Monday, January 14, 2008
Jon's Story Characters
Story Name? Dunno but yeah. If only I could make an RPG... or a manga..

Jagger - Swordmaster
Legionnaire of Ethereal Element.

Jagger is the main hero of the story. He's very much a balanced person in terms of behavior and personality. Neither a cold, distant badass the likes of Cloud/Squall nor a totally completely self-sacrificial martyr for everyone like Vash the Stampede, Jagger finds a nice median to define himself. Still, he cares most about his friends and values them above his own life, doing anything and everything to make sure they persevere in life with happiness. Almost to a fault, Jagger treats everyone exactly the same and constantly gets into trouble with those of higher rank or status.

He wields a characteristic two handed blade with a panda head design for a hilt which he claims gives him awesome powers. Along with his older brother Jeigan, Jagger travels around the world working as a member of Ethereal Element, simultaneously searching for the demon that burnt down their hometown and murdered their parents. His only clue is to pursue the man he saw at the center of the fiery inferno; a man simply known as Midnight.


Princess Cecelia - Fighter
Matriarch of Ethereal Element

When designing her character, I had the qualities of Tifa or Farah with the look of Irlina in mind. Constantly caring for the wellbeing of everyone and constantly bothered by the cruelties of the world, Cecelia is an ideal person to run the country of Marquis. Like many other princesses, she hates her sheltered life within the castle and thus leaves at a young age to live in one of the poorer villages in her kingdom as a peasant to learn the values of life and also the plights of her citizens. Her obligation to help out her country is only matched by her idealistic and caring nature to ultimately motivate her to join Jagger and the rest of Ethereal Element.

Cecelia fights like any other martial artist. Smooth, nimble movements allow her to flow through the battlefield and unleash a flurry of attacks. Versus a large number of opponents, her skills dwindle a tad, but one on one, she's almost unparalleled in skill.


Jatari - Ninja
Assassin of Ethereal Element

Jatari is one my favorite characters; an enigmatic silent ninja but by no means a cutthroat. In fact, he actually shows his true nature and hidden kindness rarely to certain things like orphans or baby animals. All in all, despite his appearance, he's a good person. I guess he's kind of like a wolf; solitary and observatory but ruthless to those that threaten his interests. His past is shrouded in mystery, but rumor has it that he once worked as a ruthless assassin, killing absolutely everyone of an opposing force. He agrees to travel with Jagger and becomes a member of Ethereal Element in order to track down the warrior who gave him the scars on his face.

His custom built weapon involves a ninja-to with a reinforced hollow handle that contains a "fold-able" kusari-gama. Jatari sticks to the shadow like any good ninja and strikes with the deadliness of a wolf and the precision of a snake. That, combined with his inconceivable speed, has earned him the nickname of ShadowFang.


Forvius - Adept Mage
Strategist of Ethereal Element.

Forvius is an arrogant, extremely sarcastic mage who looks down on those he finds unintelligent. He really only respects those with power and tends to speak his mind whenever he wishes. This nature combined with his very logical and realistic thinking often cause him to be the antagonist of arguments amongst more idealistic or optimistic companions. He probably became this way due to his rather unpleasant upbringing as a mixed child between a Huma and an Ulfi (Human and Elf). Most of his time is spent pouring over tomes of magical quality in search of the secrets of the world and hopefully the strongest magic.

Although he's known as "The Essence of Fire" due to his incredible proficiency in pyrotechnics, he also comprehends the use of Ice and Earth elemental magics. Mages in the world are actually fairly rare and to see such a master of the elements at such a young age is even rarer. Some attribute Forvius's strength to the tomes he carries around. Or perhaps its the glyph in his pocket. It could even be the mysterious tattoos he has all over his body. No one really knows.


Rina - Holy Priestess
Healer of Ethereal Element

During her childhood, Rina's family was exiled from the main houses of the elves and were forced to wander around struggling and fighting against poverty. In sometime, Rina found herself left on the stairs of a church in which the church's Father Riser took her in and raised her in typical pious manner. Like the selfless priestess she is, Rina concentrates on aiding the weak and poor whenever possible. In fact, she embarks on a pilgrimage to spread her church's holy spirit and help out those in need. She then joins Ethereal Element after encountering Jagger and co during her travels in hope that their resources will be able to aide her cause. Strange enough, she's terrified of the undead and quickly loses her composure around them despite the fact that her abilities compliment destroying them.

Rina is the main healer of the group; her uprising in the holy arts have given her miraculous healing abilities. She also has the ability to cast powerful but limited spells consisting of holy attributed attacks that decimate undead and demonic foes. Her natural elven affinity with magic combined with her staff as a catalyst for her powers ends making her an incredibly reliable healer, support, and holy damage.


Sven - Reaper
Executioner of Ethereal Element

Sven's very existence is shrouded in mysticism. He randomly decides to follow the party, and before anyone knows it, fights with them during battles ala Suikoden III's Landis. Little of his past his known. However, Sven has proclaimed himself to often fulfill the role of Demon Hunter, slaying every demon he comes across for training. Long ago, a child girl treated his wounds after she found him close to death in a forest nearby her village. While he was recuperating, her kindness helped ease his pain from battles. Unfortunately, this happy experience was cut short as a demon known carrying the title of "the darkest" demon murdered the little girl and ravaged the rest of the town while the wounded Sven could do nothing. The sound of the girl's screams plague him every night, causing Sven to literally become sleepless. Thus, Sven seeks out this demon in order to enact revenge and ease the cold grip on his heart. His motivation to join the group seems to stem from the idea that a strong group can lead him to stronger and stronger demons.

In battle, Sven wields an overwhelmingly large scythe to cleave through hordes of lesser beings. Many of his attacks are infused with shadow and dark energies, ripping out souls of slain foes adding strength to each swing. It is said that even the Moon sheds its light upon Sven to further improve his battle capabilities and unlock dormant powers.

Aria - Druid
Umm not much to say about her yet. Summoner/Seer/Druid/Protector of Forests blah blah.
She's blind too.


Villains
Hael - Necromancer
Hael is one of the first main villains threatening the well-being of the world. Through his cunning behind-the-scenes work, Hael is able to instigate a war between the major kingdoms with the primary goal of creating corpses to use for his necromancy. The dead on the battlefields rise as undead constructs, skeletons, zombies, and the like when Hael's plague spreads through the soil. Of course, he intends to take his undead army to slay more and increase his numbers. Ultimately, Hael wishes to use the souls of 1,000,000 undead to revive the spirit of his little brother Kael and give him the world as a gift in forgiveness for letting him die years prior. Convoluted much?

Strangely, and despite Hael's knowledge of course, Jagger and his party have encountered a boy resembling Kael briefly in their travels.

Midnight
Cassis

Maybe I'll do the others. Dunno who I'm gonna draw next. Fun fun fun.
Written at 9:23 AM by Panda.
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