Hao Weizhen
"Gamble your lives in this roulette of stray wishes, my prospective master. Do keep in mind that no neutral force can pave a smooth road for you."
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Powers/Abilities:
Executor
Hao has been an executor since he was eleven years of age, training as a prodigy in the 8th sacrament. From his training and work as an executor, Hao exhibits a supernatural physical capacity, capable of running fifty kilometers per hour smashing concrete. In addition, Hao has superb knowledge against the enemies that he fights against as an executor, mostly consisting of dead apostles. His combat capacity is also superb, made up of long standing experience, training and innate capacity. The advanced utilization of black keys and such techniques as the iron plate effect are incorporated into experience as an executor. Black keys are spiritual weapons consisting of handles without blades. Once these handles are grasped and mana is passed through them, a blade, long and thin much like a skewer, forms. These blades can be thrown with enough force to shatter reinforced concrete and pierce through solid iron. The Iron Plate effect is a martial arts technique where the black key is thrown and creates a massive impact easily capable of blowing a human sized mass several dozen feet away. Hao keeps twenty five black keys in his pockets and under his frock, and is capable of utilizing multiple at once easily.
Taiji
The Chinese philosophy of breathing and walking, borne from Hao's intensive conditioning through Chinese martial arts. With taiji, Hao removes all unnecessary movements from his body, and grants him a controlled breathing. Also enhances the physical condition when utilizing martial arts. Hao practices Kai Men Bajiquan and has optimized it to be efficient in dealing lethal or incapacitating blows as quickly as possible. Martial arts has massively enhanced Hao's combat capacity, granting him the capacity to "sense" or "hear" hostile moves, granting him the capacity to react to attacks that he does not actively see.
Magecraft
Those in the church normally do not affiliate themselves with magecraft, but Hao has broken off from such rigidity and embraced the heresy of magecraft. He is capable of all things attributed to general magecraft and has a high affinity for Chinese divination magecraft.
Command Seals
As church overseer, Hao possesses several command seals to direct the war, using them as incentives to take down a master that is causing too much trouble or deal with an event that could disrupt the grail war.
Rites
Although executors and the church see magecraft as being heretical, Hao still practices it and applies his knowledge of it into combat. For example, one such result among several others of this unholy combination of magecraft and church mystery is the cremation rite, a spell that can be inscribed on his black keys or shroud to immolate a target upon physical contact.
Appearance:
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Personality:
Hao observes a reserved and stoic personality, emitting a distinct sense of emptiness. He rarely exhibits anything other than a cold front, and could be praised as the exemplar of constancy. His tone rings a monotonous and droning but deep tone, revealing no inflection of emotion. His expression remains a placid and static image of calmness, all the while a sly glint in his eyes reveals distinction in character beneath his appearance, but one that many would be suspicious of. Hao is pragmatic and observant, constantly analyzing and taking in his environment. Hao does not simply sit back and see the world pass by him, he observes. No scenery however familiar passes by Hao as a regular and unworthy image. He inspects every facet of the world around him with as much zest as he would in a new world. This coupled with this calculating and utilitarian ideologies presents Hao as the epitome of human efficiency. Some would admire such capacity to remain rationally efficient, but to many others it is a cause of fear, a deviance from the basic human nature of expresison.
Short Biography:
Hao was adopted by an executor and primed himself to be one from an early age, exhibiting a superb talent that allowed him to become an executor at the age of eleven. His time as an executor lasted until Hao was twenty one, when his father passed on. From then on, Hao kept ties moderate ties with the church but began to practice magecraft in China under an acquaintance he had met during his early teenage years through his father. As an apprentice and with capable circuitry, willingness to learn and capacity, Hao prospered under the tutelage of his teacher. After several years of learning, Hao underwent a global pilgrimage to find holy relics and to achieve a spiritual peace, but returned two years later with little spiritual development. He practiced asceticism and underwent extreme tortures of body and mind to seek a spiritual goal but eventually gave up on such practices for various reasons. Eventually he took a station in Ukatan city church as the overseer of the next grail war, knowing full well that he was not a neutral party.
Other:
Shroud of Turin
A type of mystic code, the shroud of Turin is a long piece of faded crimson cloth that carries the effect of nullifying erosion to that which seeks to harm what it wraps. However, it does not nullify damage intended to the shroud itself, but will still nullify damage intended to what it preserves even if said damage encompasses an area affecting both the cloth and the preserved object.