Aether Favonius

Name: Aether Favonius (Traveler)
Age: 17-18 years old
True age: 35 years old
Sex: Male
Personality: Aether is a curious young man who is eager to learn and explore. He's extremely nice and polite, and tries to not insult others or their customs. As such, he has an incredibly open mind. He'll go out of his way to assist someone. He detests bullies, and isn't afraid to step in and stop them, if not with words, then with violence. Though he prefers to use words, he will not hesitate to draw, particularly to defend those in need. While he isn't against slavery, he does believe in treating "property" with respect and dignity, and keeping them well fed. This belief has put him at odds a time or two, and so tends to keep it to himself. Though should he ever go to Karcenak, he'd be in for a rude awakening in how masters treat their slaves. To the point he'd rather see them free than to suffer like that.

He enjoys meeting new people and hearing their stories. Everyone has a story to tell, he likes to sit and listen to them. He tends to find elder people far more interesting because of this, often helping them for just a glimpse of what kind of life they've lived. That said, he is most familiar with humans, or at least human like, people. So he doesn't know that just because an Eldari or Asentari are young appearing, they have lived for a century or more. So he is inexperienced in that fashion.

That said, he has his own experiences. He'd been eaten whole once, and managed to get out, though it left him scarred. He's seen his fair share of horrors, people getting torn apart, starving to death, and more. But those three are his biggest fears, and has made him grateful for life he has. It has also given him something of a hero complex, always willing to stick his neck out.

In the realm of romance, he is open-minded, and is an equal opportunity lover with a thing for red-heads. He also likes feisty, so if they can throw a punch and handle themselves, the better. Bad part? He tends to lose his head completely. He does have a high alcohol tolerance, practically abnormally so. Between parties and trying out every new drink or recipe he can find, he has grown to be able to handle his liquor. He doesn't care about race, and will give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Basically, everyone is good until proven otherwise. He is slightly gullible in this way, though luckily he can afford to be as his equipment and stuff is never just hanging around to be stolen.

Likes/dislikes: New Food, new people, new creatures. dislikes bullies, bad smells, aggressive people
Fears: getting eaten, getting torn apart, going hungry



Height: 5'7"
Weight: 127 lbs
Appearance:



A young appearing lad that stands at an average five feet, seven inches tall, and a healthy, if lean 127 lbs., Aether has blond hair, and yellow eyes. He holds his hair in a long ponytail that reaches his butt, but is braided. He has a slim body build, and doesn't at all look athletic. He is flexible, and doesn't at all show his muscles. He has peculiar accent that is not known anywhere on the continent. He is also lightly tanned.

Clothing: He often wears a brown breastplate that leaves his midriff bare, along with a scarf/cape with some golden decals. Dark brown pants, gloves, and black boots often round out his outfit.



General Fighting Tactics: His style depends on which weapon or what combination of weapons he is wielding. With his sword, Aether adopts a quick style that allows him to parry/avoid attacks and counter-attack quickly, using mobility as his main defense. With his greatsword, he uses heavy, strong attacks to batter through defenses and throw his opponents around. He tends to dance around his own sword or use it as a shield to defend. With his spear, he uses its reach to strike from afar and keep his opponents at range while using nonlethal strikes from the staff part to stun them and to defend. He occasionally dual wields Seraphim and Barbatos, using the lighter sword mainly for counter-attacks and quick strikes, and the greatsword to shield and as the main offensive weapon.

While flexible in his melee usage, the only range he has is with his magic. Still, he is very easy to work with, and will adjust his weapon usage in accordance to the situation or to best work with someone else. The speed with which he can change his fighting style in accordance to the weapon is very unique, and he has more than once caught an opponent off guard with his quick and seamless switch.

Heroic Trait: Magical Spirit

Combat Stats-

( All stats are considered average unless stated. Stats must be balanced. You must decrease a stat to increase a stat. Raising one to good means you must lower one to fair. Read The Character Combat Stats Guide for more information)

Strength || Good
Speed ||  Average
Agility ||  Good
Durability || Poor
Stamina || Average
Magical power || Good

Strengths: Alcohol Tolerance: Aether can drink with the best of them, able to keep up with even the likes of Bethany Mercilius and hardcore alcoholics. While they might get drunk, he'll be lightly buzzed, and still able to go to his room without help.

Melee Combatant: He was trained exclusively with the use of melee weapons, with three separate masters. Four if you count hand to hand. He can even dual wield his two swords without issue.

Hand to hand Combatant: While he has gotten rusty, he is getting back into form, since he doesn't like brandishing weapons and escalating things if all possible.

Flexibility: Being able to contort in odd ways has saved himself on more than one occasion, particularly on his home continent during war.

Weaknesses: Red heads: Man or woman, he practically swoons at the sight of a red headed person. To the point that his brain shrinks and his IQ goes down to the negatives. If they're a red head, he'll try for them. Badly. If they're feisty, even better in his eyes. He tends to get a lot of black eyes for this. And knocked out in general.

Recklessness: Much like a certain Eldari, he tends to lead with his heart than his head, though often able to get out of trouble with his head. Still, he has a bit of a bleeding heart, and has had to rest due to injuries because of his reckless streak. Which has only increased since he came to Ka'lesa.

Ranged Weapons: Due to his culture, he was never trained how to use them. While enamored with how a crossbow works, or how thrown alchemic weapons are made, he himself has no interest in learning how to use them, and is more likely to hurt himself with them than anyone else.

Inexperience: Not so much in the combat sense, but more the politics and general knowledge of the land. Despite hearing the stories of others, he has yet to live many of them. He still had questions about animals, people, groups, and other things. And he has trouble retaining the information.



Primary Equipment I
Name: Barbatos
Type: Light Melee weapon
Description: A one handed sword that is black from pommel to guard, with bright cyan colored markings along it. The blade is a pale yellow in color. It is made from divinium, and is three and a half feet long total.



Enchantments:

Name: Wind Slash Type: Offensive Damage Category: Weak Description: Turquoise colored wind/fog gathers at the tip and is "fired" by a swing. The crescent wave is about four and a half feet long, and tends to cut into stone, damages shields, etc. It goes on for about 50 yards. Duration/Cooldown: 1 post cd.

Primary Equipment II
Name: Seraphim
Type: Heavy Melee weapon
Description: A black and red sword that is the same height as him, it is heavy as well, and a bit slow. Marked with black designs with red highlights, it is a thick boi, being a foot and a half in width with just the blade. It is forked a little bit, and the edge is flat at the tip between the "back" and "front" part of the blade. It is also made of divinium.



Enchantments:

Name: Burning Blade Type: Support Damage Category: N/A Description: The sword ignites in flames, burning those not Aether. It cauterizes wounds, allows it to cut more easily, cause 2nd degree burns around cuts made by it, and sets fire to anything that can catch on fire. Duration/Cooldown: Lasts 3 posts, 2 post cooldown

Secondary Equipment
Name: Baal
Type: Large Melee Weapon
Description: At six feet long, Baal is the longest ranged weapon in Aether's arsenal. More elegant looking than his other weapons, the blade itself is about a foot in length, with two rhombus like point on the sides of it. The blade also has a yellow tint to it, the "head" of the spear switching off between pale yellow highlights and dark gray tones with just a bit of sunrise orange in it. The main handle is black, with the other hand having a point similar to a very downsized halberd, making it ideal to penetrate armor or tough materials. The main blade can be swung like a sword or axe as well. It is made of divinium.






Name: Pulse
Type: Offensive
Damage Category: Weak-Average
Description: Using one hand (or both, the effect is the same), he gathers a ball of turquoise colored wind/fog in his palm, and fires it outwards, hopefully pushing enemies back by forty feet, and leaving them with a cluster of light cuts in a circle with a five inch diameter. He can hold it and charge it to increase its power, hopefully knocking back foes eighty feet, and slightly more torn up patch of skin, like it was flayed, though at an increase cooldown.
Cooldown: 1 post cooldown, two if charged up for one post.

Name: Boulder Smash
Type: Offensive
Damage Category: Average
Description: He gathers stone, rock, dust, sand, etc. in the air above him, magically fusing them into a single stone, and magically throws it down where he wants. The boulder is a bloated cylinder, six and a half feet long, and bloated out to four feet wide at the widest. It hits hard, but can also be used as stepping stone or makeshift shield, but only for that post, returns to being a normal boulder afterwards.
Cooldown: 2 post cooldown.

Name: Flight
Type: Support
Damage Category: N/A
Description: A strange sigil appears at his back in the vague shape of wings. It allows him to fly with ease. Though he can't use any of his other abilities, or weapon enchantments, but can still fight in a melee. As long as the person he's carrying weighs less than him, he can also carry a person this way, but slightly reduces the time he can hold it. It also gives off the illusion that he's faster and more maneuverable than he really is.
Cooldown: Can last up to four posts (3 if carrying someone), 3 posts cooldown.

Name: Magic Storage
Type: Support
Damage Category: N/A
Description: He can summon his weapons from thin air, or summon a bag with all of his clothes/belongings. After a post from being separated from him, his weapons do disappear, and he can resummon them to him. This also allows for seamless and quick weapon switching.
Cooldown: Passive

Name: Electro-shield
Type: Defensive
Damage Category: Average
Description: A purple shield sparking with purple electricity forms around Aether. The orb is large enough to completely around him with enough room to swing his sword around him from all sides. It does give off a little zap if touched by bare skin, but only like a strong static electricity shock.
Cooldown: 3 posts


Appearance: He has no change in appearance.


Name: Adapt
Type: Support
Damage Category: N/A
Description: He changes his base stat spread. Speed form changes his base stats to -3 strength, +2 speed, and +1 agility. Strength form changes his base stats to +2 strength, -2 speed. In Speed form, he is unable to use Seraphim.
Cooldown: 1 post, 1 pp to hold it.

Name: Tornado
Type: Offensive
Damage Category: Strong
Description: He gathers turquoise fog/wind around himself, jumps, and spins, unleashing a twelve foot tall tornado that tries to pull opponents into it, and barrage them with slices and making existing wounds bleed more (by literally sucking it out). It's pull radius is 30 feet, and goes in a straight line, traveling only 30 yards before dissipating. Lighter opponents find resisting the pull harder without anchoring themselves down somehow.
Cooldown: 3 posts

Name: Earth Assault
Type: Offensive
Damage Category: 10 x Very Weak, 4 x Weak
Description: A barrage ability, he creates amber colored stone/jewels, and fires them. Typically in a circle from the ground, attacking from the sides. There are ten small ones, about the size of a large apple, and four larger ones about the size of a pineapple.
Cooldown: 5 post cooldown

Name: Ice Blades
Type: Offensive
Damage Category: Very Weak, up to 10 x Very Weak
Description: Water is accumulated and formed into dagger shaped ice. And is then thrown at the enemy, magically.
Cooldown: If 10 are used, 1 post cd.

Name: Dendro Cream
Type: Restorative
Damage Category: N/A
Description: Using his magic, he grows a plant that leaks an ointment that allow him to heal himself or others. Just Moderate to Light injuries, mostly cuts, and must be applied to the wound in question. The plant only stays for a single post, and the medicine is only good for a single post (so it needs to be used right away, though it it'll still take two posts to heal moderate injuries. If it's just left alone, it'll spoil.). As long as there's soil, it can be grown.
Cooldown: 1 post cooldown.

Boosts: Magical power +2, Agility +1, Speed +1, Durability +1



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History: Aether was born on a completely different continent than Ka'lesa, Aftokrator. A noble, he was in a wealthy position already. Though he was also called the rogue prince, since he was more interested in the commoners and travelers than anything. But because of his heritage, he was able to train in three different weapon types, and gifted one of each type once he became of age. He was also taught how to defend himself should he not have access to his weapons for one reason or another. Luckily, since he wasn't in line for the throne, being just one of many children and one of the younger ones (15th child out of 17), he didn't have too much pressure on him. Still, he was punished for it.

As a result of his behavior, he wasn't real liked by his elder brothers and sisters, even the youngest only occasionally asked him to play with them. For some reason, his eldest sibling especially didn't like him. While his brother never took direct action against him, he's said more than his fair share about his thoughts about Aether. The one good relationship he did have was actually one of his mentors, an Imperial Guardsman with flaming red hair, a greatsword, and a wine connoisseur. The man also owned his own winery. But his affection towards the man gave him a bit of a thing for red-heads. While extremely disappointed that his mentor didn't return his feelings, he was encouraged that there were plenty of fish in the sea, and that his mentor was sure he'd find someone worthy of him.

When war came, as it always did, he was sent to the battlefield, proving that he was a formidable opponent. But he also witnessed terrible deeds, and the devastation war brought. It made him sick to his stomach to see people literally starving to death, and any effort to try to help them rebuffed by his superiors and other noble born. During this time, Aether was also swallowed up by one of their large beasts, an Abyss Serpent, only rescued due to their elite forces. The harrowing experience certainly made him rethink anything about being in the military. Between the "accident" and the awful things he witnessed, and punished for trying to make it right, he quit.

This sent an uproar among his family. His time with the "little" people had made him grown soft, they said. Through righteous anger, he insulted the entire governing body and left on the first boat he could get on. Rumor had it that his family looked all over for him, to no avail. The ship that the blond was on came under attack by pirates when heading towards a landmass, one that he never seen before. After helping fend off the pirates, they found that their ship was heavily damaged, and had to crash land. Luckily, it was close by to a city, Edaria.

Through small jobs, drinking with sailors, and others, he was able to sustain himself, and talk to many people, both young and old. He was even able to strike up a conversation with Aline Drexara, the leader of the city. Aether learned about the continent, as well as heard stories about her and her friend's adventures. He shared some of his own as well, including letting her on as to why he left his homeland. In a way, he realized that what he did was selfish. But in another, he would always be on the run, and hoped to atone for the his sins here. She suggested maybe going to the Order of the Sun. It was only a single year after the Contact War between Mondolin and Edia. He lamented about how each could have resolved it.

He kept the organization in mind as he decided to branch out and explore the rest of the area. Acquiring a map, he was off again. Throughout his adventures, Aether would refer to himself mostly as a traveler, giving himself the nickname. The young man didn't want to spread his real name too much in case his family sent people outside of their kingdom. Still, he was bewildered at the different cultures, and different people. When he wasn't helping someone out or doing mercenary work, he was talking with other travelers, other adventurers.

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