[hider=The Healer]


[b]Identity:[/b] 
[quote]Aurochylys - Lord of Champions, Master of Bloodlines, Judge of the Worthy, Thief of Will, Despoiler of Unions, Adversary of Conscience.[/quote]
[b]Potency:[/b] 
[quote]Aurochylys is a healer. He is capable of healing great injury from which recovery would normally be impossible, and can cure a great many maladies that afflict the body. He can also promote vigor and cultivate strength, reshaping those graced by his boons into peerless bastions of peak physical performance. He is also renowned for his supposed capabilities to extend natural lifespans and to ward off death. However, these all pale before the utility of his most terrifying power: Having healed the body or granted good health, he can then take both away from the recipient - leaving them broken and ruinous husks of what they once were.

Rumors and gossip of the true nature of his powers are widespread, numerous, and run a wide gamut of unbelievable nonsense. What is consistent though, is as follows: Aurochylys cannot revive the dead, and despite having power over life and its very essence, cannot steal it from others. He can only take back the boons he has given. He can cure maladies such as blindness and deafness, but not for those who were born blind or deaf. He can promote the regrowth of missing limbs, albeit slowly. 

Those who serve him are referred to as three groups - the Immortals, the Deathless, and the Eternals. The names of each group, while clear exaggerations, are nonetheless indicative of an individual's favor with Aurochylys. The Immortals are many, being numerous persons of wealth and influence who have been gifted with eternal life and youth. The Deathless, fewer in number, are for the most part all great warriors, soldiers, and champions of battle, who have been granted eternal life, enhanced vigor, and strength - who are possessed of preternatural physical ability and prowess, and fear only the most debilitating of injuries. The Eternals are the personal servants of Aurochylys, who resemble ordinary mortals, but who are rumored to be nearly entirely free of any fear of death - though the truth of the matter remains a mystery.[/quote]
[b]Ambition:[/b] 
[quote]Rule By Providence - Aurochylys desires to establish dominion and control over the entirety of creation by proxy, through the control of royal lineages and bloodlines graced with his power - such that effective rule should always be equivocated with his favor and his will.[/quote]
[b]Life:[/b] 
[quote]The personage of Aurochylys is shrouded in mystery - few have ever seen him. Many who have been graced by his power have admitted to not having known him on sight. He is usually described as having been a stylite in his early life, who faced persecution for his religious practices and was sentenced to death - only for his power to awaken within him upon his sentence of strangulation being carried out. As the stories go, the king who sentenced him to death became his very first servant - and slave. The circumstances of Aurochylys life are otherwise not well known - he is reclusive and mysterious, the nature and origin of his sorcerous powers unknown, and only the small, select few Eternals are known to have regular contact with him. Even to this day, with untold thousands living in his shadow, there are few who know his whereabouts or current plans. What little is known of him is contradictory and confusing - it is said he is generous and charitable, but also wrathful, vengeful to the extreme, and callously petty. It is often remarked that Aurochylys might well 'curse' an individual with great health just for the pleasure of one day depriving them of it. His temperament is best described as capricious, his actions born as much of whimsy as they are of discretion and deliberation.[/quote][/hider]