Race: Nerion/Human Crossbreed
Magic:
Defensive Wards: Draws ancient symbols on a surface that diffuse magical attacks when in close proximity. Useless against physical attacks as they work by drawing on and using the attacks arcane power against it. Weakening the attack at the same time as using the sapped energy to guard against it. Fails when the wards power capacity is reached and the attack still has more energy than the ward. Ward energy capacity is determined by size, the larger the symbol is drawn, the more energy it can siphon and hold. A similar effect can be attained by drawing more than one ward in close proximity. A process called ward stacking.
Blood Wards: A warding technique that uses the same ancient symbols as defensive wards, but are drawn using the blood of the one drawing them. They act like defensive wards but instead of being purely defensive, they one who’s blood they are drawn with can set them to expend their stored energy in the form of an attack. This attack takes the form of an explosion of kinetic energy which results in the destruction of the ward. The radius and strength of the explosion is determined by the ward’s size and how much energy it has stored in it. Dav’s favorite way to use these is to draw them on his forearms, where he can use them much like shields, then get in close to detonate them. He is left unharmed because the detonation has no effect on the one whose blood is used to draw the wards.
Herbal Flash Heal: Plant matter is used as a sacrifice to flash heal injuries. Injures sizzle as flesh kits back together, burns peel away, and bruised flesh turns back to it’s normal tent. Greater injury requires greater plant sacrifice, though certain plants provide more healing power than others. Brain tissue and bones cannot be regenerated by this. Neither can it regenerate whole organ structures (ie. If you get pierced through the heart you can be saved, but if your heart gets ripped out of your chest and devoured, you’re boned.)
Summon Water Elemental: A eight foot tall Water Elemental is summoned by drawing a specific summoning circle on a surface and using magical power to invoke it. The drawing usually takes thirty seconds to a minute. The Elemental manifests for a total of fifteen minutes or until destroyed. Surprisingly it requires little magical energy to invoke the creature. Where the difficulty comes in is that it must constantly be fed magical energy and mentally dominated in order for the summoner to maintain control. Without mental domination through feeding it magic, it will go feral and randomly attack anything around it.
Summon Fiend (Marsys’ Familiar): Dav draws a intricate summoning circle, then uses magic energy to invoke a fifteen foot tall Hell Fiend which is soul bounded to his mother as her familiar. Since it is not his familiar, he can’t control it and whenever he summons it the creature immediately goes on a blind rampage trying to kill all around it. Being the son of it’s contractor, the beast tends to give Dav a little leeway by deciding to go for others first but would not be beyond ripping him to shreds if he was the only one around to kill. Or if he got in the beast’s way. Which is why Dav hardly ever uses this spell, and only as a last resort. He also makes sure to flee quickly as soon as he finishes pulling the monster into this world. The creature stays in this world for fifteen minutes or until killed, in which case it returns to the hellish land it originates from.
Nicknames:
Mire Born (This is what Nerions call Bastards, something that is signified by his Surname)
Pale Chest (This is what his tribe calls him, which is a result of his appearance)
Dav (This is who he introduces himself as)
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Personality;
Quite and introspective, Dav has learned to watch and listen rather than draw any more attention to himself than his appearance already does. Rarely acting on impulse, he resolves himself to making plans of his actions. Taking time to predict how things will go and the best way to get what he wants. Not particularly social, he tends to keep to himself and is unlikely to start a conversation unless prompted by necessity. Years being seen as the weak link have made him guarded to others as most in his community had violence on their mind whenever they bothered to approach him.
He tends to be logical rather than emotional. Seeing relationships with others more as business contracts used to create mutual benefit. He is ultimately motivated by the search for power, trying to reverse the position he has been in most of his life. Regarded as a weakling by his peers and community he ultimately wants to command power and respect over those around him.
Subconsciously, he has a soft spot for the weak and downtrodden. He sees a reflection of his younger self in their image, which manifests as sympathy for them.
Brief Description;
Dav stands at roughly six feet, taking more towards his father in this aspect as the average height of a Nerion is 6’ 6”. Due to his mixed heritage, he looks strange in comparison to both Nerions and Humans. He looks human from his feet up to his neck, with white skin and human features while also lacking a tail. However, up past the collar bone, his skin begins to change. It becomes red and more leathery, taking on Nerion characteristics. His entire head is bald and hairless, he has flat features and no nose. His eyes are elongated and thin, surrounded by bulging brow and cheekbones. His eyes are a faded yellow, and he has two horns located just above each of his temples. The horns are short and sharp, each a little over two inches long.
He has a wide and lipless mouth which houses short and jagged teeth which interlock with each other when his mouth closes. Due to his lack of lips, he has a slight accent (smile and talk without using your lips, kinda like that. He has trouble with the “pu“ sound). He has no nose structure, but when closely inspect two tiny holes can be seen where it should be. He does not have traditional ears, rather he has circular pads similar to a snake or a frog where they should be located.
His body, while not particularly muscular, is fit. Weighing around 160 lbs, he tries to keep limber and therefore keeps a more flexible rather than powerful physique.
He clothing regularly consists of mostly dark cloth. A dark cloak, covering a sleeveless vest and wrapped fingerless gloves. Dark cloth pants and leather boots. He has a large double sided dagger which is partially serrated on one side. He keeps the weapon sheathed on his lower back and out of sight beneath his cloak.
Skills/Abilities:
Gowing up, Dav was in competition with children much more physically powerful than him and who also got praised by their parents for wailing on him. So he quickly learned how to avoid open confrontation. Whether it be through keeping quietly to the shadows, or learning how to move swiftly around obstacles it would take other much longer to navigate. As a result he has become quite good at acrobatics and sneaking about.
Weaknesses:
His primary spells are defensive in nature, requiring an external magical attack to be effective. He also has relatively low magical stamina since his spells tend to draw more on the mana of sources other than his own. So when he uses a spell such as Summon Water Elemental which requires the use of his own mana, he may be unable to sustain it for the entirety of it’s summon length.
History:
Dav was born on the outskirts of a Nerion village located in a large swamp. His mother was a rogue shaman from another village by the name of Marsys, who lived in a small building outside the village. He father was a traveling mage who took shelter in the home after a long night on the rode. They were both interested in powerful obscure magics and there was an instant connection. Despite their connection, the mage left the next day, as his thirst for knowledge was to great to ground him in one place. Dav’s mother understood, accepting his departure.
Much to Marsys’ surprise, she found herself with child. Months later, she gave birth to Dav and word quickly spread through the village that the recluse had once again given birth. The first time being a few months after she had arrived in the village, as she had spent a lot of time with the chief when she had first arrived. She had tried to teach the child her magics, but the tiny brute had been unreceptive. So she left the child with the father he took after and moved to the outskirts of the village. Word quickly spread through the village of the strange bastard that she had conceived, as it bore no tail and had the body of a human.
Dav spent his early years in the care of his mother, who was determined to teach him all she knew. Long nights spend studying magics and drawing symbols, were much of the boys childhood. Most of the chores also fell to him, chopping wood, checking the traps, gathering herbs in the swamp. His mother was hard on him, trying to make him strong and he lived for the few times she would praise him.
As he grew older and developed into adolescence, his mother began to send him into the village to trade. She knew it would be hard on him, be she also believed it was yet another thing that would ultimately make him strong. The first trip ended with him limping home, bruised and battered with none of the items his mother had sent him with or for. That was the day he learned that no one in the village cared for him at all.
As the years passed, he got better at is trips to the village. Soon he was able to avoid his peers, who sought to put him in his place, and haggle for the goods he had been sent for. Eventually they learned to stop chasing what they couldn’t catch. Much to his mother’s delight, he also took quickly to the magic he studied and had quite the steady hand.
One day a few years after reaching adulthood, he noticed a large group of warriors headed toward the village center. He had learned to keep his eyes and ears open over the years, so it was easy to spot that something interesting was going on. It turned out to be a coup d’etat and a battle ensued amongst the chief and few loyal to him and the large group of warriors. The battle was quickly over, with only one remaining survivor on the side of the former chief. Even from the distance from which he stood, Dav could tell that it was Xandun, his half brother. He had certainly beat Dav enough times for him to remember his kin’s face.
Dav didn’t really know why he decided to summon the water elemental and help his half brother. Perhaps it was their bond of blood, perhaps Dav didn’t like the idea of an unfair one on thirty fight. Regardless, as the large elemental distracted the group of warriors, Dav helped his half brother from the village and into the swamp.
Later, after their mother had healed their wounds it was decided that the two would need to leave quickly. The would no longer be welcome in the village and many others in the surrounding area. Dav mentioned that a recruiter had recently come by seeking souls to fight for the king. At first Xandun protested, why should he follow his weak bastard half kin. Though his mother was quick to remind Xan that Dav had saved his life and he now owed him a life debt. Grudgingly Xan acknowledged his debt to his brother and the two set off out of the swamp and toward the capital.