Post by shinaobi on Dec 19, 2009 1:03:16 GMT -5
Name: Aloysius Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein
Age: 312, 'frozen' at 14
Gender: Male
Race: Incendia Altus
Alignment: True Neutral
Power Level: 7(tentative, please advise)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance: Aloysius is mid-sized, at about 5'5", with messy blond hair, fair skin, and red eyes. He has the build of an archer, with well-developed biceps and somewhat rough hands with long, dexterous fingers.
He usually dresses in what he is convinced is a nondescript manner, often wearing bucket hats, sunglasses, jackets, and jeans.
Personality: Manderscheid is fairly memorable to those who run into him, if only because he has neither forgotten that he is of noble descent, nor does he make any effort to act as he appears; many often come off with the impression that he is talking down to them(more often than not, they're right), and they treat him like a petulant child. This treatment irritates him quite a bit, though it has happened often enough that he has at least learned to maintain his composure...for a while.
In conflicts of all varieties, Aloysius strives to be swift and brutal, aiming to gain both initiative and advantage as soon as possible; outside of physical combat, this tends to mean that the ancient boy doesn't really know where to stop, and so he tends to create enemies more readily than friends.
History: Aloysius was second-born in his family's lineage; there was already an elder brother in line for taking direct control of the county in which they lived; instead, he was crafted into the perfect soldier, so as to command the forces of his family whenever they were called upon by the Holy Roman Emperor. Or at least, he would have been, had the demon Flavros not noticed both he, his age(at the time he was only around 8), and his talents and chosen to draft him into his growing human armies to fight against Zaebos.
In the young boy's case, Flavros was particularly devious; he appeared to the Manderscheid count in the form of a famous and experienced mercenary commander, offering to take the boy under his private tutelage. While at first some of the advisers objected, on the grounds that Flavros might attempt a kidnapping, these objections were soon quieted; the demon was quite patient, and so in fact did no more than train Aloysius in the arts of archery and war for about 3 years, and even foiled a few assassination attempts on the Manderscheid count(having himself paid and sent the assassins).
On the 4th year, Flavros made his move. After taking Aloysius on a hunting trip, he slowly applied the magicks necessary to turn the boy into an Incendia. Meanwhile, a small host of demonic agents immediately laid siege to the city that the boy had called home; upon his return, the demon then presented the burning city to him, and told him that either he would swear fealty to the demon, or both he and his village would be destroyed. As the boy actually cared quite a bit for his home, he swore the oath, and then got to watch Flavros destroy the town anyway before summoning the portal to cross over to the demonic plane.
So Manderscheid was drafted into the demon general's army, and, seeing no real alternatives, put all of his energy into the fight, though there was not much need; barely a month after he was conscripted, Zaebos and Flavros squared off and destroyed each other. Having no desire to stay around, the young archer immediately deserted the now headless armies left in the wake of the demons. He immediately ran into a rather pressing problem; specifically, he was on the demonic plane, or the place that most were apt to simply call "hell", and Aloysius had absolutely no idea how to get out.
However, the boy at least knew that he didn't want to get mixed back up into all that army business, so, reasoning that, if the now-charred corpse that was once Flavros figured out some way to get him in, then Aloysius Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein could certainly do so.
It would end up taking the lordling the better part of 200 years and the assistance of some outsiders calling themselves "Incendia Novus" before he actually made it out, though. Manderscheid found himself quite rapidly inundated with revelations on the world he had been absent from, among which was that the world had apparently moved on, that some absurd thing called World War II was going on, that the people surrounding him were also Nazis, and that the once-great Manderscheid line had quietly died out. While most of that didn't really mean much to the boy, he was devastated to discover that his family was totally gone; one of the few things that had kept him trudging through hell was the idea that he might meet some grand-niece or great-great-great nephew. Feeling it necessary to confirm the fact for himself, Aloysius immediately walked away from the scene, much to the indignation of the Nazis who had fished him out of hell, apparently under the impression that he would assist them with this whole "war" business.
Having not spent much time in the countryside previously, and having spent absolutely no time in the countryside as defined by trenches and bomb craters, the boy soon found himself lost, and, while he would later manage to make it to the area his homeland had been in(History Channel documentary), Manderscheid would here succeed only in wandering into Lisbon, and, before he realized where he was going, he was on a boat headed to America, where he would stay.
Powers and Skills:
Pyrokinesis: As an Altus, the pyrokinetics common to Incendia are especially strong in Manderscheid, and he is well able to create and manage flames, and is even capable of fashioning fiery constructs. He also possesses a full immunity to fires and extreme heats both natural and supernatural, with the notable exception of those flames of blessed origin.
Well Endowed: Aloysius is also extremely physically gifted, capable of lifting up to a ton and reaching up to 80 mph(about 130 km.h). He also possesses a resistance to disease and an accelerated ability to recover from injuries: minor wounds heal in minutes, and even detached limbs can reattach after a few hours if left close enough to the body.
Experience: Having had to fight his way through and out of what could be literally called the bowels of hell, Manderscheid has become a very dangerous combatant, and can utilize his body and power to their fullest extent.
Bilingual: Manderscheid fluently speaks both German and English, though his English is slightly accented.
Equipment: None to speak of
Weaknesses: As with all Incendia, Manderscheid is somewhat demonic in nature, and so possesses an aversion and weakness to holy artifacts, weapons, and spells.
He is also by no means invincible: a bullet will not penetrate as far into his body as it would a normal human, but it will still do damage, and is more than capable of ending him if the shot is well aimed; alternately, while a sword requires a bit more force behind it to penetrate, it is by no means useless against him.
While Aloysius is a good bowman, he does not actively carry a bow around, and, finding flaming bow constructs rather redundant, rarely makes actual use of the skill; in any case, a bullet is much faster than an arrow, and the antiquated lordling disdains guns, finding them crude and unrefined.
Age: 312, 'frozen' at 14
Gender: Male
Race: Incendia Altus
Alignment: True Neutral
Power Level: 7(tentative, please advise)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance: Aloysius is mid-sized, at about 5'5", with messy blond hair, fair skin, and red eyes. He has the build of an archer, with well-developed biceps and somewhat rough hands with long, dexterous fingers.
He usually dresses in what he is convinced is a nondescript manner, often wearing bucket hats, sunglasses, jackets, and jeans.
Personality: Manderscheid is fairly memorable to those who run into him, if only because he has neither forgotten that he is of noble descent, nor does he make any effort to act as he appears; many often come off with the impression that he is talking down to them(more often than not, they're right), and they treat him like a petulant child. This treatment irritates him quite a bit, though it has happened often enough that he has at least learned to maintain his composure...for a while.
In conflicts of all varieties, Aloysius strives to be swift and brutal, aiming to gain both initiative and advantage as soon as possible; outside of physical combat, this tends to mean that the ancient boy doesn't really know where to stop, and so he tends to create enemies more readily than friends.
History: Aloysius was second-born in his family's lineage; there was already an elder brother in line for taking direct control of the county in which they lived; instead, he was crafted into the perfect soldier, so as to command the forces of his family whenever they were called upon by the Holy Roman Emperor. Or at least, he would have been, had the demon Flavros not noticed both he, his age(at the time he was only around 8), and his talents and chosen to draft him into his growing human armies to fight against Zaebos.
In the young boy's case, Flavros was particularly devious; he appeared to the Manderscheid count in the form of a famous and experienced mercenary commander, offering to take the boy under his private tutelage. While at first some of the advisers objected, on the grounds that Flavros might attempt a kidnapping, these objections were soon quieted; the demon was quite patient, and so in fact did no more than train Aloysius in the arts of archery and war for about 3 years, and even foiled a few assassination attempts on the Manderscheid count(having himself paid and sent the assassins).
On the 4th year, Flavros made his move. After taking Aloysius on a hunting trip, he slowly applied the magicks necessary to turn the boy into an Incendia. Meanwhile, a small host of demonic agents immediately laid siege to the city that the boy had called home; upon his return, the demon then presented the burning city to him, and told him that either he would swear fealty to the demon, or both he and his village would be destroyed. As the boy actually cared quite a bit for his home, he swore the oath, and then got to watch Flavros destroy the town anyway before summoning the portal to cross over to the demonic plane.
So Manderscheid was drafted into the demon general's army, and, seeing no real alternatives, put all of his energy into the fight, though there was not much need; barely a month after he was conscripted, Zaebos and Flavros squared off and destroyed each other. Having no desire to stay around, the young archer immediately deserted the now headless armies left in the wake of the demons. He immediately ran into a rather pressing problem; specifically, he was on the demonic plane, or the place that most were apt to simply call "hell", and Aloysius had absolutely no idea how to get out.
However, the boy at least knew that he didn't want to get mixed back up into all that army business, so, reasoning that, if the now-charred corpse that was once Flavros figured out some way to get him in, then Aloysius Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein could certainly do so.
It would end up taking the lordling the better part of 200 years and the assistance of some outsiders calling themselves "Incendia Novus" before he actually made it out, though. Manderscheid found himself quite rapidly inundated with revelations on the world he had been absent from, among which was that the world had apparently moved on, that some absurd thing called World War II was going on, that the people surrounding him were also Nazis, and that the once-great Manderscheid line had quietly died out. While most of that didn't really mean much to the boy, he was devastated to discover that his family was totally gone; one of the few things that had kept him trudging through hell was the idea that he might meet some grand-niece or great-great-great nephew. Feeling it necessary to confirm the fact for himself, Aloysius immediately walked away from the scene, much to the indignation of the Nazis who had fished him out of hell, apparently under the impression that he would assist them with this whole "war" business.
Having not spent much time in the countryside previously, and having spent absolutely no time in the countryside as defined by trenches and bomb craters, the boy soon found himself lost, and, while he would later manage to make it to the area his homeland had been in(History Channel documentary), Manderscheid would here succeed only in wandering into Lisbon, and, before he realized where he was going, he was on a boat headed to America, where he would stay.
Powers and Skills:
Pyrokinesis: As an Altus, the pyrokinetics common to Incendia are especially strong in Manderscheid, and he is well able to create and manage flames, and is even capable of fashioning fiery constructs. He also possesses a full immunity to fires and extreme heats both natural and supernatural, with the notable exception of those flames of blessed origin.
Well Endowed: Aloysius is also extremely physically gifted, capable of lifting up to a ton and reaching up to 80 mph(about 130 km.h). He also possesses a resistance to disease and an accelerated ability to recover from injuries: minor wounds heal in minutes, and even detached limbs can reattach after a few hours if left close enough to the body.
Experience: Having had to fight his way through and out of what could be literally called the bowels of hell, Manderscheid has become a very dangerous combatant, and can utilize his body and power to their fullest extent.
Bilingual: Manderscheid fluently speaks both German and English, though his English is slightly accented.
Equipment: None to speak of
Weaknesses: As with all Incendia, Manderscheid is somewhat demonic in nature, and so possesses an aversion and weakness to holy artifacts, weapons, and spells.
He is also by no means invincible: a bullet will not penetrate as far into his body as it would a normal human, but it will still do damage, and is more than capable of ending him if the shot is well aimed; alternately, while a sword requires a bit more force behind it to penetrate, it is by no means useless against him.
While Aloysius is a good bowman, he does not actively carry a bow around, and, finding flaming bow constructs rather redundant, rarely makes actual use of the skill; in any case, a bullet is much faster than an arrow, and the antiquated lordling disdains guns, finding them crude and unrefined.
