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Description

Name: Alexander Jackson
Alias: Glint
Age: 21
Role: Hero, Chaotic Good Alignment
Powers:

Shimmering Hand: Glint deals a hand of deadly shimmering cards out toward a foe or obstacle, the cards explode on impact in a shower of sparks and fire, as well as a burst of force.
Illusory Deception: Glint can manipulate the senses of his enemies, and fool them with perceptions of images, sounds, smells, even tastes. He cannot replicate touch, however.
Firebolt: A run of the mill fireball.
Cape of Shadow: Glint surrounds himself with a cloak of invisibility, able to evade the sight of even the most keen sighted individuals.
Chance: Glint rolls a pair of die, producing a random result based on the result rolled.
- 2: Glint suffers a backfire and is thrown away from the dice
- 3: The dice flash with bright light, blinding Glint's foes.
- 4: The dice project a shield of energy around themselves and Glint, protecting him from harm
- 5: The dice produce a random illusion.
- 6: The dice explode in a burst of fire and force.
- 7: The dice freeze the enemy in chilling ice.
- 8: The dice shoot spikes of energy outwards in all directions.
- 9: The dice become a large tiger to fight for Glint.
- 10: The dice transform into a large demon to fight for Glint
- 11: The dice slow time around everyone besides Glint, allowing him to move freely whilst others are held, effectively granting him superspeed.
- 12: The dice summon a portal before Glint's foes, drawing them into a limbo like state for exactly thirteen minutes, completely isolating them from the normal world. They return in exactly the same place after the time is up, unless an object is in the way, in which case they appear slightly to the side, to avoid it.

Weakness: Human frailty, reliance on chance for more powerful abilities, youthful arrogance.

Weapons: Pouch full of six sided die, metal quarterstaff.

History: Alexander Jackson was granted his powers at a young age, by no mutation or natural occurrence, but by forces that are beyond science and feasible explanation. Even Alex himself doesn't know exactly what, but something or someone visited him during the night, in his hovel of a home where he lived with his eight year old sister and feeble, ill, mother. This being, who Alex likes to think was Fate himself, took pity on the boy who worked so hard for his family for so little reward, and gifted him with powers beyond his wildest dreams. He began to win every card game he played, every toss of the dice. Gambling money bought his mother medical care, bought them food, bought them everything they wanted. For a time, it seemed that everything was going to be OK.

But when one wins every single game one plays, it is only natural that some others become upset at their loss. And so, within a year, a group of men came in the night to try and kill both Alex and his mother. They succeeded in one part, striking his mother down when Alex was out shopping, but upon his return home he unleashed his full anger on them, slaying them where they stood with magical fire, searing their corpses into the next life without a chance even to beg for mercy. Shocked and frightened by both her mother's death and her brother's seemingly insane rage and powers, his sister fled him, and eluded all his attempts to track her, until Alex decided to give up, and dedicate his life to killing for good, even if his interpretation of the word was somewhat unorthodox. No mercy to be found from this hero...

Glint's Story