Dornak Boulderfist
#Grafter#Goatfolk#Mage#Materia-Essence#Legacy-Armor #toxic-masculinity
Dornak Boulderfist is a fake name he is an escaping prince of a warrior beast race. He was not the next heir but he was not ready to become the next in line when his big brother died.
Appearance
Height: 6’4” Sex: Male
broad, a rugged figure, well-built and ready for battle. His most striking features are his curved, ram-like horns that sweep back over his shaggy mane, coarse hair. His fur is a mix of earthy browns and grays, his golden eyes are shaped as a rectangle and reflect those of a goat, and get blood shot red once he is angry.
His armor is well taken care of, but it has been worn off by the years, as the common armor has been passed down for 2 generations. The armor lacks a helmet as it didn’t fit Dornak.
Dornack carries a massive war hammer that holds a back horn like spike that he can use to pierce through other armors.Personality
Dornak is insensitive and is always looking to be the big man to the point where his pride as a man can make him a bit condescending, even if he hold honor and fairness in his hearth. Inside he is someone looking for freedom and escaping the binds of responsibility, he does find honor in less direct tactics and is open to them if he finds them interesting enough. He sees himself as the best friend of Lirael Brightstar, and has a soft spot for Lirael, but his attitude towards him often is seeing as him trying to teach him stuff that Dornak is unlikely to understand fully, and are more about being chivalrous. Dornak is a friendly person, and he is slow to anger and patient, but once he gets angry, few things can settle it.
Abilities
Agile Warrior. Dornak is a grafter, boosting his on body by absorbing attributes of Materia, changing his body density, speed, jumping ability, strength and resistances form different Materia, he seeks rare Materia to graft into his body. His armor that has been passed down allows him to access the fighting experience of his ancestors once he graft into the essence of it, he rarely uses this ability as the armor takes some of his ego each time he uses it sin such way, swapping a bit with the one of his ancestors.
Background
Dornak hails from a remote mountain tribe known for their fierce warriors and close-knit communities. The Boulderfists are legendary among the goat folk for their combat prowess and their bond with the mountainous terrain. Dornak left his tribe to seek greater challenges as his tribe usually does, most of them reconvene back to the mountain once a year to compete, and take lead on some decisions.
Connections
Dornak’s relationships are shaped by his sense of pride, masculinity, and his protective instincts, creating a blend of tension, respect, and underlying care within The Bladeshards.
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Kaelen Greenforge: Respects her strength but feels challenged by her presence as a taller, capable woman, which unsettles him due to his views on masculinity. Kaelen is oblivious to this tension. Despite this, Dornak acknowledges her value in the group and believes she has the potential to grow even stronger.
Lirael Brightstar: Belittles Lirael out of tough love, seeing him as a naive younger brother who needs protection and to be taught about life and how to though up as a man. Despite his condescension, Dornak cares deeply for Lirael even if he doesn’t really understand.
Elise Justlise: Finds her eerie and difficult to trust, though he respects her abilities and values her reliability when needed. He keeps his distance emotionally, as he sees her as a powerful woman but doesn’t share any emotional connection with her, viewing her as more of a mystery he can’t fully grasp, but in his views a man cannot comprehend a woman.
Roland Vestar: Once viewed Roland as an equal and admired him as a leader. Roland’s eventual betrayal will deeply hurt Dornak, as he saw Roland as a trustworthy companion.
Elise Justlise
#Non-Mage#Mutant#Mixed-Essence #social-chameleon
Appearance
Height: 5’4” Sex: Female
Elise’s presence is striking yet subtly unsettling, her body marked by the grafted egos of various animals. Her snake-like red eyes are her only common perceivable feature, with slitted pupils and a gleaming, almost hypnotic gaze. While traveling she covers her body with thigh clothes while wearing a long vest, she has gloves that hide her cat-like hands, able to pull claws from inside them, but besides the clothes, she constantly changes attires according to the place she goes to blend in.
Her face is permanently irradiating self-confidence, with an eerie but graceful movement, she keeps her face emotionless and calculated, until her primal urges take over.
Personality
Elise is pragmatic, she attempts to be calculating and adaptive though she can fall victim to her own emotions when it comes to personal matters, her demeanor is often shaped by the company she keeps. She is a master of deception. While she can be cold and detached when the situation demands it, she can manipulate conversations and situations to her advantage.
Her mutated ego, filled with the echoes of animal instincts, drives her to be hyper-aware of her surroundings. A lot of times it seems like she has different personalities that she calls on by making a different ego in her body dominate.
Backstory
Elise was once a normal child, abandoned and orphaned before becoming the subject of a radical experiment by an ego researcher named Glare Borne. Her ego was grafted with those of various animals, giving her incredible abilities but also altering her personality. She is now a prototype of a new kind of human evolution, one designed to endure the mental and physical strains of magic. Even if she cannot utilize magic itself, she has vast control of the egos on her body, calling on them to use animalistic-like abilities.
Her primary mission is to aid her researcher in seeking out fragments of Eldrin The Worldbinder soul, to push humanity beyond its current limits.
She is deemed a successful prototype, she is a spy for an ego researcher who is looking for different parts of Eldrin The Worldbinder in the search for the evolution of man, where the human ego can withstand the abnormal strains of trying to use too much magic, as his wife died during research where her ego was shattered on an experiment were she tried to withhold a monster that had a shard of Eldrin’s soul.
Ability
Mutated, Elise’s ego was altered by a researcher. Her ego is like the one of a chimera where her ego has been permanently grafted into the ego of different animals, as such she can call on the abilities of such animals, she can take animal shape or become in-between human and animal where she has the abilities of a human enhanced by those of the animal.
Of the grafted animals, a few of the ones known are:
- Cobra Snake
- Leopard
- Axolotl
- Pangolin
- Chameleon
Connections
Elise’s connections are driven largely by pragmatism, though her growing attachment to the group remains hidden beneath her calculating exterior even to herself. Her relationships with the other members of The Bladeshards are complex, shaped by her need to balance her role as a spy with her slowly growing emotional connection to the group.
- Kaelen Greenforge: Sees her as naive but useful, with no deep connection other than curiosity about her potential value mostly driven by how she might use Kaelen for her own needs.
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Lirael Brightstar (Potential Romance): Views him as useful and potentially powerful, someone with great potential that he has yet to fully realize, Elise is cautious due to her fear of being discovered as she knows how perceptive Lirael can be, though her animalistic nature leads to occasional careless approaches that confuse him.
Dornak Boulderfist: Regards him as a reliable but simple-minded ally, She doesn’t bother to expend much mental energy on him, for her he is just a “good idiot” who serves his purpose in battle.
Roland Vestar: Sees him as an effective leader primarily because of his control over others, though she finds him too righteous for her liking and feels no personal attachment. Elise views Roland more as a tool for maintaining the group’s cohesion rater than as a leader to be admired.
Kaelen Greenforge
#Mage#Projector#Human#Wilderness-X-Artiificer-Essence
Appearance
Height: 6’0” Sex: Female
Kaelen stands at 6 feet tall, which is considered small by the standards of her tribe, known for their formidable warriors. Her build is athletic and agile, designed for both speed and resilience.
She has striking features, including deep green eyes to an orange like autumn leaves on its outer rim. Her hair is a wild, untamed mane of dark black hair that reaches her lower back, often adorned with small braids or leaves to symbolize her dedication to the wilds, and a green feather behind her ear.
Kaelen typically wears practical clothing made from natural materials, blending functionality with her tribe’s traditional designs to allow some level of protection while keeping as much mobility as possible. The fur-lined, clothes made of a mix of linen with a leather armor, wrapped around to provide as much mobility as it can, wearing a wrapping green mantle with the symbol of her family, long boots and exposing her clavicle arm, though her shoulder and fore arm is covered by a thick hide. Through her clothes might look tribalistic inspired, they cannot be mistaken as unkempt, they seem well taken care off almost pristine, as she uses her magic to rewove them every time they get damaged.
She carries with her a signed silver ring of his father as a necklace.
Personality
Kaelen is fiercely dedicated to nature and protecting it and improving civilization relationship with it. Despite her small stature among her tribe, she possesses a strong will and a sense of responsibility that drives her to lead when needed. Her upbringing in a warrior tribe instilled in her a sense of honor, but she is also deeply misunderstood, she is aware of how oblivious she is of social interactions. Kaelen often feels like an outsider due to her mixed heritage; being the daughter of a tribe member and a researcher who was never accepted. This has made her resilient but also sensitive to feelings of rejection. She strives to forge her own identity while honoring the legacy of both her parents. She is quick to anger, and very straight forward, but as quick as she is to anger, her realization of how socially awkward she can be makes her as quick to calm, most times on her own. She mask her feelings by acting overly friendly, as she dreams of an ideal friendship.
Abilities
Kaelen is a skilled fighter and adept in various forms of combat. She specializes in a unique blend of traditional tribal fighting techniques and magical abilities. Her affinity for nature allows her to harness the power of the wild, using elemental magic to manipulate plants, bones, and the environment to her advantage. Usually carrying seamless branches and seeds that she manipulates shaping them to use as modern weapons, like guns, armor, shields, and even drones, giving plants a mechanic like appearance though they are undistinguishably made of wood and more fragile than a metallic counterpart. She is able to manipulate partially things made form plants or animals without any extra processing giving her the abilities to use or manipulates certain objects, like re-weaving clothes or make a rope tie itself.
Background:
Kaelen is the daughter of two great heroes whose name has faded from fame, as it become something only the previous generation might have heard about, her father is a researcher artificer by the name of Coleman Forge, who she has yet to meet. And Her mother Aelara Green used to be a great warrior of nature.
She was raised in Wild Silverlight by her mother who sacrificed her powers to keep Kaelen alive during her pregnancy, but due to her physical difference and the tribe forcing her father not to live with them she was discriminated and seen as a tainted, abhorred by most of her village, tolerated by few, and loved by less.
She has no understanding of her father but living in a place where she feels no connection, her hopes has altered her ego, mixing it with properties of what she imagines her father does given her mother stories.
She hopes to find her father and the kin that are like her, as She “tainted” the rite of passage and couldn’t bare the constant feeling of not fitting in her village.
Her mother’s sacrifice has shaped her identity and motivated her to honor her legacy by becoming a protector of the wilds. However, her mixed heritage also created a sense of isolation, as she has always felt the need to prove herself to both her tribe and the outside world, she decided to leave her place of birth. Kaelen relates to her father through stories told by her mother, feeling a strong connection to him even though he was never part of her life. This relationship has influenced her worldview, instilling in her a deep sense of curiosity about knowledge and the balance between magic and nature.
Motivation
Kaelen’s main goal is to protect the wilds and ensure that the balance between nature and civilization is maintained. She seeks to unite the teachings of her mother with the knowledge she has gained from her father, creating a unique perspective that allows her to navigate the challenges ahead. Kaelen’s journey is one of self-discovery, as she seeks her father and kindred spirits.
Connections
Kaelen’s connections reflect her quest for equality and kinship, alongside her determination to understand those around her and forge deeper relationships, even as she grapples with her own sense of belonging.
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Lirael Brightstar: Kaelen is drawn to Lirael’s good nature, which she can instinctively sense, but their interactions often lead to heated discussions due to her short temper and his aggressive reactions. She feels calm around him but is puzzled by his aggressive reactions to her friendliness. constantly trying to understand him, even though their relationship can be rocky.
Elise Justlise: Views her with curiosity rather than admiration, she sees Elise as someone fundamentally different from herself, seeing Elise as someone who could help her understand social interactions and society better.
Dornak Boulderfist: Sees him as a strong, protective warrior but doesn’t feel that he is the kin she seeks. Potential for friendship and camaraderie exists, though she aims to rise above his protectiveness and prove herself as his equal. Kaelen values his good-hearted nature but feels that Dornak isn’t the companion she’s truly seeking for her journey.
Roland Vestar: Admires his skill but dislikes the group’s hierarchical dynamic and seeks kinship on equal footing rather than being subordinate to a revered leader. For her Roland seems too good to be true.
Lirael Brightstar
#Empath#Mage#Solace-Essence#Wate-Essence#Udine Lirael used to be a joyful person and very expressive, This changed after his abilities was taken advantage by some people he believed to be friends with. His allow him to alter the mental state of people in different ways, as well as well as self-preserve. He is a water elemental being, that has a deep love of humans, and pretends to be one. He is one of the many progenitors of the protector of the lake.
Appearance
Height: 5’6” Sex: Male
Lirael is a graceful, almost ethereal figure, standing at 5 feet 6 inches. His presence is both calming and slightly mysterious, a reflection of his elemental nature. His skin has a pale, almost translucent quality, hinting at the fluidity within him as a water spirit, though it can appear more human-like under normal circumstances as he usually hides himself under a robe. His bright silver eyes seem to shimmer, like light reflecting off the surface of a lake, and can carry the deep stillness of water or an unsettling intensity depending on his mood, he can change his eyes can reflect the state of a person that he is looking at by projecting a color according to a feeling present in them, which he can intensify.
Lirael’s hair is long and flowing, a soft cascade of platinum white that looks almost like water caught in motion. It falls to his shoulders, often left loose, though he sometimes ties it back when focusing on a particular task. His attire is simple as he doesn’t want to call attention, usually in shades of blue, silver, and black, though this and his usual calming presence do call the attention of individuals. He often wears lightweight robes and fitted clothing, made from materials that flow easily with his movements. His cloak, which he wears when traveling.
Personality
Lirael was once an exuberant, joyful, and very expressive person, finding delight in the world around him and the humans he loved so deeply. Freely sharing his thoughts and feelings. However, after his abilities were exploited by people he considered friends, he became far more guarded. His trust broken by past betrayal, has made him unable to let anyone get emotionally close to him, the only exception is The Dawnblades. He pushes people away though contrary to itself his love and desire for connection with humans has never truly ceased even if he pushes people away, he truly seeks that connection. Masking his sadness with aggression, and overreacting to stranger’s friendliness.
Despite this, Lirael remains empathetic and caring, especially toward those he deems worthy of his trust. Being able to manipulate people with his powers, to see how far he can trust them, sometimes he puts others to the test. Nevertheless, Lirael is extremely empathic and can be easily manipulated or swayed by others emotions.
Abilities
Lirael’s powers are tied to his nature as an udin, a water spirit, granting him the ability to alter the mental states of others in various ways. His magic flows much like water itself—fluid, adaptable, and often subtle. He can influence emotions, create calmness, or agitation.
He can read people mental state and enhance emotions or feelings in them, he uses peoples emotions to read into their psychics, similar to how a mentalist would notice micro expressions. The stronger Lirael can relate to the person the easier is to understand their mental. While those that he can’t even if he believes so might be completely outside of his powers.
Lirael is able to read peoples echo if he studies them closely being able to to read their surface emotions mostly, but the more time he spend with the person, his readings could potentially achieve a deeper understanding of the person itself and is ego.
His body though he can make the surface tension thick as skin, is mostly water which he can use to his advantage to turn partially invisible, or take different shapes, a silver colored pearl inside of him contains his soul, and if the sturdy pearl where to be destroyed he would die, besides that it matters little what happens to the rest of his body while he can still replace it with water.
He can heal by taking onto their wounds, as his body is liquid he restores himself and them by empathy. as he shares the pain, he cannot restore organs, or revive the death, as he cannot relate to the death, nor understands organs besides the skin and flesh making him unable to restore it.
In addition to mental manipulation, Lirael’s powers allow him to protect himself through self-preservation magic, enabling him to create barriers, shapeshift slightly, or blend in with his environment much like water would conform to any vessel. His affinity with water also grants him some control over physical water sources, such as summoning or manipulating water for healing or offensive purposes. However, Lirael often prefers to use his powers discreetly, avoiding unnecessary attention.
Background:
Lirael is not human but an udin, a water elemental being with a deep connection to lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water. He is one of the many progenitors of the protector of the lake, a guardian spirit that watches over a sacred body of water. Despite his heritage, Lirael has always felt drawn to humanity and has spent much of his life among them, pretending to be one of their own.He used joy in their lives and sees beauty in their transient, fleeting existence. Now he finds a sense of realism, where the life on the lake is like a fantasy, he doesn’t regret abandoning the lake, though returning is present on his mind as a good childhood memory he knows he cannot enjoy any longer, being a life too simplistic in nature.
His experiences with betrayal left him wary of getting too close to others, as he was once taken advantage of by people he believed were his friends. They used his powers for their own gain, leaving Lirael feeling violated and distrustful as the people constantly seem not to care about him, or see him as an alien like creature that doesn’t belong there. This has made him more distant, though he still yearns for the deep connections he once had with humans. His past continues to influence him, guiding his decisions and relationships with others.
Motivation:
Lirael’s journey is not just about protecting the world around him but also about healing his own emotional wounds which he is fully aware of. He also desires to finding a place where he truly belongs, a place where he can be treated as equal to his peers. Though he pretends to be human, he doesn’t seek to be one. His ultimate goal is to truly understand others and himself, as he can feel their emotions but doesn’t truly understand them or their origin. in a way he seek to understand life, and the feeling of being fulfilled, and break out of the shackles of his trauma.
Connections
Lirael’s relationships are marked by a combination of trust, intrigue, and caution, based on his emotional wounds and desires to heal them.
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Kaelen Greenforge: Since she joined the group just before it was torn apart, he hasn’t had time to fully trust her. He’s wary of her overly friendly nature, while he can read her desired of being wary of others, something he can relate to but finds dislike as he sees pieces of his younger less experienced self, but interpreting it as a potential front for ulterior motives.
Dornak Boulderfist: Dornak’s relationship with Lirael is a blend of camaraderie and subtle belittling. While Dornak frequently teases or belittles Lirael, he sees him as a younger, inexperienced individual who often speaks before thinking. Dornak’s patience with Lirael comes from a place of affection, almost like an older sibling’s tough love, something which Lirael understands, as he values loyalty which he has found rare to find.
Elise Justlise: Her mysterious nature and the many layers to her personality make it nearly impossible for Lirael to get a clear sense of her emotions, something that rarely happens to him. This difficulty in reading her both fascinates and frustrates Lirael, but despite this, he has never felt any reason to distrust her, seeing some of himself in her multiple layers of personalities and emotions.
Roland Vestar: Lirael sees Roland as the embodiment of an ideal human and deeply admires him. Roland’s ability to seemingly bypass Lirael’s emotional readings makes him inspiring in Lirael’s eyes. This admiration blinds Lirael to reading into Roland’s darker traits, and he trusts Roland more than he probably should. Lirael overlooks potential warning signs because he sees Roland as a figure of perfection, someone to emulate and rely on.
Roland Vestar
#Projector#Grafter#Light-Essence#Legend-Lore-Essence
Appearance
Height: 5’11” Sex: Male
Kaedric’s clothing is designed with a blend of elegance and practicality. He wears a long, flowing dark blue cloak that drapes dramatically, its silver fastenings and subtle embroidery with silver arcane patterns give off a noble air. His light black armor, while practical for combat prioritizing mobility, are adorned with subtle arcane patterns made with silver thread or subtle.
Personality
His refined clothing and regal bearing often lead others to mistakenly believe he comes from a noble lineage. This misconception is not only a source of subtle satisfaction, as he takes pride in the perception of nobility that his appearance conveys. Providing him with a sense of superiority and control allowing his to act up as a hero to leverage his image to influence or command respect.
His heroic facade helps him maintain control and influence within the group. Members may see him as a reliable leader and protector, unaware of the underlying motives driving his actions.
Backstory
Roland Vestar was born in a small village, His father worked tirelessly on the fields, while his mother worked at the local tailor shop set by her father. The family barely had enough food on the table, their parents did what they could to set enough food on the table. Until his father died in a monster attack while on the fields, trying to protect a coworker with a bad leg killing the beast and dying soon after.
After his father died his mother became more distant with everyone, she still worked, and still was present but it was a husk of what she was on the past, her words and actions could be interpreted to be devoid of all emotions. With the loss of his father and the state of her mother, made him start looking for attention, were Roland started to seek becoming a hero. That’s when his ego stabilized, but when his ego stabilized the daze in his mind gave shape to a second ego, as unknown to the world his father was an unrecognized child of Eldrin The Worldbinder, part of his ego wakened in him. The ego inside of him that was Eldrin was a younger more hopeful self, when Eldrin still had the hopes of becoming a great sage savior of the world.
This Inflated his ego, and seek for attention, where he then started forging his path to becoming a greatly admired hero whatever the cost would be.
Ability
Roland is a very rare case among magic users having access to grafting magic and projection magic, His grafting magic has the essence of legends where he is able to absorb the legends of certain objects to understand them and mirror those legends, this is his own power. Thanks to the Ego of Eldrin he has access to projection magic where he can bind light to create illumines physical shapes, or illusions, which helps him gain the appearance of a chosen warrior.
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