Character descriptions. These give information and insight on 3 of the main antagonists of the fiction. Questions are welcome here.
Name- Rave
Status- Champion
Weapons-
--Grand Star- Handle, 9 inches. Blade, 5 feet long, largest width 6 inches. Weight 36 lbs. A great sword, the blade broadens out as it nears the tip, making the end of it very heavy. This makes the sword very slow to swing but absolutely devasting to get hit by. Rave says that- "If this sword doesn't cut you in half, it will likely break all the bones in your body in one swing." He is extremely deadly after gaining momentum with this blade. He says that this weapon is forged with- "A perfect balance of light, darkness, and everything in between."
--Zankotsu- Handle, 4 feet. Blade, 8 inches, width 1 foot 2 inches. Weight 32 lbs. A great axe, it is very well designed but nothing more. Rave has this simply because he likes to stay fairly well trained in axes, he seldom brings it into real combat.
Description-
--Hair- Black, Medium Length.
--Eyes- Red, Serious.
--Height- 6' 2''
--Weight- 214 lbs.
--Age- 35
--Body- Rave has fairly pale skin and a very well toned body with thick arms and muscular arms and legs. He wears a black showl that covers his shoulders and arms, all the way down to his elbows, though he never wears the hood over his head. His shirt is dark gray and he wears a black chestguard over it. He wears a very sturdy belt with the World Champion buckle covering his own insignia, a skull with bat wings.
Story- Rave is likely the most famous person in the world. He lives in the city of Foner with his wife Brooke, and is the 3 time champion of a world fighters tournament held there once ever 4 years. Foner is the largest city on the continent, and remains that way due to Rave spending his time keeping the neighboring dragon tribes at bay. If it werent for retaliation, Tiamat would have likely destroyed the entire country side when it attacked. However, Rave barely escapes the attack with his life, unnerving the entire world as a whole. Seeing that something so powerful could exist creates a call for any and all able warriors to prepare to defend their homes. After his recovery, Rave begins trying to strengthen himself furthur for another attack, as well as the next tournament only a few months away. He encounters many other protaganists and finds the drama in his personal life growing out of control, as he himself keeps many secrets. No one knows his real name or where he is from, he keeps almost everything about himself to himself.
Personal- Rave laughs at jokes, he doesn't make them. He is more or less kind and humble, prepared to defend anyone in danger for any reason, he believes in peace. He can be pompous sometimes on the battlefield, which is understandable considering his lack of competetion. His wife Brooke is a skilled swordfighter, but is also a Haiken (has little or no energy.) She seems to know everything about him, which seems to bother her on a day to day basis. Could Rave have a dark past?
Abilities- Rave doesn't move too fast on his feet. His charging speed is impressive but he isn't terribly agile compared to most other fighters in and near his league. He makes up for this and then some though with his absolutely terrifying power physically and energetically. Once he begins moving his well trained body can keep many swings going in a row, and a hit from his sword is devasting in ways that can be hard to explain. He can take damage almost as well as he dishes it out, with skin so tough that it isn't uncommon to see him take the full force of an attack simply to leave his oponent open for one of his own, likely much stronger. He has many simple and small abilities, among them is in fact the ability to heal, which isn't extremely potent but compliments his utility very well. His greater attacks often involve blue flames, but not much more is known about them. His ultimate attack is called the Grand Cross, where he points his sword at the sky and it explodes into a twenty foot long blade of blue flames. He then swings this sword one time before the energy fades away. It is unimaginable in terms of sheer power, he has never used this because his opponent was strong, only when he wanted to kill them quickly and in one blow.
"I just don't understand why things can't just stay peaceful for a change."
Name- Blaine
Status- Dark Knight
Weapons-
--Ragnarok- Handle, 6.5 inches. Blade, 4 feet, 5 inches, largest width 5 inches. Weight 25 lbs. A hand-and-half sword. Basically a sword that is mostly used in one hand, but can be easily wielded with two hands at any given time. The blade actually broadens in the middle and then narrows to the point, making it oval shaped. It has a beautiful hilt and crown, and the blade has a design of flames that glow red with power. This sword has actually appeared twice before in history in the hands of heros. One slayed a massive demon, the other led an army against in a war against the dragons. The legend says it appears before a chosen person, helping them fulfill their destiny, then passing away as they do. Blaine finds this sword in a field, in the ground, and becomes extremely annoyed. He ignores it and goes along with the idea of- "I pick my swords, they don't pick me." He continues to shun it until he finally wake up in the middle of the night in an inn with it laying on his chest. He's annoyed that he's practically forced to wield it, but never complains about- "The cool flames it makes when I swing it. Woosh. This sword alone makes me cooler than you man."
--Night Shade- Handle, 10 inches. Blade, 5 feet, 3 inches. Width, 3 inches. Weight 19 lbs. A long and and medium width sword. It isn't terribly powerful on it's own, but it does have one unique property that turns Blaines battle style from fierce to ferocious. Though it takes him a long time to figure it out, this sword is actually completely invisible to everyone but it's owner, Him. He wields this on his back with Ragnarok after he finds it, and always, always, always surpises his opponent with it.
Description-
--Hair- Red with black tips, medium short in length.
--Eyes- Red, Excited.
--Height- 5' 10"
--Weight- 191 lbs.
--Age- 20
--Body- He manages to never shave often enough to avoid having a rough looking face. His skin is actually a really nice complexion. He wears the Insantity Armor, the shoulders being mostly spikes and the chest having a demonic smile designed on it. He travels with a black robe on and usually keeps his hood over his head too, often only taking it off for the most serious of fights. He wears layered pants with flame designs on it, and all of his clothes are black and shades of dark gray. Upon taking his robe off, its easy to see many brutal looking scars all up and down his arms and even on his neck, he doesn't like to talk about him.
Story- Blaine actually has borrowed powers. He has a decent amount of signature abilites, but all of his dark energy is embedded in him by a mysterious Shaman to save his life. He leaves his town in search of something to do in life, and quickly joins a small army made to defend the town of Anuro as he spends his time there. He only enlisted to make some money, but his luck presents him with an attack from the feared dark dragon Tiamat, infamous for attacking many cities already. True to his promises he puts his life on the line to save the people of the city, and in a direct confrontation with Tiamat itself his body is torn to shreds. The one young girl he was able to save, and the only known survior of the attack manages to carry him to the nearest town. It is there he is told that it is impossible for him to live much longer, the dark energy from the dragons claws was destroying his body quickly. It is there the hooded man makes his appearance and explains that Blaine can survive by embracing the darkness along with a certain "energy" that the man had to offer. The thought of the innocent people he saw slaughtered by Tiamat was all the motivation he wanted to live, he accepted vowing to avenge the people he failed to defend. Upon leaving the young girl Annha at the Chirch of Nalm he meets and eventually travels with the priest Alyssa. The make an odd combo of light and darkness as the search the lands for clues of where Tiamat can be found and destroyed, and Blaine eventually discovers and is forced to confront the drawbacks of embracing darkness.
Personal- Blaine is comedic in many ways. His sarcasm and constant grinning keeps many friends in better spirits than they would be in without him around. He really has a very caring heart and tries to use his destructive powers as moralistically as possible. He's very confident and often blindy so in his actions, but never seems to be bothered by whatever mistake he makes. He has good reason to, because he seems to never make mistakes in the first place no matter how thoughtless his actions seem.
Abilites- Blaine is all about destruction. He has great physical strength, but itsn't so heavy on it that he isn't light on his feet at the same time. He mainly specializes in using combos between his sword and his own dark energy, which is very potent. He can fire a powerful Shadow Blast from both hands, he can teleport to any visiable area within a 100 yrd radius (a 1 sec lag in time for every 20 yards). He can surround his blade his shadows for extra power and even to weaken his opponent with a strike. His own energy allows him to create flames and move the earth around him, even so much so he can create a massive wall of dirt in front of him. He also has a fairly impressive ability to heal wounds, though it was made more difficult to use after he gained his dark abilites. His ultimate attack is the Shadow Destroyer, an attack that he cannot use without completely draining all of his remaining energy. At it's maximum strength, he creates a huge black orb over his head that begins to pull everything around him into it. After a few second of this he begins to fire Shadow Blasts all around him in a 360 radius, these two properties make it devasting for fighting many weak foes at once. Finally, after the Shadow Blast rain ends, he throws the orb at any opponent thats left or absorbs it to gain a little bit more energy to conserve for another attack.
"Look at all these people staring at me, they obviously all have awesome dark power envy. Heh, poor guys."
Name- Mathias
Status- Reincarnated Hero
Weapons-
--Crysalis- Handle, 4 inches. Blade, 3 feet, 7 inches, width 1.5 inches. Weight 11 lbs. A very well made rapier. It isn't forged of anything more than runes though, and therefore breaks from time to time. Mathias refuses to give it up though and reforges it stronger each and every time. He eventually figures out how to use his own weight shifting ability on this sword, altering its weight from between 6 lbs- 28 lbs.
--Gradius- Handle, 5 inches. Blade, 5 feet 2 inches, width 1.8 inches. Weight 14 lbs. A unique sword that Mathias crafts where a latch allows him to slide the handle freely up and down the blade when he wishes for it to. It is simply a blade with slightly broadened tips to keep the handle from sliding off. He uses it from time to time, sometimes wielding it and the Crysalis in his main hand, and makes an amazing style of swordplay.
--x13- Handle, 4.4 inches. Blade, 3 feet, 4 inches, width 1.7 inches. Weight 13 lbs. Another sword Mathias eventually makes using an alloy that has magnetic properties. With extremely reckless experiments that nearly kill him or ****** him he splits the alloy, places a piece of it next to his brain, and another piece in the sword. Finally using his weight shifting abilites along with the magnetic alloys linking to each other, he create what is called the Psychic Sword. The odd name is simply the name of the experiment number. He uses this blade to fly through the air and slice at his opponent while he attacks as well. He can't afford to focus too much energy or mental power on the blade at one time without hurting himself though, so it's often plays more a distraction than a threat on its own.
Description-
--Hair- White, short.
--Eyes- Dark Blue, Gloomy.
--Height- 6' 0''
--Weight- 8-164-780 lbs.
--Age- Presumed 20.
--Body- Pale skin and a lean body. He has robust and mostly black shoulder guards. He wears an ornamented white, sliver, and gold breastplate. He wears a short white cape with a lightly grayer inner lining. He has white sleeves almost to his elbows and wears bracers just over his elbows and near his wrists. He wears bronze colored gauntles.
Story- Back a hundred or so years ago there were the Dark Ages. A group of bandits lead by four powerful people owned the world for a long time until a man appeared name Mathias (math-eye-us). He was wielding a sword identified as the lost Maelstrom and had armor that gave him angelic wings. He was the one man who saved the world during those times, and his name is held with great honor all across the world. This man shows up from out of nowhere claiming to be the reincarnation of the great Lord Mathias. His name his pronounced differently though (math-ie-us). He doesn't appear to be a big angel, but he does wear white armor and has white hair. The people don't generally trust him, and he responds by generally shunning people anyways, and often acting selfish and uncaring when people are in need. He doesn't tell anyone about himself, he simply says he's going to save the world because he's a reincarnation and then ignore whoever is talking to him. Anyone who ever did decide to travel with him quickly changed their mind when he refused to do anything for them. Even saving them from any kind of animal or monster. After meeting Rave in the city of Foner, Rave orders a pupil of his name Karin to travel with Mathias. Both of them immediately decide they hate each other, but Karin follows Rave's wishes claiming to owe him a "Life Debt". Mathias threatens to kill her if she follows him out of the city, and Rave says if he ever does, he will kill Mathias. Karin wishes to help the world in it's prediciment as well, and it's beyond her and Mathias why they're being forced to travel together. Mathias decided to "tolerate" her company, but simply put, they often do not work well together.
Personal- Almost no one actually believes Mathias is a reincarnation of the Hero of the Past. So if not, then who is he? Mathias is an extremely annoying person with his actions, being overbearing, looking down on people, and often simply not caring about them in any way. In subtle and slightly less than subtle ways he begins to show parts of his real personalitly, and the more thats seen, the scarier things can get. He always speaks in an extremely formal tone and uses what Blaine calls "Prince Talk", he doesn't even seem to have emotion sometimes. Under all of this though strong appearance though, he has an extremely disturbed mind. He seems to have not grown out of childhood in some way, and many of his thoughts are insane, evil, and suicidal. How exactlly such an unstable person was able to gain such a unique power that mimics the Hero everyone knows of is a mystery to everyone. He seems to have connections with two people. Blaine seems to know more about him than anyone, but refuses to say anything on the matter. Throughout his journey Mathias seeks a man named Draken more than any other foe. He can often act like nothing else in the world matter but finding that man. How did he get his powers? How does Blaine know him, why is he so interested in Draken? Is he really even a good guy anyways?
Abilities- Mathias isn't physically weak, but he certainly doesn't have the great strength of Rave or even Blaine. What he does have however, is extreme skill and speed. He is very agile, very dextrous, and is very deadly with a blade. His most used ability is something never seen before, the ability to change his weight. He can make his body weight very light or insanely heavy in the blink of an eye. Overall he's a foe so unpredictable and fast in battle he can draw his sword and cut and average man into 5 pieces before anyone before they can even move a hand. He has a strategic mind that's as deadly as his sword as well, he feints his attacks and attempts to trick his enemy many many times if they're a real threat to him. He can fire a volley of weak energy from his hand, none of them being very strong but easily enough to cause an enemy to flinch, and open up an attack or an escape. He eventally learns to force his energy to surge through his adrenaline, giving him temporary increased strength and and even more speed, exausting him afterwards. His body heals at a much more rapid rate than most other people, and he can expel his energy all throughout his body to create a Light Shield. This helps absorb and repel attacks as well as heals him to a small extent as well. Another ability is the Lightning Stab, where he creates a small orb of energy that floats near him until he focuses and wishes for it to expel the energy in the form of a bolt. His trademark finishing move is the Soul Breaker, where he focuses so much energy into his blade it becomes very unstable. The energy fades after a dozen or so seconds, but an attack dealt against an opponent during any time it exists will cause the energy to literally explode. This, of course, can badly hurt someone.
"If you continue to waste my time I will have to kill you."
