Name: Agnostos, referred to as UG by more "modern" people, due to his wondering and mysterious nature he has been confused with other spirits in the past.

Species: Humanoid Spirit/Dragon

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: TBD
Faction: Wandering Souls/ Mythic Accord

Sex: Male
Age: Became know around 3000 B.C., became sentient roughly 2000 B.C., his true age is unknown due to his amnesia and the enigma surrounding him and the fact few knew of his existence at first

Appearance:
-True Form: Agnostos True form is that of a massive four winged white dragon. It looks rather angelic and can be confused with some dragons aligned with the celestiarchy. The wings are like the wings of angels as they are large and feathered, seemingly designed with ornate lattice and bright bronzework adorning the wings and the rest of the body. He's covered in both fur and scales and projects rings of a bright light around his body, demonstrating the partial instability of his form as they are in actuality a sort of an exhaust system. When in combat the form will shed its ornamental lattice and bronzework, then scales will lengthen and harden to cover the soft, furred parts of the body.




Aura: His aura is consistently a soft purple color and reminds one of the aroma of roses, it's very whispy in appearance. The aura will suddenly turn a blood red and more resemble a fire when a strong emotion is being experienced, normally brought on by something tragic or exceptional

Personality:
Agnostos on first encounter is a rather cold seeming individual, he's not immediately reactive and can often appear as if he wasn't even paying attention to the current situation. In truth, it's because he doesn't like emoting everything he's feeling on the inside for reasons accounting to his past troubles. As calm as he appears, what's going on inside can tend to be much more passionate or fervent than that on the outside.

Truly, he is much more caring and involved than he lets on. He prefers to act in ways that their reprecussion is not immediately noticeable and can't be easily traced back to him. Several of his past moments in history have lead to conclusions that he didn't necessarily agree with, happening due to being to quick to action and to slow to think in the moment. He's come a long way to the point his old self would not recognize him as he is now, especially who he was before his amnesia.

Sometimes every couple of years, Agnostos will become interested in the course of history or a specific individual, and almost stalk them from afar before finally showing himself and offering his help or companionship. Agnostos does this because he enjoys caring about others, his emotions are often too big and too grand to hide for too long, so he will insert himself in situations that allow him to briefly take a break from his rather lonesome lifestyle.

Biography:
Agnostos woke up in the middle of nowhere around 3000 B.C. with no memory of who he was or what he was doing there. At the time he still had not developed his human form or learned how to control his powers. He wondered for years with no understanding of what to do, how to talk, where to go... A trail of destruction was left in the wake of his giant form as humans and spirits alike harassed him, tried to kill him, or failed to reason with him. His memory was near completely gone during this time period and he was nothing more than a feral animal.

Eventually, a god named Pan discovered him on the outskirts of Greece after Agnostos has come wondering in from the direction of Egypt. The music of the God's pipes soothed Agnostos in his animalistic state and brought him down to a more calm state. Pan treated him with kindness and fed him wine, talked to him daily and nursed Agnostos' confusion until one day the great dragon awoke with sentience. The two friends with new communication at their disposal talked and worked together until they discovered how to reign in Agnostos' form and power. Pan nudged him in the right direction as the two bonded away from civilation and the other gods until Agnostos felt comfortable leaving the place he and Pan made his home for over a century.

The two parted ways as companions but remained friends for the better parts of centuries. Agnostos travelled the world while Pan drank and made merry back in Greece. Agnostos learned as much as he could in his travels and discovered that his rampages as a feral creature left wild stories that have since been mostly lost to the passages of time. He learned to take the form of a man and consistently came back to Greece to visit his friend and stop by shrines to him that people erected in ignorance to what else was out there. He observed the other greecians and their gods and took to heart their beliefs and openness to new ideas. When he was at his happiest, Pan disappeared.

Nobody knew what happened to Pan. Some say he died in a war as collateral, some say his death was hailed by a sailor and a voice from across the waters. Agnostos knew better than to think his friend was dead. Pan always disappeared for periods of times, but never this long... something had gone terribly wrong. Agnostos searched for decades to no avail, and resigned to the idea that his long time friend was lost forever. Ever since, he's been looking for a friend that could get as close to him as Pan once did, but in centuries he has yet to fine one.

Skills:
-Emotional Control: Agnostos has a very tight reign on his emotions and his emotional state. He always appears calm and collected as he understands the impacts of being too emotional and the possible issues it may cause. His psychological defenses are therefore fairly strong and his mind is rather resistent to instability. His knowledge of emotions also allows him to talk many people through their own emotions and has made a name for him as a fairly effective counsellor for a greek god.

-Elusivity: Agnostos didn't get his title of "Unknown God" by being everywhere and showing up with a welcoming committy. Agnostos is quite skilled in the art of staying behind the scenes and has taken the wise old man stereotype. In fact, in some myths and legends he is the wise old man without a name. He's never in one place for too long and prefers to leave before anything gets to serious.

-Foresight: Agnostos is good at reading people's emotions and understanding the reasons behind their actions. His understanding allows him to guess with surprising consistency the eventual outcomes of certain localized events prodiving he knows those involved. He can easily tell when relationships, friendships, and rivalries will end or succeed as well as how they're likely to play out. He's thusly fairly restrictive of the relationships he forms.

Abilities:

--Mana Throttling: After hundreds of years of living by himself, Agnostos has come to understand the extents of his abilities and the impacts they can have if left unchecked. He has immense understanding of his mana usage and the amount of energy he channels through himself. He is scared of his soul's full potential and thusly he has formed exhaust channels to leak out unwanted mana, so it never fills over a certain point unless desired (leading to topping out at a power level lower than his potential). To prevent liberal use of his more destructive abilities, his mind has put manual "gates" on his soul that are opened and closed at his emotions, as well controlled as they are. The emotion of Love is the mastergate and completely unlocks his soul's full capabilities, producing a hyper mode. Because of the underuse of his full capabilities, he would be unstable if he tried to use his full capabilities without preperation.

-Form Shifting - Agnostos in his true form is a gigantic draconic creature. His soul in this form, however, is somewhat unstable and lacks a large amount of inhibition, and will condense back into a humanoid form when it is in danger of over-expending its abilities. The shifting form takes up to a minute to completely change as the body has to restructure itself in the process. In his true form, Agnostos' demonstrated power is nearly tripled, but due to its size and penchant for accidental destruction, he remains humanoid 90% of the time.

-Empathy Link - Agnostos is able to psiionically share his emotions and the emotions of the one whom he has linked with. A forced link is unstable and potentially damaging to the victim's mind and are near impossible to make, however a link that has been allowed can facilitate an oddly intimate experience. Empathy links have been compared to soul pacts because of their ability to share in abilities, however, Agnostos' empathy links don't use another's magic by channeling from/through them, and instead allows him to emulate their magic through temporarily shared knowledge. Through empathy links in the past, Agnostos has performed magical feats of various alignments that are usually seen as the signatures of another spirit. I.E. Agnostos once formed a Link with Pan and performed Pan's trademark chaotic shout that struck people with terror. Agnostos can't replicate magical feats that don't belong to him after the empathy link is severed unless he learns them independently from the link.

-Wyrm Hole - In his true form, Agnostos can perform something similar to a warp jump via temporary worm holes. He creates these wormholes on a whim and tends to be fairly proficient at it. He has several beacons spread out among all the areas he knows and finds interest in, hidden in plain sight as the phrase goes.

-Mass Impartation - Agnostos can send a large psiionic wave of emotional energy out in a circle or cone around or in front of him that transmits his current emotion. Emotions such as anger can sometimes manifest this ability as offensive, while emotions such as affection can have a remedial effect. Mass Impartation is like a megaphone for the emotions of Agnostos and is a handy tool in political situations.

-Emote Metamorphosis - Agostos' abilities come primarily from his emotions, so he can tap into his emotional self and transfigure an emotion into a particular magical effect or physical representation (much like a soulshard).







Soulshards:
-Pathos Metallaxi - Agnostos' personal soulshard is a weapon that in its normal form looks like a large whitesilver rod. The weapon responds to its wielders emotions and identity then transforms itself into a weapon for their current state. Agnostos has allowed several heroic figures to hold the weapon in times of need as he doesn't use it as much as most use their soulshards.

Possessions:
-Pan's Flute - Although not his, Agnostos carries his old friend's panpipes. They're nothing special, but their melody is magical in nature and similar to the music of sirens.

Name: Jack Spade

Species: Human

Alignment: Hybrid (Light/Dark)

Partner: TBD
Faction: Wandering Souls (Trying to Decide between joining with the Infernal Legion or the Celestiarchy)

Sex: Male
Age: 54, Appears 25

Appearance:

Jack appears to be a young male in his twenties with a rather striking appearance and strong, wild undertones to his looks that are somewhat unnerving. His skin seems to glow but is rather tough and leathery to the touch. His hair is short and dark and somewhat orderly. He's rather well built and exhibits various physical traits according to his current magical attunement. In his normal state he appears as a human with draconic traits, while in other states it is either repressed or brought further out, his wings able to switch between draconic and leathery to birdlike with feathers depending on his attunement to light.









Aura: Jack's aura is much like a cloud of smoke, specifically that which comes from a cigarette. An orange glow much like the cinders of a fire appears in the translucence of the smoke like lightning in storm clouds.


Personality:
Jack consumed the soul of a demon who tried to enslave him and their souls ended up merging. Jack's conciousness was able to completely overpower the demon's, but his personality was not strong enough to remain unaffected. The once anxiety filled and quiet Jack was infused with the personality traits of a demon who fed off the souls of the sinful (never merging their souls, however, only their mantles).

Jack is now broken and has severe bipolar disorder with an affinity to mania. He can go through drastic personality changes seemingly overnight and go from a kind, gentle individual with lots of love to give, to an individual obsessed with satisfying his own desires and will stop at nothing to succeed. It is possible for someone to talk him into some form of normalcy but requires a large amount of emotional intimacy. He is often heavily medicated to keep somewhat normal, but the demonic influence on his personality is still evident.

Due to the rather gentle personality of his previously, Jack has an affinity to the Celestiarchy as he was once a Christian when he was a kid and then the seals were broken. He wants to believe in an all-inspiring God of Love but he recognizes the questionable acts of the Celestiarchy and questions if his desire is by faith or by just desire. After consuming the demon that once tried to enslave him and being flooded with his new emotions, he now wonders even more if the restraint that members of the Celestiarchy practice is even worth it, and is now also somewhat tantalized by the freedom and chaos of the Infernal Legion. He is easily impressionable and is often sought after by members of either faction that he meets, each promising different ideals.

Biography:

Jack grew up in a conservative christian household and went to church religiously on Sundays and during mid-week services. His mother was a nurse and his father a businessman in a retail empire. He was always reserved and sheltered, he often rejected pop-culture and instead practicing his prayer and reading his bible. He was bullied a lot in school for his difference and his effeminate nature, which led to him being quiet and antisocial. His mother was super-religious and chastised him for every impure thought or wrong deed until he didn't allow himself to feel, becoming obedient and submissive to authority. Anyone who knew Jack would see him as clean-cut and pure, but inside he was dead, like an automaton going through the emotions. Every fault was not allowed and he was heavily self-punishing, he didn't allow himself to feel. He continued to grow up this way until he felt like his life was wasting away.

In early adulthood as he left the house, he began to explore parts of himself that he had never before experienced. He tried his first drink of alcohol and was consumed by its effects. He briefly became a drunk, the intoxication allowed him to escape, to forget himself, and to let loose. Alcohol seemed to fix all his problems until it didn't, and then he experimented in sex. To his horror, women did nothing for him, his religious background lead to supressing of homosexual tendencies that he had been bullied for since he was younger but had no realization of what they were. He ran from his desires and tried to seek out who he really was, not understanding whether he should chase his heart or chastize his sin.

When the seals were broke, he spiraled even further into confusion, not knowing how to take the new onslaught of information. In this point of time, he had not explored his own magical abilities in fear, he was vulnerable, broken, and confused. A demonic spirit of draconic form, having been the spiritual incarnation of a serial killer who killed what he saw as sinners, was now feeding off humans one by one. The spirit would force a pact on a human, use them to murder other humans and some spirits to then consume their souls, when the human wore out he would eat their soul as well. After a few months, the spirit found the lost Jack and saw him as a prime candidate, feeling an immense power in the human who was to broken to even use it. Jack was enslaved by the demon and his submissive nature was at first very susceptible to the demon's orders.

However, something went drastically wrong when the demon was on the verge of the dozenth kill with his new human slave. Jack, suddenly lucid, completely fucking lost it as he finally came to understand this demon was using him to murder the innocent. The demon was trying to kill and consume the soul of a young child whom had shoplifted an expensive toy. The child, whom Jack only saw at first through a mirror, bore a striking resemblance to Jack when he was young. Jack snapped, he turned on his demon with volatile, unrefined light magic that he had held within the entire time. He impaled the demon relentlessly with swords of pure light as the child ran screaming. He lost himself in the lust for the demon's death, finally finding an outlet for all his pent up emotional chaos. In the heat of the moment, Jack felt like it would be fit to consume the demon's soul in a poetic justice, having learned how by observing the demon's own kills. The process was not what he expected, and their souls fused in a fashion that completely shattered the already cracked Jack.

Now infused with the power of another soul, and the mantles of an unknown amount of humans, he continues his search of self-discovery... even though it leaves a trail of destruction wherever he goes.

Skills:
-Form Changes: Jack's magical abilities are based on attuning himself to one of two types of magic, or both when in hyper mode. Basic traits will change according to the form and different abilities are unlocked.

-Weapons Expert: Jack has extensive knowledge of different types of melee weapons, with less knowledge towards more modern weapons or explosives. He can turn nearly anything into a lethal weapon and has an affinity towards one-handed weapons in which he can attack with in small flurries, he has less talent with other weapons, but this does not apply to his accuracy with guns (not bows). Some of this knowledge comes from a decade and a half of training himself, some of it from a place he doesn't exactly understand, he's sure it comes from the demon he consumed. But what kind of serial killer has experience in bladed combat? Who exactly did he eat?

-Unstable Mind: Jack's mind is not stable, this may seem like a weakness towards mental attacks, but instead works as an unexpected defense. Concrete thoughts and desires aren't prevalent and he is often oblivious. His mind may not even register a mental attack because of this depending on the attack. In terms of mind control, his mind will often unexpectedly backlash to those trying to control his mind, much like how he turned on his demon at the drop of a hat.

Soulshards:
-Marlboro - Jack's first Soulshard is the transfiguration of a Marlboro Cigarette. He is never without it as he can disintegrate and reform it at will. It serves as a focal point for his magic and can be changed into a variety of weapons based on his current affinities. When transformed, it retains a glowing hot edge.

-Absinthe - Jack's second Soulshard was created right after his first from a bottle of absinthe and has many similar properties. However, rather than the glowing edge of the cigarette, weapons formed from this bottle leak highly flammable alcohol along the edge. It's obvious what this entails when he dual wields both as striking weapons.

Abilities:









Possessions:
-Bipolar Medication: His medication is enchanted to take care of his soul-merging induced bipolar disorder as well as the biological counterpart. There are questions on whether not it actually does anything considering someone with a soul as powerful as Jack isn't normally affected by some medicine... some say it probably doesn't even do anything and Jack is just tricking himself.

Name: SUP-XVI “Jung” (Soul Union Prototype 16)

Species: PCU Spirit

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: SUP Cloned Test Subject Pi “Carl”

Faction: Protectorate (Temporarily)

Sex: Masculine

Age: 5 Years of Existence

Appearance:
Jung is a humanoid robot that looks like a suit of armor similar to that used by the popular video game character Samus Aran. The suit is totally white and silver and noticeably bulkier, yet still slim enough to perform high speed martial arts. The waist, shoulders, and neck are noticeably prominent as a large metallic ring surrounds all of these parts, telling those who notice that each part is detachable. Dissimilar to Samus, his body is not smooth and contains many blocky shapes and edges. Due to the mechanical nature of his body it is not too limber outside of its joints and must retain distance from opponents with grappling or restricting skills.

Aura: Jung’s aura is mechanical in nature, reflecting his mechanical body. However, as metallic and artificial as it seems, there's a bloody color deep in there.

Personality:
When Jung was created, one of the protectorate scientists implanted a mind of their own creation in his soul. Unable to create one too incredibly complex, they created one with simple guidelines and desires, and gave it certain memories in order to sway it in their direction. The scientists he is under contains many mages skilled in the manipulation of the mind, over his lifetime he has been subjected to their "programming." As he developed, Jung held onto these rather strongly and is a fairly good soldier in that regards.

Being nearly identical to a machine, Jung’s personality is very cold and methodical. Jung will look at everything as is told to him by his "programming". If some concept or idea is contradictory to his programming he will resist it until he sees reason in the new concept or finds it preferential and more productive than his programming.

He was programmed with the sole intention of attempting to form a perfect soul union with his partner Carl, so his interactions with Carl tend to be extremely companion-ate, or as well as a machine can be. When he cannot relate to his human’s condition he will connect his mind to the internet and conduct a search for respected journals and articles on the emotional concept and cross reference them with popular media in order to form a hypothesis on the intricacies of the concept.

It is expected that after a few years that Jung will develop a psyche that is completely his own and not facilitated by the nurture of his "programming". They hope that soul union is achieved by this time or it could be too late for them to retain reigns over Jung.

Biography: Jung and his partner Carl are the 16th pair of experiments in a Protectorate attempt to develop a perfected soul union and a basic formula for creating them more reliably. Their specific variable being tested is the potential of a soul union between two individuals who have lived their entire conscious lives together. Jung was given the ability to interface with the internet in order to accelerate his own development, with a memory implanted into his mind that prevents him from desiring to access information that can compromise the experiments. Jung has been in existence for only five years, and has been in training with Carl the entire time, training to form a perfect soul union and perfect super-soldiers.

Skills:
-Versatility: Jung’s ability to connect with the internet and protectorate database to download information into his mind allows him to learn nearly anything in the matter of hours. Thusly, Jung can have whatever skill he wishes to have, provided they are recorded in some database, which also prevents him from having his own individual style unless he self-learns through practice.

-Automated Senses: Jung has access to heat sensors, electrical sensors, brainwave/heartwave sensors, tracking systems, and other things expected from a combat machine.

Abilities:
-Download: Jung can connect with the internet (through Wi-Fi or another wireless signal) and search it and databases connected to it in order to download recorded information. If a certain type of neutral magic and its intricacies are described in one of these databases he can mimic it, at the cost of inexperience with what he is using. If he chooses to, he can practice with the magic itself and gradually develop his own version of it, in which case it is no longer a mimicry.

-Psychoblast: Jung can harness his own mental energy to perform “mind blasts” in an area. Psychoblasts due no physical damage but assault target minds with an attempt to influence their emotions. Though easily resisted by more powerful spirits, in a crowd it can have a bigger impact. Psychoblasts come in three modes: Panic, Anger, and Peace.

-Reconstructive Alchemy: If Jung’s body is damaged his mind will be able to reconstruct the damaged parts. Depending on the damage it may take up to a week to reconstruct it, using inorganic material, mostly metals, and converting them into his appropriate alloy. This ability also allows him to change the metal his body is made from in order to better fit a situation, i.e. metal with a high heat resistance in a fight with a fire user.

-Body Union: Jung has turned his spiritual body into one that can be separated into different mechanical parts that can dock themselves on one of Carl’s cybernetic receptacles. It is possible for Jung to completely graft himself onto Carl’s body. The ultimate goal is to be able to achieve Soul Union and use this ability in tandem. The abilities granted to Carl via this ability are tied to Jung’s soul shards, which make up most of his body.

-Constructed Body: Jung’s near made entirely of his various magitech soul shards, with only a small portion of his torso being his actual body, this portion contains his soul and is located in the general area a heart would be. His true-body can telepathically control his soul shards.

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Possessions: N/A

Name: SUP Cloned Test Subject Pi “Carl”

Species: Human Cyborg

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: SUP XVI “Jung”

Faction: Protectorate (Temporarily)

Sex: Male

Age: 5, Carl is a clone of a Protectorate scientist that has been artificially accelerated to adulthood.

Appearance:
Aura: Carl’s aura is a light blue like the sky with an odd artificiality to it, like an illusion.

Personality:
Carl is rather rebellious, as annoying as that is to his superiors. He's arrogant, sarcastic, and somewhat oblivious to his own emotional shortcomings. He's fully aware of his status as a clone, along with the other humans in the soul union experiment, and sees this as a sort of personal demon of his. He plans to one day use magic to mutate his appearance to better suit what he feels like, but his indecisiveness on more personal issues has him wary to think about it too much. So in short, Carl has a low self worth but a really high self esteem, as paradoxical as that may seem.

Carl is not too interested in a soul union with Jung, but sees his partner as a brother in arms and he loves him very much, despite the fact the two have very different looks on life and very different ways of processing information. Carl is much more fluid in his thought and emotional and serves as the free-thinker between the pair.

On occasion, Carl will have a mental breakdown whenever his emotional walls are damaged, in which case Jung will often take Carl into himself and run off to a secluded protectorate controlled area or otherwise

Biography:
Carl and his partner Jung are both apart of a Soul Union experiment conducted by the protectorate that's trying to gather data for super soldiers. Both Carl and Jung have been through extensive physical and mental training and various forms of attempted mind control to create well-minded soldiers. In the case of Carl, however, he does not take well to any of the mental manipulation or otherwise and is viewed as a potential flight risk if he progresses any further in his rebellious attitudes. It's believed to be caused by an in-continuity in the regiment since he became conscious, as both sides of nature and nurture have been heavily monitored, possibly too much compassion was showed somewhere or he overheard careless conversation about some topic that gave him the wrong idea at the wrong time. It's also possible that his soul is just predisposed to rebellion, the exact cause is unknown.

Do to his rather young "age", he doesn't have much history outside of his training.

Skills:
-Super Strength/Speed: Carl’s cybernetic constructs super-humanly enhance his physical abilities at the cost of overheating on over-use.

-Versatility: Carl has a brain-interface in his skull with a port at the base of his neck. Jung is able to share download’s information in this manner. Carl thusly has a large set of skills given to him vicariously through Jung’s download ability, with the added limitation that his body must be able to perform it (As in he can’t download a singing voice or anything similar)

Abilities:
-Body Union: Carl can receive Jung’s various soulshards into receptacles on his body or wear them as armor or weaponry.

-Cyberspace: Carl's signature ability. Carl uses a combination of his mental energy and an extremely developed sixth sense to project an influence over the area, with a maximum equivalent of a city block, that moves as he sees fit with the stipulation that he must be inside it. This area of influence feeds him data like a sixth sense is supposed to, but he floods the area with mana beyond that serves as an extension for when the sixth sense comes in contact with an obstacle, giving him virtually a mental image of every crack and cranny in the area of influence, which appears to him in a way that is similar to what is depicted in media as a cyberspace. Carl can pick 5 points in this area of influence and create traps, hazards, and seals of his personal design.
--As an added bonus, if cyberspace flows into a machine or computer, Carl can attempt to interface with it and hack it in order to use is as an extension of his surveillance if it is capable, made easy in systems he doesn't have to hack such as Protectorate controlled areas.







-Electromagnetic Field: The cyberspace around Carl is highly charged and can be utilized to send electric shocks or magnetize metals and repel or pull them.

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Possessions: N/A

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Name:
Zadkiel

Species:
Yako Kitsune. Human-looking spirit/fox spirit.

Alignment:
Hybrid. Neutral/Light.

Partner:
Kain Jackson

Faction:
Wandering Souls.

Sex:
Female.

Age:
423 years old.

Appearance:
Usual form: Standing at 5 foot 4, she takes the form of a young adult human female with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. Usually seen wearing a simple, single-color shirt and a black skirt with brown shorts underneath.
True form: A five-tailed fox with light brown and white fur, of average size and weight, with two pair of angelic wings.

Aura:
Her aura is a bright violet with white veins and a glassy texture. It gives off a calm feeling, as if accepting of the inevitable.

Personality:
In a word, capricious. She does things on a whim, but always sees things through to the end, even if she only did something out of boredom. She considers promises to be incredibly important and will keep one at the cost of her life unless it would break another promise in the process. The gravity of situations often escapes her unless she personally considers it important. She values freedom to be the most important thing there is, other than the keeping of one's promises.

Biography:
Becoming an amnesiac at the age of 104, forgetting even her name, she wandered the Inner Calm for years until she came across Zadkiel, gravely wounded. Having been a pro-freedom voice of dissent in Heaven, he angered too many members of the Celestiarchy and was attacked, barely escaping with his life. Talking for some time before he died, Zadkiel decided to give her his mantle once it became clear that she so deeply cared about freedom in the hopes that she would fight to expand it. The Celestiarchy has been hunting her ever since, leading her to join the Wandering Souls to avoid further conflict.

Skills:
Cooking and proficiency with various weapons.

Abilities:
Basic magics: Proficient with healing, fire, and "telekinesis" magics.
Advanced magics: Highly skilled with object transmutation, self-transformation, and illusory magic. Of medium proficiency with mind reading/altering magic.

Soulshards:
A sacrificial knife and a naginata. The knife is a recreation of Zadkiel's soulshard after she received his mantle.

Possessions:

Name:
Kain Jackson

Species:
Human.

Alignment:
Neutral

Partner:
Zadkiel

Faction:
Millennial Union.

Sex:
Male.

Age:
20 years old.

Appearance:
Standing at exactly six feet tall, Kain has short brown hair and green eyes. Always wears black track pants, a shirt that's two sizes too large, and a grey or black sweatshirt no matter the weather or temperature.


Aura:
His aura is silver, with a sandy texture. It gives the feeling of apprehension and obsession, almost paranoia-esque.

Personality:
An idealistic dreamer who values freedom and happiness above all else, he often goes out of his way to help others whenever he can. Formerly a victim of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, his partner altered his mind to remove it. He is surprisingly selfish, but is unable to act on it beyond simply not helping someone when asked, though the severity of the request is usually what determines whether or not he helps.

Biography:
Approached by Zadkiel because "he's interesting" three years ago, he formed a soul pact with her and has spent his time since trying to maintain a comfortable and safe life for his loved ones, while working to help the Millennial Union whenever possible. Kain learned swordsmanship from his father starting at a young age, but focused on improving his skill with knives rather than swords as he grew. He gained a love of computers from his mother, who spent many years working in cyber security.

Skills:
Computer programming, proficiency with knives and some swords.

Abilities:
Basic magics: Proficient with ice magic, preferring swords and spears of ice in battle.
Advanced magics: Highly proficient with teleportation magic.
He is currently nowhere near Zadkiel's level of power.

Soulshards:
None.

Possessions:

Name: Zeus

Species: Humanoid Spirit

Alignment:Neutral

Partner: Logan Spark
Faction: The Mythic Accord

Sex: Male

Age: He was born around 2000 BCE

Appearance: Zeus generally takes the form of a middle aged man who stands at about 6'5”. His hair is a mixture of black and gray and falls to around the top of his neck. He has a well trimmed beard that sits at the same length. His body is powerfully built though often covered by a sleek, black suit with a white undershirt and a simple red tie. His eyes are bright blue and at times seem to glow or spark with power, most often when he is angry.

His true form resembles that of the tales and legends. A large, powerful man, with snow white hair and a longer, thicker beard. His eyes glow a vibrant electric blue and look as if they are formed from lightening. His clothes are a simple white toga that covers the lower half of his body while leaving his torso exposed.



Aura: His aura most often appears as strands of blue electricity that flow around his body in a random manner. When angered, the bands of electricity appear more frequently and he becomes surrounded by wisps of clouds. These clouds range from a pale white to a dark, foreboding black.

Personality: Zeus is a man of many moods, some of them dangerous. Though his face may seem stoic, laughter comes easy to him. He can be kind and loving to those who are in need, but has a fierce temper and has no qualms with punishing those he deems deserving. He is wise, but unpredictable. Perhaps his greatest flaw is that he easily falls in lust with the beautiful.

Biography: Zeus' history is one well documented throughout Greek mythology. Zeus was born of the titans Cronus and Rhea. He would have been eaten by Cronus soon after his birth but his mother hid him, giving Cronus a “rock wrapped in swaddling clothes,” which Cronus quickly devoured. When he was old enough, Zeus freed his sibling from the stomach of his father. The Greeks wrote of many battles between the gods and the titans, but in the end Zeus and his siblings came out on top. For many years after that Zeus ruled over Greece as the king of the gods (as far as the Greeks were concerned at least) until the time of the Seven Seals, when he and all the other spirits that inhabited the planet were locked in the spirit world.

Zeus spent most of his time in the spirit world studying the various forms of magic , their strengths and their weaknesses. Though he was one of the most powerful members of the Mythic Accord, little ever seemed to get done, each of the god heads being more focused on their own people rather then the good of the entire organization. Still, while they stood together The Celestiarchy and the Infernal Legion would not dare attack so Zeus took it upon himself to learn all that he could. The seven seals both fascinated and infuriated him as he was cut off from his people. He searched tirelessly for a way to break the seven seals but was never able to find anything effective.

He and those in his command made a replica of Mount Olympus in the Inner Calm. It was as close to a paradise as heaven was in many ways, though it was plagued occasionally by squabbles and plots. Still, it was a peaceful place where the brave and good were allowed to rest and be merry while in relative safety.

After the Millennial Day, Zeus immediately returned to Greece to reestablish his reign. He has remained ever cautious of the Infernal Legion, The Celestiarchy, and the The Reclamation of Chaos. He knows all to well the The Infernal Legion and The Reclamation would see the world burn if they could, and though open war is currently out of the question with either group he still watches them closely. And the Celestiarchy's literal "holier then thou" attitude seems to have a special way of infuriating Zeus. And while he has watched the other groups with some interest, he remains neutral about them, although he does have some hope for the Millennial Union, even if they are naive in their mission.

He has worked tirelessly to restore the former prestige and power of his once home land. In order to truly achieve his wish, Zeus decided to partner with a young but powerful magic user named Logan. Though their personalities at time conflict, the two are an impressive team and each share goals of turning Greece, (and perhaps the world,) into a paradise for those who are deserving.

Skills: Zeus is a charismatic and talented speaker able to motivate or terrify with nothing but his words. He speaks several languages besides just Greek and English; including, Japanese, German, Latin, Arabic, and some other less useful languages. His knowledge of magic is also impressive, his specialty being in elemental magic, though he has at least a general knowledge of most other forms of magic. Finally, he is a rather fierce warrior, talented in both close and medium range combat. He has studied various forms of martial arts and is talented with both a sword and a Javelin.

Abilities: Zeus' powers are well known from the mythology, most of them concentrating around the creation of lightening and thunder.

Electricity Manipulation: Zeus is able to wield electricity like a weapon, sending forth blasts or bolts of energy or manipulating and bending electrical currents that are already present. He is also able to send lightening strikes down from the storms he summons.

Superior Strength: As one would expect from a spirit who was once worshiped as a god, Zeus is an impressively strong being with the ability to pick up object no being of his size should be able to. This makes him dangerous in close combat.

Shape Shifting: Zeus' has a long history of taking the shape of animals, his two most famous being that of a bull and that of a swan.

Weather Control: Zeus is able to control the weather itself, creating large and powerful storms, or simply bringing rain to villages plagued by drought. This ability is slightly limited in that the larger the storm Zeus wishes to create, the more energy it requires. However, he is a master of lightening and air magic and is able to control how much energy he places into each storm in order to get the exact effect he desires.

Soulshards:

Thunderbolt: Zeus' thunderbolt is a unique weapon gifted to him by the cyclops. He can wield it either as a sword or a Javelin. As a sword the thunderbolt can be difficult to block as any weapon that conducts electricity would be electrified, possibly shocking the wielder. As a Javelin the thunderbolt releases a devastating explosion of energy while the soul fragment teleports back to him, readying for another blast.

Possessions:

Name: Logan Spark

Species: Human

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: Zeus

Faction: The Mythic Accord

Sex: Male

Age: 25

Appearance: Logan stands at roughly 6' even. His body is well toned and muscular, but still slim. His hair is a mixture of black and blonde, though which is the natural color few can tell, and falls about to his shoulders. He is clean shaven with a strong chin, and handsome face, and blue eyes that seem to shine with a mischievous air. His clothes are generally pretty plane, jeans a t-shirt and most often a hoodie. The only other thing of any interest about his appearance is the two swords he wheres strapped onto his back at almost all times, and the easy going grin that is always plastered across his lips.


Aura: Logan's aura sky blue in color and seems to have the consistency of air. It gives off an impression of being free and joyous, is at times a little bit mischievous.

Personality: Logan is about as care free and happy as they come. He rarely come off as serious, even in battle, and he can almost always be seen smiling and gazing off into the distance. This does not mean that he cant be serious, far from it. In truth, Logan takes combat and the dealings of the world very seriously, he just chooses to hide it behind a smile. He is somewhat of a trouble maker, enjoying his pranks and jokes, but never sets out to hurt anyone. He is fearless and kindhearted, and has a special place in his heart for those who cant defend themselves.
Biography: Logan is the son of a leading magitech scientist named Dr. Jonas Spark. His mother died giving birth to a premature Logan, something which Logan has secretly blamed himself for sense discovering the tragedy. His father, however, never once blamed Logan for the death of his wife, choosing instead to be thankful for the miracle of his son's survival. Logan was born after only 28 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors were never quite sure what caused him to be born so early, and for the relatively healthy pregnancy to turn so drastically. For months Logan was barely holding on, even with many of the miracles of modern medicine most of the medical officials who took care of Logan were sure he wouldn't make it. And then something...changed.

One morning, when Dr. Jonas came in to check on his infant son, he found him laying there, a multitude of wires and machines hooked up the tiny infants body. But instead of looking sick or crying like he had been, the infant was smiling, his eyes wide with delight, and an obvious blue aura surrounding the child like a blanket. Dr. Jonas had almost no magical abilities, but even he could see the the blue aura that swirled around his son.

From that point on Logan was one of the healthiest children one could imagine. He rarely ever got sick, and even when he did it usually passed within a few days. He developed none of the usual long term health problems that comely plague infants born prematurely. On top of this he quickly began to demonstrate impressive magical abilities, most of them seeming to revolve around telekinesis.

By age 10 Logan was an extremely active young man, always searching for new ways to use his ever developing powers, and generally getting in trouble for his efforts. It wasn't long before Dr. Jonas realized his son needed a way to expend his energy more effectively. He knew that sports were the way most parents got their children to disburse their extra pent up energy, but when Dr. Jonas asked Logan what sort of sport he wanted to play, the young man energetically replied, "I want to play with swords!" After resisting his sons..unusual choice of activity, Dr Jonas eventually gave in and allowed Logan to dive into the world of swordsmanship.

Over the next 15 years Logan worked tirelessly under the tutelage of various swordsmen. He learned fencing, Haidong Gumdo, and various forms of Japanese and Chinese swordsmanship styles, eventually combining them into his own strange, yet highly effective, art of swordsmanship. Combined with his continuous efforts to expand his magical abilities, Logan become a fierce warrior, mostly because it was something he found entertaining.

On multiple occasion Logan was approached by other spirits, each of whom he turned down. The spirit of Hercules was the first to approach him, and while Logan was tempted, he ended up turning the ancient hero down, never really revealing why. The second was something darker, a being who attempted to trick Logan into a pact with him so that could try to dominate the young man. Luckily, Logan was not fooled and refused the spirit. He was never sure of exactly who the second spirit was, only that it was powerful, and twisted.

5 years ago, Logan finally ended up partnering with Zeus. He never really told anyone why he and Zeus decided to team up, although one would likely have to be insane to turn down the god of thunder himself. Despite differences in personality the two seem to get along quite well. They share similar opinions about the Infernal Legion, The Celestiarchy, and the The Reclamation of Chaos. Logan finds them irritating and pushy. Logan openly despises The Protectorate of Humanity, calling them fascists who would rather destroy and manipulate spirits simply because they don't understand them.

While he joined the Mythic Accord to make things easier between him and Zeus, his true sympathies lie with the Millennial Union. He has pushed on many occasions for Zeus to try and solidify the two factions alliance, however, he has met with little success.

Skills:

Swordsmanship: Most of Logans life has been devoted to studying and mastering different styles of swordsmanship. He has studied fencing styles as well as various Korean, Japanese, and Chinese forms. While he is not a master with any of these forms, he is extremely proficient in each and has managed to adapt his own, unique style of fighting, one that combines the various styles he has studied and his own style of telekinetic magic.

Agility, Endurance, and Strength: From years of practice Logan has developed an impressive amount of strength and Endurance. His body is hard and strong and he has a high tolerance for pain, likely due to all the times he has been hit by wooden swords. His training has also made him rather agile.

Ingenuity: Logan's mind is always working on new and inventive ways to get into trouble. He is very adept at improvising and often acts in, unconventional, ways.

Engineering: Over the years, Logan has picked up a good deal of general engineering knowledge from his father. While he has nowhere near the level of knowledge and understanding his father does, he is fairly good and figuring out how something works, and how to break it.

Abilities:

Telekinesis: This is Logan's primary ability, in which he sends out invisible hands of mana to grab and push objects in the world around him. Those with a powerful enough sixth sense will be able to see the the mana appendages, however, even to the most skilled with will generally only appear as colorless, somewhat mist-like blur. He has several ways in which he mostly commonly uses these powers;

Telekinetic Grab: This power is pretty much exactly as it sounds. Logan will grab a nearby object and then either push or pull it. While he has been known to use these abilities to throw swords grab opponents, he often uses it to propel or pull himself, using nearby larger objects as anchors. This allows him to move in erratic and generally unpredictable ways.

Telekinetic Edge: Logan is able to create a small edge around his swords made up of telekinetic energy. He make the edge grow or shrink very quickly and to most the edge is invisible. This makes his technique unpredictable and, at times, hard to block. As mentioned earlier, someone with a powerful enough sixth sense can see the faint misty blur that Logans telekinetic abilities give off.

Telekinetic Flight: Logan uses his telekinetic abilities to push himself off nearby objects or against the earths gravitational pull, allowing him fly at a fairly quick speed. To change direction he simply unleashes a burst of energy in the opposite direction he wishes to go. He also likes to use his telekinetic powers to grab onto nearby objects and pull or push on them, sending him quickly in one direction or another and making his movement more erratic and hard to predict.

Minor Healing: Logan seems to have an innate ability to heal himself. He seems to resist becoming sick, and when he does come down with something he get better after only a few days. His injuries also heal more quickly then most peoples and his body does not seem to scar. However, he has no actual control over this ability, meaning he cannot heal himself immediately. The power will also slowly drain mana from him without his consent or control while he is healing.

Mind Disable: This is a power that Logan despises, and in most situations, refuses to use. It seems to be almost an involuntary reaction, occurring only in times of immense stress or danger. The power seems to suppress and opponents mind making them unable to move, but forcing Logan to devote his attention entirely on the target. The problem with this power seems to be that Logan has little control over its severity, and has accidentally left at least one person with permanent brain damage, almost destroying their mind entirely. For this reason Logan avoids using the ability at all costs, refusing to even practice with it out of fear of seriously harming another person.

Soulshards: None

Possessions: Logan has a pair of technomagic swords. The swords allow him to easily channel his mana through them, requiring less concentration and energy to use his kinetic edge ability. The swords are also extremely durable and do not lose their edge very quickly.

Name: Hercules (Heracles)

Species: Humanoid Spirit

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: Melanie York

Faction: Millennial Union

Sex: Male

Age: He was born around 1000 BCE

Appearance: Hercules is a picture of manliness. He stands around 6'6", with a strong jaw and chiseled features. His body is strikingly powerful with large, chiseled muscles, broad shoulders, and almost no body fat to be spoken of. His muscular physique somehow looks natural, while on others it may look absurd. His hair is thick and black with a slight curl that falls to roughly shoulder length. His face is clean shaven and his eyes are a dark green. He prefers to dress as he did in the old days, wearing a loincloth like garment that covers most of his lower body to about his knees, and the Pelt of the Nemean Lion across his back like a cape.

Aura: Hercules' aura is gold and thin. It flows from his body almost like his skin itself glows and gives off an earthy sent. Those who gaze upon the aura feel courageous and strong.

Personality: Hercules lives up to his legend as an ancient hero. He is kind, fearless, and unshakable in his resolve. He is slow to anger, but his rage is a terrible sight to behold. He has a fondness and love for those who cannot defend themselves, and revels in the success of the underdog, but respects those he considers worthy of the strength they possess. He is generally lighthearted and quick to laugh or joke with others, and has an intelligent, tactful mind.

Biography: The legends of Hercules are far reaching and many. Perhaps he is best known for the aptly named "Twelve Labours of Hercules" which ranged from killing the fierce Hydra, to capturing the terrifying Cerberus who guarded the very entrance to Hades. Throughout his life, Hercules was a hero, who tried his best to help all those who were in need.

Since Millennial Day, not much has actually changed for the ancient hero. His sole purpose in life still seemed to be the protection of those who could not protect themselves. Hercules had some difficulty in finding a partner in the early days. He found, to his dismay, that many of the human mages quickly became greedy, or corrupted by their power. The weak seemed to be too hesitant to take on Hercules as a partner, and those who were eager sought only to increase their own strength and cared nothing for the plight of others. For a while, Hercules thought he might have found a partner in the young Logan Spark, however, after some consideration the young man turned him down; stating that their powers did not quite match, and that Hercules would find someone who truly needed and deserved his strength. Despite the rejection, Logan and Hercules became close, and now consider each other friends, even training together from time to time.

Hercules searched for some time until he finally came across Melanie. The girl was an orphan, with incredible potential, but almost no training. When Hercules did approach Melanie she was apprehensive but excited, quickly agreeing to join Hercules on his journey to see the world become a better place. The two have been partners for a little over 2 years now, and though Melanie is still young and inexperienced, her power and their teamwork have both grown exponentially.

Hercules and Melanie decided to join the Millennial Union, as their goals to seem to correlate. They had originally considered joining the Mythic Accord, however, the fit did not feel right. Instead, Hercules works closely with Logan in an attempt to solidify the alliance between the Millenial Union and the Mythic Accord.

Hercules cares little for the Celestiarchy, believing that they are misguided and dangerous. He harbors almost a hatred of the Infernal Legion, seeing them as nothing but monsters bent on cruelty. And Hercules and Reclamation of Chaos are contently at odds, though that may be expected when ones greatest deeds include hunting and killing some of the most terrible monsters the world has ever known. As far as the other factions are concerned Hercules gives them little thought, not really trusting any of them, but not really trying to upset their plans either.

Skills: WIP

Abilities: WIP

Soulshards: The Hide of the Nemean Lion: WIP

Possessions: None

Name: Amatsu-Mikaboshi (天津甕星, "August Star of Heaven"); Ame no Kagaseo (天香香背男, "Brilliant Male"); "Mikkun" (みっくん, his partner Maria's nickname for him).

Species: Humanoid spirit of chaos and stars.

Alignment: Neutral.

Partner: Hanazawa Maria.

Faction: The Millennial Union.

Sex: Male.

Age: Unknown.

Appearance:

Aura: Mikaboshi's aura is largely the same as the starry chaos that makes up his spirit form. Gazing into it is like gazing upon the night sky, evoking a sense of calmness, mystery, and inscrutable depth.

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Name: Hanazawa Maria (花澤 鞠亜); "Marin" (まりん, doujin singer pseudonym).
(Remember that Japanese are family name first, given name second.)

Species: Human.

Alignment: Hybrid (Light/Neutral/Dark).

Partner: Amatsu-Mikaboshi.

Faction: The Millennial Union.

Sex: Female.

Age: 23.

Appearance:

Aura: Maria's aura is a soft, shimmering purple, with many other colors of the rainbow gently shifting, splitting, and merging within it in mesmerizing patterns. It is sweet, alluring, and intoxicating, similar to the auras of the succubi that Maria resembles, but also seems to have a sense of ethereal purity to it that hints at joys and pleasures beyond the merely carnal.
When in one of the alternate states of her dream magic, Maria's aura changes. See Abilities for more details.

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Possessions: N/A.

Name: James Carter

Species: Human

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: Sir Lancelot

Faction: None



Aura: James's aura takes the form of a blue grey mist that surrounds his body. It gives off the smell of approaching rain and invokes a certain uneasyness in people, akin to a, "The calm before the storm" feeling.

Name: Sir Lancelot, Knight of the lake.

Species: Spirit

Alignment: Light

Partner: James Carter

Faction: None

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown, roughly 1600+ years old

Aura: Lancelots aura is a Royal Purple that exudes his honor and dignity as a knight. When gazed upon it can evoke a sense of awe and comfort, as befitting a knight in shining armor.

Name: Wormwood, the Star of Bitterness, Blasphemy of Despair

Species: Fallen Angel

Alignment: Light/Dark

Partner: Multiple - see "Abilities"

Faction: The Infernal Legion

Sex: Sexless

Age: 5961 years, 2 months, 14 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes, 35 seconds

Appearance:
"Human" Form: Wormwood appears in this guise when attempting to go incognito, or deceive foolish humans into making a Soul Pact with him. He appears as a decrepit old man with a wide forehead and a gimlet eye. Wrinkles, liver spots and other signs of old age cover his face. The rest of his body is swathed in clothing; in olden times, it has been rags, a cloak, a plague doctor's suit. Now, it is a wide black cloak that flares outwards, with large obsidian buttons. An old, rusted pocket watch, filled with glimmering green liquid, hangs from his belt, along with an assortment of vials and syringes.

True Form: When Wormwood adopts his true form, his skin cracks and splits open, and his black coat merges with it, turning into flexing bracket fungi that flare out from him, webbing over his body and acting as plate armor. His toadlike eyes widen, turning into blazing suns of radioactive white. Where the light from his eyes falls across his body, his fungi dissipate like shadows, revealing beautiful pale flesh underneath. More fungi threads through his bone and muscles, artificially reinforcing them to become thicker and stronger, changing him from a hunchbacked old man to a wrathful demon covered in both shadow and light. His lips bubble with an endless waterfall of glowing acid, spilling out constantly from his mouth. His pocket watch vanishes in a flash of mana, reappearing as a fluid, shifting water clock tattoo upon his broad chest, extending tubes down his arms, drawing intricate patterns onto his arms. They even extend partially onto the gruesome stumps of what were once angelic wings, still trickling thick ichor centuries after they were severed. Finally, his cracked fingernails sharpen and elongate into claws of polished bone, stained dark with poison.

Aura: Wormwood's aura is best described as a cycle of life. As he uses his magic, his aura flares into a bright, poisonous green that seems to flood the area around him, acidic and malicious. Over time, it swirls and dries and decays into a bitter gray, growing smaller and smaller. As this happens, it starts to develop black spores, spiralling around and through him, more and more appearing every second. When the spores finally take over the gray fluid, it shrinks into a tiny black core before exploding out into bright green again.

Personality: As in the Bible, the main defining trait of Wormwood is bitterness. The bitterness that caused him to turn away from the Celestiarchy is still festering and rotting within him. He can't bring himself to completely shed his angelic form; no matter how many times he tries to eradicate his wings, he always stops himself at the last second. Stuck, like in a hopeless abusive relationship, Wormwood directs his anger and hate towards the enemies of the Infernal Legion, clawing his way up the ranks of the demons in the hope that he can find solace in comfort - solace that he has so far failed to find. Perhaps his obsessiveness with old age and the notion that all things must die is what keeps him from falling off the cliffs of madness - it anchors him, keeps him grounded. Wormwood keeps time with a clockwork device gifted to him by Belphegor - over time, he has made it into his soul shard, and disruption of its steady beat destabilizes him, causing him to explode in a fit of uncontrollable rage and hate until it's recalibrated.

Biography: As an angel, he was Mariel. A quiet, scholarly angel, he was sent as a missionary to preach the word of God. It is not known where he was sent, save that it was in a climate "harshesst ande moast revulting to Manne" - speculation ranges from scorching deserts(perhaps the very same desert that Satan attacked Jesus in) to barren icelands, or even to more alien locations, like a desolate wasteland, an empty place void of mana or magic. Regardless, it's indisputable that his assignment there changed him. For centuries he preached, for centuries he tried to save everyone, and watched them die instead, inexorable and inevitable.

Mariel did not have words for the feeling that nestled within his heart then, but we now know it as Despair. Not two weeks after he returned to Heaven dejected and depressed, Lucifer visited him. At length he listened to the Shining One talk, and over the course of time his heart grew harder, and that despair twisted into hatred. When Lucifer finally declared war against the Celestiarchy, Mariel was one of the first to join Lucifer, taking the name Wormwood and rallying behind him, believing that Lucifer could quench the bitterness in him.

But when the followers of Lucifer abandoned Heaven rather than fighting, that despair only grew stronger. Wormwood saw himself as exiled to the pits of Hell, cast aside like garbage. It was in Hell that his bitterness rose again, and Wormwood declared that Lucifer had abandoned him, cursing the world and all its angels. He dedicated the rest of his life to spreading his bitterness and despair to others, in the hopes of emptying his heart of those traits, but they seemed endless, and he could not rest.

And so Wormwood turned to the Blasphemies, the terrifying enforcers of Hell. There, he is able to unloose his poisonous mind upon the enemies of the Legion. He currently walks the human world, a loyal servant of Hell, seeking to find every place in the world that is good and beautiful and transform it into that barren climate where he once preached the Word of God.

Skills:
Long-Lived: After living for nearly six thousand years, Wormwood has an extremely large collection of knowledge, from technical skills to magical lore, as well as combat ability. Although he scoffs at knowledge and seeks only destruction, a certain amount has soaked into him from simple experience, over the years. In general, if it is reasonable for an average human to know or be able to do, Wormwood almost certainly knows it as well.

Forked Tongue: Although not nearly as proficient as the Prince of Lies, Wormwood is adept at squirreling out people's insecurities and fears and using them as weapons. His whispers and hisses have driven many mortals to suicide or self-harm. Not for nothing does his maw brim with poison.

Abilities:
Infestation: Wormwood can order the fungus that grows on his body to infect an area with microscopic spores. These spores take root in all living things and extend tiny roots into them, feeding off their magical energy. Over a period of two or three hours, the spores grow into more fungi. The land will be blanketed in black fungi, while any living things foolish enough to remain in the area will have their flesh torn apart by roots and spores. Even worse, the excess magical energy absorbed by the fungi is fed into Wormwood, making him stronger as he infests more areas.

Wormwood also uses the Infestation ability to sustain his presence in the mortal world without a spirit partner - after forcefully forging a Soul Pact with magically dense individuals, he simply covers them with spores and extracts their magic. He usually keeps a few dozen infected slaves locked up in order to maintain the large amounts of magical energy needed to engage in serious combat.

Poisonous Cascade: An endless waterfall of green and black poison flows forth from the stumps of Wormwood's wings and from within his mouth. This extremely lethal poison is absorbed by touch - any dirt that touches it becomes barren, trees are blackened and shed their leaves, humans are paralyzed and slowly die in a growing pool of toxins or spores. This ability makes Wormwood increasingly difficult to fight as battles grow longer, for he has more time to flood the area with poison.

The Chernobyl Disaster: The light emanating from Wormwood's spotlight eyes is extremely radioactive, orders of magnitude above even the worst nuclear disasters known to mankind. It is enough to kill ordinary humans more or less instantly, and will produce strain on magical shields. Everything touched by the light is soaked in radiation, and will be inhospitable for centuries, barring magical intervention. Wormwood may control the amount of energy chanmeled into his eyes at will, or turn them off if he so chooses.

Seeds of Darkness: The "fungi" that grows on Wormwood's body and spores are actually more accurately described as parasites made of solid darkness. As they are made of his energy, he can control them, flexing them, sharpening them into razor blades or hardening them into armor. Although he cannot change their state(eg. into liquid) without disrupting their mana structure, he can retract or extend them, change their shape and fling them out violently.

Star Wormwood: Wormwood can transform his body into that of a blazing comet, allowing him to accelerate at supersonic speed. It also grants him extreme maneuverability, allowing him to make sharp turns at full speed, and blasts radiation in a massive aura around him, though at a reduced intensity. Upon a hard impact, the comet explodes, loosing a large cloud of nerve gas and transforming his body back into his regular demon form.

Curse of the Third: Wormwood can turn almost any substance into a glowing acid, bright green and highly concentrated, upon touch. The acid is always liquid, regardless of the form of the substance that was touched. Substances magically powerful enough to resist Wormwood's deconstruction will not be affected. There is no limit to the volume of matter this ability can affect, save Wormwood's mana supplies - he has been known to acidify entire rivers.

Soulshards:
Belphegor's Pendulum: A magical clock that appears as either a pocket-watch or tattoo of a water clock, Belphegor's Pendulum was originally a gift from the demon prince Belphegor as a reward for Wormwood's loyalty and competence in serving the Infernal Legion. Although it has no particular combat purpose, it synchronizes Wormwood's mind and heartbeat with the sway of an internal pendulum, keeping him from having psychotic episodes, fits of rage or otherwise becoming emotionally and mentally unstable. It also grants him hyperprecise knowledge of time - he can recite the timing of events down to the microsecond level, for example.

Possessions: None.

Name: Asmodeus; the Crimson Fiend; the Lord of Fire and Brimstone; the Prince of Darkness; the Demon Prince of Pride.

Species: Pit fiend.

Alignment: Dark.

Partner: None. Asmodeus typically stays in Hell, and possesses humans using his Ashen Avatars; see Soulshards.

Faction: The Infernal Legion.

Sex: Male.

Age: Exact number unknown, but known to be at least 6000.

Appearance:

Aura: The black and red aura of Asmodeus resembles all at once scorching fire, crushing stone, flesh-devouring acid, deadly poison, and the darkness of utter, inescapable ruin. It is potent enough to bring many to despair with its mere presence.

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Possessions: N/A.

Name: Leviathan; the Black Kraken; the Thousand-Faced Stalker; the Demon Prince of Envy.

Species: Demonic shapeshifting kraken

Alignment: Dark

Partner: Harold Nordstrom

Faction: Infernal Legion

Sex: Male(?)

Age: Unknown

Appearance: The first word that comes to mind when describing Leviathan is "squid". Whilst he can apparently take on any humanoid form he likes through his abilities, and tends to adopt a humanoid form based on his current preferences, his true body is very distinctly shaped, appearing as a massive entity seemingly modelled after the colossal squid if it were twenty meters long rather than twelve to fourteen. Many gigantic eyes run round the entire circumference of his head, and a great many hard pointed spines run down his length, including along his tentacles, of which he seems to typically possess at least twice as many as any normal squid, with the capacity to grow even more. Also, like a colossal squid, his tentacles possess both swivelling and three-pointed sharp hooks, in addition to the standard suckers lined with teeth that are more prevalent on the smaller giant squid. All of this is coloured black, in varying tones ranging from glossy to matte depending on the discussed body part, and in spite of what the square-cube law might otherwise suggest, he is in no way weighed down by gravity on land, able to move around through flight or by walking on his tentacles, and capable of striking with his tentacles with terrifying speed for their size if he so chooses.

His currently preferred humanoid form, generally adopted when in council with the other demon princes, is light-skinned, possessing slick blonde hair that seems to have been oiled back, and bright green eyes with a piercing gaze. It is about 170 cm tall, and is typically clad in a spotless white suit with a red shirt, black tie, and black dress shoes. The most notable aspects of the form are the six meter-long tentacles extending from its back, with the capacity to extend even further outward, dispelling the image of an otherwise rather normal human, though the form in question is generally altered alongside his other traits when interacting with human beings, and even other spirits at times.

Aura: Leviathan's normal aura appears as a smooth, inky liquid darkness with a hint of sea green in it, seeming to be capable of flowing and reforming into whatever is desired of it. However, as with his appearance, this can be edited to appear as any number of possible alternatives suiting his current personality.

Personality: Leviathan appears to be quite normal externally, capable of putting on a charming, charismatic personality which can often sway the most stubborn of minds. This, however, is the charm of a psychopath who sees others as tools and nothing more: his capacity to adopt and discard false personalities on a whim is incredible, as though he is directly editing his very mind, but all hide a callous disregard for other forms of life. If he even has a true self beyond this, it is buried beneath his falsehoods beyond any reach less than a very deep mindscan indeed, and he is unwilling to allow anything of the sort to be used on him if he can help it.

Biography: Leviathan reveals as little about his past as he can when asked. Logistically, all that is really known by even his fellow demon princes is that the original Leviathan had been weakened by a curse set upon him by Satan during the coup of the princes, and was therefore forced to hibernate to recover from it. This Leviathan hid himself away from the rest of the demon realm whilst recovering, so well in fact that even the other demon princes could not follow; and yet another demon still managed to find a way to intrude upon and murder him in his hiding spot, and what returned was a very different Leviathan, with a very different mindset. Where the original Leviathan had been recalcitrant and unwilling to interact with his fellows, this one was shockingly charismatic, almost to a fault... when he felt like it, at least.

He was also, it turned out, one of the most active plotters in the Infernal Legion's upper echelons, and has developed a number of ideas regarding how they could advance their cause over the few dozen years he has been active, including significant input into seeing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come to fruition. With the fall of the First Seal thirty years ago, and the more recent choosing of a sufficiently powerful partner that he can basically manipulate into doing his bidding at will, his great power and extensive capabilities now extend into the world of humans too.

Skills: Leviathan's full skillset is vast, thanks to his abilities, but its full extent is typically kept under metaphorical lock and key, and not described wholly even to his fellows; attempts to pry it or anything else from his mind by force have been historically unsuccessful thanks to a combination of slippery mindset and substantial psychic ability. What he is well-known to be very good at, however, is manipulation of others into doing his bidding, being capable of putting on often-personalised facades which can play all but the most perceptive of beings, as well as a surprisingly large inventive streak that leaves him rather capable of changing tactics on a dime.

Abilities:
Shift - The base of most of Leviathan's being, this ability lets him, at will, alter not only his physical appearance, but his aura and even his very personality too, to mimic just about any being he's personally encountered before to the point of copying their magical abilities, or to form entirely new personas to adopt as needed. The change in aura and personality is almost complete, requiring a rather deep mind scan just to uncover his true self beneath the image (though this is not to say any mimicry will actually be particularly good without significant knowledge of a copied target), and his physical shapeshifting is of course very useful in combat, letting him form blades, blunt objects, and spikes of all sorts to attack his opponents with.

Telepathy - Leviathan's main form of attack, in which psychic energy is used to penetrate a target's mind, and subsequently read their minds, implant illusions, deal mental damage to them, and many other possible effects, either subtly or not. He prefers this form of attack when not emulating other beings, but it is obviously less effective against beings of greater willpower. He can also use this ability to communicate with others from long distances, as well as on himself and his partner to produce beneficial effects, including amongst other things enhanced and accelerated perceptions, increased deductive capabilities, and both active and passive resistance to an opponent's mental assaults, the latter in particular achieved by increasing willpower in a way that also increases the effectiveness of mental assaults against any given target.
-Mindtheft - By either devouring a target's soul, or performing a deep scan on their mind whilst they are unable to fight back, Leviathan can accurately copy most to all of their mindset, and subsequently acquire knowledge of both the skills they know and the elements and abilities they can use. Additionally, he acquires intimate awareness of the target's aura and mannerisms, allowing him to pull off a nearly perfect imitation of them through use of Shift, though this can be seen through by those who are close to the imitated target with enough skill and perceptiveness.

Deathflood - An ability based around freeform manipulation of heavily Dark-infused water, to produce a corrosive effect akin to very strong magical acid, complete with green boiling colouration. Given his wide skillset, Leviathan is more than capable of producing various attack forms with this ability:
-Death Geyser - Leviathan forms a Deathflood geyser beneath an opponent, striking them from below with a condensed burst. This can also be launched as a normal beam-like attack from Leviathan himself, with similar effect, and/or condensed down even further to form an attack akin to a waterjet cutter more suited for penetrating armour and other defenses.
-Deathwave - Leviathan sends out a Deathflood wave of variable width and height, covering a potentially very large area to hit massed foes as well as foes with the capacity to dodge more effectively than usual.
-Death Abyss - One of the stronger attack forms which combines with Telepathy for greater effect, Leviathan forms a seemingly-shallow Deathflood puddle beneath a target, only for it to rise up and swallow them whole, submerging them in an apparently endless Deathflood ocean with no way out, though they are really only contained in a pit slightly larger than themselves. In addition to Deathflood's usual damaging capacity, this produces the illusion that the target is also drowning and placed under extremely high pressure for water mass, in a way that is likely to knock them unconscious after a while if they have not already died or broken out of the illusion.

Abyssal Ruin - In similar fashion to Asmodeus' version of the ability, Leviathan has learned to utilise to some extent the power of the Abyss that Hell is built around, letting him produce a pitch-black energy that appears to devour light around it whilst emitting its own dark, sea-green light, with effects akin to those of standard Dark magic whilst also being far more damaging and harder to resist per unit of energy. However, it seems Leviathan is no more capable of controlling it than Asmodeus himself, and in fact those in the know have often asked questions about how he managed to acquire it in the first place, given that he is almost certainly not as skilled in the relevant areas as Asmodeus despite his vast repertoire of abilities; when asked, he will tend to deflect the question, change the subject, claim he's "just that good", and otherwise do what he can to avoid revealing how he acquired it.

Dark Rituals - Using his extensive knowledge of Dark magic, Leviathan can perform many Dark-aligned magical rituals with effects that he cannot directly produce with his own magic. As usual, these require preparation, time, and focus, and are weaker than his own abilities.

Soulshards: N/A

Possessions: N/A

Name: Harold Nordstrom

Species: Human

Alignment: Dark

Partner: Leviathan

Faction: Infernal Legion

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Appearance: Harold nominally possesses an abnormally skinny build with extremely pale skin, to the point that one might think him a victim of forced slavery if the appearance were not seemingly deliberate. He is 180cm tall, with unkempt brown hair and blue, bloodshot eyes surrounded by deep purple bags, and typically wears rather generic grey clothing in the form of a shirt, jeans, socks and hoodie, plus grey shoes.

Aura: Harold's aura is nominally a wavery grey, as though it has no clear direction to it, though mouths and eyes seems to momentarily form within it on a regular basis, as though pressing outward from behind a veil. This changes when he is incited to go berserk - the entire aura goes haywire, expanding into a much larger area that seems to flood the area with deranged faces and static-like interference.

Personality: The most major aspect of Harold's persona is that he is heavily schizophrenic, a trait exacerbated by Leviathan to encompass the vast majority of his being to the point that even the thought of suicide has been wiped from his mind. At a good moment, he will merely exhibit its negative symptoms, such as a lack of expression and emotion, poverty of speech, lack of motivation and desire to form relationships, and an inability to feel pleasure, alongside various deficits in cognitive function; in moments where positive symptoms are in effect, he tends to experience delusions, disordered thought and speech patterns, and various forms of psychotic hallucination. However, Leviathan has further integrated a trigger to set off a state of berserk fury; in this situation, all Harold will perceive is a mess of warped faces screaming hateful things at him, with only Leviathan's intended targets clear through the mess, and the promise in his mind that so long as the targets are destroyed, the state will fade sooner or later.

Biography: Harold is not too sure about his past prior to acquiring schizophrenia, given that part of its effects involve cognitive deficits. He remembers that his life was actually fairly good, and that for the most part, he had a loving family, but nothing more particular than that. After the onset of his mental illness, he knows he was placed into an institution to help try and deal with its effects, and that he seemed to be recovering to some extent, particularly with the help of pills... and then a man in a suit came along. The man told Harold that his potential for power was exactly what he needed to help him, and that with his help, he could make Harold one of the most powerful beings alive.

To this day, Harold remains unsure about why he accepted the offer; the fact remains, though, that with a soul pact forged, Harold was spirited away from the institution to some dark and horrific place, and his mental state rapidly decayed, to the point of becoming a shadow of his former self even by the standards of his prior illness. The suited man had not lied, though, and Harold quickly developed into a powerhouse, more than capable of helping the man perform whatever was needed of him at the time. In fact, he did not want anything more than to do this. Other considerations were always veered around by his brain, and he eventually stopped trying to reach them; the man in a suit was his friend, and so he needed to help him. There was nothing else he needed by then, after all.

Skills: He's not quite sure how, but it seems that Harold acquires whatever skill is needed of him for any given task, to a shockingly high degree; at the same time, once a task is completed, whatever skills he had seem to fade from memory, leaving him incapable of performing the actions needed for his tasks. One thing that remains generally present, however, is an absurd degree of relentlessness, particularly in his berserk state, to the point that he is likely to end up being killed if not reined back by Leviathan against a sufficiently-powerful foe.

Abilities:
Mutation - An ability revolving around the modification of Harold's body toward particular intents, typically as requested by Leviathan. The most common form of this ability, often entered into almost automatically during his berserk state, involves modifying his physique to focus on speed, agility, and strength, though other forms can be readily implemented as needed. This can also act as a form of impromptu regeneration by mutating away physical injuries, though it is somewhat less effective in this than true regeneration, both by being less energy efficient and by needing to be manually instigated to work in this fashion. To wit, Harold will never be as good in any given form as an otherwise physically identical person who has focused on those traits specifically, though that is compensated for by the versatility of this ability.

Static Shock - An ability revolving around the use of heavily Dark-infused monochrome electricity, both to paralyse and damage foes through electric burns and the disintegration common to Dark magic. In spite of his schizophrenic state, Harold seems to be at least moderately skilled in using this ability, being able to form structures such as blades and energy-absorbing barriers as needed, as well as longer-ranged attacks like beams and blasts.

Static Overload - An ability similar to Static Shock, but in the realm of the mind instead; a foe subjected to this ability will typically either have their thought processes paralysed, have pseudo-electrical mental damage dealt to them, or be subjected to a perceptive effect that emulates Harold's mindset in them, leaving their vision and sixth sense flooded with static and disturbing images, and their hearing overloaded with voices informing them of how awful they are in various ways. Of course, this is less effective on those possessed of greater willpower, and in particular those with higher self-esteem will be substantially less affected by the voices than those of lower self-esteem.

Soulshards: N/A

Possessions: N/A

Name: Typhon; Father of monsters; Bane of Olympus; The Storm Giant.

Species: Monstrous draconic spirit

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: Amon, High Priest of the Cult of Storms.

Faction: Reclamation of Chaos

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown, at least 4000+ years.



Aura: Typhon's aura is a mix of deep sea blue and green, violent and roiling like a hurricane, befitting his name. Its potency brings a sense of dread and hopelessness, akin to facing something that cannot be stopped, like natural disasters or acts of god.









Possessions: N/A

Soulshards: N/A

Name: Amon; Father Amon, High Priest of the Cult of Storms; The Champion of Chaos; The storm cultist

Species: Human

Alignment: Neutral

Partner: Typhon

Faction: Reclamation of Chaos

Sex: Male

Age: 65



Aura: Amon's aura is bright yellow green.