[CHAR] To Kill a God

[Miakardia]

Cacus

Name: Cacus
Nicknames: The Great Dragon, The Fire King
Age: Unknown
Gender: Appears Male
Appearance: Pale skin that is almost translucent in places, letting you clearly see blue veins beneath the surface. He is a tall man, and not broad, but not small by any standards. He looks as if he were in his mid-thirties, though grandmothers and village elders will say he hasn’t aged a day since they were born.
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 79kg

Family:
Father – Aion – Deceased
Brother – Aeolus – Alive, King of Dwalin
Sister – Ceto – Alive, Queen of Agier
Brother – Oxylus – Alive, King of Joro

Abilities: Pyrokinesis
Proficiencies: Dual wielded short swords and throwing knives

Personality:
Cacus is a quiet man with intelligent blue-grey eyes with an orange glow around the pupils. Though he is usually cold and calculating, his temper is fierce when provoked, leading him to occasionally make rash decisions which can sometimes have serious consequences. Whilst not overly arrogant, Cacus has an inflated sense of entitlement, leading him to believe he should be the true ruler of all of Nerthus, due to his prominence as the first of Aion’s ‘children’. Whilst he believes his siblings should kneel at his feet, he is not foolish enough to think he could defeat them all singlehandedly. This sentiment is well known to his siblings, who share an uneasy and unspoken alliance to assist one another should their eldest brother ever turn against one of them again.

Background:
Cacus was the first immortal created by Aion to help maintain his control over Nerthus, and as such stood as witness to the creation of what he refers to as his siblings. He led the other three immortals against their father and overthrew him, before reluctantly agreeing to split the land between the four of them. The Four created the race of humans to populate their lands and serve them, and eventually Cacus was the first to use his subjects as an army to invade his youngest brother’s lands to the north. The ensuing war resulted in Cacus taking half of Oxylus’ lands, and the removal of Oxylus’ remaining territory from the main island of Nerthus. Since then, Cacus has been invested in improving the technology of his subjects, in the hopes of gaining the upper hand on his siblings.

Daha Rorricksen

Name: Daha Rorricksen
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: Daha has short dark brown hair that turns curly as it gets longer. His skin is fair, but tans easily, and his eyes are a deep blue.
Height: 6’0"
Weight: 87kg

Family:
Father – Rorrick – Alive, fisherman, 47
Mother – Lilia – Alive, village healer, 44
Sister – Matia (Tia) – Alive, apprentice healer, 15

Abilities: Foresight
Proficiencies: Woodaxe

Personality:
Daha is a young and uneducated man with a sharp mind. He learns quickly, but was at a huge disadvantage in that he never had the opportunity to learn anything other than to work within his village. He is nevertheless a hard worker, dedicating everything he can to completing whatever task he has at hand with little to no complaint. Though a friendly person in most situations, he can turn aggressive especially when his protective side is brought out regarding the safety or honour of his younger sister.

Background:
Born and raised in a village on the south-east corner of the great forest in Logaris, Daha was the son of a fisherman named Rorrick who himself had lived in the village all his life, and a healer named Lilia who had come to the village twenty-three years ago from Oakport, following the death of the village’s last healer. Growing up, he spent a lot of time out with his father on the canoes that the village fishermen used to traverse up and down the small river nearby to the south of the village, sometimes going as far as the coastline of the Anatol Sea in search of fish. As he grew up, it became soon apparent that he would be too broad and heavy for the life of a fisherman like his father and instead took after his maternal grandfather, or so his mother said. He was apprenticed to the village’s woodcutter at the age of thirteen, and since then grew larger and more muscular from days of chopping and shifting trees and wood for the village’s fires.

[JaceBeleren]

Name: Altwen Forensen
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Blonde, curly hair tied back, weathered face despite age, grey eyes, always looks ready to run
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 122lbs

Family:
Foren Quen (real name: Varkun Telasair) - Deceased, father, secretly from Dwalin, travelled across Diairon Mountains as self-inflicted punishment, reason unknown
Talissaia Quen - Alive, mother, met Foren after he completed his pilgrimage in Oakport
Altia Telasair - Deceased, stepmother, Foren's wife before he left Dwalin, Altwen named in her memory, was alive when Foren left
Ylisia Telasair - Alive, half-sister, Foren's daughter before he left, hates him and wants revenge, when discovers he is already dead will try to kill Altwen instead unless he can convince her of Foren's reasons for leaving

Abilities: Minor telekinesis, may grow stronger as character develops
Proficiencies: Unarmed combat, climbing, resisting temptation (if that can be called a "proficiency")

Personality:
Slow to make friends and quick to make enemies. Will hold on to a grudge for a long time rather than acting immediately, but will always collect. Always.
Has a strong hatred for Cacus and Logaris, but is smart enough to (at least try to) keep this a secret. Cautious, and hopes to track down his half-sister some day (knows her name but almost nothing else about her, not even what she looks like). Will do a lot to find her, thinks he has been too solitary his entire life but is in too dangerous a position to properly fit in with society in Logaris. Also has a strong sense of honour and fairness.

Background:
Was born in Oakport to Foren Quen, a secretive monk claiming to be from the Tressi Desert, and Talissaia Quen, who was local to Oakport. Lived and grew up in a small stone monastery constructed by his father in the ruins of an ancient shrine to Cacus, near Oakport, almost never seeing his mother, who helped a lot in supporting them when he was too young to work. He spent much of his life following his father's ways of fasting and depriving oneself, and while he gained a strong sense of honour he could never be as disciplined as his father. Spent some of his time working to support the three of them as he got older. Was also taught to fight by his father, using methods that rely on resourcefulness and mobility more than armour or weapons, but never found out anything about his father's past in the Tressi Desert or his travels to Oakport (as earlier mentioned, his father was actually from Dwalin). In frustration he once broke into his father's study, reading the diaries Foren treasured so greatly from before he arrived in Oakport, and discovered his father's true origins and family. Foren punished this crime, but understood he had caused this by hiding his past. Only a few weeks later, when Altwen was 14, the royal guard assaulted the monastery finally discovering what had happened to the old shrine. Foren told Altwen to flee, who protested but finally did so. Foren was killed, while Altwen became a criminal. He spent the next few years on the run, never staing anywhere for long, until he is finally caught, and is taken with nine others to Cacus' palace....

[Tom Lyon]

Hugo Hahn

Name: Hugo Hahn
Nicknames: None
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Appearance: Nondescript, average build, with pale skin and light brown hair.
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 64 kg

Family:
Mother — Nadia Hahn — 32 — Alive
Remainder unknown

Abilities: Presence Manipulation– The ability to change one's social presence, like making it seem like you belong anywhere, or "disappearing" into a crowd.
Proficiencies: Subterfuge, sleight of hand, acting

Personality: Hugo acts quiet and unassuming, but is secretly arrogant and greedy. He tends to stay quiet until he has a read on a situation, and then acts in a way to benefit himself.

Background: Hugo Hahn was born to a single mother, Nadia Hahn, in the capital city of Cavolon. Nadia works as a groundskeeper at the unsuspecting Academy students and staff. As a result of subconscious uses of his ability, Hugo hasn't been caught at this. While he is supposed to help Nadia at her work, he often slipped away to join various classes at the Academy, so he has a smattering of education in various subjects, but not a good grasp on the fundamentals of mathematics and science. His arrogance has lead him to not question why he was allowed into these classes, another subconscious use of his ability. Eventually, however, a professor noticed a child in his class of young adults, and Nadia was confronted and reprimanded for Hugo's actions. Now, she tends to keep a firm hand when dealing with Hugo, and his expeditions have become a lot less frequent than he liked.

[A Man Is No One]

Elderian Haart

Name: Elderian Haart
Nicknames: Derian, Heartbreaker, Breaker
Age: 39 years
Gender: Male
Height: 6’ 3”
Weight: 240 lbs

Appearance:

Family: The Haart family is native to the seaside village of Porthcawl just south of Oakport. It was here that Elderian had gotten his humble beginnings as a fisherman’s son. His father Geon was a fisherman for decades. His father would catch the fish and his mother, Neela would sell the fish either in the town market or to purveyors that would cart the fish off to the big city. He has an older brother Inwold who has since inherited the bulk of the business and the ship as well as a younger brother Halon who remains in Oakport carrying out the family business with his eldest brother.

Abilities: Electrokinesis
Proficiencies: Evasion, Unarmed Strike, Intimidation, Open Lock/Disable Device

Personality: Derian follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but does not strive to protect others’ freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. Derian does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good and a desire to liberate others or evil and a desire to make those different from himself suffer. Derian may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it. Derian may not wander the land but he lives by his wits. Despite his choice of existence, he represents true freedom from both society’s restrictions and a do-gooder’s zeal.

Background: Elderian was born and raised in the seaside village of Porthcawl. A family of fishermen living amongst a seaside village is nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, there really is not anything out of the ordinary about this family at all. Every day had been the same thing. Wake up early in the morning to take to the open waters, fish for a number of hours depending on what needed to be done or how the fish were biting before returning home. Between the unload, the transports, the cleaning and preparation - that was their day. They typically spent every day doing the same thing except Sundays which was typically their day of rest. Elderian would participate as well at least until his early twenties when he ventured off to Oakport.

His expedition to Oakport was elicited by a combination of wanderlust and irritation with small town life. But at that time, little did he understand what he was really getting himself into. His first few nights in Oakport were typical - looking for work during the day, drinking in the evenings and finding a place to sleep during the night. But as employment proved difficult to find even in the big city for a small town fisherman, the money he had saved up had quickly disappeared. But he would not beg nor would he ask for assistance. Instead, he turned to theft.

It was in Oakport that Derian began working as a rogue - mugging people, picking their pockets, and breaking into empty homes to find things he could turn for a profit. What he had not counted on was that he was encroaching on someone else’s territory. After a quick beating that nearly killed him Derian was quickly swept in with the other rapscallions working the town as an enforcer for the group. Whether it was on the basis of a loan or protection money if they did not pay up the “Heartbreaker” was surely to visit. Named as such not only for his namesake but because he had a tendency to punch his victims in the chest incapacitating them nearly instantaneously.

It was here that he learned the trade. He learned how to bruise knees instead of breaking them because what individual can get the money he needs to pay back the loan if he can’t work? He learned to pick locks as a means to gain admittance to homes and businesses that had chosen to abscond from the regularly scheduled payment plan.

Intimidation was his biggest seller whether it was those who did not pay or those who he needed to pay. For nearly two decades he has taken part in this level of shakedown, essentially running the city beside the governor who was just nearly as corrupt as the syndicate leader. Periodically, he would take his leave and return home to visit his family. But he would never stay for long. If he remained for too long his worries of revenge would creep in. As if someone followed him down from Oakport and would take out their frustrations on his family.

While he may not have climbed any internal ladder or taken over a portion of the town on his own, his reputation and the respect he has obtained from those in the criminal world of Oakport has been enough to sustain his life aspirations. Derian does not go hungry. He does not go without drink. He does not worry about finding a place to sleep. He doesn’t even worry about the guard waiting to shake him down in some back alley. The only thing that concerns Derian is a dagger in the back and quite frankly, he’d be vicious enough to return the favor before he left this gods forsaken land.

[Thundercrash]

Name: Kirsta Corasdottir

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance: A slight, willowy girl with long red hair, dark blue eyes and creamy skin. Considered beautiful by most standards.

Height: 5'4”

Weight: 102lbs

Family:
Mother: Cora, 24. A prostitute from Eastwatch, deceased

Father: Barthas Mogran, 54. A skilled researcher, alchemist and lord in Cacus’s court. He is frequently unfaithful to his wife. Kirsta has never met him but does know that he is her father.

Lady Tiara Mogran, 41. Lord Mogran’s wife. She is well aware of her husband’s various mistresses, and is equally unfaithful to him. However, she does not know about Kirsta’s birth.

Camlin Mogran, 24. Kirsta’s half-brother and a sadistic captain in the Royal Legion.

Lorain Arteno, 19. Kirsta’s half-sister and full sister of Camlin. Has the power of tactile telepathy.

Abilities:
Can create and move hard-light barriers. Barriers are indestructible, but require energy from Kirsta’s body to be maintained.

Proficiencies:
Stealing, deception, seduction, knives, perception

Personality:
Kirsta is very manipulative, resourceful, and selfish, having spent most of her short life having to support herself by any means necessary; if it will keep her alive for another day, she will do it. Loyal to no one but herself, she distrusts any act of kindness until she knows what it is someone wants from her. She is very adept at reading people and situations, as her survival has frequently depended on that skill. Has a deep disgust for nobility on account of her brother.

Background:

Some people live their lives having everything handed to them. Food, drink, a good roof, pleasure, these individuals get it all. Never knowing hardship or uncertainty, they live knowing that life will provide them with everything they will ever need.

But for every person who receives the boons of life, there is someone else whom those boons are taken from. Kirsta falls into the second category. Her mother Cora came from Eastwatch, but became the mistress of Lord Barthus Mogran, a nobleman in the court of Cavolon. When he learned that she had become pregnant, he promptly cast her out onto the streets, rather than risk his indiscretion becoming public knowledge. Having no skills to speak of and no resources other than her body, Cora resorted to prostitution to support herself and her infant daughter.

When Kirsta was 7 years old, her mother was murdered by one of her clients. Now forced to survive on her own, Kirsta resorted to any means necessary to survive; stealing food from market stalls, sleeping wherever she could find shelter, and teaching herself to use a knife so that she could avoid the same fate as her mother.

At the age of 14, now a prostitute as well, Kirsta was arrested by a Legion captain named Camlin Mogran, legitimate son of Lord Barthus and, unbeknownst to him, Kirsta’s half-brother. Mogran gave her a choice; either have sex with him in exchange for her freedom, or rot in prison. Aware of her noble parentage but unable to use it, as no one would believe her, Kirsta saw no other choice but to accept, as those who entered the prison system seldom came out of it. Kirsta and Camlin saw each other frequently over the next two years, and it was under her half-brother’s sadistic and abusive hand that Kirsta’s dislike for nobility festered into hatred and disgust. During this time she also met her half-sister Lorain, who had often suffered from Camlin’s unwanted attention as they grew up. Through her own power of tactile telepathy, Lorain discovered their relation to Kirsta, but has kept this secret, as a small rebellion against Camlin’s control.