I was feeling left out without a topic for this.
Background:
name: Seryntas - age: 22 - eyes: brown - hair: short, black -
height: 5’10†– weight: 240 lbs.
Seryntas was born, thanks to the rather badly thought-out meddling of the Elemaeran God of Fire, Krad, on a farm in central Doma. Krad was – or at least he tried – fulfilling the mysterious Seventh Prophecy, which speaks of a warrior who will rise on another world to bring forth a new golden age for the humans of Elemaer. Krad decided that he should make sure the warrior was fit for the task, so the god decided to create the warrior himself, using a template he’d created based on Elemaeran DNA. This caused problems. The DNA makeup of no two species is exactly alike, especially when they evolve in parallel realities. Plus, Krad had never thought of one situation.
Twins.
Seryntas and his brother, Sarakir, had a relatively pleasant early life in their rural home. Their amazing ability to build muscle mass at twice the speed of the average man helped them do hard farm work with ease. However, Sarakir began to shirk his chores, leaving Seryntas to pick up the burden. He also began to gamble, steal, torture animals, get in fights (where he didn’t fight fair), and constantly harass Seryntas for being the perfect little angel of the family.
Seryntas himself was hardly angelic in any way. Before his twelfth birthday, Seryntas began to hear voices in his head, terrible voices that commanded him to commit unspeakable acts. He began to slowly lose his grip on reality, becoming more and more introverted as he fought a silent, invisible battle against the demons of schizophrenia in his own head. He eventually developed the ability to ignore, to a degree, the voices in his head, which still to this day cajole him constantly. His constant and unceasing internal harassment make him almost always irritable, and give him a rather wide nasty streak. However, this pales in comparison to the utter and willful blackness of Sarakir’s soul.
When the twins were 19, Sarakir finally went too far. Consumed by utter hatred for his family and their entire way of life, Sarakir brutally murdered his father and rather craftily framed Seryntas for the crime. Seryntas was banished from his home. He left without turning back until he reached a hill about a half-mile away, on the far edge of the farm. He turned to see the house in flames, and knew almost immediately what had happened. He was an orphan, and it was all Sarakir’s fault.
Seryntas traveled to Doma City, where he became a bounty hunter, working constantly to better his skills in combat so he could one day find Sarakir and defeat him, avenging his family and redeeming his soul.
Further complicating Seryntas’ situation, Krad did not intend to ignore his creation for very long. One day while tracking a rather elusive criminal, Seryntas fell and hit his head on a rock in a forest. He became unconscious. He woke up a scant few minutes later in what appeared to him at first to be the same forest. However, he was completely naked and he noticed before long that the forest he saw around him was quite unlike the one he’d left. It was much warmer, and the tree species around him were different, most suited to the climate. Covering his naked manhood with leaves, he walked until he could find someone and ask them where he was.
Seryntas eventually did find someone in that forest, a beautiful woman who revealed herself to be the Herald of Krad, God of Fire. Seryntas was on Elemaer, a world in a completely different reality. She told Seryntas of the strange circumstances of his birth and of his destiny. She clothed him in a fine robe and took him to the great City of As’nar, where she told Great Burning Master Jadren Aeg-Tir that Seryntas was the Warrior of the Seventh Prophecy and a favorite of Krad. Seryntas was inducted into the Order of Fire at age 21, making him the oldest Initiate in the history of Elemaer. However, Seryntas’ new Elemaeran body proved to have all the magnificent muscle-building powers of his Gaeran body, and more, including enhanced speed and muscle reaction. That wasn’t the only improvement over his Gaeran form, either. Krad had transferred Seryntas’ personality and memory to the brain of his new body, but little else, as the rest of the nervous system had been personally crafted by the god. It didn’t take Seryntas long to realize that not only was his schizophrenia cured, he retained information faster and more completely, his reflexes were much faster than they had been, and his abilities for logic and creativity were greatly enhanced. It took him a mere four years to rise to the rank of Burning Master, making his ascension the fastest in the history of Elemaer, and his age of 25 made him the youngest Burning Master in two hundred years.
Seryntas spent twenty un-aging years on Elemaer, studying battle strategy, Fire magic, and sword techniques before the Herald returned to him, informing him that it was time to return to Gaera. She handed him a golden amulet with a single ruby in it and laid him down on his bed. He drifted off to sleep but woke up soon enough with a throbbing pain in his head. He was back in his old armor, in his old body, on his old planet, with his old brain, nursing a bump caused by hitting a rock twenty years ago. He wondered if Elemaer had only been a dream until he realized that the Herald’s amulet was wound around his gauntleted wrist. Returning to Doma, he found that no time had passed at all since he’d left, and the criminal he was after was still at large (he was caught two days later, but not by Seryntas).
Seryntas soon realized that not only could he still cast a few of the spells he’d learned on Elemaer (using a technique not unlike normal Gaeran arcane magic), but that the amulet the Herald had given him could bring his consciousness back to Elemaer for short periods at a time. Seryntas continued to look for Sarakir and honed his new-found magic, knowing he would need it in the final confrontation with his brother.
--Basics--
Name: Seryntas
RPer: SpleenInfinity13
Race: Human
Level: 1
XP: 0/1000
Max HP: 80
Max MP: 25
Max TP: 20
Initiative 6+2d6
--Attributes--
Courage +3
Wisdom +1
Intuition 0
Charisma (-2)
Agility +3
Dexterity +3
Strength +6
Stamina +5
Magic Aptitude: 2
Base AT/PA - 12
Modified for skill – 14/14
Modified for equipment - 6/5
Equipment:
Greatsword – T/S/C 13, 19, 25 – -2/-1 – Weight 6 – Strength Requirement +4
Mythril Plate – 60 AC – -5/-5 – Durability 100 – Weight 10 – Strength Requirement +2
Plate Bracers – 30 AC – -1/-2 – Durability 20 – Weight 2.5 – Strength Requirement +2
Pot Helmet – 15 AC – 0/-1 – Durability 10 – Weight 2 – Strength Requirement +1
Weapon Damage - Greatsword
Thrusting - 19 +1d6
Slashing- 31 +2d4
Chopping - 43 +2d6
--Skills--
Weapon (Greatsword) <Cou/Agi/Str>: 4
[s]Two-Handed Weapon Fighting: 4 (cost: 2)
Elemaeran Fire Magic <Int/Wis/Mag>: 4
[k]Agriculture and Farming: 4 (cost: 2)
[s]Drinking <Sta>: 2 (cost: 1)
Intimidation <Cou/Cou/Int>: 3
Wrestling <Str/Sta/Agi>: 3
[k]Combat Strategy: 2 (cost: 1)
[s]Parrying <Cou/Agi/Dex>: 4 (cost: 2)
--Spells/Techs--
(NOTE: All spells with two or more numbers, names, etc. separated by a slash are parts of the same spell group. The numbers do not refer to fractions, but to values for multiple spells of the same group.)
[Wrestling=1]Defense Breaker (2 TP) – Seryntas slams his armored, muscled bulk into an enemy in an attempt to knock them off their balance and decrease their ability to defend against his attacks. An enemy so struck needs a Stamina or Agility roll (whichever stat is higher) to not be knocked down. Not all enemies can be knocked down this way, and the GM determines what can or can’t, and the requisite rolls for what can.
[Intimidation=2]Battle Cry (2 TP) – Seryntas screams the battle cry of the Order of Fire, "Ji'il Krad turye az-darak!" ("By the fiery wrath of Krad!"). Enemies with low COU must make a check or take penalties from fear (of this huge armored man yelling like a maniac), as determined by the GM.
[Wrestling=3]Subdue (4 TP) – Seryntas uses his skill at wrestling to hold an opponent down long enough to, for example, bludgeon them into unconsciousness.
[Elemaeran Fire Magic=1/3]Lesser/Minor Burning Wrath (4/10 MP) – Fiery power awakens in the muscles of the caster, which temporarily increases his or her Strength and Agility. Minor Burning Wrath is more effective than Lesser Burning Wrath.
[Elemaeran Fire Magic=2/4]Lesser/Minor Burning Weapon (6/14 MP) – The caster’s weapon is engulfed in fire, adding flame damage to his or her attack. The weapon need not be flammable, and it is not consumed. It also produces light as though it were a torch. Minor Burning Weapon is more effective than Lesser Burning Weapon.
[Elemaeran Fire Magic=1/3]Lesser/Minor Fire Bolt (6/14MP) – The caster fires an exploding ball of flame from his or her hands. Lesser Fire Bolt has a 4-inch diameter, Minor Fire Bolt has an 8-inch diameter. Minor Fire Bolt is more effective than Lesser Fire Bolt.
[Elemaeran Fire Magic=3]Lesser Flaming Shell (10 MP) – The caster surrounds him or herself with a sphere of flames. This sphere seems almost solid (but not hard) to attacks from the outside, but the caster can still interact (and fight) with the world around him or her at no cost. Visibility is slightly hindered by the flames of the sphere. The flames can be damaging to wooden weapons and to body parts. The caster can create holes in the sphere at will.
[Elemaeran Fire Magic=1/3]Lesser/Minor Ignite (4/10 MP) – The caster channels heat through their body (which does no damage to the caster) in an attempt to light an object (such as a torch) on fire. The object must be flammable and touched by the caster’s hand to be ignited. The ignited object acts as though it had been lit through mundane means (such as coming in contact with a lit torch).
I would really like someone who knows PS to tell me if those are reasonable numbers for the spell costs, based on the descriptions of the spells.
EDIT: Totally redid the description of Battle Cry.
EDIT2: Redid the background in one fell swoop. <p>"Especially when you put them up to your eyes and said, 'Look at me, I have chocobo testicles for eyes!'"
-Nezetta (Shinigori)</p>Edited by: [url=http://pub30.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=spleeninfinity13>SpleenInfinity13</A] at: 2/15/04 12:56 pm