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"One man’s magic is another man’s engineering."
Name:Althor
Alias(s):Firefur (earned the nickname after an awful experiment that had him racing, on fire, to a courtyard fountain through a crowded street.)
Age:Appears to be in his mid twenties.
Height:6’8”
Weight: 315lb
Hair Color:Black
Eye Color:Blue
Race:Thickly built beast-like creature. (Imagine beast from x-men with black fur)
Job Role:F.I.E.L.D researcher, application-oriented engineer.
Physical Appearance:
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Attire:Wears loose-fitting black trousers and a cream-colored long sleeved shirt (usually stained with some sort of grease). He carries a staff with a clear crystal at it’s head and a small backpack with necessities. Also carries a pipe and tobacco.
Personality:Althor has spent most of his life in engineering workshops, and was recruited to F.I.E.L.D one year after the outbreak. He is knowledgable about most subjects, magic and engineering being his specialties. He lacks some social skills, though he tries to get along with those he meets. In the context of new people he can be quite shy, as he is not sure what to say, but once he gets to know someone, he becomes more affable. He doesn’t care for his appearance mostly, which leaves him in various states of disorder, most often marked by disheveled fur and a perennially grease-stained shirt.
Weapons & Equipment:Blast knuckles: High-voltage electricity can be channeled through his gloves through two prongs on his knuckles, able to stun most things, giving him valuable time to distance himself from it.
Staff: an intricate brass staff with designs etched in different colors, one for each different ability of the staff.
Belt: his belt contains tools of almost every kind imaginable from screwdrivers to a personal spot welder that he can place on the end of his blast knuckles.
Ability:Though he is a passable close-quarters fighter, he appears to be much more able than he is due to his size. This has gotten him into trouble before. He prefers to channel energy through his staff to either protect his allies or destroy his enemies. His staff has four overlaying designs which govern the attributes of it’s use. They are:
Fire: He can create a wall of fire, and throw fireballs at his enemies.
Electricity: The staff’s crystal can emit bolts of lightning that can stun or kill.
Shield: He can erect a shield around up to two allies or himself which absorb two strikes each, independent of force. This is sometimes a drawback as a thrown pebble can deplete one of the layers of the shield just as easily as a strike from a warhammer.
Telekinesis: He has the ability to channel his thoughts into the staff and move objects with his thoughts. He cannot throw objects more than 75lbs. He cannot lift objects over 300lbs.
Whistling: He’s an exceptional whistler.
Brief History: Althor was raised by dwarf parents in a more upscale part of the 1x1 section. They never mentioned that he wasn't actually their offspring, and he never asked. They ran a weapons shop that forged custom pieces for some of the more picky individuals there. Olvar, his dwarf father, taught him the ways of the anvil and hammer, and that of dwarven engineering. He took well to the lessons, and began to make his own creations, attempting to merge the magic energies of the universe and the dwarven machines, attempting to understand how they worked. His father was already well on in years when Althor was a young boy, and when he was nineteen, his father died of old age, followed shortly by his mother. He mourned in the customary way of the dwarves and laid them to rest with their ancestors in stone. Their shop and house felt empty in the years following, so he sold it to an enterprising mage just before the outbreak. After the chaos of the outbreak subsided and the survivors began to organize, he felt the need to help the people around him; so he returned to the shop he had left years ago. The mage that he had sold the shop to was no where to be found, but he had left his tomes and staff there. He learned later that the magician was a victim of the virus. Althor began to study the tomes and while he had not the innate skill to master magic, he managed to convert the mage’s staff to be powered by a rare crystal of power. He has continued this research in his spare time now that he has been recruited by F.I.E.L.D.
Relationships: Althor is respected in the community, but most give him generous space, since he is not very outgoing and also due to the accidents that have occured as a result of his studies. When he joined F.I.E.L.D., however, he was forced to have much more interaction with people than he was used to, and he’s still finding out how to act in social situations. This makes some of his relationships unnecessarily strained. He admires mages for their abilities, though it borders on envy at times.