Dead Cruiser

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Ryo

Ryo is a wandering Yisu warrior-monk, in search of his missing rival: his brother.

Name: Auvam Ryongi-ten-Mathengi
Aliases: Given that his full name and honorific title is a bit of a mouthful, he usually goes by Ryo.
Species: The Yisu are a relatively primitive people from a world at the edge of Talim space. More or less biologically similar to humans, they possessed an early-industrial society prior to their assimilation by the Talim. A highly spiritual people, and adept in many esoteric forms of magic, they had contact with other worlds prior to the arrival of the Talim, but limited contact with them and shunned the use of advanced technology, as they believed the void between worlds was the home of devils, and nothing good could come from it. The culture of the Yisu rich with tradition and myth, and their world was previously ruled by many competing spiritual sects, many of whom developed their own form of magical combat arts.

Homeworld: Yisu, prior to its conquest by Talim.

Age: Young adult, Ryo had only just completed his training before his departure.

Gender: Male

Appearance: Ryo is tall, extremely fit, but otherwise unassuming. His white hair and golden eyes are the only outward indication of his race, though he also bleeds gold-colored blood. He dresses in inconspicuous black clothes to avoid attention, and makes efforts to appear as passive and nonthreatening in public as possible. When he focuses his abilities, he becomes wreathed in a fiery violet aura, his golden veins light up with his inner power, and a nimbus of gold crowns his head.

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Personality: Ryo approaches life, and all things in it, with the same grim, dogged determination. If something is not worth seeing through to the very last, it is not worth doing. Compared to his foul-tempered master and his flippant brother, Ryo is far more even-tempered, though he still has little patience for fools, and has his moments of levity. Being from a fairly primitive world, he has some awe and trepidation toward galactic society and advanced technology, but is quick to learn and less naive than he seems, even though he is content to let others think he is an ignorant savage from an irrelevant backwater. While Ryo can be contemplative and spiritual, with somewhat of an inquisitive, rebellious streak, he is also decisive and does not shy away from killing; it speaks volumes that the core mantra of the temple that raised him was, "Reach heaven through violence."

Background: Ryo and his brother Leth were brought to the Temple of the Knights Mendicant as infant foundlings, and were taken in by the monastic order and raised among their number. Warrior-mystics with a strange philosophy even among those endemic to Yisu, a children's rhyme spoke of the Knights, "Mendicant, the beggar-knight, roughly clad and shod. He lives as though he were a beast, but fights he as a god." Growing up among the knights, the brothers were subject to rigorous physical training, and harsh ascetic deprivations. When they were too tired and broken to stand and train, they learned history and philosophy at the feet of the eldest monks. It was a difficult existence, but they only one the two had ever known.

When they had sufficiently grasped the fundamentals of their training, it came time for the brothers to choose a master to finish their training under. Ryo had developed an amiable relationship with an apostate knight that lived in a village near the temple, Mathengi-ten-Meti. She spent most of her time living out of a barrel in the marketplace, and Ryo had established something resembling a bond with the bitter monk thanks to her enjoyment of his cooking. Ryo desired to learn the advanced and controversial techniques she had developed that made her an outcast among their order, but she shirked his request to apprentice under her for months. When Leth asked to become her disciple, she acquiesced at once, and soon after gave into Ryo's demands and trained both boys simultaneously.

After years of intense study, training, and browbeating from their acerbic master, Mathengi announced that she had nothing left to teach them both, and that their training was complete. Leth killed Mathengi on the spot once the words had left her lips, and fled while Ryo was paralyzed with shock. In the days that followed, Ryo searched for his brother, but soon discovered that he had contacted an offworld freighter, and hitchhiked into the void between worlds. Roy had little time to mourn for his master nor his bother, as within the next month, the Talim came to Yisu, and conquered their planet in short order. While the many warriors and mages of their world were formidable, they could not combat a starship armada, and were crushed underfoot. Seeing as there was nothing left of this world for him, Ryo fled Yisu much the same way his brother did, and has wandered the stars in search of him, hoping to learn the reason for his betrayal and disappearance.

Talents

• Knight Mendicant - Ryo spent most of his life as a disciple of one of the sects of warrior-priesthood on his homeworld. He was trained in battle and philosophy since he could speak and stand, and his body has been honed into a steel edifice. He can sprint for a full day without stopping, and is more than capable of killing a man with only his thumbs.
• Disciple of Mathengi - Ryo incorporates mystic power into his fighting style, which serves a variety of purposes. He can perform such parlor tricks as teleporting short distances, and projecting his blows at a range. He may also use this power to bend the laws of reality, imbuing him with bursts of strength or agility seemingly beyond that which is physically possible.
• A Metaphysical Blade - Ryo has mastered the secret techniques of Mathengi, which allow him to project his spirit into a weapon of pure energy. Most often this takes the form of a short sword of burning golden light, but he can also wield this power to create shields and barriers, or simple ranged blasts.

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The Black Prince

16 | Male | 31 July | 4 Cubits | 3254 Gold Debens

Hobbies
Dice games, chariot racing, hunting, fashion, makeup, jewelry, plotting to usurp his father's throne.

Personality
Sekhandur is narcissistic, hedonistic, indulgent, and uninhibited; all traits one would expect from a one who literally believes himself to be a god walking among mortals. Despite these qualities, he is surprisingly genial, lacking the pettiness or cruelty one would expect from one with his mannerisms. Sekhandur can also be diligent, determined, quick-witted, generous, and contemplative. His more benevolent nature stems from his god complex as well-- he truly believes that he is genuinely a superior being, and feels no insecurity or need to defend that fact. Even so, he is not without a dark streak. If the situation calls for it, Sekhandur can be utterly ruthless, scheming, or deceptive, as he sees no reason to choose the most pragmatic route to attaining that which he desires.

History
Sekhandur is the bastard son of the God-King of the Empire of Kemet, Pharaoh Qezremah IX, and a highborn woman of lesser nobility, Nefertari Khain. Kemet is a vast empire that rules much of the deep desert, famous for its towering stone monuments constructed by legions of slaves and undead. Qezremah, the ninth Pharaoh to bear that name, is referred to by many of his subjects as the White King, partially due to his kindness and generosity, but also due to his perceived weakness and cowardice. It was this kindness that moved him to bring Sekhandur to live with him at court, legally recognizing him as the Pharaoh's son, when he learned of his birth. A largely unprecedented act for a king, this action spurred much discontent among his advisors and the high nobility. Despite their protests, Sekhandur lived as a prince in the royal palace, enjoying the same care and privilege as his trueborn sisters, as for the longest while he was Qezremah's only male offspring.

Much changed when Qezremah's sister-wife, the Queen Manya, bore him a son, the prince Orimund. Now that he had a trueborn male heir to marry to his daughter Itzara when it came time for her to ascend to the throne, he had no need for Sekhandur within the palace. Rather than simply do away with him as a more brutal king might, Qezremah had him sent away to the distant city-state of Genelogia, under the guise of having him study to become Itzara's vizier. In truth, he hopes that Sekhandur never returns to Kemet, and in fact bribed the administrators of Avalice to set Sekhandur up for failure, who complied with his request by placing the exiled prince in the class with the worst track record for graduating students: Camellia.

However, Sekhandur learned of his father's plot quite some time in advance, as he first sensed something amiss when his magical tutor refused to teach him the domain of Kemeti magics reserved for those of royal blood: Sesha-Hebsu, the Closed Book. Rather than having this power denied to him, before his departure for Genelogia Sekhandur stole into his father's private vault and made off with his personal grimoire, hoping to teach himself the secret magic of kings.

Combat Information
Classification
Magic

Mana Color
Iridescent shimmering GOLD on BLACK

Mana Characteristic
The humbling magnificence of a billion stars shining in the desert sky.

Equipment
Sekhandur carries a Was staff for channeling his power, a magnificent tool adorned in pure gold and lapis lazuli. He also carries bears his father's grimoire, the tome "Hymns of the Creation of the Temakh", which carries not only the secret utterances of kings, but ancient history about the origins of Kemet and its royal bloodline.

Magic
Sekhandur is a student of Sesha-Hebsu, the secretive branch of Kemeti magic reserved for its God-Kings and their descendants. This magical style draws on the divine power that has been preserved for generations in the pharaonic bloodline since they first mixed their flesh and souls with the Shan'iatu thousands of years ago. Sehsa-Hebsu literally translates to "the closed book," but is also called "Utterances of Kings," by some, and its power is terrible. This magic can call upon the natural elements to do the bidding of the king, release the pure energy of mana from the king's soul, commune with the stars to divine their secrets, and even assert mastery over the forces of life and death.

Spells
AWAKEN THE DEAD
Sekhandur can compel a corpse to do his bidding. Either briefly rousing it to answer his questions, or reanimating the body as a simple, shambling undead,.

CTHONIC DOMINION
The incorporeal undead are also Sekhandur's to command. With this spell he may reveal the ghosts in an area, render them vulnerable to physical harm, bind them to his will, or swallow them to consume their mana.

GIFT OF THE GOD-KING
Unleashing the majesty of his divine soul, Sekhandur can mend wounds and injuries.

REBUKE THE VIZIER
Sekhandur can shield himself from magic power with special wards.

SECRETS RIPPED FROM SKIES
By staring into the night sky, Sekhandur can divine the his exact location and the hour of night.

WATER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sekhandur can summon a spring of fresh, clear water where he stands, which heals those that imbibe from it.

WRATHFUL DESERT POWER
Sekhandur commands the essence of the earth. He may scour his foes with blasts of sand, create dust devils that chase down his enemies like living beasts, or create a clay shell to armor himself.

Parameters
Mana
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Magic
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Technique
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Strength
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Speed
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Body
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Marsh

Name: Simply called "the creature" by those who discovered him, his true name is unpronounceable by human tongues. When in a human disguise, he goes by the name Marsh, which his colleagues have taken to calling him.

Inspiration: The Gillman from Creature From the Black Lagoon, with a healthy dose of Lovecraft and Mesopotamian myth.

Appearance: Marsh in his natural state is a grotesque, piscene humanoid that stands nearly seven feet tall. Everything about his presence is offensive to the senses, and normal humans that behold him are often overtaken by a primordial, instinctive state of panic. Even mystic and supernatural faculties find him abhorrent, as his soul is that of a perverse hybrid that stands in abject defiance to nature. Using his limited ability to shapeshift, he is capable of transforming into a disguise that resembles an extremely ugly man, when not closely inspected. However, his stench and aura of wrongness persist through this disguise, and most humans give him a wide berth none the less.

Abilities/ Skills: Born to a race of primordial creatures that predate the existence of mankind, Marsh has a host of strange abilities and powers. He can breathe both air and water, and is an agile predator in both environments. He is capable of surviving in such disparate environments as the hot, green hell of the Amazon jungle, and the cold, black desolation of the ocean floor. His strength and endurance both far outstrip what a human is capable of, and he can swim fast enough to chase down speedboats. Marsh can regenerate from grievous wounds, even regrowing entire limbs if given enough time.

Additionally, Marsh seems to be host to a dark, unnatural force that is beyond the ken of human science or sorcery. Channeling this power allows Marsh to supplement his strength or durability to truly mythical levels, or seemingly defy death. He is also capable of transforming his body to some extent, fostering adaptations that allow him to better survive in his environment, creating natural weapons such as claws or acidic blood, or other, more esoteric adaptations. His ability to disguise himself in human society relies on this power, though his profoundly inhuman disguise lays plain its limitations. Finally, if the conditions are right, Marsh can reproduce asexually, birthing a host of grotesque mockeries that serve his will, though they are short-lived creatures never meant to exist in this world.

History: The creature that would later assume the appellation "Marsh," was in 1954 by a scientific expedition into a previously uncharted part of the Amazon Rainforest. While retrieving samples from a pool formed by an offshoot of the Amazon River, the expedition team discovered a series of underwater caves connected to the pool. They used sonar pulses to map the cave system, but the high-frequency sounds disturbed something that had been dormant within them. The scientists attempted to capture the creature that emerged, but it fought back, killing most of the expedition, before finally being incapacitated after being repeatedly shot with an automatic rifle. The survivors returned to civilization, but their findings were considered unverifiable nonsense, and dismissed to obscurity.

Meanwhile, the creature recovered from its wounds, and emerged into a world unfamiliar to it. Its memories were left muddled and incomplete from its long dormancy, but it remembered its people had a thriving civilization in a time before dinosaurs walked the earth. Determined to reunite with its people, or at least find out what became of them, he set out to travel the world and explore its oceans, searching for any trace of its lost civilization.

In the 1990s, as Dracula sought out other creatures of the night with which to form his council, he discovered an obscure and heavily discredited account of the discovery of an inhuman fish-human hybrid in the Amazon jungle. Intrigued, he had his agents add this creature to their worldwide search for other monsters. They eventually came across a drifter in a small town in Rhode Island that went by the name of Marsh. The town's locals were extremely suspicious of him, and his questions about the town's history and the waters off its coast made them nervous for reasons they couldn't explain. It was then that Dracula's agents made themselves known to this "Marsh," and revealed that they knew what he was, and that there were other monsters in the world besides him. Marsh was greatly distrustful of any land-dwellers, even if they were monsters, but he was able to establish a working agreement. In exchange for his services on the Council of Night, Dracula would offer any lore or secrets he possessed or discovered about Marsh's lost civilization.

Goals: Marsh spends most of his time scouring waterways, ocean floors, and even archeological sites for evidence of his people's civilization. While he hopes that he is not the last of his kind, he knows that the chances of finding another member of his race are slim, and if nothing else hopes to learn what caused their civilization to end.

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• Name: Saaral, Son of Chono (aka Saaral Rozhenko)
• Age: 25
• Race: Lucani
• Appearance: Saaral is tall, even for a Lucani, and strikes an imposing, hulking figure. His originally black hair and fur has gone prematurely grey due to his time spent as a slave-soldier, and his body is covered in scars from his many battles. He wears little in the way of armor and clothing, as he has a great tolerance for the cold and prefers to stay as fast and mobile as possible in battle.
• Personality: Life has not been easy for Saaral, and his personality makes this obvious to most people that talk to him. His mood oscillates between withdrawn and brooding, to brash and aggressive. He is brutally honest, a habit that makes it even harder for him to make friends than his hostile personality already does. He prefers bold, usually violent action over most other options, and takes great pride in his skill at arms, though some part of him wonders if he will ever be good at anything besides killing. His lack of a traditional Lucani upbringing is a sore spot for him, which he usually tries to overcompensate for, and touching on it is the surest way to set off his temper.
• History: Saaral was born into a traditional Lucani family, a tribe of nomadic hunters that stalked across the great frozen plains of the north. He loped and play-fought with his siblings and cousins and led a blissfully savage childhood until the autumn after his fifth summer. It was then that his tribe had wandered unknowingly close to the expanding northern border of the Dreil kingdom of Vortigern, whereupon his family came under attack by a cohort of Dragon Knights intent on culling the population of savage Lucani. The adult members of Saaral's clan held off the attack long enough for the children to escape with the elders, but Saaral became separated from them in their confusion, and was left alone in the tundra plains.
  
  He wandered alone for some time, subsisting on carrion and icemelt streams, but winter approached and the tundra would soon be inhospitable to a lone cub. However, he was found and taken in by a separate tribe of human nomads, horse-riders and sheep-herders. An older, childless couple took him in as their own, and after some difficulty, the humans accepted him as one of their own. He was bigger and played rougher than the other children, but his adoptive father sought to temper his aggression by taking him hunting with him and the rest of the tribe's men. At first they tried to get him to hunt from horseback as they did, but Saaral found that he preferred to lope alongside the horses and use his teeth and claws. Life was not always easy, as he missed his original tribe greatly, their fate unknown to him, and there were those among the humans that still treated him as a beast and an outsider. Regardless, he was content for some time.
  
  Saaral's life changed once again in his fourteenth summer. The Kingdom of Vortigern had been continuously expanding their borders for years, and they appeared on the horizon once more to clear the lands they claimed of undesirables. Older and with the bitter seed of revenge in his heart, Saaral stayed to fight against the Dreil and defend his new family. He fought as hard as any of the grown men of his tribe, but it was not enough, and they were eventually overwhelmed. He learned then what likely became of the tribe of his birth, as they were taken as prisoners to the Dreil. The women, children, and elderly were sent back to the Dreil homeland to be used as laborers, and the men were conscripted into slave armies that the Dreil of Vortigern pitted against the Elves and other civilized races.
  
  Saaral grew into manhood on the battlefield, fighting against his will in wars he had no stake in. The slave legions were always put into the worst fighting, given the worst equipment, and were essentially used as cannon fodder, and so Saaral was forced to hone his skills quickly to even stay alive. He tried to stay in contact with the men of his tribe, but they were separated by the years and many battles. He encountered other Lucani that the Dreil had forced into bondage, and learned more of his people and heritage from them. On the first full moon of Saaral's twentieth winter, he as well as many other Lucani and slaves of other races staged a revolt that cost many of them their lives, but ultimately won the survivors their freedom.
  
  Since then, Saaral has traveled Strahn, plying his skills as a warrior in mercenary work, and living off of the land when work was scarce. His upbringing among humans made it easier for him to integrate among them and the other civilized races, but he still holds a deep bitterness in his heart from the many hardships he has suffered. While he has deliberately avoided the burgeoning kingdom of the Dreil, he holds a secret hope in his heart that his tribes, both of them, still survive in some way, and that he might be reunited with his birth or adoptive parents.
• Abilities/Skills: Saaral is a mighty warrior and a veteran of many battles despite his young age. He is adept in the use of a variety of weapons, including his teeth and claws, as he rarely had his choice of what weapons were available to him during his time as a slave. His fighting style is swift and savage, focused on outmaneuvering his opponent, and overwhelming them with his strength and ferocity. Saaral is a superb outdoorsman and survivalist, capable of stalking and hunting prey, and surviving in the ruthless wilderness as well as any beast. He even retains some knowledge of animal husbandry, tribal medicine, and horsemanship from his time raised by humans.
• Other: While he understands that most Dreil have nothing to do with what happened to him or his family, and tries to not judge others based on their race, he still has an instinctive dislike of the dragon-people, considers most he meets to be dishonorable and untrustworthy.

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Xander Morse

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Name: Xander Morse
Age: 17
Sex: M
Physical Description:

• Height: 6'1" (human form)
• Weight: 190 lbs (human form)
• Hair color: Naturally Red, Dyed Black (human form)
• Eye color: Red (human form)
• Tattoo / Scars: Variable

Xander's human form is tallish and well-built, and he generally prefers clothes that fall under the punk subculture. He mostly dresses casually, in ripped jeans and ironic or vintage tee-shirts, though as he is a shapeshifter his clothes can be considered part of him, and he can change them at any time. He generally forgoes wearing his uniform, as it evokes the lineage of the Martian Manhunter, which he resents.

GIFT :

Teenager from Mars

Xander is a hybrid between a human and a White Martian, giving him a great number of fantastic powers. Foremost he is a shapeshifter, able to change his form into virtually anything to suit his needs. This makes him supremely adaptable, capable of replicating the effects of physiology-based superpowers, including super-strength, invulnerability, regeneration, invisibility and intangibility. Xander is also a powerful psychic, with immense telepathic abilities, which allow him to read minds, detect thoughts, communicate mentally, create psychic shields, and manipulate others with illusions and false memories. Xander also possesses telekinetic abilities, but he cannot exert any more force physically than his body can. His nine Martian senses are also supremely sharp, and he is beginning to develop his disintegrating "Martian vision."

Gift Limitations: The human parts of Xander's genome create a structural weakness in his Martian physiology. Essentially he cannot transform his body to the extremes most Martians are capable of without his DNA beginning to degrade and collapse. While as he practices his abilities his upper limits continue to grow, attempting to replicate powers as extreme as Kryptonian strength (for example) cause his body to literally deconstruct itself under the strain of his abilities. Xander also bears the Martian genetic memory that imprints their intense psychological aversion to fire, which can cause anxiety in him severe enough to cause him to lose control of his powers. Finally, Xander's alien biochemistry causes him to react to certain terrestrial substances in unpredictable ways, such as his addictive reaction to chocolate, particularly Oreo brand chocolate cookies.

Skills : Xander has gotten by on raw power and talent for most of his life, so most of his skills relate to his various hobbies, such as playing the guitar, reading comic books, and watching old low-budget horror movies.

Brief History : Xander is the son of the esteemed Justice League associate Miss Martian, and by extension the relation of the legendary superhero the Martian Manhunter. It is unknown who his father is, and his mother Megan seems ill at ease when the topic is brought up. The two have always had a distant relationship, with Megan often away on JL duties, and Xander left to his own devices. This has bred a certain rebellious streak in Xander, as he resents authority and considers most superheroes to be hypocritical bullies. His strained relationship with his mother and foster-uncle have made him dubious of his Martian heritage, and he takes pains to conceal his "true" Martian form at all costs. A series of petty crimes such as vandalism and theft have earned him the ire of the greater superhero community, and his mother issued him the ultimatum of either joining the Teen Titans to straighten out his act and learn responsibility, or to be sent to live at the reconstruction colony on Mars. Begrudgingly, he chose the former option, and has joined the Teen Titans South, though he continues to gripe about it to this day.

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Anyway I've been continuously updating Seht's CS with bullshit that I come up with.

One more important thing I want to say about him is that he's fuckin' lazy. No one ever becomes a magician because they like doing things the hard way.

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@Lady Lascivious Lol not trying to be a buzzkill, I just have a thing about icky in ocky.

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If you guys are just straight RPing at this point it may be better to take it to PMs. Just so vital discussion and information in the IntCheck doesn't get buried.

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Right, while Seht is very strong for sure, the most dangerous thing about him is his deviousness and cunning. It's what kept him alive for centuries while stronger mages and demons than himself were undone. The first lesson he ever learned was not to tamper with forces he couldn't control. That said, he plays up the image of an arrogant wizard-god to scare off fools and lead the foolhardy to their doom. As Sun Tzu said, appear weak where you are strong, and strong where you are weak.

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@Izurich lol I appreciate the benefit of the doubt. My foremost goal for Seht was "dickass anime wizard that pisses everyone off." I tried to make what I thought was the most archetypal anime warlock possible, and kind of wrote his CS like it was Seht himself writing it.

I definitely wouldn't call him omnipotent. I listed all his different magic specialties mostly as a joke, but also to demonstrate that his abilities lie almost exclusively in black magic. That said, a big part of his identity is projecting the image of omnipotence, which helps in keeping small-fries off his back.