Artis Diethelm ⋆
800+ ⋆
Male ⋆
Demon [Psychopomp]
Height6'2
Weight180
Hair ColorRaven black
Eye ColorGray-blue
Skin TonePale with complementary flesh tones
PsychologyLikes ⋆ Meditation
⋆ Tea, specifically green tea with honey
⋆ Intelligence
Dislikes⋆ Unforgiving individuals
⋆ Murder without reason
⋆ Liars (or people that lie to themselves)
Fears⋆ Touching a living individual without his gloves on
⋆ Becoming attached to a mortal
⋆ Not understanding or being there for a creature that needs help passing on
SexualityHeterosexual with major asexuality and/or demisexual tendencies
Personality Unadorned and straightforward, Diethelm is an ambivert. Mainly being mediocre when it comes to socialization, he does not search for socialization. In particular, he does not need it since he tends to guide souls through the physical life to the afterlife.
Though he believes everything happens for a reason, he will patiently be with them if somebody approaches him until he does not need to be around. He never genuinely connects to another individual and calls them a 'friend,' but he is very kind, understanding, and patient.
Being a psychopomp, he tends to be very selfless and wants to protect the souls and lives of others. Diethelm believes that others should not die till their time is up, and if the fates are spinning before an individual yet his counter does not change, he will try his best to not allow that person to die.
Is he mute? Diethelm instead thinks of everything before responding (sometimes it takes him a long time to respond to a simple question). Only will there ever be a handful of times where you see him get emotional or stronghearted about something, and he usually is protecting that thing or body.
Calmly and collectively making his way through what the gods want him to, he is something that most mortals or short-lived would find confusing.
Diethelm tends to be intelligent because of his age and charismatic because of what he is. Naturally, he would be considered a pro at one-on-one conversations because he has to show patience, understanding, and not judging while guiding souls to their afterlives. No matter how awful you were in your life or marvelous, he does not care, but he cares that you safely arrive at where you need to go.
Individuals could consider him insane because of his no judgment towards people who committed war crimes, hurting innocent people, and more. He is not allowed to show such things, nor does he even think to show judgment. In his eyes, everyone is an unguided soul that he can help, so he sees them as just that.
With his love of meditation and hermit behaviors, he tends to be very relaxed and has soft energy. This could tie back into his charismatic being since one could consider such balanced dominion intoxicating.
BackgroundOccupationPsychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Living Immediate Family MembersNone
Dead Immediate Family MembersUnknown or forgotten.
Current CompanionsPeleon, the siamese cat
Antarak, the butterflies that appear around him
Current and Past Lover(s)Secret barely can remember
History Diethelm was human a long time ago. In ancient times, he grew up as an orphan. Orphanages back in his original time were not the best, but they tried. Most children would die from sickness or a level of other things before the age of sixteen without a structured family home. Most would say he was lucky to live past the age of eighteen.
Once the orphanage kicked him out, he didn't have anywhere to turn. He had no family or support, and he was utterly alone in a big world. Deciding the best option was the move, he moved, and he kept moving. Till he couldn't move anymore.
Artis Diethelm found himself doing the best he could to help himself live and others. Having such a hard life, he tried his best to keep the positivity in the world even though he was one man. In his final days, he was twenty-five to thirty in age.
Finding himself at the knees of an awful creature, he never asked for his life to be saved, but he asked for the ones he traveled with to be spared instead.
His body lied there, he could see it, and he wasn't going anywhere. An individual approached him and explained that he had passed into the spiritual world, though her gods wanted to offer. Diethelm found himself in front of a council on the other side, agreeing to follow her.
"Do you think he can actually do this? Look at how skinny he is?"
"Have you watched his life?"
"Should we offer?"
Thousands of voices rang out at once till one took charge, silencing all of the rest, "Would you like to accept an offer. The offer will help us all, and you do not have to move on," it explained.
A conversation that went on for hours before Deithelm agreed. This agreement would change him, his life, and everything he was attached to forever. He was forcefully and painfully transformed into a psychopomp demon.
Ages later, he still guides souls to the afterlife, and he's felt at peace for a long time.
Strength: 5
Speed on Land: 4
Speed in Air: 2
Magical Ability: 7
Dexterity: 7
Weapon Proficiency: 3
Stealth: 10
SubspeciesPsychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Best AbilitiesChronosense -being able to link into any point in time, from seconds to decades. Diethelm can see everything that happened throughout history. He has a more challenging time seeing into the future by more than twenty-five minutes. Only seeing into the future in this limited time when something is on the verge of death.
Death Realm and Living realm connection - connecting the physical world with the spiritual world. This power only allows him to pass through his connection links and the ones he is guiding; he cannot recommend living spirits through these links (or it is perilous, and he just won't).
Death Sense - can sense when something or someone is going to pass.
Soul Reading - if one has a soul or is a soul, Diethelm can study it within reason. Being able to familiarize himself with the other's weaknesses based on the nature of their soul (health).
Soul reading allows Diethelm to see/feel the characteristics, personality, feelings, memories of someone. This can only be done in certain circumstances and is more manageable when somebody accepts and allows him to read their soul.
Most of the time, without permission, he can only see, hear, or experience slight glimpses of things here and there about a soul (person, animal, etc...).
Diethelm can also encounter Soul strings; this is when one soul is entwined with another, heavily or loosely. These strings or tethers tend to only be linked to souls that have to meet each other and have a great love, respect, or are soulmates (in a sense). Most individuals tend to not have soul strings.
Life-force absorption - Diethelm has this ability naturally to a point where he has to wear gloves, so he doesn't accidentally take anyone's life force. If his hands are exposed and can touch somebody else, he will begin to drain the life out of the individual and gain it for himself. This allows him to boost himself in some way, shape, or form for a short amount of time.
Extended drainage will result in permanent effects or death, so he covers his hands.
Diethelm can never touch somebody with his hands uncovered unless he wants it to drain their life force or even kill them since he doesn't have control over it.
Arcane knowledge - Diethelm has a lot of expertise in his category of magic and species. He has other odds and ends of information, but he excels at what he does.
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