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Name: Ignacio Talpa

Super Hero/Villain Identity: The Sorcerer Supreme of Earth

Age: 557

Nationality: Spanish

Ethnicity: Spanish

Location: Granada, Spain.  

Appearance: Face sake: Antonio Banderas 

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Personality: The past few centuries have seen Ignacio’s view points and opinions change many times, however the countless and often extraordinary circumstances in his life has shaped a man that is surprised by little and impressed by even less, his general plan for a situation is ‘come with a vague idea of what to do, and respond from there’ then on the second engagement with the same problem. ‘Come with a perfect plan A, and also plans B through Z.’   Because while it never hurts to be prepared he understands that if you ever come having planned to thoroughly for one thing, its not hard to be thrown for a loop and have everything fall apart at the first speed bump.  He has many failures, and countless lives of others lost as the painful price of learning this lesson.

Having been raised during the late 1400’s, and not being able to read or write until he met Karv, his world was once tiny, only what the Church allowed the people to see, think and feel, once he began his training his mind was opened to the endless possibilities of the world and has since had an insatiable curiosity, it drives him to never stop his studies, leaves him open to always hearing out a new idea or theory however this has led to some close calls with the fabric of reality on more than one occasion.  And has caused him to be a bit… to lenient with certain groups that exist today simply out of his want to see where things go.   On top of his thirst for knowledge almost as a rejection of the way he was raised he is an incredibly open minded person, so long as you are not hurting another he doesn’t care what your beliefs or personal opinions on just about anything are, each person’s unique point of view is helpful in some way, even if it is only pointing out that someone probably shouldn’t be relied upon or listened to. 

He is a patient man, he has felt that giving people the space to do as they please within reason is the best way to avoid conflicts, and its true in the 500 or so years that he has held his position rogue mages, maniacal sorcerers, world ending cults, near apocalypses, all of these things are at an all time low. However, while his fuse is long, the boom is big.  When your cross the line with him there is really no going back, his trust is almost impossible to earn back and his solutions to ‘repeatedly problematic’ things tend to be EXTREMELY permanent in nature.

While very much a gentleman and a kind person, Ignacio is incredibly distance with those who have ‘mortal’ lifespans, this is a behavior pattern that has formed in the last 150 years or so, having seen enough people he cares about age and die, it hasn’t broken him, but made him subconsciously hesitant to form lasting and deep relationships with those who have limited life spans.  He can often come off as cold or uninterested because of this.

Backstory/Origin: He remembers it well, the war to drive the Moors from his homeland of Spain.  The bloody battles between the Christian forces of Europe and the Moors who had held the land of Spain for so long, refreshed by reinforcements from North Africa. At the time he was just man, however he would not remain so.  
All his life he can remember extraordinary events that surrounded him. Small occurrences he couldn’t explain, during battle these only happened more often, a strong wind seeming to destabilize his opponent, some how seeing the proper path to take while scouting to avoiding the enemy.  Often times he could swear he heard voices or say fantastic things, creatures in the night, he attributed to fear and anxiety.  He can remember the day he met Karv, an old man that came from a land far to the north, a man who saved his life:
The battle was supposed to be easy, they outnumbered the enemy nearly three to one and were far more equipped, or at least it had appeared so.  As the battle began and the opening melee broke out however it was very obvious that something was off.  The enemies forces never seemed to SHRINK, if anything they were only growing.  They shambled about wailing and tearing into the Christian forces, and no blow seemed to keep them down for long, he wasn’t sure how much time had passed, but he stood surrounded an alone, hearing the last of his comrades perishing around him, a fear built inside of him, a burning fear of the terrible death that awaited him as the mutilated bodies stumbled towards him, arms out stretched, and he wasn’t sure what happened from his body flowed forth a swath of burning flames that scorched the bodies of those closest to him, causing them to fall in a pile of ashes.

After that he remembers feeling tired and falling to the ground, as his vision faded and more of the shambling corpses approached he heard a booming voice upon the wind and witnessed an old man descend from the very clouds, from his fingers flew light that consumed the battle field, and Ignacio drifted into the sea of unconsciousness. 
When he awoke he was in a bed, in quite a grand furnished room.  His wounds had been mended as well, he felt fatigued though, and groggy, like he had slept for days.  Leaving the room he wandered around what appeared to be some great palace, though there were no windows, lights FLOATED along the walls.  Through the maze of hallways his feet carried him, until he came upon a grand study, a fire blazing in the center of the room, held in the air by nothing at all it seemed, and at a grand desk sat the old man, this man would introduce himself as Karv, the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth.   What followed was a whirl wind of questions, each answered in time.  Ignacio himself had powerful latent magic that was awakening, and it would irresponsible of Karv to leave it unchecked, untrained. So Ignacio began learning the ways of Magic, learned countless truths of the universe and a decade later, would witness the death of his master against a being of unexplainable existence, an inherit the roll of Sorcerer Supreme.  

He moved the Sanctum Sanctorum to a pocket dimension sitting within the Alhambra in Spain, and has since stood watch over Earth, fending off threats from within and without the physical realm. 

He has chosen to work with more of a carrot and a smaller stick than most of his predecessors. He has given those groups who are not inherently dangerous leeway to do as they please rather than try to dismantle ever cult in existence, a pointless endeavor that would be. He has bargained with certain of the Tamura Magic Loci.   But he always observes, and he holds to the line he has set well.  Cross the line, and you are dealt with, there is no mercy because he has spent his time in the position of Sorcerer Supreme making sure that line is clear, TO EVERYONE.

However he is no god, just a man, and thus much goes unpunished, hidden from view and detection, which is why he must always remain vigilant, and utilizes a number of allies within the magic and ‘mortal’ communities.

Tools/Equipment/Weapons:  ‘Eye of Muninn’: this is a large jet black metal pendent upon a silver chain with a large eye shaped topaz gem in the center he often wears around his neck, it contains a powerful ‘clairvoyance’ spell that allows the user to see far distance, peer into areas blocked off by physical barriers and simple magics and can even see past certain magic illusions.

‘Ring of the Supreme’: This ring is affixed to his finger, he can’t take it off, and should the finger be removed the ring disappears and rebuilds the finger nearly immediately.  It will even banish itself into a sub dimension if someone manages to steal it.  It is the sign of the Sorcerer Supreme and only moves on to the next person to take the role.   It has no other abilities besides acting as a Key to the Sorcerer Supremes’ Sanctum Santorum. 

Skills: Ignacio lacks what many would call ‘physical prowess’ while in good shape for a human being he is by no means special or a stand out, especially among the ranks of Ultras and even other Standards that operate as heroes.   He relies on magic for most all things.

Abilities/Powers/Mutations: Ignacio has spent centuries mastering the mystic arts, aided by the countless tools and ancient relics at the disposal of the Sorcerer Supreme, gathered and passed down from one to the next.  
He has an expansive knowledge of numerous schools of magic, knowing most any ‘utility’ spell one can think of with a confident command over elemental, barrier and transportation magic.  
While he has studied many darker more ‘forbidden magics’ to be able to fight them he has never practiced them on the moral standing alone, meaning he has no ability in the spaces of: necromancy, sanity warping, reality warping, blood magic, fear based magics and mind control magics as well as some others.
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