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Updates or changes from last approved workup in red. I have purposely minimised his abilities, as I want there to be a canon series of threads leading up to him gaining new abilities and pacifying some of his more hellish Kadingar abilities for a level 15 profile later down the line. Shinsou is effectively stripped of most of his magic in Telgradia's version of Hell, but when he comes back at Level 15...
There is method in the madness.
[CHANGELOG from initial Level 14 workup]
- Removed all Telgradian abilities except Enpera Kurohitsugi and Spirit Sense
- Sold Stygian and Exia Muken, and removed The Goat.
- Added Kadingar: Dark Icon
- Added Kadingar: Titan
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Name: Shinsou Vaan Osiris
Gender: Male
Age: 34 years old
Race: Telgradian
Eye Color: Gold
Hair color: Brown
Height: 6’0â€
Weight: 155lbs
Alignment: Neutral
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The years and trials they brought have moulded Shinsou into something much more formative than his younger self. A philosophical and intelligent man, he is strikingly calm and calculating, being able to think and talk through most problems. The sheer power he commands (both physically and as co-leader of the Brotherhood) has given the Telgradian an unprecedented confidence, but he still displays a certain level of fear of the power wielded by a handful of individuals on Althanas. Amongst those that he truly respects, and sometimes fears, are Joshua Cronen, Storm Veritas and Philomel Van der Aart.
His relationship with Storm Veritas has been central to not only the Brotherhood's survival, but also his personal development. Even though the siege of Radasanth ended without the desired results, the Brotherhood they built still exists and their continued partnership ensures that the organization, and their friendship, endures beyond the armistice signed with the assembly.
Recently, Shinsou's focus switched from conquering Corone to finding and annihilating Arius Mephisto; a former right hand man of his who betrayed the Brotherhood and attempted to assassinate him. Such is the level of anger at this turn of events that Shinsou can no longer commit to any other task, prioritising Arius's death or capture above all else.
After the conclusion of Redemption of Tylmerande, a dying Arius casts Shinsou into the hellscape of the Telgradian underworld. Trapped and wounded so badly as to be on the fringes of death, Shinsou is guided across the brutal and burning landscape to the blood temple of Nihilatus in an effort to forge a portal back to Althanas. Whilst eventually successful, the experience nearly breaks Shinsou, who finds himself dumped in the Xangu basin.
Weapons
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Name: Kadingar (bought here
Type: Iai Sword (modified Katana with no curve)
Material: Prevailda
Quality: Masterwork
Kadingar was found by Shinsou Vaan Osiris in the hellscape of Telgradia's underworld after the events of The Redemption of Tylmerande. Incorporating the special metal gained from melting down Enpera (Shinsou's original sword) into its design, Kadingar is comprised of a Prevailda compound that has not only strengthened the blade, but also Shinsou's spiritual connection to the weapon. The hilt is comprised of a traditional feudal grip, wrapped in black and gold cord, and the blade's metal is tinted slightly golden.
So fine is the cutting edge of the blade that each swing emits a light note, and this has caused many to believe that the Raiaerans (famous for their enchantments) were involved in its design, although this is untrue.
Enchantment:
Once per thread, for a duration of four posts, Kadingar allows Shinsou to draw on the sword's power and enter an enhanced state of being.
In this state, Shinsou's reactions are enhanced to 6x that of a normal human, for four posts. This allows him to process information much more quickly, allowing him to react to events much faster than his base self.
Once Shinsou's berserk state ends, the Telgradian spends the next in-character post in a state of debuff. His reactions fall to HALF of that of a normal human.
Skills
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Swordsmanship
Shinsou has grown to be a master swordsman, allowing him to duel with even the most schooled of warriors on an equal footing.
Abilities
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Telgradian Abilities
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Spirit Sense
Duration: Passive
Tier: N/A
Shinsou is able to detect the presence and power level of living or un-dead people that he has already met. The stronger the person, the further away he can detect a presence. He is able to distinguish which power signature belongs to whom.
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Enpera Kurohitsugi
Duration: Twice per thread
Tier: Dehlar
This spell, a similar ability to Shinsou's previous trademark attack, allows him to unleash a volley of up to fifteen dark matter projectiles of Shinsou's choosing (usually spears), each with the strength of Dehlar, from a dark vortex of his creation. The void can be created with the wave of a hand and appears on command, usually from behind him.
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Kadingar Abilities
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Kadingar: Dark Icon
Channelling the power of Kadingar, Shinsou casts a circular, black and purple demonic rune thirty feet in diameter with himself at the epicentre. After three seconds, anything within the diameter of the rune circle, up to an altitude of a hundred feet, is struck by a deluge of pillars of Dark Matter. These pillars rise from the ground at a speed of eighty miles per hour and travel only vertically. Each pillar consists of energy powerful enough to crush Prevailda.
To ensure his own safety, an "exclusion zone" of two feet in all directions from the epicentre is created around Shinsou where no pillars will rise.
The pillars dissipate after five seconds, and the skill can be used twice per thread.
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Kadingar: Titan
During his escape from the burning hellscape of Telgradia's demonic underworld, Shinsou came across the main blood temple of the ancient Telgradian dark lords. Once within its obsidian walls, he was led into a trap by the denizens that wished to consume him and Shinsou was forced into combat with a greater demon known as the Nihilatus; a powerful, horned behemoth that stood over ten foot tall and wielded the legendary sword Kadingar. After stealing Kadingar from Nihilatus and impaling it into its exposed brain, Shinsou watched as the demon's corpse dissolved and transferred into the blade. With a final crimson flash, the sword's total assimilation of the beast was complete.
Once per thread, for a duration of 5 posts, Shinsou is able to channel the raw power of Nihilatus and enhance Kadingar as follows:
- The entirety of the sword transforms into a Prevailda shaft. At the shaft's head, an axe head forms from two half-moon blades of crimson energy hot and powerful enough to cut through Prevailda. The axe can be swung at the same speed as the sword variant, due to having very little additional weight.
- When swung, the axe discharges a horizontal, five foot blade of energy that can cut through Prevailda. The blade can travel up to thirty feet before dissipating.
- If the axe strikes living tissue, it will absorb life force from the target. Other than trauma wounds, this does no additional damage or has any additional effect on the target, but the life force stolen is channelled to Shinsou. This restores his stamina, and gives him a demonic enhancement that can be used to temporarily enhance his strength to 8x a normal human for two posts.
Background:
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Early years and the Telgradian Civil War
Shinsou Vaan Osiris, a Telgradian was believed to have been born in the Outer Territories of the Planet Telgradia in year 515 and studied under a number of different Telgradian masters as a student of the elite Council of Five, a powerful warrior force that protected the Telgradian Royal Family, with the sole intention of being Telgradia’s finest warrior. His biological father, Telos Soltair, was one such master. During his upbringing he became fast friends with a fellow student named Jaeger Keats, who with Shinsou (known at that time as Atlas Revaan) graduated from the Telgradian military academy with the highest honours. The young Shinsou became a respected commander of a Telgradian division and was a vocal critic of the Council of Five's inactivity in the ongoing war between the nations of Telgradia and the Kratas Outlands, home to the Jal Shey sect. This criticism stretched to fury when Telgradia’s princess Rhovani, Shinsou’s love interest, was kidnapped and taken by the Jal Shey to the Kratas Outlands without meeting the slightest bit of resistance.
Choosing to go against the Council’s wishes and wanting to wait no longer to take action, the now powerful Shinsou gathered a small, ragtag guerrilla force together in defiance of the overwhelming Jal Shey numbers and waged a relentless campaign against the Kratas Outlands. However, when Shinsou eventually defeated the Jal Shey lords at the Battle of Gaus VII in Telgradian year 535, he and his friend Keats followed the trail of a mysterious dark influence to the far reaches of Kratas. Here, the two discovered a reconstituted Jal Shey Empire and learned of four great powers that had been controlling events from the very beginning; Temperance, Hierophant, Chariot and Justice. Temperance, being the most powerful of the four great lords, had devoured Rhovani’s soul after needing a source of energy to continue to live. As Shinsou arrived at his temple, the Telgradian could only watch as the remnants of his love were scattered like ash into an abyss by the terrible beast. A chaotic battle ensued that destroyed Temperance’s temple, but even with Shinsou’s full power he could not match the beast’s supernatural abilities. Temperance saw the power that Shinsou possessed and chose to take possession of his and Jaeger’s bodies to further the Jal Shey goals. Both men were forced against their will to betray Telgradia, declaring themselves Emperor and Servant to the new Jal Shey Empire and declared war against the Royal State of Telgradia and the Council of Five.
Sent back to Telgradia as Temperance’s agents of death, the newly anointed Emperor Shinsou Vaan Osiris (having discarded his old moniker of Revaan) and Keats broke the ranks of the Telgradian forces with relative ease. However, a matter of miles from Telgradia’s capital city, Garah, Shinsou and Keats were separated. All five members of the Council of Five appeared to stop the possessed Shinsou from obliterating the capital, Telos Soltair included, and after a gruelling battle Shinsou was subsequently captured and sentenced to imprisonment in the high security facility Kokushi for his crimes. The Telgradian, considered too powerful and dangerous for a normal incareration, was also sentenced to a process known as razing – used only on the most violent and profound of criminals – which strips the soul of an offender from their body completely and imprisons it inside a crystal artefact known as a Pillar. His body was then cleansed over a period of three years and Shinsou’s mind, along with Temperance’s influence, was eradicated.
The Council of Five believed that was the end of Shinsou.
The Gnarled Roots of Osiris (click to read)
With his memory wiped, three years later Osiris was visited by the Council of Five commander, Dxun Ra, at Kokushi’s most secure level. As the captain-commander released the seals on Shinsou’s body, the Telgradian remarked that he recognised the magic that Dxun had used to release him. Intrigued by how Shinsou was able to remember anything at all, Dxun Ra promised that they would meet again soon and left him in the hands of Kokushi’s guards and the lower Telgradian Council. Now restored to the name of Atlas Revaan and unaware as to his previous identity, Shinsou was summoned by councillor Flexton Ra for an important mission that the Council of Five wished him to undertake. After leading Atlas to believe he had been a heroic general who had fought Shinsou Vaan Osiris’s empire before being gravely injured and had been “healing†in Kokushi, Flexton told the man that, overnight, the Pillar artefact containing Shinsou’s original soul had been stolen and he wanted Atlas to retrieve it. Reluctantly, Atlas agreed to the mission, which lead him to once again, unknowingly, cross paths with his old friend Jaeger Keats (now a member of the Telgradian Royal Guard and still under Temperance’s influence).
After cryptic meetings with Keats, and with Atlas becoming more suspicious of his own identity, the mission proceeded as planned. Atlas Revaan and a prison guard that included Gnarloc within its ranks landed on Althanas, where the Pillar of Osiris had been tracked. It was then that Jaeger Keats appeared and revealed his true colours to Atlas, bringing with him both the head of Atlas’s murdered commanding officer General Osho and the Pillar of Osiris. In a flash, Keats used the pillar to restore Shinsou back to his “original selfâ€.
With his memory somewhat restored, Shinsou initially appeared to be his old self. Recognising the fortress they were in as the one containing the legendary Cartographer (a building containing the seal of Temperance, who had lay dormant since Shinsou’s incarceration), the Telgradian revealed himself to be free of Temperance’s influence and now instead turned on Keats, who was attempting to convince Shinsou to help him revive Temperance and lay waste to Telgradia once again. Shinsou’s refusal led to the former allies duelling and, after intervention by Gnarloc, the Telgradian succeeded in killing his former right hand man. This chain of events helped to shape Shinsou to be something encompassing both of his identities and, with his business concluded and no further desire to return to his home planet, the Telgradian began to settle on Althanas, making the restoration of his mostly sealed power his top priority.
Recent History
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The following is a summary of key threads in Shinsou's journey since arriving on Althanas.
Awakening after a three year imprisonment in Telgradia's most secure prison, Atlas Revaan becomes entangled in a plot to obtain an artefact for the Council of Five that would prevent the return of the infamous Shinsou Vaan Osiris. After being led by Jaeger Keats to the Cartographer library on Althanas, Atlas discovers that he, in fact, is actually Shinsou Vaan Osiris and that his memories were stripped from him in an effort to convert him back to Telgradia's whims. Deciding to take his life into his own hands and refusing to rejoin Jaeger Keats or return to Telgradia, Shinsou kills Jaeger and leaves Telgradia for good.
Telos Soltair, Shinsou's father, and the rest of the Council of Five deliberate on Shinsou's recent defection to Althanas. Meanwhile, Shinsou finds himself rueing his lost powers and hires a former ranger called Bane for protection until they return to him. Bane's former guild, the Kinshara Assassin's Guild, send men to kill Bane after he dishonourably leaves the order and Shinsou is caught up in the battle, showing his prowess even despite his lost powers. Once the battle is done, Shinsou decides to re-forge his sword, Enpera, in an effort to regain some of his lost abilities.
(TBC - quite a few years of key threads to update here)
