This will serve as a place holder for the time being as characters are written, re-written, and come to find their home here. Updates and additions will be noted here on the title post. More to come!
Characters:
Litalis Enodurin - necromancer/mercenary
Hixel - swamp nymph
Valkyr Dantes - hunter/gun for hire
Lust (aka Kartane de Montague) - incubus/demon born
Aire Enodurin - astral/cosmic mage
Kadish - religious neophyte/technomancer
Arkady - mercenary
Thorn - druid and apothecary
Garrick Everett - ferrier's apprentice
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
- Samuel Johnson
Name: Litalis Enodurin
Age: unknown
Sex: Male
Race: Pressumed to be elven in decent
Known aliases: Lit, Litty, Reaver
Specs:
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 230 lbs
Physique: Muscular, still lean.
Skin tone: Deathly pale
Hair: Black, long
Eyes: Green
Voice: Low and husky, but flowing, hushed and whispered
Scars: n/a
Markings: Arcane scrawlings cover his chest, back, and arms
Personality/Psychology:
Usually quiet and withdrawn, taken to brooding, Litalis is not much of a talker unless something needs to be said. However, he can fit the role of a charmer at whim. He can and will seduce targets as needed, or occupy positions to extort them for personal gains. Litalis is not about excess, so much as about power and control. He is highly analytical, things are usually well thought out by the time he acts. It is uncertain as to why, but Litalis is prone to fits of blood lust within an all out brawl, and this has reportedly led to massacres on occasion.
Professional Skills:
Litalis is gifted with observation and reconnaissance skills. Presumed Elven traits make him ideal for stealth operations and tracking. His professional experience lies within torture and execution. He is very astute and has studied extensively within the fields of anatomy, pathology, and psychology. Within his experience, he has found that man is weak and malleable. He is extremely well suited for intelligence/counterintelligence work.
Abilities and Arcana:
Necromancy – the staple of Litalis' craft. Is capable of summoning the dead, animating bones and the like. This is not limited to humanoids, as he is capable of working with creatures, beasts, and multiple targets.
Pyromancy – he understands basic to mid-range casting of fire spells, although not his primary focus. Fire breathing, forming fireballs of a decent size, and igniting flammable/combustible materials from a distance, are his primary uses of this skill.
Shadowmancy – works with shadowcraft mostly as a means of concealment, misdirection, and stealth, has been know to summon a shadow being to spy or meddle, but still a new area of study.
Proficient in stealth movement
Proficiency with knives, polearms, staves, scythes, and whips. Hand to hand combat is not his strong suit, however he is not incapable should the need arise.
Equipment:
Kelvaris - 10' black, bullwhip, with a crimson glaze, worn at the waist
8" main gauche, tucked in right boot
Old draconic tome, usually concealed within his cloak.
-optional weapons- reserved for specialty roles
Reaper's Hand (history below) - Scythe, tooled steel on a gnarled, ashen, ebonwood handle. Not usually carried unless otherwise noted, often seen carried by Hixel.
Belt of throwing knives
Gift of Marjhong (history below) - A rather hefty, antique axe used by a headsman of the underworld. The head is highly polished and jeweled, the haft, long and rose colored.
Clothing
Black trousers, adorned with a simple black belt.
Black boots
Black hooded traveling cloak
Has also been known to wear black priest's robes
Has also been seen in a long, black leather coat in modern settings
Origins:
Not much is truly known of Litalis, he was found by a sorcerer, and was raised for a period of time by him. The boy was kept due to his prowess within the magical arts. A general level of corruption was noted in the boy, and continued to manifest through his tutelage. It was guessed that this was due to some previous incident within his life, but none can confirm this. The sorcerer himself is unavailable; Litalis presumably killed him at some point in his late teens. He continued to train and learn on his own from that point onward. His general knack for seduction and trickery stems from his 'teenage' years. He spent much of his spare time beyond study in taverns and bars. Gambling and drinking were his pastimes, wenching just came with the territory. As he spent more and more time in these surroundings his analytical mind took over, learning the traits and tells of the usual clientele and eventually moved on to the higher class of folk. He had swindled enough money away to afford clothes of high society, and he knew enough about human behavior to fit within their group. He became a master of deceit and manipulation. His lust for power and control began to set in, and these would remain a focus in life, if not a recurring need.
Minions/Familiars:
Hixel - Nymph puppet (full description in her bio)
Frequently appears at Litalis' side. She is a 'caddy' so to speak, carrying his weapons while they travel.
Hixel was found while traveling through a bog late on winter. Little life was left within the already desolate environment, and Lit happened to stumble upon a half dead swamp nymph. She had attempted to trick one out of their life, and in turn she nearly lost her own. By the power of Litalis, she was gifted life, however he still retains certain 'insurance' on her life force. She has since been at his side, trying to exercise her own claim over him.
She has since proven to be a spitfire, running at the mouth and generally considered a loose cannon when not at Lit's side. Despite her diminutive stature, her personality is quite large and she is highly territorial.
Abilities-
- seduction
- simple necromancy
- sampling of other dark arts (shadowmancy, etc)
Possessions-
- undead, rotting possum
Billy-Bear - Black cat puppet
Abbath - Undead mount
Specialty Item Details:
The History of Kelvaris:(WIP)
Kelvaris is a major magical item. It is a whip imbued with the souls of the dead and the powers of undeath. It provides a great source of power to Litalis, but at the cost of a blood offering. Kelvaris is soulbound as Lit spent several years carrying out the ritual necessary to craft this weapon. It is not necessary for him to use Kelvaris to cast spells, but especially in combat or within larger spells, it lessens the weight of the task and amplifies his magic.
The actual rights that surrounded the creation of this device were seated within several dark rituals. Lit was required to find and ritually sacrifice 13 individuals, binding their souls to the flesh. Upon their last few living breaths, he would skin them and tan the flesh. He then imbued the hides with more dark energy and the souls of the damned with the aid of Reaper's Hand. With the fully imbued leather, he set to work weaving it into a whip, and set it with a handle of bone. Upon completion, he once more called upon the dark gods and slit his palm. The blood slowly dripped and coated the full length of whip and as he channeled his energy through the whip, the blood did dry and form the outer waxy coating. Any time the whip is active it bleeds like the living and when the whip is cracked, the screams of the dead fill the air.
Origins of Reaper's Hand:
As part of a deal to save his own soul, Litalis agreed to become an agent for a death god. At times he will be called upon to collect for his master or risk losing possession of his own soul. Any kills made with the weapon also satisfy terms of the contract. He is to collect 1,000 souls in order to free himself of his cruel master. The particulars of this deal are kept quiet, but it is said he is granted additional powers to aid in this task.
Gift of Marjhong:
An antique ceremonial axe gifted to Litalis at the completion of one of his greater labors early in life. He studied and lived among a secluded and very dark sect of Underworld worshipers. Litalis studied the arts of necromancy and shadowmancy and rose through the ranks of the brotherhood. As part of the role he held until he had reached the level of master, he performed all ceremonial and private executions governed by the brotherhood.
Political Aspirations
Throughout his life, Litalis has been known to dabble within politics. The affairs of civilized man leave much room for improvement. Much of his life has been dedicated to the study of man, his behavior, and his social interactions. What better use of such knowledge than to call upon it to pull their strings. Further, politics has always satisfied his periodic need and desire for power. There is no quicker way to gain it than through political conquest.
