even though being sharper than a razorblade, weren't sharp enough. He wanted to go to the air nation to compete in different races and such, but he wasn't as good as anyone in the air nation in terms of how fast he could fly, and races on foot were unheard of practically anywhere, other than maybe on some dirt paths in Gaia, so he settled on repair and maintenance. Because of the working conditions, his jumpsuit was heat-proof, making it so that his torso and arms and legs were at a constant temperature.
After a while, Palythius did find a way to travel to the air nation and pick up some goggles, and he sprinted the entire way there, but something seemed... off about his running. Not that he was super slow, but that while he was running at his normal pace, other things seemed to be going about half as fast as normal. He also noticed that every time he stopped for a breather, it felt like he hit a wall and promptly had all the air in his lungs forced out of him, but he continued on because it seemed to get him there in less than two days, the normal for travel from the capitols. He was confused by this strange ability. He knew most species had two forms of elemental capabilities, but... this was plain weird. Was it possibly the mythical element of Obscurity? He was excited by his discovery, and began training hard, but every time it seemed like he hit a wall after 25 meters of sprinting, going at around 50 kilometers/hour.
Skills/Abilities: [h]Obscurity: He can double his speed and reaction time, making it, to him, seem like other things are slowed down, but at the cost of a very quick loss of stamina after running. When he runs like this he seems to blur a little and leave a slight trail behind him. He can currently travel at 50 km/h (31 mph) or 13.8889 m/s (45 ft. per second)
Fire: He can breathe fire. Pretty self-explanatory.[/h]
Weaknesses: Water, Air, Null.
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