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Of course he did. ._0 Me and Roka are sitting in front of the same computer, he was the one logged in when we realized the next post was the 300th.

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What on the great planet we live with are you talking about?

Name: Gale

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Magic?: He has magic, but he can barely use it. It stems from a bizzare variation on the dragon bond: he is linked to a malevolent spirit from the Anjt's folkloric past through a stone embedded in the back of his neck. The stone acts as a floodgate, keeping the spirit from effecting Gale's body most of the time. This spirit is less than friendly, and has a tendancy to kill everyone it sees. It is also in full mastery of its magic. It can redirect, reflect, and otherwise affect other people's magic. This works best with projectile spells such as giant screaming fireballs, and is least effective on internal magic, such as healing or telepathy. Gale can do this a little bit on his own, but it usually results in the spirit being let loose anyway, so the point is moot.

Appearance: Gale is virtually colorless. Though he does not actually have albinism, it is often assumed that he does. His pale face is framed by nearly-white blond hair, and his blue irises are so pale that his eyes seem to consist of a large white area and a pupil. The effect is disconcerting, to say the least. His features are thin and angular, with a pinched, hungry look about them. He usually wears a red cloak with a high collar that fully hides his neck from view. He is on the tall side, but carries himself in a huddled, slouching way that makes him seem much shorter.

Personality: Gale has a naturally kind disposition, and is very quiet and subdued. He enjoys the company of people, though this rarely happens. He is an outcast among the Anjts, due to his specific brand of magic. He is also unable to ride horses as they can sense the spirit within him and are quite reasonably terrified by it. He must either run with his tribe or ride in a wagon, either way entirely alone and secluded. He is also very athletic, and enjoys bettering himself and reaching higher levels of whatever activity he does, physical or otherwise. However, he dislikes fighting and will not start a physical confrontation, often letting himself be pushed around rather than retaliate. That is not to say that he is stupid, however. He will fight back if he is actually attacked. He is quite good at fighting too, much to the dismay of many who have taken his submissive personality to be a sign of weakness.

History: An Anjt since birth, Gale was the son of an ardent revolutionary. At birth he had normal features for his tribe, and was quite a happy child for the first decade of his existence. He had many friends, and was always popular due to his ability at sports. A popluar game among his peers was unofficially entitled "Sneak-Up-On-Gale-And-Try-Not-To-Get-Beaten-Too-Badly". This was not a game that Gale enjoyed, though he always won.
However, it was his talent for fighting that sealed his fate. His father, the revolutionary, had been researching the folklore of the tribe for a possible weapon. He came across one promising legend, and was pleasantly surprised to find that experimenting with it yeilded promising results. The pinnacle of his project was to be a human weapon, created by binding a spirit into a child, who gould grow up along with its power and become an invaluable tool against Freretris. The only logical candidate was, to his father's absolute horror, Gale. And so Gale underwent a crude and painful operation at the age of ten to implant the stone and spirit into his body, leaving him in a near comatose state. However, a lot of the spirit's personality was lost in translation. During a long period of recovery, the color slowly drained away from Gale, eventually leaving him in his current ghost-like state. When he finally awoke, he knew that he was not the only one occupying his body anymore. Unused to this new presence, Gale almost immediateley deffered to the spirit, and unwillingly unleashed it for the first time. Almost fifty Anjts were killed before he could be controlled. Since then he has lived nearly alone, devoting all of his concentration to suppressing the power within him. He constantly dreads those times when he is thrust out onto the battlefield and his father unleashes his dormant power using a keystone, at which point the spirit within him promptly slaughters countless enemies during a battle.
After almost ten years of this life, Gale has finally seized his chance. As his tribe turned south, he slipped off the back of the line and ran away into the night, towards the north. He has long since come to the conclusion that he will never be able to fully controll his inner demon on his own, and wants to seek out help once he reaches Tok. However, he is unaware of the existence of the keystone, and did not try to steal it. This could become problematic in the near future.

Interesting profile, hm 103! A bit odd, but interesting. 3nodding

Mkay. I'm kind of drawing a blank for how to fix him. Maybe if it was just the crazy spirit, and not the powers. It could be like a kind of artificial dragon binding, but with some weirdly strong nutcase instead of an actual dragon.

I like option number 3, with the evil creature etcetera. In that case, it can be one stone at the base of his skull, which makes sense because then it can act like a floodgate. If the gate goes down, the evil spirit/demon/thing can affect Gale's body. I guess the powers would be from option number 1, which sounds pretty much fantabulous. This seemes to allow for the most interplay between Gale and his passenger, which is pretty important for how I want to develop him. Actually, I'm going to go raid wikipedia to make this a little more credible.

Okay, here's what I have. As part of the Pawnee religion (a tribe from the American Midwest) there are two stars having to do with the sun, both of which are fighters. One is the morning star, who causes the sun to rise. He's the good one. The other is the evening star, who forces the sun out of the sky at night, and is evil. Gale's "creation" could involve some confusion between the two during his father's research. Just an idea.