[OOC] World Beyond the Lexicon

[AlteredTundra]

@Blu Oh Sorry, I had thought about doing that but I wasn't quite sure. In any case, fixed it in my sheet!

[Blu]

@Blu Oh Sorry, I had thought about doing that but I wasn't quite sure. In any case, fixed it in my sheet!

@metanoia

Great! Everything's in order now so accepted~

[Dead Cruiser]

I put on gold and blue makeup to get myself in the mood to write my desert prince, but wearing eyeshadow made me sleepy so I took it off and had a nap and now here I am.

Anyway, wrapping up my CS now.

[Dead Cruiser]

CS is done!

Sekhandur

Sekhandur Khain

The Black Prince

16 | Male | 31 July | 4 Cubits | 2780 Gold Debens

Hobbies
Dice games, chariot racing, hunting, fashion, makeup, jewelry, plotting to usurp his father's throne.

Personality
Sekhandur is narcissistic, hedonistic, indulgent, and uninhibited; all traits one would expect from a one who literally believes himself to be a god walking among mortals. Despite these qualities, he is surprisingly genial, lacking the pettiness or cruelty one would expect from one with his mannerisms. Sekhandur can also be diligent, determined, quick-witted, generous, and contemplative. His more benevolent nature stems from his god complex as well-- he truly believes that he is genuinely a superior being, and feels no insecurity or need to defend that fact. Even so, he is not without a dark streak. If the situation calls for it, Sekhandur can be utterly ruthless, scheming, or deceptive, as he sees no reason to choose the most pragmatic route to attaining that which he desires.

History
Sekhandur is the bastard son of the God-King of the Empire of Kemet, Pharaoh Qezremah IX, and a highborn woman of lesser nobility, Nefertari Khain. Kemet is a vast empire that rules much of the deep desert, famous for its towering stone monuments constructed by legions of slaves and undead. Qezremah, the ninth Pharaoh to bear that name, is referred to by many of his subjects as the White King, partially due to his kindness and generosity, but also due to his perceived weakness and cowardice. It was this kindness that moved him to bring Sekhandur to live with him at court, legally recognizing him as the Pharaoh's son, when he learned of his birth. A largely unprecedented act for a king, this action spurred much discontent among his advisors and the high nobility. Despite their protests, Sekhandur lived as a prince in the royal palace, enjoying the same care and privilege as his trueborn sisters, as for the longest while he was Qezremah's only male offspring.

Much changed when Qezremah's sister-wife, the Queen Manya, bore him a son, the prince Orimund. Now that he had a trueborn male heir to marry to his daughter Itzara when it came time for her to ascend to the throne, he had no need for Sekhandur within the palace. Rather than simply do away with him as a more brutal king might, Qezremah had him sent away to the distant city-state of Genelogia, under the guise of having him study to become Itzara's vizier. In truth, he hopes that Sekhandur never returns to Kemet, and in fact bribed the administrators of Avalice to set Sekhandur up for failure, who complied with his request by placing the exiled prince in the class with the worst track record for graduating students: Camellia.

However, Sekhandur learned of his father's plot quite some time in advance, as he first sensed something amiss when his magical tutor refused to teach him the domain of Kemeti magics reserved for those of royal blood: Sesha-Hebsu, the Closed Book. Rather than having this power denied to him, before his departure for Genelogia Sekhandur stole into his father's private vault and made off with his personal grimoire, hoping to teach himself the secret magic of kings.

Combat Information
Classification
Magic

Mana Color
Iridescent shimmering GOLD on BLACK

Mana Characteristic
The humbling magnificence of a billion stars shining in the desert sky.

Equipment
Sekhandur carries a Was staff for channeling his power, a magnificent tool adorned in pure gold and lapis lazuli. He also carries bears his father's grimoire, the tome "Hymns of the Creation of the Temakh", which carries not only the secret utterances of kings, but ancient history about the origins of Kemet and its royal bloodline.

Magic
Sekhandur is a student of Sesha-Hebsu, the secretive branch of Kemeti magic reserved for its God-Kings and their descendants. This magical style draws on the divine power that has been preserved for generations in the pharaonic bloodline since they first mixed their flesh and souls with the Shan'iatu thousands of years ago. Sehsa-Hebsu literally translates to "the closed book," but is also called "Utterances of Kings," by some, and its power is terrible. This magic can call upon the natural elements to do the bidding of the king, release the pure energy of mana from the king's soul, commune with the stars to divine their secrets, and even assert mastery over the forces of life and death.

Spells
AWAKEN THE DEAD
Sekhandur can compel a corpse to do his bidding. Either briefly rousing it to answer his questions, or reanimating it entirely. He may raise a body as a simple, shambling undead, a Nenitu with an infectious bite, or can infuse a ghost into a corpse and create a revenant. This spell can achieve true resurrection with greater mastery, but Sekhandur has yet to achieve this feat.

CTHONIC DOMINION
The incorporeal undead are also Sekhandur's to command. With this spell he may reveal the ghosts in an area, render them vulnerable to physical harm, bind them to his will, swallow them to consume their mana, torment them into madness, or infuse them with the darkness of the underworld to twist them into malevolent Cthonic Beasts.

GIFT OF THE GOD-KING
Unleashing the majesty of his divine soul, Sekhandur can inspire others to feats of bravery, restore his allies' willpower, cure sickness, dispel curses, and even mend wounds and injuries.

HARVEST OF THE DIVINE
Sekhandur can transmute mundane materials to gemstones and precious metals, primarily gold. This process is irreversible, and does not work on enchanted objects, but he can also choose to render these transformed materials into dust. This spell can be used on living flesh, including the king's own, transforming them into an invincible golden avatar, but Sekhandur has yet to achieve these feats.

KISS OF CHAOS
Invoking the Cthonic darkness, Sekhandur can poison his foes with necrotic energy, invoke a deadly curse upon them, or summon a cloud of darkness that attacks his enemies and drives them mad.

POWER OF THE SKY THRONE
Sekhandur can create magical flames that speak with his voice, snuff out fire with magical darkness, or compel the sun to burn and blind his enemies with blasts of light.

REBUKE THE VIZIER
Sekhandur can shield himself from magic power, set up wards that protect him reflexively, or cast his ward at others to hamper their ability to use magic.

SECRETS RIPPED FROM SKIES
By staring into the night sky, Sekhandur can divine the his exact location and the hour of night, learn forgotten secrets, divine portents of the future, or summon a meteor to strike where he decides.

WATER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sekhandur can summon a spring of fresh, clear water where he stands, which heals and blesses those that imbibe from it. He can also turn nearby sources of water into blood, or part small bodies of water for his passage.

WRATHFUL DESERT POWER
Sekhandur commands the essence of the earth. He may scour his foes with blasts of sand, create storms and dust devils that chase down his enemies like living beasts, assume the form of living dust, create a clay shell to armor himself, or induce a localized earthquake where he stands.

Parameters
Mana
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Channeling
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Magic
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Technique
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Strength
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Speed
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Body
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Intellect
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[ERode]

We truly are a class full of protagonists.

[Dead Cruiser]

When everyone is a protagonist, no one is.

Really though I made the rich, arrogant rival character.

[ERode]

Feel like Class A is basically entirely that. But maybe that's just me.

[AThousandCurses]

Well at the very least, we're filling every cliche of protagonists there are.

[AlteredTundra]

Give Caelum new things to learn and places to explore and he'll be a happy noodle.

[OwO]

let me introduce the class

here's drake, he's a fire swordsman guy

here's kiara, who specializes in electricity

here's alberta, who can make plants

here's sekhandur, who's literally the strongest man at the academy and has a list of powers that makes Najimi Ajimu blush

here's kress, who can make chairs

[Dezuel]

"Theres not enough seats!" Kress can solve it.
"The ship is sinking, if only we had alot of wood to keep us afloat.." Let there be chairs.

"They are coming, we must barric-" Hes on it.

"Totally not english are invading!" Tea anyone?

[Blu]

@Dead Cruiser Hoo boy, where do I start? Yeah, your character is definitely way too overpowered at this point for the RP. You'd have to make a lot of changes to his spells. Thematically, his spells just include a bunch of niches. He has necromancy, support spells, alchemy, elemental attacks, and even future sight. It's too much. Here's what I would need to see changed:

Hider

AWAKEN THE DEAD
Sekhandur can compel a corpse to do his bidding. Either briefly rousing it to answer his questions, or reanimating it entirely. He may raise a body as a simple, shambling undead, a Nenitu with an infectious bite, or can infuse a ghost into a corpse and create a revenant. This spell can achieve true resurrection with greater mastery, but Sekhandur has yet to achieve this feat.

CTHONIC DOMINION
The incorporeal undead are also Sekhandur's to command. With this spell he may reveal the ghosts in an area, render them vulnerable to physical harm, bind them to his will, swallow them to consume their mana, torment them into madness, or infuse them with the darkness of the underworld to twist them into malevolent Cthonic Beasts.

GIFT OF THE GOD-KING
Unleashing the majesty of his divine soul, Sekhandur can inspire others to feats of bravery, restore his allies' willpower, cure sickness, dispel curses, and even mend wounds and injuries.

HARVEST OF THE DIVINE
Sekhandur can transmute mundane materials to gemstones and precious metals, primarily gold. This process is irreversible, and does not work on enchanted objects, but he can also choose to render these transformed materials into dust. This spell can be used on living flesh, including the king's own, transforming them into an invincible golden avatar, but Sekhandur has yet to achieve these feats. Your own flesh is okay but the rest of this isn't.

KISS OF CHAOS
Invoking the Cthonic darkness, Sekhandur can poison his foes with necrotic energy, invoke a deadly curse upon them, or summon a cloud of darkness that attacks his enemies and drives them mad. Just more OPness this character doesn't need right now.

POWER OF THE SKY THRONE
Sekhandur can create magical flames that speak with his voice, snuff out fire with magical darkness, or compel the sun to burn and blind his enemies with blasts of light. And even the part that isn't crossed out. What kind of fire are we talking about?

REBUKE THE VIZIER
Sekhandur can shield himself from magic power, set up wards that protect him reflexively, or cast his ward at others to hamper their ability to use magic. There is also an unspoken rule that you can only shield yourself fully from spells that are below your level. This doesn't need to be included in text but I thought I mentioned it here.

SECRETS RIPPED FROM SKIES
By staring into the night sky, Sekhandur can divine the his exact location and the hour of night, learn forgotten secrets, divine portents of the future, or summon a meteor to strike where he decides.

WATER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sekhandur can summon a spring of fresh, clear water where he stands, which heals and blesses those that imbibe from it. He can also turn nearby sources of water into blood, or part small bodies of water for his passage. The person in the roster that specializes in water can't even part bodies of water.

WRATHFUL DESERT POWER
Sekhandur commands the essence of the earth. He may scour his foes with blasts of sand, create storms and dust devils that chase down his enemies like living beasts, assume the form of living dust, create a clay shell to armor himself, or induce a localized earthquake where he stands.

And lastly for your mana characteristic, it lists "The humbling magnificence of a billion stars shining in the desert sky." I hope this is just playing it up, but if you're serious then this needs to be changed into something even more humbling (for the prince that is). In it's current state, I can't accept the character, sorry.

[Dead Cruiser]

@Blu I can make the changes as needed. I won't edit the names of his spells, but those are just names so I don't think it should matter?

His flames are just regular flames. Nothing special about them except he can talk out of them.

I don't understand what you mean about his mana characteristic.

[Blu]

@Dead Cruiser Thank you for being receptive to changing things. The names don't matter so keep them as they are. The thing about the mana characteristic is that it's showing just how powerful his mana feels. Like being in awe at a billion stars in a desert sky is pretty powerful so I'd appreciate something a bit more tame.

[Dead Cruiser]

@Blu It's mostly meant to be a poetic device, I was trying to describe the feeling of looking at the stars in the desert sky. Kind of staggering, it knocks you on your ass a bit.

[ERode]

I would argue that some people thus far have some pretty powerful mana descriptions?

Like...

Overwhelming.

A Serpentine Orgy Of Chaos.

near-abyssal qualities.

[Blu]

@Dead Cruiser @ERode Combined with the actual spells it seemed like it added more to the OPness than the others, but point taken. I can work with that since it's meant more to be poetic.

[OwO]

Overwhelming

@ERode

to be fair, i meant more overwhelming as in "oh god, why'd you spill the entire 2 litre on the floor" than "all my senses are fried because there's too much"

[Dezuel]

I can't believe I didn't ask this before, but how are each persons sleeping quarters at the academy? Is it individually customized rooms with bathrooms, or be it split with one or several other students? Or is it dependant of character wealth?

[Blu]

I can't believe I didn't ask this before, but how are each persons sleeping quarters at the academy? Is it individually customized rooms with bathrooms, or be it split with one or several other students? Or is it dependant of character wealth?

@Dezuel

Never given it much thought. What do you guys prefer?