DarkStrike
07-31-06, 03:37 PM
Im going to be quite frank, while this character meets gua's BA standards, I have no idea as to what is overpowered here, so in essence, he is simply going to be copied to over here and I will add onto the history explaining why he is on Althanas.
I would love to use this new character here on Althanas, but I am mainly using this as a gauge to understand what kind of stuff I need to be careful of over here in Althanas. His spell book is massive, but to be approved for the element combo that I wanted (dark/light and later spectral) he had to have it.
Description: Another Shadow Angel, like Striker, but Artilitha (Ar-til-itha) is a very powerful creature who looks like black flames frozen in time, giving him a demonic cast. His head is draconic in appearence while maintaining the frozen flame appearence. He has black wings that, as with the rest of his body, look flame, and draconic-like.
Name: Artilitha
Primary Element: Dark
Secondary Element: Light
Race: Shadow Angel
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Gender: voice and violent tendencies believed to be male
Age: 226
Eyes: Blazing Red
Hair: No hair to be told
Height: 6'6
Weight: 256 lbs
Home: None/ Wandering Spirit
Other: Artilitha, when he was reborn as a Shadow Angel, retained some of his mortality from his life with mortals, thus not giving him a dual personality, but instead giving him a clearer concience, as the Shadow Angels normally have muddled thoughts and are purely devoted to darkness. Artilitha and Striker are the exceptions to this rule. Striker maintained all of his mortal concience, first since Nenal, while Artilitha maintained bits and pieces of it.
Artilitha tends to be very contradictory of himself, sometimes he will avoid fights at all costs, at other times he will do whatever it takes to cause and start a fight. This is because of the bits and pieces of his mortality that he retained, one part of him says fight, the other says back down. Which usually causes him to act the opposite of whichever side of him holds sway at the time, making him very chaotic. This type existence alows him to control both dark and light, with near equality, but as a Shadow Angel, dark gained a slight dominace over light.
Abilities:
Tough Skin-Because of his odd shape and appearence, Artilitha's body has developed to be come a powerful shell, while he still feels pain from hits he recieves, and has a moderate to low pain tolerance, Artilitha is still vulnerable, but drawing blood is unlikely without a fairly powerful strike.
Angel- As with Striker these wings can appear at will and allow Artilitha to fly at high velocities.
Meld with Shadows- Trademark of a Shadow Angel, this allows Artilitha to sink into the shadows and move within them, he is invulnerable in this stage, but he cannot attack either.
Call of Aid- While he is no longer the Lord of Shadows, Artilitha still has a loyal companion that will come when he calls. Part of a shadow race known as the Black Hawks, Calra (Kal-ra) is a an elevated Nightstalker, faster, stronger, and more capable, although the only difference in appearence is that Calra is larger. Calra is a rival to Yinyang's Hell Spawn.
Equipment:
Armour: none
Weapons:
Name of Weapon: Demon
Damage (rating): 7
Description: A long, wicked, two handed blade that glows black with tints of purple. Has a wicked poison that causes an opponent to weaken, not die, but weaken, it is slow acting, so is next to useless unless a fight stretches on for a great amount of time. Then the opponent, if not dead will become fatigued. As soon as an opponent rests for a substantial amount of time, the effects wear off.
Dark Spells:
Spell Name: Dark Bullet
Strength: 1
Description: Artilitha gathers shadows at his index finger and turns them into little "bullets" of shadow that are rapidly fired at the opponent. Weak but if they hit in succession, they can deal a great deal of damage.
Spell Name: Dark Blanket
Strength: 0
Description: Artilitha motions upwards with his arms out, as though he is lifting a great weight and all the shadows in the general vacinity shoot up out of the ground and create a black fog, that is inpenatrable, and unmovable except to powerful light magic.
Spell Name: Dark Pursuer
Strength: 3
Description: Artilitha creates a black shapeless mass that flies after the enemy. Weak, but fast moving.
Spell Name: Black Blade
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha creates a large black blade that may be maintained; however, it requires a steady flow of energy, used generally when Artilitha is seperated from Demon.
Spell Name: Black Wave
Strength: 5
Desciption: A black wave that hits with the force of a rhino, Artilitha simply thrusts his hand out and a wave of darkness ensues.
Spell Name: Stalker
Strength: 7
Description: Powerful illusion, appears as whatever Artilitha wants it to be, its ability to do damage remains the same though.
Spell Name: Black Lashing
Strength: 8
Description: Upgraded version of Shadow Lash. Works the exact same way, but instead of a single strike by a single shadow, all shadows in the general vacinity of Artilitha and his opponents, converge to strike a a single enemy with many, extremely fast strikes. Weak individually, but the spell as a whole is very powerful and causes a great amount of damage.
Spell Name: Black Grave
Strength: 7
Description: Shadows form around the opponent while Artilitha concentrates, then thrusting his arms upward. Shadows shoot upward out of the ground like spikes and attempt to impale the opponent, they hit with a large amount of force.
Spell Name: Black Pillar
Strength: 4
Description: Artilitha places his hands in a gesture, similar to that of a prayer. Chanting quietly, shadows gather beneath the opponents feet and without warning shoot upward, dealing fair amounts of damage to all parts of the body.
Spell Name: Shadow Lash
Strength: 2
Description: Artilitha chants a few words quickly and a shadow from a random area, not even Artilitha knows where from until the last second, and strikes the opponent once. Not much damage, but hits hard enough to cause staggering and in more extreme cases, it causes the opponent to fall over.
Light Spells:
Spell Name: Multiply
Strength: 0
Description: Creates several copies of Artilitha, that run around and confuse the opponent. Takes strong magic to see through the ruse.
Spell Name: Searing Beam
Strength: 7
Description: Extremely fast concentrated beam of light that if it hits, it causes the opponent to be knocked over and maintain burns.
Spell Name: Flare
Strength: 0
Description: Causes a brilliant flash of light that blinds opponents temporarily.
Spell Name: Light Orb
Strength: 3-8
Description: Simple ball of pure light energy, can be charged, and deals burns once it reaches a strength of 7 or 8.
Spell Name: Flare Punch
Strength: 3
Description: Artilitha's hands glow with a brilliantly bright light. Does nothing other than give Artilitha's punches more power.
Spell Name: Light Force
Strength: 3
Description: Simple visible wave of light that strikes with blunt force and moves quickly. Artilitha simply thrusts his hand outward to push the light energy around him towards the opponent.
Spell Name: Laser Beam
Strength: 8
Description: Light gathers at Artilitha's finger. It continues to gather, but remains the width of a pin. When fired at the opponent, it does not hit with any force, rather it burns and causes flammable items to catch fire at a rapidly.
Spell Name: Shockwave
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha crosses his arms in front of his chest,light energy gathers around him, and as though he is breaking free from being tied together, he releases himself from his little bubble of light, causing the light to fly apart quickly, and cause damage, and knock opponents backwards.
Spell Name: Flash Bang Grenade
Strength: 7
Description: Concentrated ball of light forms in Artilitha's hand. Artilitha then has five seconds to get rid of the ball of light before it explodes like a bomb, emitting a loud explosion that is painful to one's ears.
Spell Name: Shrapnel Bomb
Strength: 8
Description: Done only while airborne, Artilitha gathers a large amount of light energy and lobs it down to the ground. The ball of light explodes with tremendous force while little rays of light shoot downward dealing additional damage.
Spectral Spells (LOCKED)
Spell Name: Opal Beam
Strength: 6
Description: Light and dark energy gathers in Artilitha's palm. A beam is then fired that gives off many colors, but glows with a darkness as well, giving an odd spectral effect.
Spell Name: Shooting Star
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha stretches his arms out diagonally and shadows from the ground and light from the air race to meet each other. When the energy reaches his hands it spends a few seconds molding itself into its original state, spectral energy. Clapping his hands together causes a tremendous ball of darkness that sparkles with a myriad of colors races towards the ground, and explodes. Only used while airborne.
Spell Name: Cruel Rain
Strength: 8
Description: Artilitha chants and energy from both shadow and light gather in large amounts in the sky above him. Combining in the air while Artilitha mutters his prayers, to become their original state, the light and darkness becomes pure spectral energy. It then proceeds to spread out like a black cloud with glowing lights of the entire spectrum, covering very large areas. The at a gesture from Artilitha, the "rain" begins. Bright rays of light, that give the impression of black opals, rains down on a very large area of ground, causing massive damage, each "rain" drop exploding with tremendous force. Causes massive damage.
Spell Name: Star Scythe
Strength: 3
Description: Crossing his right arm across neck, a sparkling ball of blackness forms at his outstretched fingertips rapidly. Making a viscious horizontal chopping motion, a "starry" arc of pure spectral energy, made to order, shoots across the air and strikes with blunt force. Because the energy is created, this spell is more draining than a typical spell of its strength.
Spell Name: Spectral Orb
Strength: 3-6
Description: Artilitha holds his hands in front of his chest and chants quietly, a ball of energy, best described as a ball of the precious stone black opal. Can be charged or fired immediately.
Spell Name: Judgement
Strength: 10
Description: Upgraded version of Cruel Rain. Beginning stages are the same. Is a one post casting, but it causes Artilitha to be completely unable to move due to extreme weakness. Meant as a finisher.
Spell Name: Spectral Geiser
Strength: 5
Description: Extremely straining spell, Artilitha motions upwards with his hands and a geiser of pure spectral energy shoots out of the ground, a result of light and darkness fusing together quickly beneath the ground.
Spell Name: Glowing Fists
Strength: 4
Description: Artilitha's hands become bathed in spectral energy, a result of a few chanted words and a clear yet somewhat black energy forming around is hands. Gives Artilitha's hits more power.
Spell Name: Blazing Specter
Strength: 7
Description: Initially a black shadowy being, but the begins to glow like a rainbow, flashing a myriad of colors. Artilitha must chant for a fairly long amount of time without being interupted.
Spell Name: Opal Bomb
Strength: 5
Description: Similar in initial appearence to the Blazing Specter, a dark ball of shadows that begins to burn with all the colors of the spectrum. Requires focus and some chanting from Artilitha, but is not very strenuous.
Hybrid Spells (neither spectral, dark, or light)
Spell Name: Spectral Ghost
Strength: 7
Description: Creates a copy of Artilitha, the shell or the body, by creating an illusion from light magic, and then channeling shadows, the darkness combines to the body, made from light magic, to create an illusion capable of inflicting a great deal of harm as it attacks in a similar manner as Artilitha. Eventually dissapates, but cannot be killed unless struck directly through the heart, or by removing its head. Takes 2 posts to occur, and can be interrupted.
Spell Name: Black Light Beam
Strength: 8
Description: A highly concentrated beam of light and shadow that causes burns and hits like an 18-wheeler.
Spell Name: Chain Spear
Spell Strength: 6
Description: Creates a spear capable of being thrown, the shadows create the spear, and the light creates a chain that attaches the spear to Artilitha's wrist. Ca be retracted and thrown multiple times, but requires a stead stream of energy, and while Artilitha has great stamina, he still cannot maintain it for long.
Spell Name: Super Nova
Strength: 10
Description: A huge ball of light energy, that explodes with tremendous force, and then a smaller ball of dark energy, within the ball of light explodes within seconds of each other, creating large amounts of damage to the surrounding scenery. Requires 4 posts to use, with only 2 distinct phases. First the ball of darkness is created over two turns, and then phase 2, or post 3 the ball of light envelopes it. Post4 is the finishing touches ad the attack itself.
Informational
History of the Shadow Angels
The history of the Shadow Angels is short and written in blood. Five million years ago a man was struck down unjustly, killed in the most horrible way imaginable.
Refusing to subcumb to death, and pass into the void, he was reborn in shadow. Thus the first Shadow Angel came into existence. He had no memory left as to how he had died, but he knew that he would exact vengeance, as he searched for his identity.
Using his newfound powers, Nenal, "Nightstalker" in the language of shadows, tracked, and then hunted all of his "killers" down, and made them become the victim of the same death they had tried to exact on him.
Immediately, after exacting vengeance, Nenal went into hiding, spending the years training with weapons and learning the full extent of his powers. His studying allowed him to discover that he had gained complete and absolute control over all shadows.
Nenal, after learning how extensive his powers were, came back out into the open. He now served no one, and punished the unjust and cruel. He led an army of what quickly became known as, ironically enough, Nightstalkers.
Fierce, black humanoid creatures with blades for arms, they wreaked havoc among evil forces, and a golden age for Earth arrived.
However, all good things must come to an end. A renegade Nightstalker killed Nenal for a second time, and this time Nenal disappeared forever, and chaos swept the land.
History of Draconians
Draconians come in many shapes and sizes. But unbeknowest to most species of the galaxy, there are actually 3 races of Draconians.The first, which is the most commonly known, are the Dark Draconians.
Visious creatures, these draconians are little more than barbarians. Politics range from who is the strongest and cruelist, and brawling is common among them. Living their lives on plains or in mountains. The single thing that Dark Draconians are good at is fighting.
Although, even this, they are little more than mercenaries, or common thugs. The arts and lore is, for the most part non-existent. The second race is a different story.
The lore masters are simply known as "Keepers," and they are the masters of all of the music and lore of the draconian races. They are scrawny, but tall. These creatures are quite capable of matching their music and lore with the best bards of the galaxy.
Other than an occasional brawl, these creatures are fairly peaceful and get along well with other people.
But what the others are not, The Gilded draconians are. They are the leaders, the politicians and the real soldiers. Trained in warcraft, strategy, and politics all of their lives, all would be considered exceptionally gifted at leading when compared to other species throughout the galaxy.
The 3 races combined created a powerful race, one to be respected and feared, but the union of the three races was not to last.
Some great cataclysmic event separated the draconian races from one another, separating them by worlds rather than by miles. Our story begins with one of the Gilded Draconians, who will one day rise to be a hero, not for just his people, but for the universe...
History of Artilitha
Artilitha remembers little of his past, as is normal for a Shadow Angel. Although he does recall a small flashback, and it is the only thing that connects him with his previous life...
"What is going on?!" Artilitha asked as he awoke, finding himself tied in place by metal cords, while standing.
"This is our heretic!" A voice called to what Artilitha now recognized as a large crowd. "He has been tried and found guilty of it and is now sentenced to public torture and death so all of the heretics in the room may tell their friends what will become of them if they do not submit!"
A roar of approval met this statement. The crowd was apparently large, he now recognized the stadium and it was packed.
"I have been loyal to our cause since the beginning, and we have been duped! Our leaders plan to destroy all of us for the riches of the world..." A gloved fist connected with Artilitha's head as he spoke these words.
A united jeer arose from the crowd.
The speaker now sounded out again, "Listen to the lies and treachery this heretic speaks! His death shall be that of a thousand cuts!"
Another roar of approval met this statement.
"No it wasn't me!" Artilitha knew it was futile, and as the first zirconian steel blade cut him, he said softly, "Curse you my brother..."
When Artilitha awoke against all odds he found himself changed, unknowing of this...heresy he committed, and left with only that memory, he does not know who his brother is, and was left with pieces of his memory, nothing of which is significant enough to rediscover his past. These additional pieces, or memories, added something more to the usually brainwashed Shadow Angels, who can only control the element dark.
These "pieces" have created a subconcience, not really a dual personality, but a place in his mind that is not overcome by the feeling that creates the Shadow Angel. Artilitha was born in despair, but unlike most other Shadow Angels, he does not use this feeling in his spells, and does not use it in general
Although most of these "pieces" are insignificant little clues, one of them is a fact, or a knowledge of who he once was, and all that can be discerned from this little piece is pride, and the statement, "I am now a light master!"
The Shadow Angels are rarely mages in their previous lives, for it interferes with the transformation process. So instead of becoming a pure dark elementalist, they become hybrid creatures, making them exponentially more powerful.
Artilitha was a light mage in his past life, and because of his ability to harness light energy, and the natural aptitude for dark magic, because of being a Shadow Angel. This ability to control light magic has become a bunch of tiny pieces within a dark mind.
Because these little pieces have found haven in a darkened mind, it shines like a beacon in the night, and Artilitha finds that he is more than any other Shadow Angel, and gives him the ability to use light magic.
But more occured than even the shadows could have thought, the haven within his mind and the powers of the shadow angel clashed, but something, just clicked and the haven of light within his head, merged with his dark powers, and Artilitha became more than just a dark and light user.
His abilities are extremely chaotic, sometimes when he means to use a dark spell, he will use a light one instead. It is believed that if he truly harnesses the powers of both he will become something far greater than dark or light mage.
Using these abilities along with his ability as a sword fighter, nicknamed "Demon," which he has named his two handed blade after, Artilitha quickly gained control of all shadows, no matter where they be. With these abilities in mind, he has ruled fair and justly, and became known as "Dark Angel." Although he was given this name, Artilitha remains a chaotic neutral alignment, and ruling shadows did not appeal to him.
However, he did rule as Lord of Shadows for a long time, but then left suddenly, abandoning his ruling position, and was replaced by Striker. Artilitha has since then wandered the universe aimlessly seeking challenges that no mortal could overcome.
Artilitha has recently come upon the world of Althanas, seeking challenges as usual, but this time he comes for more.
Althanas is a world known to be rich in history and wars, Artilitha comes to expand his knowledge of the universe. Artilitha continues to wander with no clear purpose, merely taking on quests to keep himself from being bored.
Now like I said, the mod who reads this is probably going: "Holy crap! Way to powerful!"
But like I said, he's just here to gauge what kind of expectations are required from a good character. Ignore the Spectral spells, I can't use them over in gua yet, so they won't be used here either.
I would love to use this new character here on Althanas, but I am mainly using this as a gauge to understand what kind of stuff I need to be careful of over here in Althanas. His spell book is massive, but to be approved for the element combo that I wanted (dark/light and later spectral) he had to have it.
Description: Another Shadow Angel, like Striker, but Artilitha (Ar-til-itha) is a very powerful creature who looks like black flames frozen in time, giving him a demonic cast. His head is draconic in appearence while maintaining the frozen flame appearence. He has black wings that, as with the rest of his body, look flame, and draconic-like.
Name: Artilitha
Primary Element: Dark
Secondary Element: Light
Race: Shadow Angel
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Gender: voice and violent tendencies believed to be male
Age: 226
Eyes: Blazing Red
Hair: No hair to be told
Height: 6'6
Weight: 256 lbs
Home: None/ Wandering Spirit
Other: Artilitha, when he was reborn as a Shadow Angel, retained some of his mortality from his life with mortals, thus not giving him a dual personality, but instead giving him a clearer concience, as the Shadow Angels normally have muddled thoughts and are purely devoted to darkness. Artilitha and Striker are the exceptions to this rule. Striker maintained all of his mortal concience, first since Nenal, while Artilitha maintained bits and pieces of it.
Artilitha tends to be very contradictory of himself, sometimes he will avoid fights at all costs, at other times he will do whatever it takes to cause and start a fight. This is because of the bits and pieces of his mortality that he retained, one part of him says fight, the other says back down. Which usually causes him to act the opposite of whichever side of him holds sway at the time, making him very chaotic. This type existence alows him to control both dark and light, with near equality, but as a Shadow Angel, dark gained a slight dominace over light.
Abilities:
Tough Skin-Because of his odd shape and appearence, Artilitha's body has developed to be come a powerful shell, while he still feels pain from hits he recieves, and has a moderate to low pain tolerance, Artilitha is still vulnerable, but drawing blood is unlikely without a fairly powerful strike.
Angel- As with Striker these wings can appear at will and allow Artilitha to fly at high velocities.
Meld with Shadows- Trademark of a Shadow Angel, this allows Artilitha to sink into the shadows and move within them, he is invulnerable in this stage, but he cannot attack either.
Call of Aid- While he is no longer the Lord of Shadows, Artilitha still has a loyal companion that will come when he calls. Part of a shadow race known as the Black Hawks, Calra (Kal-ra) is a an elevated Nightstalker, faster, stronger, and more capable, although the only difference in appearence is that Calra is larger. Calra is a rival to Yinyang's Hell Spawn.
Equipment:
Armour: none
Weapons:
Name of Weapon: Demon
Damage (rating): 7
Description: A long, wicked, two handed blade that glows black with tints of purple. Has a wicked poison that causes an opponent to weaken, not die, but weaken, it is slow acting, so is next to useless unless a fight stretches on for a great amount of time. Then the opponent, if not dead will become fatigued. As soon as an opponent rests for a substantial amount of time, the effects wear off.
Dark Spells:
Spell Name: Dark Bullet
Strength: 1
Description: Artilitha gathers shadows at his index finger and turns them into little "bullets" of shadow that are rapidly fired at the opponent. Weak but if they hit in succession, they can deal a great deal of damage.
Spell Name: Dark Blanket
Strength: 0
Description: Artilitha motions upwards with his arms out, as though he is lifting a great weight and all the shadows in the general vacinity shoot up out of the ground and create a black fog, that is inpenatrable, and unmovable except to powerful light magic.
Spell Name: Dark Pursuer
Strength: 3
Description: Artilitha creates a black shapeless mass that flies after the enemy. Weak, but fast moving.
Spell Name: Black Blade
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha creates a large black blade that may be maintained; however, it requires a steady flow of energy, used generally when Artilitha is seperated from Demon.
Spell Name: Black Wave
Strength: 5
Desciption: A black wave that hits with the force of a rhino, Artilitha simply thrusts his hand out and a wave of darkness ensues.
Spell Name: Stalker
Strength: 7
Description: Powerful illusion, appears as whatever Artilitha wants it to be, its ability to do damage remains the same though.
Spell Name: Black Lashing
Strength: 8
Description: Upgraded version of Shadow Lash. Works the exact same way, but instead of a single strike by a single shadow, all shadows in the general vacinity of Artilitha and his opponents, converge to strike a a single enemy with many, extremely fast strikes. Weak individually, but the spell as a whole is very powerful and causes a great amount of damage.
Spell Name: Black Grave
Strength: 7
Description: Shadows form around the opponent while Artilitha concentrates, then thrusting his arms upward. Shadows shoot upward out of the ground like spikes and attempt to impale the opponent, they hit with a large amount of force.
Spell Name: Black Pillar
Strength: 4
Description: Artilitha places his hands in a gesture, similar to that of a prayer. Chanting quietly, shadows gather beneath the opponents feet and without warning shoot upward, dealing fair amounts of damage to all parts of the body.
Spell Name: Shadow Lash
Strength: 2
Description: Artilitha chants a few words quickly and a shadow from a random area, not even Artilitha knows where from until the last second, and strikes the opponent once. Not much damage, but hits hard enough to cause staggering and in more extreme cases, it causes the opponent to fall over.
Light Spells:
Spell Name: Multiply
Strength: 0
Description: Creates several copies of Artilitha, that run around and confuse the opponent. Takes strong magic to see through the ruse.
Spell Name: Searing Beam
Strength: 7
Description: Extremely fast concentrated beam of light that if it hits, it causes the opponent to be knocked over and maintain burns.
Spell Name: Flare
Strength: 0
Description: Causes a brilliant flash of light that blinds opponents temporarily.
Spell Name: Light Orb
Strength: 3-8
Description: Simple ball of pure light energy, can be charged, and deals burns once it reaches a strength of 7 or 8.
Spell Name: Flare Punch
Strength: 3
Description: Artilitha's hands glow with a brilliantly bright light. Does nothing other than give Artilitha's punches more power.
Spell Name: Light Force
Strength: 3
Description: Simple visible wave of light that strikes with blunt force and moves quickly. Artilitha simply thrusts his hand outward to push the light energy around him towards the opponent.
Spell Name: Laser Beam
Strength: 8
Description: Light gathers at Artilitha's finger. It continues to gather, but remains the width of a pin. When fired at the opponent, it does not hit with any force, rather it burns and causes flammable items to catch fire at a rapidly.
Spell Name: Shockwave
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha crosses his arms in front of his chest,light energy gathers around him, and as though he is breaking free from being tied together, he releases himself from his little bubble of light, causing the light to fly apart quickly, and cause damage, and knock opponents backwards.
Spell Name: Flash Bang Grenade
Strength: 7
Description: Concentrated ball of light forms in Artilitha's hand. Artilitha then has five seconds to get rid of the ball of light before it explodes like a bomb, emitting a loud explosion that is painful to one's ears.
Spell Name: Shrapnel Bomb
Strength: 8
Description: Done only while airborne, Artilitha gathers a large amount of light energy and lobs it down to the ground. The ball of light explodes with tremendous force while little rays of light shoot downward dealing additional damage.
Spectral Spells (LOCKED)
Spell Name: Opal Beam
Strength: 6
Description: Light and dark energy gathers in Artilitha's palm. A beam is then fired that gives off many colors, but glows with a darkness as well, giving an odd spectral effect.
Spell Name: Shooting Star
Strength: 5
Description: Artilitha stretches his arms out diagonally and shadows from the ground and light from the air race to meet each other. When the energy reaches his hands it spends a few seconds molding itself into its original state, spectral energy. Clapping his hands together causes a tremendous ball of darkness that sparkles with a myriad of colors races towards the ground, and explodes. Only used while airborne.
Spell Name: Cruel Rain
Strength: 8
Description: Artilitha chants and energy from both shadow and light gather in large amounts in the sky above him. Combining in the air while Artilitha mutters his prayers, to become their original state, the light and darkness becomes pure spectral energy. It then proceeds to spread out like a black cloud with glowing lights of the entire spectrum, covering very large areas. The at a gesture from Artilitha, the "rain" begins. Bright rays of light, that give the impression of black opals, rains down on a very large area of ground, causing massive damage, each "rain" drop exploding with tremendous force. Causes massive damage.
Spell Name: Star Scythe
Strength: 3
Description: Crossing his right arm across neck, a sparkling ball of blackness forms at his outstretched fingertips rapidly. Making a viscious horizontal chopping motion, a "starry" arc of pure spectral energy, made to order, shoots across the air and strikes with blunt force. Because the energy is created, this spell is more draining than a typical spell of its strength.
Spell Name: Spectral Orb
Strength: 3-6
Description: Artilitha holds his hands in front of his chest and chants quietly, a ball of energy, best described as a ball of the precious stone black opal. Can be charged or fired immediately.
Spell Name: Judgement
Strength: 10
Description: Upgraded version of Cruel Rain. Beginning stages are the same. Is a one post casting, but it causes Artilitha to be completely unable to move due to extreme weakness. Meant as a finisher.
Spell Name: Spectral Geiser
Strength: 5
Description: Extremely straining spell, Artilitha motions upwards with his hands and a geiser of pure spectral energy shoots out of the ground, a result of light and darkness fusing together quickly beneath the ground.
Spell Name: Glowing Fists
Strength: 4
Description: Artilitha's hands become bathed in spectral energy, a result of a few chanted words and a clear yet somewhat black energy forming around is hands. Gives Artilitha's hits more power.
Spell Name: Blazing Specter
Strength: 7
Description: Initially a black shadowy being, but the begins to glow like a rainbow, flashing a myriad of colors. Artilitha must chant for a fairly long amount of time without being interupted.
Spell Name: Opal Bomb
Strength: 5
Description: Similar in initial appearence to the Blazing Specter, a dark ball of shadows that begins to burn with all the colors of the spectrum. Requires focus and some chanting from Artilitha, but is not very strenuous.
Hybrid Spells (neither spectral, dark, or light)
Spell Name: Spectral Ghost
Strength: 7
Description: Creates a copy of Artilitha, the shell or the body, by creating an illusion from light magic, and then channeling shadows, the darkness combines to the body, made from light magic, to create an illusion capable of inflicting a great deal of harm as it attacks in a similar manner as Artilitha. Eventually dissapates, but cannot be killed unless struck directly through the heart, or by removing its head. Takes 2 posts to occur, and can be interrupted.
Spell Name: Black Light Beam
Strength: 8
Description: A highly concentrated beam of light and shadow that causes burns and hits like an 18-wheeler.
Spell Name: Chain Spear
Spell Strength: 6
Description: Creates a spear capable of being thrown, the shadows create the spear, and the light creates a chain that attaches the spear to Artilitha's wrist. Ca be retracted and thrown multiple times, but requires a stead stream of energy, and while Artilitha has great stamina, he still cannot maintain it for long.
Spell Name: Super Nova
Strength: 10
Description: A huge ball of light energy, that explodes with tremendous force, and then a smaller ball of dark energy, within the ball of light explodes within seconds of each other, creating large amounts of damage to the surrounding scenery. Requires 4 posts to use, with only 2 distinct phases. First the ball of darkness is created over two turns, and then phase 2, or post 3 the ball of light envelopes it. Post4 is the finishing touches ad the attack itself.
Informational
History of the Shadow Angels
The history of the Shadow Angels is short and written in blood. Five million years ago a man was struck down unjustly, killed in the most horrible way imaginable.
Refusing to subcumb to death, and pass into the void, he was reborn in shadow. Thus the first Shadow Angel came into existence. He had no memory left as to how he had died, but he knew that he would exact vengeance, as he searched for his identity.
Using his newfound powers, Nenal, "Nightstalker" in the language of shadows, tracked, and then hunted all of his "killers" down, and made them become the victim of the same death they had tried to exact on him.
Immediately, after exacting vengeance, Nenal went into hiding, spending the years training with weapons and learning the full extent of his powers. His studying allowed him to discover that he had gained complete and absolute control over all shadows.
Nenal, after learning how extensive his powers were, came back out into the open. He now served no one, and punished the unjust and cruel. He led an army of what quickly became known as, ironically enough, Nightstalkers.
Fierce, black humanoid creatures with blades for arms, they wreaked havoc among evil forces, and a golden age for Earth arrived.
However, all good things must come to an end. A renegade Nightstalker killed Nenal for a second time, and this time Nenal disappeared forever, and chaos swept the land.
History of Draconians
Draconians come in many shapes and sizes. But unbeknowest to most species of the galaxy, there are actually 3 races of Draconians.The first, which is the most commonly known, are the Dark Draconians.
Visious creatures, these draconians are little more than barbarians. Politics range from who is the strongest and cruelist, and brawling is common among them. Living their lives on plains or in mountains. The single thing that Dark Draconians are good at is fighting.
Although, even this, they are little more than mercenaries, or common thugs. The arts and lore is, for the most part non-existent. The second race is a different story.
The lore masters are simply known as "Keepers," and they are the masters of all of the music and lore of the draconian races. They are scrawny, but tall. These creatures are quite capable of matching their music and lore with the best bards of the galaxy.
Other than an occasional brawl, these creatures are fairly peaceful and get along well with other people.
But what the others are not, The Gilded draconians are. They are the leaders, the politicians and the real soldiers. Trained in warcraft, strategy, and politics all of their lives, all would be considered exceptionally gifted at leading when compared to other species throughout the galaxy.
The 3 races combined created a powerful race, one to be respected and feared, but the union of the three races was not to last.
Some great cataclysmic event separated the draconian races from one another, separating them by worlds rather than by miles. Our story begins with one of the Gilded Draconians, who will one day rise to be a hero, not for just his people, but for the universe...
History of Artilitha
Artilitha remembers little of his past, as is normal for a Shadow Angel. Although he does recall a small flashback, and it is the only thing that connects him with his previous life...
"What is going on?!" Artilitha asked as he awoke, finding himself tied in place by metal cords, while standing.
"This is our heretic!" A voice called to what Artilitha now recognized as a large crowd. "He has been tried and found guilty of it and is now sentenced to public torture and death so all of the heretics in the room may tell their friends what will become of them if they do not submit!"
A roar of approval met this statement. The crowd was apparently large, he now recognized the stadium and it was packed.
"I have been loyal to our cause since the beginning, and we have been duped! Our leaders plan to destroy all of us for the riches of the world..." A gloved fist connected with Artilitha's head as he spoke these words.
A united jeer arose from the crowd.
The speaker now sounded out again, "Listen to the lies and treachery this heretic speaks! His death shall be that of a thousand cuts!"
Another roar of approval met this statement.
"No it wasn't me!" Artilitha knew it was futile, and as the first zirconian steel blade cut him, he said softly, "Curse you my brother..."
When Artilitha awoke against all odds he found himself changed, unknowing of this...heresy he committed, and left with only that memory, he does not know who his brother is, and was left with pieces of his memory, nothing of which is significant enough to rediscover his past. These additional pieces, or memories, added something more to the usually brainwashed Shadow Angels, who can only control the element dark.
These "pieces" have created a subconcience, not really a dual personality, but a place in his mind that is not overcome by the feeling that creates the Shadow Angel. Artilitha was born in despair, but unlike most other Shadow Angels, he does not use this feeling in his spells, and does not use it in general
Although most of these "pieces" are insignificant little clues, one of them is a fact, or a knowledge of who he once was, and all that can be discerned from this little piece is pride, and the statement, "I am now a light master!"
The Shadow Angels are rarely mages in their previous lives, for it interferes with the transformation process. So instead of becoming a pure dark elementalist, they become hybrid creatures, making them exponentially more powerful.
Artilitha was a light mage in his past life, and because of his ability to harness light energy, and the natural aptitude for dark magic, because of being a Shadow Angel. This ability to control light magic has become a bunch of tiny pieces within a dark mind.
Because these little pieces have found haven in a darkened mind, it shines like a beacon in the night, and Artilitha finds that he is more than any other Shadow Angel, and gives him the ability to use light magic.
But more occured than even the shadows could have thought, the haven within his mind and the powers of the shadow angel clashed, but something, just clicked and the haven of light within his head, merged with his dark powers, and Artilitha became more than just a dark and light user.
His abilities are extremely chaotic, sometimes when he means to use a dark spell, he will use a light one instead. It is believed that if he truly harnesses the powers of both he will become something far greater than dark or light mage.
Using these abilities along with his ability as a sword fighter, nicknamed "Demon," which he has named his two handed blade after, Artilitha quickly gained control of all shadows, no matter where they be. With these abilities in mind, he has ruled fair and justly, and became known as "Dark Angel." Although he was given this name, Artilitha remains a chaotic neutral alignment, and ruling shadows did not appeal to him.
However, he did rule as Lord of Shadows for a long time, but then left suddenly, abandoning his ruling position, and was replaced by Striker. Artilitha has since then wandered the universe aimlessly seeking challenges that no mortal could overcome.
Artilitha has recently come upon the world of Althanas, seeking challenges as usual, but this time he comes for more.
Althanas is a world known to be rich in history and wars, Artilitha comes to expand his knowledge of the universe. Artilitha continues to wander with no clear purpose, merely taking on quests to keep himself from being bored.
Now like I said, the mod who reads this is probably going: "Holy crap! Way to powerful!"
But like I said, he's just here to gauge what kind of expectations are required from a good character. Ignore the Spectral spells, I can't use them over in gua yet, so they won't be used here either.