Half Pint@Weird Tales May I join? I would love to play a Bard. ^_^
that's fine
"I'm doing this because I decided to, not because you told me to."
Name: Helena IrulanThe House of Irulan:
A sprawling clan of seers who serve on all levels, from advisors and soothsayers for hire to members of royal courts and trustees of kings. Named for the mountain range that they originally came from, at the base of this mountain range they hold control over a city state that self-sustainable due to their relative isolation from the outside world. They offer valuable training to any budding seer and will teach those out side the family line, provided they show adequate talent. The city state is peaceful and quick to denounce any Irulan family member or student who truly causes conflict.
There are two main branches of the family, the home branch that facilitates training and ruling of the city state. The other branch is largely abroad and makes up most of the family outside of the city state. The name Irulan can be given to students from other origins who request it or is offered to those who have done great service to the family.
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Magic: Mental/Emotional Manipulation Magic (Psionics?)
Helena can tap into the natural magical energy of the world around her to exert control over the minds and emotions of others. This control will fade over time and can take different forms in a living being from total puppetry to subliminal suggestion. Both forms of her manipulation can be impeded by mental training an guarding that is available to both mages and the mundane. It is already more difficult to influence mages while demons and Fae kind are highly invulnerable with older dragons being completely unaffected by her powers. There are consequences when channeling too much energy, when she reaches her limits she will experience black outs and memory loss with the point of no return resulting in a coma.
There are known objects and materials that can augment her powers but they are generally hard to get a hold of and she believes that she does not need them, however naive that may be.
Techniques:
-Emotional Manipulation: Helena can manipulate the emotions of living beings in two ways, a more powerful one on one connection or area of effect that weakens as the number of targets and/or the range increases.
-Mental manipulation: The way this effects animals and humans varies quite greatly, in the case of animals she can often times gain complete control of the animal by overpowering its own will, this effect will last for a long period of time with out reinforcement. Humans are different in that it is extremely difficult to exert full control however she can plant ideas and thoughts that with reinforcement become very powerful.
-Silver tongue: To some extent she can influence people with her speech this takes form only in suggestion and does not effect animals.
-Dream Eater: Helena has found that while her target sleeps she it is much easier to manipulate their mind or emotions and she can even get a few glimpses into their mind.
Skills:
Good Liar, Manipulative, charismatic, basic self-defense training, amazing singer
Equipment:
-A official seal of the Irulans
-A simple dagger
Personality:
Helena is obsessed with control and getting what she wants. She uses not only her magic but her charm to always have her way. To her everything is a competition that can be won by using others but she will not hesitate to do the dirty work herself. She is highly emotional but she attempts to always think rationally, with varying degrees of success. Helena is driven when she puts her mind to a task, when she pursues something she does it through thick and thin. She is very confident but suffers massive insecurities over being useless and she is plagued by feelings of inadequacy after failing to follow the Irulan traditions. She absolutely despises people who think they're better than others leading to very unsurprising issues with authority.History:
The Irulans, a bloodline whose sight could have built an empire in their name, who could have engineered generations of increasingly powerful mages, who could have bred these mages to posses magic beyond that of sight, and yet have done nothing of the like. It is not their mercy or morality that keeps them from doing any of this, but instead a lesson every Irulan knows by heart "Those who can see the future can never control it for themselves." Whether this is true or not can be argued but the proof is in the history of the family if one looks closely. Despite this rule Helena's mother, an outsider without sight and an anxious woman at heart, begged her husband to tell her what their baby would grow up to be. Helena's father at first outright refused but the desire they both felt and his wife's pleading to know wore on him until he could no longer help himself and he looked into his child's future. What he saw was a girl gifted in the Irulan sight, and that was enough to change their anxiety into pride that bordered on bragging.
Sure enough a girl was born and her parents were elated, they had seen how bright her future was to be. However, when Helena came of age to test her magic there was almost none to found, except for one talent. This talent was one that less than a half of the family possessed and only a handful could use effectively, those who had it could influence and even control the minds and emotions of others around them. The Irulans simply called it manipulation, and it was basically Helena's only talent. Her parents were confused and though they tried to hide it, Helena knew they were disappointed. Her young mind couldn't quite grasp it yet but she realized that something that could not be fixed had just happenen. Helena would receive frequent tearful confessions from her parents that they just wanted her to be successful and that they were worried that she would never amount to anything. At 12 Helena was already meddling with her parents emotions to stop the constant strife in the house hold.
Helena would grow more and more powerful as the years went by. Between the few who could teach her and the family archives on manipulation powers, she did her best to learn but there was only so much to do in that environment and she knew she would outgrow the family and their teachings. Helena first expressed her desire to leave home at 18 and though the response was no she had made her intentions clear and a year later she left, not the smartest move for a single girl with out much combat training. As such she did find herself it a couple of tricky spots, but she was very good at talking her way out with her magic to back her up. Since the she's played the occasional con on a rich noble or merchant to make ends meet and greatly enjoys traveling still.
Other: She's well taught in many subject areas and she can identify most beasts and plants easily.
Her hatred for apples is both explainable and intense.
@Weird Tales Ok sounds good to me!
I'll accept this as long as the mind control isn't abused to the point of ending every conflict