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Name: Yuri Fyodorovich Romanyuk
Age: 42 
Gender: Male
Weight: 76kg 
Height: 180cm
Elemental Affinity: Sun
Origin: Life
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
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Magic Circuits: E x E 
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Magecraft/Abilities: While Magecraft is a self-hypnosis of the self to convince the world to perform a feat of mystery. However, Yuri knows no magecraft. Psychonics -- an ability that is more of an  ingrained mutation than that of circuits, only appearing within the confines of a single generation than passed down to those offsprings. One could consider his power to be the ultimate display of mankind compared to that of magecraft which still requires to trick the world in order to complete. 

A “Normal” existence bound to him an “abnormality”. 

Yuri could be considered to be the “Man closest to the sun”, though it is not as if he needed his wax wings to fly there. If the sun itself is “life”, than Yuri is able to see this power inside of others, and thusly can manipulate this power at will. A separate sixth sense that allows him to “feel” the energy of the sun as “life force”, and using his power, he is able to manipulate this power into any shape he wishes, including his own energy. A channel in the brain that relates to solar energy. 

Because of his manipulation of this energy, the normal use of this skill would be to grant his strikes both the power of the sun, and the power of life energy, often able to disrupt bodies that are affected by the skill, or place the power within objects temporarily. This ability takes the appearance as a “wave” that directly covers the beholder’s hands. The heat of which is able to destroy most opponents. 

One could say then this skill would be better against non-humans than humans; a coveted ability by those who fight against creatures known as “vampires”. However, due to the death of his father, and his displacement, it was never used for this purpose. Though good money would be spent tracking this man if his powers were more widely known. 

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Other Abilities: Cossack: An umbrella term for the abilities standard of a Cossack. These skills range from the ability to fire short-arms from horseback, ride, a horse, tracking, able to live off the land, and other suck feats are applicable. One could say that the Cossacks themselves are beings that lived outside of society, yet enforced said society. This skills are versatile, and thus can be applied to numerous skills. 
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Mystic Codes/ Magical Items: N/A
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Weapons/ Other Belongings: Berezka: A horse he had bought to replace his aged horse from his Cossack days while he spent his time in America. Though most others had adopted the mechanical horse, certain habits for a cossack never die. A reliable, tamed horse that seems to have a deep understanding of Yuri; more than any human seems to comprehend, as if they two can speak directly to one another. 

M1903: A weapon he had received during his service as donation equipment from the Americans to assist the whites from allowing the soviets to take over Russia. Of course, this didn’t work, but after his escape, he had made sure to keep the rifle in the best condition it could be in. 

Cossack Uniform: Something old. Something constantly sewn back together. Something that could be considered important and sentimental to Yuri. A uniform that denoted his position in the Cossacks of the empire of old; the people who directly fought for the Tsar and his territories. Though he does not often wear this uniform, it is still something he treasures deeply. In addition to this uniform, a pendant with a photo of his Mother, sister, and himself he commissioned right before he left for the war within are two of his most prized possessions. 
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Personality: One could consider Yuri to be a person without much to lose. Perhaps before he was a boy full of optimism, but now, hardened by the experiences that paved the way for the century to come, Yuri is a realist whose romantic ideals were crushed one by the crippling reality of war, and twice again after by the death of his family as he fled from Red lands. 

Despite this, one could not consider Yuri to be a bad person, but simply someone who does not think highly of himself, nor thinks highly of others, and while he follows what he considers to be moral, he isn’t above underhanded tricks to obtain the desired outcome he wishes for. 

Troubled by his past, Yuri drowns himself in the ale and women he can afford from his missions. Never really has enough money to go around, and is often found sleeping outside when his funds are completely shot, not that he has difficulty doing so. A man corrupted by the vice of man, and one that does not allow others to get close enough to him, After all, if he spent money on himself, then he could not indulge in these vices. The natural depressants of man are all the middle aged man really needs; not the worldly concepts that most required during this timeframe from their work in the city, despite often taking these pleasures from the city. A “Cowboy [Cossack] in the world that has changed too much for it to feel real”. 

Background: Yuri was born in a small town on the Don River to two Ukrainian Jews in the region. The third of four children, though both his younger brother and sister had died, leaving only himself and his sister as the surviving children. The two hardly knew of their father, who was an absent figure in the lives of the Romanyuk family. Yuri himself hardly had a face to place upon his father, aside from stories told of his exploits by his mother. And though always aware of his gift, it was not something he spoke openly about, even to his family, which he loved. 

Though the town could be considered small, it was not as if the family lived in squabble. If his father was not part of his life, then one could consider his presence was felt by the Romanyuk family. After all, funds were sent to and from his position in the pacific territories of Russia. A military officer who travelled the frontier to pacify threats to the Tsar’s reign, or so he was told. 

Therefore, as a young child, Yuri was the man of the house, often making the executive decisions that a paternal figure would make, the ranch where his family lived essentially being run by himself and his older sister. The two raised the horses together, and Yuri considered this youthful part of his life to be hard work, but fulfilling nonetheless. 

Yuri had joined the war at the soonest he could when it had broke out.. Perhaps it was the “Ghost” of his father speaking, but he felt great patriotism towards his country. Both his sister and mother begged him not to go, but he felt that it was his obligation to fight against those who would dare destroy his way of life and slaughter the countrymen of the nation he loved. However, his sister and mother wished him not to leave. The draft was something that only required one family member to participate after all, and he was not called for such due to his father fighting in the conflict. 

Yuri did not listen to them and like his father before him, trained to become a cossack. The battles were long, and the charges of his division were inefficient against the onslaught of Austrian and German machine-gun fire. IIt was not a war in the eyes of Yuri and his division, but a pointless slaughter of good men and horses. 

Despite the bravery and courage his division fought with, modernization was the crux of any warfare, and done were the days of cavalry charges against formations. Therefore, his division was repurposed for disruption of supplies from the ever expanding lines as the Germans pushed into his home country. 

But with the death of so many of his countrymen, and the growing discontent with the Tsar at large, in his perspective, filthy liberals were attempting to ruin the nation he had so much pride in. Of course, he was silent during the february revolution, as at the least the Duma preserved the society of Russians, but when the october revolutions hit, and the Tsar was killed in cold blood by the Reds, the country that he love exploded into civil war. Thus he had to flee eastward against the reds, and soon found himself under the mongolian divisions, fighting his damndest to defeat the plague to the nation he loved. He had heard that his father followed Kolchak’s men, but the two’s paths never crossed one another. 

It was not long before the underequipped and underfunded whites began to collapse to the power of the reds, and when that happened, hoping to find freedom in a new land, Yuri escaped first to the Chinese Republic, then to Japanese occupied Port Arthur, and finally seeking asylum in the United States. In a note he had received while he was in the America revealed to him that his father, mother and sister were executed by the Soviets for their insolence and refusal to accept the revolution.

Yuri was heartbroken, and for years knew nothing that would fill the ever-expanding dread caused by this incident. In the end, he simply became a mercenary of sorts, accepting any and all missions so long as he was paid, and so long as they never broke what he considered to be “moral”.  
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Wish/Reason for Being in the War: To once more feel free. To save his people from the reds and avenge his family. 

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