Elegy
I am the bone of my sword
Fervus El Mortreal Sanguis
Gender:
Male
Age:
56, though he looks like he was 30 due to the blessing he has been given by Vel'ath.
Species:
Human
Appearance:
Social Status/Job:
Former Priest, now a wandering adventurer.
Weapons/equipment:
An enchanted full body garment( the orange cloth seen in the picture). The garment is very soft and provides good insulation. The enchantment upon it allows it never wear from use and to block out all weather impairments to the one wearing it. This garment is what has allowed Fervus to travel so extensively throughout all sorts of weather and terrain. The garment itself is what Fervus wore when he was still in his order of priests, and the priesthood let Fervus keep this special cloth as a parting gift. The garment also has a large hood that Fervus almost always wears. The garment reaches down up to Fervus’s feet.
Two Life Bands - These two strips of cloth hang around Fervus’s neck crossed on top of each other. These life bands allow Fervus to maintain a calm mind at all times so that he can reliably use his magical abilities. The bands also used to provide Fervus with a source of energy and were a vibrant red in color, but the energy has long since been used up and the bands have dulled considerably. Fervus uses his own energy now, and its toll is signified by the ends of his dark blue hair becoming a bleak gray color. Fervus doesn't actually really need these anymore, but he likes to keep them as they have experienced all the journeys he has as well. Placing this on another person will also calm them as well.
A bag - This is a normal bag of rough leather that holds Fervus's very few belongings: A tiny bit of healing salve to prevent cuts from getting infections and bleeding, a magical orb that can shoot out sparks to start campfires, a detailed, wrinkled map, a journal, a feather pen and ink, and a tightly coiled strip of rope.
God you worship:
Fervus used to be a priest of Vel'ath, but has long since severed his connection to the priesthood and to Vel'ath, although he still respects Vel'ath as a god, he just doesn't revere the being now as he believes he is not worthy to do so.
Strengths:
Martial arts - Fervus has developed his own unique style of fighting that is incredibly similar to Ba Ji Quan which utilizes his magic to the fullest extent. Fervus is also incredibly skilled at this fighting style, which he has been perfecting and practicing since he has barely five. He has also had to use this to defend his life and to survive on countless occasions, so his experience is rich and his technique plentiful. He is considered to be one of the most renowned hand to hand fighters known around. Fervus calls his martial arts, which is unique only to him due to his special abilities. This martial arts style is called Guidance. He has had one apprentice in this fighting style, who could not see life lines but was skilled enough to know which areas held the most vital life lines to strike. This apprentice popularized this fighting style, but none could ever fully utilize it due to it requiring Vel'ath's blessed eyes. This martial arts style is incredibly lethal and powerful, and most assassins would dream to be able to utilize this fighting method. By using his blessed eyes, Fervus tactically strikes bundles of life lines and disables them with a single touch, completely incapacitating an opponent within three to five swift strikes if they are not prepared. Seeing life lines also lets Fervus predict how an opponent will move just before they actually move by watching how the opponent's energy circulates and gathers. This fighting style employs a defensive stance that focuses on counterstrikes instead of offense. However, this stance allows for quick and continuous blows with extreme accuracy due to the fact that the stance causes Fervus to gain incredible upper body balance in exchange for not using his lower body for offense. Anybody fortunate enough to have witnessed this style will say that it looks like Fervus is guiding his opponents, gracefully dodging their punches and lightly applying pressure to arms to sway and guide them away from Fervus. The Ba Ji Quan similarities of this fighting style comes from their shared method of inflicting damage. Ba Ji Quan aims for lethal spots with elbow strikes and quick blows through rapid acceleration of the arms through lower body propulsion. The explosive nature of the blows also allows causes Fervus's attacks to do internal damage even without the use of his life line bending ability. The force of the blow is "injected" as one could say within a target's body, causing severe internal damage to those directly affected. Fervus's thirty two years of intense training and combat experience leaves the Guidance style of fighting to be one of the most feared and famed throughout the entire land.
Life Line Control- This was an ability granted to Fervus by Vel'ath due to his service to Vel'ath from a young age as a priest. All living creatures are composed of countless thin lines of life that intertwine and structure themselves to form the creature into a coherent whole. Each of these lines carry a part of the creatures' total life force. Fervus has the unique ability to see these life lines and to tamper with them. Fervus's eyes will glow a bright green when he is looking at life lines, and these special eyes are called Velath's eyes. However, Fervus can only directly affect his own life lines and not those of tohers, but this comes in incredibly handy with his fighting style due to how he uses his life lines. Fervus can alter the structures of his life lines or strengthen them considerably, causing his body to become like steel. By distributing extra energy throughout all of his lifelines, Fervus can make his entire body much stronger and durable. Fervus has also completely mastered distributing energy, and he can take out the energy he distributed elswhere and immediately move it and condense it towards a single spot to strengthen a part of his body immensely. Empowering life lines also boosts Fervus's physical abilities and can provide short bursts of speed if he fluxes the life lines of the area of his body he wants to move with additional power. Altering life lines also technically allows Fervus to heal himself and others by altering or repairing damaged life lines, but Fervus cannot perform any healing at all. By striking another living being, he introduces his foreign life signatures, causing the life lines of the area struck to immediately attempt to reject Fervus's own energy. This causes internal damage and strain, and often Fervus inflicts more internal damage than he does external. Life lines that spend considerable effort rejecting foreign energy will cause muscle and tissue surrounding the life lines to contract and freeze over, possibly tearing them if the muscles or tissue had suffered damage before the energy was introduced. Fervus's fighting style complements this because it naturally inflicts internal damage, which by extension introduces Fervus's life line energy deep within a target. A normal practitioner of this magic would be able to convert their own life line signature and heal others, but Fervus cannot. He can only invade, and not restore. His energy does not have killing intent, it is simply rejected. One could say that the victim of Fervus’s attack is killing himself. By extension, Fervus’s life line invading blows are near useless to a decently competent life line magic user(albeit Fervus doesn't know anyone blessed with the ability to have the power to alter life lines) who can accept Fervus's energy or to the dark beasts which have no life line or incredibly strange and twisted ones that are not affected. It can be noted though that Fervus’s life line invading punches do deal more damage upon the Dusk, but it does not inflict internal damage due to Fervus’s energy being neither rejected nor being capable of affecting the beasts internally because of their unique body structure.
Survival Skills - Fervus has lived many years wandering around with the bare minimum of supplies. He can scrape by with almost anything and can live in almost any environment. These survival skills also apply to his method of thinking and speech. He can barter and trade with a rational and efficient mind and persuade people with practiced skill.
Knowledge - Fervus possesses considerable knowledge of the world due to his travels and through his natural intellect and high education as a noble.
Weaknesses:
Fervus fears death, be it from his enemy or friend. Thus he never uses lethal strikes and only seeks to incapacitate. The very sight of death revolts and frights Fervus.
Fervus cannot stand harm being inflicted pointlessly and will try to intervene in any scenario where needless conflict arises.
Fervus doesn't particularly like fighting, he doesn't fear a fight, but he does not desire to be in one if possible.
Fervus fears himself, as he himself cannot understand why he cannot restore others and is thus hesitant to use what he considers an unsightly power.
Fervus has incredible guilt as to how his apprentice turned out, and believes a failure in his own character is to be of blame.
History/Notable achievements:
Fervus was born into a noble family, hence his family name of El Mortreal being present. He was raised as a noble would be, in luxury and brought up with a high education and knowledge of things around him. However, Fervus did not become a lord or a landowner and decided to join an order of priests that worshipped and venerated Vel'ath at the age of fifteen. The order emphasized perfection of the body, as the body housed the life, dexterity, and vitality that Vel'ath had so carefully crafted upon man. To do this, the order's priests underwent rigorous mental and physical conditioning every day as a part of their daily routine. Offerings, fastings, and lengthy prayer were also all present within the rigorous day to day life of the priesthood. Most of the priests there practiced the unique magic of life line magic, which complemented their lifestyles well as physical and mental perfection was needed to develop and perform life line magics. Fervus developed his own life line magic when he was twenty, and the elder priests immediately knew he was an irregular. Fervus was excellent and had immense talent in using life binding magic upon himself, as Fervus's mental and physical states were both immaculate and powerful, but Fervus could not perform a core part of life line magic: Healing. He could not heal anything. Fervus's energies were rejected by any living thing that could not adapt to it, and, no matter how hard Fervus tried, he could not willfully change his life line energy. Fervus was called an abomination by some, but he was still largely respected due to his dutiful service to Vel'ath and his great fortitude of mental and physical strength. However, Fervus quit the priesthood when he was twenty five. He had begun to think of himself as an irregular being not fit to serve Vel'ath. His body could never restore others, and Fervus believed that he himself was an abomination that was not worthy of bowing to Vel'ath. The priesthood let him keep his vestal garments as a sign of respect, and Fervus began his life as a wandering adventurer. He traveled for the next eleven years of his life, earning great fame as a phantom adventurer and vigilante that put down many notorious criminals and traversed through many exotic and unknown lands.
Fervus has also entered a fighting tournament where the most skilled of fighters entered. He followed the rules of no magic: He sealed off his Eyes of Vel'ath and the ability to alter life lines. With only his original fighting style, Fervus sparred with the best of the best. Out of the almost three hundred masters each representing a fighting style or fist, Fervus managed to reach the quarter finals. Fervus withdrew from the tournament at that point so that he would not win, as he believed that there was no point in winning the tournmanet as he had only come to experience the great skills of others. Other skilled fighters remarked that he would have gone to the finals to face the legendary tiger fist, and many have speculated as to who would have won. The tiger fist himself was said to have killed one hundred trained asassins with his bare hands, and had produced several apprentices that served in the King's Guard. It was remarked that as long as Fervus could firmly maintain both legs on the ground and therefore his upper body balance, he had quite a chance at winning the finals.
Possibly Fervus's greatest achievement that spread his fame as a near legend.
Freeing a city - This city had faced a coup. and ruthless and lawless bandits that organized themselves into militias overthrew the standing army and nobility. They instituted a merciless law and wreaked havoc upon all of the nobles, many of whom were innocent people. Their atrocities culminated past a line when they created a makeshift arena where all the nobles were to kill each other off, many of whom were members of family. Fervus could not stand this and stepped into the arena and proposed a deal: He would fight anything that the bandits threw at him for the rest of the entire day, which equated to thirteen hours of continuous fighting. Of course, the low life group agreed. They sent every sort of atrocity and terror imaginable to Fervus, from trained mercenaries to massive chimerical beasts of epic proportion. This happened during a time when nobody knew Fervus's fighting style, and all that the bandits could see was a lone man ready to die with no weapons. Fervus dropped anything they sent to him in one strike. No matter how tough the hide a creature had or how thick and strong the armor, the being that was struck clean by Fervus just dropped down incapacitated. After the eleventh hour, the leader of the bandit coalition challenged Fervus. He had seventeen different mages enchant his skin to become impenetrable and indestructible. Believing himself unable to lose, the fool bared his body to Fervus and told him to strike anywhere, claiming to be invincible. Fervus dealt an open palm blow to where the man's heart would be. It wasn't a strong blow, but the force from it coursed throughout the man's heart. And of course, so did Fervus's energy. Fervus left the city as he was pursued by bandits as their leader died an agonizing death as his heart continuously stopped and restarted as it attempted to flush out Fervus's rage infused energy. With their leader gone and the people gaining back their confidence, the city was retaken. Every single one of the beings that Fervus fought with the exception of the leader of the bandits survived, having only been disabled or incapacitated. To this day, Fervus has only killed the bandit leader. This was the single incident that spread the fame of the adventuring priest that dropped the wicked with one blow.
Personality:
Fervus is a stoic and aloof man who rarely talks. He holds incredible mental fortitude and clarity that is a result of the lifestyle he has adhered to for his whole life. Fervus upholds ideals that he follows with intense conviction. Fervus is open and accepting, and rarely surprised by anything. He is perceptive and understanding, but yet will not show his own emotions. Fervus holds life in great value, and seeks to protect it. This belief also leads Fervus to lament his life line magic which is only rejected, which is why Fervus is reluctant to fight. Fervus is duty driven and serious, but can show a softer side to him. Fervus also has a pragmatic streak on him, which makes him consider actions the most practical the best, although this sort of cold decision making is somewhat balanced out by his caring ideals.
((I know you said that a skilled magic user can't become a skilled warrior, but this guy's magic is practically applicable only to his fighting and nothing else, so can his magical power be accepted?))
(I dont know basically any staff here, so I'll just say that Kagura is a good RP creator))
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), she gifted zolan a dagger that would freeze anything and everything it would touch, upon arriving in the new kingdom he tore his cloths and even wounded himself acting and telling the fake tale of what had happened to him and his crew including the king, and that he is the sole survivor, he joined the elite squad so that one day he might get enough riches to buy a army of his own and gain control of his homeland once again, he tends bid sedita and will follow her every command (i would like if someone could act as her at time)
