Revenant
09-06-10, 01:24 AM
Name: William Belesavius Arcus
Apparent Age: 38
Race: Revenant
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Glowing Red-Orange
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 178 lbs.
Occupation: Captain of the Ixian Knights
Level – 0 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=19186)
Level – 1 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=20437)
Level – 2 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=21113)
Level – 3 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=21274)
History:
William's Early History (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=19261)
William has continued to reconcile his dual human-demon nature, coming further to grips with his power and the dichotomy that exists within him. Much of his time has been spent researching Kal’Necroth’s tome in the Ixian Knight’s library and a majority of the rest of his time has been spent in various combats.
Recently, Sei has asked William to accompany the mystic, his daughter Anita, and the three Knights of the Apocalypse residing with the Ixian Knights to the frozen wastelands of Berevar for some unknown purpose.
During the trip to Berevar, William encountered the Thayne Goddess Jomil and underwent the test of Icehenge. Forced to face a duplicate of himself in demon form, William only survived through luck and exploitation his own mindless rage. Succeeding in the test, William was granted insight into his own nature by Jomil, cursed to watch everything perpetually decay in his eyes but learning how best to destroy them in the process.
Another facet of William’s test was his realization that he didn’t really know how to fight beyond the mindless raging way he did so while in his demonic form. William resolved to rectify this discrepancy immediately and began his martial arts training under the two Ixian Knight instructors, the monk Hotouri and the fighting master Ta’Gaz.
Appearance:
William has achieved complete control over the dichotomy between his souls and is able to switch between human and demon form at will.
Human
In this form, William is an athletic man, tanned and muscular from his years working in the woods. When he is particularly emotional or agitated, black veins of char ripple across William’s body, as if his skin were constantly cracking. He keeps his coarse black hair short. Even when he is acting jovial, there is a shark-like quality to his grin and a gleam of murderous intent in his eyes which now constantly burn like cooking coals.
William has abandoned the heavy clothes that he used to wear, less self-conscious now of the power existing within him. William still prefers rugged, enduring clothes in colors that blend well with the woodlands that he frequents, and his clothes are covered in dirt and ash. William no longer bandages the parts of his body that aren’t covered by his clothes, though he continues to wear a heavy cloak.
Demon:
When demonic, William’s frame swells. He grows several inches in height and his athletic build swells, becoming thick and muscular. The molten heat of his power chars and burns his skin from inside, turning his entire body into a broken, blackened mass over red, raw flesh. Spurs of sharp charred bone cover his arms, giving him steel-hard claws that cover his hands and forearms like gauntlets. After learning to use his legs as well as his arms in combat, William had grown the same steel-hard bone carapace over his legs, from the tips of his toes to his knees. Like his finger claws, William’s toes grow into razor sharp claws. His teeth, while still sharp as the fangs of a predatory beast, are no longer twisted and jagged.
Personality:
William remains stoic and humorless in the best of situations. Though he tries to be warm and friendly when the situation demands, he comes off more as unsettling and slightly wrong, as if he is only mimicking human behavior. Though his control over him emotions is much greater know, he is still prone to mood swings, which almost always swing towards anger. This leaves those around him with the impression that he is a short fuse waiting to ignite at a moment’s notice, which of course he is.
Skills and Abilities:
Physical Stats (compared to an average human warrior) are halved in William’s human form.
Strength: 4x
Speed: 3x
Demonic Transformation: By calling on his demonic essence, William can transform himself into a demonic creature, shifting between human and demon forms at will.
Revenant Healing: Above Average – William’s revenant physique repairs damage done to his physical form. Minor wounds can now be healed within a matter of minutes, moderate wounds within hours, and serious wounds within days. The healing time for critical and lethal wounds takes a significant amount of time and cannot be done within a single thread unless it too covers a significant time frame.
Weapon - Axe: Average – Realizing that his claws are not always the best option for fighting, William has continued to work on and improve his combat capabilities with an axe and is now considered to be as proficient as a trained soldier.
Weapon – Martial Combat: Above Average – William’s studies in martial arts and his long hours spent in combat with a variety of opponents has made William skilled in fighting without weapons.
Weapon/Defense - Claws: Expert – William’s claws are his favored weapons and he uses them with good effect. They are currently as strong as steel. William’s bone claws have grown to cover his hands and arms up to his elbows, and his legs up to his knees. William can use these to parry and deflect moderate attacks as if he were parrying with a weapon of shield.
Defense - Toughness: Heavy Leather – William’s charred skin if thick and can absorb more damage than normal flesh, acting as armor for the revenant.
Special Ability - Molten Core: The demonic power that flows through William burns like fire, giving him a surrounding aura of heat. The air surrounding William for up to five feet is intensely warm and slightly uncomfortable. This aura can slowly melt frost or ice around William and shelters him from moderate levels of heat, though it does not prevent him from being frozen or burned.
Special Ability – Destructive Enlightenment: Having completed the Thayne Goddess Jomil’s test at Icehenge, William was granted insight into his destructive nature by the Goddess. This ability is both a blessing and a curse for William, as everything he looks at decays in his sight, showing him the inherent weaknesses and impurities in objects that may be exploited. This ability cannot be turned off. William is still learning how to use this power to its full effect, and as such cannot use it against living creatures. They are too much in flux for this power to be of any use at this time.
Equipment:
Heavy Traveling Clothes – Tough wool and denim apparel that wards off the rigors of travel and bad weather.
Tome of Kal’Necroth: The tome of ancient magic that Kal’Necroth used to create William’s Revenant body. William doesn’t understand it, but keeps it with him in hopes that one day he can learn its secrets and perhaps undo what was done to him. It is highly resistant to heat and is waterproof.
Translations of Kal’Necroth’s Tome (2 of 4) – Through his travels, William has found various methods of translating the words and symbols of the ancient tome that he carries. Once he has gathered enough translations, he will be able to unlock the secrets of the infernal sorcerer who created him.
Deadwood Rod: This rough hewn, bone white rod is long enough to function as a walking cane and is fashioned from the wood of a special grove a day’s march north of the town of Underwood. This wood has roughly the same strength and toughness as Akashima Redwood but with the added property that it absorbs blood that comes into contact with it. The wood becomes warmer as more blood is absorbed, and can grow hot enough to burn bare skin if enough blood is fed into it over a long enough period of time. This wood is also highly susceptible to magical enchantment, using its stored blood reserves to fuel any magic enhancement placed upon it. This rod has no magical properties at this time and has only absorbed enough blood to make it slightly warm to the touch.
Apparent Age: 38
Race: Revenant
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Glowing Red-Orange
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 178 lbs.
Occupation: Captain of the Ixian Knights
Level – 0 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=19186)
Level – 1 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=20437)
Level – 2 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=21113)
Level – 3 (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=21274)
History:
William's Early History (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=19261)
William has continued to reconcile his dual human-demon nature, coming further to grips with his power and the dichotomy that exists within him. Much of his time has been spent researching Kal’Necroth’s tome in the Ixian Knight’s library and a majority of the rest of his time has been spent in various combats.
Recently, Sei has asked William to accompany the mystic, his daughter Anita, and the three Knights of the Apocalypse residing with the Ixian Knights to the frozen wastelands of Berevar for some unknown purpose.
During the trip to Berevar, William encountered the Thayne Goddess Jomil and underwent the test of Icehenge. Forced to face a duplicate of himself in demon form, William only survived through luck and exploitation his own mindless rage. Succeeding in the test, William was granted insight into his own nature by Jomil, cursed to watch everything perpetually decay in his eyes but learning how best to destroy them in the process.
Another facet of William’s test was his realization that he didn’t really know how to fight beyond the mindless raging way he did so while in his demonic form. William resolved to rectify this discrepancy immediately and began his martial arts training under the two Ixian Knight instructors, the monk Hotouri and the fighting master Ta’Gaz.
Appearance:
William has achieved complete control over the dichotomy between his souls and is able to switch between human and demon form at will.
Human
In this form, William is an athletic man, tanned and muscular from his years working in the woods. When he is particularly emotional or agitated, black veins of char ripple across William’s body, as if his skin were constantly cracking. He keeps his coarse black hair short. Even when he is acting jovial, there is a shark-like quality to his grin and a gleam of murderous intent in his eyes which now constantly burn like cooking coals.
William has abandoned the heavy clothes that he used to wear, less self-conscious now of the power existing within him. William still prefers rugged, enduring clothes in colors that blend well with the woodlands that he frequents, and his clothes are covered in dirt and ash. William no longer bandages the parts of his body that aren’t covered by his clothes, though he continues to wear a heavy cloak.
Demon:
When demonic, William’s frame swells. He grows several inches in height and his athletic build swells, becoming thick and muscular. The molten heat of his power chars and burns his skin from inside, turning his entire body into a broken, blackened mass over red, raw flesh. Spurs of sharp charred bone cover his arms, giving him steel-hard claws that cover his hands and forearms like gauntlets. After learning to use his legs as well as his arms in combat, William had grown the same steel-hard bone carapace over his legs, from the tips of his toes to his knees. Like his finger claws, William’s toes grow into razor sharp claws. His teeth, while still sharp as the fangs of a predatory beast, are no longer twisted and jagged.
Personality:
William remains stoic and humorless in the best of situations. Though he tries to be warm and friendly when the situation demands, he comes off more as unsettling and slightly wrong, as if he is only mimicking human behavior. Though his control over him emotions is much greater know, he is still prone to mood swings, which almost always swing towards anger. This leaves those around him with the impression that he is a short fuse waiting to ignite at a moment’s notice, which of course he is.
Skills and Abilities:
Physical Stats (compared to an average human warrior) are halved in William’s human form.
Strength: 4x
Speed: 3x
Demonic Transformation: By calling on his demonic essence, William can transform himself into a demonic creature, shifting between human and demon forms at will.
Revenant Healing: Above Average – William’s revenant physique repairs damage done to his physical form. Minor wounds can now be healed within a matter of minutes, moderate wounds within hours, and serious wounds within days. The healing time for critical and lethal wounds takes a significant amount of time and cannot be done within a single thread unless it too covers a significant time frame.
Weapon - Axe: Average – Realizing that his claws are not always the best option for fighting, William has continued to work on and improve his combat capabilities with an axe and is now considered to be as proficient as a trained soldier.
Weapon – Martial Combat: Above Average – William’s studies in martial arts and his long hours spent in combat with a variety of opponents has made William skilled in fighting without weapons.
Weapon/Defense - Claws: Expert – William’s claws are his favored weapons and he uses them with good effect. They are currently as strong as steel. William’s bone claws have grown to cover his hands and arms up to his elbows, and his legs up to his knees. William can use these to parry and deflect moderate attacks as if he were parrying with a weapon of shield.
Defense - Toughness: Heavy Leather – William’s charred skin if thick and can absorb more damage than normal flesh, acting as armor for the revenant.
Special Ability - Molten Core: The demonic power that flows through William burns like fire, giving him a surrounding aura of heat. The air surrounding William for up to five feet is intensely warm and slightly uncomfortable. This aura can slowly melt frost or ice around William and shelters him from moderate levels of heat, though it does not prevent him from being frozen or burned.
Special Ability – Destructive Enlightenment: Having completed the Thayne Goddess Jomil’s test at Icehenge, William was granted insight into his destructive nature by the Goddess. This ability is both a blessing and a curse for William, as everything he looks at decays in his sight, showing him the inherent weaknesses and impurities in objects that may be exploited. This ability cannot be turned off. William is still learning how to use this power to its full effect, and as such cannot use it against living creatures. They are too much in flux for this power to be of any use at this time.
Equipment:
Heavy Traveling Clothes – Tough wool and denim apparel that wards off the rigors of travel and bad weather.
Tome of Kal’Necroth: The tome of ancient magic that Kal’Necroth used to create William’s Revenant body. William doesn’t understand it, but keeps it with him in hopes that one day he can learn its secrets and perhaps undo what was done to him. It is highly resistant to heat and is waterproof.
Translations of Kal’Necroth’s Tome (2 of 4) – Through his travels, William has found various methods of translating the words and symbols of the ancient tome that he carries. Once he has gathered enough translations, he will be able to unlock the secrets of the infernal sorcerer who created him.
Deadwood Rod: This rough hewn, bone white rod is long enough to function as a walking cane and is fashioned from the wood of a special grove a day’s march north of the town of Underwood. This wood has roughly the same strength and toughness as Akashima Redwood but with the added property that it absorbs blood that comes into contact with it. The wood becomes warmer as more blood is absorbed, and can grow hot enough to burn bare skin if enough blood is fed into it over a long enough period of time. This wood is also highly susceptible to magical enchantment, using its stored blood reserves to fuel any magic enhancement placed upon it. This rod has no magical properties at this time and has only absorbed enough blood to make it slightly warm to the touch.