[center][h2]Dyauphater[/h2] [img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/55546864-3749-4a55-a267-5a9e27629fbf.jpg[/img] [h3]Dyauphater on his celestial Chariot[/h3] [img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/1627ae90-82b3-4756-a6b3-25a824c494e9.jpg[/img][/center] [hider=Dyauphater Character Sheet] [b]Identity [/b] His name is Dyauphater, or Dyaus Phater. The daylight sky-lord and patron of warriors and masculinity -- Lord of the vast diurnal sky. For the heavens are the celestial steppes through which he roams on his chariot pulled by his two trusted flying goats. When he flies, he does so in a conjured storm cloud. As such Dyauphater is known also as ‘storm-bringer’. He is a champion of the untamed wildlands at the outremer of the civilized world. Dyauphater is a warlord, and one of several leaders at the helm of a confederation of independently minded roaming and pastoralist societies known as the Schayan. The Schayan people deify Dyauphater as their patron and protector. [b]Potency [/b] Beastmastery, as many a Schayan had in primeval times domesticated the wild horse that roam their hyperborean homeland. Mundanely Dyauphater is proficient at animal husbandry and carpenting, crafting wheels for the trademark cart for which the Schayan are renowned in traversing their vast, largely sparsely if not unpopulated homelands. Dyauphater' affinity for animals showed in the care he put into his flock of goats, combining his husbandry with wizardry to selectively breed two magical-goats -- Bokkos and Kapros, his inseparable companions and probably Dyauphater’ best and mightiest friends. They are flying, celestial goats whose burning fur crackle with fire and lightning, emit great light and possess great magical aptitude. Indeed, you might go so far as to call them wizards… despite being goats. Dyauphater himself isn’t capable of flight and it is only through Bokkos and Kapros, and the cart that they transport him with, that he is capable of aviation. To be sure, Bokkos and Kapros are arguably the true source of Dyauphater’ power and make up two thirds of his full strength. When the three are together, they are all-mighty bringers of the untamable tempest of the sky! The connection of Bokkos and Kapros towards Dyauphater is so strong, that Dyauphater can butcher one, eat it, and then resurrect it using its bones, and continue on roaming the wide open skies though nothing had happened without the goats thinking any less of him. Even a celestial sky-lord needs to eat, you see. Dyauphater no longer has need for a spear… His spear is lightning and the elements around him, which shapes in his hand at will, and which he uses to great effect in smiting his enemies. [b]Ambition: [/b] As Dyauphater regards himself the spiritual successor of the Gods of Old, he feels the compulsive need to show his greatness to the world. As such he is struck with vanity and a shallow hungering for glory. Particularly to win the affection of and marry the beautiful Plethwi. The Sorceress Plethwi had stated that only he who passes her arduous trials could win her heart. Accordingly, Dyauphater has vowed to do just that, and he cast off to his first trial... obtaining the tooth of the dark dragon Veles. However when Dyauphater challenged the dragon for a fair battle of wizardry, Veles refused to meet him in battle and instead evicted him from his lair. Slighted and indignant, Dyauphater spurred on his Schayan kinsmen to invade the Dragon's northern tributaries for no reason other than to get Veles' attention. It worked. However when Dyauphater bid his kinsmen to leave, the Schayan refused to relinquish their new hard-fought cities and properties. The Schayan conquests led to the rise of a new Kingdom -- the Schayan ruled Kingdom of Ittarya. [b]Life:[/b] What is known: He grew up amongst a royal clan of the Schayan. He unearthed the power of wizardry, which inflated his pride and self-worth monumentally, and saw mere kingship as insufficient. He combined his wizardry with his knowledge of husbandry towards spawning the greatest of beasts, which led to the creation of Bokkos and Kapros. After which he became an outrider, departing from the northern wastelands of Hyperborea. He discovered the civilized world and these strange agrarian settlements known as ‘cities’. And he discovered Plethwi, the sorceress and fairest woman in the world, who had ensnared him under her spell. Dyauphater, in a sense, lost his freedom, and now dedicates his life in seeking a way to woo her. Thus began Plethwi's arduous trials. [/hider]