Name: Shen (last name unknown)
Race: Demonkin (formerly human)
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Height: 6’6
Weight: 350 lbs

Appearance: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/354/8/c/orc_blade_master_by_heewonlee-d35b1xt.jpg
(minus the huge beads)

Personality: Shen is a man with a torn personality. While he’s originally a well-intentioned person with a strong sense of honor and justice, the Usurper has corrupted his mind with violent tendencies and a thirst for power and blood. For now, he’s managed to convince himself that he does what he does for the good of mankind, but deep down even he must wonder how long this will last before it all goes amiss…

Abilities and powers

Physical enhancements – Shen’s mutated body brings with it a variety of advantages. He can deadlift 2200 lbs and sprint at 80 mph. Despite his size and weight, he can jump superhumanly long distances, do a wide variety of acrobatics and is overall extremely agile. His bones are reinforced, requiring three times as much force to break as before, and his wounds heal at 5 times human rate. His sight and hearing are both roughly twice as powerful as a normal human’s. He also has advanced low-light vision, allowing him to see in near-full darkness. As a downside, very bright lights or sudden flashes can blind him more easily.

Demonic blood – Shen’s corrupted body grants him a passive resistance to fire. Flames and other heat-based attacks are generally shrugged off, but due to his human side, the resistance is not perfect. He can still suffer scorching wounds and internal damage if exposed to common fire for a long time or when hit by exceptionally powerful flames (3500+ °F). On the flip side, divine magic deals increased damage to him and healing spells that draw from a divine source are ineffective. Holy water and certain other divine items will hurt him on touch, as if he was an actual demon.

Iron will – Shen was born with an exceptional mental fortitude, which was further enhanced by his mental training as a monk. All but the most powerful of mind-altering effects will be shrugged off or at least partially resisted, such as the mind-controlling effect of the Usurper.

Martial arts – Shen is trained extensively in a mixture of elite fighting techniques, focusing on unarmed combat. These techniques focus on dealing fast and precise strikes with hands and feet, as well as preventing damage to oneself by dodging or countering.

Swordsmanship – While sword fighting wasn’t part of his training as a monk, his skills with a sword developed at a supernaturally fast pace from the moment he began using the Usurper, as if he absorbed the knowledge and muscle-memory of the sword’s previous owners through use. He’s not the greatest swordsman in the world, but he’s close, capable of slashing and parrying at near-superhuman speed.

Pyromancy – Shen can generate and control fire to a certain extent. It can only be generated in direct contact with his skin before being able to control it further away from him. Any part of his skin will do, but the hands are easiest. Fire that stays within three feet of him remains under his control and doesn’t go out by itself as long as he’s actively maintaining it. Once the fire leaves that radius, it will continue moving in the direction it was already going and will naturally snuff out after a few seconds unless it hits something flammable. For the purpose of pyromancy, Usurper is considered a part of Shen’s body as long as he’s holding it. His pyromancy based attacks include, but are not limited to:
- Firing a cone of flame from his hand, similar to a flamethrower, about 40’ long and 20’ wide at the end. The fire is 2500 °F at the center and gradually drops down to 1500 °F near the edges. This requires no charge but is fairly energy draining. When used at full power, it drains about 1% of his total stamina every second.
- Creating a fireball in his hand and throwing it. When done without charge, it’s simply a basketball-sized sphere of flame that scorches things on contact. When charged, the fire becomes compressed and will explode on impact. With a 5 second charge, it has an explosion radius of 20’ and enough force to send humans flying for several yards. The fire is 2500 °F at the center and 1500 °F near the edges. On max charge, 10 seconds, the radius, force and temperature have all doubled. A half-charged fireball costs 5% of his total stamina, a full-charged one costs 15%.
- Channeling the heat of the flames into Usurper’s blade, gradually heating the metal to 2500 °F within about 10 seconds, at which point it will glow bright orange. If the ability is no longer sustained, the sword loses its heat over the course of one minute. The energy cost for this is ignorable.

Equipment

Usurper – The source of most of Shen’s powers. A large 5’ long katana of unknown origin, made of a non-reflective dark grey metal that is indestructible by conventional means. It’s surprisingly heavy for such a slender weapon, only able to be wielded efficiently by someone with superhuman strength, and has a razor-sharp edge that never dulls.

Usurper (and in extension Shen) draws power from the departing souls of its victims, slowly growing a little bit more powerful with each kill. The legends say that Usurper’s wielder once defeated entire armies of the greatest warriors, but the sword has lost the majority of its power due to centuries of disuse.

As long as its current owner is alive, his and Usurper’s souls are inseparably entwined and Usurper will not grant its power to anyone else. The sword has shown to have a mysterious way of returning to its owner when separated for too long. When the current owner is killed, Usurper will once again attempt to bind itself to the next suitable creature that touches it.

History

Shen was orphaned shortly after his birth due to an unknown cause. With no one left to take care of the young child, he was taken in by the monks of an isolated monastery to be raised as one of them. There he was trained from a very young age in the ways of the warrior monks, which includes extensive physical and spiritual training in order to achieve enlightenment. Shen showed great affinity for these teachings and over the course of many years he developed into a full-fledged monk. While his ability to follow orders was imperfect, he more than made up for it with his willingness to learn and his great mental fortitude.

It was only when he completed his training at the age of 24 that he found out about the monastery’s real purpose. Stored in a vault deep below the monastery was an ancient weapon, a demonic sword that the sensei called Usurper, after the way it used to hijack the souls of men to pursue its own dark purpose. When any attempt to destroy the weapon resulted in failure, it was stored far away from the prying eyes of the civilized world, to be guarded by the warrior monks until the end of days.

Yet despite all his training, Shen was an ambitious man. He claimed that the monks couldn’t remain idle while the outside world was being torn apart by wars, demons and more. He insisted that they held a power too great to ignore and urged his masters to tame this weapon and utilize it for the greater good, but the sensei were adamant in their denial. Shen had little choice but to accept this, yet over the following weeks he found himself plagued by nightmares of standing powerless as an evil being slaughtered his fellow monks. It was always the same dream and the same creature, and the sight wouldn’t leave his mind even during the day.

One night, he couldn’t handle it anymore. He had to acquire the one thing that could keep his brothers safe, even if he was told not to. Shen snuck down into the vault to inspect the Usurper, only to be stopped by a senior monk. On an unfamiliar violent impulse, he charged the older man and managed to overpower him just long enough to make a run for the sword. The moment his fingers touched the hilt, the weapon was reawakened and its soul reached out and forcibly fused with his. The massive injection of power took its toll on Shen’s body and rapidly transformed him into a demonic being, hulking and green-skinned. Although the sword never spoke, its intentions were clear as day. Usurper urged him to give in to its bloodlust and raze the monastery with everyone inside. It was only through Shen’s miraculous strength of will that he could resist slaughtering his former brothers and flee into the mountains instead.

From there on, it didn’t take long for Shen to realize he’d made a huge mistake. While he retained his own will over that of the sword, the bloodlust that came with its possession was almost uncontrollable. For several days, he evaded capture while attempting to tame Usurper’s soul, but he could gain no further control over the weapon and with every passing day, the urge to kill became stronger. Eventually, admitting defeat, he returned to the monastery and surrendered himself to be punished for his crimes. As there was no known way to separate Usurper’s soul from its wielder’s, Shen was sentenced to death so that the sword can once again be imprisoned.

Shen had every intention to pay for his sin and didn’t resist as his former brothers chained him and placed his head upon the chopping block. As the executioner’s sword came down to behead him, Usurper’s ethereal voice screamed inside his head, louder than ever, dazing him. When the daze faded, blood was streaming down his arm, as his hand had moved up, tearing free of the iron chains, to stop the blade. With no control over his own body, Shen watched himself rise to his feet and tear the executioner’s throat out with his claws. And it didn’t stop there. He gave in to his bloodlust as he reached for the Usurper and began cutting down everyone within his reach. Each and every monk was a powerful warrior, but the Usurper had turned Shen more powerful than all of them combined.

Shen didn’t regain control over himself until it was too late and he found himself covered in blood and ash. Upon the taste of blood, Usurper’s power over him had receded, but there was no doubt it would return. He knew there was no way back now. He had tasted the power and satisfaction of killing, even if the ones he killed were his former allies. There was no going back to his peaceful life as a monk, but he could still repent by using his power for the greater good, if only he could strengthen his grasp. If the Usurper wants blood, that’s exactly what it’s going to get…

name: Arnok Jensari (goes by the name of Free)
race: human
age: 27
height 6'1
weight 185 pounds
apparel: He wears a chainmail shirt over a white tunic. He wears leather pants and all is covered by long white robe with a hood. The trim of this robe is a brilliant and shining gold. The robe provides protection from elemental damage of all kinds but does little in the way of physical protection. On the fingers of his left hand he wears three magical rings.

rings
-ring of the wolf: this ring allows him to speak to and command wolves. The ring has the appearance of a sliver band with a sapphire that has a wolf head emblazoned in it.
-ring of the king: this ring is gold with an emerald with a lions head emblazoned upon it. The ring grants him unearthly presence and charisma. It also allows him to form a sword from water, the sword has the qualities of a regular longsword.
-ring of the raven: a gold ring with a purple gem that has a raven emblazoned on it. This ring boosts his prescience and wisdom. It also allows him to perceive things much faster than a normal man could hope to.

weapons:
-staff of the magus: this staff is an indestructible tool used to channel magical energy. Has the appearance of a tall wooden staff with a white crystal affixed to the top. The more magical energy that is gathered the brighter the crystal glows. The staff is used to muster magical energies and in desperation as a melee weapon.
-elixir of flame: a flask filled with a liquid that when he charges with magical energy literally becomes liquid fire like lava. He uses it by putting magical energy as a catalyst then throwing it when the flask shatters the lava like liquid is unleashed. unlike the lava the liquid has a low viscosity more resembling water so it can flow freely. He carries two of these.
-estus of mutation: a flask containing a potion that is a 50/50 chance of doing what he wants. When this mutagen is charged and contacts something it drastically heightens one attribute while at the same time gives the target an extreme drawback. He only carries one of these flasks.
-essence of frost: literally a liquid blizzard. This liquid when charged and thrown will freeze whatever it hits over time making them get colder and colder. it slows their movement proportionately and stops flame based attacks.He carries two flasks of these.
-elixir of restoration: a potion of healing that he carries one of. This can be used to heal all minor wounds or one extremely serious wound. Must be drunk directly to have effect and must be charged by his energy first.

abilities:

one turn of charging
-fireball: an intense ball of fire is gathered in the hand and launched at the enemy. The fire is hot enough to burn a normal man to the bone upon impact.
-transmutation: may change an object into a similar object of different composition
-wind shear: wind is launched at the opponent in a long line at high velocity. This wind forms a blade of extreme cutting magnitude and power. This can be used to cut through steel beams.
-shadow snare: Can create a whip or claw from a shadow and grab an opponent to throw or choke them with it. There must be a shadow within five feet for him to use this move.
-blazing light: He fires an orb of intense light into the sky bathing everything in an extremely bright white light. When the orb is destroyed it forms a small rip in the fabric of space and time that can be used to transport to a similar hole made by another of these orbs. This rip in space goes away after three turns.

two turns of charging
-dragons gift: his palm is extended and white flames are shot forth from it. These flames extend twenty feet in front of him and can be moved with his hand. The temperature of these flames is high enough to melt treated stone.
-tornado drill: a point is made of rapidly circulating wind around the end of his staff. He can plunge this "drill" into an object and it will bore through with little resistance. He can bore through stone walls with this ability easily.
-precision beams: his fingers are extended and beams of hard light are shot forth from them however they travel at around the speed of a bullet.. These beams are manipulated and aimed by moving his fingers and can melt their way through steel instantly as if it were a hot knife through butter.

three turns of charging
-inferno control: He makes a wall of fire and fires it at the opponent. If the attack hits it encircles the target and sets it ablaze from all sides. These fires burn at the same intensity as his dragons gift.
-rebelling earth: A line of spikes is formed out of the ground in a line to the target. Each of these spike fires forth from the ground at breakneck speed and remain there after the attack whether it misses or fails. Each spike measures eight feet in length and three feet in width at the base.
-wind cleave: An enormous version of wind shear that doubles its cutting power and speed.

four turns of charging
-magma direction: A gout of magma is shot from the ground at the opponent.
-wind reaper: The most massive version of wind shear he can muster. It triples the cutting power of wind cleave and is twice as fast.
-apocalypse preparation: this is not an attack it is a set up for a larger attack. His had is extended with the palm open and pointed at the target where a multicolored ball is formed in the palm.

five turns of charging
-apocalypse: his most powerful move, This fires an enormous blast of every elemental type of energy at the target in a beam. The beam is fired in a cone from the ball in his hand and spreads at a 45 degree angle in all forward directions. This attack packs enough raw energy to demolish a castle and hits with all elemental types so there can be no resistance granted to it. It can only be fired the turn after apocalypse preparation was used. When it is fired the ball of energy in his hand turns white and then fires as previously described.
-dragon form: He transmutes either himself or an ally into a massive dragon. The color and elemental type of this dragon are determined by him. The target of the spell gains all benefits of being a dragon and wields an enormous greatsword the size of a tree. The dragon can also fire an elemental breath attack of its type.

biography: Since he was five he was trained in the arts of alchemy and sorcery. He holds limitless potential in both and is a star pupil. His teacher is a 300 year old wizard of great stature. Free excels in poisons in alchemy and destruction magic, but can master spells and potions of any kind given enough time. Unless killed he will live forever due to an elixir of immortality that was given to him by his master and even if killed he shall merely be reincarnated with all of his memories intact.