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Character Race: Antilian
The Antilian are an elder race whose society knows no home world. Spreading themselves throughout the universe these extremely long-lived beings shine as great philosophers, advisors, scientists, and warriors. During the height of their far-flung and loosely knit society they gave their services only to those who they deemed worthy of their skills. Their logic was even then at times considered arcane as they often chose causes and persons to serve which offered no advantages to themselves or all Antilians. At this time in their history their only known gathering places were training houses on remote, neutral planets scattered through out the universe. These train houses forged young (relatively speaking) Antilians into masters of their chosen vocation. Though probably just another
Character Description:
Name: Altehr Jai'kah
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Forest Green
Hair Color/Style: Dark Gray messy, crude braids wrapped or tied with pieces of cloth. Of varying lengths, as long as to his waist.
Age: Forgotten
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 180 lbs
Aura Color: A mix of dark blue and dark purple.
Clothing and Other Physical Features: Altehr usually dresses in a body wrap that hangs to his knee at one side and at his hip on the other, the wrap has a knot work embroidered edge done in black against the bone color wrap. He wears short, light brown pants, and white wraps around his calves and ankles. When fighting he prefers to wear just a leather vest, though he often travels in a massive hooded cloak that sometimes seems to swallow him in its folds, while at others it billows subtly at his sides. He usually wears sandals for footwear. He has a lithe, but sturdy figure. His movements are elegant, but reserved�much like his personality.
Specialty: Ki
Personality: Though usually reserved, polite, and a sort of scattergun literati a very observant person will notice a subdued fire very faintly shining behind his forest green eyes. Though usually calm and rational he is capable of terrible things�though he is not necessarily evil and mostly not perceived that way. His presence inexplicably makes people uncomfortable at times; however, this may be the distance the long, long stretch of his years has put between him and most other sentient beings. Though his movements, actions, and words appear unpredictable at times he is often working in the arcane logic of the elder races.
Character Background/History:
A natural instinct of the Antilians is to commit their childhood up until their entry into a training house into the deepest depths of what the Antilians call "dead memory". Though the Antilians are known for their near photographic memories, after living for century after century their minds would become so cluttered with information it would be impossible to think. Thus the Antilians have a natural ability to commit most of their ancient day-to-day memories to the deepest regions of the subconscious where they pose no threat to their sanity. All Antilians have the ability to recall any moment from their life through mediation sessions in which they search through their dead memory. It is thought that the Antilians bury their childhoods in particular to protect the breeding and child raising habits of the race.
A bit of a secret nostalgic Altehr keeps his memories of his time at the Jai'kah Clan training house near by at all times. The years spent perfecting his mind and body in fighting style of Clan Jai'kah were filled with friends, lovers, a thirst for knowledge and competition. The days were filled with early practice, study, and walking meditations through the great dense forests of the mountain regions His visions of the polished dark hardwood arched structures of the training house grounds set against the dense forest of hardwoods and evergreens and the soft, moist weather of the mountains paints itself in watercolor in his dreams, both asleep and waking. During these times his people celebrated the customs of the local people, and the holidays of the people of around the Jai'kah training house were colorful and playfully boisterous.
Though a sad day, as all Antilians Altehr made ready to leave the training house to go out into the universe. In these days it wasn't unusual for a group of Antilian warriors to align themselves with the same honorable and worthiest (in their eyes) of causes in the universe. The alignments were sometimes to an ideal, sometimes to a person. Altehr and his group spent many centuries together as a prized cadre of Jai'kah Clan warriors.
During this time Altehr became something of a warrior celebrity, known of his grace and ferocity in battle. One poet said of him, "like a foul, crow-winged angel, burning forever in the dark flames of its heart." Though one of the brightest, most well read, and wise of the group Altehr was capable of and committed terrible acts of destruction.
After various victories, defeats, arguments of honor, and rare deaths, Altehr and his circle slowly broke apart and scattered into the furthest regions of the universe. Whether his own departure was due to his reputation and some act of violence Altehr no longer cared to remember. He pushed on, sailed the stars and great darkness of the vast universe inexplicably drawn to carnage, desperation, and that very bright, but very small spark of hope.
Arriving about a century ago on the nameless planet and drawn there by its increasing worldwide violence and pestilence. Altehr has been involved in wars of this world as long as anyone and continues to involve himself in the affairs drawn both towards the peace in the living memory of his training house years and the scent of desperate battles.
These days Altehr is something of a wanderer, often moving according to instinct. Though it is rumored that at one time in the past he ran a small training house on the nameless planet though Altehr has committed these facts, for now, to dead memory.
Documented Abilities:
Arakagami: Altehr's sword originally forged at the Jai'kah training house long ago. The blade is approximately three feet long and sharp the entire length on one side sliding to a point. Approximately six inches on the top of the blade nearer the tip is serrated. The blade curves slightly and grows from two inches wide at the hilt to about three inches at the point. It is a two handed sword with two pronged hand guard, each three-inch prong following the length of the blade to their tips. Though the handle is made of metal and comes it is wrapped in well-oiled leather for a sturdy grip. The sword is indestructible and expertly crafted, though it is otherwise unremarkable. This is Altehr's favored weapon next to hand-to-hand (ki-based) combat and he is remarkably deadly with Arakagami at his side.
Explosive Ki: Though many warriors throughout the universe have the ability manipulate ki in various ways Altehr has learned, in particular, to use its potential energy to generate various kinds of explosions that can be used to cause direct damage, but also to generate disorienting flash-bang effects, create dense fields of debris and smoke, or to harmlessly propel himself into acrobatic and graceful airborne maneuvers.
Advanced Teleportation: An essential part of the Jai'kah fighting style, their teleportation technique involves a very advanced, but quickly achieved meditative state (taking several seconds for Altehr) wherein the warrior "dissolves" his physical self, but instead of outward towards a destination, inward on himself, molecule condensed into molecule, turning the warrior's very being into a singularity causing the warrior to literarily be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Thus giving the warrior a nigh unmatchable speed in battle and the ability to travel to any location known to the warrior. Adept users often use the ability to disappear just before enemies attack or disappear completely for up to a minute or two. However, this dismantling and reassembling of the body at the molecular level, if repeated too many times in quick succesion can have serious physical consequences�beginning with general physical fatigue and increasing expenditures of ki, moving on to physical damage.
Darkflame: A source of power tapped by only a few of the greatest Jah'kai warriors, when this energy source is released its mixes with the Jai'kah warrior's ki and physical body. The warrior's mixed energy will causes increased damage (approximately double) as well as burning damage. The Darkflame energy also increases the warrior's physical strength, speed, and resilience to all forms of attack. When tapping this energy source Altehr's aura becomes more flame like, and has an obsidian (black/multi color) flicker.
Fire of the Four Winds: Using combination of his explosive ki and advanced teleportation techniques Altehr causes the ambient ki to explode around his body just as he shrinks into a singularity. The resulting explosion though causing some damage to those caught in the immediate blast zone is mostly intended to completely disorient the opponent with its bright explosion and sonic boom effect. Then Altehr, moving quickly all around his opponent, (or being in all those places at once, however one wants to look at it) begins firing explosive ki balls in a massive crossfire to designed to ping pong the opponent between explosions.
Jai'kah Style: The Jai'kah Clan have been perfecting their fighting style based on agility, acrobatics, dexterity, speed and ki manipulation for the great piling of centuries that remember the birth of the universe. The fighting style is known through out the ancient universe and many other races have created cheap copies of it, it seems only true Antilian Jai'kah warriors can tap its true secrets. Practitioners of the style were once known as "death dancers" and for good reason. As Altehr is a master level student of Jai'kah Style he is able to perform great feats of speed, agility, dexterity, and acrobatics both in attack and defensive maneuvers, in fact in any situation. These feats are often aided by both his explosive ki and the Jai'kah Advanced Teleportation techniques.