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Cephas tends to be rather aloof most of the time unless his business involves you directly. Even then, he likes to meander around topics and "beat around the bush" in conversations. Being over 150 years old, Cephas figures he has more than enough time on his hand and hates to get right to things. If someone pushes a conversation in a route that Cephas doesn't want to go yet, he get rather insulted, which can be a very bad thing at times. Cephas is a cunning, ruthless man who will use all of his skills and abilities to get/finish jobs and get his payment.
For the majority of Cepha's life, he has carried to things with him at all times: His Single Action Army revolver and his "Lighting" revolver. Both pieces have been custom tooled over the years for incredible precision accuracy and liquid smooth mechanics creating two devastating weapons in any man's hands, made even more volatile in the hands of their Gun Mage owner. The custom engraving was done by the hands of a master gun mage, etched into the weapons to enhance their ability to receive and focus the arcani that Cephas is able to push through them and into his attacks.
For the last 30 years, Cephas has been the owner of a Lysander Class Sky Cruiser, the Revenant King, that he came to his possession when the previous captain willed the ship to Cephas, who was the man's First Mate at the time. On the surface, the ship is worn and slightly battered, but that only hides the full potential of the beastly machine. Through the work of the Cephas and the previous captain, she is a very formidable ship, easily capable of taking on any other ship in her weight class. Cephas uses the ship as a base of operations for smuggling and sky pirating operations while maintaining the front of a wealthy privateer for hire to any military willing to pay him enough. The ship carries a small squadron of fighters in it's aft based hangers as well as a short wing of courier planes for transferring cargo and personnel to nearby locations. This gives the Revenant some anonymity in it's dealings. 
Davoran Commonwealth "Lysander" class sky cruiser
Manufacturer: Felkirk Harbor and Shipyards
Mass: 42,820 tons
Armor: 3.66
Armament:
-Ten 6-inch guns
-Eighteen broadside 6-inch guns
-Fourteen 40mm anti-aircraft guns (ack-ack guns)
-Six Prow mounted 12-inch guns
-Twenty-Six 20mm deck guns (all purpose)
Maximum Speed: 142 knots
Propulsion: Eight Sterling MkV Turbines
Vanium Reactor Range: 3,000+ hours
Service Ceiling: 120,000+ feet
Crew Size: 960
Cephas didn't grow up the way tha most people who end up being sky pirates would typically grow up. He wasn't an orphan, or some cast away, or anything like that. He was a small boy, often sickly, who grew up in a small town to a middle class family. Cephas grew up working with his father in a butcher shop during his youth but attended some schooling when he could. His oldest bother had been through a lot of schooling, so he was the one who taught the other children in the house. Cephas, on the other hand was always good with cards. From the first time he played, he was a natural with a deck and had a "poker face" like a statue. This was where Cephas learned to make money for the family when he got older. But, being a gambler typically meant that you had to be a good fighter, too. Or so Cephas quickly learned. So he took up to studying fighting in all its forms. By the time he was twenty, Cephas was a skilled brawler and gunfighter, able to hold his own against any boxer, but especially fast with a gun. It was as if Cephas could command the gun to do his bidding even before he laid his fingers on it. It seemed that pistols would rise out of their holsters to meet his hands in quick draws. This trait eventually drew the interest of a wandering mage who had been happening through the town. The man recognized Cephas's latent talents and set forth to teach him more.
The mage showed Cephas his true abilities as a Gun Mage, able to focus arcani energies into the pistols that he fought with. Able to bend the weapons to his will with his own concentration and mental effort. By the time that Cephas was 25, he had already started progressing down the path of harnessing his arcani abilities. Unfortunately, this only got the man into more trouble as he ventured through the regions each day working towards the next larger city. Cephas was assaulted by a Phage while leaving a tavern one night. The Phage had been playing cards with Cephas and a few other men, but had lost all his money. Unfortunately, Cephas was the first one of the gamblers to leave the bar and feel the brunt of the "vampire's" rage. But it left Cephas carrying the "curse" of the Phage.
Cephas fell into debauchery for a time, falling into depression from the disease placed upon him. He wandered as a vagrant from town to town, grifting, robbing, and stealing to get enough to buy alcohol, and taking food when he wanted it from unsuspecting men and women. To this day he doesn't know how many other Phages he has brought into the world through the recklessness of those years. More than he ever should have, that is for certain. But after a time, Cephas came to his wits again, finding a new life in his "immortality". He spent the years of his life refining his abilities in both weapons and gambling, becoming widely renown in both as years passed to decades.
After an age, Cephas was introduced to a man named Quinton Oleander. The man was a infamous sky pirate and owner of, at the time, a well to do Lysander class Sky Cruiser used for his operations. After several night spent at the same card table, the two became friends and Cephas was taken on as part of the crew of the ship, starting off as a gunner on the boat. Quinton took jobs whenever he could find, hiring the ship out to militaries for privateer work as well as criminal work as a smuggler and pirate. Anything to make money and keep the ship in the air. Cephas did everything he could as well, spending time on the ground at tables to make money and giving it to Quinton to put towards the ship. Pretty soon, Quinton knew that Cephas was as devoted to the boat as he was and appointed Cephas to First Mate of the ship.
Cephas saw countless missions and campaigns in the ship as well as the destruction of countless ships after their plunder. The only problem was that Quinton was a mortal man and would never let Cephas "turn" him. Instead, when Quinton took his leave from the Revenant King he decreed Cephas to be the new captain of the ship. From then on, Cephas as taken up the mantle, continuing the traditions of the ship. He has operated the ship as captain for 30 years now, most recently taking part in the Norlocke Blitz against the Korkavian Empire. Cephas took up he call of the Republic of Rygnar, mainly because of the money being offered for the mission.
Durring the operation, Cephas had kept the ship in the back lines for as long as possible, acting as a resupply point for smaller vessels and destroying any ships that might break through the lines. Several times, Cephas drew the Oasis to point blank range of other larger battleships in order to provide increased anti-aircraft fire for protection against smaller gunboats. His crew were responsible for over 6 boarding actions against some of the Empire's largest battleships, sabotaging as many systems as they could to cripple the ships and leave them vulnerable to the assaults from other privateers. Once the actions were done, his crew would bail out to be retrieved by specialized "catch boats"
At one point, Cephas commandeered two destroyers to assist it in the destruction of a battleship that had punched through the lines into the thick of the privateer fleet. One of the destroyers turned to flee from the massive, but heavily damaged battleship. Cephas's own ship started shelling the destroyer at close range until the captain realized his chances were better against the battleship. This act nearly saw Cephas sent to court martial for his means of "persuasion". Cephas didn't care. The act had brought about the destruction of the battleship and saved countless other lives in the act so, to him, it was well worth the risk. During the fighting, Cephas was introduced to a young, hotshot pilot named Kaius, operating a smaller gunboat. The young man used the [i]Revenant[i] as a mobile repair and resupply point for the operation. Cephas was impressed by the man's piloting skills and exploits during the fighting and gladly offered the man additional fuel and ammo to continue his assault against the Empire.
After the battle, Cephas went back to his usual ways, spending the next several years taking up jobs where he could and forcibly taking money and cargo when necessary.
Extras:
Cephas has spent nearly a century refining his skills as a gun mage. He is a very highly skilled Elemental Craft mage with focuses in Arc, Flame, Winter, Dark, and some Shield. He is adept at what he does and knows perfectly how to bend his firearms to his will. His two revolvers work naturally as mage "familiars" toward Cephas, reacting to his call and focusing his abilities even more than his potent natural abilities. Many spectators have noticed how Cephas's pistols will start to leave their holsters before Cephas's fingers ever touch them, raising to meet their master's grip. It is an eerie sight when actually noticed.
