Raksha the Swordsman - Level 2
The Swordsman
Name: Rasksha Naschkatze
Known as: the Red Sword
Description:
Rak is a tall, serious man with bright red spiky hair. He is fairly lean, a trait that is made more apparent by his choice to wear a slim fit suit. Rak’s hair normally hangs down around his green eyes. He has pale, almost white skin.
Rak is normally serious while working, but far more relaxed when off duty. Generally he works as a hired sword, a bodyguard or mercenary. Rak prefers not to kill people, but if he's low on coin he'll join a cause that he otherwise wouldn't.
History:
Somewhere back in Rak’s family history there was an earth planar touched. His family has always had traits related to earth to a more or lesser extent. Indeed many of his family have gone on to become expert earth mages or healers of great renown. With talent comes money, and there was no shortage of either in the Naschkatze family.
Rak was born the fourth of seven to his father Arzt Naschkatze. His mother was a servant of the family, Blume Sonne. Rak wasn’t the only bastard in the family, two of his siblings were born in similar circumstances, and all three to different mothers. Like the other two, Rak was adopted into the family and his mother sent off with enough money to retire in the countryside. Rak did not blame his birth mother in the slightest, better he be raised the son of a rich nobleman than a jobless maid on the streets of Radasanth.
Rak was one of seven children, and third youngest. The gift of magic came easily to his older siblings. His adopted mother’s family line intersected with the Naschkatze line a few times in generations passed and the children of his adopted mother and father had the benefit of two parents with a planar touched ancestor. It made sense that her and Rak’s father would produce children with the touch of their planar ancestry. Rak on the other hand found himself basically useless. Even the other bastard children displayed some level of magic. The two siblings with the strongest magic were his sister, Durre and the eldest son Brand. Brand from a young age was able to manipulate earth. His favourite trick would be to create walls around a few of his unsuspecting siblings and hurl mud at them from atop. Durre’s talents were with healing and she’d often be the one fixing the injuries her older brother caused.
All of this left Rak far from the limelight. Try as he might he couldn’t move an ounce of dirt, or heal the tiniest scratch. As he aged, and his brothers and sisters grew more able to control their powers, and with it so did the pranks. A family of earth mages was able to set up elaborate pranks and easily clean up the aftermath before being caught.
All this isn’t to say that Rak had an unhappy childhood. His father was kind, if somewhat absent, and his adoptive mother treated him as one of her own. It was as much as any child could need. Even his siblings, mischievous as they were, were loving. The only thing that bothered Rak was that, despite it all, this wasn’t the life for him. As one of the younger children he could be assured some menial task within the family business. Without his own magic, he couldn’t take on a more important role. His family money came from hiring out their talents, if you couldn’t use magic you were effectively a bookkeeper for the others.
When Rak came of age the decision was an easy one. His siblings were already comfortable with their lives and making a name for themselves. At 16 Rak packed a small bag and set off to discover the world. He left a simple note for his family and disappeared. Unable to use magic, Rak had learnt to use a sword. It was the only real skill he could use to make money, after all few people needed the useless skills of a nobleman with no money.
Family
Father: Arzt Naschkatze
Mother (Biological): Blume Sonne
Mother (Adoptive): Liebe Naschkatze
Siblings (in age order):
Brand (brother)
Dreck (brother)
Durre (sister)
Erde (brother)
(Seph)
Meer (sister)
Tulle (sister)
Items:
The Emerald Blade:
This blade is craft from a mysterious rock and wielded by the original Raksha to defend his Tribe. The blade is a large two handed, one edged sword the strength of steel. (I’ve removed the sword’s ability and moved it under the character’s abilities to comply with the changed rules, I’ve left the rest of the sword the same.)
The Defender:
This is a large steel shield in a diamond shape with a large semi-circle cut from the top. It was Rak’s father’s.
Shoulder Guard:
A steel shoulder guard, used mostly to brace against his shield.
Sword of Flowers: (Received)
An adamantine sword that contains the essence of Talen Shadowalker. The sword will appear on the wielder's person at the beginning of each post if it is more than a metre from him/her. Physically, the sword is double edged, somewhat the size of a falcon. Unlike many other weapons, the sword is a coppery gold colour, from hilt to blade. There are also a number of small flower emblems on the blade, and one on the hilt.
Abysmal Cutter: (Received)
This falcon sword is made of Prevalida, but the enchantment has left it black as night. The sword has a white tassel at the end, with some white detail across the hilt. This sword is able to produce dark copies of itself that cut through the air towards their target. They strike with the force they were swung with, and will change direction slightly (two-three metres) to meet movements of the target. While only able to deliver normal sword strikes in the attack, the sword can perform the feat eight times a day.
Angry Punch Gauntlets: (Received)
Two damascus gauntlets that stretch up over each arm to the shoulder. Each gauntlet has a sharp edge along the length of each finger and extending past the end as a claw. The gauntlets have fire magic imbued into them, allowing them to send blasts of fire from the fists four times (each gauntlet) every four hours. It is intended to be used with the punch connecting, but it will continue a foot from the edge of the gauntlet if it misses. The fire will do second degree burns if it strikes directly, or first degree burns if hit with the foot-long fire blast.
Solar Flare Shades: (Received)
A special set of glasses with tinted glass. As well as protecting the eyes from powerful light sources, they also absorb this light and can release it with a flash of blinding light twice a day. This flash of light will dazzle anyone looking, making them temporary blind for a post afterwards in most cases.
Iron Caltrops: (Received)
40 little spiked shapes that when thrown will always land with one spike sticking up.
Abilities:
Body Art - Mizu
Rak moves with the fluidity of water. He can start, stop and shift movements with the practiced poise of an expert swordsman. Compared to a normal person, he can move with the grace and agility three times that of a normal person.
Body Art - Ku
By letting his mind go blank Rak can enter a state of void, where his brain no longer interferes with the incoming sensations of the world around him. During this state he may sense any consciousness (human, animal, etc) attempting to strike him with a wounding or killing blow. At the moment he is limited to doing this for two posts before he needs to wait an hour before using it again.
Heart of Blades
Rak summons a sword, the size of a dao, made of steel. He can summon one sword at a time, for a total length of four posts. Rak may unsummon and summon the sword at will, but any posts where the sword is used is counted as a full post when determining the length used.
Sword Art - From the Sheath
Rak can summon any sword from is inventory (owned swords that he has acquired) to his hand and unsummon them at will. He can only summon one sword per post and unsummon one per post. To get two swords he would have to summon one, then the second on the following post.
Sword Art - Shiro
With a sword Rak can cut through a magic spell, such as an illusion, fire ball, etc and negate the magic. This would cause magically summoned elements to disappear, while something being magically moved would stop. Striking someone or something imbued with magic will also affect that magic. A downside, the sword must strike the magic to work, and some magic (such as a psychic attack) has no form to strike. The sword can only negate seven spells before the ability is exhausted.
