Align: Lawful Neutral
Race: human-fiend hybrid
Age: 50, Appears 25
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 230 lbs.
Build: athletic/heavyweight
Hair: Shaved(black)
Eyes: Gouged out/banded over
Apparent ethnicity: white
Style: Improvised Taijutsu
Attire: black gi pants; hand/feet wraps (basic); black bandana, tied over the eye sockets
Ki
- The lifeforce within a person composed of their physical and spiritual energy; aka chakra, aka chi. The main principle behind this version, is that the energy is ever-present and empowering the character.
- It is important to note that there are two factors determining the cost of an ability. First, the ability may simply 'cost' ki. In this way, it draws its power from the excess spiritual energy produced by the character daily. Secondly, there is -(minus) ki. Abilities with that cost descriptor cost part of the char's innate spiritual energy, or his total soul. Thusly, the total ki pool would be reduced. However, there are also ways to improve the max ki to counteract these more detrimental costs
ABILITIES- Combat Related
Dark
- AKA dark hadou, dark ki, black ki, death element, negative energy, necromantic energy
Flare
- Bursts the dark ki energy from all over the body. It has two specific effects. One, being, that it directly harms a grappled enemy if they are 'positive' creatures. Meaning that they contain a living lifeforce, or soul, within them. Secondly, due to its draining effect on his immediate surrounding, it saps the energy from any evocative spell(elemental) immediately around the character, or that strikes the character.
Fist
- The user envelopes a fist, or a leg, or whatever appendage to strike the opponent, in dark ki. The effect of the strike on a 'positive' target deals additional harming damage through life drain.
Absorb Soul
- Is what it is. The conditions for this require a DEAD target that was very recently living, and humanoid, possessing a soul within them whilst living. If there is no reason for their soul to suddenly depart, ascend, or otherwise promised to a deity or demonic force, then Narakuten may simply absorb the soul, through physical contact to the dead character.
Harm
- The same as fist, except that the energy is more forcibly channeled into the target through mere touch, instead of strike. Treated as a touch spell.
Taint
- Due to the very negative essence of dark ki, certain elements may be 'infected' with the ki to make them tainted. For example, making the water in a well undrinkable; or a food supply rotted.
Raise Dead
- Can turn a dead PC OR NPC into a zombie under his command.
Focus
- aligns his ki into total darkness, rather than duality. This way, only Dark ki powers can be used; yet their effectiveness is vastly improved. Becomes 'Evil' aligned. Treated as having Undead physiology.
Light
- AKA Ki(DBZ), force energy(non-SW), positive energy
Flare
- Explodes good ki from all over the body. Good aligned/positive energy; which harms negative/evil creatures like the undead. Also has the effect of stopping physical objects in motion within close proximity to him. Acts as a shield to physical attacks, when there is no defense otherwise.
Fist
- Same as dark, but with light ki.
Restore Soul
- When reviving a character, with soul long departed, he can bring them back to life and revive the corpse to a living condition, including regenerating lost parts, etc.
Heal
- Same as harm, but with positive energy/lifeforce.
Purify
- Same as Taint, but with positive energy. Can reverse Taint, as well as make naturally tainted resources usable.
Resurrect
- Flash revives recently fallen character, when soul has not departed, etc. Same regenerative/restorative power as Restore Soul.
Focus
- Same as Dark Focus, but with positive energy and good alignment. Becomes like a paragon of the good monk.
Dual
Void Blast
- Like a kamehameha with chaos energy (light/dark combined). 1 turn focus of energy; 1 turn of growth; and execution on the third turn. Extra growth possible.
Void Soul
- Focuses both Ki's to his center, creating a cancelling effect ethereally, and emptying his soul of aligned essence; making it an 'empty soul'. Through this, his physical abilities become several times more powerful, quicker, etc. He gains a golden aura.
Void Body
- Focuses his external ki to meet upon his physical form, rather than within him ethereally. This causes his form to vanish and become a living void (non-existence). This allows him to cancel out matter/existence up to the equivalence of his form. Cancels out up to 1 standard human form. If this occurs, he can auto-absorb the soul upon the cancellation of another entitiy. Otherwise, he is left without a body and must Reincarnate or cease to exist on the material plane. Appears as a wavy mass of pure blackness, identifiable only by his eyes, white and firey.
Void Self
- Combines Void Soul and Void Body. Thus, a high probability of success to kill and absorb the soul of an enemy character.
Regenerate
- Focuses his Ki's into his form to rapidly regrow any lost appendages; thus reducing the chance of death from a previously fatal injury.
Reincarnate
- Comes back to life, healed/regenerated. Max: 1/day.
Flight
- can fly using his expended ki focus.
Burst Flight
- must be flying already. Increases speed.
- Max Speeds: Burst 1= 300 mph; Burst 2 = 650 mph; Burst 3 = 1200 mph; etc, approx doubling speed each time.
Innate
Immortality (ageless)
Mixed Genetics
- Containing both human and fiend DNA has allowed Narakuten to perform at a higher level all through the years. But now they serve him in a different way - it allows him to channel more easily his dual spirituality, where normally to do so would incur much damage to his very soul.
Mark of Duality
- Tribal markings adorn Narakuten's entire body. On the right side, they are black; on the left, gold. They are his two swords, Jenosaido and Corruption infused into his being to keep his two essences seperate, and bound to his form. Thusly is he capable of both light and dark. By keeping his soul bound to his form, he cannot become disembodied, nor have his soul stolen/absorbed/devoured/bartered, etc. This is the highest level binding performable... the indestructable nature of the darksteel swords transmogrified into magical energies for the spell. Practically unable to be undone, save by Narakuten's own will and a counter-ritual.
Learned
metaphysical rites(plot only)
Sense
- in the absence of visual sight, he has learned how to focus his spiritual acuity into a vastly out-stretched, diminishing zone of total awareness. In tuned with both the positive and the negative, anything that lives or dies can be 'felt'. Includes the electrical impulses inherent within a mechanical being; as artificial life is still 'life'. Range - 5 mile radius, lessening effectiveness after 1 mile radius.
Biography
The story of Nekurajin truly begins when he is age 16. However, there is a little to tell of before his story began...
In the mountains of Japan, there existed a monastery of monks, training in spirituality and transcendant physical combat. This monastery was made up of a few families united into a single clan. The clan had no name, for there were none to compare it to. They were of the likes that Japan had never encountered. So different was their way of life. Their existence was of a mystical nature; and this drew in other beings of the same. Specificly, the Oni Voidwalkers. Unlike traditional Oni, these being cared not for humanity. They were not guardians; but destroyers. The pure atmosphere of the monastery repeled these dark beings, and they could not enter...
That is when they found Nekurajin. From a very young age, he was known to possess an inner darkness; thus was he named "dark-natured being". The elder members of the clan did not forsake him when it was clear he was not of their blood; instead, they welcomed him. Perhaps the change was inevitable, they told themselves.
As if by unwritten prophecy, Nekurajin fell to his darkness when confronted by the Oni. They promised him great power, if only he could help them enter. He knew better; knew of their ill intent. Still, did he help them. All they needed was permission of one of the clan, and that is what he gave them. Yet, even as they entered, he followed. And when they began to slaughter his clan, he joined in. He did not understand why he wanted to kill them, his clan, his family....
Two years later, Nekurajin reappears as Desecrator, a monk of the void wearing a mask reminiscent of the oni he had met. As it turned out, the Oni had kept there part of the deal. They gave him a mask that, unbeknownst to him, would transform him into an Oni when he truly embraced his inner evil. They also granted him the powers of Void, but only the ability to summon it - it was up to him to learn how to control it. And that is what he set out to do, through battle. Thus was STAG born, his base of operations.
It would not make so much sense, that through battle he would enhance his abilities, but in his guild, he advances an agenda he didn't know. A compulsion towards destruction drove him, though. That is why he built upon the potential of science to destroy so much with so little. It helped that there were so many like him, with the desire to make all into nothing.
