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Fighting back the Darkness

T h e A b y s s w a l k e r

Game Origin: Dark Souls on Playstation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch

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Personality: Once known as one of the most loyal, caring, and trustworthy knights of Gwyn. Artorias was regarded highly amongst the people of Lordran and the other knights of Gwyn.

Praised for his nobility, chivalry and goodness of heart. It was said that he was the most stubborn, most willful of Gwyn's knights; Artorias' will was unbending, his determination unbreakable in the face of danger. But he was also loved for his compassion to both his kingdom and it's people. Artorias is from an era from the distant past, when the world was yet still young and the light was still bright; a time of which was when olde english was spoken and commonplace. His will both helped yet also fed his hatred for the servants of the Dark, those aligned to the spread of the Abyss.

Background: One of Gwyn's most loyal knights, Artorias' is regarded as a hero of legend, his deeds widely spread throughout the land. Artorias was one of the four Knights of Gwyn, the commanding knights of Lord Gwyn's army.

Artorias had an unbendable will, a strength unmatched even by his peers, and legendary prowess with the mighty greatsword of wnich he was known to heft but in one hand without difficulty. He was first to discover the ability to traverse the Abyss, forming a covenant with beasts he was given a ring that kept the darkness from consuming him; he became known as the Abysswalker a title he would hold even in death. At what time did the Wolf Knight learn of Oolacile? Nothing is known of that, but that he and two of Gwyn's Knights went to the other kingdom's aid to fight the Abyss.

It was he himself, with Sif to stand by him that Artorias descended to fight the one who wielded the Abyss, a sorcerer by the name of Manus to put an end to the Dark once and for all...But in his final moments he became overwhelmed by the darkness, sacrificing his greatshield to protect his loyal lupine ally before losing consciousness and breaking his arm in the process of sacrificing himself to save his allies. He thought he would lose his mind, in the darkness of the Abyss but a twist of fate would change the course of history for better or for worse...

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Specialty: Wolf Knight; One of Gwyn's four Knights, taught in the way of fighting the Abyss. An upfront fighter, fighting with ferocity and zeal, incredibly strong and agile. Though lacking in defense and tactic instead relying upon indomitable strength to break the enemy.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10 EXP

Powers:

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  ^{(Starting Power) Power Level: 1}

Strengths:

• Ferocity of the Wolf Knight: Infused with the rage of an untamed beast, when Artorias fights he fights with a reckless abandon forgoing all defense in the name of offense and agility to overpower his foes.
• Lordran Knight: Trained to fight the Abyss, and skilled in the art of the blade. Artorias is well-known as a master swordsman excelling in the use of the greatsword, capable of wielding such a weapon in one hand due to both his strength and skill with the blade. Artorias is also capable of hefting greatshields and other heavy weaponry.
• Inhuman Strength: Out of the Four, Artorias' strength could not be surpassed. Possessing a strength that allowed him to overcome even a debilitating injury such as a broken arm by fighting one handed with a greatsword. Due to the knights abnormal physiology, Artorias' strength is equivalent to that of a giants or at least ten strongmen.

Weaknesses:

Artorias' Curse

• The Beast Within: A man without purpose, without duty and without reason has naught to lose but himself. He who has lost everything and has nothing to gain will throw himself at whatever stands in his way. Then he is no man but a wolf wearing the skin of a man, Artorias lost his purpose and failed his duty. Due to the Abyss twisting him and nearly breaking him, Artorias was left to crawl out of the darkness fueled by rage, though he can keep the beast inside him tame he can sometimes lose all semblance of self and be lost if not for a time before he can control himself again. It is hard to calm his fury when he is angered to the point of losing control.

Spirits:

• N/A

Inventory:

Weapons

• Finstertöter: Artorias hunted the servants of the Abyss with this weapon, imbued with the strength to strike down those who use the Dark powers of the Abyss. It is a thick and heavy greatsword, unwieldy in most hands and impossible to lift in others.

Clothing & Apparel

• Armor of the Four: Armor that once shone silver, dulled by the touch of the Abyss though still lustrous reflecting it's wearers state of being.
  
  Beneath the chest plate and shoulder pauldrons consists chainmail that is slightly rusted and tainted black. Artorias' helmet is merely decorative and covers his face with like a hood. His armor is colored by a dark blue cloth mantle that looks ragged and pitted with holes.

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Anger to the Max

Name: Maxwell Smits
Age: 15
Ethnicity: Caucasian (Canadian, American Citizenship)
Favorite Color: Bright Red

Appearance

Physical Description: Maxwell is roughly only about 5'6" but often looks shorter with his somewhat closed off or slouched demeanor, his hair a constant mess of black locks that are a constant nuisance when he is either glued to his phone or trying to avoid eye contact with most people. Getting in his eyes or just generally causeing him to fuss with his already eternally bedheaded hair style.

Max's skin is somewhat pale in complexion and eyes have muted color to them almost like he has no colored iris but they are the lightest blue if looked at closely. His eyes are often shadowed by bags from sleeplessness or just generally looking unhappy.

He is quite skinny but he is surprisingly lithe and quick on his feet, when he has to of course but most of the time he moves sluggishly. He has a lithe build and weighs just above 118 lbs just above the average healthy weight for someone of his stature. He usually wears baggy clothes or just his pajama bottoms and a large black sweater, and of it weren't obvious enough he wears quite a bit of black but he does like to wear red from time to time, like a nice shirt or his sneakers.

Background: Itinerant Outsider

Background Feature: The Odd-One-Out
Maxwell is one of those kids who simply doesn't fit in the usual social hierarchy that makes or breaks the typical high schooler, making him sort of the odd drifter that floats around the social ladder rather than climb it. This is sometimes a double edged sword, when it comes to interacting with others or rather trying not to.

As when it comes to mingling with people in other circles they can form an opinion quickly despite not knowing him. He lacks any kind of reputation at least to those who don't know him, to warrant teachers or students having any kind of gossip or opinion of him. Making it quite easy for his actions to often fly under the radar.

Reason for being at Bullworth: For a Canadian, you wouldn't expect anything but politeness and well-manners from someone but that someone was not Maxwell. Though he was for all intents and purposes born into a well respected family, he was the black sheep so to speak.

The Smits always worried their son was too much of a shutterbug, preferring to play his video games than play with his siblings or...You know, go outside. He wasn't exactly their most outgoing of children to put it mildly.

They loved him to bits but never could really understand why he was so opposed to socializing. Thus they decided to take matters in their own hands, and to Max's chagrin they sent him to the United States to attend a school for people who needed..A certain amount of discipline.

He resents their decision to no end, in his point of view he doesn't have a problem yet the broken controllers and holes in his walls would state otherwise.

Belongings: (Bullworth Academy) School Uniform, a large baggy black sweater, red headphones, a smartphone with the screen slightly cracked, a simple backpack with school supplies and such.

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Persona:
Race: Fire Genasi
Tarot: The Magician

Appearance

Level: 3
Class(es): (Pyromancer) Sorcerer 3
Equipment:

Stats:

Strength - 14 (+2)
Dexterity - 14 (+2)
Constitution - 14 (+2)
Intelligence - 10 (+0)
Wisdom - 9 (-1)
Charisma - 14 (+2)

Skill Proficiency:
Equipment Proficiency:
Languages: English, and Primordial

Racial Abilities:

• Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Your ties to the Elemental Plane of Fire make your darkvision unusual: everything you see in darkness is in a shade of red.
• Fire Resistance: You have resistance to fire damage.
• Reach to the Blaze: You know the Produce Flame cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Burning Hands spell once with this trait as a 1st-level spell, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Feats:

Class Abilities:

• Sorcerous Origin: Firesoul (Reskinned Pyromancer)
• Heart of Fire: At 1st level, whenever you start casting a spell of 1st level or higher that deals fire damage, fiery magic erupts from you. This eruption causes creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you to take fire damage equal to half your sorcerer level (minimum of 1).
• Font of Magic: At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself. This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow you to create a variety of magical effects.
  
  • Sorcery Points: You have 2 sorcery points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Sorcery Points column of the Sorcerer table. You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest.
  • Flexible Casting: You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You learn other ways to use your sorcery points as you reach higher levels.
  • Creating Spell Slots: You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. You can create spell slots no higher in level than 5th. Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a long rest.
  • Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points: As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot's level.
• Metamagic: At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs. You gain two of the following Metamagic options of your choice. You gain another one at 10th and 17th level.
  
  You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise noted.
  • Transmuted Spell: When you cast a spell that deals a type of damage from the following list, you can spend 1 sorcery point to change that damage type to one of the other listed types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder.
  • Empowered Spell: When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). You must use the new rolls.
  
  • You can use Empowered Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell.

[Dark Cloud]

Hider

Wormwood

_{+ JUNK MONGER/SCAVENGER +
12yo || ♂ || 2½ft tall (Lean) || Kobold}

> In the Hamlet, Wormwood no live with hoomans. Me live at edge of place hooman call Hamlet, old house in woods have lots of tasty moss and it damp like cave Wormwood used to live in.
> Wormwood spends most of time outside Hamlet, out foraging for all kinds of leafy plants for sniffles when it cold out, or for all kinds of tasty berries! Wormwood is good at finding things, momma always said me good at sniff treasure!
> Hooman no trust Wormwood, dey say Wormwood is monster but me am not big scary me am small.
> Right at moment Wormwood want gain hooman village trust, me want to be friends and trade tasties for shinies! Wormwood get lonely out in house away from Hamlet. Oh me almost forget, Squigs get lonely too!
> Me not wanted by kin, dey throw poor Wormwood out and tell if come back dey kill him. Kobold warren nearby hooman village, if hooman not listen to me soon dey could get big hurty.

S T A T S

[★] [ - ] [ - ] S T R E N G T H
[★] [★] [ - ] D E X T E R I T Y
[★] [ - ] [ - ] V I T A L I T Y
[ - ] [ - ] [ - ] I N T E L L I G E N C E
[★] [★] [ - ] W I S D O M
[★] [★] [★] C H A R I S M A

S K I L L S & R E W A R D S

Skills & Rewards

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C U R R E N T G O A L S & Q U E S T S

Goals and Quests

[Current Goal mentioned above] brief description if you wish

I N V E N T O R Y

Inventory

[ Clothes ] description if you wish
[ Sling ] A popular game and toy in the village. Powered by pebbles and rocks.
[ Waterskin ] For when you get thirsty.
[ Snacks ] it's simple food, but lounging in the sun always makes lunchtime special.

C O N N E C T I O N S

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Osvald V. Vanstein

Game Origin: Octopath Traveler II for Nintendo Switch, Ps4 and Ps5

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Personality: Oftentimes Osvald could have been described by his peers as a brilliant yet aloof man, whose focus upon the pursuit of knowledge outweighed all other aspects of his life. Osvald is more often than not a man of few words when he has no reason to speak, or to simply not speak at all. Though Osvald enjoys debates and discussing opinions, he finds some conversations a waste of time.

Osvald is quite the astute gentleman, but he is more often consumed by his thoughts than he would like. His approach to things that require thought is thorough and methodical, not one to gloss over any detail he can scrutinize.

Though the Scholar can come off as a bit too gruff and serious beneath that hard exterior is a kind hearted man. Yet the trauma of past events in his life, of loss and the mistreatment he suffered for years after. He has no qualms taking from others what he sees fit or to take back what he views as his.

It's not clear whether his state of mental health is a sign of more serious issues but he often suffers from dreams of some tragedy he keeps to himself. Not one to bother others with his goals but willing to work with others as even though he doesn't understand most people he values the conpany of those who share common interest.

Osvald is a mathematical genius in his scope of field, as it gave him insight into quantifying his formula of the One True Magic yet as much as he understood numbers in an equation he has more a lack of understanding of emotions like love yet he still feels it strongly for his family, especially his daugther Elena.

Background: Once a renowned scholar who lived happily in his home near the sea, with a loving wife and a daughter Osvald cherished above all things even his own work. He had everything he had wanted, until he met one man who would change it all...Harvey...

He met his soon-to-be research partner when attending a lecture in a city away from home interested in the man's own approach to Gratton's hypothesis of the One True Magic they shared their work. At first Osvald came to admire Harvey's intellect unaware of his true intentions...

You see Osvald's approach to Gratton's hypothesis of the Seventh so-called magic would actually prove to be a leap in the field of magic. Nobody had figured out yet that using the elements could be boiled down to such things as equations.

No one except Harvey, the man who took everything from him. Osvald came home to a house smouldering, without sign of his wife or child nor their call as he shouted desperately for them except the cruel laughter of the man he had once admired. Harvey took his life's work, and the things he cherished most all to claim the discovery of the One True Magic all for himself.

Osvald found himself being bound in chains by the towns authorities, who later would claim that only he was present at the scene of the crime and the only one with the ability to set his home ablaze Osvald was found guilty of murdering his family via magic at the order of the court receiving a life sentence that he would serve far away in the frigid north upon an prison camp to the far north.

Muzzled like a dog, and forced to toil in the mines at the hands of cruel jailers. The prisoners of Frigit Isle were put to work in inhospitable conditions, many would die either from the cold or at the hands of the men watching them.

He suffered for years, enduring the beatings, the whipping, the abuse...Not even the freezing cold could extinguish the raging fire in his breast.

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Specialty: Scholar; as a scholar Osvald is a master of magic and can use his magical abilites to great effect with his spells but works better at a range rather than in the center of all the fighting.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10 EXP

Powers:

• Fireball: Fireball is a spell that deals fire damage to all enemies in a group when cast. Highly effective against large groups of enemies, but less effective when cast upon singular targets as the spell is more potent the more enemies there are in a group.
  ^{(Starting Power) Power Level: 1}

Strengths:

• Scholar of the Six Magics: Osvald is a renowned scholar, applying his skills with the elements and his own mathematical formulae to amplify and strengthen the cause and effect of all spells, with this he can effectively use most powers he gains if they are magical in nature. All elemental based spells and attacks Osvald uses deal significantly more damage. (Fire, Cold, Wind, Lightning, Light and Dark.)
• Intellectual Pursuit: As a mage and a scholar, Osvald is better equipped to deal with enemies and their weaknesses, upon entering a fight he can make out at least one random weakness from each enemy.
• Scholarly Aptitude: Though Osvald may be a magical scholar, he is no slouch when it comes to combat, he is proficient with staves as blunt weapons that can function as more than just a tool to cast spells with, Osvald also has a high magical defense taking less damage from damaging spells and attacks that are magical in nature.

Weaknesses:

Osvald's Flaws

• Overly Analytical: Osvald's one caveat is that he approaches everything from a logical standpoint that he at times can seem out of touch with things like understanding others emotions as he thinks of things logically most of the time.
• Single-Minded: Driven by his desire for revenge, Osvald can miss the details that are most important when faced with exacting his revenge or getting one step closer to finding the one he seeks to take his revenge upon. He will drop everything at the opportunity of chasing what he seeks. And might even resort to less than ethically moral choices to get what he wants.
• Scholar Not A Fighter: As a mage and a scholar Osvald is better equipped to deal with foes from afar, since he isn't as proficient in melee combat than others. He takes more damage from physical attacks if not well equipped and deals less physical damage.

Spirits:

• N/A

Inventory:

Weapons

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Clothing & Apparel

• Prisoner's Rags: Osvald wears tattered and moth eaten rags, consisting of a ragged shirt and black linen pants that look as though they'd seens better days. His boots are scuffed and beaten and an iron manacle hangs upon his neck with the chain hanging down to his legs.
• Spectacles: A set of old circular spectacles with a wire frame.
• Overcoat: A large heavy brown overcoat that is worn over Osvald's attire to keep him from freezing.

Currency: N/A
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Gender:
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Class:
(Horseman)

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Abilities

- Celestial Tailwind:
Possessing the power of the winds and the stars, this horseman moves with an incredible speed and increased MOVE, surrounded by a fierce tempest wind that carries him forward and increases his EVA against Guns and other Ranged Weapons. If an ally unit follows his tailwind their MOVE is increased.
- Speeding Comet:
The further this horseman moves the higher his CRT and ATK rate increases, picking up speed to charge at enemies with the winds at his back.
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Elemental Alignment
Wind, Star

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