[hider=Anthony Forrest] [center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/731220504366678120/813987455962185779/40040_full.png[/img][/center] [color=skyblue][b][u]Name:[/u][/b][/color] Anthony Forrest [color=skyblue][b][u]Age:[/u][/b][/color] 22 [color=skyblue][b][u]Birthday:[/u][/b][/color] January 24th [color=skyblue][b][u]Magic:[/u][/b][/color] Air magic and Card Magic, Witch of Shu [color=skyblue][b][u]Magic Level:[/u][/b][/color] A [hider=Spells] [hider=Path of Shu] Shu is a god of air, wind, lions, the protector of the sun and a god of light, a judge of souls, and a keeper of peace; acknowledged as a creator god, it is said his support of the heavens to hold the sky from the earth and his breath gave life to living creatures on earth. As part of his pact, Anthony has found his Air magic has been amplified with effects lasting longer or being more powerful. The pact requires Anthony to attempt to overcome his nurturing and strive to maintain a balance of peace and protection in his life and the world around him. If he intentionally seeks to sow strife or animosity with others, or enacts vengeance rather than seeking to protect the natural order, he stands to lose both his magic gifted by Shu as well as his Air magic. Thus far, Anthony has done well at maintaining peace in his life in the form of calm breathing meditation with Kyros each day, even when traveling for jobs or to investigate claims of wayward spirits. His patron has tasked him with sending wayward souls off to judgement, as well as the souls of any that may die at his hand, in a ritual that involves touching the spirit with a blessed ostrich feather - which will cause both feather and soul to vanish. [color=skyblue][b]Calming Breeze:[/b][/color] Summons up a gentle, cooling breeze (reminiscent of a perfect breeze for a warm day) into a large space (about 100 meter diameter) to help calm tempers of those within it. It is a subtle effect that does not happen instantaneously. The longer one is within the area, the more calm and reasonable they may become. This does not make anyone open to being friends, but at least no longer hostile and looking to act on their anger. The area of effect lasts for 10 minutes longer than the caster maintains concentration on the spell; the breeze will gradually fade away in that time, and the cooling effect may fade as well. [color=skyblue][b]Breath of Serenity:[/b][/color] Blowing air over one’s hand directly at another’s face while in close (arm’s reach) proximity can set the target in a mild daze, sapping strength and anger away in mere seconds. Effects can last for up to 10 minutes, but also have the potential of leaving the target with the desire to no longer pursue a fight if they were not particularly hostile in the first place. [color=skyblue][b]Air Barrier:[/b][/color] Thrusting forth a hand with a blessed ostrich feather, air takes shape into the form of whatever the caster desires at the time of creation. Lasting for as long as the caster can concentrate on holding it, each time the barrier is hit, it has a chance of breaking the caster’s concentration. The larger the barrier, the more concentration it takes to maintain and the easier it is to break. [color=skyblue][b]Divination:[/b][/color] While Anthony has lost his ability to magically divine with his cards, he has found he can make predictions on a broader scale, levels that can affect a group of people instead of individuals. [color=skyblue][b]Lions (Favored Animal):[/b][/color] Anthony can communicate with them, but has no control over them. While he has an affinity for the beasts, he hasn’t met many and needs to build a relationship with them in order to properly make use of their abilities. Through this connection, though, he has developed a roar much akin to Kyros’s - used to help act as both a way to scare off threats and a warning signal to guildmates. [color=skyblue][b]Kyros (familiar):[/b][/color] A white lion of standard size, he is Anthony’s companion and, until recently, mentor on how to utilize his new craft. He can communicate his feelings to Anthony, and they have limited ability to communicate telepathically by doing this. Mostly, Anthony talks to him, and Kyros responds with varying vocal responses. [color=skyblue][b]Lion’s Might:[/b][/color] Channelling the strength of lions into his body, Anthony can land faster, and more powerful, strikes than he previously could - especially if they involve leaping to cover distance. This can be used in combination with [color=skyblue]Lion’s Leap[/color] to gain most effect of the two, but it is not necessarily exclusively used for it. [color=skyblue][b]Lion’s Leap:[/b][/color] The distance able to be covered by jumping is greatly increased by channelling a lion’s pouncing ability. This can be used in combination with [color=skyblue]Lion’s Might[/color] to gain the most effect of the two, but is not necessarily exclusively used for it.[/hider] [hider=Air] [color=skyblue][b]Mist Body:[/b][/color] The caster transforms their body into mist allowing them to roam around freely at high speed and teleport. While in this state, all physical and magical attacks are negated; caster cannot attack while in this form. [color=skyblue][b]Aeria Dome:[/b][/color] The caster creates a dome, lowering the oxygen within the affected area and as a result, suffocating all inside due to the lack of oxygen in the environment; as the pressure has been altered inside the dome, those within it experience a sharp pain in their ears. [color=skyblue][b]Piercing Blast:[/b][/color] Caster points their hand in a direction and closes it into a fist, then points like a finger-gun at a target. Upon dropping their thumb, a blast of air shoots forth from their finger tip in a straight line. It has the piercing capacity of a 9mm bullet, and will travel until it comes into contact with an object; it will disperse after impact. [color=skyblue][b]Concussive Blast:[/b][/color] Caster forms a hand into a fist and then thrusts the hand out, sending a large blast of air at the target. Can cause bruising, and even break bones, upon impact - depending on how close the target is to the caster. Has the ability to break apart large rocks if targeted correctly. [color=skyblue][b]Aerial Bomber:[/b][/color] The caster fires a series of blasts toward a target, which detonate around the target to inflict moderate sonic damage. Can also be fired at multiple targets, but does not have the same damage power as a single target. [color=skyblue][b]Destructive Vortex:[/b][/color] Caster sweeps an outstretched arm toward themselves, pulling their target towards them, before enveloping themselves in a sphere like cyclone to inflict damage to their target as well as destroy any surrounding obstacles. [color=skyblue][b]Expelling Vortex:[/b][/color] Caster creates a tornado of wind that pushes out from their palm. Lasts for only a few moments but has enough force to launch someone a few dozen feet into the air or just send them tumbling backwards. [color=skyblue][b]Levitate:[/b][/color] Spell allows caster to adjust the density of the air to either lift something up or slow the falling speed of a number of targets. The larger something is or the more targets there are, the more energy is needed to lift or slow the object(s) in question. Spell will last for as long as energy is directed into it, or until the target has reached its destination. Spell ends immediately should the caster fall unconscious, or run out of magical energy. *[color=skyblue]Anthony has found since making his pact with Shu that he is able to maintain his levitation abilities for longer if he does a small ritual or prayer to his patron before casting the spell. If done in a reaction to protect others, he can also do it for longer as gifted by Shu, but will lose some potency from his other air spells for up to a week if he does not pay tribute (meditate and pray) after all are safe.[/color] [/hider] [hider=Card Magic] Compriseds of a multitude of cards, Anthony’s main deck has become more of a supportive tool than a main weapon. Cards that call upon elements of fire, air, and light channel into stronger abilities, while those that oppose them are weaker; he attributes this to the pact he made and the domains that the god controls. Anthony also has a standard tarot deck he drew all the artwork for himself. He can use these to do standard fortune telling if he so chooses. Trying to use his cards to divine magically hasn’t worked out since making his pact. [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Sleep_Card][color=skyblue][u][b]Sleep[/b][/u][/color][/url] [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Call_Card][color=skyblue][u][b]Call[/b][/u][/color][/url] [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Card_Conversion][color=skyblue][u][b]Conversion[/b][/u][/color][/url] [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Wind_Edge][color=skyblue][u][b]Wind Edge[/b][/u][/color][/url] [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Sun%27s_Strength][color=skyblue][u][b]Sun’s Strength[/b][/u][/color][/url] [url=https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/Summoned_Lightning][color=skyblue][u][b]Summoned Lightning[/b][/u][/color][/url] [color=skyblue][b][u]Cloak:[/u][/b][/color] Allows user cast a spell that makes a target invisible for up to an half an hour, or until the target uses magic - holder or caster - or comes into contact with another living being or (magical source not present at the time of the casting.) [color=skyblue][b][u]Mirage:[/u][/b][/color] Allows user to cast a spell that creates an illusion. Illusion does not hold up to much investigation, and is just a temporary visual trick typically used as a distraction. [color=skyblue][b][u]Summoning Series:[/u][/b][/color] (not listing out all the cards, so here’s just a quick overview) Allows user to call forth an item imaged on the card. Examples: sword, shield, pen, pitcher of water, feathers. Items summoned in such a manner share standard durability with items of that nature (i.e. a metal shield will hold up like a standard steel shield. A pen will snap as easy as any standard pen. So on.) and will last indefinitely unless placed back into the card. Summoning cards are called Holding Cards, and are interdimensional space like Card Conversion but can only hold inanimate objects. [/hider][/hider] [color=skyblue][b][u]History:[/u][/b][/color] Few things are so instrumental in setting one down a bad path as being the cause of a parent’s death. Much is how it was for Anthony, who grew up resented by his father and older brothers for the fact that his mother died as a result of complications from his birth. The doctors had done everything they could to save her, but their efforts weren’t enough. That stigma is a weight on his shoulders Anthony was forced to bear. His father led a cult of fanatical dark mages working in the shadows and accumulating power in any ways they could in order to bring about the end of times. From an early age, failure wasn’t acceptable and weakness was not an option. You either were strong enough to survive, or you were dead. For him, the trials and tribulations of the group were worse than his brothers - something he saw as punishment for something he couldn’t have prevented. He grew and adapted with each shift to how they tested him, both resentful of his family and their followers and ambitious to be greater than they could handle. When he was old enough, he started venturing off to see what else he could learn. Time away from the family helped temper him away from the bloodthirsty path they were setting him on. On one such excursion, he met a girl - innocent and sweet and oh so damaged like him. That first time, they sat and talked - it was all superficial but she seemed excited to share when he asked things about her and the way she talked made him realize he could have nice things in his life that weren’t about power or destruction. So he made a plan to meet with her again and gave her a card to reach out to him when she was available. And so it went, little trysts to meet with a girl as broken as he but so full of life he wanted to keep her with him. Her magic was beautiful, and powerful, and could surely change the way the world for him was shaped. He used it - he used her - but he told himself it was to build something better for the two of them. But the more he thought of ways to secure the future he wanted for them, the more they needed; that, in turn, meant taking more and it led to hurting people. He was okay with it, and it seemed she was too. It was the final time they met up, he’d made arrangements to get them both away from there. Everything they stole had been sold, and he had the jewels to pay for them to get anywhere and remake themselves to whatever they wanted. He hadn’t counted on her being nervous about the prospect; her family made her miserable just like his did, they abused her just as much as his - he had trouble understanding why she wouldn’t want to run. It had taken time, and he’d nearly convinced her, until she spotted an eavesdropper. Her brother had overheard and took off to get others to help stop them. The two of them raced off to catch up with him, hoping to convince her brother to let them just leave. They didn’t catch up in time. What happened next was chaos in his mind. Her father and brother argued to make him leave and never see her again, while he refused to abandon her to their torment. He refocused his attention to the only thing in his life that mattered - trying to convince her to cut them off from her life and just escape with him. She seemed so torn, all he wanted was for her to focus on him and cut out the noise around them so he could make her realize what was best. Then she let out a magic attack in her confused frustration. One minute he was shoved back through the air by a powerful tidal wave, the next he was plunged into complete and utter darkness. It was entirely surreal floating in nothingness - stretching on for eternity and yet not existing at all. A voice spoke out to him, everywhere and nowhere at once, and offered him a second chance at life if he were to agree to serve. What he saw wasn’t a bent knee in service to a patron, but the state of the village around him and the souls lingering - of his father and the others continuing their plot to obtain more power unimpeded - people that needed to be sent to the other side for judgement and their own eternal trials. There wasn’t even a second thought to this offer. Anthony’s eyes shot open and air pressed into his lungs as if he’d forgotten how to take a breath himself. As he sat up, gasping lustfully for air, the world finally came into focus. Eerie silence, save for the way the wind moving ice shards over an icy landscape sounded like chimes, greeted him. His eyes took in the damage. Bodies strewn in unnatural ways, homes demolished and hiding others. As he got to his feet he finally could see the haunting visions of spectres walking the village. That was when he noticed a white lion watching him. It was almost as if on eye contact with the beast, he knew what he needed to do, and set about sending the spirits off to be judged. It felt weird, once the village had been cleared. He had lost signs of where his friend had gone - she wasn’t among the dead so she had to have survived - but now he was left torn. He’d survived, her family and everyone else in her life was now sent to judgement, and he felt both empty and full of purpose. After sitting for a bit with the lion, he finally found his bearings. He knew what he needed to do next - the path cut out for him that was not entirely what he planned when the day began. Kyros - the lion - and Anthony traveled back to his home to set things right for his path. His father and the others had already turned him into an effective weapon, and he used that against them. Each new death sent another ill fated soul to be judged, and removed one more dark mage from the world. But these were just the ones he was set to judge. It felt like they walked aimlessly for a long time, but every time he started to think that - he would find more spectres needing help being sent along for judgement. Eventually, he found his way into Fiore and further to the Silverbranch Glade. In the months - going just over two years - since he had started on this new path, he had grown in understanding of how his magic tied with the gifts he’d been given alongside his original magic, but not in how the gifts of Shu could be used to their full potential. He waited with Kyros for a short time - mindful to not do more than make the patrolling wolves aware of their presence - while seeing what his cards had to tell of the new undertaking. Eventually, he ensured it was safe to meet with the guild within the glade - or, rather, the master of the guild - to discuss joining to gain better understanding of his gifts and the proper way to utilize them and this chance. [color=skyblue][b][u]Personality:[/u][/b][/color] He prefers to wear a smile like a mask, and has turned it into an unreadable one at that. Anthony strives to be a calm, neutral, almost care-free presence for most things, but that sometimes fails; when it does, he will - sometimes without communicating - attempt to remove himself from a situation where he may lose his calm persona. He never shows outright signs of hostility unless someone is insulting/hurting a friend; if that happens he’ll jump in to defend the friend and end the confrontation - in whatever manner will get it to end. When it comes to protecting someone, he has been seen to be ruthless in how he fights - willing to do whatever it takes to eliminate the threat and keep his charge safe. Extremely intelligent, Anthony is generally able to see how things connect together and details others may miss. He tends to use these kinds of things to his advantage, something he was taught from an early age and never broke out of. His manipulative charisma is something he tries to avoid, and does that by trying to seem apathetic at this point, but some things will never change. Years of manipulating odds into his favor and people to what he needed aren’t easily pushed aside. For as much as he likes to figure things out and try to come up with plans, he also has little issue reacting on instinct and impulse. Plans, then, are generally fluid and made much like one might play chess - with several ideas of how things can go depending on how others might react so he is rarely left at a disadvantage. It makes it hard for him to wrap his brain around working with someone else that he doesn’t know very well, and he has a dislike for working in teams in general, but he will manage if necessary. When it does come to teamwork, he prefers it best to not take the lead, but instead let someone else take the forefront on that and make it known he will end up doing his own thing. [color=skyblue][b][u]Guild and guild mark location:[/u][/b][/color] Wolven Pyre - right bicep, light sky blue [color=skyblue][b][u]Team Members:[/u][/b][/color] -- [color=skyblue][b][u]Strengths:[/u][/b][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Charismatic:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Calculating/Cunning:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Perceptive:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Intuitive:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Skilled Combatant:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]High Endurance to Pain, Tireless, Deceptively Strong and Agile:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Energetic:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][b][u]Weaknesses:[/u][/b][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Impulsive:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Manipulative:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Moral Ambiguity/Pragmatist:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Fearless/Daredevil:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Over Protective:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Ruthless:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][u]Confined Spaces/Trapped:[/u][/color] [color=skyblue][b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b][/color] 6’ and has multiple scars all over his body. Has a [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/781911543130226718/822130088195784724/unknown.png]branding[/url] on his left shoulder blade of the sigil used by his father’s cult. [hider=alt img][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/d5/01/8ad50198296d71a5e23fa27b473ebbe4.jpg[/img][/hider] [color=skyblue][b][u]Additional Details:[/u][/b][/color] Anthony has some issues with reality - in that there are times when he’s not entirely sure if what he is seeing is real or just in his head. Since making the pact, it has only gotten worse with being able to see lingering dead when others cannot. He is fond of drawing and playing standard card games. If required to sit around, he will likely play a solo game or start sketching. [/hider]