Tank!
06-17-08, 05:46 PM
Name: Shion Weiler
Age: 21
Race: Human - Gaian
Hair Color: Dark blue
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'9
Weight: 150lb
Personality:
Shion has a lively personality. He is very optimistic about things. When the time to be serious comes, he is serious. He does laugh and awful lot about things and likes to make jokes out of uncomfortable situations. He tends to be well liked as he is kind and polite.
Appearance:
Shion is quite tall. He is not too skinny but not too bulky. He has an athletic body as he was on his college swim team back home. He looks Asian but had European traits (his mother is Japanese and his father is German). He had the same clothes he was wearing back on Earth when he was drawn into Althanas. Converse shoes and normal jeans. He wears a t-shirt he designed himself that says “Bushido Rocks!” He also wears a hooded over coat that reaches down to his thighs.
History:
“Hello... I didn’t even know I was here...”
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. As he sat up, he could see flashes of what seemed to be a dream... a face... a woman. The faint electronic music in the background was a dead giveaway. He was at his best friend’s birthday party. He could not recall, however, how he had gotten there and why did he faint.
Pills? Not really, the after effect was different. Shion actually felt good. As if he now knew something that he did not know before. For some strange reason... he now felt complete. He completely stood up. He look at himself in the mirror. Then came the flashes. As random stings of light in his head, he could see the image of a beautiful woman in front of him. Shion did not know who she was; all the same, every time he saw her, he felt happy. Ignoring the fact that something amazing just happened in his life, he splashed water on his face, ran his hand down his hair and took a deep breath. He opened the bathroom door and walked down the hall.
There where people everywhere. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. He still felt a little woozy from the faint. He took the stairway into the living room of his friend’s modern Tokyo apartment. Everybody was dancing. Everybody was young, drunk with energy. The green and blue laser lights that shined across the room made everybody seem as if they were dancing on some virtual reality setting. Shion walked into the people, with every intention of having a good time. A waiter walked by hold a tray with drinks. Shion took and began to dance with some random girl. As the beats got more intense, he walked closer to her. She smiled at him.
Suddenly, another flash. Strangely enough, Shion saw the woman he saw earlier in the bathroom, this time, among the crowd. He ignored this returning to the woman, who was already mystified by Shion boyish charm. He held her by her waist and gave her a passionate kiss. He took her away from the people and pressed her against a wall. He began to kiss her neck, still moving to the music. And thus, as the night went on, the lustful flame between the woman and him got more intense. They left the party together to his apartment, taken away by the thrilling combination of youth and night.
***
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. It was noon already and the hot sunlight was hitting upon his face, hurting his eyes. He stood up from the bed and closed the curtains. As he walked back toward his bed, Shion came to notice he was naked. “Oh no...”, he thought. He raised his head, following the trail of woman’s clothes and noticed the woman he had met the night before passed out on the bed.
“This has got to stop... seriously, this is ridiculous.”, said a voice behind him. Shion turned around to find his roommate and half-sister, Mina. He rolled his eyes and her and scratched his head. He reached for a pair of boxers from his drawer and walked out with her.
“What time did I get in last night?”, he asked. There was a little basked on the kitchenette with pain pills. He opened one of the little flasks and took one. “My head’s killing me.” Then, he took a cigarette from Mina’s purse and lit it up. He walked to the living room and sat on the couch. Shion was very used to this lifestyle by now: parties, women, the works. However, as peppy as he was, he was very unhappy inside. Everything seemed too insipid. He felt lost, even addicted to this lifestyle. Nobody knew of this. His friends where all the same. The only person he had confessed his unhappiness to, was Mina.
She had come in a few months earlier from Germany to live with him in Tokyo. They shared the same father. “If dad could see you now, Shion... he’d so disapprove of this.”
“You ain’t kiddin’, sis.” He inhaled from his cigarette and rested upon the ash tray on the coffee table. “The worst part is I can’t even remember her name...”
Mina chuckled and said sarcastically, “That’s the worst part?”
Shion smiled at her. In spite of how hung over he was, he did remember his episode in the bathroom the light before. He was about to speak of this with his sister, but felt the need to keep it to himself.
“Sis... have you ever felt, as if, for just one second, you’ve been taken away someplace else? Like a dream while you’re awake?”
“Yeah... it’s called mescaline. ”, responded Mina in joking tone.
“No... I’m serious...”, said Shion. Clearly he was talking about what had happened to him the night before.
“Shion... you are still drunk. What you need to do, is wake up that young lady in there, send her home and get some sleep.” Mina walked toward her brother and pulled him by the arm. He stood up and she pushed him in his room’s direction.
Shion walked into his room and stood in the middle of it, in the dark as the memory of the woman he saw in his flashes haunted him. Suddenly, and idea came into his head. Quickly, he took a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and got dressed. He ran into his bathroom and brushed his teeth. Last, he took a pair of shoes from the closet and sat on the bed to tie them. He did not mind the woman on his bed.
He ran out of the room. “Mina, I gotta go do something, okay?” Shion stood beside the door and took a hooded overcoat from the coat hanger.
“Wait, wait... about the...”
“You take care of her!”, Shion interrupted and left.
He was on his way to the Buddhist temple. He was friends with a monk there and thought maybe he could help him. At first, he thought it might be kind of random, but there was a spiritual sentiment with woman gave him that made him feel whole. Perhaps religion was not the answer to his inquiries, but maybe the monk could lead him down the right path.
He went down to the subway station. As he waited in the line to buy a ticket, Shion decided it would be a good a idea to call his best friend. He took his cellphone from his pocket and dialled.
Shigeru, his friend, was in a worst state than him. When his phone rang, Shigeru woke up to find himself laying shirtless in the middle of a passed out crowd in his living room. The phone kept ringing. He began to look for it, following the sound it made. He noticed some woman was sleeping on it. He scooted her over and took the call. “Hello?”
“Hey, Shigeru, I have a question for you.”, said Shion was the line advanced.
“If it’s regarding the spiked punch... I had nothin’ to do with it.” Shigeru stood up and walked to his kitchen.
“No, dude, listen up... you remember any blonde chicks in your party last night?”, Shion asked. He thought maybe there was a possibility this woman was a guest at the party... and since there are not many Japanese blonde women, he thought she would have stood out.
“Blondes? Three of them actually... Michiru dyed her hair recently...”, said Shigeru as he drank a glass of water.
“Any of them wearing a white dress?”
“Not really... I remember blonde with a red dress, blonde with a black dress and, ummm... blonde with no dress...”, aware what he had just said, Shigeru asked, “Dude, what the hell happened here last night?”
Shion laughed. As a matter of fact, Shigeru had thrown a very wild party; however, it was not the time to talk about this. “We’ll talk about it later... thanks. I’ll see you.”
After buying the ticket, he found himself waiting for the train to arrive. All of a sudden, Shion began to feel dizzy. His body turned cold, he began to sweat. The voices of the people around him grew faint, echoing off the walls of his mind.
“The woman you saw the Sorceress of the Gain Order...”, said a voice behind him. Shion was startled. Who could this be? Nobody else knew of his strange encounter. Slowly, and quite frightfully, Shion turned around. He saw a man before him, wearing a long overcoat and a fedora that made a shadow over his eyes.
“Who are you?”, asked Shion. After all, there was no other question he could ask. He could hear the train coming.
“I believe the question you wish to ask is... who are you?”, replied the man. Shion thought this was typical. How dare he think such a strange man would away his name right away? The man walked toward him and looked at him from top to bottom. “It seems she has chosen you...”
“Excuse me?”, inquired Shion.
As the train came closer, the man walked toward Shion and he began to walk backward. “It won’t be soon before long, boy. Remember that.” The train was very near now and the man, abruptly, kicked Shion in the chest, pushing him into the train’s way.
“AHHHH!!”
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. He hart was beating rapidly. For a moment there he believed the dream to be very very real. He breathed heavily. He looked beside him and saw the unknown woman from the night before laying naked on his bed. More calm now, he ran his hand down his hair line took a deep breath.
“This has got to stop... seriously, this is ridiculous.”, said a voice coming from the door. It was Mina, his half sister. “Get dressed and come and get some breakfast.”
Shion nodded. Mina left the room. He laid down again and noticed a strange object placed beside him. Vexed, he looked upon it and noticed it a blade of some sort. It was quite thick and quite big. He took it by the handle and noticed it had another thick blade just like it coming from the bottom of the handle. Suddenly, a whispered echoed in the back of his mind.
“Ganeden...”, it said. Scared, Shion looked over his shoulder. The he looked to his sides and saw nobody was there. Thinking it was Mina’s idea of a joke, he took the double blade and walked out his room... only to find himself standing on his building’s rooftop. He believed to be still dreaming. He looked at himself. He was fully dressed, just as he was dressed in the subway station. A strong wind blew into him. He walked toward the edge of the building. He saw the vast city below what seemed to be the most beautiful sunset.
“Ganeden...”, he heard it again. Startled, he turned around. Amazingly enough, he was standing across the woman he saw in his visions. He was speechless. Her beauty was beyond words. She had snow white skin and eyes as blue as the noon sky. Her blonde hair was long and silky. She was wearing a white dress that looked as if were made by clouds rather than cloth.
Shion walked toward her, slowly, mesmerized by her beauty.
“Shion...”, she said.
“Who are you? How do you know my name?”, he asked.
“I have chosen you, Shion, to wield Ganeden and honourably serve the Gaian Order.”
“I’m sorry... what?!”, he asked sceptically. Even though this was nothing but a dream (or so he thought), he could not make any sense out of the woman’s words. “Who are you? And what do you want from me?”
“I go by many names... in time you will learn them and you will learn why you have been chosen for this path.”
“What the hell is the Gaian Order?”
“We are the keepers of the light, protectors of Phantaria, the everstar. Dark times are brewing Shion. There are others, like you, whom you will meet on your quest, should you choose to accept it.”
“Dark times?! Phantaria?! Quest??” Shion had so many questions; all the same, there was something about this lovely woman’s words that soothed him. They penetrated his heart as if he was meant to hear them.
“You must go the distant Realm of Althanas, there you seek out the others. I must warn you, Shion, the dangers you are to face are unimaginable.” The woman walked toward him. Shion could a light emanating from the palm of her hand. Slowly, she placed it upon his chest, imbuing him with a lively energy he has only felt once in his life... the night he passed out on his friend’s bathroom. “This is the light of the everstar. Learn to use it, for you are now a knight of Phantaria. I know everything seems strange and entangled now... but I trust everything will be more clear in the future.”
“I don’t understand.”, replied Shion. He had never been more honest. The woman walked toward the edge of the building and a slight breeze blew across her hair. Shion followed her.
“It is a real shame we had to meet like this... but His dark spies are everywhere. There is no safe place now.”, she said in a serene tone. Suddenly, the light of the sun began to fade. Darkness invaded the fiery sky like smoke. “He has found us... Shion, there is now time, you must go!”
“Where?! I don’t get this!!”
The woman began to whisper a spell in some strange tongue.
“Ish neth, saraej deth. Kunai shuthberth neth... Ihstar das Phantaria deth, kil noen bian, laraej...”
The ground began to shake heavily. Shion felt faint. He felt as if his soul were drifting away from his body. He felt light surrounding him as the ground gave way beneath his feet. Shion felt he was falling. He closed his eyes. The world around him disappeared into a distant flash of light.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself enveloped in light. He could see stars flying by as he wisped through innumerable galaxies. Like a comet he travelled into space and time.
All of a sudden, everything stopped in a blinding flash of light. And he was, standing at the beginning of what seemed to be an endless road. In the distance, he could see snow covered mountains, and before that, a vast forest that seemed as thick as the night.
“Is this still a dream?”, he asked himself out loud. Oddly enough, his question was answered by a traveller that passed him by.
“No... this is Althanas.”
Skills:
Light of Phantaria: it is the power to imbue object with light, making the magical for a short period of time.
Blade of Light: For this, he does not need his sword. It is an energy blast delivered from his bare hands able to cut through iron or lesser materials. It weakens steel or materials of similar strength. Using this skill makes him very tired, as a matter of fact, were he to use it on battle, he could only be able to do so once. Once he uses this power, he must wait a long time before using it again; therefore, he tends to deliver this as a final blow.
Quake: As the Sorceress passed on to him some her power, she has given him to ability to control the elements. For now, he as only found it in him to control the Earth. Soon enough, as he grows stronger, he will be able to control Fire, Earth and Wind. With Quake, Shion is able to raise a wall of rock which he can use as a shield. However, this will not work if he is standing over a wooden or concrete floor.
He may also deliver a blast of Earth energy to the ground, thus creating a small earthquake.
Telekinesis: This skill is typical of the knights of the Gaian Order. He is able to move objects with his mind. The larger the objects, the more difficult it is to move them. The fact that he has telekinesis does not imply that he has super strength.... for now. As he practices to usage of this skill it will get stronger and stronger. However, for now, he must limit himself to small objects. He may move objects for as long as he likes, until he get tired of carrying them around.
Equipment
Ganeden: This double blade, five feet tall and made of heavy steel seems weightless to him. It was handed to him by the Sorceress of the Gaian Order. The blades are quite thick and he often uses them as a shield in combat.
Age: 21
Race: Human - Gaian
Hair Color: Dark blue
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'9
Weight: 150lb
Personality:
Shion has a lively personality. He is very optimistic about things. When the time to be serious comes, he is serious. He does laugh and awful lot about things and likes to make jokes out of uncomfortable situations. He tends to be well liked as he is kind and polite.
Appearance:
Shion is quite tall. He is not too skinny but not too bulky. He has an athletic body as he was on his college swim team back home. He looks Asian but had European traits (his mother is Japanese and his father is German). He had the same clothes he was wearing back on Earth when he was drawn into Althanas. Converse shoes and normal jeans. He wears a t-shirt he designed himself that says “Bushido Rocks!” He also wears a hooded over coat that reaches down to his thighs.
History:
“Hello... I didn’t even know I was here...”
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. As he sat up, he could see flashes of what seemed to be a dream... a face... a woman. The faint electronic music in the background was a dead giveaway. He was at his best friend’s birthday party. He could not recall, however, how he had gotten there and why did he faint.
Pills? Not really, the after effect was different. Shion actually felt good. As if he now knew something that he did not know before. For some strange reason... he now felt complete. He completely stood up. He look at himself in the mirror. Then came the flashes. As random stings of light in his head, he could see the image of a beautiful woman in front of him. Shion did not know who she was; all the same, every time he saw her, he felt happy. Ignoring the fact that something amazing just happened in his life, he splashed water on his face, ran his hand down his hair and took a deep breath. He opened the bathroom door and walked down the hall.
There where people everywhere. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. He still felt a little woozy from the faint. He took the stairway into the living room of his friend’s modern Tokyo apartment. Everybody was dancing. Everybody was young, drunk with energy. The green and blue laser lights that shined across the room made everybody seem as if they were dancing on some virtual reality setting. Shion walked into the people, with every intention of having a good time. A waiter walked by hold a tray with drinks. Shion took and began to dance with some random girl. As the beats got more intense, he walked closer to her. She smiled at him.
Suddenly, another flash. Strangely enough, Shion saw the woman he saw earlier in the bathroom, this time, among the crowd. He ignored this returning to the woman, who was already mystified by Shion boyish charm. He held her by her waist and gave her a passionate kiss. He took her away from the people and pressed her against a wall. He began to kiss her neck, still moving to the music. And thus, as the night went on, the lustful flame between the woman and him got more intense. They left the party together to his apartment, taken away by the thrilling combination of youth and night.
***
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. It was noon already and the hot sunlight was hitting upon his face, hurting his eyes. He stood up from the bed and closed the curtains. As he walked back toward his bed, Shion came to notice he was naked. “Oh no...”, he thought. He raised his head, following the trail of woman’s clothes and noticed the woman he had met the night before passed out on the bed.
“This has got to stop... seriously, this is ridiculous.”, said a voice behind him. Shion turned around to find his roommate and half-sister, Mina. He rolled his eyes and her and scratched his head. He reached for a pair of boxers from his drawer and walked out with her.
“What time did I get in last night?”, he asked. There was a little basked on the kitchenette with pain pills. He opened one of the little flasks and took one. “My head’s killing me.” Then, he took a cigarette from Mina’s purse and lit it up. He walked to the living room and sat on the couch. Shion was very used to this lifestyle by now: parties, women, the works. However, as peppy as he was, he was very unhappy inside. Everything seemed too insipid. He felt lost, even addicted to this lifestyle. Nobody knew of this. His friends where all the same. The only person he had confessed his unhappiness to, was Mina.
She had come in a few months earlier from Germany to live with him in Tokyo. They shared the same father. “If dad could see you now, Shion... he’d so disapprove of this.”
“You ain’t kiddin’, sis.” He inhaled from his cigarette and rested upon the ash tray on the coffee table. “The worst part is I can’t even remember her name...”
Mina chuckled and said sarcastically, “That’s the worst part?”
Shion smiled at her. In spite of how hung over he was, he did remember his episode in the bathroom the light before. He was about to speak of this with his sister, but felt the need to keep it to himself.
“Sis... have you ever felt, as if, for just one second, you’ve been taken away someplace else? Like a dream while you’re awake?”
“Yeah... it’s called mescaline. ”, responded Mina in joking tone.
“No... I’m serious...”, said Shion. Clearly he was talking about what had happened to him the night before.
“Shion... you are still drunk. What you need to do, is wake up that young lady in there, send her home and get some sleep.” Mina walked toward her brother and pulled him by the arm. He stood up and she pushed him in his room’s direction.
Shion walked into his room and stood in the middle of it, in the dark as the memory of the woman he saw in his flashes haunted him. Suddenly, and idea came into his head. Quickly, he took a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and got dressed. He ran into his bathroom and brushed his teeth. Last, he took a pair of shoes from the closet and sat on the bed to tie them. He did not mind the woman on his bed.
He ran out of the room. “Mina, I gotta go do something, okay?” Shion stood beside the door and took a hooded overcoat from the coat hanger.
“Wait, wait... about the...”
“You take care of her!”, Shion interrupted and left.
He was on his way to the Buddhist temple. He was friends with a monk there and thought maybe he could help him. At first, he thought it might be kind of random, but there was a spiritual sentiment with woman gave him that made him feel whole. Perhaps religion was not the answer to his inquiries, but maybe the monk could lead him down the right path.
He went down to the subway station. As he waited in the line to buy a ticket, Shion decided it would be a good a idea to call his best friend. He took his cellphone from his pocket and dialled.
Shigeru, his friend, was in a worst state than him. When his phone rang, Shigeru woke up to find himself laying shirtless in the middle of a passed out crowd in his living room. The phone kept ringing. He began to look for it, following the sound it made. He noticed some woman was sleeping on it. He scooted her over and took the call. “Hello?”
“Hey, Shigeru, I have a question for you.”, said Shion was the line advanced.
“If it’s regarding the spiked punch... I had nothin’ to do with it.” Shigeru stood up and walked to his kitchen.
“No, dude, listen up... you remember any blonde chicks in your party last night?”, Shion asked. He thought maybe there was a possibility this woman was a guest at the party... and since there are not many Japanese blonde women, he thought she would have stood out.
“Blondes? Three of them actually... Michiru dyed her hair recently...”, said Shigeru as he drank a glass of water.
“Any of them wearing a white dress?”
“Not really... I remember blonde with a red dress, blonde with a black dress and, ummm... blonde with no dress...”, aware what he had just said, Shigeru asked, “Dude, what the hell happened here last night?”
Shion laughed. As a matter of fact, Shigeru had thrown a very wild party; however, it was not the time to talk about this. “We’ll talk about it later... thanks. I’ll see you.”
After buying the ticket, he found himself waiting for the train to arrive. All of a sudden, Shion began to feel dizzy. His body turned cold, he began to sweat. The voices of the people around him grew faint, echoing off the walls of his mind.
“The woman you saw the Sorceress of the Gain Order...”, said a voice behind him. Shion was startled. Who could this be? Nobody else knew of his strange encounter. Slowly, and quite frightfully, Shion turned around. He saw a man before him, wearing a long overcoat and a fedora that made a shadow over his eyes.
“Who are you?”, asked Shion. After all, there was no other question he could ask. He could hear the train coming.
“I believe the question you wish to ask is... who are you?”, replied the man. Shion thought this was typical. How dare he think such a strange man would away his name right away? The man walked toward him and looked at him from top to bottom. “It seems she has chosen you...”
“Excuse me?”, inquired Shion.
As the train came closer, the man walked toward Shion and he began to walk backward. “It won’t be soon before long, boy. Remember that.” The train was very near now and the man, abruptly, kicked Shion in the chest, pushing him into the train’s way.
“AHHHH!!”
He woke up. As he slowly opened his eyes he came to realize where he was. He was weak. He hart was beating rapidly. For a moment there he believed the dream to be very very real. He breathed heavily. He looked beside him and saw the unknown woman from the night before laying naked on his bed. More calm now, he ran his hand down his hair line took a deep breath.
“This has got to stop... seriously, this is ridiculous.”, said a voice coming from the door. It was Mina, his half sister. “Get dressed and come and get some breakfast.”
Shion nodded. Mina left the room. He laid down again and noticed a strange object placed beside him. Vexed, he looked upon it and noticed it a blade of some sort. It was quite thick and quite big. He took it by the handle and noticed it had another thick blade just like it coming from the bottom of the handle. Suddenly, a whispered echoed in the back of his mind.
“Ganeden...”, it said. Scared, Shion looked over his shoulder. The he looked to his sides and saw nobody was there. Thinking it was Mina’s idea of a joke, he took the double blade and walked out his room... only to find himself standing on his building’s rooftop. He believed to be still dreaming. He looked at himself. He was fully dressed, just as he was dressed in the subway station. A strong wind blew into him. He walked toward the edge of the building. He saw the vast city below what seemed to be the most beautiful sunset.
“Ganeden...”, he heard it again. Startled, he turned around. Amazingly enough, he was standing across the woman he saw in his visions. He was speechless. Her beauty was beyond words. She had snow white skin and eyes as blue as the noon sky. Her blonde hair was long and silky. She was wearing a white dress that looked as if were made by clouds rather than cloth.
Shion walked toward her, slowly, mesmerized by her beauty.
“Shion...”, she said.
“Who are you? How do you know my name?”, he asked.
“I have chosen you, Shion, to wield Ganeden and honourably serve the Gaian Order.”
“I’m sorry... what?!”, he asked sceptically. Even though this was nothing but a dream (or so he thought), he could not make any sense out of the woman’s words. “Who are you? And what do you want from me?”
“I go by many names... in time you will learn them and you will learn why you have been chosen for this path.”
“What the hell is the Gaian Order?”
“We are the keepers of the light, protectors of Phantaria, the everstar. Dark times are brewing Shion. There are others, like you, whom you will meet on your quest, should you choose to accept it.”
“Dark times?! Phantaria?! Quest??” Shion had so many questions; all the same, there was something about this lovely woman’s words that soothed him. They penetrated his heart as if he was meant to hear them.
“You must go the distant Realm of Althanas, there you seek out the others. I must warn you, Shion, the dangers you are to face are unimaginable.” The woman walked toward him. Shion could a light emanating from the palm of her hand. Slowly, she placed it upon his chest, imbuing him with a lively energy he has only felt once in his life... the night he passed out on his friend’s bathroom. “This is the light of the everstar. Learn to use it, for you are now a knight of Phantaria. I know everything seems strange and entangled now... but I trust everything will be more clear in the future.”
“I don’t understand.”, replied Shion. He had never been more honest. The woman walked toward the edge of the building and a slight breeze blew across her hair. Shion followed her.
“It is a real shame we had to meet like this... but His dark spies are everywhere. There is no safe place now.”, she said in a serene tone. Suddenly, the light of the sun began to fade. Darkness invaded the fiery sky like smoke. “He has found us... Shion, there is now time, you must go!”
“Where?! I don’t get this!!”
The woman began to whisper a spell in some strange tongue.
“Ish neth, saraej deth. Kunai shuthberth neth... Ihstar das Phantaria deth, kil noen bian, laraej...”
The ground began to shake heavily. Shion felt faint. He felt as if his soul were drifting away from his body. He felt light surrounding him as the ground gave way beneath his feet. Shion felt he was falling. He closed his eyes. The world around him disappeared into a distant flash of light.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself enveloped in light. He could see stars flying by as he wisped through innumerable galaxies. Like a comet he travelled into space and time.
All of a sudden, everything stopped in a blinding flash of light. And he was, standing at the beginning of what seemed to be an endless road. In the distance, he could see snow covered mountains, and before that, a vast forest that seemed as thick as the night.
“Is this still a dream?”, he asked himself out loud. Oddly enough, his question was answered by a traveller that passed him by.
“No... this is Althanas.”
Skills:
Light of Phantaria: it is the power to imbue object with light, making the magical for a short period of time.
Blade of Light: For this, he does not need his sword. It is an energy blast delivered from his bare hands able to cut through iron or lesser materials. It weakens steel or materials of similar strength. Using this skill makes him very tired, as a matter of fact, were he to use it on battle, he could only be able to do so once. Once he uses this power, he must wait a long time before using it again; therefore, he tends to deliver this as a final blow.
Quake: As the Sorceress passed on to him some her power, she has given him to ability to control the elements. For now, he as only found it in him to control the Earth. Soon enough, as he grows stronger, he will be able to control Fire, Earth and Wind. With Quake, Shion is able to raise a wall of rock which he can use as a shield. However, this will not work if he is standing over a wooden or concrete floor.
He may also deliver a blast of Earth energy to the ground, thus creating a small earthquake.
Telekinesis: This skill is typical of the knights of the Gaian Order. He is able to move objects with his mind. The larger the objects, the more difficult it is to move them. The fact that he has telekinesis does not imply that he has super strength.... for now. As he practices to usage of this skill it will get stronger and stronger. However, for now, he must limit himself to small objects. He may move objects for as long as he likes, until he get tired of carrying them around.
Equipment
Ganeden: This double blade, five feet tall and made of heavy steel seems weightless to him. It was handed to him by the Sorceress of the Gaian Order. The blades are quite thick and he often uses them as a shield in combat.