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Name: Ethan Alcott, 'Emperor Alaric Tellayran'(In costume)

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Appearance: Ethan is a tall man standing at approximately 6'3 in height. His body is rather thin and prior to his arrival on the crucible he could not have been described as fit. Since the arrival however he has found that all of his muscles while not massive have become far more defined and noticeable. His face is slightly too narrow to be described as conventionally handsome though there are elements that make his visage striking regardless. His eyes are large and a metallic shade of silver grey that seem to almost shine. His hair also shares the silver grey coloration at this time. Ethan wears it rather long, and it falls down to the level of his shoulders. His skin is an extremely pale shade of white, a color occasionally found in those who spend almost no time outside and who already have pale skin to begin with.

Ethan is clad in quite striking attire. Atop his head sits a crown made from six silver shards of metal that jut upwards from narrow band of metal that wraps around his head. An ornate crimson and silver cloak hangs down from his shoulders and it is adorned with a sewn pattern of a pair of taloned hands in black. The fingers of the hands reach up to his shoulders. Over his upper body he wears a shirt lined with what appears to be chainmail, though the mail is largely hidden or superficial. This shirt and the pants are of the same crimson and silver coloration as the cloak he wears and are similarly ornate. At his waist is the sheath for a sword though the sword itself is missing. (A note, he was dressed this way because he was on his way to a convention prior to being summoned)

Personality:
Ethan is highly intelligent, a person who is very devoted to things that he sets out to do, and a person who never really quits. He has perhaps an unhealthy obsession with video games, and finds it fascinating and quite simply awesome that he seems to have been sucked into a scenario straight out of one. He has had a lack of friends and this along with bad experiences when he has tried to make friends has led to him being less than trusting of many of the people who he meets. He is also more than mildly escapist, spending a great deal of time on things such as costumes that allowed him to pretend to be individuals of power from various settings or that he had invented. He is also a horrible judge of character and can be taken advantage of at times despite his reluctance to trust strangers.

Biography:
Ethan was one of those people who never quite seemed to click when it came to interacting with others. He would always make the effort and attempt to make friends and socialize, but was never really successful despite the attempts. Some of his efforts even failed in painful ways. When he was in elementary school he attempted to make friends with one of the other children in his grade by telling the boy many of his secrets as a show of trust, the other boy promptly divulged all the interesting ones to other students and the sting of that violation of trust as well as others that happened later were part of what drove him to retreat into his own worlds.

He had always loved books and games that allowed him to delve deep into worlds where people like him, people who had always had bad luck with others, or who were picked on, were the ones who would turn out to be the subject of a prophecy, or would turn out to have magic, or grow up to be a great hero, and sometimes even a villain. It would be the books and games that got him through adolescence, and he would eventually try his hand at creating his own stories, and for the first time found something even better than the books and the games. This was a way that he could truly create his own worlds where it would be his turn to be special and important, his turn to be successful.

Many of the characters that he created were designed to be versions of himself in other worlds, where he possessed powers and ruled. He was not particularly successful following college and while he managed to find a job it was depressing how much it had cut into his time to pursue the things that made his life worth living. He had been planning to take a break, attend a convention in costume as one of his own creations for quite a while, and the day had come, but rather than taking his brief break there he was instead summoned to a realm where he was to fight to become a god, a world where suddenly one of his creations had come to life to stand by his side. Let us just say Ethan is rather thrilled.

Skills:
Costume Design- Ethan is quite skilled at creating and designing costumes and has had a lot of practice doing so. His current attire is a testament to that and was the work of over a year.
Good Actor- Ethan knows how to play roles and has done so frequently.
Martial Arts- Specifically use of the rapier or other long thrusting swords.
Video Game Expert- Self explanatory
Skilled Story Teller- Ethan is good at making up and telling stories, something that served him well in his efforts to create worlds.

Elemental Cores: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Abilities: -

Familiars:

Elaine Tellayran: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Possessions: The costume he is wearing, it's not actually combat attire.

Name: Elaine Tellayran

Sex: Female

Age: 0

Race: Seemingly human

Appearance: Elaine is a tall and slender woman who matches her maker in height at 6'3. Her skin is as pale as porcelain, and her hair is long and silver in coloration. It hangs down to the middle of her back. Her eyes are also pure silver pools with no discernible pupils or whites. Her lips are fetching and her face is an example of near perfection. Similarly her body has an abundance of attractive curves that draw the eyes and she does appear to be somewhat idealized.

Her clothing seems to have some relation to that of her maker, the colors red and silver being extremely prevalent in her attire. Atop her head of silver hair sits a similar crown as well, though notably hers is substantially smaller. An ornate dress that seems to have that same hybrid of flash and protective elements woven into it covers most of her body and is fairly modest. Notably her attire is unlike her maker's actually protective.

Personality:
Elaine is a manifestation of a number of elements of her creator's psyche. For one there is the fact that she was in large part born from a desire on the part of her maker for a companion which has led to her devotion towards him. She is intelligent, quick to react to situations and relentless. These traits in combination do not make a full personality and that is to be expected as she only just came in to existence.

Biography:NA

Skills:
Cooking- Elaine knows how to cook, how useful that will be when she does not need to eat is uncertain.
Martial Arts- Elaine is more of a generalist than her maker, she possesses skill with many styles of swordplay in particular.
Strategic Knowledge- With the same memories of reading books on old wars and battles and the same experience playing a lot of strategy games she has some skill at planning and executing a battle.

Elemental Cores: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Abilities:

Blight-Steel (Metal, Cold, Earth, Dark) Blight-Steel is an amalgamation of Metal and Dark that rips at the mana-vessals of those touched by it, as well as striking the body itself. Further due to it's dark aligned nature it is somewhat resistant to dark based attacks. All metal utilized by Elaine has this property.

Armor of Blades (Metal, Cold, Earth, *Life*) *sometimes) Elaine can channel her mana to form metal armor around her body, it can also be used to transform her flesh into metal, though doing this is more draining than just forming the armor. Regardless the metal armor makes her substantially more resistant to physical attacks and her ability to conjure forth metal can be used offensively as well, growing blades from the armor being a common method.

Frigid Grasp (Cold, Dark, Life) Elaine can drain heat and mana from a victim that she is able to grasp. If this effect is maintained she will eventually consume them entirely, draining their mana and heat to the point where their body crumbles into frozen dust and strengthening herself. This obviously takes time, though it can be hastened if she has already transformed her hands into their Blight-Steel form.

Earthen Arena (Earth) (Passive) Mana is naturally infused into the earth around her at a slow but constant rate. The longer she remains in one place the greater the effects will be. The earth is almost always firm beneath her feet, and almost always unstable and rumbling beneath her opponents. Should she remain in one place long enough she will begin to gain conscious control over this effect and can with great effort open small fissures or call up spires of earth.

Metal Mind (Metal, Earth, Cold, aether ) By focusing Elaine can enter a state where her mind is cold and emotionless and entirely focused on an objective. It is difficult to interact with her mind in this state though at the same time her own ability to think and process is greatly reduced.
The edit you requested has been made.
Name: Ethan Alcott, 'Emperor Alaric Tellayran'(In costume)

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Appearance: Ethan is a tall man standing at approximately 6'3 in height. His body is rather thin and prior to his arrival on the crucible he could not have been described as fit. Since the arrival however he has found that all of his muscles while not massive have become far more defined and noticeable. His face is slightly too narrow to be described as conventionally handsome though there are elements that make his visage striking regardless. His eyes are large and a metallic shade of silver grey that seem to almost shine. His hair also shares the silver grey coloration at this time. Ethan wears it rather long, and it falls down to the level of his shoulders. His skin is an extremely pale shade of white, a color occasionally found in those who spend almost no time outside and who already have pale skin to begin with.

Ethan is clad in quite striking attire. Atop his head sits a crown made from six silver shards of metal that jut upwards from narrow band of metal that wraps around his head. An ornate crimson and silver cloak hangs down from his shoulders and it is adorned with a sewn pattern of a pair of taloned hands in black. The fingers of the hands reach up to his shoulders. Over his upper body he wears a shirt lined with what appears to be chainmail, though the mail is largely hidden or superficial. This shirt and the pants are of the same crimson and silver coloration as the cloak he wears and are similarly ornate. At his waist is the sheath for a sword though the sword itself is missing. (A note, he was dressed this way because he was on his way to a convention prior to being summoned)

Personality:
Ethan is highly intelligent, a person who is very devoted to things that he sets out to do, and a person who never really quits. He has perhaps an unhealthy obsession with video games, and finds it fascinating and quite simply awesome that he seems to have been sucked into a scenario straight out of one. He has had a lack of friends and this along with bad experiences when he has tried to make friends has led to him being less than trusting of many of the people who he meets. He is also more than mildly escapist, spending a great deal of time on things such as costumes that allowed him to pretend to be individuals of power from various settings or that he had invented. He is also a horrible judge of character and can be taken advantage of at times despite his reluctance to trust strangers.

Biography:
Ethan was one of those people who never quite seemed to click when it came to interacting with others. He would always make the effort and attempt to make friends and socialize, but was never really successful despite the attempts. Some of his efforts even failed in painful ways. When he was in elementary school he attempted to make friends with one of the other children in his grade by telling the boy many of his secrets as a show of trust, the other boy promptly divulged all the interesting ones to other students and the sting of that violation of trust as well as others that happened later were part of what drove him to retreat into his own worlds.

He had always loved books and games that allowed him to delve deep into worlds where people like him, people who had always had bad luck with others, or who were picked on, were the ones who would turn out to be the subject of a prophecy, or would turn out to have magic, or grow up to be a great hero, and sometimes even a villain. It would be the books and games that got him through adolescence, and he would eventually try his hand at creating his own stories, and for the first time found something even better than the books and the games. This was a way that he could truly create his own worlds where it would be his turn to be special and important, his turn to be successful.

Many of the characters that he created were designed to be versions of himself in other worlds, where he possessed powers and ruled. He was not particularly successful following college and while he managed to find a job it was depressing how much it had cut into his time to pursue the things that made his life worth living. He had been planning to take a break, attend a convention in costume as one of his own creations for quite a while, and the day had come, but rather than taking his brief break there he was instead summoned to a realm where he was to fight to become a god, a world where suddenly one of his creations had come to life to stand by his side. Let us just say Ethan is rather thrilled.

Skills:
Costume Design- Ethan is quite skilled at creating and designing costumes and has had a lot of practice doing so. His current attire is a testament to that and was the work of over a year.
Good Actor- Ethan knows how to play roles and has done so frequently.
Martial Arts- Specifically use of the rapier or other long thrusting swords.
Video Game Expert- Self explanatory
Skilled Story Teller- Ethan is good at making up and telling stories, something that served him well in his efforts to create worlds.

Elemental Cores: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Abilities: -

Familiars:

Elaine Tellayran: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Possessions: The costume he is wearing, it's not actually combat attire.

Name: Elaine Tellayran

Sex: Female

Age: 0

Race: Seemingly human

Appearance: Elaine is a tall and slender woman who matches her maker in height at 6'3. Her skin is as pale as porcelain, and her hair is long and silver in coloration. It hangs down to the middle of her back. Her eyes are also pure silver pools with no discernible pupils or whites. Her lips are fetching and her face is an example of near perfection. Similarly her body has an abundance of attractive curves that draw the eyes and she does appear to be somewhat idealized.

Her clothing seems to have some relation to that of her maker, the colors red and silver being extremely prevalent in her attire. Atop her head of silver hair sits a similar crown as well, though notably hers is substantially smaller. An ornate dress that seems to have that same hybrid of flash and protective elements woven into it covers most of her body and is fairly modest. Notably her attire is unlike her maker's actually protective.

Personality:
Elaine is a manifestation of a number of elements of her creator's psyche. For one there is the fact that she was in large part born from a desire on the part of her maker for a companion which has led to her devotion towards him. She is intelligent, quick to react to situations and relentless. These traits in combination do not make a full personality and that is to be expected as she only just came in to existence.

Biography:NA

Skills:
Cooking- Elaine knows how to cook, how useful that will be when she does not need to eat is uncertain.
Martial Arts- Elaine is more of a generalist than her maker, she possesses skill with many styles of swordplay in particular.
Strategic Knowledge- With the same memories of reading books on old wars and battles and the same experience playing a lot of strategy games she has some skill at planning and executing a battle.

Elemental Cores: 1 Cold, 1 Earth

Abilities:

Blight-Steel (Metal, Cold, Earth, Dark) Blight-Steel is an amalgamation of Metal and Dark that rips at the mana-vessals of those touched by it, as well as striking the body itself. Further due to it's dark aligned nature it is somewhat resistant to dark based attacks. All metal utilized by Elaine has this property.

Armor of Blades (Metal, Cold, Earth, *Life*) *sometimes) Elaine can channel her mana to form metal armor around her body, it can also be used to transform her flesh into metal, though doing this is more draining than just forming the armor. Regardless the metal armor makes her substantially more resistant to physical attacks and her ability to conjure forth metal can be used offensively as well, growing blades from the armor being a common method.

Frigid Grasp (Cold, Dark, Life) Elaine can drain heat and mana from a victim that she is able to grasp. If this effect is maintained she will eventually consume them entirely, draining their mana and heat to the point where their body crumbles into frozen dust and strengthening herself. This obviously takes time, though it can be hastened if she has already transformed her hands into their Blight-Steel form.

Earthen Arena (Earth) (Passive) Mana is naturally infused into the earth around her at a slow but constant rate. The longer she remains in one place the greater the effects will be. The earth is almost always firm beneath her feet, and almost always unstable and rumbling beneath her opponents. Should she remain in one place long enough she will begin to gain conscious control over this effect and can with great effort open small fissures or call up spires of earth.

Metal Mind (Metal, Earth, Cold, aether ) By focusing Elaine can enter a state where her mind is cold and emotionless and entirely focused on an objective. It is difficult to interact with her mind in this state though at the same time her own ability to think and process is greatly reduced.

Well I was already shooting for a martial build to a cold/earth character with heavy metal focus, so maybe for variance's sake you should try the heat and light one? So we don't end up with clashing stuff.
When I had said body horror I had been envisioning something along the lines of becoming an abomination, like a shoggoth for an example over time, however I did notice there was a great deal of that running around already so no worries.

If my character takes a core in Cold and a core in earth, are the resulting, 2/6 in dark and light enough to have minor bits of that in powers, or should one keep to things with more than that?
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I can answer the second one. Players who start with a familiar can later on develop personal powers later. (and players who start without familiars can later acquire them as well.)


Thanks
What should one take if they are looking for body horror powers and shapeshifting stuff?

Also if one has a familiar with powers at the start, can one still gain personal powers later?
Potentially interested, asked some questions in a pm


The woman in her suit of armor remained motionless on the floor as the time ticked away, though the mercenary would likely notice other sounds coming from within the armor in addition to the gasped breaths. Faint liquid sounds as if something was going on in there and whatever it was could not be pleasant, but the details of what was going on would remain uncertain.

It would not be a full hour before a representative of his employers arrived. What seemed on first glance to be a large garbage truck pulled up outside of the warehouse. The truck then proceeded to back in through the damaged doorway and when it came to a stop the back of the truck folded outwards revealing that rather than a trash compactor the truck instead was filled with advanced technology and what would likely be obvious at first glance to be soldiers of some kind. Their uniforms were black and crimson in color with the red appearing mostly on the sleeves and chest. Each of them wore black gloves, and boots, each of them held a weapon that looked similar to an assault rifle but with a cable that connected it to a pack strapped to their backs. And each of them had their faces covered by an almost featureless black mask that was obviously sealed off.

The first to emerge from the back of the truck was a man who War Pulse would recognized as Randall, the man who had given him the mission in the first place. He unlike the other men was dressed in a suit rather than the uniform that the rest wore and in on of his hands he carried another briefcase. His blue eyes flicked around the warehouse, over war pulse and the fallen figure in armor before he raised his hand and made a gesture. His stretched, oddly uneven face, bore the slightest hint of satisfaction as the ten men from the back of the truck also emerged.

They moved with clear training and precision, always keeping their weapons trained on the target as one of them moved forwards and bent down to examine the figure.

Randall's voice sounded then, voicing something that War Pulse would likely not be surprised to hear. "Your contract was to bring her in alive. If she is-"

"Sir, the asset is still breathing."

"Good." Randall replied then to the soldier who was bent over the fallen woman. "Secure her for transport." Then he turned his attention back to War Pulse again. "Well done, you have not disappointed, and our employers are pleased with your performance." He held out the briefcase for the mercenary to take and once it had been taken he continued. "There are two things enclosed within. Firstly your next assignment for which you will be paid double what you have received thus far, secondly a syringe, follow the instructions concerning it. Once ou have completed this task you will have proven your worth and our employers will meet you pers..."

But Randall's explanation was cut off as chaos was briefly unleashed in the wreckage of the ruined warehouse. One of the soldiers, one who had been attempting to set up the restraining field on the woman fell to the ground in two pieces with a spray of blood and a grunt of surprised pain. The armor had largely pealed back and what had now risen to its feet bore only a passing resemblance to the woman who War-Pulse had subdued earlier.

The hair had been completely replaced with the electrical tendrils that had earlier shocked the man, still platinum blonde in color, but now crackling with electricity and lashing around in a frenzy. The face which had earlier split wide with an abnormally large mouth was now inhuman, the brilliant orange eyes now looked completely alien as her mouth hung open and a horrifying set of teeth showed. There was an unfinished look to the face, the features vague and ill defined. Her tongue, now coiling within her mouth appeared bladed, but what was truly shocking where the bony blades that had grown from her arms, and which had just sliced the man clean in half.

In that very moment the same shriek that had proved so effective earlier sounded, and as the soldiers staggered for a moment the horror that the woman had become moved. The scything blades cut down another soldier and the tendrils lashed outwards towards Randall. The man though simply held up his arm and as the tendrils coiled around it, grabbed them and pulled, ripping a number of them away, seeming completely unphased by the electricity. Recovering with great speed the soldiers began to fire as well, their guns firing a stream of something that looked awfully like pudding, but that clearly wasn't. Where they struck the streams solidified but the woman had moved too quickly and one of the explosive orbs that had been used earlier dropped and detonated, this time with a blinding flash of light and a thunderous bang that covered her escape.

For when the dust had settled she was gone. Randall still held the writhing tendrils that he had ripped free in his hand and his facial expression was now one of extreme interest. "Follow the instructions." The man said simply, "And our employers will meet you personally." There was something odd about how he said it, and the fact that rather than anger or irritiation he seemed interested in what had occurred was certainly unusual. He turned and walked back into the vehicle the unwounded soldiers removed the corpses of their fellows with the same efficiency they had shown before. War Pulse would likely be able to see as the tendrils were bagged and then the truck closed off again and drove away.

Likely there would be a number of questions, Just who were these people? What had he been hunting? And many others.
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