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Known name: Anansi(most commonly used, also known as Anansi the Younger.))
True name: Anansi Pyriel Nazthe Deimos.(Does not use his second middle name because he doesn't like to be associated with the demonic aristocracy of his family.)
Appears to be: A person, a wanderer of sorts. He stays in place over long periods of time but often travels at will to wherever he chooses. This is usually accomplished by traveling through shadows but surprising to many people sometimes he just moves there on foot.
In actuality: Anansi is a tinkerer at heart, of all of the many professions he has had he enjoys nothing more than building things, whether its molding steel or even flesh he prides himself on being a craftsman of the highest caliber. He usually goes to certain places because he's checking on a lab or mine he has in the region and socializes with the locals to avoid them looking into his activities. Thats not to say he doesn't genuinely want to get to know these people its mostly that he doesn't feel the need to have them know his actual purpose for being there.
His story: Anansi doesn't tell most about himself, when asked by strangers he'll simply say that he's not much to know about. His mother was a bad woman and his father was a good bad man and thats about it. He'd rather tell stories and listen to the tales of others than talk about himself, however many of the stories he happens to tell tend to be based on events in his real life. His appearance causes alarm to some and he usually explains it as either a curse or a magical ailment of sorts.

The actual story: Anansi is in actuality a godot. He's not human in the slightest something in a sense he envies. He was formerly an angelic construct. Created by his uncle using plans and materials from his angelic father and succubus mother. Pyriel son of the Evening star and Aelanis Nazthe were the beings whose essences were used to create Anansi, in a sense they are his parents. He sees them as such because for a brief time they both raised him. He changed both his physical appearance by using a relic and the abilities of himself and his brother to accelerate their magical and physical growth in terms of ability and magnitude of power past its previously set maximum. Also through a rather unfortunate bargain Anansi cannot die, something that severely troubles him because unlike beings who are born with or seek immortality Anansi had it thrust upon him. He's unsettled by the concept someday he wil be alone, truly alone except for the other immortals most of whom he finds annoying though he hides it with a smile.

Anansi's body looks more like a statue that an actual flesh and blood form, free of imperfections, perfectly rounded and shaped, far too symetrical it seems to be organic. Anyone making these observations would be absolutely right. His body isn't completely organic, Anansi wasn't persay conceived, he was created and then grown inside the body of a powerful being. His body while using his abilities to repair itself at a fantastic rate cannot repair bone. This is due to the fact that his bone isn't bone its a rather rare organic type of crystal. He grows various deposits of it should he ever need to replace anything but its growth rate and overall difficulty to harvest are reason enough for Anansi to worry. Many claim that Anansi is like his uncle a god of some sort, this is far from the truth, when engaged in heavy activity his metabolism is slowed to the point where his healing abilities are no longer a factor and if he sustains enough damage he often find its impeded to a much slower pace that borders on human's ability to regenerate.

But he is immortal right? Yes, but not invulnerable, while he had a high pain tolerance it still hurts to be injured. Wounds that would normally leave one waiting for the release of death often leave him writhing in almost unbearable pain trying to curse a deity into blasting him into nothingness to escape it. He has suffered through many things and beneath his calm demeanor he can be quite cruel, on a level many that know him personally find surprising even if previously exposed to tastes of it.

Ability: His abilities are based in his own power augmented by elementals stuck in his body. There are currently three and he manipulates their abilities in various ways but cannot use power that is not based within his own natural ability.

"Dark": This elemental doesn't have a name, he's never wanted a name, he only wants to be near Anansi. As old as darkness itself he simply enjoys living in the black guillotine cross in Anansi's back. He is in essence empowered darkness as such he can travel by it and use shadows to create actual three dimensional form. Darkening rooms and altering colors are fringe benefits. However he does have a great aversion to light.

"Ignis": She is in essence a mixture of flame and wind elementals, she was created specifically for Anansi by his uncle and their abilities are symbiotic, while he can use her flames he cannot directly touch her without being burnt. However she needs to make contact with his actual body for more powerful abilities to work. She's very attached to him and in a sense is in love with him and does not hide her affection. However her affections often leave him with terrible burns along his body. Eventually he might be at the level where her very touch would not sear his flesh but he's not quite there yet.

"Her": Anansi never talks to this elemental, she just resides within him. She is a light elemental, and probably the one that Anansi is the most compatible with due to his angelic heritage but they do not agree on most things. She resides in Anansi's body due to her rarity, she stays there to avoid being taken by others, she and Ignis get along rather well and both reside within Anansi's actual body rather than a symbol on it like dark does.

Another odd feature of Anansi's body is his angelic physiology and the way it works with the demonic and magical radiation as it affects it. His duality of nature has rendered him unable to use many of his angelic abilities to maximum effect. He's usually found to be unable to create a holy bolt greater in intensity than being able to cut through stone whereas high level angels such as his father can supposedly level mountains though Anansi has never seen it done as such.