Fantasy Hope of a Nation Characters

[Blaire Wisteria]

I know, I was almost fdone with my responce when you posted.

 

[OverconfidentMagi]

How would you prefer the healing be slowed: either simply make it slower in general or add a delay before is starts working?

 

[Shog]

How would you prefer the healing be slowed: either simply make it slower in general or add a delay before is starts working?

I think I would prefer it to be slowed. Thank you for asking.

 

[Sizniche]

Shog sorry, I've been somewhat caught up in school issues. I'll try to post today.

 

[marshmarrow]

I'm finished. I will do my best to post tonight, tomorrow, or Friday, but no guarantees.

 

[Shog]

Name: Ellery Saxon

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Appearance:

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Class Skills: With an IQ in the stratosphere, Saxon is capable of utilizing every unit in a battalion or armada to its maximum capabilities. Not a single weapon, body, or scrap of metal is wasted in her strategies, which are as complex as they are simple. She's a brilliant fighter--proficient in both long-range and melee combat. While she prefers the efficiency of bows, she isn't adverse to the honorable swordfight, and normally has a blade on her at all times. Her face is completely unreadable when she needs it to be--she is very careful to keep her expressions under control.

Limitations: While Saxon is fit, she is small, and as a woman, is often assumed to need protection. She lacks brute strength, and despite what she knows--and what she can teach herself--she lacks practical experience on the battlefield. It is hard for her to find work due to the fact she is simply not what most commanders are looking for. However, she always proves herself to be a valuable resource, even if she is green.

Weapons: A lightweight bastard sword dubbed "Firestarter."

Equipment: Always carries a quill and parchment, a compass, and a medical bag.

Other Skills: She has a head for numbers and enjoys riding on horseback. She's quick with languages and is familiar with several; her first tongue is similar to Gaelic, and seldom spoken by either Thura or Ragor, so she uses it to encrypt her notes.

Bio: She was raised in the mountains of a conquered province by her father, who was a noble warrior in his own right. She trained her mind and body and was taught the arts of both combat and strategy, as though she were his son. When she was of age, she accompanied her father on his campaigns, learning a variety of skills and familiarizing herself with the Thuran army. Saxon was never particularly close to her father, addressing him as far, sir and rarely receiving more than verbal praise or a hand on her shoulder. Even with her course upbringing, she acts nothing short of composed and professional.

Other: Is always addressed as "Saxon," and has a lilting accent that veils, rather than masks her words.

Accepted.

 

[Shog]

Name: Dorian Raizel

Age: 16 / ~36

Gender: Male

Appearance:

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Class:

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Class Skills: How or why no one is able to say, but Dorian suffers from the unusual condition of being unable to die. He hasn't aged a day in decades, and he's never once gotten sick in that time. He's been beaten and stabbed, burned and drown, none stuck for long. As soon as the knife was removed, or the flames put out, or his body was puled from the canal the injuries would slowly begin to close until he eventually opened his eyes and carried on like nothing important had happened. He can heal he wounds of others by sharing his blood with them. A bit of blood over a wound will have it healed in a matter of seconds, and drinking his blood will cure most diseases just as quick. Drinking enough of his blood can even grant a person some of his healing ability for a time. There is the side effect of losing the ability to feel pain for a while afterwards, but most tend to not mind that so long as their injuries are gone. This applies to Dorian as well. After recovering from a more severe injury his entire body can be left numb.

Limitations: Dorian is not physically strong at all, and he has no fighting ability to speak of.

Equipment: A golden cross, three silver scalpels with slightly different blades, two pairs of scissors, one for cutting clothes and the other for cutting flesh, a heavier serrated knife, bandages, alcohol to wash wounds and some for his patients to drink.

Weapons: Dorian carries two daggers with him, but most of his medical instruments would do the job just as well.

Other Skills: Dorian is a good cook, so long as he remembers what ingredients won't poison a normal person. Well even if he does accidentally serve something poisonous he can always serve a cup of his blood for dessert to make things all right.

Bio: Dorian wasn't breathing when he was born. His skin was purple and cold one moment, and then the next it faded and he opened his eyes - they were so bright and red even then - and he started crying. Death had rejected him. Nothing was thought about it for years, but as time went on it was impossible to ignore all the times where Dorian should have been hurt but always emerged unscathed. When he was bitten by a venomous snake, when he fell down the hill into rocks, when he grabbed hot food right out of the fire with his bare hands. His father, a man of God, kept his son's condition secret from the world. He always said that God had a plan to use Dorian for something special, and when it was discovered that his blood could heal others he thought that was it.

Dorian healed so many people, but that must not have been what his power was for after all because God brought a storm with lightning that burned down his father's church with them all inside. Dorian was the only survivor of his family. Of course he survived. In the rubble of his home, surrounded by his mother and father, he had burned alive until the flames had been extinguished by the rain so many hours later. He disappeared for years after that, and with him went the stories of the miracle boy who could heal any injury or sickness. At least for a while.

He tried to help people in between his aimless wandering, but it always ended up the same. Eventually someone would try to use him for their own gain, and he'd either be forced to flee elsewhere or be forced to do what they wanted until he did find a way to get away. The worst of these people was a doctor. He acted so kind, Dorian never thought to run until after it was too late. The man sold the locals a miracle medicine that could cure any illness, and for once it actually worked. But he only cared about the money they were wiling to pay for it once word got around that it would really cure anything. That person kept Dorian prisoner for years, selling his blood as an elixir to the people, torturing in the name of scientific experimentation whenever he got bored. Then one day a person investigating the doctor's famous miracle potion found Dorian. He tried to rescue him, but the doctor came back. There was a fight, and at the end of it both men were dead with Dorian once again left the only one living.

He's done his best to keep a low profile, but even still anyone who keeps an ear to the streets might hear the odd stories about a person's wounds being healed by a young man, or of towns cured of sickness overnight, or of a person being killed only to get back up and keep moving. That's how you know Dorian is still wandering around using his curse to heal others. Some of the people he helps give him a place to stay for a while, others money. He can always survive even without that though. It's the one thing he's good at.

Other: Dorian was raised believing in God, but after everything he's been through his belief has become a bit... complicated. He frequently asks others if they believe in God.

My biggest problem is the line "...Dorian suffers from the unusual condition of being unable to die." There should really be a threat of death or else there is really no reason he couldn't do literally any he wanted. Given your class, and especially your interpretation, it'll be very difficult to kill your character, but death needs to be a factor.

 

[OverconfidentMagi]

My biggest problem is the line "...Dorian suffers from the unusual condition of being unable to die." There should really be a threat of death or else there is really no reason he couldn't do literally any he wanted. Given your class, and especially your interpretation, it'll be very difficult to kill your character, but death needs to be a factor.

He can't do whatever he wants because he isn't a fighter. He isn't strong and has no fighting skills, so if anyone knows about his ability he becomes trivial to deal with. Just tie him up or otherwise confine/restrain him and he can't do a thing. You can even kill him then restrain him for a really nightmarish scene.

 

[Shog]

He can't do whatever he wants because he isn't a fighter. He isn't strong and has no fighting skills, so if anyone knows about his ability he becomes trivial to deal with. Just tie him up or otherwise confine/restrain him and he can't do a thing. You can even kill him then restrain him for a really nightmarish scene.

I'm not gonna lie, that last sentence made me dislike this even more. Allowing him to temporally die actually seems worse to me. If he gets his head chopped off, that should be the end of your character regardless of any regenerative abilities. I imagine being stabbed in the heart will put him out of commission for a short while, but I'd be fine if he survived that (and was perhaps comatose or something while it healed? IDK.). There's actually a quite a bit you can talk me around, including making death very hard to come by, but it must still be a factor. I will not accept a deathless character.