You may want to get in contact with Frengo, but considering his extra's suggests signing up with his rangers I imagine this won't actually be an issue.
I don't personally have a problem, but my position is that the dark side should too powerful in order to make taking them down more satisfying, so clearly I am biased in a way. And of course its not like I have any power in the matter, but you know, I like to talk.
After making a deal with Avanhelsing Raven is the only applicant left for the commander position on the dark side so I would ask that the word applicant be removed from his position.
Additionally I messed with his powers a bit. Make sure you don't hate them as they are now. Though very little has actually changed.
Appearance: Wrapped in chains and bound in old battered plate armor the Revenant of the White Wood is tall and slim as he was in life, but where he once held himself high and reserved as a noble should the revenant now holds himself hunched over and his hot ragged breath steams through the cold air Raven exudes around himself. His skin pale in life now seems tainted by a sickly grey color, his hair is ragged and filled with dirt and his eyes glow with an unearthly blue flame. At his hip is a simple rapier and held in his left hand at the end of Raven's chain wrappings is a lantern glowing with the same blue flames as his eyes.
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Race: Currently a demonically corrupted living dead being originally of the human race.
Side: Dark side. Revenant of the White Woods. Commander of the dark forces
Weapons(s): A rapier enchanted to drain blood from enemies. A heavily reinforced lantern used to store extracted souls. It can also double as a flail when Raven fancies to do so.
Abilities/Powers:
Raven's Lantern: The lantern gives raven a sort of immortality. As long as it exists he can return from hell itself at the cost of an increasing number of mostly pure and good natured souls. If the connection between one soul and their physical form is weak enough, for example a human who was dying, the lantern can capture that soul within itself. Every soul Increases Raven's physical strength and magical prowess, if only by a slight amount for every soul. The lantern is very resistant to damage, but if it is destroyed then Raven will be destroyed along with it.
Necromancy: He can raise lifeless bodies as zombies, but only one at a time. He makes up for this by being able to fuse them with some of his collected souls to create more unique and powerful undead servants.
Blood healing: Raven can absorb blood through his skin or from his sword to repair any physical damage to his body.
Soul Fire: Centered on Raven's Lantern Raven can cast great fiery spells at his opponents. These flames do not cause physical harm, but do cause a burning sensation as if they were the real thing and weakens the connection between ones spiritual being and their physical body.
Mist of the White Woods: The revenant can create a mist of extreme cold centered around him and extending 100 feet that chills all living creatures within it to their core and weakens their soul.
Talent(s): Dueling, strategy and tactics.
Personality: Cold, distant, calculating. He enjoys seeing plans come together and witnessing the demise of those who slight him first hand.
Biography: The white woods are the site of a battle most are too young to remember. As the elders say the king's men were come upon in a surprise attack, but they fought valiantly to protect the King's flank so that they could strike a finishing blow to the enemy army. Now though stories of ghosts from that ancient battle and worse travel among the peasantry in those towns neighboring the wood. Nobody travels through the woods without good reason. But if you must travel through the white woods the villagers will tell you to keep watch through the night and to run as fast as you can if the woods become unnaturally cold, if you hear the rattling of heavy chains, see the pail glow of an unholy fire blue in the distance or if you see the outline of plate mail walking towards you. He will cut you down and and strip your very essence from you before you die.
Raven von stein some whisper is the Revenant of the White Woods. A tragic and unruly noble who brought death to his noble family Stein and destruction to the castle Galuntrung where the Stein family once collected taxes and offered protection from outside dangers. They were known for their greed, their speed to anger and the deadliness of their champions in single combat. Any slight leveled against them was sure to elicit a challenge them and few are the stories of a Stein's loss in a duel. Raven they say was too kind to truly have been a stein. Where his family would treat their serfs with distance and disdain, Raven was often seen riding around to talk with the common folk and take account of their problems. If one day he were to have taken hold of the family then maybe a great change for good could have been made in the northeastern lands of Celakor. Alas it would never be. A marriage was arranged between Raven and a noble woman of house Korsh from a Kingdom in the north. She was truly a match made in heaven form the elders of the Stein Family as she desired to solidify power in the north between her family and the steins and presumably reap wealth from the lower born, but this must not have sat well with Raven for shortly after her arrival she stormed back to Korsh family's lands quite outraged. The Steins quick to outrage themselves called for a duel with Raven as their champion to defend his own and their honor. In kind, their one time conspirators put forth their own champion, but upon entering the arena and starting the duel the Korsh champion was defeated in seconds. Outraged again the Korsh declared war on the stein's They brought an army to burn every village and collapse Stein power in the region. While Most of the Steins tried to fight off the invaders Raven gathered as many common folk as he could and guided them south to safety in the capitol. While there he begged the king of the time for reinforcements. The king agreed to help, but with no love of the stein's greed he marched his army for his own glory. Upon returning to Stein lands the villages were pillaged and only the keep of Castle Galungtrun remained. The king organized a decisive battle against the Korsh and in the fight Raven met his end. Or so some say.
Extras: N/A.
Name: Sariel Proudsword
Appearance:
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Side: Light. Chosen of the Moon. King of Celakor, The Nocturne Slayer
Weapons:
An ancestral greatsword capable of slicing through any material - no matter its magical components, divine blessings or otherwise.
Originally called The Corrector, the Sword of Celakor gained life at the hands of the Elven smith Garandril Stormhammer, who crafted it during the Great Sky War eons ago. The Great Sky War was a battle between the children of the Gods, and their first born creations - the Elves.
The Corrector was made from the bones of Impoter, the Demi-God of Destruction, and smelted in the fires of a now non-existent Mount Hellfire.
Through a long winded combination of conveniences, it fell into the hands of Benhart Proudsword, who used it smote the Necromancer Kings of the Far West - which then enabled him to mount his assault on the Kingdom of Celakor, resulting in his ascension to the throne some five centuries ago.
Abilities/Powers: Sariel uses energy derived from the moon to temporarily alter his physical for, enhancing his strength and speed, growing wings or additional limbs , covering parts of his body in durable scale for protection. Under the power of the full moon he can do all of this without a second thought, but under weaker moons Sariel will have limited energy to draw upon and can only make limited alterations at a time. With a new moon in the sky Sariel can only draw on stored moon energy to fuel his powers.
Divination: Throughout his life Sariel has received visions of the future from the moon, often waking him breathless in the middle of the night. He made particular use of this to escape from castle Clandstein, hunting down monsters in his late teen years, prosecuting and defeating his father for the crown and finding evidence of corruption throughout the land. Lately though the visions have become more erratic in their arrival and only warn generally of a great impending evil.
Talent(s): From a young age and throughout his life Sariel learned how to compose himself in royal courts, to persuade others with his words, to give speeches, the history of Celakor and how to handle the reins of rule when finally they were his to wield. As he grew older he developed more physical skills such as horse riding and swordplay, but while he was always strong and fast with a blade he and his inherited weapon lacked always lacked the finesse to match an opponent at skill of arms alone.
Personality: Sariel is a righteous man who believes in doing right by all people. In his early years he was supremely confident in himself and his ideals, but the many years battling the corruption of the state and preparing for any threat that may befall the kingdom has made him weary of his position and of his own power.
Biography: Sariel was born both during an eclipse of the sun and the anniversary Mount Hellfire’s flattening. It caused many in the kingdom to foretell him as a savior sent by higher powers. In a way they may have been right, but to this day no great evil subjugating the land has been stopped by Sariel’s actions. In his early days he was kept away from most of the world by his father the late king Geralt Proudsword in order to properly train him in his future kingly duties. As such Sariel learned nothing of the nobility’s corruption or any of the plights of his people until he left his home at the age of fifteen. Sariel and his father never really got along. Geralt had always been controlling of his son, but in Sariel’s teenage years his powers began to develop leading the king to clamp down even harder in order to keep his court safe. In retaliation Sariel would sneak out of his quarters at night to experiment with his powers and learn to control them. During this time the young prince yearned to see the world and acquire experiences beyond those needed to run the kingdom which only further drove he and his father apart. Eventually the built up resentment sparked over a ruling in Geralt’s court. The night before a vision from the moon had shown king Geralt accepting money from a hooded figure. Sure enough on the day a noble was declared innocent for the murder of his wife despite the evidence against him. Enraged the prince began escaped from Clandstein, taking the Sword of Celakor with him. For the next three years he traveled throughout Celakor meeting the people and testing his might against the monsters of the land. On his last year away from the castle Sariel spent a harvest season helping a village in the north, leaving them during the winter to return home. Now twenty Sariel returned home and challenged his father for the thrown on the grounds of bribery, mistreatment of the citizens, war crimes and more. In order to protect his honor King Geralt met his son in single combat and was crushed. Sariel did not kill him though, but instead put him on trial and in order to protect themselves, Geralt old cohorts from across Celakor quickly came forward to testify against him. Geralt now resides locked away for the rest of his life. Leading the kingdom afterwards was not easy and in a way Sariel’s early years of training were a blessing, but where Geralt used the power of the crown to line his own pockets Sariel took on the task of raising up the common folk and weeding out corruption. Recently however both efforts have slowed. The visions from the moon have caused him in recent years to build up the military and store resources. For what Sariel could not know, but he’s been worried it would not come for as long as he has prepared for it.
Extras: New Moon Ring: An enchanted ring with the sheen of obsidian that stores energy from the moon for later use.
The real problem is weakening Nyarlathotep to the point where he can be trapped. once inside it would be done. of course this puts the light side in an odd spot where they still need to kill raven and almost have to destroy the lantern to do so. Releasing Nyarlathotep.
