Name:
Felix Volpe

Appearance:


Age:
19

Bio:
Around two thousand years ago, the first practitioner of the Path of the Kitsune, Ryteb of the Flames, was born. His goal was simply enlightenment, but the power that he attained in pursuit of it was coveted by other magi. As he would not share the Path, as he deemed it too dangerous to be let loose, the other magi of his era declared war on him. Though he was powerful, especially as he was in his late eighties, the sheer number of opponents was slowly overwhelming him. In an effort to continue the path, even after his death, he utilised soul magic to keep himself through reincarnations. When they finally broke through his barriers, he used a suicidal attack to take out his enemies. This was the end of Felix's first life.
Over the next two thousand years, the Fox Mage lived hundreds of lives, all in pursuit of enlightenment. He, sometimes she, had many lovers, sometimes even had children, but they never managed to reach enlightenment. Treachery, greed, and just plain sociopathy all lead to a premature death.
Oddly enough, his current reincarnation, Felix Volpe, was a descendant of one of his past lives. Growing up in Illiad, he gained a feeling of home that he hadn't had in the past hundred years. For the first time in several reincarnations, he decided to interact with the world again, and aid Marduk in showing the strength of Illiad.

Mundane Skills:
Chemistry and Potionmaking are his passions, mostly because they involve much fire and explosions. He is skilled at strategy games, and enjoys pitting his intellect against others.
He utilises the Yang Path of Tai Chi, and is considered an expert of the path. He has trained in various weapons to compliment his Fox Fire ability.

Magic:
Path of the Kitsune:
A branch of magic that increases the users power over their lifetime. Every ten years, they gain a new tail, which grants new abilities. Felix is currently a two tailed kitsune, with the third tail coming on his birthday in six months.
1 Tail - Fox Forms: The ability to transform into full kitsune, and half-kitsune forms. In his half-kitsune form, he still looks human, just with fox ears and tail(s), whereas in full kitsune form he is an anthropomorphic fox. The full form increases his physical attributes by five times his tails, while his half-form only increases it by a factor of three.
2 Tails - Fox Fire: The ability to create fire, and manipulate his summoned flames. The flames can't injure him, and he uses it as a weapon.
3 Tails - Fox Trickery: By manipulating the mind, the user can create illusions that can affect senses equal to the number of tails.
4 Tails - Shapeshifting: The ability to change his features to a limited extent.
5 Tails -
6 Tails - Clear Mind: The brain is converted into pure magic, removing the limits of a physical mind.
7 Tails - Soul Sustenance: The body no longer requires food or water, being able to be sustained purely on their own magic.
8 Tails - Youthful Body: The body returns to it's prime, and no longer suffers the effects of the ageing process
9 Tails - Cultivation of Heavens: The ability to draw energy from the environment into the body. Upon attaining this level, the practitioner slips into a meditative sleep for roughly a thousand years, as they try to attain enlightenment.

Transmigrant Soul:
While not an inherently useful power for a living person, the Transmigrant Soul allows reincarnation with the personality intact. His memories from his past lives are sealed so as not to overwhelm his mortal mind, with only a few memories bleeding through.

Personality:
Felix is many things at different times. Sometimes a cunning tactician, other times an insane pyromaniac. The thing that is constant about him is a thirst for knowledge and loyalty to his friends. Like many at Marduk, he follows a code of chivalry, to not attack others unless they have attacked him or his allies first. Due to a mistake in the original process of becoming a transmigrant soul, he suffers from nightmares of all his previous deaths, and relies heavily on Dreamless Sleep potions to maintain a reasonable sleep pattern.

Faction:
Marduk

Are you a Descendant of the Illuminated Poet?:
No

Name: Warden
Appearance:


Age: Ancient
Bio:
Mundane Skills:
Powers: Wild-Form:
Super-Strength
Enhanced Durability

Personality:
Faction (Marduk, Ishtar, or Cassandra Club when it's founded):
Are you a Descendant of the Illuminated Poet?: Simple yes or no question.

Name: Taylor Richard Hiss
Appearance: Taylor is a tall, fair-skinned man bearing short, dark brown hair and the cliché perpetual five-o-clock shadow of the investigator. Wears a rough gray suit jacket over a white button-up shirt (no tie unless invited to formal events) with slacks that match the jacket and black worker's boots.
Age: 36
Bio: Originally from the Republic of Olympia across the sea, Taylor formally migrated to Iliad about 18 years ago, meeting his future wife Celeste, settling down and opening a private investigator's office, and siring a son, Conrad, and daughter, Julia.

What he doesn't want you to know, is that he spent the four years before he settled in Iliad, as an Olympian spy.

Sure, fourteen would sound an improbable age to be involved in international espionage; but despite its friendly outward appearance, the Republic of Olympia is not a particularly nice place.
Orphaned at an early age, he was taken in as a ward of the state, educated with an onslaught of Olypmian propaganda, and subjected to a battery of aptitude tests to determine his fate in the Republic's apparatus.
Ultimately, he was sent to the Foreign Corps and learned the crafts of his assigned trade; when he was finally deployed abroad, though, he was actually little more than a glorified courier, picking up missives brought to the border by agents in the Hermannreich, and bringing them to his handlers at the Republic's embassy in Iliad.

One near miss with the local color on such a run led into his first meeting with his future wife. While he was being chased by members one gang for taking a shortcut through their turf, he stumbled upon brutes from another gang hired to make a vulnerable Descendant "disappear." Luckily for both of them, the gangs were bitter rivals, and considered their rivalry more important than whatever an "outsider" had paid them to do, allowing Taylor and Celeste to cleanly escape their peril.
Eventually, they got to know each other, became friends, fell in love, Taylor quit the courier job and naturalized, and they got married.
Between raising their son and starting his private investigation firm, Snake Eyes, he enrolled in a few classes at Marduk to supplement his compressed Olympian education.

Now, he's an established investigator and family man and all-around concerned citizen, although he's well short of being a shining pillar of the Iliad community. And he wouldn't have it any other way.
Mundane Skills: On the fighting side, Taylor's an excellent marksman, and a fair street fighter. Mentally, he's got a strong memory, and can generally maintain his composure in high-pressure situations.
Magic: Taylor is mostly comfortable using fire and gravity magic in a variety of applications, both in combat and out. In combat, he usually channels fire magic to add a bit of sizzle to his brawling style, or infusing a conjured fireball with a touch of gravity magic to use as a sort of grenade or mine. Gravity alone, he uses more sparingly, forcing minor fluctuations on the spot to literally send his foes off their balance.
Outside of fights, fire magic's use is much more situational, mostly being used as an obvious but readily available source of light or heat when he needs it. Conversely, he can use gravity magic outside of combat to get from "Point A" to "Point B" a lot more conveniently.
Personality: Taylor's a man of more action than words. He's generally quiet, projecting a calm, confident aura for his family, friends, and community in general. He tends to be quick to raise his voice or act belligerent when threatened, frustrated, or annoyed, but that's part of how he tries to take control of the situation. Ultimately, his controlling attitude results from his own past, in which he lived at the whim of the Olympian state; and fear for his newfound family, whose overall safety is his main priority. Threaten him, he'll throw it back in your face; threaten his wife or children, he will hurt you for it.
Faction: Primarily affiliated with his own investigation agency "Snake Eyes Investigations", but leans towards Marduk's position on foreign policy.
Are you a Descendant of the Illuminated Poet?: No.

Name: Conrad Orion Hiss
Appearance: Conrad is tall for his age, with lighter skin and almost blond hair, which he likes to wear long. If not required to wear a uniform for school, he prefers a casual but robust outfit comprising of a dark-toned denim jacket over a graphic-print t-shirt with slightly lighter long jeans and light athletic shoes.
Age: 17
Bio: Not much to say here; Conrad is the son of Taylor, the foreigner; and Celeste, the Descendant of the Illuminated Poet. He's aware of it, thanks to capturing the interest of his grandfather; but his father's influence leaves him skeptical that his lineage is That Big a Deal. Still, said grandfather convinced Taylor to have his son enrolled at the Marduk Academy at the earliest of opportunities.
Mundane Skills: He's decently athletic, mostly a runner.
Magic: Between his education and his lineage, he hasn't really managed to identify a specialty for his talent, but he personally leans on wind-based magic, as well as picking up some extra practice with fire from his father.
Personality: At first glance, Conrad might seem inattentive, unmotivated, withdrawn, or even lazy. More accurately, he feels isolated from his surroundings, having listened to too many arguments between his father and grandfather about what he should do with his life; at 17, he doesn't really have an answer, but he feels he should find a niche of his own pretty soon.
Faction: Attends Marduk, but has learned his father's problematic tendency to question things, especially things others would like him to take for granted.
Are you a Descendant of the Illuminated Poet?: Yes.