Name: Shinsou Vaan OsirisQuote:
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Gender: Male
Age: 32 years old
Race: Telgradian
Eye Color: Gold
Hair color: Brown
Height: 6’0â€
Weight: 155lbs
Alignment: Neutral
Personality
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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 has 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.
Weapons
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Stygian
(Won from the Auction House here for 1550 GP)
Stygian is a Mithril longsword crafted in time immemorial by a Raiaeran swordsmith who's name has been lost to obscurity. In addition to it's natural fortitude and innate mystical proclivities, the blade holds a deeper enchantment that was sung into its craft by one of the ancient High Bards.
In darkness, it glows with a faint light that provides the bearer visibility within ten feet, and faint light outside of that for another five. This cannot be stifled.
Its song resonates from deep within, and those with magical training or understanding can hear it if they concentrate. It can be invoked thrice a day/thread by utterance of the word "nightfall." Doing this will cause anyone who has been struck by the weapon within the past ten minutes to become intoxicated by "the darkest night," a nightmarish evil from Elvish lore. This state causes them to lose their wits and become thrall to the bearer of the blade for twelve hours. They will obey any command short of something that directly endangers their life.
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The Goat
The fire blade had been rumoured to have been seen in the back alleys across Alerar, but its true location had been unknown for centuries. Shinsou and Enpera tracked it down using notes from the Brotherhood's archives and eventually located the sword deep within the catacombs under Radasanth itself. The sword is a regular steel sword with a crimson blade and a black hilt, but it is said to harbour a power that is yet to reveal itself (please refer to Hysteria's crystal sword thread here for further details).
The Goat was obtained here.
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Exia Muken
This sword is effectively a hilt through which Shinsou channels his Dark Matter. The matter then compresses and becomes extremely intense, forming a blade of powerful dark magic that can compete with the highest tiers of metal on Althanas (bought here)
Materials: Prevailda hilt, diamond core
Cutting power: Prevailda
Power up time: 5 seconds
Usage: 1 minute / 2 posts
Cooldown: 1.5 minutes / 3 posts
Noise: Soft hum
Blade length and type: 90cms, single straight edge of concentrated dark matter
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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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
Duration: Can be summoned once per thread but passive thereafter
Tier: Titanium
Shinsou’s sword, Enpera, lost its physical form a year ago but remained in spirit form and remained dormant within Shinsou’s soul. Using this ability the Telgradian can manifest or de-materialise Enpera’s true form back into the physical plane as desired by simply thinking or speaking Enpera’s name.
Enpera’s form is that of a 90cm long titanium katana, complete with a silver hilt wrapped with navy green and silver cord.
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Dark Matter
Duration: Four times per thread
Tier: Titanium
Shinsou can call upon powerful non-elemental dark energy that can be used as handheld weapons, moulded into another shape or used as a projectile up to a range of two hundred yards. The dark energy comprises solid dark matter that can pierce or cut flesh and medium tier armour, and is the equivalent strength of titanium.
Duration: Four times per thread
Tier: Titanium
Shinsou can call forth vines of dark matter to do his bidding in an area up to thirty feet away and can call upon this skill four times before exhausting it for the duration of the battle. Weapons and objects created by Dark Matter last four posts.
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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 (as long as they conform to the rules of the dark matter ability), 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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Hakai: Enpera Shinkotei
Duration: Four posts
Tier: N/A
By uttering or thinking the incantation “Hakai, Enpera Shinkoteiâ€, Shinsou breaks the final seal on Enpera’s power and unleashes its true form. This changes Enpera into Enpera Shinkotei, extending its length to 180cms and making it a deadly no-dachi anti cavalry sword. This also grants Shinsou the following abilities:
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Phantom Step
Duration: Four posts
Tier: N/A
Shinsou receives an 8x buff to his speed. This skill is passive.
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Hierro Aura
Duration: Four posts
Tier: N/A
Shinsou receives an 8x buff to his strength. This skill is passive.
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Berlioz Edge
Duration: Four uses
Tier: N/A
Enpera Shinkotei's blade is surrounded by a thin but powerful edge of concentrated Dark Matter. If the sword strikes an object at close range, it is able to cut through Titanium strength armour. If the sword does not physically make contact with a surface, the dark matter edge will instead release from the blade as a curved shockwave 360cms in length. This shockwave can travel up to a hundred foot, but will only cut up to Dehlar strength armour.
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Danzetsu
Duration: Four posts
Tier: N/A
Telgradian society long claimed that a Hakai sword release was the pinnacle of the mountain of achievement for a Telgradian, and that no further evolution was possible beyond this level. However, after an intense period of training and communing with Enpera, Shinsou has been able to surpass even the mighty Hakai and achieve an ascended form of sword release he calls "Danzetsu".
By uttering or thinking the incantation “Danzetsuâ€, Shinsou is able to merge with the spirit of Enpera inside his blade. This causes Enpera to disappear entirely and changes Shinsou's physical appearance. His hair becomes jet black, straight and waist length. His sclera turns black, and black runes outlined in red appear all over his skin. This also grants Shinsou the following abilities, in addition to those granted by Hakai:
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Rift Phase
Duration:One use
Tier: N/A
Shinsou is able to phase out of the physical plane and reappear anywhere he pleases within a hundred foot. He cannot be harmed during the phase, but this can only be used once per day.
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Oscuras
Duration: Three uses
Tier: N/A
Shinsou can focus his dark energy into a powerful, thin particle beam that can travel up to a kilometre in range. The dark energy comprises volatile and superhot dark matter that can pierce high tier armour the equivalent strength of titanium.
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Severing Void
Duration: One use per thread
Shinsou's Severing Void is a high-level, purely defensive Telgradian spell. It creates a razor thin but extremely powerful barrier of emerald light the size of a tower shield. The spell can nullify any offensive magic or physical attack by anyone ranked at Shinsou's level or lower, but only once, after which the barrier is shattered and may not be summoned again that thread.
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Widowmaker
Duration: Three times a day, four post duration
Tier: N/A
Shinsou concentrates a quantity of dark matter energy into his sword and ‘taints’ it. The resulting effect ensures that any residual or gradual healing abilities learned or inherent in an opponent are negated entirely for four posts if any part of them (flesh, blade or armour) touches the blade. This ability will not work on or through barriers and can be used three times a day.
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Starflare Pulsar
Ability: 15
Duration: One use
Shinsou's Starflare Pulsar is his most powerful and feared spell. Dealing non-elemental damage to a single target, Shinsou commands seven superpowered Dark Matter orbs to surround the target and implode. The resulting gravitational force within the circle can shatter even Diamond tier materials. Starflare Pulsar can only be used once per day competitively and twice per story orientated thread.
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)
