[CHAR] Legend of Zelda: Templar Ascension

[ColonelCaboose]

Regol Xavier

Name: Regol Xavier

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Age: 53

Race: Twili

Skills: Assassination, Chi Blocking, Alchemy.

Magic Abilities: Shadow: Manipulation

Weapons: Syringe, throwing knives, scalpel, poison darts, brass knuckles

Inventory: poison potion, sleeping potion, paralyzing potion, green potion. Twili Mask

Bio: Regol in his youth was fascinated with that of the Light Realm. Every morsel of information he could obtain he would devour. Alas he could not enter such a land of beauty, for he was not a light dweller, he was a Twili. It was forbidden for a Twili to walk among the light dwellers, and down right impossible. Regol set out to find a way though. Through many years of study in the Ancient Twili arts of alchemy, Regol fashioned a mask that resembled what the light dwellers called a plaque mask. The mask was filled with a magical potion that allowed the rays of light to not harm him and allow him to walk among the light dwellers without his body turning to shadow.

Of course sadly there was no way to enter the Light Realm from the Twili Realm after the Twilight Mirror was destroyed by Queen Midna. Though Regol refused to believe that the portal to the Light Realm was all but lost. One day during one of his searches through his library of vast knowledge an old prophet came to him and told him to seek out the Queen's chamber of the Twilight Castle, in there was the key to what he sought most. Regol decided to follow the prophet's word and snuck into the castle. He found that the Queen's mirror was yet another portal that he could use. Though before he could use it, the Queen found him intruding into her quarters and about to use the portal and tried to stop him. He killed her by accident with one of his poisons that splashed onto her face when the veil broke when the two were wrestling. With the Queen dead and himself responsible, Regol fled into the portal and into the Light Realm.

Regol found that his mask indeed worked, and also fouled people into thinking he was a real doctor. He had studied the light dwellers from afar and never in person, he couldn't allow an opportunity like this to pass him up. Regol performed many tests on various people, and cut more than his fair share of bodies. For a few years he did do his best to be a real doctor, some of his potions helping the sick, while others killing them. Regol also came to finding that he had great magical powers in the realm of the light dwellers. His Twili heritage gave him great powers of shadow. It was not long before he over used his powers and got himself into a sticky situation. The town claimed him to be a witch and to be killing them more than helping, which was indeed true. Regol tried to fight back, but a whole town he could not defeat alone. His trial was over without a single defense and he was to be hung, but before he could a man of God came to the people and convinced them he was not a witch, but part of God's greater plans for the people. That man was Thallus who Regol gave his undying loyalty to for saving his life.

Regol now serves Thallus and God from behind the scenes and in the shadows. He is second in command of the Templar's and will give his life for their goal of order, and to protect the people of the world from harm, even if it does mean sacrificing some to save the many. The more he serves the more he believes in God and that he is truly trying to help the people as a agent of God who works among the shadows.

Demoko

Name: Demoko

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Age: since the Beginning of Time

Race: Precursor

Skills: Demoko's knowledge of defending against the dark arts is unparallel to even the gods. He is a great magician, if not one of the best in all of time.

Magic Abilities: Demoko is the master of time in all of the lands, all time in the land flows through him. Demoko can see the past, present, and always changing future. He can also use his time abilites in battle, but given his pacifist attitude, he retains from using his magic powers from physically hurting people, and tends to use his powers to the attacker is tired out or in a more reasonable state.

Weapons: Demoko has no weapons and has never held a weapon once, except when moving the Master Sword from its last resting place to the Temple of Temple.

Inventory: Demoko has three legendary books, that hold numerous spells, stories, and recipes. Besides that, he carries a small bottle of dirt.

Bio: Demoko was the first Sage created by the goddesses, the Sage of Time. He witnessed the birth of the world and more importantly Hyrule. He watched over Hyrule as the goddesses commanded him to do so. From his blood Her Grace was created who helped watch over the land with him. For hundreds of years he watched, protected over the land, but slowly things fell out of balance. Evil slowly began to enter the world of Hyrule. The goddesses blamed Demoko for this, they believed he was a flawed creation, worthless, failed. For this they stripped him of his status and banished him, but allowed him to keep his powers, for they could not strip him of them. Since they used the most powerful magic to create him, the lengths they would have to go to would not be worth the efforts. Demoko watched as Her Grace sent the last of the surviving races into the skies and returned to fight the rest of the evil that remained. He could not watch as what he was created for was slowly destroyed. Demoko took his own soul and turned it into the Spirit of the Hero that would be the protector of Hyrule for all of time.

With his parting gift, Demoko traveled the world, even through and across time. He is a mystery to the world, and his origins are too, except to the immortals and powerful deities across the nations. His existence is nothing than a myth, scholars only suggesting there must have been a Sage of Time at one point, since there was a sage for all the other classes. Whether people believe in such a thing or not is no concern to Demoko, who rather have people not know of his existence then to know and know of his greatest blunder. He has appeared in many places since none know who he is, he can walk freely among the people. He spends his time helping those in times of need.

Demoko can mostly be seen following the Legendary Heroes who carry the Spirit of the Hero he created, but not literally of course. Demoko last revealed himself to the land of Termina, helping the Hero of Time by resetting the three day cycle every time he pleaded to the heavens for more time. After that he vanished, over the decades and centuries. He foresaw that the Hero to save the Twilight Princess required no aid from him, and traveled across time to help the Hero of the Winds use the Phantom Hourglass. Demoko returned back after the Hero defeated Bellum and returned to find that Hyrule had been saved from disaster from Ganondorf and the Twilight Princess saved. Demoko has waited for centuries now for when he would be needed again. The time has come again and he is needed now more than ever.

Father Thallus

Name: Father Thallus

Gender: Male

Apperance:
Age: Unknown

Race: Unknown

Skills: Master Thallus is a master swordsman. He has spent his whole life mastering the sword. Along with his sword skills, Thallus is a good politician as well as a persuader, he can twist anything and make people believe it.

Magic Abilites: Thallus was once a master in Time and Space, but his master skills have now stretched themselves across the other classes of magic, but he rarely uses magic in front of the public as to not ruin his image.

Weapons: Sword, Dagger, Dagger, Dagger, Brass Knuckles

Inventory: Wolfo Mask of tracking, Cloak of Deception, Gauntlets of Strength, Pendant Cross of Vision, Boots of Muffling, Red Potion, Green Potion, Blue Potion

Bio: Thallus origins are as much of a mystery to all. He claims to have come across the Great Sea, through Termina and up into Hyrule. Most people believe it, not caring much. Thallus does not speak much of where he comes from, but mostly that he is a man of God and that he will lead the masses into salvation.

[ColonelCaboose]

Name: Lord Tiberius Onyx XI, General Onyx

Gender: Male

Appearance:
Donning the armor forged by his ancestor, he is the second to wear it having been the only descendant to grow to such size. It is a symbol of his family's pledge and loyalty to the throne of Hyrule and a promise to always defend it from prying hands. Made of rare metals brought from a distant land, it is as hard as steel and as light as a feather. Ithas the glow and shimmer of gold naturally with no paint. It doesn't scratch, dent, or break. It is centuries old, but looks as if it new forged. It has a warm feel to it and never cools or heats up. The metal still has many properties unknown.

Phase I

One of the many "unknown" properties of the metal is it's ability to extend, transform entirely and incase the wearer's body perfectly in a way that allows maximum movement and protection. It takes on a more machine look and an overall darker tone. It's creator gave it a darker tone to symbolize the sometimes darker path a Knight must take and with that the armor casts a heavier burden upon the wearer by increasing its weight and making it incapable of much vertical movement, almost entirely grounding the user, however at the same time imbues its wearer with a mastery of Earth Magic in a way no enchanter has ever seen. Why these designs were built into is unknown, but regardless the wearer's danger level increases ten fold. It is marked with many strange symbols that glow green with the use of Earth Magic.

Phase II

Age: 52

Race: Human

Skills: Master Swordsman and Strategist

Magic Abilities:
Phase I: Wind
Phase II: Earth

Weapons:
Phase I: Triforce Spear of Light
Phase II: War Glaives of Death Mountain

Inventory: N/A

Bio: Tiberius Onyx was born into a very prestigious and noble family within Hyrule. While the family was not Hylian, they had lived there since Tiberius Onyx I brought his family from a land far North. Onyx's family served on the Royal Court and in the ranks of the Hylian Knights. When he was had come of age to become that of a squire, his father took him on a long adventure across the world. His father taught him their heritage, their customs, how to wield a sword, and most importantly to do what is right. Over the course of a decade Onyx was drilled with these teachings as he and his father travelled from one land to another, whether on foot or by ship. Onyx observed much and learned all he could to be an honorable man. He also grew beyond imagination, growing to the height of Tiberius Onyx I, his father saw this as a good omen that his son was meant to do great things and concluded it was time to return to their homeland of Hyrule. Upon their return to Hyrule Onyx was deemed a Hyrulean Knight and the tallest and strongest human in the land.

At this time Onyx continued his studies, training night and day like no other. Another decade had passed and Onyx was a Captain of within the Knights, he had come to discover his natural skills for magic and had mastered the Magic of Wind. An amazing feat for many take their entire lives to master a type of magic. Around this time his father grew very ill, healers from all over Hyrule were brought to his bed side but nothing could help him. They had found that he had been poisoned and it was too strong for their healing abilities, not even fairies could help him. Angry that a man would poison his father and hide himself in such a cowardly way, he swore an act of vengeance upon the man who was responsible for his father's death. An act of Vengeance that was satisfied with the arrival of Father Thallus, than just a traveler passing through. There had been rumors circling that the man came from a far away land and worshiped a god different than the Golden Goddesses', a crazy notion that proved true nonetheless. Onyx approached Thallus believing he was going to be trouble, but after Thallus had a vision from above that revealed that the Great Hylian General had poisoned his father who had an opposing view in the Royal Court, Onyx was forever grateful to Thallus who left Hyrule and went about his way.

Onyx challenged the General to a dual and succeeded with ease and as a reward assumed his position as General of Hyrule. Over the next few decades Onyx watched over Hyrule and watched as it slowly turned rotten with famine and droughts, he put his faith in the Goddessesses, but when they failed to answer his prayers or any he turned to the teachings of Father Thallus who had returned to Hyrule. He marveled as the man brought about life back to Hyrule and did away with all of their problems. He put his faith in Thallus and his god, and fell to Thallus' lies and fibs. He was eventually given the honor of joining Thallus' Brotherhood and joined without skipping a beat and became close friends with Regol, Gaios, and several others. However he remained skeptical of Fiona who had an evil twinkle in her eye. Now he sets out on any mission that is presented to him by Thallus without a second thought.

That's it people. Hope you come to your senses and join. Also my grammar wasn't the best, but I am tired and was just trying to get through typing this, so I sort of did some stuff, forgot some stuff, didn't care about stuff. So yeah...

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

SOPHOS

Name: Sophos Ailred

Gender: Male

Appearance:
Sophos' robes are a much brighter blue, however. Almost like you'd see in a children's book. He stands at around 6' tall, and is a light 150 pounds.

Age: 62

Race: Terminian Human

Skills: Alchemy, Knowledge of lore.

Magic Abilities: Time Magic, near mastery. Sophos is incapable of creating stable portals as of now, however. His most successful attempt managed to last about three seconds before collapsing violently on itself.

Weapons: N/A

Inventory: Alchemical reagents, a satchel to carry them in, a book with every recipe he's ever used (Caboose it did other stuffff but I forget T.T) a magical floating chair, and a wand to help focus his magic with.

Bio: Sophos grew up in Termina, in Clock Town, and had an uneventful life until his marriage. He made a living by working in the town's library, and creating potions for people on the side, although he never charged much more than what one would need for ingredients. They had two children, but when Sophos was on a trip on day, a man broke into the house, killed his children, and impregnated his wife. Sophos saw the man when he returned, but out of concern for his family, he did not make chase. Unable to suffer the thought of bearing another man's child, his wife ran off into the mountains, giving birth to the boy in her last moments. The son was adopted and raised, his existence unknown to Sophos until much later in his life, and vice versa. After his wife and children's deaths, Sophos became a bit more reclusive, but still offered his services to those around him.

Nearly a decade later, while he was travelling to Hyrule for ingredients, he encountered the man who'd murdered his family. Rather than killing him, he alerted the guards, who arrested him promptly. At his execution, Sophos stood silently as the man returned the populace's insults, claiming that only Sophos had a right to kill him. After the execution, Sophos found a bit of closure, but he was still much of a loner, spending his time with books and alchemical ingredients.

GAIOS

Name: Gaios (Occasionally referred to as "The Fatherless" by other Templars.)

Gender: Male

Appearance: Armor

Face
He stands at about 6'1", and weighs around 200 pounds.

Age: 32

Race: Terminian Human

Skills: Excellent swordfighter, great with his magic, not much else: he's bred for combat.

Magic Abilities: Earth magic. Gaios uses it in a bit of an unorthodox manner, electing to use platforms and discs of earth to move and attack rapidly while evading being hit rather than tanking attacks, although his elemental affinity still makes him extremely durable.

Weapons:

Inventory: A red potion

Bio: Found almost frozen to death by a pair of mountain-dwelling folks, Gaios was raised under the name of Lucidon, learning how to make a living in the mountains, mainly through hunting. When he was little older than 12, his magical abilities manifested themselves, and his parents made the decision to send him to Castle Town in Hyrule for training. He learned under a charitable master who fed, sheltered and taught him so long as he made himself of use. At first, Lucidon joined the Hylian Guard when he became an adult, quickly earning favor among the locals for his kindness towards them.

When the Templars came around, Lucidon was quick to jump ship and join them. His talents were quickly recognized, and he was brought into the elite echelon of Earth Knights. As time passed, the Templars became more influential, and he was seen as a calming presence when he was in Castle Town. However, one day when he was chatting with locals, he overheard talk about an old man who frequented the area, by the name of Sophos Ailred. For some reason, Lucidon couldn't help but listen to his story. After learning of the fate of Sophos's wife, he was stunned that something so horrible had happened to somebody so kind and beloved by people he rarely even met. Hearing about the killer's execution did little to assuage the pity and grief he felt for Sophos. This man had had everything he loved ripped from him, and yet he continued to make the long journey to Hyrule for his service to the residents of Clock Town.

Soon, Lucidon was a touch obsessed with Sophos and his story. He'd listen to what anybody had to say, and even managed to collect a group of pictographs of Sophos, his family, and the man who destroyed all that. And then he looked in a mirror, changing his life. When he compared the photos, along with the timeline of the events, the similarities were too great to be coincidence. He'd known he was found as a child, rather than born to his parents. It bothered him little, as they still raised him lovingly. But now he knew something that shocked him: he was a child unwanted, burden to his mother and product of a heinous crime. With this news, he rechristened himself as Gaios, refusing to accept his biological father. To him, Sophos was more of a father than the man who sired him. He never blamed himself for any of what happened, but the revelation certainly didn't help his obsession with Sophos, who he'd learned was also a worshiper of the Goddesses in Termina.

When Thallus began his heretic hunt, Gaios used his influence and ability to join a task force specifically made to hunting down heretics to the One God. After discovering that Sophos was travelling with a group of heretics fighting against the Templars, Gaios's obsession lead him to an impasse. Would he betray the Order, or his birthmother's husband, the man he'd spent so long learning so much about?

[Mogtaki]

Name: Link

Gender: Male

Apperance: (Ignore the little Makar, unless they actually exist…)

Link is a little guy for his age, just over 5 foot in height and very light. As pictured, is skin is slightly tanned.



Age: 16

Race: Hylian/Gerudo

Skills:

• Link is a pretty efficient all-round little warrior, his skills in swordplay are unmatched. He’s very precise with a keen eye, despite being rather clumsy too.
• He has an unnaturally high level of physical strength, despite his size and stature. While it is a gift, it is also a curse; he has very little control over it, his strength often getting him into trouble and repelling other people away from him. As such, he appears doomed to loneliness unless he can learn to control himself.
• A quick problem solver and intelligent; however, his intelligence is limited to being a quick learner and quick to understand. He doesn’t have much common sense and is easily stressed.
• Growing up with a blacksmith means he can repair, sharpen and create weaponry and armour himself.

Magic Abilites: Shadow: His power in the dark arts appears unlimited, yet very limited at the same time. While he holds an incredible amount of magical power in the shadow, he doesn’t know how to use it or control it. Despite his incredibly high level of shadow power, his heart is pure and his intentions are good.

Weapons: Meister: A weapon he constructed himself after a weapon reoccurring in his dreams. It’s very durable, but very heavy. He uses the weight to try and help control his strength. He named it what he thought it was.

Inventory: Due to just being a little troubled kid, he doesn’t have much to start other than a few potions.

Bio: Link was born an ordinary boy, only problem was he was adopted rather than born into a normal home. His mother was nothing but a prostitute who got unlucky, promptly abandoning the boy and her burden. No matter, he was able to have a normal upraising with the man who found him crying, alone and vulnerable. He stayed with a blacksmith as he grew up, one that made it his duty to keep Link happy, even if it meant lying to him about his true origins. He didn’t want to upset the boy or allow him to grow up to be a rebel; however, his own natural abilities were shown to be the true rebel.

He lived and grew up in Kakariko Village, training himself up to hopefully try and make something of himself. All due to those who teased him as he grew, all due to his unstable abilities, he was determined to find a way to get people to like him. He never had many people who would consider him to be a friend, his abilities proving to be more threatening to them than what it was worth being friends for. He grew quiet over the years, determined to control himself and prove to them that he was not a monster in the disguise of a boy.

[Vena Sera]

Name: Caelan

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Caelan

Age: 17

Race: Human

Skills:

• Trap expert: From his days spent as a treasure hunter, Caelan has intimate knowledge of the more common traps. He can disable, dismantle or repurpose much of what he comes across in dungeons.
• Navigator: Traveling alone most of the time required knowing how to get around, and after some painstaking trial and error Caelan's got it down. He is handy at finding which direction to head in and is good at using stars as a map.
• Forager: A good number of edible and otherwise useful plants exist in the world, all you need to know is where to look. Whether its for medicinal purposes or for a quick meal, Caelan is decent at digging up what he might need.

Magic Abilities: Water magic, which normally is used in the form of ice magic.

Weapons: Magestone gauntlet. A crystal embedded in this gauntlet helps Caelan channel his magic, increasing the potency of attack spells. He has learned to form a blade of ice on the gauntlet to use during combat.

Inventory: Two blue potions, bottomless waterskin (given to him by Demoko).

Bio: Caelan was born and raised in Clock Town, being raised in a fairly average life. He had parents who cared for him, friends that he liked well enough and life overall was easy and simple. Were he any less adventurous he might have been content to stay there, lead an easy life and work in the shop that his family owned, but that was hardly the case. Even from a young age Caelan had a habit of wandering about, going to the furthest reaches of the town and exploring much to the chagrin of his parents. He has a natural curiosity, one that can only be sated by exploring and experiencing new things. When he grew older his excursions graduated from simply wandering around Clock Town to traveling outside of it, at times going a fair ways away. He always came back home after these trips, but the more that he saw of the world the more he longed for. It was only inevitable then that at 13 years old he would go on a trip outside of town and not return, having decided to go on a journey for himself.

Being young as he was, Caelan hardly put any thought into what he was doing. He didn't know where he might go, what he might do for a living or how he'd get what he needed to survive. What little food he brought with him ran out quickly, and for the first week and a half he spent a great deal of time hungry and unable to sleep. He would get a lucky break, or perhaps unlucky, when a group of treasure hunters found him in a nearby town and offered to bring him with them. What he assumed to be an act of benevolence turned into a rather nasty situation as he was taken into dungeons with them, sent ahead to scout for traps and any monsters lurking inside. When your back is forced against the wall you learn pretty quickly, and in a few months time Caelan began to learn the ins and outs of treasure hunting, as well as the dangers that came with it.

Though the work was dangerous and the team he worked with hardly the kindest he loved what he did, enjoying the thrill of it; bringing home a good few hundred Rupees every outing didn't hurt either, though most of that went to the group's coffers. For about a year and a half he traveled with these people, making a living off of raiding tombs and caves, selling whatever they found in the process. After a while of seeing his profits dwindle to next to nothing however Caelan became fed up, and now having the skills needed to survive up and left one morning. That was two years ago now, and he has become a successful, solo treasure hunter. He would occasionally team up with others, but the desire to turn a big profit and keep it for himself usually kept him from relying on partners. He's still looking for that excitement in his life however, and he's waiting on the one big haul that might satisfy his craving to explore.

[Kalamadea]

Name: Kalamadea; goes by Kalama

Gender: Male, but may appear female sometimes (see race details for description)

Apperance: Kalama is short for a Draconic Shifter. He's six feet tall, but is also far bulkier than most, weighing in at 250 pounds, and is a fiery red color. Also unlike most Shifters, he has horns, but still lacks wings. He has two horns on the back of his head, six on his lower jaw, and two on his elbows. There are two large bone spikes on his back where wings might have grown, making it appear as if wings tried and failed to develop. (see race details for general appearance of shifters)

Age: 200

Race: Draconic Shifter (see next entry)

Race Details: Draconic Shifters are an evolutionary branch of dragons. They evolved from a group of dragons abandoned within the Southern Desert, a hellish region of the world to the south of Termina, on the other side of the Southern Sea, that makes the Gerudo Desert look like a paradise by comparison. They were at the bottom of the food chain, and developed abilities over the course of millions of years to increase chances of survival. They have the ability to shift their shape and size, but this is only useful as a disguise until they get to advanced ability. Because of being constantly on the run from predators, they lost the strength of their evolutionary ancestors, exchanging it for speed and agility. The result was having similar physical limits as humans. They also exchanged the Fire Magic of the dragons for Earth Magic.

Shifters look like humanoid dragons. On average, they are seven feet tall and 250 lbs. They ditched their wings in evolution and also strayed from a draconic appearance, appearing leaner and more like lizards, with a slim and graceful appearance. Think lizalfos (I think that's right; the lizard people from OoT), only bigger. There is also no way to distinguish between male and female shifters beyond looking at their sexual organs, which most don't even bother with considering the organs are internal for both genders. Even so, Shifters themselves can easily differentiate between their males and their females. Much like dragons, they develop much more slowly than the other races, taking 250 years to reach full maturity.

Skills:
He is a beginning shifter, able to shift into things down to half his mass. He hardly ever uses shifting, so he never really got that great at it beyond taking human form to hide from Templars, focusing more on mastering his magic than his shifting (mostly because he's never been to the Southern Desert).
He is proficient with Two-handed Blades, able to swing and maneuver them surprisingly fast, but still not as fast as a longsword or rapier.

Magic Abilites: Kalama is an expert fire mage and is currently experimenting with solid fire.

Weapons: Broadsword, fire rod, and claws

Inventory:
Healing Potions
Magic Potions
A scale from his dead mother. He punched a small hole in it and threaded it onto a necklace.
A claw from his dead father tied onto a necklace.
Fire wing harness thingy that Demoko gave him

Bio: Kalama was born in Hyrule, but his parents were slaughtered by a dragon at an early age. An exiled Shifter found him, and took him into his Kakariko home. A talent for Fire Magic, which is rare among Shifters, who usually have an affinity for Earth Magic, revealed itself when he was just beginning to fly when he was five years old. His adopted father, who was an Earth Mage, was unable to train Kalama in Fire Magic. Unfortunately, his foster father was lynched by a group of human criminals when he was 15. It was then that he escaped to Castle Town. When he was able to shift at age 16, he sought training in Fire Magic, but found none. So he improved it himself, and mastered it when he was 150 years old.

He faces the hate directed towards dragons due to his draconic appearance. Having vowed not to harm innocents, all he can do is take the insults. He is determined to prove that he's not a monster, but is having trouble with it. The evil dragons are a much hated race, and he knows it firsthand. After all, he has an intense hatred for dragons himself due to the fact that a dragon mercilessly slaughtered his parents and nearly killed him.

His disposition is unique among Draconic Shifters. Most tend to be arrogant, thinking their race is superior to all others, yet they spend entire lifetimes in isolation due to fear of the other races. Kalama is not this hypocritical, and is quite open to other races. He actually enjoys befriending members of other races more so than his fellow Shifters. He is very friendly, and will never abandon his friends, even if it kills him. However, he is easily bored, and gets a bit annoying when that happens. However, with the quest against the Templars in full swing, he has matured greatly throughout its course, gaining a cooler disposition compared to when he started.

As for his opinion on the Templars, he hates them with a passion. Not only did they set the dragon on his parents, they also murdered his foster father by burning him at the stake, calling him a "demon damned to hell". He could only watch, shifted into Templar form, as the torch was set to the one person that truly cared for him. It was all Kalama could do to lose focus and, subsequently, shift as he grew enraged at these men who follow a stupid religion that defiles the Sages in the name of a false god that doesn't even exist. It wasn't like the Goddess worship, where there was solid proof of the existence of the Goddesses in the form of the Triforce. The Sages are further proof, yet the Templars choose to follow a religion where they have no proof that their "god" exists. These are his views on the religion of the Templars, and he stands by them no matter how threatened he is. He is stubborn when it comes to religion, and anyone who spends a decent amount of time with him would know that. However, his foster father was not the last of his Shifter loved ones to die at the hands of the Templars. He'd befriended many Shifters, and all were burned at the stake by Templars, making him hate them more and more until that hate exceeded even that of the dragons. He hates them so much that he will attack any on sight, often killing them.

While running from Templars in the Lost Woods, he encountered a group of people that said they were fighting the Templars, and he offered to help them. With them, he assisted in saving the Forest Sage in the Temple of Forest, aided in saving the Gerudo pirates from a Templar invasion, and stood against trials in the Arbiter's Grounds. He now travels with them to Ikana for the next leg of their journey.

[Bounce]

_{"To die will be an awfully big adventure."}

Name: Dilan

Alias(es): Dilly (diminutive form); Fangbreaker, Bane of Wolfos (no one actually calls him this, but he claims it whenever telling the story of his wolfos fang pendant)

Gender: Male

Appearance: But for his hair, Dilly could pass for a young Hylian boy. Possessed of the same stature and build, the same impish ears, his hair is a grassy green with the slightest hues of straw gold. It is a color that is only known to occur in Kokiri, and rare for them as well. His eyes are a darker shade of sage green. He wears the green clothes of the Kokiri, with a sword and simple, wooden shield thrown over one shoulder.

Age: Dilly has no idea what this even is. If inquired, Ayala will respond that Dilly is 874 years this harvest (to which Dilly will respond, "Is that a lot?")

Race: Kokiri

Skills: Ranger (melee)

• Sword and Board Dilly is proficient with one-handed swords and shields, though also demonstrates skill at wielding one without the other.

• Woodsman... er, Woodsboy? Tracking, trapping, land navigation, and survival are innate to a boy who lives in the forest.

• Shoot low, boys, they're riding Shetland Ponys Dilly is familiar with riding techniques, provided that the animal is small enough for him to ride and control.

Magic Abilities: Spirit (Protection)

• Nayru's Love - A barrier of protection. The larger the barrier and/or the more force applied to the barrier, the more strenuous it is to sustain. Because of this, Dilly is unable to act in his own defense while channeling the spell, as to do so would cause the barrier to collapse.

• Fairy Affinity - Because he is bonded to a fairy, Dilly is aware of the presence of spirits and ghosts, and is capable of communicating with them... but that doesn't mean he'll understand what they have to say.

Weapons:

• Deku Shield - A simple shield made from the bark of the Great Deku Tree, with the Kokiri emblem carved into the front.

• Hylian Short Sword - A Hylian knight's sword dating back to the Hyrule Civil War, the pommel of which is emblazoned with the wingcrest. Intended to be wielded one-handed by an adult Hylian, Dilly wields it more like a bastard sword (hand-and-half) owing to his smaller size.

• Slingshot - No Kokiri leaves home without one.

Inventory: Handful of deku nuts, water gourd (canteen), wolfos fang pendant.

Bio:

This is a story of a time long ago.

A time of myth and legend whose histories have faded from memory, for none now live to tell the tales of dead men. None, that is, save the Kokiri. But the immortal children of the Lost Woods have faded from memory, slipping first into obscurity and then into the stuff of folktale or fables. Amusing anecdotes of travelers through dark woods who thought they saw something in the dark, some childhood fantasy of a far away land. Or even a dark chapter in a fairy tale, of misbehaved children stolen away by the mischievous imps hiding in the trees.

It was not always this way.

In time of great turmoil, the fires of conflict inevitably came to the Lost Woods. As the moblins and wolfos were displaced, they sought shelter in the forest. And, as the escalating conflict required increasing amounts of lumber, the Hylians and humans were soon to follow. It was thus that the Kokiri emerged into the conflict. They were known as the Kokiri Rangers, a hastily formed militia that began with the need to protect their home from the sudden threat posed by the interlopers to their woods. It was the first time that the Kokiri had encountered death. The fairies say that these days were when the first Skull Kids appeared, and that the smaller Stalchildren found on Hyrule may be the restless bones of those fallen Kokiri.

One lesson the Kokiri learned very well in those days, any Kokiri who leaves the woods will die.

As the Hylians became aware of the Kokiri, they sought them out for their knowledge of the woods -- hoping to find passages that would allow their armies to depart the main roads and traverse safely through parts unknown. The Kokiri's mischievous reputation may owe itself to some who lured soldiers down dark paths, where their spirits may continue to wander to this day. Such was not the fate of the knights under the command of Sir Jorj of Ordon, whose soldiers had helped to route a group of moblins that had been encroaching upon the Kokiri Willage. Dilly guided the knights through the Lost Woods, the knights emerging from out of the woods behind the ranks of an opposing army. When they had left the Lost Woods, Dilly seemed to vanish from their midst, slipping back away into the trees. Once the Hyrule Royal Family had put an end to the war, the Kokiri slipped back into being the subject of fairy tales, either the object of rumor or mere superstition.

Some time later -- perhaps very long or very short, tis much the same to a Kokiri -- a Hylian child was brought to the Great Deku Tree, and placed into the care of Saria. The Kokiri Village had changed with the arrival of new faces, three among them coming to be known as the Know-It-All Brothers. Clashes with these bullish imps prompted Dilly to spend increasingly less and less time at the Kokiri Village, instead escorting and guiding business scrubs through the Wood, either toward the Lon Lon Ranch or the Zora rivers. Vigilant to the approach of wolfos or moblin, Dilly faded into obscurity even among the Kokiri. The rise of Ganon only increased the danger to travelers to the Wood, as stalchildren and poes suddenly dotted the landscape. When the Hero of Time had emerged to banish Ganon, Dilly was reunited with the Kokiri of Kokiri Village when some of them traveled out to Lon Lon Ranch in celebration.

And, for a time, that was the way of it. The Kokiri outside their forest. Meeting, traveling, trading. Exploring the world outside the borders of their trees. But everything that has a beginning has an end.

Darkness fell over the land. The stalchildren and poes appeared, as food became scarce and people became fearful. Some even blamed the Kokiri for the drought and famine, cursing them as evil spirits. And so the Kokiri again slipped away to their Lost Wood, each day their absence from Hyrule society reducing them to rumor. And from rumor to suspicion. And from suspicion to myth, until they became a mere fable to the minds of many once again.

That the Hylians and humans have begun tearing down the temples of the goddesses has only furthered heightened concern among the fairies, for the Forest Temple lies not far from the Great Deku Tree and the Kokiri Village. The Kokiri Rangers are once again assembled from the ranks of the Kokiri, though so few remain who were there at the beginning. So it is that Dilly and his fairy are sent to explore around the Forest Temple, to look for signs that the Hylian madness might yet endanger their home once more...

Ayala (NPC)

Name: Ayala

Gender: Female

Age: 874

Race: Fairy (orb fairy)

Appearance: Ayala appears as an orb of light with ethereal, butterfly-like wings. The coloration and intensity of light varies depending on her mood.

Short Bio: Ayala is Dilly's fairy. The two are connected in a way that is inexplicable, save that one cannot exist without the other. The timeless riddle of their kind being, which came first? The fairy or the Kokiri? Ayala serves as Dilly's guide, in both a literal and metaphorical sense. She is his conscience, his confident, and the closest thing he has to a parent.