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[h1][color=#C2FFFB]Father Yaroslav[/color][/h1]

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[h3][color=#C2FFFB]73[/color][/h3]

[h3][color=#C2FFFB]Male[/color][/h3]

[h3][color=#C2FFFB]Human[/color][/h3]

[h3][color=#C2FFFB]Magic: Aura Control[/color][/h3]

[color=#C2FFFB]A kind of spirit magic which grants Yaroslav the following abilities; Aura Manipulation (Self) and Aura Analysis (Others). Life Sense, Magical Analysis/Detection (Minor) and an enhanced healing factor and endurance bolstered by his Aura, are passive benefits given by his two magical abilities.

Aura is one manifestation of the spirit, as a kind of field that covers a living creature, and which can be used to read into that creature's emotional state, nature, and overall state of wellbeing. The Aura field is also linked to psionics, New Age theory, and many theorems of the supernatural, paranormal. 

Pairing Yaroslav's abilities together, the priest can manifest weapons constructed from sheer force of will, seemingly made out of his own aura, though concentrated enough as to be visible to the untrained eye. He can control the unintentional impression that he impresses on others by colouring his own aura, and further manipulation of his aura can shield him effectively from psychic manipulation directed at himself. The last of Yaroslav's most commonly used abilities, though there are conceivably more, is a melding of mundane and magical abilities. Yaroslav, oft called a mind reader, or psychic in his own right, attributes his uncanny ability to discern the thoughts of others to his closeness to God. In reality, it is a product of his natural talent at cold reading, a technique used by mentalists and psychics who lack any magical power, and also the significant advantage of being able to perceive the aura of the person whose mind he is ostensibly reading. Even a person who is intentionally trying to obfuscate their reactions to stimuli will give up their hand to Yaroslav, as he can always see "their true colours."[/color]

[h3][color=#C2FFFB]Personality:[/color][/h3]

[color=#C2FFFB]A man of extremes, Yaroslav is either totally angry, happy, stern, joking, or cynical to the exterior observer. This however, is the shallow veil of the man's own aura manipulations. While he comes across as completely mercurial, leaping headlong from one emotion to the next in an unbroken stream, that is the barest tip of the iceberg that is Father Yaroslav.

Underneath his protective blanket of his own aura, Yaroslav is a meditative, pensive individual who spends an unhealthy amount of time studying others. He tends to dissect the people he's surrounded by, using the blunt force tools at his disposal to get people to open up, at least in their auras, if not their own exteriors. Yaroslav has often viewed that aspect of his ability with a certain wry irony, knowing that he gets to cheat both ways, hiding his true emotions while always perceiving those of others, try as they might to hide them.

The man has seen horrors in his time, being a member of an eclectic and oft-hunted order of monks in a distant land. Those experiences scarred him psychologically, and he feels as though he is the loneliest person in the world. At the heart of who Yaroslav is, he is a man whose very magical ability personifies his inability to truly connect with others, yet his persistent efforts to understand that which he has not.[/color]

[color=#C2FFFB][h3]Background:[/h3]

Yaroslav was born in a small town in the mountains, and raised a farmer's boy. He didn't receive any real education, up until he was an adult and his older brother having inherited the whole of their father's estate, set off on a journey to see the rest of the world with nothing but the clothes on his back to his name. After many years travelling from place to place, working as he needed to, but always leaving before he could lay down roots, Yaroslav found himself visiting a monastic order. He was enraptured by their force of belief, and having long grown weary of the lonesome road, yearned for the companionship of brotherhood that they held. 

Thus, Brother Yaroslav was inducted into their order. The best years of his life, and the worst, were spent at that remote temple. Yaroslav experienced the worst of trials, and barely managed to prevail through them all. The reward however, was an education, finally unlocking the mysteries that the world offered, as well as the Good Word of God, which in no short time Yaroslav was a learned preacher of. However, even after becoming Father Yaroslav, the man's plights did not end, but rather increased. Religious persecution of the order had increased tenfold in Yaroslav's time with the order, and he soon had to face angry mobs who would make the long trek up to their temple to raid them.

It was when at last, Yaroslav resolved to go down the mountains, and offer himself up as a sacrifice to appease the senseless mob, that he stumbled over a root, felt an otherworldly sensation, and found himself in another world.

Equipment: Yaroslav's Robes, his Holy Book, and his reading glasses.

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