SeekingPolaris
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Character Bio thread for Annihilus Storm. I‘m not really picky about bios but I’ll throw out some important things to share in a bit.
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Fantasy Annihilus Storm — Characters
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SeekingPolaris
“Here, whatever happens, happens.” - Willa Cather
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Okay so I’m just going to make some bulletpoints but you can make your character bio look however you want. Can be long or short, whatever floats your boat as long as we can find the key info.
- Name(s)
- Basic demographics (age, sex, gender, etc.)
- Personality (good, bad, and neutral traits)
- Appearance (I like using character creator sites or Midjourney to make character art, but if you draw your OCs or like to describe them list or paragraph style that’s great too)
- Skills and/or Powers
- Home Region(s)
- Occupation
- Backstory (you don’t have to tell everything, just enough for us to see who they are is fine)
- Goals (general sense of what they’re after/arcs you’d like to take them through in the story)
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Name: Blacksand
Age: Dates back to the end of the last Annihilus Storm
Sex: N/a
Gender: N/a
Personality: Blacksand is very much a product of what it is. It has no need to be greedy because it truly does it no harm to be generous. The list of resources it views as finite are quite small, so it has no issue giving generously. Similarly, it understands others are fragile, so it is happy to protect them. It doesn't want to see others hurt, because sad people make it sad, and it has the ability to do something about it. While it does worry for its own safety in cases where it feels it is at risk, it also feels its abilities make it unlikely it will die in most cases. The major exception being attempting to consume other earth elementals.
It wants to be more powerful so that it can be even more effective at doing those things and self actualization can just be a terminal goal. It doesn't have to serve a purpose, agents can just want things because they want them. It enjoys music, and stories, and showing off artistry with its body. It likes feeling important and valued. It feels nice to be loved and it feels nice caring for others. The feel of music, voices, and warm flesh against their body is nice. Existing as a patch of ground, feeling the warmth of an animal, their heartbeat, the vibrations of the music or their voice, it's a lovely way to be lulled to sleep or just enjoy a lazy afternoon.
Appearance: Blacksand is about 125 cubic feet of animate earth. It gets its name from the fact that it tends to make its body, when dealing with humans, out of ore rich black sand with patterns of gold and platinum running through it. When less concerned with its appearance, and more with its effectiveness, it often appears as whatever sort of earth is nearby forming traps that will catch and break a person's, or horse's, leg and cut it to ribbons or forming a mound that keeps chucking rocks like sling bullets at folk.
Skills and/or Powers: Its core powers are around its ability to control, transmute, and growing earth. At any given time it can control about a 125 cubic feet of earth as its "body". When controlling that earth it can move it, shape it, or transmute it into other kinds of earth. It can even throw it, though it is then no longer part of the body. It can "heal" by simply restoring lost mass from the earth it is in contact with. While it can move normally, for the purpose of carrying objects, it is also capable of more rapid movement by simply forming a new body out of differant earth that has a path through contiguous earth between the new and old bodies as it effectively inhabits the earth between the two and forms anew body at the new location without having to disturb the earth in between if it doesn't want to. It is also able to enter spiritual combat with other elementals, consuming them, or being consumed itself, to grow in power. Most impressively though, it is capable of growing earth. Even when separated from other sources of earth, it can slowly restore lost mass, creating it from nothing. This allows it to feel more secure on boats and the like when it might otherwise be cut off from the way others would have to restore themselves.
Home Region: The Hollowlands
Occupation: Miner, now probably unemployed if I'm wandering around with other folk
Backstory: It was a Remnant after the last Annihilus Storm. If it was something else before then, it has long since forgotten. Blacksand, as it exists today, is an earth elemental and enjoys that life. It is actually rather rare amongst its kind. Most elementals have the same control abilities it does, and the ability to consume each other, but the number that can transmute earth are tiny. The number that can grow it, even smaller. One that can do both is possibly unique. That being said, it is also on the smaller side for its kind. The power the elementals gain as they go through life is often focused on being able to control more earth because that's what they do. Blacksand's focus is divided, effort put into developing its ability to transmute is effort not put into learning to grow or control earth. The same goes for any place it focuses.
Because the people it dealt with were of a particular range of sizes, it didn't feel the need to tower over them, so it put control on the backburner after a certain point in favor of transmutation. Growth, while nice, was similarly deprioritized because there was always earth about. The need to grow it was rare, so some effort went there naturally, but it wasn't a focus. Blacksand's days instead were focused on transmutation. It played in the pit mine were it lived with some other earth elementals. They would gather the ore it created while they were playing and having fun to be sold off to merchants who always brought a party with them.
It would listen to stories and play games and dance. It tried singing. That did not go well, but it was a fun experience to attempt. Mostly though it enjoyed the stories. They were satisfying, educational, and fun. Life is messy. The stories were neat and that was nice. Among those tales, were stories of powerful artifacts. While on an intellectual level, it understood why it was smaller than its friends, and would make the same choices all over again given the chance, the stories of artifacts that might help it develop faster were appealing in the same way that a mage might still want a necklace that gave him eternal life or unlimited magical power. You don't dislike what you've chosen to do with your life, but stories of things that would make your life easier are appealing. When the chance to start traveling and possibly find the things he had heard of in the stories came up, it decided to join the quest. Maybe it could find that device that made elementals and a power source for it. The one used to power the antitempest is likely quite powerful. Something like that could produce quite a number of elementals.
Goals: It wants to grow in power: Control more earth and with greater ease, get bigger, transmute faster and with greater ease, grow faster and with greater ease, etc. While some of that growth can indeed just happen with practice, it has heard legends of a device that could produce a fluid that, when mixed with an element, creates the associated elemental. By using it to spawn new earth elementals, Blacksand could consume them, knowing they're weaker and would lose the fight, and grow much faster.
Age: Dates back to the end of the last Annihilus Storm
Sex: N/a
Gender: N/a
Personality: Blacksand is very much a product of what it is. It has no need to be greedy because it truly does it no harm to be generous. The list of resources it views as finite are quite small, so it has no issue giving generously. Similarly, it understands others are fragile, so it is happy to protect them. It doesn't want to see others hurt, because sad people make it sad, and it has the ability to do something about it. While it does worry for its own safety in cases where it feels it is at risk, it also feels its abilities make it unlikely it will die in most cases. The major exception being attempting to consume other earth elementals.
It wants to be more powerful so that it can be even more effective at doing those things and self actualization can just be a terminal goal. It doesn't have to serve a purpose, agents can just want things because they want them. It enjoys music, and stories, and showing off artistry with its body. It likes feeling important and valued. It feels nice to be loved and it feels nice caring for others. The feel of music, voices, and warm flesh against their body is nice. Existing as a patch of ground, feeling the warmth of an animal, their heartbeat, the vibrations of the music or their voice, it's a lovely way to be lulled to sleep or just enjoy a lazy afternoon.
Appearance: Blacksand is about 125 cubic feet of animate earth. It gets its name from the fact that it tends to make its body, when dealing with humans, out of ore rich black sand with patterns of gold and platinum running through it. When less concerned with its appearance, and more with its effectiveness, it often appears as whatever sort of earth is nearby forming traps that will catch and break a person's, or horse's, leg and cut it to ribbons or forming a mound that keeps chucking rocks like sling bullets at folk.
Skills and/or Powers: Its core powers are around its ability to control, transmute, and growing earth. At any given time it can control about a 125 cubic feet of earth as its "body". When controlling that earth it can move it, shape it, or transmute it into other kinds of earth. It can even throw it, though it is then no longer part of the body. It can "heal" by simply restoring lost mass from the earth it is in contact with. While it can move normally, for the purpose of carrying objects, it is also capable of more rapid movement by simply forming a new body out of differant earth that has a path through contiguous earth between the new and old bodies as it effectively inhabits the earth between the two and forms anew body at the new location without having to disturb the earth in between if it doesn't want to. It is also able to enter spiritual combat with other elementals, consuming them, or being consumed itself, to grow in power. Most impressively though, it is capable of growing earth. Even when separated from other sources of earth, it can slowly restore lost mass, creating it from nothing. This allows it to feel more secure on boats and the like when it might otherwise be cut off from the way others would have to restore themselves.
Home Region: The Hollowlands
Occupation: Miner, now probably unemployed if I'm wandering around with other folk
Backstory: It was a Remnant after the last Annihilus Storm. If it was something else before then, it has long since forgotten. Blacksand, as it exists today, is an earth elemental and enjoys that life. It is actually rather rare amongst its kind. Most elementals have the same control abilities it does, and the ability to consume each other, but the number that can transmute earth are tiny. The number that can grow it, even smaller. One that can do both is possibly unique. That being said, it is also on the smaller side for its kind. The power the elementals gain as they go through life is often focused on being able to control more earth because that's what they do. Blacksand's focus is divided, effort put into developing its ability to transmute is effort not put into learning to grow or control earth. The same goes for any place it focuses.
Because the people it dealt with were of a particular range of sizes, it didn't feel the need to tower over them, so it put control on the backburner after a certain point in favor of transmutation. Growth, while nice, was similarly deprioritized because there was always earth about. The need to grow it was rare, so some effort went there naturally, but it wasn't a focus. Blacksand's days instead were focused on transmutation. It played in the pit mine were it lived with some other earth elementals. They would gather the ore it created while they were playing and having fun to be sold off to merchants who always brought a party with them.
It would listen to stories and play games and dance. It tried singing. That did not go well, but it was a fun experience to attempt. Mostly though it enjoyed the stories. They were satisfying, educational, and fun. Life is messy. The stories were neat and that was nice. Among those tales, were stories of powerful artifacts. While on an intellectual level, it understood why it was smaller than its friends, and would make the same choices all over again given the chance, the stories of artifacts that might help it develop faster were appealing in the same way that a mage might still want a necklace that gave him eternal life or unlimited magical power. You don't dislike what you've chosen to do with your life, but stories of things that would make your life easier are appealing. When the chance to start traveling and possibly find the things he had heard of in the stories came up, it decided to join the quest. Maybe it could find that device that made elementals and a power source for it. The one used to power the antitempest is likely quite powerful. Something like that could produce quite a number of elementals.
Goals: It wants to grow in power: Control more earth and with greater ease, get bigger, transmute faster and with greater ease, grow faster and with greater ease, etc. While some of that growth can indeed just happen with practice, it has heard legends of a device that could produce a fluid that, when mixed with an element, creates the associated elemental. By using it to spawn new earth elementals, Blacksand could consume them, knowing they're weaker and would lose the fight, and grow much faster.
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