The Virtues
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LUPA
The Virtue of Power
⦋ — || — || Female ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Lupa takes the form of a great white fire, though pale limbs and arms and a vicious fanged mouth seem to move in the flames, the vague outline of a human-ish figure. She stands tall as a house, occasionally bigger, depending on her mood (her mood is usually ‘bigger’). The flames are normally more or less harmless, though if she so pleases they can ignite with blistering heat.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Animalistic
■ Hair-trigger temper
■ Callous
■ Honest
■ Encouraging
■ Overwhelming
■ Controlling
■ Gives bad relationship advice
■ Hair-trigger temper
■ Callous
■ Honest
■ Encouraging
■ Overwhelming
■ Controlling
■ Gives bad relationship advice
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Lupa has no tolerance for time wasters, and when set to a job doesn’t care much about the goal or purpose, as long as that job is done quickly and efficiently. It can be hard, however, to discuss her exact motivations, as she is rarely in the mood or mindset for intelligible talk.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Lupa radiates power like a wildfire, and shows just as much restraint. However, despite her brutish aggression, she is intensely competent in a fight, and has a knack for spotting the shortcomings of both herself and her opponents. She tends not to rely on special moves, instead using blazing fire attacks and her own fists and fangs to break down the enemy.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Lupa’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Fatal Flaw
A burning grapple attack that wraps up the target in a coil of fire. The longer you stay in the grapple, the more your defenses are lowered.
■ Beyond Reproach
Lupa can radiate blistering heat that makes it extremely painful to come close to her. However, while active, she cannot use any other special moves.
■ Glory
Though it takes a few seconds to charge, this ability greatly enhances the effects of Lupa’s True Virtue, causing her powers to grow at much greater speed.
■ Icarus
A powerful ranged attack in the form of a single arrow shivering with oppressive silvery heat. Should it hit you, this ability drastically decreases defense, though the small size of the projectile can make it hard to connect.
■ Fertile Ash
A move only Lupa has access to (it cannot be copied or borrowed), and can only be used on someone other than herself. The target is wrapped up in soft orange flames, and their injuries are scalded away, while their defenses are greatly improved.
SUPER MOVES
■ Humility
A terrible, blinding blaze that explodes from Lupa’s jaws. It leaves no detectable damage, but renders weaknesses fully and utterly exposed, and turns the most powerful defenses brittle as kindling.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Lupa is fast and viciously powerful, but she doesn’t seem the acrobatic or defensive type. Even her speed is less a thing of agility and more like a sudden, bursting lunge. At a range, her only way to fight seems to be that long silver arrow.
OTHER
Hates boasters.
MALACHIA
The Virtue of Control
⦋ — || — || Male ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Malachia seems to lack a true physical form, though, if he deigns to take shape, appears as a bank of mist and a towering roll of thunderclouds. Crackles of electricity and dark clawed arms appear in and out of the shadows. Despite this fearsome appearance, Malachia voice is soft-spoken and kindly.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Dreamy
■ Reserved
■ Critical
■ Fatalistic
■ Cautious
■ Savors the moment
■ Gives good advice, but hates that you had to ask
■ Reserved
■ Critical
■ Fatalistic
■ Cautious
■ Savors the moment
■ Gives good advice, but hates that you had to ask
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Many who wield Malachia’s tablet never discover the source of the powers it grants. Malachia rarely reveals himself, even to the wielder of his ablet, and what he wants seems influenced less by his own desires, and more by what his wielder wants, and how badly they want it.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Fluid and changeable like a river, Malachia is adaptive on the battlefield. From the depths of his storm clouds he can expel tendrils of ice, waves of rain, and rushing blows of water. It’s hard to safely keep distance from him, and his defenses and agility make for a difficult fight.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding his tablet will share his True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of his special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding his tablet will share his True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of his special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Malachia’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Snore
A rumble of thunder crackles through Malachia’s insides, and its energies provide a reasonably strong healing effect, as well as dispelling any curses or negative statuses. He needs some space and time to fully activate this power.
■ Labor
Though it takes a few seconds to charge, Malachia builds up monumental physical power in his insides, to be used either by him or gifted to another. After executing this ability, Malachia’s normally average physical prowess temporarily becomes a force to be reckoned with.
■ Idle Hands
Malachia’s long dark arms become fluid tendrils of inky-black water. Coming too close puts you at risk of being grappled and thrown.
■ Focus
Malachia solidifies himself. Mist becomes heavy fog, stormclouds crackle with electricity, and his defenses temporarily skyrocket, though he becomes sluggish once this effect wears off.
■ Nitpick
Malachia extends a crushing wave of water that saps at the target’s ki reserves.
SUPER MOVES
■ Diligence
Malachia releases thousands of clawed arms that come reaching down from the heavens. Physical attacks pass uselessly through their watery substance, and each one carries much more crushing power than first appears, though, it must be said, they are somewhat slow.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
On those rare occasions where he intervenes directly, Malachia takes care to drag things out, and would much prefer you simply give up before he has to put real work in. He takes victory after a long, drawn out fight, but rarely before.
OTHER
Enjoys very hot drinks.
Nevarine
The Virtue of Possession
⦋ — || — || Nonbinary ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
An average-sized figure, Nevarine has an unassuming presence that bellies their enormous power as a Virtue. A thick blanket of ivy shrouds them near-completely, like some kind of bizarre green bedsheet ghost, though a pair of bright gold eyes can be seen through a chink in the plant cover. Beneath the ivy, you might occasionally see slender arms and legs, and very dark skin. Nevarine has a friendly voice more human than you would expect from such a bizarre-looking being, the kind of voice you might associate with two retail workers commiserating pleasantly after a long day at work.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Friendly
■ Easily excited, but hides it well
■ Not opposed to violence
■ Manipulative
■ Strong sense of self-preservation
■ Down-to-earth
■ Kind
■ Easily excited, but hides it well
■ Not opposed to violence
■ Manipulative
■ Strong sense of self-preservation
■ Down-to-earth
■ Kind
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
The seven virtues are not known for their desires or schemes, and each seems content with the hopes and plans of their current wielder. At first glance, Nevarine does not seem any different from any of the others, though, of course, they would never tell you if they were.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Nevarine is as lively as a flourishing woodland, full of energy and resourcefulness. Though lacking in raw power, Nevarine has access to many strange tricks and abilities, and makes for a difficult, changeable fight. Their ivy can swing wide and cut deep, and their battle-sense is quite keen. They seem especially gifted at toppling proud, mighty enemies who rely too much on their powers.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding their tablet will share their True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of Nevarine’s special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding their tablet will share their True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of Nevarine’s special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Nevarine’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Possession
Nevarine can mimic an attack that they have recently seen, though it will have decreased speed and increased power.
■ Going Green
Nevarine takes the exact appearance of their opponent, and can use the entirety of their movepool.
■ Resentment
Nevarine’s ivy spreads suddenly across the ground around them, capable of slowing down or even entangling the enemy. This attack can lead into such moves as Thanksgiving and Prosperity.
■ Thanksgiving
A draining attack with intrusive plant tendrils that siphons ki, electricity, and stamina from the target to heal Nevarine.
■ Prosperity
A great flourishing attack that causes plantlife to swell up and explode from a single spot. This attack is rather low-power considering the standard strength of a Virtue, but it has remarkable speed, coverage, and range, and can tangle up the target.
SUPER MOVES
■ Kindness
Nevarine brings the target underneath their ivy and melds into them. Under Nevarine’s possession, you surrender all power and control—however, this move also protects you from all harm, and causes Nevarine to suffer any injury that might have been intended for you.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
As a result of their incredible versatility, Nevarine does not seem to specialize in any one area, and in terms of raw power is probably the weakest of the Virtues. This is, of course, relative, as even the weakest Virtue has considerable raw strength. That said, Nevarine seems to have no fondness for the things disliked by plants, such as intense temperatures.
OTHER
Loves a good book.
DROHAVEN
The Virtue of Determination
⦋ — || — || Female ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Drohaven stands tall and mighty, a great iron knight in gleaming armor, her horned helmet bearing the snarling, unmoving visage of a gargoyle. A sheet of cool silver hair falls out the back of the helm, but on closer inspection, you might see that the strands of hair are actually filaments of soft, unbreakable metal. Her voice is smooth and hard, and her build is one that, were she human, might make you picture muscles underneath the metal.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Cool
■ Chivalrous
■ Forceful
■ Determined
■ Doesn’t like being contradicted
■ Curious
■ When she dislikes something, she really dislikes it
■ Chivalrous
■ Forceful
■ Determined
■ Doesn’t like being contradicted
■ Curious
■ When she dislikes something, she really dislikes it
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Drohaven has a strong sense of chivalry and self-control, and though she is not opposed to cruelty, or even outright evil, she, similar to Nod and Vangelis, can be unusually and dangerously subversive towards potential wielders if they cross her.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Drohaven is likely the most traditional combatant of the seven Virtues, a fierce warrior who fights with sword and shield. She duels with great ferocity, and metal seems especially uninclined to fight her, bending and breaking easily under her strikes. She relies on her excellent defense and offense to win battles.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Drohaven’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Judgment
Drohaven conjures a nigh-indestructible sword from the earth, then hurls it with all her might.
■ To Those Who Wait
An extraordinarily powerful countermove, Drohaven allows an attack to glance off her hardened body, then thrusts forward with a piercing strike full of fire and raw destructive energy.
■ Not Yet
A disarming strike, Drohaven goes in for a vicious diagonal cut, but pulls out at the last minute. The resulting shockwave cleaves through ki and magical reserves, and knocks away weapons, but deals no physical damage.
■ Tempered Steel
Entering a meditative state, Drohaven shears off her raw power to gain an explosive increase in speed and defense.
■ Vindication
Her armor flashes with light, and her sword seems to shiver with dry heat. Drohaven asserts her will over the world, and shatters all illusions, deceptions, and mental interferences. She can even use this ability to force someone to speak truthfully, as though pressing some invisible blade to their throat.
SUPER MOVES
■ Patience
Drohaven strikes with a slow, loping attack. Her Patience ignores any and all defenses, and, though slow, brings terrible, inevitable, overwhelming destruction.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Knights are not known for zippy, otherworldy fighting styles, and Drohaven fights like a knight: on the ground, with a sword as her only weapon.
OTHER
Drohaven seems to be unusually close with her current wielder, Auden Rose.
NOD
The Virtue of Joy
⦋ — || — || Female ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Notwithstanding Lupa’s size-changing, Nod is the largest of the Virtues—a massive, terrifying serpent of stone scales crusted with moss and lichen, her body thicker than a truck and many, many times as long. At several places, her body is ringed by great grinding gears, and her draconic head overflows with fang upon fang upon fang, each engraved with terrible scenes of butchery and violence. Her eyes are pitiless black holes drilled into that long stone skull. The voice of Nod, however, is at complete odds with her monstrous appearance: soft, low, gentle, almost seductive; it is the voice of friend, lover, and idol rolled into one.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Unpredictable
■ Short-term thinker
■ Empathic
■ Supportive
■ No sense of boundaries
■ Takes things very personally
■ Short-term thinker
■ Empathic
■ Supportive
■ No sense of boundaries
■ Takes things very personally
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Even when compared to the other Virtues, each tied to the will of their owner, Nod has almost no personal agenda, and can, on the surface, appear as a particularly useful and cordial partner. However, she has a strong sense of empathy and believes firmly that people as a whole deserve happiness, and, though like most of the other virtues not outright opposed to evil, the right amount of excess cruelty at the wrong moment could cause Nod could turn on them at the drop of a hat.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
With the weight of the earth in every blow, Nod strikes hard and brutal, boasting a powerful armored body and incredible raw strength. She is a straightforward fighter, bearing down on any that oppose her over and over until they are satisfactorily removed from the equation. She can also manipulate earth and rocks in her immediate vicinity.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Nod’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Imbibe
A counter move where Nod swallows an incoming projectile and absorbs both strength and health from it.
■ Moderation
For a short period, Nod allows a drop in her physical strength in exchange for increased defense and speed.
■ Masticate
A grapple attack, Nod attempts to either wrap the enemy in her suddenly hardened coils, or crush them between her powerful jaws.
■ Satiate
A hypnotic attack, Nod leans in to an immobile enemy and whispers sweet nothings that fill the mind with warmth and contentedness, driving the urge to fight from their mind. Difficult to use mid-battle, but a potential game-ender.
■ Gastric Ground
Nod slams her tail down on the ground, transforming rock into a thick, mud-like substance that sucks down on anything caught within its radius. Can totally disarm enemies, but requires some sort of earth-based ground to use.
SUPER MOVES
■ Temperance
Nod devours a person or object. Insider her, whatever has been consumed in Temperance is immediately placed in a state of preservation, safety, and restoration, but is also totally paralyzed and placed in Nod’s control. While engaging in Temperance, Nod (and her wielder) cannot use any other special moves until the person is regurgitated and her Temperance ends.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Nod fights by throwing her weight around, without a care to how exposed she is. Combined with her monumental bulk, the Virtue of Joy is not exactly a difficult target.
OTHER
Has a fondness for bad romcoms.
PSYLOGENY
The Virtue of Dreams
⦋ — || — || Male ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Psylogeny appears as a handsome, olive-skinned man, good-looking, but not especially remarkable. He wears a white collared shirt and, on top of that, a suit darker than should be possible, like a body-shaped hole was cut into the skin of the universe. He stands at an average, unassuming height, with dark hair pulled back into a bun, and a neatly manicured beard hugging his jaw. His eyes are, from corner to corner, pitch black.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Brash
■ Vain
■ Fussy
■ Easily distracted
■ Self-Serving
■ Pragmatic
■ Easily annoyed, but difficult to anger
■ Likes poetry
■ Vain
■ Fussy
■ Easily distracted
■ Self-Serving
■ Pragmatic
■ Easily annoyed, but difficult to anger
■ Likes poetry
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Flighty as a gust of wind, Psylogeny’s goals and ideals can fluctuate greatly, and though, as a whole, he seems to have some lines he won’t cross, he does not have the destructive individuality of virtues such as Nod or Vangelis, and is likely one of the ‘easier’ partners you might find among the seven. In any case, he definitely communicates with his wielder perhaps a bit more than the other virtues, usually to goad or criticize.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Like a breeze lost to the aether, Psylogeny is difficult to pin down, both when trying to communicate with him and with trying to fight him. He seems to easily slip away from attacks, and moves with an unnatural speed. With power over air, Psylogeny can summon gusts to buffet the enemy and to deflect attacks, and his fists seem to sap energy from those they strike.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding his tablet will share his True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of his special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding his tablet will share his True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of his special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Psylogeny’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ [Passive Effect] Thrift
Psylogeny absorbs certain attributes from attacks that strike him or come close to striking him, imbuing their strengths into his own abilities.
■ Detachment
Psylogeny converts a piece of his own body into pure aether and detaches it. This technique allows him to shed any kind of status effect, debilitating injury, or mental/psychic/magical interference into that piece of himself, and redirect it into a powerful gust of aether that rebounds on an enemy.
■ Astucity
A hyperfast attack where Psylogeny shoots forward in a blur of darkness and wind, sacrificing raw power for an attack that bears incredible speed, precision, and the ability to dodge defenses.
■ Desire
A powerful blast of aether that swamps the target and drains health from them to Psylogeny.
■ Give and Take
A countermove that allows Psylogeny to redirect attacks that are composed of a single, pure element, or of pure ki.
■ Insatiable
The air around Psylogeny shimmers blue and black, and he gains a powerful aura that increases his ability to sap energy from both people and incoming attacks, and sacrifices his immense speed for enormous physical strength. While he is Insatiable, however, Psylogeny cannot use other special abilities
SUPER MOVES
■ Charity
Psylogeny takes every single attack and injury he has suffered recently and all recent pain and distress, and unloads them in a single, crippling wave that fans out and explodes over a mass area. Alternatively, he can sacrifice a sizable chunk of his own health to make this an enormously powerful healing effect.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Psylogeny is more of a dodger than a sponge, and, despite relying on hands and fists and all the traditional ways of hurting someone you want to hurt, does not seem like a very physical fighter. In addition, unlike virtues such as Lupa or Nevarine, Psylogeny fights in many ways like a man in a suit who just happens to be very, very fast, and he lacks the raw destruction or range that his fellow virtues might boast of.
OTHER
Likes his small luxuries.
VANGELIS
The Virtue of Intimacy
⦋ — || — || Female ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Vangelis takes the form of a tall woman in a long, blood red ball gown, with matching opera gloves pulled nearly all the way up to her shoulders. The ends of the gloves seem less like fingers covered by fabric and more like silky black claws, and her elegantly styled scarlet hair obscures her eyes. Her smile is the smile of someone who knows something you don’t.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
■ Aloof
■ Perceptive
■ Impulsive
■ Emotional
■ Vengeful
■ Respectful
■ That person who gives good relationship advice but when it comes to her own relationships is a hot disaster
■ Perceptive
■ Impulsive
■ Emotional
■ Vengeful
■ Respectful
■ That person who gives good relationship advice but when it comes to her own relationships is a hot disaster
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Vangelis isn’t the type with plans or ideals, or long-term motivations. She goes with the flow, and if she does have a motivation, she plays it close to the chest. Make no mistake, however; those who do push her to the edge will suffer for it.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
SUPER MOVES
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
At her touch, Vangelis brings a resounding silence that smothers and hushes. It seems especially effective against the elements, everything from fireballs to steel beams, and attacks and constructs made of pure ki. The rules of the world seem to melt away from her, and, if enough time passes for her to charge up this effect she can conjure illusion-figures that seems remarkably real.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
As with all Virtues, anyone wielding her tablet will share her True Virtue ability, and can invoke a handful of her special moves.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■ [Passive Effect] True Virtue
Vangelis’s power grows greater as a fight goes on, slow at first, then like a river bursting the walls of a dam. Attack, defense, and speed continuously increase with time.
■ Abstinence
A blocking technique that hushes the power and potency of an incoming attack. Attacks made purely out of ki or a single pure element are especially weakened.
■ First Kiss
At her touch, your senses spin away from you into a hot, overwhelming deliria that silences all other sensations. Depending on the target’s willpower, this could last as short as a few seconds, to as long as an hour. Normally requires a full second of physical contact, but as the fight goes on, Vangelis can employ this ability at a short distances, and its effects become more and more debilitating.
■ Penetration
An invisible attack with medium range that ignores any and all blocks and inflicts both psychic and physical damage. Not the most powerful attack in the world, but one against which there is no defense, and is difficult to dodge.
■ Long-Distance
A teleportation power that only works if Vangelis is using it to move away from someone, and if that someone is in line of sight.
■ Seeing Red
The world warps around Vangelis, and strange illusion shapes appear before you. This is the kind of technique that can only be used if the fight has gone on long enough for the required amount of power to build up via True Virtue. If her True Virtue is great enough, Vangelis can even make these illusion-creations physical, if only temporarily.
SUPER MOVES
■ Chastity
Power is silenced, electricity is drained, ki is forcibly brought down to the lowest possible level, and any and all attacks vanish like an echo into open air.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Vangelis seems to prefer to keep her distance in fights, and does not appear to show any kind of great physical prowess. She defends more than she attacks.
OTHER
A bit of a music aficionado. She has quite the voice, though it would take some convincing to get her to sing for you.
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