Etheriest Villain Contest

Hello and Welcome to the Etheriest Villain Contest! I will be opening a new role-play later this year (the Etheriest Role-Play) and it is need of villains. What better way to have more varied villains in a role-play than to have various creators? Check out the Etheriest Discussion Thread to learn about the role-play's setting and if there isn't enough setting information about the setting in there, simply post your questions in that topic and I'll answer all inquiries that you have.

Should you participate in this event, your character will be used in the role-play at some point in time, regardless if you win or not. The top three placements, however, will become some of the main villains that are more involved within the plot. If you're interested in this event, please feel free to post your submission in this thread during the contest period. Your character will be considered in the voting process if all of the contest rules are followed.

An important thing to understand is that I will be using all submissions as the role-play's creator and will not be usable by any other member without prior permission. In other words, your creations will be in my hands and if you have a problem with that or if it makes you uncomfortable, this isn't the contest for you. Otherwise, enjoy the event!

Contest Rules

• One character submission per member.
• Use the layout listed below.
• Use all of the requirements expressed in the layout sample below.
• Your villain submission must not be too similar in concept to one that is already submitted.
• Etheriest Powers/Abilities must be limited to a single, specific gift.
• The character must fit into the role-play setting.
• No weapons, unless your character has no offensive abilities whatsoever.
• No guns.

Character Layout Information

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Etheriest Villain

Name: List your character's name and/or nickname(s).
Age: List your character's age and how old they appear, physically.
Gender: List your character's gender and gender identity.
Appearance: Describe your character's height, weight, hair and eye color, skin color, and general clothing choices. A picture can be added, but all of the information must also be provided.

Occupation: What is your character's job? If they don't have one, who supports them?
Residence: Do you live in a house, apartment, or dormitory?
Abilities:/Skills: All combative and non-combative skills, hobbies, and interests should be listed here.
Weapons (if any): What weapons do you have? What are your weapon proficiencies?

Etheriest Class: EC1-5, Choose One
Etheriest Ability: What is your power called? Ex. "Fury Fire," "Stone Retribution," etc.
Ability Description: Describe your ability and provide examples of how it will be used, both in and out of battle. At least eight lines (in preview of a post) must be written to provide details on how the ability works. Then, you must list three weaknesses and three strengths of of this ability, in general. (Ex. Movement limitations, Range limitations, Target limitations, etc.)


Signature Spells/Abilities: These are abilities or spells that only this NPC can use. No other character that has a similar ability will be able to use them. There must be at least three lines explaining what each spell does and what casting it looks like.
• Spell/Ability 1 (Begginer Etheriest)
• Spell/Ability 2 (Stable Etheriest)
• Spell/Ability 3 (Experienced Etheriest)
• Spell/Ability 4 (Advanced Etheriest)
• Spell/Ability 5 (Master Etheriest)

Personality: To complete this field, please complete this Personality Test and answer each question as if you were your character. Then, take the quiz results and use them to assist you in explaining your character's personality with detail.

What is this NPC's personality? What are their quirks? Motivations? Fears? You must have at least six lines of text written to provide enough detail for my use.

Back Story: What is the history of your NPC and how do they fit into the setting? You must have at least five lines of text written to provide enough back story for my use.

Etheriest Villain

Name: Rubin Hagring
Age: 17
Gender: M
Appearance: 5ft 9in tall, 98 lbs, Brown hair that's short in the front and braided into a pony tail in the back, Steele Blue eyes, Light-skinned, Usually wears an assortment of dress-casual trousers and short-sleeved shirts with comfortable leather shoes, but he often likes to dress in the fashion shown in the picture when going out and about.

Spoiler:

Occupation: Student, Test subject and Recruiter
Residence: 2-room apartment 5 miles from Delacroix University
Abilities:/Skills: Knowledgeable in aura and ether, skilled in etheriest combat as well as hand-to-hand combat, particularly in Sambo and Judo, high charisma and social skills, able to use his words to manipulate others, partakes in swimming as a sport
Weapons (if any): N/A

Etheriest Class: EC2
Etheriest Ability: Shadow Force
Ability Description: Call upon the shadows to fight for the user. The shadows take whatever form the user imagines while moving as swift as air and silent as a moth. The shadows normally appear gaseous, but they are as tangible as liquid water. The size and number of shadows depends on the skill and mental fortitude of the user. Of course, the longer the shadows remain summoned, the more ether is consumed. The shadows can also travel along surfaces as if they're naturally occurring, but they have a distinctively cold feeling. They absorb incoming light, but intense light forces them to retreat.

Signature Spells/Abilities:
• Whisp - Summons 1 or more thinly figured, humanoid shadows to fight for, and defend the summoner. They normally use melee attacks, using simple, straightforward fighting techniques. Whisps weaponnize their limbs by turning them into blades, claws, axes, etc. But the range of weapons is only limited by the summoner's immagination. When summoned, whisps can act on their own, or follow commands from the summoner.

• Chilling Grasp - Summons a shadow to latch itself onto the user's arm and take the form of large talons. The taloned appendage can extend as far as the user can command, so long as the user has enough ether. The strength of the talons depends on the skill and mental fortitude of the user, with an EC1 user being able to crush rocks or snap elephant bones.

• Black Night - Summons a massive shadow in the shape of a warrior in ironclad armor. It protects its summoner using a large convex shield and a spear that's as tall as the shadow itself. The guardian stands close to its master, blocking physical and magical non-piercing attacks.

• Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia – Sends forth 2 shadows, each taking the shape of the mythical siren. They travel along the ground, weaving and swerving enchantingly towards their target(s). Once the target makes contact with the shadows, they wrap themselves around the victim in a constricting embrace of death.
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Personality: Despite Rubin's ominous ability, the etheriest is open and sociable with those that he speaks with. He's open to talking about anything except the training facility and what occurs there. He especially enjoys talking about thriller movies and mythology. Unusually optimistic at times, Ruben almost always wears a smile that can warm the heart, and instill fear. It’s hard to get on Ruben’s bad side, but whenever he’s experiencing withdrawal from his “supplements”, he becomes increasingly aggressive and peevish. Due to his mild selfishness and unique upbringing, Ruben is more comfortable using morally subjective methods to achieve his goals. During a fight, Ruben likes to push himself and his opponent to the point of risking both of their lives, treating every combat as a way to test his and his opponent’s strength.

Back Story: Born to a single mother who works at a discrete training and research facility, Ruben spent his childhood learning how to use his ether ability to kill in the most efficient way possible. As soon as his ability manifested, he trained and trained under the guidance of a drill sergeant and other instructors, turning his ether, and his own body, into a slaughter machine. All the while, Ruben was studied by researchers looking for a way to push the boundaries of etheriest combat, and give their government’s army the upper hand.

In this facility, often referred to as "The Crucible" by its members and staff, test subjects eat, drink, and sleep onsite. The Crucible is hidden out in the middle of the wilderness with personnel and supplies transported by ground or by air. Due to the exploitative nature of the research's results, everyone involved are sworn to an oath of secrecy, and subjects are rarely allowed to leave the complex. In order to keep their subjects "complacent", researchers try catering to their member's hobbies and interests, permitting time after training and benchmarking to relax and wind down. All the while, subjects are periodically given supplements that boost physical strength as well as making one more sensitive to his/her aura. These supplements are intentionally infused with psychoactive chemicals that produce a sensation of dependency and anxiety after a certain amount of time passes. When one experiences withdrawal from their supplement, the effects depend on the individual.

Thanks to funding from a certain source, The Crucible offers plenty of room, good food, solid equipment, and security, but the only thing that isn't offered to its subjects is freedom. Usually, subjects learn to accept their environment and actually appreciate it, but the more rebellious subjects end up either isolated for further study or preserved in cryo-stasis for some extreme experiments.

Ruben came to know many other etheriests through the research program, but nobody was closer to him than his mother, Hestia. Despite the grueling training, Hestia always comforted her son, encouraging him to find positivity in any situation. Even though Hestia registered her child for the research program, she never let anyone treat Ruben like he was less human. Thanks to her administrative powers, she was able to protect Ruben from some of the atrocities that other subjects had to face.

Once Ruben was old enough to act on his own, he was entrusted with group convoy missions and recruiting young ether users that didn’t have somewhere to call their home. He usually visited orphanages and juvenile delinquent centers with an adult to handle the paperwork. Ruben acted as the welcoming hand, helping new recruits ease their way into the program while having someone to converse with.

Once Ruben was old enough to enroll in the nearby university, Hestia insisted he spend some time with people outside of the training facility. She didn’t take no for an answer, so Ruben agreed to enroll while keeping his business with the research program secret.

Etheriest Villain

Name: Legal: Torrin Caprio. Pseudonym: Torrino.

Age: 27

Gender: M

Appearance: Torrino is a tall lanky man about 6’3 and 165 lbs. He is very artist and not afraid to change his colorful wardrobe. His hair is short in the back, but longer on top. He colors it a lot too, so it is hard to determine his real hair. His wardrobe varies like his hair color. It can vary from a nice button down shirt and slacks during a shoot, to gala like tuxedo, to jeans and a t-shirt when he is in the office.

Spoiler:

Occupation: Photographer.

Residence: Penthouse in a hotel

Abilities:/Skills: He is a social butterfly and has nose into everything. He is well known and highly sought after photographer. He may be lanky, but can defend himself if the needs arises. He knows Tae Kwon Do. He has no ether abilities.

Weapons (if any): He has a dagger and pocket knives for protection.

Etheriest Class: NA
Etheriest Ability:NA
Ability Description:NA
Signature Spells/Abilities:
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Personality:: He is sort of a split personality. To the world he is a quirky enigmatic fun loving photographer to models. He seems to love the social life. He is seen as highly attractive and both the women and men love him. He keeps his staff (including Sophie Chiodo) on their toes with his ever changing schedule. Although personally he is just the opposite. His studio itself is not very large, and he is not followed by an entourage. After all the work and socializing is done, he love to grab a beer and read a book. He does not watch TV.

Back Story: He is a former photojournalist for a news company. He didn’t like the politics or the life, so he switched jobs. He is well verse with people and still keeps up with politics, but he has nothing to do with politicians. He also hates Etherists. He thinks ether abilities are unnatural and should be controlled.

Etheriest Villain

Name: Sisal Carboros Vesper
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Race: Keltan Fire-Wolf, a type of Ether Beast. Permitted to be Created by Leah
Appearance: Sisal is somewhat small for a Keltan Fire-Wolf, being only slightly larger than even the largest of ordinary wolves. She has a fairly ordinary timber grey patterning to her fur. Her fur darkens at her ears and near the tip of her tail to a dark black. The areas around her paws, muzzle, throat and belly lighten to an almost pure white though they're often dark grey or dull white due to soot or dirt. Her scent is often coupled with or overpowered by the smell of smoke due to her power and sometimes stroking her fur will stain clothing or their hands with soot or ash.

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Occupation: Pack Leader/Sensei/Mother
Residence:Roams vast distances with her pack, though her home territory is hidden deep in the mountains away from human settlements.
Abilities:/Skills: Hunting, Tracking, Hiding, Moving Silently, Running and Survival. Knows the names and appearances of many plants and animals found in various climates, particularly Mountains, Forests, Swamps and Plains. Knows and can teach complex sword techniques and training exercises known almost exclusively among the Keltan people.
Knows how to raise the young, Wolf, Keltan, or Fire-Wolf alike. Good at the subtler arts of diplomacy, and intimidation. Knows how to cremate the dead. Heavily practiced in torture, particularly through the use of fire. Last Sisal is also knowledgeable in simple herbal remedies and how to tend to the injured or wounded (though she may be limited in her ability to actually perform the actions necessary herself)
Weapons (if any): Lacking hands, fingers or thumbs, Sisal really only can use her teeth or her paws to attack her foes.

Etheriest Class: EC1
Etheriest Ability: Force Flame
Ability Description: The ability to create, manipulate, control and suppress fire and flame. Sisal is immune to heat and fire like other true force flame users, this includes fire abilities of other force users. Unlike many other force flame users, Sisal is able to also exert some control over smoke, this is most evident in her signature spells.

These flames can range in color from orange to blue or even almost bright white depending on the intensity of heat. They are often accompanied by hints of/smell of smoke, sometimes with an oily texture or feel. Sisal is able to wreath herself in flames, create them around various parts of her body such as her face or paws or even belch out flames like some sort of mythical dragon. Due to being able to control her flames, she can even create them in a way so they produce unusual amounts of smoke, even without a fuel source.

Sisal can not create fantastic shapes or patterns with her fire abilities like some fire users can, such as flame serpents or artistic works of flame. This could be in large due to her nature as a Keltan Wolf, and her reverence for the more pure natural form of fire. She can continue to create flames for a significant duration of time such as hours or even days, though more intense flames greatly diminish how long she can maintain them.

Using her powers can hamper her vision particularly at night when it is most useful. The oily residue and soot let off by her flames can leave stains which leaves more traces to find. As her power is more primal in nature, Sisal can not choose whom or what her fire does not affect like some other force flame users, this can cause collateral damage, not that she particularly cares.

Signature Spells/Abilities:
• Form Smoke: By breathing in deeply, sisal can use that breath to shape and form existing smoke in the area into the desired shape, and even the semblance of life though it only lasts a few minutes at best. These shapes or structures are not real, and do not become anymore tangible then the smoke they are made of, even if that smoke is dense or tightly packed. Smoke shaped in this way looks and acts as normal smoke held into the desired shape, though it doesn't disperse as easily, though strong winds can disperse them a few dozen seconds.
• Blessing of the Fire Spirit: By placing her nose on the forehead of a person or creature, Sisal can use a large portion of her power to bless them with the Blessing of the Fire-wolves similar to the original blessing that the Fire Spirit did to the first Keltans. It grants a number of fire-wolf like characteristics to the creature, to Humans: Improves sight, hearing, sense of smell as well as heightens their natural instincts and allowing them to communicate with wolf-like creatures. To other Creatures: Improves their strength, size, life span, sight, hearing, sense of smell and intelligence to a human like level, unless their natural ability is already close to that of a Keltan Fire-Wolf. This blessing alters the creatures natural eye color to a silver color, and allows creatures to see in the dark of a similar ability as a wolf. Rarely this can accidentally grant the creature access to the force flame ability, and it becomes hereditary. The strain is incredibly taxing to Sisal, to her it is as taxing as child birth, and she can only do it once or twice a day at most, often needing time to recover. The abilities effectiveness improves on younger creatures who exhibit the greatest change. Older creatures can also be blessed though the effects vary widely, even failing or producing undesired mental side effects or insanity. This ability has no effect on creatures already blessed by other elemental spirits/creatures.
• Perdition's Chains: With a deep snarling growl, Sisal snaps her fangs shut and makes a yanking motion identical to the one wolves do when latching a deer's leg and yanking it's legs out from under it. Smoke then forms around any single target she is looking at within her sight range in the form of smokey ropes and chains. These chains tighten and restrain the creature leaving bruises as they attempt to capture the creature. The true strength of these chains is in that they attempt to suffocate and strangle the creature as well as bind them. These chains work perfectly well against most foes, though any creatures with force abilities tied to the element of fire should beware. Such foes will find it difficult or down right impossible to call upon their fire abilities, and attempting to causes further pain as the chains feed off their aura growing even stronger. Using this ability reduces the effectiveness of her force flame ability's fire abilities, but not her smoke-like ones.
• Feast of Ashes: This ability allows Sisal to gobble up ash, cinders, coals and the like as easily as dog food or kibble. The more she consumes the more her force flame ability strengthens, though this has a limit as it fills her up and nourishes her as normal food does. While using this ability her natural ability to recover wounds and injuries sky rockets. A single full meal can heal injuries as well as a full week of recovery. This in no way grants regeneration, and any lost limbs or organs remain lost. This ability can cause premature aging, though it takes a lot of repeated uses to produce any noticeable effects as it only increases her age by a week at a time.
• Of Smoke and Flame:When Sisal activates this ability, her body appears to be wreathed in flames till it appears she has immolated herself as she lets of a pained scream. The flames then darken, revealing a charred husk that was Sisal. This husk then cracks open and crumples into ash as Sisal emerges from within with a new body, this one made of smoke and the occasional bit of fire that appears to outline her features. The only part that remains constantly aflame is two orbs where her eyes are.
Having temporarily ascended to a pure elemental, she is now impervious to physical attacks and even some forces that create physical attacks as they pass through her harmlessly. While in this form Sisal is more vulnerable to wind based attacks much like how creatures made of fire are harmed more by water or iced based attacks. Water or Ice attacks can cause temporary blindness if they hit her in the face where her flaming eyes are. Sisal's physical attacks are reduced to less than half strength, though her attacks do cause burns in addition when she does injure someone. Giving up much of her physical weapons in this form, does come with another up side, Sisal can now move through areas that she normally could not, such as cracks of windows or holes in walls. She doesn't have weight, which allows her to jump incredible distances/heights, as well as stand on things that couldn't support her normally. She can maintain this form for no more than five minutes, though she can resume this form after using her Feast on Ashes signature spell. This spell doesn't hamper or restrict her force flame powers, though all of her fire attacks produce more smoke than normal.

Personality:Sisal is Forceful, Domineering, Honest and Diligent. She values tradition, hard word, and when others can admit when they are wrong. She can at times seem cruel, or strict, and she's very likely to admit it without any lick of shame. She despises incompetence and laziness, often demanding that they strive ever harder to improve themselves. She is passionate and stubborn, and definitely hard to yield when people try to oppose her view points.
She is very much a leader however, and very into family. She would never abandon those loyal to her even if they continually fail her, she'd just delegate the task to another and work on that persons failings. Her viewpoint is the right one as far as she is concerned, but if her opposition is strong enough to not yield she can find herself willing to listen.
Oddly enough, she struggles with wanting to spoil younger children and infants, often forcing herself to be harsh enough to prepare them for the cruel world outside. Sisal can't bring herself to kill an infant, often adopting them or abandoning them to the mercies of fate. Many a child has been adopted after Sisal finished off their parents.
She enjoys torturing those she is against, drawing out their pain and suffering, something she is good at. Sisal will often tail or have someone watched to learn about their habits and personalities, just to be able to taunt and deride them even further when she chooses just the right moment to go after them. However when she decides to go after someone, that person is not going to come out of it on the other side, and she'll end it prematurely if she needs to, just to avoid problems. If she has to cut her plans short, she'll be snappy and spiteful for days or weeks, often being harsher than she intends. She has a severe problem letting slights or wrongs go, often resorting to getting even, often forcefully.

Back Story:
Starting off at the very beginning, Sisal is the Daughter of a Fire-wolf father and natural wolf mother who unfortunately died during the birthing process, a very common occurrence when the mother is a common wolf. Only two of her other liter mates made it, having come out before her. It is very likely any others where lost after the strain of birthing two fire-wolves. Sisal has two siblings, a brother fire-wolf named Aiden Sorbrac , and a sister wolf named Mirah Faessonosh. For the first year following their birth they remained with their mother's pack. After Mirah had grown sufficiently, their father then left the pack with Aiden and Sisal to the Keltan lands and villages to be around more of their own kind and properly bring them up.
The first few months were difficult, as both Aiden and Sisal had to adapt to their new environment. It was harder to adjust to being around humans, but the Keltans where not normal humans and had an almost wolf-like nature to them. The handlers where very happy to help raise the two young firewolves. Sisal eventually learned that their kind was running out, and fewer were being born, or they chose to retreat into seclusion.
For ten or more years, the newness and interesting nature of the Keltans kept Sisal interested. She was often paired with younger children as it appeared she was most gentle with them. The older they became however the more harsh or sometimes cruel she was to them. That first year among the wolves had left a huge impact on her during her formative youth, and Sisal often sat behind the fact of how cruel the outside world could be.
Sisal fought hard to keep herself a part of the culture by absorbing the techniques and practices that the Humans did. However there was always that nagging problem in the back of her mind. The problem probably was Sisal was rooted deep in herself. The disparity in her own force flame power among the keltans could almost make sense, they where humans. However Sisal's force flame stood out as an oddity even among the few fire-wolf. Force flame users didn't possess power over smoke, but Sisal did, and it made her stand out. Eventually these disparities would become a problem.

Both her and the Keltans were blessed by the Fire-spirit, but after awhile it became obvious that whatever path they were walking was the wrong one. Though the fire-wolves all possessed the force flame powers, their numbers kept dwindling, and most were half-breeds like Sisal. Even the Keltans' powers were on the decline. Fewer and fewer were born with fire magic, and even those few weren't immune to fire, another sign that the fire spirit was abandoning them. These little problems started out small, but they always ate away at Sisal. The first warning sign was when Sisal stopped giving out blessings, even to children. When she broke into an argument with the Elder about her continue argument about how the Keltans had fallen out of favor with the Firespirit, it was the last straw. Sisal only stayed for so long due to her attachment to children which she adored.

Having left the Keltans, she wandered for a considerable time. This alienated her more, as she was left to her own thoughts. Her problems with normal humans escalated as she often ventured too close to human settlements. Eventually this drove her out into seclusion, away from humans. Her attempts to find the Fire-Spirit itself proved pointless, but it escalated when she went to the Keltan temple to the fire spirit. The fire spirit had long abandoned the temple, leaving it to the Keltans. When Sisal observed them, she was driven to maddens. When had they wandered off the path of true worship? When did they start merely worshiped it out of tradition, not because they truly believed? Sisal gave them one last test, it was simple: Survive a trail by fire, all others would be devoured. That was when Sisal first gave in and became a man-eater.

Sisal slew the priests and shrine maidens of the temple and feasted on their ashes. This increased her powers to impressive levels, helping her break to the frightening strength on par with an EC1. Her powers overpowered even her own fellow firewolves who came too late, into a smoke filled temple. Even her brother's attempts to talk her down, only enraged her. Though she was driven out by her brother, Aiden too, would succumb to his wounds. Driven away and afraid of the retaliation of her kin, she would seek seclusion far away in the mountains away from humans.

She took over another wolf pack, and she began to grant her blessing to them. This helped her learn more about how the blessing worked, and it helped her get away from being utterly alone. Then one Year during a particularly hard and long winter, she was forced to desperate measures. She led her pack against one of her constant sources of annoyance, a reclusive monastery. The first assault was the most brutal, but the humans and their dogs proved too much for them and she had to retreat. Driven with a need for revenge caused more attempts to destroy them, which also ended in failure. The mastiffs within were well trained and killed her pack. Sisal survived alone by using her powers to kept keep her alive, resorting to hit and run attacks till she ended up whittling them down and destroying them.

Now victorious, she claimed the temple. The only survivors would be those that would call to her mercy, the young. These she adopted, raised and blessed. In time she would take a second mate, something very hard to accept against her instincts. Her mate would be one of the survivors of her arch-nemesis, one of the strongest and best blessed among those she helped raised. When does a child become someone so strong and reliable that you can't live without them? Howl would become that indispensable, and the father of their children Tibetan Mastiff/Wolf children. He was good around children, even the humans that Sisal kept adopting on her trips.

Sisal became a mother and mentor to her new clan. With the Blessing of the Fire-Spirit and the techniques of the Keltans, Sisal would bide her time. However not even Sisal will forget the Keltans attempts to hunt her down, nor the will of the Fire Spirit. All fires eventually die, and the Keltans themselves were nothing but flickering embers of their old glory.

Etheriest Villain

Name: Clarisse Wahl, AKA "The Justicar" or "Right Hand Justicar"
Age: 28
Gender: Cis-Gendered Female
Appearance: Alias: 8ft, 210lbs; Yellow/Blonde Hair, Caucasian; Eyes Unknown; Face Unknown; Always seen in the following outfit and mask:

The Justicar:

Identity: 5'5ft, 143lbs; White Hair, Caucasian; Green Eyes; Usually seen in pale, pastel-like colors and in dresses and skirts of various styles, cultures, and eras. She's a huge history buff and really loves to show that through clothing, wearing clothing that is as historically accurate as she is able.

Clarisse:

Occupation: Museum Conservator/Restorer for the Coldrion Museum of History & Art
Residence: Two-Bedroom Apartment; Roommate Wanted
Abilities:/Skills: Appraisal, Bluffing, Diplomacy, Disguise, Flight, Halberg Proficiency, Intimidation, Knowledge (Arcana, Dungeoneering, History, Nobility/Heraldry), Linguistics, Poetry, Reading, Theater/Acting, & Writing
Weapons (if any): Halberg (As Shown in Justicar Image)

Etheriest Class: EC1
Etheriest Ability: Justicar Alteration
Ability Description: This ability allows Clarisse to alter her own body's appearance, but this is not varied in appearance. She can only make specific changes, as expressed below. Essentially, her only shape changes that she can make are the ones that allow her to appear exactly as she does in the image for "The Justicar" above, which is severely limited, when compared to other shape changing capabilities. However, due to the severe limit of her ability to shift/shape change, her power does allow her to keep her disguise for longer periods of time than most shape changers could ever manage.

Her hair becomes long, straight, and yellow, her face becomes eyeless in appearance (as if a layer of skin grew over her eye sockets), but she can still see, she can grow either one or two wings, (which adds bone and additional weight and balance changes to her body), added height, and skin markings of a light, pale blue and white colors formed in abstract shapes and designs on her legs and arms.

Strengths: Extensive Disguise, Flight Capabilities, & Ether Duration
Weaknesses: Clothing Limitations (Cannot replicate clothing via magic), Vision Limitation (disguise lowers vision clarity), & Limited Shape Shifting

Signature Spells/Abilities:
• Justicar's Strength -- Due to her ability to change her body, she can also add to her strength momentarily in short bursts. This occurs when she changes her body's muscles in certain areas to allow for greater strength when attacking an enemy or lifting heavy objects.
• Armour Drain -- The Justicar's outfit is not normal clothing by any means. Rather, it is a form of Ether Tech woven into her outfit that allows her to negate an Ether ability upon contact with her physical body. However, when the clothing nullifies a magical attack, it drain's the wearers Ether in order to do so. Additionally, it must be recharged because its ability is not permanent.
• Weapon Drain -- The Justicar's Halberg is also Ether Tech that allows the woman to light the end of the weapon's blade up magically with a vibrant yellow and white light while she is fighting and/or posing. This also drains from her Ether when used and must also be recharged after used a few times for the same reasons as her armor.
• One-Winged Battle -- During battle with her weapon, the Justicar often uses her single wing as an advantage during any instance that she can. When remaining stalwart against a charge, for example, she uses the wing to leverage against the ground and prevent her from being knocked prone. She's also been known to use it as a shield against blunt attacks, though this is damaging to her. However, a damaged wing is often better to deal with than a damaged arm or torso.
• Two-Winged Battle -- The Justicar will use a second wing most often when she feels the need to fly. Flight allows her to gain a height advantage over her enemies when striking at them with her Halberg. When in close quarters combat, she can use her wings to push enemies away unless they are directly in front of her and uses them as shields for allies, should she ever have any, as well as shields for herself.

Personality: As Clarisse on the surface, she is kind-hearted, patient, sweet, compassionate, and loving. This is how she was before ever darkening her own methods as the Justicar, but she still acts as though she is the same person now that her opinions of her work has changed. She often makes smaller jokes, laughs at jokes that she doesn't even find funny, compliments others frequently, and is incredibly shy when around attractive men.

As the Justicar, she is fierce and cold with confident, glorious posture and a sense of her own respect and honor. She used to speak often in the field and warn her enemies, often to try to convince them to halt or surrender. She never liked to harm someone if she didn't have to and frequently did as less damage as possible while incapacitating her foes. Now, however, the Justicar strikes her enemies swiftly and violently and rarely speaks. When she does speak, however, it generally consists of threatening promises and dark wishes of her own kind of justice.

Back Story: Clarisse is an only child that grew up with a privileged, middle-class life and loving parents. After school, her passions merged into history and art, so she went straight to college and earned a six-year degree in order to work for a museum and surrounded herself in the worlds of the past that she loved so much.

Now that she has successfully finished her degree, moved out of her parents, and struck out on her own with a steady job, she simply searches for what else life can bring her as she independently strives to reach the greatest understandings of the past and of relevant historical events and how they have effected the way of life today.

In the Justicar's younger years of being known in the open to the public, she was known as a local superhero. She fought crime when she could, often working with the local police department and homicide detectives to bring down those that eluded the law. Due to her popularity with the people of Coldrion, she was quite the public figure and even had an Publicity Agent to assist her with dealing with the Press and other social events.

All of this work allowed the Justicar to grow in power from experience, rather than from schooling as she rose from an EC5 to an EC2 Etheriest. She was proud of her work and of her position as a superhero, but she told no one in her personal life of who she really was.

Unfortunately, a time came when the Justicar faced an enemy with a hostage situation and when trying to calm the criminal down until a Negotiator arrived, the man murdered one of his hostages before her with a sick enjoyment. Instantly, the Justicar reacted in a way that she never had before--she struck the man down and killed him in cold blood.

From then on, she hid from the authorities and did what she does best: she tracked down criminals and murdered them for their transgressions. Although her reputation slowly shifted from one of a superhero to that of a vigilante and a murderess, she did not care and she did not stop.

After the founding of CETE, the Justicar became one of the department's highest priorities: A policing force with Etheriests seemed to be like fire fighting fire and the people of the city made it clear that it was expected of them to take her down. However, after four years of playing cat and mouse, she has merely risen up on their wanted list as her death counts pile up.

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Etheriest Villain

Name: Rochelle D'grennar (Row-shell * Duh-gren-er), AKA "Lionesse" (Lee-uh-ness)
Age: 24
Gender: Cis-Gendered Female
Appearance: 5'8, 140lbs; Brown Hair, Brown Skin, Golden Yellow Eyes
Generally seen in golds, creme colors, and deep, royal purple clothing. Her outfit styles and jewelry are generally described as "eccentric." She has a gold tattoo on her right cheek that is the symbol of her Zodiac, the Leo.

Lionesse:

Occupation: Aspiring President & Dictator; Singer & Actress Celebrity
Residence: In Her Tour Bus
Abilities:/Skills: Singing, Acting, Bluff, Diplomacy,
Weapons (if any): N/A

Etheriest Class: EC5
Etheriest Ability: The Lion's Unmaking, AKA "The Eclipse" Power
Ability Description: The Lion's Unmaking is a power that is simply destruction. Taking no true form, it can appear to react and act in various ways, but it is essentially a dark energy that saps away life, light, and creation.

With this power, Lionesse can destroy anything and anyone via contact with her body and up to sixty feet in distance from her body. If there is light, she can distinguish it. If there is a clock, she can separate it into it's original parts and pieces. If there is an annoying human, she can disintegrate their skin--or under prolonged contact, their organs and bones.

Damage dealt to a target at a distance must share some form of vessel with which to transfer her destruction. For example, if a target is sixty feet away on the ground, she can reach them through the very ground or floor that they both stand on, which will also take considerable damage along the way. Her power's passage will be visible, and therefore the enemy would be forewarned and be able to dodge/move out of the way.

If there is nothing connecting Lioness from her target in the distance that separates them (such as a flying target), she will be unable to harm them until she finds a form of contact that is physical. Magical connections cannot be used to channel her destruction through. Air cold become a channel, but only at advanced EC2 experience.

Signature Spells/Abilities:
• Anger's Pride - When Lionesse becomes angry or if her pride is battered or insulted, her power tends to strike up without any thought, which "ignites" her hair, hands, and feet with a black, liquid fire. Also, a thick, dark miasma seems to emanate from her entire body, which can make it difficult to see and breathe within fifteen feet of her body. If touched by the liquid fire in this state, the target(s) will burn, as if touched by acid.

Personality: Rochelle is a person of the people--or so she'd have everyone believe. As a very charismatic and fun-loving individual, she knows just what the people like to see and hear, so she's been using that to her advantage for as long as she can remember. She knows just how to charm whom and highly skilled with her lies.

In fact, she's become so well practiced at lies, much of her history and childhood memories are so confusing and she can hardly ever remember which version of her past is the truth and which part is fantasy. Not that he past matters--Rochelle is a woman of the present and what was will never be relevant enough for what is, even with the many lessons that it has taught her.

Despite her charisma, once anyone gets to know this girl soon learns the truth of her--she is arrogant, prideful, self-conceited, demanding, a perfectionist, and highly critical. Additionally, Rochell has a severely short fuse--she can switch from perfectly calm to anger grenade in half a second and when she's mad, you steer clear. No one likes Rochelle when she's angry.

Back Story:
With her acting and sociology studies from college, Rochelle quickly became a star as the lead singer of the band "Etheria Sparks" and has been in the top ten of the music charts for the past six months. However, her other overshadowed band-mates all split from the band and formed a band separate from Lionesse just within the past week, for reasons that were never put on record. In fact, when asked by several channels of the press, the band members all refused to comment, stating that it was a personal matter and insisting that the decision had nothing to do with the rising rock star singer that they were best known for.

Unfortunately, the three band members died three days later from a horrific car accident and, according to police reports, all evidence reported to driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. When approached with this news, Lionesse was quick to make a tearful, live statement of her regret of having left the band (because it was apparently her choice to leave, not theirs), as well as the pain of her loss--she expressed distraught and surprise at their use of drugs, saying that it was "unlike them to their cores" to turn to drugs or alcohol for fun or stress release. The families of the men also agreed with this statement.

As far as motivations go, Rochelle has known since she was....ten years old?...that she is a Queen. A Queen that the world should not only revolve around, but appreciate and love. She is currently running for President, where she hopes to not only rule the country, but soon overtake the neighboring Japanese country by hammering down their dictatorship and making it her own. With the power of two countries and the lives of millions under her thumb, Lionesse intends to make love, war, and everything between with smooth manipulation--in fact, she desires to "re-vamp" the entire population so that it will reflect her ideals, her way of life, and of course, her stylish good looks.

Etheriest Villain

Name: Nuri Cioe (Pronounced "Cho-eh")
Age: 26
Gender: F
Appearance: 5ft 10in tall, 145lbs, Fair skinned with short, slick, and black hair. Brown eyes. Lean, muscular build, although it’s often hidden under her traditional priestess robes. Under her robes, she often wears a fancy sleeveless vest over a mesh body suit. She also wears tight-fitting, black trousers under baggy, white pants, and hard-soled slippers.

When not in her priestess outfit, she still wears her slippers and pants, but she also wears burnt umber blouse with a large black bow tied just above the chest. Always wrapped around her left wrist is a set of 3 bracelets of differing colors, all interwoven into each other. Resting on the center of the bow is a rounded sapphire, its gold encasing pinned to the fabric.

Occupation: Works as a junior priestess in the Gashin temple, assisting the senior priests, leading prayer sessions, teaching younger members lessons from the sacred text, and blessing the deceased during funerals.
Residence: A small village isolated from the larger cities by tall wooded hills. The village, unnamed and unknown to most except avid travelers, is located 30mi (48km) away from Coldrion City.
Abilities:/Skills: Able to translate the ancient language of her people, knowledgeable in mythologies both current and past, skilled in manipulating one’s own aura, hand-to-hand combat, self-defense against melee weapons, practices a custom form of martial arts that originated in her people's history centuries ago, emphasizing crippling blows to weak points in the human body as well as throws and disarming grapples, all while expending as little energy as possible.
Weapons (if any): N/A

Etheriest Class: EC3
Etheriest Ability: Force Chaos
Ability Description: Chaos is the "anti-ether" that exists naturally in the world. As Ether exists, so too does Chaos exist as its polar opposite. In this case, the two neutralize each other when they come into contact. Because humans evolved to naturally absorb Ether with their aura, and Chaos' scarcity in the environment, Chaos manipulation is rarely seen as an ability.

When a human can absorb Chaos, that's usually the only thing their auras can absorb, so they don't use Ether at all. As such, a Chaos user's aura feels noticeably different from that of an Etheriest. Most can't even describe what the aura feels like due to never experiencing Chaos before. However, Chaos users tend to cause others around them to feel sick or fatigued, as any Chaos they emanate will interact with the Ether around them, cancelling out any Ether that comes in contact.

Anti-Etheriests tend to use Chaos sparingly, and everyone in Nuri's family is taught to suppress their Chaos unless attacked by an Etheriest. Even then, the use of Chaos is conservative, but it can completely nullify an Etheriest's abilities so long as the Anti-Etheriest has enough Chaos. Just like Etheriests, Chaos users can manifest their magic into different forms or abilities, but one's full extent has yet to be discovered.

In Nuri's case, her Chaos takes the shape of a heavy, vaporous gas that acts similarly to the gas that comes from liquid nitrogen. Nuri emanates Chaos from head to toe, forming a thin buffer that consumes Ether. Once the Ether is consumed, the satiated Chaos dissipates, taking on a different state of energy. Therefore, Nuri is required to resupply her buffer whenever she takes a hit. She can focus her Chaos at various points of her body, allowing her to nullify larger quantities of Ether while draining her aura more quickly.

It its densest form, Nuri's Chaos takes on the attributes of a Non-Newtonian fluid, existing as a thick, opaque liquid, but once pressure is applied, the liquid becomes momentarily solid. This property allows Nuri to use her Chaos offensively as a striking weapon or a projectile. With great concentration, Nuri can mentally manipulate the super dense Chaos, having it levitate around her as a liquid on-hand before sending it off to strike an opponent or shield an ally. This state of Chaos, however, drains her aura most quickly, and has only been experimented with lightly.

Signature Spells/Abilities:
• Chaos Armor: Nuri douses her body in Chaos, expending almost a quarter of her Chaos reserve. This boosts her Ether resistance 5 times above the resistance granted by the buffer she usually creates. It also allows her to pass through Ether shields and fields unfazed.
• Repel: Chaos is radiated in a figurative sphere that has the potential to ward off any Etheriests or drain the Ether of anyone who remains. This zone also depletes the present Ether inside as Ether and Chaos combine to become some other form of energy. Any Etheriests caught inside can experience anything from nausea to headaches to vertigo as their Ether gradually drops to dangerously low levels.
• Aura Shot: Nuri super condenses Chaos in her hands, after which she fires it as a projectile. Because of Chaos's nullifying properties, it can travel through fields, shields, and summoned matter until all of the projectile's Chaos is lost as converted energy. Nuri's projectiles are small, so they're only effective in piercing thin or uncompressed Ether surfaces.
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Personality: Despite Nuri's muscular physique and prowess in the martial arts, she is easily described as sweet and caring by her peers. She firmly believes that there is good in everyone, and each person has a purpose, similar to the beliefs she follows. Accordingly, she has never killed another living being, and only fights in self-defense. However, she wears her duty on her heart, and has been led to believe that her purpose is to continue the Cioe lineage as well as bring the Oowanshin way of life back to its former state, so that all Chaos users may find a refuge, and that the outsiders will learn how to achieve true wisdom.

Nuri's positivity can lead her to easily trusting one too much, as she often falls for pranks from some of the younger villagers. If betrayed, though, she finds it hard to personally forgive those who've wronged her, but because of her beliefs, she ends up accepting the perpetrators anyway, if they have received proper punishment. Nuri is a staunch believer of justice and morality, but only through the perspective of the holy book of enlightenment that she often carries with her. In truth, she tends to assume she the moral high ground in a situation, but she never says it openly. Being so close to her parents, she has a hard time disagreeing with them, even when she knows they don't know everything.

Other than history and mythology, Nuri enjoys sparring, reading, and listening to music. She isn't well adjusted to city life and most modern technology, but she finds metropolitan areas interesting. When she's drunk, one wrong word can lead to a fight, as she tends to get very...physical.

Back Story: The Oowanshin are a people that have history that date back to the days of gods and kings. Nobody truly knows where the Oowanshin began, but it’s most commonly believed that a merciful king was granted supernatural powers after he learned to forgive a murderer that took the life of his child. The king was also bestowed the wisdom and knowledge of the gods, which he would pass on to his followers. Anyone who denied their carnal pleasures and seek the divine path would achieve transcendental qualities and join other followers in paradise after death. Anyone else will spend an eternity on Earth as a spirit trapped in their dead bodies.

The good king eventually had another child which inherited his father’s powers, and so did the descendants of the child, until a noble bloodline of ether users was established. Each generation was responsible for leading the kingdom and passing down the teachings of the deities, at some point in history only becoming the Chaos Spirit’s teachings. As time passed, the kingdom grew, dynasties were established, and the teachings were spread by traveling missionaries. However, Gashin, the kingdom’s religion, was always one of the least common religions in the world.

Fast forward to today where Gashin is a shadow of its former self. Most to all followers practice in hiding due to the taboo stigma that surrounds their religion and traditions. With Makarism and Atheism on the rise, Gashists and the Oowanshin received persecution on both sides; one side refuting the existence of any deities while the other demonizes the religion for its occultist nature and polarizing customs. The noble family has become sparse, branching off into smaller families that either embrace their roots, forget it entirely, or something in between. The ether ability that binds the family members also acts as a separation from others because of their aura.

Nuri was lucky to be born to a family that lives comfortably in a secluded village that still practices its ancient culture. She spent her childhood under the shadow of her older brother, who was a star etheriest and a diligent musician. He enjoyed combining his ether performances with grandiose musical numbers and a choir to boot. Nuri had her own talents, but she never garnered the same praise her brother had. Most often, people would jokingly ask if Nuri would follow in her brother’s footsteps. Nuri’s parents would give her attention every now and then, but Nuri’s father was busy working his way up to becoming the village leader while her mother was one of the leading medics of the town.

Nuri would go on to learn mostly from her grandfather, who told her many stories about the village’s history and the history of their culture while also teaching her how to use her ether ability in martial arts. Nuri got her passion for mythology from her grandmother, who works as priestess and a teacher. When Nuri was still young, her brother decided to leave the village to find new experiences, secretly telling her that he was tired of living there. Nuri couldn’t imagine why anyone would hate living in such tranquility, especially with her brother’s popularity, but life wasn’t the same once he left. Being the only descendant of her parents, Nuri encountered a lot more pressure to be the shining example of the noble family for when she becomes the family head or even the village leader. She was molded into the shape that her village wanted, but at least she was finally receiving some recognition. She’s even been told of other villages joining forces to increase their strength.