Zelis

Subject: Zelis Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:53 am

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▀▄ .Vitals. ▀▄▀▄▀▄
■ Full [Birth] Name: --- Zelis Korhavel Kain
■ Full [Given] Name: --- Zelis
■ Moniker: --- The Shadowdancer || The Dancing Death
■ Title [Formal]: --- None
■ Title [Informal]: --- None
■ Gender [True]: --- Male
■ Gender [Assumed]: --- Male
■ Race [True]: --- Human
■ Race [Assumed]: --- Human
■ Age [True]: --- Unknown, somewhere in the range of 12,000 years
■ Age [In Appearance]: --- Late 30’s, Early 40’s
■ Marital Status: --- Single
■ Residence: --- None
■ Current Location: --- Aenied
■ Celestial Sign: --- Unknown
■ Elemental Correspondence: --- Darkness
■ Extraordinary Correspondence: --- Shadow Manipulation
■ Class: ---Shadowdancer || Shadowsmith

▀▄ .Visage.▀▄▀▄▀▄
■ Hair: Dull Grey || Chin Length || Spiky || Messily thrown up to the left side
■ Hair [Facial]: None
■ Ears: Human || Close
■ Eyes: Human || Grey, usually slightly bloodshot
■ Nose: Refined
■ Lips: Pallid || Thin
■ Teeth: Straight || Off-white
■ Over All Facial Structure: --- Thin, somewhat tapperd
■ Nails: Medium || Unkempt
■ Skin [Complexion]: Pallid || Coverd in scars
■ Height: --- Five feet and seven Inches
■ Weight: --- One hundred, twenty-one pounds
■ Laterality: --- Ambidextrous
■ Physical Condition: Extremely well toned
■ Distinguishing Features: --- Long scar across left eye, stretches from mid-forehead above left eye to mid-cheek under left eye.
■ Vocals: Soft, usually flat
■ Aura: --- Black, tinged with dark grey
■ Marks of Power: None.

▀▄ .Chronicles.▀▄▀▄▀▄

There is a man, the legends tell,
A fighter who you cannot match.
A dancer who you cannot fell,
A shadow who you cannot catch.

He has two blades, the legends say,
One of dark and one of light.
The first is made from brightest day,
The second made of darkest night.

He walks the world, his grief eternal,
He mourns for those he used to know.
He hates his life, his wrath infernal,
Of what he did so long ago.

He looks for death, but none can match him,
None will fight, for none dare try.
He looks for love, but none can love him,
For only mortal men can die.

Round and round the fire he passes,
Striking, dodging, never still.
His foes are dead but on he dances,
The shadow who you cannot kill.

* * *

Long ago there was a man,
A man they tried to fight and kill.
Long ago there was a man,
A man who lives and walks here still.

He loved a girl, so young, so sweet,
A pretty girl with sparkling eyes.
She loved him not and would not meet,
For nothing more did she despise.

Still he sees her in his dreams,
Her blood upon his broken sword.
His pain so great he often screams,
And cries for what he once adored.

And in his grief he cursed himself,
To walk this world, to feel his pain.
To have no home, to have no wealth,
To wait 'till judgment comes again.

Life and death are nothing to him,
He is both, the night and day.
Light and dark are nothing to him,
Life his light and death his way.

Eternally he walks this land,
A breath of what there once had been.
Until he makes his final stand,
Around his life, around his dream.

Still he dances round the pyre,
Around the tower of burning flame.
A holy place, of blood and fire,
Life his light and death his name.

* * *

Fifty thousand soldiers round him,
Still he dances round the fire.
His fears of life and death surround him,
The dancer who can never tire.

When all he feels is death and rage,
He sees his life before his eyes.
Ten thousand years inside a cage,
Bound to life, to fear and lies.

And in his darkened dreams he sees her,
He weeps for her, alas, in vain.
The girl he loved and killed, he needs her,
For all he feels is death and pain.

Ten thousand years he’s walked this land,
Those he loved have passed away.
Nothing more than dust and sand,
And time still passes day by day.

He dances, fighting, twin blades spinning,
His skills too good for man to match.
He dances, like a shadow, killing,
The shadow who you cannot catch.

Morning comes, the battle ended,
Fifty thousand dead and gone.
But one still lives, his mind un-mended,
A shadow spinning, dancing on...

▀▄ .Raiment.▀▄▀▄▀▄
■ Hair: None
■ Ear [Right: None
■ Ear [Left]: Eternal Wake: Small barbell earring inscribed with two arcane symbols.
□ Composition: Mithral / Adamantium Alloy
□ Salient Faculties: Immensely powerfully charm that negates sleep effects from any source, including exhaustion.
■ Eyes: Name: None
■ Neck: Shadowsilk Cape: A worn cloth cape with a high collar, partially obscuring face. Tattered at the end.
□ Composition: Shadowsilk
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates a small amount of darkness.
■ Torso I: Sleeveless Shadowsilk shirt: Fitted, black shirt
□ Composition: Shadowsilk
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates a small amount of darkness.
■ Hands: Shieldbreaker Gauntlets: Black armguards imbued with magical properties.
□ Composition: Shadowsilk reinforced with Mithral
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates small amount of darkness || Allows wielder to break through magical barriers and shields.
■ Waist: Shadowsilk Pants: Fitted, black pants.
□ Composition: Shadowsilk
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates a small amount of darkness.
■ Legs: Lightning Greaves: Black greaves imbued with magical properties
□ Composition: Shadowsilk reinforced with Mithral
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates small amount of darkness || Increases wearer’s speed tenfold.
■ Feet:Shadowsilk Boots: Soft, black boots
□ Composition: Shadowsilk
□ Salient Faculties: Radiates a small amount of darkness.

▀▄ .Celestial.▀▄▀▄▀▄

■ Innates:
□ Peak Physical Condition: Due to centuries of fighting, Zelis has attained an extremely fit physique, resulting in increased strength, agility, and stamina.
□ Wingfoot: Physiology combined with centuries of fighting has granted Zelis almost supernatural speed.
□ Blind Sight: Through training, Zelis has learned to interpret the world without the use of his eyes. When blinded or with his eyes closed, he can still “see” by use of his other senses.
□ Blind Fighting: An extension of Blind Sight, Zelis is able to fight equally well with or without the use of his eyes.
□ Fractured Psyche: Due to severe emotional trauma combined with extreme sleep depravation, Zelis’s mind is fractured, resulting in unpredictable emotional changes, ranging from apathy to grief to psychosis.
□ Curse of Ageless Pain: After killing the woman he loved, Zelis cursed himself to live forever with his anguish. This curse makes him effectively ageless (unable to age or die by natural causes), as well as eliminating his need to eat or drink, as well as sleep if he can prevent himself from doing so. The curse is unbreakable, save by Zelis himself, and also bestows a limited regeneration allowing him to heal minor wounds in a day, moderate wounds in a few days to a week, and even severe to almost fatal wounds in a few weeks to a month.

■ Shadowdancer:
□ Pass into Shadow: By melding with the shadows, Zelis is able to move through them, effectively teleporting from shadow to shadow at will. Movement occurs in a few billionths of a second.
□ Shadows Fade: When in any area of shadowy illumination or darker, Zelis becomes invisible on the normal light spectrum unless he wishes to be seen.

■ Shadow Smith:
□ Shadow Craft: By force of will and his instinctive connection to darkness, Zelis can mold shadows into solid matter. These constructs are virtually weightless and are as hard as Mithril. Objects made of darkness dissipate in two rounds unless they are in contact with Zelis, or unless he directs his will toward them.
□ Shadow Skin: In need, Zelis can create a form-fitting shell of darkness around his body. This shell acts like shadowsilk, yet retains the hardness of Mithril. The shell is made of extremely flexible solid matter and is dull black in color.
□ Shadow Manipulation: By focusing his will, Zelis is able to move the constructs he has created telekinetically.

▀▄ .Armory.▀▄▀▄▀▄

A small, uncolored sketch of Lumina and Umbra.

■ Lumnina: A dagger bound to Zelis. He wears it on his left side. It is part of a set, paired with Umbra.
□ Composition: Unknown metallic compound
□ Appearance: A medium-sized dagger about fourteen inches long with the blade eight inches in length and the hilt six. The hilt is wrapped in shadowsilk, which serves to negate the iridescent white light that emanates from the hilt. The hilt is shining white in color, made of what appears to be some form of ivory, and is slightly curved. The blade is platinum in color and emits a constant white glow and is curved to a clip point and is edged on the convex side and on the concave portion of the blade back.
□ Salient Faculties: Lumina can alter Zelis’s aura, changing it into the visible light spectrum, producing white light in varying degrees, from that of a candle to brighter than the noon sun in mid-summer. The light within three feet of his body is considered part of his aura, however outside of this range it becomes ambient light.

■ Umbra: A dagger bound to Zelis. He wears it on his right side. It is part of a set, paired with Lumina.
□ Composition: Unknown metallic compound
□ Appearance: A medium sized dagger about fourteen inches long with the blade eight inches in length and the hilt six. The hilt is dull black in color, is unreflective in even the brightest light, is made of some form of ebony, and is slightly curved. The blade is a dull, unfinished looking grey that is also unreflective, is curved to a clip point and is edged on the convex side and on the concave portion of the blade back.
□ Salient Faculties: Umbra can alter Zelis’s aura, changing it into the visible light spectrum, creating a veil of darkness that absorbs and dissipates light within a three foot radius of his body center, completely obscuring his body from the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light spectrums.

■ Acidic Smoke Bombs: Small bombs carried on Zelis’s person and hidden in the folds of his cape.
□ Composition: Saltpeter, sugar, black dye, and the fortified extract of pipeweed.
□ Appearance: Each bomb is a small, round ball, black in color, about 1 inch in diameter.
□ Salient Faculties: When struck with enough force, each ball creates a thick cloud of inky black smoke. The smoke is acidic and causes very painful burning in the eyes and nose on contact and even greater pain within the lungs if inhaled. Effects last for a few hours to a few days, depending on personal susceptibility, and lessen with each exposure afterwards. Zelis is immune to the effects due to his having been exposed hundreds of times..

Layout: Jason L. White. Not to be used without permission.

Subject: Re: Zelis Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:17 pm

I love how his background is a story and a poem all at the same time. Exquisitely done and interesting character.

Subject: Re: Zelis Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:53 am

Well, unfortunately, I lack the poetic gift to make such a work of art. The author of the poem is a man the goes by the name of Valdonis on deviantart. I found it a year or so back and have been formulating the idea for a Rp character for quite some time. Hopefully, now I can finally put the pen to the page, so to speak.

Subject: Re: Zelis Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:02 pm

I'm sure you'll be able to use your character. Start a thread and someone will be bound to join, join one that has already started, or speak with one of us for ideas on how to start. I'll be happy to assist, as would Clint and Noah.

Subject: Re: Zelis Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:25 am

Bump. I rehauled the profile, going a bit more in depth and organizing things. Thanks to Jason for the Layout.