[RPG] The Wings of Hall OOC

[Krozam]

The Wings of Hall

Introduction
We'll play in the world of Annial, a large, mostly medieval fantasy world. We'll develop the world as needed, but we'll start in the broken kingdom of Nantii, a once powerful feudal kingdom ravaged by all vs. all civil war, where every high noble is aiming for the crown and the lower nobles have all chosen their sides. We're a small but relatively famous mercenary group called The Wings of Hall, and we've been hired by a duke fighting for the crown.

Technical Info
We'll play storytelling, which means there will be no throwing dice, no stats, just writing a story where every character has their own writer. We'll take turns, though there's a set of exceptions. The pace will probably be rather slow and casual. Because of the settings, each of our characters should be in some way useful to the group: powerful, intelligent, possessing some essential skill, whatever you come up with. Your common sense (and my judgement) shall be the limit to how powerful your character can be. By all means, do create a dragon or a demon or a demigod, but know that your character isn't invincible. This is our Out-of-Character thread, everything but the RP itself goes here, including your characters. I'll create a separate thread for the RP.

The current turn order:
Nicolaos (+Harold&Aidan) (Krozam)
Lissa (Hollow Nyan-chan)
Cathair (tigershark13)
Nex (TheThing)
Jimmy (Zerpo)
Setsuna&Maria (InfinityStream)
Luna (Chihaya-chan)
Darwin (Irie Naoki)
Ishman (Listomar)
Fiona (Shion)
Estia (SpringHalo)
Acan (SootShade)

World
Just because it's a mediaval fantasy world doesn't mean the technology must stay entirely medieval. Guns are allowed, though they're fairly primitive. Steampunk, such as mechanical airships, is allowed. However, I'd prefer that most of this stuff is somewhere else in the world, our starting area is modelled after medieval Europe, with knights and castles and such. Races, there are others than humans, but humans are dominant in our starting area. You're all free to expand the world how you like, and most likely all our characters come from different backgrouds, different countries etc. Also, different dimensions exist. Someone among us may have been to hell and come back, someone else may be a summoner who calls upon extradimensional creatures to fight for him. As I said, we'll expand the world as needed.

It's year 744 of the Calm, the Calm being an age that started after a particularly chaotic time in the history of this world, when the gods themselves warred. Since the Godswar ended, the world has been more or less stable, wars have been fairly small scale and the gods have started avoiding direct confrontations.

Gods and Religions
There's a large pantheon of quite real gods, and all of them have their followers (except the forgotten ones). Belief is what gives them power, so the larger a god's religion, the more powerful he generally is. The gods are at each other's throats all the time, but mostly they prefer indirect power struggle to direct confrontation. Usually mortals are the ones to suffer most, but there's little you can do about it except ascend to a god yourself, because non-believers are enemies to all gods, and that's not wise.

Our patron god, Hall, is a minor but rising god. His totem animal is a Raven and his domain is death. There are so many gods that most share their domains with several others, Hall certainly isn't the only one or the most powerful one among the gods of death.

Magic
Lots of different kinds of magic in this world. Or rather, lots of different ways to use it. Magic is a force that's found everywhere in the world, though in varying quantities. All magic in the nature is also elementally aligned: earth, water, air, fire, light and dark. On the sea there's lots of water magic around, in the mountains there's lots of earth magic, during the night there's a lot of dark magic, air magic is strong when it's windy, fire and light magic benefit from the sun. Mages are people born with the ability to draw magic from their surroundings (and, if necessary, from their own body) and trained to use it in various ways. The ability is a recessive genetic trait, it's inherited but may sometimes lie dormant for many generations, then suddenly manifest as strong as ever. Converting magic into someting else than its original element, for example electricity or dimensional energy used in summoning, is possible, but advanced stuff. Usually mages are strong in one to three elements and weak in the others, though there are exceptions who can only use one element or all of them. The ways they are used differ, some use spells because they've been trained to do so, but in truth, all it takes is the ability and enough will.

Servants of the gods, clerics and paladins, may not have a natural ability to draw magic from their surroundings, but they have limited access to their god's power. This power is different from natural magic because it's non-elemental. It's perfect for healing and a few other things, and with only a slight conversion becomes usable for shields and yet more things. It can be converted to elemental magic or any other kind of energy that the natural magic can, but again, that's advanced stuff. Sometimes clerics and paladins also channel their god's power, for example when granting powerful blessings to items and people.

For those with no magical ability or god-given power, there is one way to use magic: alchemy. Magic exists everywhere, and alchemy is the art of collecting highly magical substances from the nature, mixing them, condensing the magic, and creating materials (often liquids, but not always) which can release their magic without a will to draw it out. The effects of alchemical mixtures are often purely elemental and raw, but skilled alchemists can even convert the magic into other forms of energy, which can have fairly sophisticated effects.

Concerning healing.

Ki
In a world where magic is powerful and often fast to use, and technology isn't advanced enough to balance it out, non-mages often aren't able to hold their own. Some warriors have found a way to balance the situation: they're able to use their inner energy, ki, to enhance their fighting capabilities. Some scholars theorize that ki is actually magic in our own bodies, because magic can be used to replicate ki-effects and the side-effects of using too much ki are similar to the effects of using the magic in your own body to cast spells. However, the fact that everyone is able to use ki with training doesn't quite fit this theory.

Anyway, ki can be used to enhance a warrior's strength and reflexes. Releasing it from your feet or hands allows you to jump fast and far (think flash step, only weaker) or to strike through a stone wall. It can be used to heal quickly, and it can be transferred as sort of a life force to someone else. It can also be channeled through a weapon, it's possible to strike the ground with a sword and cause a sizeable crack. Some of this is, of course, very advanced, and warriors who can effectively use ki are few and far between. The training to control your ki involves meditation, and learning to control your body on a deep level, usually through some kind of a martial art. Using too much ki results in temporary weakness, so ki-warriors usually eat and sleep a lot after battles in order to avoid getting sick or even dying.

More detailed information about ki.

Starting Point
We're The Wings of Hall, a small but relatively famous mercenary group formed two years ago. We're all from different backgrounds, a motley team that for some reason just works well together. Hall is our patron god, a minor but rising power in the pantheon. If there's a cleric among us, he prays to Hall, but otherwise it has little practical effect. Our mission is not to convert people to Hall's faith or to serve his will (though he may give us missions sometimes), our mission is simply to become famous. The plan is that this should attract people to Hall's faith.

We've been hired by a duke fighting for the crown of Nantii, named Solius. Our next mission is to infiltrate the fortress of his enemy, Duke Tevor, during the night, and open the gates to allow his soldiers to capture the fortress.

Guidelines
- I am the Game Master, and my word is the law.
- There's no need to limit yourself to one character, but don't create more than you can comfortably control. As the GM I'll take care of the NPC's (Non-Player Character) important to the plot, but you can create your own.
- Joining in the middle of the game is quite possible. The game is open until we have 15 players.
- No god-modding. This means that you only control your own characters (unless given permission). For example, if two Player Characters fight, the receiver will decide if the hit connects or not.
- Write in the past tense and 3rd person.
- Try to keep the OOC talk in this topic, but if you must say something OOC in the game thread, use ((double parenthesis)).
- Use your common sense
- Be respectful towards the other players. I thought this was obvious, but apparently some people need reminding.

Characters
(Harold Bjornson - Septe) player quit, character in GM's control for now
Nicolaos Karenz - Krozam
Darwin Roday - Irie Naoki
Lissa Dragomier - Hollow nyan-chan
Nex Addo - TheThing
Setsuna Ando - InfinityStream
Maria Cyan - InfinityStream
Ishman - Listomar
Cathair - tigershark13
Jimmy 'Kage' Kuneto - Zerpo
Acan Moread - SootShade
Estia Barackson - SpringHalo
Aidan Donovan am Delian - Soulbourne
Fiona Geileis am Brina - Shion
Luna Crimsonair - Chihaya-chan
(Morghandy Sloane am Albion - semiramiese) not yet entered

Character Sheet
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Race:
Appearance: You can keep this short if you have a good picture.

Personality:

Special Abilities: Magic, intelligence, whatever it is that makes you special and useful.

Items of Interest: Weapons, magical items, items of sentimental value etc.

History: The tale that your character would tell the others, not necessarily true, not necessarily detailed. Also, how your character ended up in the group and how he's fared in it.

Picture: Optional but recommended. It might be wise to find a picture before you think too deep on your character's appearance. Here are links to some artists' DA galleries that I recommend checking out for good character pics:
http://wen-m.deviantart.com
http://heise.deviantart.com
http://nathie.deviantart.com
http://genzoman.deviantart.com
http://hgjart.deviantart.com
http://kerembeyit.deviantart.com
http://hellstern.deviantart.com
http://keelerleah.deviantart.com
http://namesjames.deviantart.com
http://ertacaltinoz.deviantart.com
http://kunkka.deviantart.com

We'll start either this evening or tomorrow. This post will be constantly modified as we develop the world.

[Septe]

Name:   Harold Bjornson
Gender: male
Age:     25
Race:   Human
Appearance: Blonde haired, blue eyes, a rugged handsome man with strong legs and arms.  Stands 6' 3"

Personality:  Gentle personality but plays a grouch.  True to his friends.  Does have a split personality which not checked will get him into trouble.  When he gets drunk, he'll go after the ladies and romance them.  Something in him turns on which could be magical or a curse that allows him to charm the ladies.  It's not all powerful as a strong minded woman  or a lesbian who hates men can resist it.  It's the reason why he was fleeing the country when he tried to charm a princess into bed and got caught.

Special Abilities: Direction sense, he can never get lost above ground and below.  He's also got a good knowledge of mining and can tell where the goods are in the ground.  Goods being gems and gold, not buried treasures that's not part of the ground.

Items of Interest: he's got a pick of delving from the dwarves which will dig through rock and dirt with effort.  The stronger he is, the more he can dig.  Currently, he can dig 10' x 10' cube of dirt in a few minutes and 5' x 5' cube of stone with it.  For a weapon, he uses a mattock for strength training as well as killing knights.

History: His tale is that of a prince (he's not) that has been thrown out of his country by an evil usurper (the legitimate king).  He met up with the group and fared ok but is only beginning to open up as he kept quietly to himself.  There's been only one display to the group of him getting drunk and they were surprised to see him charm the beautiful merchant woman into bed.

[Krozam]

Name: Nicolaos Karenz
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Race: Human
Appearance: I hate describing appearances, so just look at the picture.

Personality: Nicolaos is a very private person, serious and calm, though he does have a dry sense of humour. He has a way with words, and certain dark charisma that makes him both respected and feared - however, he has very little respect for authorities, which tends to earn him powerful enemies. He seems to have a strong dislike for corruption, which is strange considering his otherwise tolerant attitude towards human failings. He could be popular with the ladies, were he to show any interest in women - but he doesn't. He's a good leader, not necessarily brilliant, but he's responsible and possesses common sense. In battlefield he's hard and emotionless, frighteningly so. His motivations are largely a mystery: though he appears to serve his god faithfully, he's no fanatic, and there are occasional hints that his relationship with Hall has some problems. For now, he seems content to seek glory and fame, just as his god wants.

Special Abilities: Nicolaos is a swordsman of master level, a cleric of middling power and skill, very adept at combining swordsmanship and magic, and fairly charismatic.

Items of Interest: His weapon is a katana blessed by Hall. He has a crow companion named Jaar, messenger of Hall, which he seems to be able to communicate with. He's been known to use the bird as a spy and a scout.

History: Nicolaos comes from the North, presumably the kingdom of Rowos, where the cult of Hall has a stable foothold. However, he's very tight-lipped about his past. Up in the North he's pretty famous, he's sometimes called "The Reaper of Hall" and he's known to be very dangerous on the battlefield. His position in the cult of Hall isn't clear, but he seems to be of fairly high rank. The reason for his coming to South seems pretty obvious: he's banished from the Northern Kingdoms on the pain of death. Exactly what he did to anger five kings so is a mystery to the public, but together with his prowess on the battlefield this has made him fairly (in)famous in the North.

Two years ago he banded with our motley team of mercenaries, becoming the founder and Captain of The Wings of Hall. His mission, according to him, is to become famous and bring glory to Hall. Not to convert people, not to act as Hall's right hand in Nantii, just to become famous in the name of Hall. For this reason, it's alright for the other members of the group to pray to other gods, as long as they keep relatively quiet about it. Hall isn't interested in the faith of a small group of mercenaries, so as long as they follow the plan, the others are free to pray to whichever god they wish. Nicolaos leads the group as a mercenary leader, not as a priest, and as long as he pays them and leads them to fame insted of death, the others probably don't mind following the plan.

Picture: http://nykolai.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2bkqjz

Character Realationships:
Harald: A useful man, but we shouldn't let him drink too often.
Darwin: A servant of another god, but in this case it's not an issue. Doesn't like to talk about his past: understandable, though his reasons are likely different from mine.
Lissa: Another one who's uncomfortable with her past. A likeable enough personality, causes no problems.
Nex: A man who has suffered a great deal, I feel sympathy. Has some problems with many of the other members, but respects my authority and has proven his usefulness on many occasions.
Setsuna: A man a honour, and very good at following orders. Doesn't exactly get along with people, but doesn't cause large problems.
Maria: I wish I had a mother like her, instead of whom I have. Also very good at keeping people alive. Deserves some respect.
Ishman: Very useful in battle. That's all.
Cathair: A source of internal problems, but too useful in battle to let go. Also keeps Aidan in the group.
Jimmy: Once tried to kill me, but it was his job, so I bear no grudge. I'm not exactly fond of assassins, too often they serve the corrupt, but they can also be used against the corrupt. Also, has a surprisingly strong moral backbone despite his profession, perhaps because of his youth.
Acan: A very useful man who also deserves a measure of respect. He succeeded where I failed, sort of.
Estia: Likeable enough, doesn't cause any problems either.
Aidan: Has major problems with Cathair, but otherwise decent company. I could learn something about tactics from him.
Fiona: Aidan's subordinate, in practise if not technically. Temperamental, but not uncontrollably so. A good archer, more experienced in battle than Estia, though lacking her magic.

[Irie Naoki]

Name: Darwin Roday
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Race: Born as a human but granted power from the wind goddess and now an Avian
Appearance: a Light armored male (see pic for more info)

Personality: A quite person that does not enjoy talking to other people for he has never really known what to say, usually what he says leads him to truble, tho strong Darwin has gone through so much that he cares little for other people other then his close ones. He does not drink alot, usually sits in a corner to enjoy his drink. Darwin has gone through so much in the past that he does not like to talk about it to anyone. Even if Darwin does not communicate with other people he tries to help and save those who would otherwise die. Does not kill unless he is forced to, tries to not kill anyone but instead injure them so they cant move.

Special Abilities: I use Ki but with the help from a magical enchanted blade I recieved from the Wind Goddess I am able to use wind magic for my benefits, I am able to summon and dismiss wings so that I can fly and hide my true Identity as an Avian.

Items of Interest: A sword bestowed to me from the Goddess of Wind, The sword gives me limited access to some wind magic which I can use to increas my fighting skills, I am currently looking for the legendary bow of Ventus which will improve my abilities more then any human.

History: When I was little my parents died when I was at the age of 5 and was taken in by close friends of his parents. The only thing that I contained from that was a locked my mother carried and it was the only thing that made me feel like I was close to her. Since then I have gone through alot of traning from the onse I stayed with and learned alot about ki. When I was at the age of 19 I enroled for the as a guard in the Great city Goldan, it was fine at times until 2 years later.
It started as any other day but when the night came suddenly a great army in the distance was spotted, charging towards the city. We were not prepared for such a large assult and it resulted with the Great city Goldan to be close to be raized to the ground. During the war while I was defending the city I got hit in the back with a hammer, thankfully the helm I wore took all the damage. The problem was that I could not move from the fear of dying and thuse I just froze until one of the Elite guards came behind and killed him. I just ran deeper into the city. When finally we had just managed to defend the city, the only things that remained intact was alittle bit of the main castle and couple of houses. The Great city Goldan has become nothing but a small Village.
I left the Village for it had nothing more to give me and went on a journey to become stronger. I traveled alone and far for over 3 years traning with ki and searching for greater power. I had finished all my food and water and was about to lose consciousness until I saw a person walking to me. She handed me her arm and when I reached for it I suddenly felt such power going into me that It was like I was reneved.
Grateful for her help I asked her who she was and the response I got was, "A wind Goddess". Still despered to gain power I asked her if she could train me and give me strength. When she agread I was happy but also alittle suspicious, it seems that the thing she wanted from me was the necles my mom had. I was shocked at first for I thought she wanted something more valuable like my soul or something along those lines. When I gave it to her even if it was something small I felt like I had no more connection to my mother. It seemed that the Neckless actually contained some of her own magic in it and thanks to it, it gave me some connection to her. When I had done training with the Goddess she gave me her blessing. I was nolonger a human but actually an Avian. When I was about to leave she called me one more time and gave me a sword. When I took the sword I felt Great magic coming from it. She explained it to me and told me what it did. I left her and the place to continue my training. It wasnt until much later that I found a person with the name Nicolaos who told me that he was looking for people to join his mercinary group. I thought it was a good way for me to train so I joined him.

Relationship

Darwin has never really thought alot about other people but when he joined the group he had felt close to those people then anyone eles

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Nicolaos Karzen: Even if Nicolaos managed to get Darwin to join he thinks Nicolaos is to obsessed with his god Hall.
Harold Bjornson: Darwin does not really like those who drink alot and drink for pleasure only.
Lissa Dragomier: Darwin can relate to her and thinks he can teach her about flight and her wings
Nex Addo: Does not trust him one bit, allways thinks he is a son of the devil or something.
Setsuna Ando: Does not like nor Dislike
Ishman: Does not like his sense of Humor nor how he thinks he is better then everyone eles
Cathair: Violent and proud, two of the things Darwin dislikes in people
Jimmy 'Kage' Kuneto: Likes his way of fighting and respects him
Acan Moread: Does not like or dislike him
Estia Barackson: Likes her way of fighting, Darwin can relate her to himself
Maria Cyan: A mother type character that he has never really had.
Aidan Donovan am Delian: Does not like nor Dislike

Picture:

Character: http://i.imgur.com/mURy1.jpg
Sword: http://i.imgur.com/f02Sk.jpg
Wind Goddess: http://i.imgur.com/4ckeK.jpg

[Hollow nyan-chan]

Name: Lissa Dragomier
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Race: Half Human, half Dragon
Appearance: Small medium armored girl.

Personality: Lissa is gentle and caring for her friends, but gets ruthless when it comes to her enemies. Gets uncomfortable when others are asking about her past.

Special Abilities: She is stronger and tougher than the average human. Because she is a half dragon half human, her skin is made of dragon scale even that it looks like normal skin. She can also summon dragon wings, but have yet not learned to do that at will. Can summon heat from herself to warm up a camp or to close wounds. Can sense other people and creatures if they mean harm or not to a certain degree. She can breathe fire, but for a very limited time and it is only useful for starting camp fires and heating quick meals. She also has better hearing than humans thanks to being half dragon.

Items of Interest: A sword that she got from her family and a magical necklace that powers her draconic ability's.

History: Lissa is a half dragon half human, her father is the king of Gool and he one of the true dragons while her mother is a human and she is the Queen of Gool. Long ago the kingdom of Gool there was only dragons that reigned and lived there. The humans only thought that dragons are dangerous and should not be allowed to live. Because of the humans hatred for dragons, the dragons started to despise the humankind as well. Centuries later, humans started to open themselves towards the dragons and so did the dragons but only a few of them, such as the King in this case. The king married a human queen and got their child Lissa. Lissa is one of the princess's in the Kingdom of Gool that lies in the south. She was quiet (in)famous there for, she was the only princess that actually fought. One day when she was training her swordsmanship with her trainer, the trainer mocked her and she went rampage. She killed the trainer, and some soldiers stoped her without harming her. When they finally managed to calm her and restrain her, they told the queen what happened. She wanted to repent what she had done but they didn't let her do that. Lissas mother had her exiled from the kingdom of the act of murder on a commander. After she was exiled she left on a journey. Lissa wandered towards the north and met the mercenary group The Wings of Hall and joined them as the role of a warrior.

Relationship with everyone in the team:

Harold Bjornson: Lissa has a friendly relationship with him. Thinks he is mostly useful when he isn't drinking and when it comes to diversions with explosives.

Nicolaos Karenz: She have some issues with Nicolaos personality, but thinks of him as a great leader since he cares about his fellow members.

Darwin Roday: Thinks he is interesting because she's never seen an avian before.

Nex Addo: See's him as a powerful wizard yet as a lost soul trying to find a place to fit in.

Setsuna Ando: He is good with a sword so he would maybe be a great sparing partner.
 
Maria Cyan: Thinks she is useful with her healing skills, but thinks she is caring a bit too much like a oversensitive mother.

Ishman: He says he is a monk, but doesn't look anything close to one. Lissa is curious why it is like that.

Cathair: Lissa wonder why he hates foreign people so much, they may be different in politics and traits, but they are still people.

Jimmy 'Kage' Kuneto: Lissa thinks he is weird because he have high morals even when he is an assassin as they should not have any emotions, that's what she believes.

Acan Moread: Doesn't think much of him except that he scares her, she doesn't like arrows since they are more lethal than close range weapons. But otherwise he is a nice person that is useful against mages especially.
 
Estia Barackson: Lissa is also afraid of her since she uses arrow's as weapon, but not as much because Estia cares more about living beings, that's how she (Lissa) thinks of it.

Aidan Donovan am Delian: Thinks outright that he is a crazy member that will be hard to get a long with.
 
Picture: Character looks

Should be ready to play with now.

[Krozam]

Septe: I like it. I suppose his role would be... navigator?

Irie: There's one problem with your character's abilities: the power of the gods is non-elemental, so if his magic is wind-aligned, it's his own natural ability (possibly boosted by the goddess or the sword). The other option is that he's been granted her divine power, but he's just specialized at converting it to wind magic. Otherwise the character is fine, I guess. His role, warrior/scout?

Hollow: What, your character is a half-dragon and there's no mention whatsoever about that in the history? If you want to keep it as a secret, that's fine, but PM me the details, please. Including what special abilities her draconic heritage grants. Her role, warrior?

I've invited some friends to join us, we'll be getting at least two "outsider" players. Hopefully that's fine with everyone. The more, the merrier...

[TheThing]

Name: Nex Addo
Gender: Male
Age: ??
Race: Human

Appearance
Stands tall and has a long black cloak. The only visible body part is his hand which looks very old. Holds a crooked staff. His face can't be seen and when people try to look upon his face, they will only see darkness and feel hopeless as well as scared. Nex knows this and tries to keep his hood down. When he walks forward, a small black smoke comes underneath his cloak that fades away.

Personality
Nex has a dark personality and people have the natural instinct on not trusting him. This is the reason why he was solo for bigger part of his life. He has no leading capabilities and he has a natural disgust to people. He can be relied in battle when he can be arced upon to do something. He only does something when it is a challenge for him and his mates usually trick him into making simple things seem like a harder challenge than it is.

Special Abilities
Nex is mostly seen using dark magic. He draws his dark magic from his body. He always uses the lowest level of magic that gets the job done but people theorise that he can do much more. Using dark magic, he can somewhat draw the power from the curse as well as his body making him one of the more powerful dark magic mage there is but using too much puts him in even more agony as his body grows more and more dependant on the dark magic.

During the time he has been alive, he has acquired a lot of knowledge which makes him versatile on many things including alchemy as well as other things. Think of him as a walking library.

Items of Interest
Holds an old crooked staff that stands as tall as he is.

History
Nex was cursed by a great god of death long long ago (some say it happened many years ago, some say century and even others say even longer), a curse that makes it impossible for him to die. But that doesn't mean the body wont age. What Nex did that deserved such an act is everybodies guess. Nex has since then looked for someone powerful enough to both destroy him as well as the curse, being alive for a long time, his personality has been completely destroyed. He thinks nothing of people and is in constant agony. He doesn't sleep, his pain doesn't allow him to rest and his body forces him to move on.

The name he has is ancient lost language for Death Bringer or Bringer of Death. His real name has been lost in times. He has a bad reputation but whether it all is true or not is anyone's guess.

Since people naturally flee from him, it wasn't until he met Nicolaos Karenz which was the first person who could talk to him like a regular person. Karenz saw instantly that Nex was talented and tricked Nex into joining his party. Nex knew full well he was being tricked but he didn't mind as he was finally part of something. Karenz managed to convert Nex into following Hall and Nex hoped that when Hall gains enough power, he could take Nex's curse away.

Relationship with other characters

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I should note that with most characters he will find either annoying or be easily annoyed with on regular or daily basis unless otherwise is specified.

• Harold Bjornson

Nex holds no personal opinion on Harold except for the fact that he is an excellent digger and can sense minerals which Nex likes to use to experiment. Nex makes sure he can stay on the good side with Harold in case he needs him to do a favor for him.

• Nicolaos Karenz

Nex has huge respect for Nicolaos. While he normally doesn't listen to what the others have to say, he takes Nicolaos commands very serious. The reason behind his respect for Nicolaos is because Nicolaos is the first person to speak to Nex like a normal human being. Most people either approach Nex with disgust, fear or pure hatred. Nicolaos didn't. A simple thing, people might say, but for Nex, this is the highest honor a person can do to Nex.

• Darwin Roday

Darwin is a quiet man.Not that Nex has any problems with that. The only problem Nex has with Darwin is the fact how he doesn't want to kill anyone. He thinks he's naive for not allowing them the pleasure of dying, since being left alive in pain must be much worse than death. But other than that, he hardly has an opinion on Darwin, and maybe that is what makes it a much more dangerous relationship. People that Nex don't care about are people he see's as dead.

• Lissa Dragomier

Lissa is one of those character Nex just likes. Maybe because she's female (and hot) but maybe because she too holds a dark past which she doesn't wanna talk about, something that Nex understands very well.. He also holds respect for her since she too has experienced the same thing as Nex, being looked with disgust by the general population. The only time Nex get's in good mood is when Lissa is teasing someone or when they become chatty.

Nex see's himself a little bit in Lissa, both due to her mysterious past but also because she has much raw power she has yet to be able to control.

• Setsuna Ando

Nex dislikes Setsuna alot. Most of it is because Setsuna looks for flaws in people (that Nex does too) but has no background reason for it (as far as Nex knows). Nex hates people because people usually hate him, for Setsuna to do the same without meeting the same disgust, annoys Nex alot.

• Ishman

Nex finds Ishman a bit curious. You might find Nex ask Ishman some simple questions about his skills and such. The reason being, Nex being knowledgeable with almost everything, holds little knowledge of Ki. Most Ki users aren't scholars or reaserchers and therefore, the studying and knowledge off Ki is somewhat little as close to nothing.

Nex always tries to experiment with or on Ishman with different things, so Nex can gain more understanding on Ki.

• Cathair

The first character Nex really hates. Mostly because Cathair seems to him to be all muscle, no brains. Forcing his way through things not to mention his pure arrogance really annoys Nex alot.

Everything about Cathair annoys Nex and most everythin Cathair might suggest or say, will make Nex grumble, even if his suggestions are good.

• Jimmy 'Kage' Kuneto

There is something about Jimmy that annoys Nex, maybe it's his arrogance, calling Nex old or asking Nex if he needs help and such. Although such things might make most people angry, Jimmy's retort are unusually witty as well as his comeback and as such, Nex always returns most of Jimmy's retort with sarcasm. He also likes to call Kage, Jimmy, mostly for it's sarcastic tone as well as to make sarcastic comments on his "age" compared to Nex. In most cases, Nex looks at Jimmy as a child but people generally find children to be funny, and this, sometimes, holds true with Nex's and Jimmy's relationship.

Most people don't have or know how to come up with witty remarks or sarcastic comebacks and for this, Nex... for some reason... holds a slight respect for Jimmy. Why that is is everyone's guess.

Nex also likes to compete with Jimmy in shadowy skills.

• Acan Moread

Nex doesn't really have an opinion on Acan. Acan respects other people's wishes and because Acan tries not to insult Nex, Nex returns the same respect. Because Acan leaves Nex alone, Nex returns with same respect.

Also, Nex loves each Acan's comment when Acan comments on how situations could be worse and also how Acan is calm in tough situations, just like Nex.

• Estia Barackson

Estia's carefullness in battle, not to mention her intelligence and how she holds honor to someone higher than her (in intelligence) makes Nex respect her. This also holds true to how she honors what people say.

Estia likes challenges, something that she and Nex share a common interest. Nex doesn't like to challenge Estia but he likes how she makes something seem like challenges.

However, Nex always appears annoyed with Estia even though deep down he holds respect for her. This is mostly due to the fact that he can't overlook how she doesn't hold the same problem as Nex has with age. Estia can grow hundreds of years old and still seem young while Nex, whose age is forced upon him must suffer through all this. Nex is aware that his next century of life will be filled with anguish and pain. Because of this, Nex always distances himself from her, knowing the closer he gets to her, the more annoyed he will become.

This is the main reason why Nex might seem to hate her, even though he would wish for nothing more to teach her everything he knows. But he can't overlook this blessing she has.

• Maria Cyan

Nex thinks of Maria as a useless person. While the truth might be far from it, Maria can't help Nex with his ailment and for this, the fact that she calls herself healer, while not being able to heal his pain, makes Nex think of her as a useless person.

Deep down, Nex feels disgusted with Maria, feeling that she is useless, he feels she is compensating her "uselessness" with "caring" and "love". This fact however, Nex tries to hide desperately because she is the only one who can really scold the others and he doesn't want to lose that opportunity to use her for such things.

• Aidan Donovan am Delian

If there is one thing Nex can't resist, it's occult magic, or in this case, Aidan holy symbols that he draws on himself. It's divine protection was somewhat of new to Nex. Ofcourse Nex knows he can easily outmagic the protection but he will come out badly in that combat and Nex knows that.

However he really hates Aidan arrogance, of thinking about Nex as some old guy and that he should "know his place" as Aidan put it one day. He really doesn't like to show Aidan his skills, as he feels his hatred to him will only grow worse. For this matter, he always distance himself with Aidan and tries to go in group with someone else when the group splits.

Pictures
Character look (without the weapons since my character uses an old wooden crooked staff)

Notes:
Since he can't sleep, the Wings of Hall usually make him stand guard when the members sleep.
He has been acquiring knowledge for the longest time and as such, has knowledge on almost anything related to everything.


EDIT:
created Nex's opinion on the other characters.
EDIT 2:
Fixed Nex's opinion on Nicolaos.

[Septe]

Septe: I like it. I suppose his role would be... navigator?

Can be a navigator but if you want him to scout, he needs to be trained.  He's got training as an sapping engineer.  Ask him to take down a castle and he will.

[Irie Naoki]

Septe its okey, I'm an Avian so I can scout easily, I can also with the help from my blade hid within the clouds

[Septe]

That's fine if we're above ground.  But what if we're in confines or underground?  Just a point.  But, in any case, he'd do better having stealth.  Sneaking in and placing explosives would be his forte.  Too bad he didn't think to do that to the Usurper who kicked him out of his homeland.

[InfinityStream]

Name: Setsuna Ando
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Race: Symbiotic (Mutualistic) Human

(Symbiote's are creatures that depend on each other to live. -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis)

Appearance
You will recognize him as he stands straight in the face of a bartering merchant. His eyes are a dull brown covered by glasses with rather thick lens, mixing in with his jet black hair. You will see his arms as they hang limp by his side, his right slightly resting on the hilt of a single sword. He wears whatever is clean, with the exception of a bracelet on his left hand. (Please bear with me, I'm no good at describing clothing. I'd say a plaid overshirt, a white shirt underneath. Maybe wears what's akin to jeans?)

Personality
Ask him a question, he will answer. Give him a task, he will complete it to the best of his abilities. He is blunt, straight to the point. He looks at people for flaws, overlooking the good, claiming that 'If it's good, leave it.'. He is stuffed full of chivalry, pounded into him by his father at an early age. That also explains why he is very bad around woman. Very.

Special Abilities
His single sword is all he needs. He controls the Ki inside him to enhance his speed, agility, and strength. The sword was made by himself, a pitch black blade. Once in every while, during a dire situation, will he allow the Ki to flow through a point of focus, be it people or his sword, and work it the way he wants to.

The sword was forged to react to his Ki only, thus being the reason why it's black. It isn't known what color Ki takes on, but the best guess is that it takes on the color of the owners hair...

Ki Abilities

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Sou Kata: Simply learned over the years.

Zai Dou: A side effect of learning to move his Ki between himself and Xia. Allowed himself to expel Ki when Xia was 'full'.

Seisen Chuu: Kept Xia alive. Kept himself alive.

Eein Chuu: Look up one line.

Teikan Dou+: Done unconsciously due to his dangerously high amount of Ki, which was constantly moving - Reason for the plus.

Kyou Yuu: In the process of learning. Really, he only uses it when he wants to. He's learning after all.

Items of Interest
The Black Sword.
The Bracelet on his left hand. Bares the Inscription, 'Forever Yours - Xia X722 - X741
His Glasses

History
Born in a mountainous country, where cold climate lead to massive engineering for the main purpose of heat. That mass engineering movement lead to basic grasping of physics, chemistry. The cold climate made sickness much more perceptible, allowing the countries medical science to be the most advanced in the world.

His history begins with the birth of another. Xia Mai Lee, his now deceased lover, was born without Ki inside her body, an energy she needs to live. Another child, Setsuna, is born with too much Ki. Being in the same hospital was fate. Through a procedure, these two became Symbiotes. They required the others constant presence to live. He ends up taking swordplay with a master in the mountain to better protect her and to control his own excess of Ki. He was a skilled fighter by the age of 15. The two then live a beautiful relationship alone in the mountains until the age of 19, when a scientist claiming their best interests takes them under his wing. At the age of 20, Setsuna does not need Xia's lack of Ki to take away his own. However, Xia has lost the ability to take Ki from Setsuna thanks to the scientists experiment.

She dies at the age of 21. The scientist dies at the hands of Setsuna soon after. He joins The Wings of Hall at the age of 22. Wether or not he shows it, he loves his new home of people who somewhat, actually, care.

Notes
His glasses are special because he had horrible vision since birth. It has nothing to do with the excess of Ki.

Relationships

Harold Bjornson: Can't stand the mans split personality. Reminds him too much of the scientist. The man acted like he had four split personalities, so even with less, Setsuna can't stand him.
Nicolas Karenz: Can't stand it when he preaches about Hall. Other than that, gives respect to the mans firm stance on his beliefs.
Darwin Roday:Believes he is much too full of himself for being granted 'Avian' powers by the gods of the wind. And that sword...
Lissa Dragomeir: He has no open grudge against her. Maybe it's something else...? (I'm kidding... I just can't find any way Setsuna would hate her.)
Nex Addo: He finds the smoke flowing off Nex's body unnecessary. It would give away their position in a stealth raid. He also doesn't like the fact that he can't see his face. How do you trust him if you can't see his face?
Maria Cyan: Again, no opinion. He just respects woman too much. When she tries to speak to him, he has a very hard time answering.
Ishman: Can't stand the noble air he carries around, believing that the man believes in his strength too much.
Cathair: Can't stand his underhanded ways. But he respects his tactical strength.
Jimmy 'Kage' Kuneto: Has befriended Jimmy the most. Would like to someday, spar against the man with two blades, and compare the ups and downs of one blade VS. two.
Acan Moread: Think's he's stuck in the past and can't overcome it. Does respect his aim though.
Estia Barackson: He is forever perplexed how she can be 68 while looking like a 19 year old...
Aidan Donovan am Delian: Holy hell, anger management.

Reason for Ki Problem

((Followed Krozam's advice about the Ki Center and changed it to match the details.))


Edits
Changed the year.
Gave Reason for the higher science of the country he was born in.
Added reason for Symbiosis and added Ki Abilites.

[Krozam]

Septe: Stealth would be good. Navigator and sapper, then.

Infinity: I assume your character was born in a country where science is important and the level of technology higher than the average of the time. Probably quite far away from Nantii. What's with the sword, is it magical or something? There must be a reason why he made it himself and why it's black. Nice character, I see no problems with it. Warrior and, since he has plenty of ki, secondary healer?

As for the year... I'm coming up with this on the spot, but let's say it's year 744 of the Calm, the Calm being an age that started after a particularly chaotic time in the history of this world, when the gods themselves warred. Since the Godswar ended, the world has been more or less stable, wars have been fairly small scale and the gods have started avoiding direct confrontations.

One thing about alchemy: it needs a laboratory, or at least some basic equipment that we probably aren't carrying around. So whenever we're in a town with an alchemist's laboratory, we tend to rent it and let Nex (and possibly another alchemist, if one joins) to do his thing.

[Septe]

Same thing with explosives.  It takes time to create it and prepare it.  Corning it (getting it wet and creating cakes, letting it dry then breaking it up) also takes time.  Harold can create his own explosives but special effects he'd need to refer to an alchemist.

[Irie Naoki]

I know this idea is kinda on the spot now but I have been thinking about it for a long time and I wasnt sure if it were okey but you decide,

I was wondering if it were okey with you that the Sword I carried could actually be improved, like a person who trains and trains becomes more powerful, the same with the sword, if I use it more and more and when I myself become more powerful the sword itself also becomes more powerful, you would think its "merging" but what if the sword cause it is magically enchanted allways took small part off my KI and converted it into elemental magic, if you dont like that converting then we could just think that the magic is like a person itself, getting more powerful the more you use it.

would like to hear what you think

[Krozam]

Septe: As we discussed earlier on the cbox, we have several options. We could carry only what we can comfortably carry, or we could have a bag of holding, or we could convince Nex to create us a pocket dimension.

Irie: I don't quite agree with that logic. Swords are not people, they don't get stronger with practise. Your character, however, can get more skilled with practise. He hasn't had the sword for a long time, and he hasn't used magic before he got it, so I imagine he still has a lot to learn about using it. With more practise he can eventually learn to use the sword to its full potential. So no increase in raw power, but versatility, speed, those kind of things can be improved.