Since the dawn of mankind we have told stories about demons and angels, divine saviors and monstrous destroyers. However, the stories are true, well some of them are anyway. Angels and Demons used to fight but have enters a cold war of sorts, the monsters fearful of being hunted have fled deep into forest and jungles, preying on the foolish. Other gifts like magic have found there way into human gene-pool, thus the a secret society formed between these few, they called themselves The Keys of Solomon.
You are this years students and future Keys, should you survive, accepted into the Hunters academy where you will live and train to become Hunters and earn the right to go back out into the world and protect humans. As well as the mythical beings that wish us no harm. The Academy of Solomon, named for the first great Mage. The academy is located currently in England, just outside of London.
The Keys are those that are part of this strange world and have abilities that pertain to combat the supernatural and spiritual. As such they have been ordered by abilities into a system that breaks them down by orders.
So the roleplay will have two main goals, slice of life dealing with High school problems but also the fact that the characters as a team will need to complete missions. These missions are dealing threats or problems in the world involving creatures. Demons will generally be based off Sins or come from the book known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. The book itself will also be important to the story.
Hunter Schools: These are the schools of hunting in which you may specialize, of course just because you train in one doesn't mean your just going to end up facing these kinds of enemies.
Monster Hunters- Those who wish to do battle wish hundred of assorted monsters and creatures hiding among our world. Hunter of this variety employ many different weapons and generally use knowledge of creature weakness rather than force to improvise their defeat.
Demon Hunters- Those who hunt demons must always be careful for many Hunters have been corrupted and fallen to possession or sacrificing themselves for greater power. That being said Demon hunting often means defeating mortal cults or groups of demons that have managed to enter this world. Generally the goal is to identify and destroy the demon or it's cult.
Beast Hunters- From Werebeasts to Vampires these Hunters must contend with targets who live among humans. They must be able to identify the person who is cursed and eliminate them. Hunters of this caliber must be precise and exact getting the wrong man is difficult to live with.
Witch Hunter- Unsanctioned magic is very dangerous and is often used to hurt others or injure people. Most of the time Witch Hunters will try to bring back younger individuals for training unless they prove to dangerous. Older magic users are ordered to be killed do to the fact that older magic user's can centuries old.
The Keys of Solomon
Mages: The original purpose of Solomon's original school was to train those who used magic to fight monsters and protect the world. Of course other Hunter school exist this one is the most modern and the first to train all four schools of Hunter under one roof. Mages break down into schools of magic each one having their own spells.
Druid- These well respected and admired Mages are almost exclusive to the Native American peoples, yet outlying case's have been found. They share a deep connection to the world around and animals in it, they can call upon the world to aid them and use phrases and keyword rather than sentences or mantra's.
Elemental- The most common type of Mage, these mage's use a magic that relates back to a element of nature, they are often capable of incredible power but severely limited in scope. Example: A Ice mage can freeze a enemy solid yet if they are immune to Ice attacks the Ice mage is useless.
Divination- A skill uncommon yet valuable, Divination while allowing some foresight is better still for the fact it allows other's to share thoughts, telepathic communications, and healing. Spiritual or sometimes faith based Divination is practical and considered a rare gift.
Godly- While not strictly mages, those with this power are not the strongest they are simple the most diverse and different. They are a God's chosen Champion and wield powers, very similar to the gods, albeit very weaker than the god they worship, this is only way for a normal human to gain entry to society of Keys.
Crusader: These humans are highly capable warriors who naturally recover from wounds quickly, they tend to use there strength and endurance in combination with a holy weapons. Humans with the blood of Angels or gods often have relics in there family, many noble family's and knightly orders have those with Angelic blood in them. They are paragons of ideal traits however they generally come off as entitled and snobbish as they see others as weaker.
Descendants: Those born into families of great Hunters, such as the Helsing's or the Pendragons have abilities like sensing creatures or being highly resistant to magic. They employ many different tactics and weapons ranging to the individual, however they are still average mortals.
Name: Appearance: Gender: Age: (Between 14 and 17) Type: (Mage, Crusader, Descendant.) School: (One of the four Hunter schools) Magic/Weapon(s): (One weapon or two spells, other weapons and spells can be gained later.) Bio: (At least two paragraphs.)
Name: Lilah Regis Appearance: Gender: Female Age: 14 Type: Mage, Lightning Elemental School: Witch Hunter Magic/Weapon(s): Summon Lightning, which produces and directs lightning bolts. Electrical Charge, a more subtle spell that sends an electric current into whatever she is touching. Bio: An only child who never knew her father, Lilah always felt close to her mother Melania, who was an unsanctioned witch and trained her in her magic from a young age. She lived in contentment, notwithstanding some difficulty connecting with her peers; their worlds were free of the wonder of magic and the danger presented by hunters. Her mother was the only one she could talk to about the way things really were.
It was when she was fourteen that the hunter came and everything changed. She arrived home from school just the same as she usually did. She wondered why the window was broken, but she didn't expect to find her mother sprawled in the kitchen, gasping her last breaths, a perfectly average-looking man raising his sword for the final blow. She just froze, unable to move as the sword fell in an instant. She cried out, then, and hurled lightning at the man, but she was so shaken that her aim went wild and set the table on fire instead. Panicking, she ran.
She was exhausted by the time the hunter found her. He said that his name was Michael and that he was sorry but Melania Regis was dangerous, had killed people. He made her an offer: train at a Hunter School and become a Key of Solomon and protect humanity. She looked at him and thought about how she was a witch and apparently the daughter of a murderer and the offer was no real choice at all, surely he would kill her if she said no.
“Yes,” she murmured, and then closed her eyes in surrender to her exhaustion.
Name: Eisen Torquemada Appearance: Gender: Male Age: 17 Type: Crusader, Descendant School: Witch Hunter Magic/Weapon: Holy Hammer Bio: Eisen Torquemada was born in a small village in Spain to a poor family of witch hunters. He was quickly brought up to abhor magic users and see them as weak and cowardly. Instead he was taught to trust and strengthen his own body to overcome the unnatural evil in this world.
Coming from a long family line of witch Hunters, Torquemada has learned to not trust any magic users and instead go on brute strength and determination to overcome the supernatural. Even now, magic using classmates are meet with strong superstition and abhorrence. He can be seen as stubborn, arrogant, and cold hearted, but underneath his cold exterior is a only pain and misguidance. His goal is to prove his family name worthy and has enlisted into the Academy with his fathers sacred family hammer to do so.
@coolbro I would remove Descendant from you sheet. As Crusaders are normally descendants but with the blood of Angel or other Paragons of power. As a Crusader your a little more than just human so while Descendants are just the best most evolved humans.
Powers: Floating/Gliding Instantaneous blurring Ice-melting stare
Skills: Raw Athleticism Advanced Swordsmanship Mixed Martial Arts Ambi-dexteriety Manual Handiness(He can fix or create just about anything) Violin technique
Gear: His motorbike, his sword as pictured, one flare gun, his prepaid burner, and his stashe.
Personality: Kendrick is a talented up-and-coming agent within the group of mages and hunters known as "The Circle". Personality-wise, Kendrick is a free soul marching to the beat of his drum. Not to be confused with typical depictions of rogue type "loner" characters. He does possess generally good social skills. Despite his tough guy appearance and persona, Kendrick sits rather comfortable on the mellow end of the personality spectrum. Kendrick lives up to his tough-as-nails reputation, as he has a sort of muted ruthless proclivity toward his work, but as interesting are the many hidden depths and idiosyncrasies that lie within the man and his unorthodox personal code.
@NubianLegend So wait is he a Mage, Descendant, or Crusader? He's got a weapon like a hunter but an element like a mage? I like the character design but you are kinda of little out of sync.
Name: Darlene McGarvin Appearance: Gender: Female Age: 17 Type: Descendant School: Beast Hunter Magic/Weapon(s): Bio: Born into a long line of werewolf hunters, Darlene was no pushover. She had three older brothers and one younger brother so she was the only girl in the family. Her mother was not a hunter, but her father was and he trained all of his children to become one; well, all except Darlene. Because she was a girl, he wanted her to have nothing to do with hunting and would tell her to always stay in the house and help her mother with the housework, much to her dismay.
Fortunately, her younger brother, Simon, was sympathetic of the situation, so every night when they had the chance, he would teach her everything that they had learned that day. Soon enough, Simon realized that Darlene made a better hunter than him and their older brothers.
Couple years go by like this and Darlene thought that she was ready to become acknowledged as a hunter too. She confronted her father, who was completely outraged that Simon and she would do this behind his back. Though thanks to much convincing by Simon, her mother, and Darlene herself, he agreed that he would send her to a Beast Hunter school and that if she managed to graduate, he would finally acknowledge her as a hunter.
Now heading to the academy, Darlene is determined to show her worth and earn her father's faith. She does not intend to let anything or anyone distract her from her goal.
Gender: Male Age: 16 Type: Crusader School: Demon Hunter Magic/Weapon(s):
Soul Eater Abilities: Soul Taker: Absorb and trap malevolent, demonic, and evil souls with in. (Only able to trap five souls at this point) Soul Crush: Use the Trapped souls as kinetic energy to be used as bombs. (Can only use once per day) Soul Refuge: Summon and Control the trapped souls within Soul Edge (Has not master and therefore can not use)
Soul Eater down falls: Soul Taker: if more soul are taken that able to handle. user will be corrupted and possessed by every soul inside Soul Edge. Soul Crush: uses a massive amount of energy from user and if energy is lacking. Soul bombs will actually attack the user instead of enemy. Soul Refuge: once used, the user has a risk of being taken over by one or all of the souls to be changed into a massive creature of evil. Bio: Alex was born into a clan of Demon hunters known as the Holy Cross. A group of priest and priestesses whose sole purpose is to hunt down demons and any other malevolent or evil creature. From a young age Alex was trained in their way of fighting to prep him for the trials ahead. Alex’s road was both physically and mentally straining, but it was all so he could wield the Holy Cross’s greatest weapons known as Soul Edge. Weapons filled with divine power to absorb and trap malevolent, demonic, and evil souls with in and allow the wielder to use them in battle. .
Every member of the Holy Cross must go through rigorous and dangerous trials to even be able to wield such a powerful, yet dangerous power. Should a member not be ready to wield a Soul Edge, their very soul will be taken over by the many malevolent, demonic, and evil souls trapped within. Alex has already proven himself to be able to wield one of the Soul Edges, but he is unable to wield it at its full potential. For that, he must travel to the Academy of Solomon like many of his mentors have done. Once he is able to fully control his Soul Edge, Alex will be a full fledge member of the Holy Cross. However, should he be taken over by the many souls he has inside his Soul Edge. He’ll become nothing more than another Demon the Holy Cross will have to deal with.
Name:Estelle Bertillon Appearance: Gender: Female Age: 16 Type: Mage (Divination) School: Demon Hunter Magic/Weapon(s): A Rapier (Piercing focused sword), nicknamed "The Trickster" because of the fact that it can turn itself into a small tarot card that is obviously easier to hide than a full sword.
Bio: Estelle's bloodline was once a prestigious family with a history that went back to ancient Greece, trough history they would use their divination powers to predict enemy's tactics, profit in commerce, find out traitors and also to help them to decipher ancient languages or aid their studies on medicine and alchemy. With the advent of capitalism however the power quickly became way too exploitable, and more importantly, way too independent from governments and entities.
That didn't last, a series of events and treasons in the early 20th century rendered their name as hated by demons and angels alike. The raid on the bloodline was not only the typical confiscation of wealth and relics but a full culling of their Descendants, leaving only the least gifted branches of the family.
Estelle luckily was born after all these troubles and had a pretty typical early childhood, she, like all her remaining family, has no innate powers, but the Divination tradition was kept alive and she was trained in it, specially on how to use it while in combat. Unlike her ancestors she can't invade one enemy's mind and predict its moves perfectly but using her insight she can aid her combat and notice strike chances and danger a bit more easily.
Despite her family's overall despise for hunters she decided that she was going to become one, training her fencing and combat skills not only because of tradition and sportsmanship but for the clear purpose of entering in fights with others. Her main objective is just to help everyone to leave the past behind and ,if possible, to help her family out of the impoverished situation they are in.
Magic/Weapon(s): Complete Darkness: Completely blind an enemy as long as the caster or target is in a shadow. AOE spell, causes everything in a circle around either the caster or target to become pitch black. (About 35m) Shadow Constructs: Create an objects or form out of shadow, as long as there is a shadow nearby. This can include weapons, armour, walls, shields, buildings or servants.
Bio: Born into a family of mages, James was mostly an outsider. His parents and relatives all used light based magic, whereas James clearly possessed a dark ability. Shadows would converge densely around him and people often had trouble discerning his form. This led to several accidents, including a supposed sighting of a mythical creature where the hunters tranquillised him. Another incident was a prerequisite to his transfer into The Academy of Solomon. A witch caught him wandering and stole him away since he looked like a Shadow Nymph, a rare and powerful creature made of shadow. After he was taken, his family arrived on the scene; only to find that which they did not expect.
The witch had recently been attacking civilians, and other mages and druids had had trouble defeating it. When James's parents arrived, everything around the area was pitch black, and the witch was nothing but a mess of gore and bones. In James's hand, a large crossbow of shadow and across the ground lay countless tiny daggers. This caused him to be enrolled into the Academy of Solomon, and his classification as a Witch Hunter.
'Humans are more unpredictable and complicated than demons. Trusting a human is like setting yourself up to be hurt. Thing is... I like the pain.'
Name: Li Lane
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Type: Honorary Descendant: She's the adoptive daughter of Lucas Lane, head of the Lane family of Demon Hunters.
School: Demon Hunter
Magic/Weapon(s):
An enchanted Naginata.
The Naginata was enchanted by her father to deal extra damage to demons, otherwise it's a normal Naginata.
Bio: A series of unintelligible symbols are scribbled here.
Li doesn't know who her biological parents are. She's never known them, and the first memory she has of life is the smiling face of Lucas Lane. He may have been her adoptive father, but he also was her real father. From what he told her, he brought her in from a life of poverty and pain and took care of her for years out of the purity of his heart.
She knew those were lies.
That was merely the Demon of Pride inside of her father speaking, gushing with pleasure at the thought that he, along with his human host and friend, saved a poor orphan from the streets and raised her as their own daughter.
But she worried about it as little as others in the Family did. Everyone lived with a Demon inside of them. Demons of Pride, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust... Of course, the exception had been Li herself. Being adopted, the Family wasn't able to prepare her for the Pact as quickly as other children. While others obtained their demons at the age of five, she obtained hers at the age of ten.
By that time, she had been training in Martial Arts and the Naginata for five years, so when the day to make the Pact with a Demon came, the Demon who sought her out was a follower of the ways of Lust. From that day until the present, Li had trained endlessly to become better and better at her martial prowess and controlling the Demon's powers.
When her 15th birthday hit, Li obtained the Black Belt in the Lane's Naginata Style and her lust shifted to something else: becoming a Demon Hunter like her father.
It took some time to convince him to let her attend an academy for it, as he was too prideful to admit an academy would be a better place to learn than the Lane household, but he eventually gave in after Li escaped the household to track a demonic cult and nearly got killed.
Her father is still really mad at her for being so reckless but that's just his broken pride speaking.
@NubianLegend So wait is he a Mage, Descendant, or Crusader? He's got a weapon like a hunter but an element like a mage? I like the character design but you are kinda of little out of sync.
He's a descendant, but I didn't know at the time that only elementals could make use of an element. So I went ahead and changed him some to fit the description you're looking for. I also wanted to give him Vampiric heritage, is that alright with you?
@NubianLegend Fair warning you will not be liked for that and the Van Helsing descendant may not trust you. I mean the first Helsing is responsible for the death of the king of all Vampires. Kinda drives home the hatred.
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