[hider=Beast of Black and White] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/4XrLdDK.png[/img][/center] [b]Name:[/b] 魔金融 (Mo-jin Lon) Aka Lonnie Goldbear. [b]Title(s):[/b] Blood-Forged Beast [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Age:[/b] 36 [b]Alignment:[/b] Chaotic Neutral [b]Team:[/b] Black [b]Rank:[/b] Fes [b]Purpose for the Grail War:[/b] To make war, to advance her craft and have a fun time. _____________________________________________________________________________________ [b]Command Seal:[/b] [b]Personality:[/b] A sort of girl that can be called a rambunctious troublemaker. A lady who selfishly pursues her fun and own rules. Really, she’s no Flying General, but she’s not someone who falls into line exactly how others want. Somewhat inexperienced with both the full scope of modern society and the western world, Lon is nonetheless someone who jumps fully into whatever she thinks is worth her time or fun. To enjoy her time. She’s someone others may think is simple at first glance, and maybe even a fool. But if you were to ask her she’ll reply that she thinks most people complicate matters way beyond the truth. Take the make up of a body, the chemicals, nutrients and structure that gives birth to one, or the desires that rule people. To understand things like that are a given, because her craft is one born from using the body, and pursuing ideals and dreams. That is, the craft of war. The cosmos isn’t that complicated, and even heaven is nicely structured and disciplined. Magic is all about what you’ve seen and what’s happened telling you what can be done, and people can be calculated from their pasts and through the cosmos as well. But just because humans and the world are simple doesn’t mean they can’t be surprising. Surprise just means that either you’ve been looking it wrong, or someone else started finally looking at themselves properly. No one expected her to stand at the top refined to the splendor of gold, so she told them she did. It’s as simple as that. [b]Bio:[/b] A family of warriors and beasts. Frightening sages and mystics who developed from a community of alchemists who blended the pursuit of immortality and heaven with internal alchemy with the pursuit for truth. Strangely it is in the pursuit of blood and iron that they became more concerned with what lied beyond immortality, the truth. Who knows what shifted to truly make them sages pursuing the impossible thankless dream to the point of bloodying their hands? It is said that the one who began the Mo discovered and started upon this path after returning from a journey to the plains of Zhuolu… But perhaps it was a matter of attuning to the flow of the times as the birth of the Mo came at the end of the prosperous Spring and Autumn era of history. Perhaps they were simply becoming scholars attuned to the Warring States. Battling, studying and refining themselves over centuries. They reached a infamy of being annoying to deal with, but reliable as warriors. In a sense their reputation ended up being something equivalent to the Finnish Hyenas of the west, for the east… Surviving through various shifts of eras, and the globalization of the world, the Mo made the bold decision of moving with its main family to the west to try and open themselves to progress through involving themselves with other parts of the world. Part of their interest was the various tales of legendary armaments from the west that were focused upon, and a desire to learn about the philosophies of western alchemy. However moving to new lands is not kind, and the time it took to adapt to the new lands and preserve their foundations, along with being outsiders meant that their sway and standing in the western world was tumultuous. While they had support from their branches that lingered in the east, they were still in a weak position. Eventually picked up by the Yggdmillennia who, despite the pride of the Mo, were able to convince them to join in by the silvertongue of Darnic Prestone, the Mo were a powerful, albeit distance satellite member that filled the collective’s ranks. Lon herself was a girl born to one of the branch families that from a young age. Showing a great compatibility and aptitude, besting the candidates of inheritance with an exhibition that stifled opposition, she not only was adopted to the clan of gold from copper, but ended up becoming the new head and representative. All in all new to the West and Yggdmillennia, she comes in as if she were a tourist. Well, considering the instability that comes with the passing of generations, both in Yggdmillennia and the MO itself, and the fact that the Mo are partially blamed by some members for failing to protect the grail from theft despite their strength means that there’s plenty for her to experience and deal with. Hm? She just thinks it’ll be a fun time? Besides, it’s not like she was part of the Gold back then. It was time for the to bear witness with her performance in the war the value of copper transmuted to gold. Just like she silenced those of the Mo, she came to the west with the full intent of silencing the Yggdmillennia with herself. She was the sort who desired the sort of curse that was “May you live in interesting times” --- [b]Magic Circuit Switch:[/b] The feeling of the heart pumping liquid steel through the veins, and the rush of breath in response. [b]Number of Magic Circuits:[/b] D [b]Quality of Magic Circuits:[/b] B [b]Od:[/b] Very high (Panda Furnace) [b]Elemental Affinity:[/b] Water & Fire [Wuxing system, not Aristotle/western] [hider=Magic Stuff & techniques] [b]Attribute: Refinement [/b] A magecraft attribute of Refinement. Similar to reinforcement, but it has to do more with removing impurities to strengthen the concept and existence of something rather than adding onto it. For some magic and abilities it might not be much of a difference in terms of effect, but the connotations can build up to very different results. [b]Beast Magecraft (Panda) 食鐵獸: [/b] Wearing the concept and form of the Iron-Eating Beast. While Beast Magecraft is fundamentally about borrowing the abilities or concept of beasts. Rather than transforming one’s self completely into an animal on a complete physical level, traits are blended and seeded with conceptual fertilization, making one a hybrid, both spiritually and physically from the onset, and layering of magecraft techniques. One is a mighty iron-eating beast, and drawing forth this already innate bestial nature can allow for a further augmentation of strength and performance. Although rather than reinforcement, this follows the property of the family’s magical attribute of refinement. Through eating previous heirs and their enemies, one takes in their enlightenment and iron. The fact that Panda and Demon are both called Mo (貘) [panda] and 魔 [demon] is utilized to help blend them. The devouring of the wisdom of others (refinement) to gain immortality (eternity) and enlightenment (perfection) Of course, actual metal is also eaten as an odd sort of snack and material to utilize for magecraft, and to bring one closer to the people of the originator of weapons, Chiyou. After all, carrying heads of bronze, and eating iron.. [b]Maybe they were pandas all along?! [/b] Regardless, such a regression through associated acts is only beneficial for both martial strength and magecraft... Yějīn nèidān shù [b]Elixir Brewing Forge/Internal Foundry: [/b] The Taoist path of internal alchemy that cultivates and processes the body to attempt to form an elixir internally. The normal practices of alchemy are performed instead with one’s self. The act of alchemy is to trace a path (Dao) backwards through the stream of life that flows from Wu (the root) to Wanwu (the current stage of life). Even things such as greater strength, healing and shaking off of ailments and foulness, and immortality can be reached if one aligns with the cosmos properly. But most importantly for the Mo it is a matter of internal purity and refinement that they seek most of all. Applying metallurgical concepts as part of their internal alchemy, the path of the Mo is to forge themselves into purity until they reach heaven. As an aside note, as a purified space for an elixir, and a forgery/crucible that burns away impurities via Qi, by their nature, the Mo are rather sturdy against outside influences, whether it be invasive magical energy, or poisons or even a bacteria-filled meal. However the nature of fire being the element that coaxes the pure essence of things out from their coil, the body heat of Lon is rather high. Toasty. [b]Dantian Forge, Cultivation of Violence:[/b] The utilization of one’s heart as the Dantian (focal point of energy) in magecraft is something that while specific to east asia mysticism, is a matter of the expansion of the universal and innate nature of the heart as a center of energy and life. Utilizing its energy, and its flow of blood as both the energy that reshapes the body, and the flow that reconfigures and transforms the body. This is internal alchemy that shifts the body from a crucible that cultivates the heavens and elixir, to a furnace that transforms and refines the body and self. Blood is after all iron, and the work of a smith is to reshape iron into a form that is not only different, but stronger than before. In Taoism the concept of Metallurgy is fundamentally that of transformation, and shifting shape. Qi (Breath) is processed along with metal through heat and practice to prepare Jing (essence) as a huandan (reverted elixir) that becomes a seed of potential, an internal prima materia that can be transmuted. [b]Bagua Force: Fourfold Battle Array[/b] Battle as seen through heaven, strife and violence shaped into knowledge. Before she who contains the totality of battle no techniques can stay unhidden. Or rather, it should be said that she is a foundry where any sort of potential of violence can be forged. A Jidan [Gold Elixir] of violence. Even the concept of utilizing martial arts with one’s body flows from the knowledge and vision that the founder held. A magecraft that, in all honesty, is fundamentally closer to martial arts. Rather than a martial arts that pursues perfection, one could say that it is a raw and primordial martial arts that simply traces back and refines battle to primordial violence. The four eyes see four different shapes. The significance of the four weapons can be compared to the four elements in western thinking that dominates the base of occultism. Rather than dividing up the world into four elements however, it is war itself that is divided into four forms. Flowing like a stream, four then becomes eighteen, connected to primordial violence and yet expressing it in different, specialized ways. All parts of a whole. In another language, this would be called a Ryougi. One divine violence, four eyes that see new paths, eighteen blades that spill blood. While the Mo may technically be alchemists and smiths in their path, the truth is that they are demons of violence and war that contain all of violence within them. Before her eyes, no violence may go without answer. [b]Breathing and Walking:[/b] I feel like this doesn’t really need to be said, or really is all that important to say but just to be safe I guess??? She breaths really good and walks really good. But she’s probably like better at breathing. [/hider] [b][s]Crest:[/s][/b] The Mo family as an eastern based tradition does not carry a magic crest... instead. [b]Sarira Inheritance: 2500 years (Although really it's not really as cumulative or straightforward as Crest inheritance so don't let the number spook you that much)[/b] Fundamentally even as they migrated west, the Mo are a family that does not follow western traditions and techniques. Even if they have begun to take in western knowledge, the base of the family remains unchanged. Upon death former heads and members of the family are cremated in a way to process their cultivated spirituality and abilities into a crystallization of spiritual and mental energies, along with karma. In a sense you could say it is the presentation of a soul and a human rendered into their worth and information. Devouring that, one inherits the past and tempers the furnace as a new workshop and head. A new link in the chain is forged. [hider=Inventory/My Cool Stuff!][b]Mystic Codes:[/b] [b]My Favorite Cheongsam:[/b] A China Dress that has various talismans and patterns weaved into it made out of special ingredients to grant the same level of protection as a intern delving into one of the dungeons of the Clocktower, and an anti-magic amulet. Cancels magic on the level of one step. Really, it’s not to protect her… even if a normal magus might consider this a very substantial and useful amount of protection. It’s made so she doesn’t have to keep repairing it or replacing it so often with the kinds of battles she gets into… [b] Shenni: Embryonic Skin[/b] A mixture of Lead and Mercury that forms a Taiju in mud, Mud of the Earth and Mud of the Heaven. A seal that separates one from the world and preserves life. One could say it is a shell that raises and nurtures the nascent world within a human being and prevent the loss of breath. An anti-environmental mystic code embedded and incorporated into the body of Lon, and also a building block that can be utilized with her in conjunction with her Dantian Forge. It is akin to the prized treasure of the Istari family that converts and transforms their tool into armor and weapons. The Shenni is however not the full arms of Lon, but rather an unnoticed carapace that fuses with and transforms with her own reshaping and forging to form her weapons. Often she likes to let them be pre-forged and hang around instead of just completely burying herself in it. Well, the cover is more a conceptual sort of cover than completely physical anyway so it’s ok if she’s showing off her body! [b]Four Eyes of Strife:[/b] The idea of the common nickname and slur of "Four-eyes" for glasses wearing nerds is utilized in the form of sunglasses, to sum it up. Sunglasses tinted blood red that usually rest atop her forehead rather than being worn. At their base they are a variant of a normal support mystic code that helps with the processing of information and data so a magus does not get overwhelmed. In this case they’re specialized for the means of perceiving and analyzing war. The third and fourth eyes of Lon, painted with the concept of the great ancestor of battle and weaponry. The lens are actually made out of a liquid crystal and copper mixture treated with alchemical means and anointed to invoke the god of war. For a girl whose boy sometimes rushes forward before her mind, it’s a help to let them line up and sync up as one. Truly a monster (Bear) in human form, perhaps even more than those who were once human and became bloodsuckers. [/hider] [/hider]