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In Roman's Archive → 5 yrs ago Forum: Character Sheets
H E L L B L A Z E R
J O H N C O N S T A N T I N E ◼ A U G U S T ' 8 9 ( 3 0 ) ◼ M A L E
"S'just the way of it son. We all sell our souls sooner or later."

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:
"Pretending to be charming is a skill like any other."
//STATS:
◼ HEIGHT | 5'11"

◼ WEIGHT | 140lbs

◼ BUILD | Average build

◼ HAIR COLOR | Sandy blonde

◼ EYE COLOR | Dark brown

◼ OTHER | Several tattoos of runes and protective wards across his body. Burn and laceration scars on arms, legs, chest and back from his occupation.

//DESCRIPTION:
A written description of the character's appearance. Keep in mind that appearance isn't only limited to their physical make up, but the style of clothes they wear, they're body language and in general how they present themselves.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:
"In my line of work, there are a lot of days you want to forget forever."
John Constantine was born into the shit that would follow him for the rest of his life - and appropriately enough, he arrived in Liverpool, 1989. His twin asphyxiated in the womb on John's umbilical cord, and his mother, Mary-Anne Constantine, died giving birth to him and his stillborn brother because an earlier forced abortion had weakened her womb, causing it to rupture and bleed out. Thomas Constantine, John's father, and the man who had forced the abortion upon his wife, was incapable of accepting the responsibility of Mary-Anne's death, and instead blamed his surviving son, John - and they grew up harboring a deep dislike of one another. Thomas had little involvement in John's upbringing, and much of his care was left to his older sister, Cheryl Constantine. After their father descended into alcoholism and was imprisoned for petty theft and voyeurism, Cheryl and John moved to Northampton to live with their Aunt and Uncle for a brief time, before returning after Thomas' release. It was their return to both Liverpool and their father that set John off onto his journey into the magical and occult.

John had discovered his ancestry in Northampton, his blood belonging to a long family line known as the Laughing Magicians, legendary mages known for their power over Synchronicity and their uncanny ability to bluff and trick even gods. This discovery led him to delve into the practices of his lineage, and he began to partake in magic. His first act was to seal away his childhood innocence and vulnerability in a small wooden toy-box he once used, ridding himself of the burdens of virtues he'd lost long ago. Later on, in his teenage years, John botched a curse that left his father withered and frail and doomed to die - and subsequently ran from home, his sister, and Liverpool, heading to London and making a permanent home in an apartment with his roommate, Francis 'Chas' Kramer, who would go on to be John's oldest, closest, and longest surviving friend.​

~

| 2008: Zatanna Zatara, Mucous Membrane, and Astra |

John soon got involved in the occult circles of London's population. He practiced his magics and learned more about the occult world lying behind the mortal one, and began to travel to other cities and countries to expand his knowledge. In New York, 2008, he met a talented female magician called Zatanna Zatara, and the two began a relationship. Together, they grew enamored with Punk Rock after attending several gigs, and John was inspired to put together his own punk band, a three-man piece called Mucous Membrane. They released an album, and it was on their first tour that John got his first taste of magical heroism, and the disasters it would rain down upon his life.

On tour with his band in Newcastle, John stumbled across the aftermath of a horrific magical incident: an abused child - a little girl called Astra - had taken revenge on her adult tormentors by tapping into her raw innate magical abilities, conjuring a vicious monster to slaughter them in the middle of an orgy - and now the monster refused to leave the mortal plane. With a recklessness that would soon enough become his MO, John convinced Zatanna, Chas, his bandmates, and several other occultist friends to pour their power into summoning a demon of their own to combat the monster. Sadly, while their abilities were enough to bring forth the creature, they were not enough to bind it to their will. The demon, Nergal, killed the monster, and then tormented Constantine's friends and snatched Astra away to Hell. John suffered a nervous breakdown, severing ties with everyone he knew, and eventually being committed to Ravenscar Psychiatric Hospital, only ever keeping regular contact with Chas Kramer.

~

| 2010: Lung Cancer, the Triumvirate of Hell, and Blackmailing God |

Constantine was released from Ravenscar in 2010 with a clean sign-off on his mental health - despite persisting nightmares - and several 'goodbyes' from inmates and keepers alike. Constantine had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer - brought on by his continuing smoking habit of nearly 30-a-day - and he'd been let out to enjoy his last days in freedom. The world had changed during his time in the ward, and was now filling up with extraordinary men and women, on all sides of the moral compass, and while Constantine knew that perhaps he was one of them, he refused his call. Instead, he traveled to Ireland to seek out a friend he once had who he believed could help cure him with magic and rituals.

He found Brendan dead, having drunk himself to death with rampant alcoholism and a suspiciously infinite supply of the best wines known to the world. It was at Brendan's funeral that Constantine had his first encounter with the entity that would become his greatest nemesis - the First of the Fallen, one of the three Triumvirate Rulers of Hell. Brendan had sold his soul to this being in exchange for an endless cellar of the finest wines in the cosmos, and the First had arrived to collect. Not wanting his old friend's soul to be eternally tormented in Hell, Constantine proposed a final toast to the mortal - spiking the First's wine with Holy Water, and tricking him into drinking it, rendering him helpless and unable to collect Brendan's soul. Unable to collect before midnight, Brendan's contract was declared null, and his soul ascended to Heaven. Wounded by the insult of being fooled by a mortal, the First declared Consantine's soul his by the 'right of insult', and swore to collect him upon his death and render unto him torment twofold, enough to make up for the soul he lost.

Slowly dying from cancer, Constantine created a plan. In secret, he summoned both the Second and Third of the Fallen - the others of the Triumvirate - separately and struck up deals with both, pledging his soul now three times over. Soon, the First, Second, and Third discovered Constantine's scheme, and realized that should he die, the Triumvirate would erupt into a war over ownership that would tear apart Hell and of which the only true winner would be God and His angels. Too proud to form an alliance, they instead decided that their only option was to cure John of his cancer, and allow him to live. While doing this, however, they also took their power to create a counterpart to Constantine, a Demon formed of all his worst attributes and vices, but lacking none of his cunning or magical prowess. In doing this, they were assured that when Constantine's soul finally came to rest in Hell, it would be consumed by this Demon, whose power would be near unparalleled, and used for naught but evil and the destruction of Earth and Heaven. John knew this, and in cunning desperation, contacted God. His aspect appeared, and came to converse by campfire. John warned Him of the demonic power that would be released if his soul was to come into Hell, and that such a being would surely topple the Triumvirate and unleash countless Demons upon Earth and to assault Heaven, and shut the Gates of Hell so that the damned would have no rest, and be forced to rise again. Constantine blackmailed God into keeping his soul from Hell to prevent this. God knew that the events John described would come to pass, and agreed - but before His aspect disappeared from Earth, He warned John of great suffering that would soon visit itself upon his life.

~

| 2013: The Magic War, Rosacarnis, The Return of the First, and Cheryl |

​
John drifted for a time, travelling throughout and between England and the US, performing as a stage magician and learning more about magic and his abilities, and occasionally being drawn into occult business. He found himself in America for Sta'rro and the 'Dawn of Justice', aiding with his magic where he could, but soon left again, and came back to Britain to reconcile with his sister Cheryl, whom he'd thought dead. It was at that time that a Magic War erupted in London, and Constantine found himself thrust into the middle of it, his sister dragged in with him. He allied with an entity known as the Shadow Dog against a demonic being known as The Beast; the ensuing battle and eventual victory left him vulnerable, and he was ensnared by the demon Rosacarnis, under commands from the First, who bound him to her will for day. She had John father three demonic children, who then went on to slaughter anyone who had ever known Constantine - from family and friends to enemies and those who had met him only briefly as an ally in the Magic War. Cheryl's husband, a pious man, was whipped into religious fanaticism and pushed to see his wife as a witch - and she was duly slain by his hand. In grief, Constantine dove into Hell to retrieve her soul and resurrect her, accompanied by the demon Nergal.

It was not long through their journey that they encountered the one who barred Constantine's entrance into Hell; the demon created from his negative aspects. John was forced to allow Nergal possession of him to defeat the Demon Constantine, tainting his soul irreparably. Eventually, John and Nergal arrived at the hall of Rosacarnis, wherein a feast was being held with Rosacarnis, the First, and Constantine's three children in attendance. John baited Rosacarnis into attempting to slay him in return for Cheryl's release, but as she attempted to do so, the First intervened and immediately killed her as well as two of the three demon children she had forced John to sire, declaring that Constantine was his to collect when he deemed.

Alone with Constantine, the First summoned up Cheryl's soul. He deemed her pure and innocent, a soul that truly did not belong in Hell - but offered her a deal. Telling her that her husband killed himself after murdering her, and was therefore twice-damned, the First offered to fairly divide his punishment between him and Cheryl if she remained to be tormented in Hell of her own free will. Constantine argued and pleaded in vain against it, screaming that her husband had murdered her and was not deserving of such mercy at one's own suffering - but ultimately, Cheryl still loved her husband too much, and agreed to the deal, deciding to stay in Hell, and preventing Constantine from bringing his only remaining family back to Earth. The First gloated, and sent John back home, and in mad grief he ran into the night and fled to America, turning his back on Britain and the torment he suffered there, only Chas Kramer following him.

~

Now, it is 2019, and Constantine is 30 years old, a resident of Chicago who likes to holiday in Gotham, earning a living as a Private Investigator of both mundane and paranormal matters, as well as being drawn into occult conflicts and slowly growing into his role as a hero of Earth - as much as he hides from it. While cynical, disillusioned, and foul-mouthed, and still going strong with his smoking habit, Constantine is a compassionate Humanist at heart, and struggles to keep the forces of both Heaven and Hell in check within himself and in the world around him, seeking to keep humanity free from either influence.

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:
"Everyone who puts their trust in me winds up dead."
My Constantine's immediate goal is the retrieval of Astra's soul from Hell, a fate he indirectly inflicted on the girl, and something he considers his greatest failure that still haunts him today. Beyond that, Constantine defends the world from the influences of both Heaven and Hell, and works to solve crimes and mysteries of both mundane and occult natures. Hopefully, he will come to be friends with the major heroes of the DC universe, and go on to recruit Deadman, Zatanna, Black Orchid, and Andrew Bennet to form the Justice League Dark. He will also deal with the First and his activity, and resolve supernatural phenomenon that have been haunting him since his birth.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:
"Knowledge marks you for life. But it doesn't change who you are."
//ABILITIES:
◼ Magician | Constantine's sorcery is a force to be reckoned with. With experience in Evocation (the calling of supernatural entities and forces), Illusion (the distortion and misdirection of the senses), and Necromancy (the summoning of, and communication with, the dead), John Constantine's magic spans many fields. He also has a wide range of protective magics at his command, shielding him from both physical and supernatural attacks, and well as protecting his mind from offenses such as telepathy, possession, and mind control. John is also capable of using sigils and runes to block omnipresence for a time, rendering his actions completely secret for a period of time, similar to when he dealt with the Second and Third of the Fallen to trick the First. John's offensive magic is less practiced than his defenses, but still capable of mild electrokinesis, telekinesis, pyrokinesis and immobilization. John's magic has also permanently granted him a form of Third Sight, allowing him to see Demons, Angels, and Half-Breed for their true selves constantly, regardless of what disguises and illusions they have thrown up to hide themselves among mortals, as well as allowing him to utilize magic to dispel camouflage.

//SKILLS:
◼ Con-Man | While Constantine's magical prowess is most certainly not to be dismissed out-of-hand, he rarely relies on it, especially in the midst of combat. He faces his challenges instead armed with the cunning and quick-thinking that his family line is nearly legendary for, as well as his vast knowledge of the paranormal and occult, his skill at manipulating friend and foe alike, and his extensive list of contacts - which, combined, are often more useful than the spells, rituals, and curses at his command. John Constantine is considered by many to be the world's greatest con-man.

In Roman's Archive → 5 yrs ago Forum: Character Sheets
S W A R M Q U E E N
A B E L L E D ' V O I R E ◼ J U L Y ' 02 ( 1 7 ) ◼ F E M A L E

"There's a couple bugs in my code."

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:
"I've always said to embrace your strange."
//STATS:
◼ HEIGHT | 5'4"

◼ WEIGHT | 90lbs

◼ BUILD | Petite.

◼ HAIR COLOR | Light Brown.

◼ EYE COLOR | Light Green/Amber.

//DESCRIPTION:
Abelle, preferably Belle, has always kept a slightly mysterious and alien-like air about her persona, in an open-armed acceptance of the oddities of her existence. She stands at a tall 5'11, with long limbs that threaten to be clumsy but are instead coordinated into smooth, graceful motion. Her facial bone structure appears other-worldly and her expressions dip equally into adorable and uncanny. She keeps her hair short, for low-maintenance as well as to accentuate her bone structure, and coupled with a single plain nose ring and her near-amber coloured eyes, she appears extra-terrestrial. Belle always make sure to cast strong shadows (in the right lighting), and strike an eye-catching figure in her day-to-day.

Despite her decidedly 'alternative' choice of hairstyle and jewelry, Belle once again appeals to the contrarian within her by dressing light and loose, favouring creams, whites, and other bright, pure colours, often choosing sheer, silk, or satin fabrics. While many of her clothes are simple in shape and style, they usually bear some sort of minor affectation in such a way to allow them to stand out against other, similar garments. Her makeup swings between either natural-esque or dark and heavy, but no matter her daily fashion, Belle always appears comfortable and cutting-edge.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:
"The specifics of my biology has always bugged me."
Belle's parents, Lorin and Nathaneal, were both born in France, and met in class at Aix-Marseille University in Provence, where they were both taking Advanced Language Studies. Lorin's mother and father had lived through the Dark Eclipse and had passed to her the 'hype-gene', and while she had never realised, it had gifted her with an excellent capacity for learning all manner of foreign languages - a skill that had been put down to natural talent and gifted intelligence. Nathaneal, however, had secured his place through scraping every grade he could manage, working hard to achieve the results he needed - Nathan dreamed of a life travelling, and wanted to expand his knowledge of the world through its people. Together, they discovered a quiet, but fiercely powerful kinship, and the two began a deep, loving relationship that would endure many trials. They graduated with high honours, and began planning their lives together, moving to Paris to be young lovers. In 1998, Lorin fell pregnant unexpectedly, and the two young parents-to-be made a quick - and ultimately easy - decision to enter a brave new chapter in their lives. It did not start without its difficulties.

From early into the second trimester, Lorin's obstetrician identified a rare recessive defective gene from Nathaneal had been passed on to their child, that would cause a debilitating - and eventually terminal - neuro-degnerative condition. The couple refused to abort Belle, but instead took every course of treatment, medication, and surgery that was available to help their unborn child. Eventually, in July '98, Belle was born pre-maturely, and she spent 3 months in the NICU before she was declared stable enough to return home. Belle spent a year in Paris with her parents; according to them, it was the best year France, let alone Paris, had ever seen. Then Belle returned to the hospital. Her condition was taking its toll far more rapidly than any doctor - pre- or post-natal - has predicted. Lorin's chosen medical advisors had given Belle four to five un-impeded years, but she lasted only one before returning to white walls and vinyl flooring.

The situation was poor at best. Belle was declining at a rapid rate, and no known treatment could effectively stall the process that had already begun. She had maybe a few months at best, and her parents were distraught. Belle herself didn't - couldn't - understand, instead clinging to hazy, half-formed memories of the city of Paris. It was at the end of their rope that Belle's doctors and parents found a final, frayed string of hope.

An experimental trial treatment for Belle's condition was starting its preliminary stages in the US, and Belle qualified almost immediately. Lorin and Nathaneal, almost frantic with combined grief and bittersweet hope, signed the flood of paperwork with fervoured pens, and Belle was whisked away a mere 4 hours later. Belle spent three days in Washington before her parents cleared their Visa's and passports to join her. In their desperation, they had skimmed over the details of the treatment, and it was only when they had landed, settled, and had Belle returned to them post-treatment that they were de-briefed by the lead medical staff on the trial.

The participants selected had had isolated strains of genetically altered genome tags from select species of insect introduced to the faulty genes that caused their neuro-degnerative conditions; it was a long-shot, and in very early stages, but the scientists involved believed that the DNA, chosen from a very select set of insect species, had properties that could treat or cure the patients' conditions by binding to the faulty genes responsible and either fixing - or overriding - the imperfect processes that caused the degeneration. It took several months, and other participants saw no changes - but somehow, against all odds, it worked for Belle. She got better. Lorin and Nathaneal thanked whoever it was that had watched over their child, and began to pick up their new lives in the US, far removed from the idyllic Paris days of their youth.

Lorin and Nathaneal picked up small jobs that paid enough to get by as doctors and scientists monitored Belle's improvement over the next three years; shortly after Belle turned five, she was found to be clear of all signs and symptoms of her previously life-threatening condition, and her visits and check-ups ceased. Overjoyed, Lorin and Nathaneal searched for their perfect home, and found it in New Hampshire, Crestwood Hollow, where Nathaneal found work travelling and lecturing, and Lorin became a professor of language at a nearby university.

Belle grew up healthy and happy, living in the Beau-side of Crestwood Hollow with her parents, her favourite young memories being those of warm afternoons spent in Mather Park when her father came home from whichever state he had been lecturing in, hazy summer air and the smells of sizzling barbecues filling her. As she aged, Belle inquired of her early life in uncountable medical facilities, and her parents, not ones to hide the truth from their daughter, carefully explained the unfortunates of her first five years, and the circumstances that had allowed her to continue on past them. Belle recoiled at first, only twelve and naive, finding the foreign DNA's presence within her to be unsettling and unseemly; but her parents left her with medical records and research notes, and gently helped her towards acceptance. Belle acquired a keen interest in Human and Insect Biology, Biology as a subject quickly becoming her best, and as she moved up academically she began taking on extra-curricular courses related to Human Biology and Entomology, having a vested interest in the subjects. Now, Belle is 17, through most of her puberty and attending Mather Memorial. She has a small group of close friends, and hopes to move on to university when she graduates to study Entomology in full. She is still fond of Mather Park, and still visits with her father when she can, but otherwise lives a happy, decidedly-'teenaged' adolescence.

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:
"Witty Quote #4"
Belle desires to know and control her body and mind, commanding all aspects to the deepest level of understanding in order to conquer the condition that plagued her in her early life, and it's unusual cure that has left her body marked in unseen ways. Experimentation and practice with her powers will encourage her first foray into adventure, and she imagines the sheer thrill will take it forwards from there.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:
"At least it means wasp-free barbecues."

//ABILITIES: Pheromone-based Insect Manipulation - Belle is able to secrete specific pheromones from the sweat pores of her body, creating an invisible beacon for all manner of insect, crustacean, and arachnid life to come crawling out of nooks and crannies of the world to seek the source - inevitable finding Belle herself - and then await further instruction. Belle's variety of pheromones are subtle enough in their distinctions to almost emulate telekinetic control, but in truth, Belle is simply signalling certain instinctual impulses in the swarms she can amass, which can range from complete aggression to total pacifism to absolute retreat.

The uses of her swarm are only limited by Belle's imagination, and her willingness to test the limits of her pheromone control. Only time will tell whether Belle's abilities will develop any unexpected advancements, or if her pheromones are limited only to bug-specific signals.

//SKILLS: Belle possesses a few talents outside of her abnormal pheromones, that prove to be as important to her as her hype-gene. A dedicated student, Belle takes her studies very seriously, as well as taking any extra-credit offered and attending some extra-curricular courses. She keeps herself healthy and fit, jogging, stretching and maintaining an exercise routine to keep her body as healthy and limber as possible, not wanting any further health issues after her first few years.

//LIMITATIONS: Belle cannot produce bugs, nor does she keep her pheromones in a permanent 'on-state', as this would lead to a bigger swarm than she can control, as well as massive ecosystem instability and a negative public reaction when she arrives on-campus with half a city's worth of bugs trailing behind her. As a result, Belle must preempt a situation in which a swarm will serve her, and then carefully amass such a hive with selective pheromones while also ensuring she does not let the size run amok. If there are no bugs in the immediate vicinity, Belle will have to wait longer and try harder to reach out further, and if there are no bugs at all, Belle will have no swarm.

Further, the larger Belle's current swarm, the more difficult it is to maintain pinpoint control as is possible with a smaller group. While she can use the swarm itself to proliferate her pheromones within itself for increased efficiency, the larger the swarm is, the more likely it becomes for sections of it to break away as the rest of it receives new or different instructions, resulting in a large chunk loss as half of the swarm begins leaving or even in-fighting due to the many different species of insect that can be co-habiting one of Belle's swarms at any given time. As such, Belle's pheromone control is a careful knife-edge game - enough to create a swarm and then make it large enough to allow it to govern itself, but not so big as to implode itself. It is far too easy for Belle to simply leave a pheromone lingering for too long, and a swarm to disappear as quickly as it arrived.

//WEAKNESSES: Despite Belle's pheromones, her control is not infallible. Strong enough instinctual responses in the insects that make up her swarm can override any existing pheromone commands and cause the insects to revert to their nature; as such, strong fear, hunger, or mating impulses can destabilize a swarm entirely.

As well as basic instinct, simple biology can also impede Belle's powers. The insects that make up her swarms are just that: insects. While, in large numbers and under Belle's command, they are capable of inspiring fear and causing lasting damage to Belle's enemies, they are still subject to the frailty of their forms - any method that would normally disperse a large cluster of insects will work equally well against Belle's swarms.

In Roman's Archive → 5 yrs ago Forum: Character Sheets
T H E W E N D I G O
E L W O O D S I T A L A T A H K I ◼ O C T O B E R ' 0 0 ( 1 8 ) ◼ M A L E

"I'm still learning how to...talk to people. The supernatural...comes second."

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:
"I can look kind of...intense. It's not..on purpose.."
//STATS:
◼ HEIGHT | 5'11"

◼ WEIGHT | 101lbs

◼ BUILD | Lean.

◼ HAIR COLOR | Jet Black.

◼ EYE COLOR | Deep Brown.

//DESCRIPTION:
Elwood's minimalist, monochrome fashion sense is self-tailored to understate (or perhaps underscore) the unique peculiarities of his facial structure afforded to him by his mixed-race heritage - Egyptian on his father's side, and Native American on his father's. His sharp cheekbones and large eyes give him a naturally piercing, inqusitive stare, and many people have felt uncomfortable under his gaze, as if he were silently unearthing all of their secrets or, more accurately, sizing them up for a meal.

Due to his pre-existing condition, Elwood does tend to shy away from much of the social interaction his day-to-day offers him, seceding from others as his anxiety and possession overruns him - as such, his body language and general posture is nearly always reserved and defensive. There are very few people he is open with, and no one he completely relaxes around.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:
"I don't like talking about...anything. Myself especially."
'In North American folklore, the Wendigo is a ravenous monster native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast of the United States.

The Wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous.

It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder and insatiable greed.'
- Cash Ahenakew, Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices.

"The Wendigo is a curse of hunger and corruption.
It is my family's.
It is mine.
It will not be the world's."
- Elwood Dowd

In the Nineteenth Century, shortly after the first European settlers came to North America, the Wolastoqiyik tribe came to a schism: a majority of the people accept the new travellers, joining their existing villages with the new settlements and starting a new trading relationship with the colonies, while a small faction saw no need to change their ways for the foreigners that now lived on their land. Eventually, neither side could reconcile with the other, and the faction chose to abandon their villages and move northwards in search of new country to live, holding on to their traditional ways. This faction broke off from the Wolastoqiyik people, and named themselves after their leader, Tahqo. The Taqho tribe left 40-strong on a cold morning with the tools and provisions allowed for them, and trekked into the forest with the sun to their sides. They, or their descendants, would not be seen again for sixty years.

When the first few descendants of the Taqho people broke away from the treeline a decade or so before the beginning of the Twentieth Century, they propagated a vicious legend through the first settlements they stumbled into; gaunt men and women with sunken eyes and pale skin, with bellies distended from malnutrition, and a feverish gaze. Many tried to feed these poor wretches, only to find that they ripped and tore at the bread and meat with voracious and violent frenzy. Many died, unable to digest the food they gorged themselves on, or simply choking on hunks of unchewed food. Those that didn't often vomited up what they had managed to swallow; it was a lucky few that were taken in to medical facilities to be cared for and fed in a manner that would not kill them. The only survivors of the Taqho expedition were invariably young and hardy. No one knew what had happened in that forest for the last half-a-century; but many guessed and gossiped. The Taqho people, the three that remained, gave up their predecessor's prideful gestures, integrating themselves into the new, modern society that had developed in their absence - and so it was for another thirty years.

The Taqho line propagated itself singularly; while all three found themselves new partners, only one - Oro Taqi - succeeded in having children, and he passed his name onto a daughter, whom he loved very much, and cared for with every waking moment. Still haunted by the starvation and hunger he had suffered upon leaving the forest, Oro worked hard to provide his family and himself more than they could possibly hope to consume. In his waning years, Oro felt that hunger still, and ate more and more, terrified of feeling the cold, hollow pain he had felt in the forest, until one day, old and grey, Oro died, still reaching for another meal - and his daughter, the only living Taqi blood, began to feel a slow, creeping hunger descend upon her.

And so it was for another century - an endless cycle of hunger and birth and death and hunger, the spirit of the Wendigo passing on after every death to the youngest living Taqho - now, after 100 years, Tahki- before consuming them and repeating the curse. Strange characteristics were always matched with the sufferer - sharper teeth, darker eyes, gaunter frames, paler skin - and every Tahki held the secret burden of the Wendigo within them, caging the beast while it wailed against their bellies. So it has been since Oro, and so it is now, in the time of Elwood; this raging creature snared within him, a starved, voracious monster desperate for meat. Elwood struggles everyday, but resists nonetheless, lest the Wendigo be unleashed upon the people of Crescent City. He has slipped, like many of his ancestors, but only once - and the blood he tasted will torment him until the end of his days.

For now, only Elwood's willpower, and his Maw-Maw, safeguard the people of Crescent City from yet another beast, in a world that already has far, far too many monsters.

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:
"It's difficult...to do the right thing. But I'm trying every day."
Elwood's primary and ongoing objective is the supression of the Wendigo Spirit that inhabits his body, preventing it from taking over his body and creating a new hunting ground in Crescent City. His Maw-Maw takes care of him, teaching him the history of his family and the curse that has plagued it for so long, and while he knows it is never truly possible, he still tries to have a 'normal' life as best he can. He struggles with the Wendigo's impulses and instincts, and is determined to do the opposite, and use his affliction for good. He also hopes to overcome his own anxiety disorder some day, but figures he has more pressing matters.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:
"My family's legacy...it's...hunger. Hunger is the all of it."

//ABILITIES:
◼ WENDIGO POSSESSION | Like his mother before him and his grandfather before him, and on and on, Elwood is possessed by the spirit of the Wendigo, an ancient force from North American legend. While the spirit's full power is locked away by Elwood's resistance to being overrun, its mere inhabitance of his body lends certain boons and drawbacks.

◼ Supernatural Durability | The Wendigo's skin can be likened to ancient stone - old, superficially cracked, but immensely tough. While Elwood has absolute control, he retains only a small portion of the Wendigo's true invulnerability, as well as its resistance to cold temperature, but as the spirit wrestles more and more control over Elwood's body, the Wendigo's skin is soon able to withstand harder and harder blows, until it cannot be harmed at all.

◼ Supernatural Senses | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's senses are enhanced to more befit an apex predator. Eyesight gets more accurate and motion-based, and Elwood's hearing and sense of smell also dramatically improve. Elwood does not experience any of these improvements while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Agility | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood is able to utilize incredible bursts of speed to leap great distances, dodge incoming obstacles, or clamber up buildings. The Wendigo often employs this agility to perch in a hidden spot, remaining perfectly still before pouncing on unsuspecting prey. Elwood does not experience this enhanced agility while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Strength | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's strength ramps up, allowing him to lift men single-handedly, stop cars and motorcycles, punch dents into brickwork, and smash through obstacles with frightening ease. Elwood does not experience this enhanced strength while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Physiology | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's body twists and morphs to better suit the predator that is taking over. His mouth splits and enlarges, growing fangs while the jaw unhooks itself in order to open wider, while his pupils dilate and his sclera turns black. Elwood's limbs stretch out, his body becoming emaciated as mass is transferred, and his skin grows white and cold, while talons spring from his hands and feet. The stronger the Wendigo's possession becomes, the further the transformation goes, but these changes are lost as Elwood enforces his will upon the spirit.

//SKILLS:
◼ WILLPOWER | Long years of suffering under the Wendigo has sharpened the mind of every member of the Harjo family, Elwood included, and honed within them a sharp and powerful force of will, allowing them to resist the Wendigo's possession.

//LIMITATIONS:
◼ WENDIGO PSYCHE | As the Wendigo spirit gains more influence over Elwood's body, so does it gain more hold over his mind; the predator instinct of the Wendigo starts to overpower Elwood's humanity, and begins to become a threat to any living being in the vicinity. With effort, Elwood can wrestle control of himself back - but it's better if he never gets to that point in the first place.

//WEAKNESSES:
◼ FIRE | Fire - and, by extension, high heat - is the only thing that can harm a Wendigo, and does so at an accelerated rate. Furthermore, any burnt skin becomes vulnerable to further damage from any source.

◼ HUNGER | The Wendigo's Hunger is its defining trait, the reason for its existance, and its eternal purpose. Elwood feels this Hunger every second of every day, and as such has a voracious appetite, especially for meat - but he must be extremely cautious in indulging this appetite, as over-feasting is a prime trigger to give way to the Wendigo. When Elwood is not in control, the Wendigo will do everything possible to feed itself, and this drive can be easily exploited.

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T H E B L I G H T E D K I N G D O M

P R E M I S E:
Vassidia is a plagued land.

The people are not unfamiliar with sickness; under the Garland lineage, the kingdom has already suffered and survived the Wailing Death, the Red Plague, the Ursine Pox. The cities know how to quarantine, how to detect, how to treat and experiment with cures. Vassidia is not unfamiliar with sickness; but this is not a mere sickness.

The citizens see it every day; cracked statues, eery in their accuracy of form, mottled ruby chunks bursting from cracks than run across their entire surface. They depect agony, despair, rage and resignation. In the first weeks, before word spread and knowledge grew, the rubies were stolen, chiselled, even thought to be lucky. Now, with wisdom of terrible truth, they are avoided, demolished, known to be cursed. The statues are no depiction; they are the last living moments of those victim to the Stone Blight, captured forever in petrified rock.

Across the continent, beggars and barons alike are developing blisters and boils that burst into encrusted maroon gemstones, fat and dewy rubies that begin to spread lethargy and dullness as quickly as they do a crached, hard black skin rash that grows to encase the victim as the metamorphosis continues internally. Nearly every resource the kingdom possesses is now dedicated towards a cure for the accursed blight that has seized the kingdom.

The High Lord Jocun is running out of hope, and his subjects moreso. From his seat, he has called for adventurers, mercenaries, academics, peasants, nobility - anyone willing to travel the continent in search of answers. Many have departed; few have completed their journey. Fewer still have returned.

Vassidia is a plagued land. How will you fare against the blight?


M A P O F T H E R E A L M:

VASILIUS, THE SEAT OF THE KING


Vasilius is unquestionably the kingdom's capital city, and the center of the realm for all major trade, academics, and political players. A vast and proud city, its streets and boroughs stretch forth from a focal point at the High Throne, which stands at the very center of the royal palace within the Garland Citadel. From here, High Lord Jocun presides with his wife, Queen Vesindra, his infant son, Prince Dahtun, and his many advisors, chief among them the Royal Warlock, Aborran.

Jocun is the fifth of his bloodline to rule the realm, and while many would admit him to be a strong and fair king, many others would question his conflictingly brazen and mysterious manner, some even citing arrogance and a blasé nature due to his family's long-uncontested rule.

What everyone can agree on, however, is the sheer toll that the Stone Blight is taking on the kingdom, with swathes of dead across the continent, and the psychological damage to the citizens by the unassuaged dread. Whether Jocun and those close to him are near a cure or not, no one can say - but every day that passes with the palace's silence is another day of growing unease across the kingdom at large.


EERUM, THE ARID BURG


Eerum, far south and deep within the Sychan Desert, was the first city to be discovered and assimilated into Vassidia and the kingdom of the Garland Lineage, rather than settled by Vassidian citizens proper. Originally a simply shared camping grounds and makeshift marketplace for the few aboriginal tribes of the desert, the tribal identity of the natives was worn away as trade routes and supply lines were opened, feeding barons and couriers into the desert, and allowing Eerum to become a township proper, rather than a few tents propped up around a vital spring of water.

Life in Eerum remains not without its hardships: the heat scorches the ground, making farming exceptionally difficult; trade routes bear caravans rarely, as few are capable of or willing to brave the desert, and fewer still make successful enough journeys to justify the expenditure versus the profit; water is scarce, and the single spring of freshwater that lies within Eerum's central square seems to run lower than ever. Those that 'make it' out here are barely more successful than a modest farmer in the mainland, and those than don't are beggars, dying beggars, or dead.

There is a growing unrest in Eerum - an anger in the people that surpasses anything felt in Vassidia proper. The palace has promised more frequent supply caravans, but the Stone Blight takes its toll on the kingdom, and Eerum is far from the only suffering community in need. The Sychan Desert, it seems, is set to swallow the city whole, like many before it - if the Stone Blight, or Eerum's own citizens, don't spell its downfall first.


KAFAARA, HOME OF THE PIOUS


Kafaara is the seat of power for the kingdom's dominant religion: the Barbed Church. Believers that the world, and all that inhabits it, are children of a great font of Magick, their first priests settled here long ago and built their first altar, which soon grew to a village, a town, and eventually an outright city centered around what was now a great cathedral.

For those who do not subscribe to the lessons and sermons given by the Church's many ministers, including their chief Pontiff Silvene, the First Thorn, and her Circle of Barbs, their practices can seem cultish, violent, and taboo; but for the Church's many followers, the rituals involved are a harmless, day-to-day appreciation of life and those who live it.

Kafaara is a wealthy city - no small thanks to the numerous donations made to the Church - and rich in culture, with many foreign followers of the Church making pilgrimages at least once in their life. It is a center for research against the Blight, though recently far more has been going into the city than has been coming out...


FERROS, THE IRON CITY


Ferros was first settled by a prolific blacksmith who discovered rich iron veins in the hills behind, and quickly seized the opportunity to begin a mining operation and become the early kingdom's nearly sole source of quality forged iron. Eventually the blacksmith's settlement grew and grew, and the iron was used to turn a hamlet into an armoured citadel, with great iron walls and gates and watchtowers.

The great iron city became a beacon for all ambition and enterprising individuals, many would-be entrepeneurs trying - and often failing - to begin their fateful climbs to Vassidia's capital heights. The day-to-day proceedings of the city are guided by the Iron Council, a select group of rich and powerful individuals who lend a steady hand to the city's - and through it, the kingdom's - economy.

Recently, however, a usually booming hub of commerce has closed its gates and shut its markets - and more worryingly, its mines. The Council remains stubbornly silent to envoys and messengers, and the King grows impatient...


MARISMA, HEART OF THE MARSH


Marisma was founded by a small sect of zealous druids who has exiled themselves out of disgust for what they viewed as 'hedonistic excesses of man's machinations'. They traveled deep into the far south-west of the continent and had discovered there a sprawling marsh that encompassed an entire county's worth of land. It was in the heart of this marsh that they constructed their first homes amongst the trees and the swamp, many of them fashioning living spaces from huge, naturally-formed hollows with the trees themselves.

In the present era, Marisma is a naturalist's paradise, never really moving on from its forest-worshiping roots, and its inhabitants enjoys a straight-forward, if at times meager, living; simple survival within one of Vassidia's largest natural wonders. The people are friendly, provided you respect their beliefs and rules, and understanding of those who choose a life beyond the borders of the Great Marsh - though they still spurn most modern advances in smithing, economy, and agriculture.

There are rumours of a resurgence - perhaps reappearance - of those ancient druids, and more presently of unexplained disappearances. The Marsh feels thicker and more cloying than eever, and its previously open citizens grow more paranoid about each other and more fearful of the swamp every day - though everyone still staunchly refuses to leave...


MORNFELL ON MOUNTAINSIDE


Mornfell-on-Mountainside is potentially the oldest city of Vassidia, perhaps even out-dating the capital; although such rumours are easy to spread, given its relatively recent discovery on the far side of the Eastern Border Mountain-range, and difficult to quell, given the city archivists' reluctance to share their history with 'foreigners'.

Unquestionably the most inhospitable city of the kingdom, it owes its ruthless reputation to both the brutality of its mountainous location, and the xenophobia of its people. At its core is a towering, colossal bonfire - sustained by massive quantities of fuel and closely-guarded magick - out of which the city proper spirals its streets, channeling the fire down its main causeways to be siphoned into homes and buildings to supply the people with the heat vital to their survival. Many in the city blame their misfortunes on the opening of their gates to the rest of the kingdom - blame they do not spare the Stone Blight of either.

Lately, an already icy city has grown colder still, and its gates - once open in defiance of its people - are now closed in defiance of its High Lord. Still, scouts consistently report that its fire burns hotter, larger, brighter than ever, and many are left to wonder who remains within the mountain to tend to the flames.


N O T A B L E P E R S O N S O F T H E R E A L M:

HIGH LORD JOCUN GARLAND
High Lord Jocun is the fifth of his bloodline to preside over Vassidia, and most citizens will say his rule thusfar has been fair, and his abilities as a leader and adjudicator unquestioned. However, the Stone Blight sweeps the kingdom with an unknown brutality, and Jocun has been accused of arrogance and apathy in the face of an unprecedented disaster. The palace passes each day silently, with nothing to say about work on a potential cure, and the citizens grow more unruly.


QUEEN VESINDRA
A relative unknown before her engagement to the High Lord at a young age, it was clear that their marriage was born of two simple, but vital qualities: an unparalleled and unquestionable beauty, and a cunning political mind that outpaced even the most shrewd and ambitious nobleman. It can be argued that she has played a strong part in propelling Jocun to such admirable heights during his rule, as he himself lacks the charisma of his predecessors; although some believe that Vesindra's maneuverings have been in her favor only, and Jocun's good public image is an unintended side-effect.


PRINCE DAHTUN
The infant heir to Vassidia’s throne, Dahtun was born little more than a year after Jocun and Vesindra’s vows were taken, and symbolised the secured future of the kingdom under the Garland rule. Now, in the face of the Stone Blight, he has been secreted away from the public eye as the palace has closed its doors, but to many people still represents the innocent children and victims of the ongoing crisis - unknowing, unwilling, and yet his future defined and irrevocably altered by the disaster happening around him.


ROYAL WARLOCK ABORRAN
Aborran is perhaps the foremost scholar of the kingdom, and controversial or not, he is the first man turned to when Jocun needs a consultant of magical knowledge, and often of other knowledge besides. Aborran is a strong proponent of the cautious approach to magick, often quoted "better to know magick well enough as to know not to use it", but his abilities with magick are well-respected and feared in equal measure regardless.


SILVENE, THE FIRST THORN
The current Chief Pontiff of the Barbed Church, Silvene was raised within the boundaries of the cathedral at the centre of Kafaara and has been a devout member of the church since birth. Her skin is covered in the sacred scarring from the church’s rituals and she spends much of her time sequestered within the cathedral’s inner-most cloisters, and her own personal chamber of worship. She is a highly respected and revered figurehead within the kingdom, and often liaises with the palace as a spiritual advisor.


JAERN, THE IRON BARON
One of the two original founders of the settlement that would eventually grow to become Ferros. A keen mercantile mind helped him turn a cave system with unusually rich iron ore veins into a large-scale independent mining operation, and then turn that into the kingdom's primary source of iron and ironwork. His partner, a blacksmith who kept his name from the history records, was happy to work his craft and leave Jaern to the administrative dealings. Unfortunately, Jaern's greed got the better of him as he sought to overthrow the palace, and when his plot was discovered he was executed, his blacksmith partner self-exiling in shame.


ORR, THE FOOL'S MARTYR
At one time a fairly well-respected wizard, who studied magic for many years under the previous Royal Warlock before Aborran's appointment. He eventually departed Vasilius and travelled north, making his home in the midst of a rich forest. He accrued a good reputation and reverence, but eventually his hubris swallowed him whole - an unknown magical spell, or ritual, or experiment, broke out from his tower and laid waste to the entire forest, razing the region to the ground. Nothing has grown there since. The region has come to be known as Orr's Meadow, and Orr himself as a terrible reminder of what happens when man's ambition outstrips his wisdom and actual ability.


N O T A B L E F A C T I O N S O F T H E R E A L M:

THE KINGSGUARD
The protecting army of the Palace, high-ranking and elite soldiers of Vassidia's military nominated by their commanders and hand selected by the High Lord and his Queen. They are indefatigable warriors and noble knights, put forward for exceptional loyalty to the crown and superlative martial ability, and swear undying fealty to the palace, whom they will serve until death.


THE BARBED CHURCH
The dominant religion of the kingdom, and the one officially recognized by the palace. The core belief of the Church is that magic, a mystical force as fundamental as gravity or time, began as the great Font that all life sprang from, and now from the Font flows the River, through all living beings, imparting its essence and allowing the great miracle of life to continue. Thus, the church worships the Font and the River, as they gift the world with life. The church got its name from its worshipping practice of ritualised bloodletting, under the belief that the magic within their blood flows back down the River into the Font, and in this way reparations are made for the gift of life, and the Font refills so as not to run dry.


THE CIRCLE OF BARBS
The eight high priests and priestesses hand picked by Silvene for their devoutness to the Barbed Church and seniority within the congregation. They spend much of their time in active worship within the church, but are also the face of authority to the people of Kafaara, dealing with much of the day-to-day political and administrative proceedings of the Church and the wider city. They each deliver wisdom and instruction directly from Silvene to the people, but much is still left up to their initiative.


THE IRON COUNCIL
A group of the wealthiest and most powerful men and women in Ferros, the Council was originally created as an advisory group for the founders of the city, but since Jaern's disgrace, they have become the de-facto political leaders of the city. They guide the city and its day-to-day trading with the kingdom from their chambers at the heart of Ferros, and their personal fortunes, the wealth of the city, and their proximity to the capital city and the palace have all anchored them as the foremost economic leaders of the land.


THE MOUNTAIN-BRAVE
The Mountain-Brave are the revered elite of Mornfell-on-Mountainside: select men and women who have come of age and chosen to undertake an ancient mountain trial, a tradition long held by the city. When they succeed and return to the city, they are inducted in a ceremony and receive certain garbs and privileges that are not afforded to the standard citizen. The eldest living Mountain-Brave acts as a representative for the people of Mornfell, although they are not an official leader.

The Mountain-Brave's trial is a voluntary challenge open to any native citizen of Mornfell-on-Mountainside. The tribute leaves the city with minimal supplies: merely the clothing on their back, one weapon of their choosing - that they must forge themselves, using the heat of the bonfire at the heart of the city - and a pouch containing a single day and night's worth of rations. They are tasked with ascending to the peak of the Mourning Mountain, the most difficult and deadly climb of the eastern mountain-range, and pick a rare flower that grows only upon that peak. They must then descend the mountain and find a hidden cave at its base, which contains a sacred spring. The flower must be dipped into the water of the spring, changing the colour of the petals, and then the tribute must return with this flower to Mornfell. Failure to return with the flower, abandonment of the trial, death, or, in rare cases, returning with a flower that has changed to the wrong colour once dipped in the spring waters, all result in the tribute becoming Mountain-Spurned.


THE MOUNTAIN-SPURNED
Men and women of Mornfell who attempted the mountain trial and failed. They are marked physically by the city and mentally by their failure. Many leave Mornfell in disgrace, but those who stay are second-class citizens at best, and barely-human dregs at worst.


THE WARDENS
Soldiers manning the watchtowers that span the borders of the Sychan Desert and the Eastern Tundra. Formed of men and women from Vasilius, Ferros, Eerum and Mornfell, the Wardens are a politically neutral force, pledging no one regional alliance and forsaking themselves of a true home in favour of keeping a true defense between the established kingdom and the two regions that were assimilated rather than settled.


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Index


Original Worlds & Stories

  • The Blighted Kingdom - a long-standing kingdom suffers under a new horrific plague that is turning people to stone, but not before causing panic, paranoia, and untold myriad of sufferings. Each major city has closed its borders to outsiders as they each suffer their own crises, and the king is at a loss of how to salvage his land and his people.
  • The Legend of Zelda - The Lost Knight - a Legend of Zelda fan-game that melds the worlds, events, and lore of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess, into one cohesive and sprawling Hyrule, and pits a new generation of heroes on their own quest to find the currently-missing Link, First Knight of Hyrule, at the behest of Queen Zelda.


Original Characters & Stories

  • 'Swarm Queen'/'Hornet'/ - Abelle D'Voire, young woman in High School, discovering new abilities of insect manipulation and using them to carve out an identity for herself in her own mind. With mentoring by a new mysterious faculty member who has taken an interest, her own ability ends up overriding her biology and her mind, shredding her humanity as she turns into the monstrous insect/human hybrid dubbed only 'Hornet'.
  • 'The Wendigo' - a young man who is the latest bearer of the Wendigo Spirit that has haunted his family for a century, and who comes into contact with other supernatural beings who see the power of the Wendigo as an enforcer, a bargaining chip, an admired specimen, and a path to power and immortality - all while struggling with the Wendigo itself.
  • 'Penny Dreadful' - Penelope Boyle, a young woman and high school senior who has had a rough schooling career and nestles behind her walls in her role as a social pariah. However her resolve will be tested beyond limits she knew she had when her body begins making drastic changes, and she will have to learn how to channel her newfound abilities to prevent her from becoming the misandrist freak her classmates already take her for.
  • 'Hexmother' - Aava Arkham, a woman hungry for magical power at whatever personal cost, and who has learnt that particular cost three times over now: her father, her grandfather, and her own skin and self. While ostensibly seeking knowledge for knowledge's sake, and prowess just to see how far she can go, her quest has begun to sabotage her own sense of self in a particularly invasive way. Aava left home to discover her history; now, she returns to safeguard her future.
  • Detective Wolfe - Rustin Wolfe, a homicide detective in Crescent City, fervent in his passion for Justice. Cunning and shrewd of mind, he is capable of thinking his way through or around many problems, but finds himself slowly mounting defenses against new threats, new kinds of criminals that he is woefully unprepared to face.
  • 'Minnie Ripper' - Minavita Ripole, a young woman, ex punk-fronter, currently seeking refuge in Canada within the walls of the PRCU Academy after her hyperhuman powers activated in the US and killed a 'friend' in the midst of attempted sexual assault. Recovering from her assault while also training her powers, she finds herself far more unstable than she is willing to admit, and struggles to reconnect with herself, using her monsters to put distance between her and humanity.
  • Taro, Child of Ash - Taro, a large and deadly - but semi-sentient - alien feline, stranded on Earth after being abducted from his home planet by another alien civilization. He must learn how to survive on this new planet, forever striving to return to his pack,
  • Luce Calder - Lucille 'Luce' Calder, 18 and freshly-enrolled at Pacific Royal Collegiate & University, an academy-cum-sanctuary for Hyperhumans situated on Dundas Island off the eastern coast of Canada. A remarkable but haunted young girl, Luce has come to forge a better future for herself, carve her own place in the world, and - if she lets herself - heal from scars she does not deserve.


Canon Re-Interpretations

  • John Constantine - a younger but no less traumatized Constantine, living in self-imposed exile in America after losing his sister in Hell. based on new information he begins to put together a new search party for an expedition into the afterlife to rescue Astra, his first failure, and thereby jump-start some kind of redemption; but as ever, he runs into obstacles.
  • John Constantine (II) - a story of John before he even begins his career as the latest Laughing Magician, a waking origin story that details how his life has already crashed down around him, before he discovers his heritage and the sinister plots in motion against his family. A John barely an adult, but still able to prove his ferociousness in his morality and cunning, showcasing what John is capable of even without his usual formidable magic.
  • Matt Murdock/DareDevil - a DareDevil a few years into his career but still just slowly starting to make a dent in Fisk's underworld. He quickly gets caught up in Fisk's wrath and begins to unravel circumstances that have been silently built up to remove him.
  • The Batman - A Batman removed from the well-trodden origin story of Bruce Wayne; instead, the man beneath the mask is a complete unknown, a force of nature that has risen from the very underbelly of Gotham to fight for the common man against the true criminals of the world, the 1%, the white-collars, the CEOs killing his city and the planet. No trust funds, no Waynetech, no Batcave, but still a formidable, awe-inspiring vanguard for justice, who's actions quickly destablise Gotham and catalyze radical change for the entire city.
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Original Worlds & Stories


  • The Blighted Kingdom - a long-standing kingdom suffers under a new horrific plague that is turning people to stone, but not before causing panic, paranoia, and untold myriad of sufferings. Each major city has closed its borders to outsiders as they each suffer their own crises, and the king is at a loss of how to salvage his land and his people.
  • The Black Sarcophagus - the discovery and opening of an obsidian sarcophagus in Egypt unleashes an ancient evil back unto the world, but also brings the return of magic and the wondrous feats it brings. The world plunges into a modern magical fantasy, with the evil in Egypt securing greater and greater armies to take the rest of the planet by force.
  • Simulacrum - in a hyper-future cyberpunk world, digital personas are a massive part of everyone's individual national identity. when a select few go rogue and their real life counterparts become wanted, black-listed fugitives, they must work around and against the system to reclaim their identities and old lives.


Original Characters & Stories


  • 'Cryborg' - escaped subject of a blacklist military project to create android super-soldiers that are both more effective and more expendable than human beings. hunted down by those who wish to see the fruits of their experiments; initially a viciously programmed killing machine with little to no psychology, but her fresh mind begins to learn and form a new personality alongside the fractured memories of her old life.
  • 'The Sherrif' - an out-of-time sheriff from an old frontier town, recently come out of cryogenic stasis after stumbling upon an alien spacecraft while pursuing a bandit that had been plaguing his town. trying to come to terms with his predicament and the loss of everything he knew, as well as the wild changes in the modern world, he is thrown into a strange mix of both eras when his old enemy seems to resurface.
  • 'The Coyote' - an out-of-time bandit from the old frontier, who has survived using recovered alien technology found purely by chance, and who now find a new lease of life when his old enemy resurfaces in modern times.
  • 'Swarm Queen'/'Hornet'/ - Abelle D'Voire, young woman in High School, discovering new abilities of insect manipulation and using them to carve out an identity for herself in her own mind. With mentoring by a new mysterious faculty member who has taken an interest, her own ability ends up overriding her biology and her mind, shredding her humanity as she turns into the monstrous insect/human hybrid dubbed only 'Hornet'.
  • 'The Shrike' - a seemingly-immortal, immensely talented swords-woman who is the last survivor of her race after a horrific war in which she was a fierce and feared warrior and enforcer, now cursed and haunted by the last souls of her kin and desperately searching for a way to undo the destruction of her people.
  • 'The Wendigo' - a young man who is the latest bearer of the Wendigo Spirit that has haunted his family for a century, and who comes into contact with other supernatural beings who see the power of the Wendigo as an enforcer, a bargaining chip, an admired specimen, and a path to power and immortality - all while struggling with the Wendigo itself.


Canon Re-Interpretations


  • Dani Ketch/Ghost Rider - a younger Ghost Rider, maybe a few weeks after her 'gift' of the Ghost Rider from Mephistopheles, on the run after torching her hometown in her first transformation and seeking asylum in the care of SHIELD, fleeing religious zealots, state authorities, and the agents of Hell itself while grappling with her new abilities.
  • John Constantine - a younger but no less traumatized Constantine, living in self-imposed exile in America after losing his sister in Hell. based on new information he begins to put together a new search party for an expedition into the afterlife to rescue Astra, his first failure, and thereby jump-start some kind of redemption; but as ever, he runs into obstacles.
  • Matt Murdock/DareDevil - a DareDevil a few years into his career but still just slowly starting to make a dent in Fisk's underworld. He quickly gets caught up in Fisk's wrath and begins to unravel circumstances that have been silently built up to remove him.
  • Harvey Dent - a pre-villain Harvey who is about to suffer a great tragedy and channel the resulting rage into a vicious vigilante known as 'The Hangman' as he struggles to maintain a grip on his own sanity.
  • The Joker - an old Joker who has been underground for over a decade, thought of by many as gone for good, who resurfaces when he believes Batman is becoming weak for a final gambit to kill them both and have his last laugh on Gotham and the Bat.


Misc. Unconnected Characters


  • 'Double-Down' - young male teen with the ability to create a perfect copy of himself that can learn, think, and act independently before being re-absorbed by the original.
  • 'Lock & Load' - twin girls with separate but complementary forms of technopathy - 'Lock' can use scavenged resources from around her to intuitively create crude tools and weaponry quickly and on the fly. 'Load' can remain in contact with a tool or weapon to passive 'upgrade' it as long as it is in her possession, allowing it to perform its function more efficiently and to a higher degree.
  • 'Helios' - young woman with the ability to condense heat at a point to ignite a miniature sun-like orb of heat, which she can then manipulate.
  • 'Penny Dreadful' - young female teen in high school who is slowly learning of a new bodily awakening - the ability to change her own biology in a monstrous manner.
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//STATS:
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◼ WEIGHT | How heavy if your character? (Imperial preferred, metric accepted.)

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What is driving your character? What makes them tick? Why do they act the way they do.

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"Witty Quote #5"
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A L I A S
N A M E ◼ B I R T H D A T E ( A G E ) ◼ G E N D E R
"Witty Quote #1"

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:
"Witty Quote #2"
//STATS:
◼ HEIGHT | How tall is your character? (Imperial preferred, metric accepted.)

◼ WEIGHT | How heavy if your character? (Imperial preferred, metric accepted.)

◼ BUILD | Your character's body shape, this can be a single descriptive word that you can build on in the description section below.

◼ HAIR COLOR | What colour is your character's hair? Note you can elaborate on this in the description if your character changes their hair colour often or if it's a difficult to describe color or combination.

◼ EYE COLOR | What is character's eye color? This can be elaborated on if needed in the description should your character be wearing colored contacts or has changing eye colors due to their abilities.

◼ OTHER | Can be changed/removed depending on if your character has any other noteworthy features. Feel free to add additional stats for piercings, tattoos, scars etc. Sexuality could also be added here if you feel it's worth noting.

//DESCRIPTION:
A written description of the character's appearance. Keep in mind that appearance isn't only limited to their physical make up, but the style of clothes they wear, they're body language and in general how they present themselves.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:
"Witty Quote #3"
This is the story of your character's life, their defining moments nd how they made it from the womb to where they are now. You can include as much other details as you think is necessary but don't go overboard and spell everything out. Sometimes its best to show through the IC than to tell in the CS.

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:
"Witty Quote #4"
What is driving your character? What makes them tick? Why do they act the way they do.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:
"Witty Quote #5"
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▼ N O T E S:
//SUPPORTING CAST:
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T H E W E N D I G O


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Elwood Sitala Tahki
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17-10-97 | 20 | Caucasian/Native American
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Single | ♂ | Heterosexual
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High School Graduate | Local part-time employment
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Physical Profile
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Miscellaneous Items
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Elwood's minimalist, monochrome fashion sense is self-tailored to understate (or perhaps underscore) the unique peculiarities of his facial structure afforded to him by his mixed-race heritage - Egyptian on his father's side, and Native American on his father's. His sharp cheekbones and large eyes give him a naturally piercing, inquisitive stare, and many people have felt uncomfortable under his gaze, as if he were silently unearthing all of their secrets or, more accurately, sizing them up for a meal.

Due to his pre-existing condition, Elwood does tend to shy away from much of the social interaction his day-to-day offers him, seceding from others as his anxiety and possession overruns him - as such, his body language and general posture is nearly always reserved and defensive. There are very few people he is open with, and no one he completely relaxes around.

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An insight to the character's psyche, how they think, feel and process the world around them. This should include their likes and dislikes, examples of how they react to situations and other like elements that attribute to their personality. This should be at least two paragraphs.
Character Synopsis
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Introduction to the character, their history and primarily their motivations for engaging in vigilantism and using their abilities or skills to help the city. This should be no shorter than two paragraphs but can as long beyond that as you wish depending on your style of story telling.

Abilities & Skills
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//Abilities:
◼ WENDIGO POSSESSION | Like his mother before him and his grandfather before her, and on and on, Elwood is possessed by the spirit of the Wendigo, an ancient force from North American legend. While the spirit's full power is locked away by Elwood's resistance to being overrun, its mere inheritance of his body lends certain boons and drawbacks.

◼ Supernatural Durability | The Wendigo's skin can be likened to ancient stone - old, superficially cracked, but immeasurably strong. While Elwood has absolute control, he retains only a small portion of the Wendigo's true invulnerability, as well as its resistance to cold temperature, but as the spirit wrestles more and more control over Elwood's body, the Wendigo's skin is soon able to withstand harder and harder blows, until it cannot be harmed at all.

◼ Supernatural Senses | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's senses are enhanced to more befit an apex predator. Eyesight gets more accurate and motion-based, and Elwood's hearing and sense of smell also dramatically improve. Elwood does not experience any of these improvements while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Agility | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood is able to utilize incredible bursts of speed to leap great distances, dodge incoming obstacles, or clamber up buildings. The Wendigo often employs this agility to perch in a hidden spot, remaining perfectly still before pouncing on unsuspecting prey. Elwood does not experience this enhanced agility while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Strength | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's strength ramps up, allowing him to lift men single-handedly, stop cars and motorcycles, punch dents into brickwork, and smash through obstacles with frightening ease. Elwood does not experience this enhanced strength while he has full control.

◼ Supernatural Physiology | As the Wendigo gains control, Elwood's body twists and morphs to better suit the predator that is taking over. His mouth splits and enlarges, growing fangs while the jaw unhooks itself in order to open wider, while his pupils dilate and his sclera turns black. Elwood's limbs stretch out, his body becoming emaciated as mass is transferred, and his skin grows white and cold, while talons spring from his hands and feet. The stronger the Wendigo's possession becomes, the further the transformation goes, but these changes are lost as Elwood enforces his will upon the spirit.


◼ WILLPOWER | Long years of suffering under the Wendigo has sharpened the mind of every member of the Tahki family, Elwood included, and honed within them a sharp and powerful force of will, allowing them to resist the Wendigo's possession.

Limitation(s) | Description should be at least a paragraph with three defined limitations

Weakness(es) | Description should be at least a paragraph with exploitable weaknesses.

//Skills:
Example Skill | Description

Supporting Cast
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Any relevant characters you will be playing alongside your primary POV in order to flesh out the world around you. This can include, family, friends, loved ones and antagonists. This is an optional section on the CS and can be deleted entirely, left as a 'To Be Determined' and contributed to as the IC progress or filled out from the get go. Entirely your decision.
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The Black Sarcophagus held an ancient and world-ending [evil], a long slumbering and hateful nemesis to Life, and opening the coffin unsealed it back into the world once again; however, with it came magic, flowing through every living thing on the planet - revitalizing nature, changing animal life irrevocably, and altering the course of history forever.

Egypt was lost to the [evil] immediately, Alexandria, in which its sarcophagus was opened, succumbing instantly to a dense swarm of flesh-eating locusts and scarabs that poured forth, [the evil] itself cruelly massacring those who hid or fled before flying to Giza and delving into the great pyramids to seize its artifacts. With its full might, [the evil] annihilated Cairo effortlessly and marched [an army] down the Nile to conquer the rest of the country.

In the years following, most of the African continent would also fall under [the evil's] rule, only small pockets of resistance remaining, while much of Europe and Asia's combined military might formed a border at Isreal that grew steadily more fortified as it continued to hold off [the evil's] forces.


IMPORTANT CITIES

WHAT HAPPENED TO ISLAND NATIONS?

HOW OVERRUN IS AFRICA

IMPORTANT NPC CHARACTERS

BESTIARY - WHAT HAS MAGIC DONE TO ANIMALS?

WHAT HAS MAGIC DONE TO HUMANS?

WHAT HAS MAGIC DONE TO PLANT LIFE?

WHAT IS THE GENERAL STATE OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION?

WHO/WHAT SURVIVED, ON A CITY/COUNTRY-SCALE?

WHAT OTHER ADVERSITIES ARE SELECT REGIONS FACING?

WHAT IS BEING DONE AT OTHER POTENTIAL INGRESS POINT FROM AFRICA TO OTHER MAINLANDS?

WHO/WHAT IS THIS EVIL? WHERE DID IT COME FROM? WHY?
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