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Aaaaaand posted, sorry if he has a bit of a theatrical mind... He's never actually met people before.

### Before: Nero had buried his parents bones the day before, now he supposed was the day for him to start off. He walked out of his house and looked around the familiar falling apart walls, then smiled waving goodbye as he walked down the path that ran from his house . After a certain way he would have lost the way had he not memorized the map, because that was as far as he had ever gone and cleared out before. He knew that he had been clearing an old path, had cobblestone under the brush and it was easier to penetrate then anywhere else. When he reached that spot he breathed in and activated the Shadow stance, allowing him to pass far easir through the brush as he cut it with his ferocity. ### Misala: When he was done he reached an abandoned town and, exhausted from the use of mana, he fell asleep in one of the dilapidated shacks that made it up. When he woke up he found himself among a bunch of people and, struck speechless, he observed them for a while. Then after a long time of this a loud thunderclap startled him, and the robed man appeared. He stepped forword and sat at the table with everyone else, and apon seeing the map he realized where they were going. ### Bandits: Before he could contemplate the fact that this group was going to one of the places that was so praised in his grandfather's wrightings, a band of bandits attacked. He understood the words they spoke because of his readings of the multitude of action adventure novels in his collection. Along with everyone else he drew his blade to fight, and in the frey he moved into the gods stance. First he drew the God Sigel in the air, seemingly oblivious to the battle, then he struck the ground with his sword. When he drew the blade from the ground his eyes glowed white and he moved into battle. He fought with a precision of inhuman proportion, bearly noticing the hellfire that burned around him. He struck down several enemies, and the battle was over. ### Paladins: When the other group of aggressors came Nero was ready to again draw his blade, but he smiled slightly when he found it unnecessary. He took one of the pouches of gold, it seemed to be a ritual for those who wished to go with the man. Unsure what to do with the money he put it in his pouch with his books and journal, and promptly forgot about it. He knew of currency, but it seemed unnecessary to him. After all, food appears on the table when your hungry. He had a bit of gold he had found in his routing around the manor, in case he needed it. one hundred small golden things neatly separated into pouches of ten. All marked with a date that was far older then any on the ones he had just gotten. ### After: Nero was unsure what he should do so he moved up to speak with the head party. In the center was the one who had been made leader, so he decided to great him the way a soldier did in his books. Bowing low he grinned slightly then stoped straight, moving his blade into his hand. "Sir, I am Nero of the manor and I am a part of your merry band. I have a working knowledge of the country, and my spellsword skills are top notch. What would you have me do?"

Kool

All right, I've finally cought up... I'll post in a bit. Oh and Nero is going to just wander in to the whole thing, :p mnea

I can try comeing up with one, I have experiance with these sorts of things sometime. I just need to godmode look things up :3

Image:  Name: Nero Manson Race: Human Age: 16 Alignment: Mage Personality: Nero has a dark and brooding personality, and he is almost unable to speak to people do to his being alone his whole life. He knows how to speak, and he's fairly fluent in the language of the living, but socially he is unable to pick up on cues unless he read about it in one of his psychology books or maybe a novel. Bio: Nero's family was a reclusive one that lived in the woods, and he never saw any other children. For years he spent all of his time exploring the old manor house, and gathering interesting relics of his family. In the gran library their were thousands of books, and his parents expected him to learn on his own. To be quite honest he never saw a single living person, not even his parents, for his entire childhood. After reading almost all the books Nero inadvertently found his way into the _other library_. There he found books on a multitude of less savory subjects, and he ended up studying the ancient magic of his family. Nero's Great something Grandfather, from about 250 years ago, had studied magic arts. Nero learned about the magic that his ancestor had studied, and began to practice with it. There were more then enough appropriate focuses in the house, sequestered away. In time he settled on a sword, made with beautiful craftsmanship. Over time he trained and trained, for maybe a year, but then he found his parents in the one room he never went into, theirs. His parents were dead, skeletons with singed and broken bones and he developed a morbid sort of fascination with them. For future reference he sealed them up in a couple of boxes, and packed them away in his stash of stuff. Then he realized the one other rule that he had, it mustn't have been them who'd said it. So he packed up after a bit of planing, and began on his first venture outside... Initial spells/techniques: God Form : Nero takes his blade and draws the symbol of the gods in the air, then he thrusts the blade in the ground, then he shuts his eyes for a second and when the open they seem to be made of pure light in the shape of the god symbol. He then uses a powerful battle stance and fights with strength and talent. Shadow Form: Nero takes his blade and draws the symbol of Shadow in the air, then he thrusts the blade in the ground, then he shuts his eyes for a second and when the open they seem to be made of pure darkness in the shape of the shadow symbol. He then uses a seemingly undisciplined battle stance and fights with speed and ferocity. Yin Yang Form: Nero takes his blade and draws both the symbol of the gods and the Shadow in the air, then he thrusts the blade in the ground, then he shuts his eyes for a second and when they open they seem to be in the yin yang symbol out of light and darkness. He then uses a battle stance that seems like some place between the last two and fights with both a ferocity and discipline, confusing the enemy and truly perfecting battle. Doesnt last quite as long as the other two, so he tries to figure out what he should use on his enemy instead of useing this stance. Skills: - Mastery over Sword-craft - Master over Magical lore, knowing all about the different techniques that his Ancestor had observed as well as all the information gathered up on different magics and magical beasts. - Master Herbologist and Zoologist, knowing all the different plants and animals that can be eaten and what they can be used for in healing and magic from his books. - Master Historian, with all the books and time in those 10 or so years he was actually functioning enough to do things like read before he found the other library he had read all the books in the first library. Many of those, that weren't on the sciences were on history, and many of those were written by contemporary from his family. He has a good account of the last 250 years committed to memory, give or take a decade or two since his parents time and their death. Combat strategy: Mostly Nero just fights with his blade, but when he feels he has to he goes into one of his battle trances depending on the enemy he has to fight. Unique equipment: - Sword of ages - The sword that Nero wields, a long straight blade with no guard. - Journal - He keeps a leather bound journal with his family crest on it, a yin yang type symbal made out of the god and shadow symbols, he hopes to someday commit it to the Other Library. Symbols: - Shadow -  - God - 

Also I'm sorry if I steped on some toes, thats just what came to mind. His magic makes him a sort of zen fighter, not as world trembling as other types. If thair is a time when I get more spells, I fiugre it'll be him perfecting one of the elemental stances.

eh, he kinda learned it from his books. I doubt his grandfather realy understood it, its just the kind of magic he was able to use from his grandfather's notes :3

Also, how exactly does the stat system work? can you help me with that, so I can figure that out? I dont know what to put...

Try useing a ---: --- nm