Post by Veros on Jan 11, 2010 0:26:10 GMT -5
Due to a number of issues, including to the vanishing of the original topic, I am bringing up this character again, though this time I will attempt to cover some of the key issues or assumptions made with the creation of the character. I intend to include all the issues that were covered either in the original or over IM. Other then what is above the character itself, no changes were made to the post besides removing off-topic discussion at the bottom of the post.
First off, pedophilia. Gross topic, and no body likes it. Yes, he has a child form and is a type of demon normally desiring/requiring acts of physical and sexual nature to survive, though he does not have the desire/need to perform the acts and wouldn't perform said acts, especially in the form of a child. He even finds pedophilia incredibly distasteful. He uses the form to influence people at a critical stage towards evil or as another power source before they know better, childhood.
Secondly, there is the topic of an incubus with no sex drive and how it would starve to death. The assumption made at the creation of the character was that lust in any form and other strong emotions, can be used as an alternative feeding method to the normal lust in the form of sexual gratification that the standard incubi require. In other words, a lust for power/blood/etc, anger, love, rage or fear could be used instead of the standard idea of just lust for sexual pleasure.
Thirdly, is the assumption that follows a common mythology that demons are angels that rebelled and were cast out of heaven. Thus while still angelic beings, no longer hold all of their former glory and hold lives of sin. I am also aware of the horrid wording of the race, it was intended as a reference to this belief. For any confusion it created, I am sorry.
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Name: Saren Doril
Age: Ancient
Gender: Male
Race: Incubus
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Power Level: 8
Timeline: Modern, can travel to other times
Appearance: Saren's primary form is that of a young boy roughly 11 years old with soft brown hair and lightly tanned skin. His eyes are brown with, just around the iris, a gold crown. When in the form of the young boy, he dresses in light clothes - mostly green and blue. Though the form is deceiving, while it looks small and frail, he's still has all of his strength and speed.
His older form that he uses from time to time, is a slender well shaven man with straight brown and the same eyes as his child form. Though in this form, his tanned body is thin and lean with very defined muscles that are generally hidden behind his black suit with a red undershirt and a black and red stripped tie. In both forms, his eyes always seem to hold a very strong tug at everyone that sees them, snagging their attention.
Of course, he does have other forms he can take, but all of them are male and unless he decides other wise, are all incredibly attractive or cute depending on the age.
Personality: Saren is an incredible actor, with his child form always having a bubbly, carefree attitude that is impossible to anger and very energetic. He also tends to have a fondness for women and seems more energetic around them, while calmer around men. But it appears as nothing more than a childish fondness for likenesses of a maternal figure, since he never has a parent with him.
On the other hand, his adult form acts incredibly polite and could easily pass off as a true gentleman in most social situations. He holds doors for people, pulls out chairs for a woman he is eating dinner with, and has great table manners. Even in this form, angering him is next to impossible, and he is very calm and unnervingly patient. Though he takes flirting differently depending on where he is at, in a public place he tends to politely thank them and change the subject while in private places, he would generally lightly flirt back.
In both forms, he does from time to time offer is aid to another person, and at first, never asks for anything back in return. After a while though, he will attempt to get the person to sign a contract, if he is in his adult form. His child form does it more loosely and have the person agree to help or do any one thing for him.
Despite him being an incubus, he apparently as almost no interest in the physical pleasures most incubi and succubi do. Very rarely, does he take advances, and when he does it almost always ends at a light kiss, except when he is using it as an attempt to get them to accept his aid or sign a contract with him.
History: Saren's birth was far before written human records began to be wrote down, and telepaths that have tapped his memories can see images of the Earth when it was new and the fallen that walked the Earth after the conflict. Saren was one of the first few full angelic beings born after the Rebellion and a group of angels being cast out of heaven. So his history expands a good chunk of Earth's own history.
In his earlier years, Saren followed most of the same patterns that all Incubi did, sleeping with and impregnating women. Though that changed when he was summoned and imprisoned by a powerful magician that was intoxicatingly beautiful and her magic stemmed both from her beauty and her force of will. During the years he was bound and trapped, he quickly learned the beginnings of magic including a method of taking another's powers with a magical contract.
It was decades later when the sorceress died that he finally escaped, as by that time his knowledge and understanding of magic far outstripped that of her apprentice. When he attacked the apprentice following his escape, wholly out of a desire for a touch of vengeance he was cursed with her dieing breath. A curse that inverted his morality, or was supposed to. Instead it removed his desire for physical and brought the desire for magical power to the for front - starting his wave of aiding sorcerers and sorceresses, warlocks and witches, even normal people that had high amounts of magical potential or magical power but didn't have access to magic spells to use the power.
And over the years, he amassed a massive pool of knowledge about spells and magic in general. With a large pool of mana to draw from. Also, he lately has been adventuring with a mortal human, Jeremy, as his primary company for the last two hundred years. Jeremy is kept alive and in a fairly young body, roughly twenty, by Saren's magic and is considered Saren's closest friend, which is an odd claim for someone that is technically a demon. This was due to Jeremy cutting a deal with Saren, considering Saren's fondness of his child form. Pretend to be Saren's adoptive father, in exchange for being made immortal. Though Saren eventually grew moderately attached and protects Jeremy because of friendship instead of protecting his investment.
Powers: Angelic Body: Saren in naturally immortal, both to aging and from sustaining massive trauma that would kill him. The killing blow causes his being to disperse and reform hours or even days later. His physical abilities are also greatly enhanced compared to that of a human. He ability to see and hear are so far beyond acute, with his hearing inhumanly sharp - he is able to hear, but not understand a whisper from over a hundred feet away. His mental reflexes are just as well rapid enough that he can perceive, follow, and react to creatures moving around the speed of light, which allows him to react to fast characters with purely mental actions. His physical strength is immense compared to a human's though he ability to lift objects is limited to about half a ton. Meanwhile, his speed when flat out running is 72 miles per hour. Fast but not very fast for his power level. His form is also very tolerant to harm of all kinds, including an ability to quickly heal from injuries. Oddly enough, he can sense people moving by non-visual means by either listening to them move or sensing the movement of the heat inside their body or the air around them - thus rendering it worthless against cold blooded creatures and when the air is the same temperature as the person's body.
Telepathy: Saren is able to communicate with others mind to mind, or even large groups of people. Oddly enough, he can even project the messages so it appears to come out of the air or out of a solid objects. His resistance to mental attacks and invasions are also incredibly heightened.
Remote Viewing: Saren is able to tap into some of his magical potential, his mana, to magically see in places where he physically isn't. The sensory input also includes hearing as well. He is able to maintain two sensors at the same time without affecting his ability to perceive his current physical location. Though while maintaining the effect, he can not use spells other than Travel to get to the location.
Remotely Invisible: Saren's magic protects him from the scrying abilities of mages and other beings including machines oddly enough. He doesn't show up to anyone remotely viewing an area, nor can cameras or video recorders capture his image - he still has a reflection. This has no effect on energy sensing or infrared vision or any other method of telling one's location by sources other than simple image capturing.
Supernatural Pull: Saren's eyes hold a subtle magical pull to whoever is looking in them, compelling them to be captivated by his appearance. He can flood mana into this to strengthen the effect if he desires though.
Magic: Saren possesses knowledge of nearly every spell ever thought of, combined with the ability to quickly create new spells on the fly using his knowledge of magic. He can even mix different magic forms together into one spell to get his desired result. His favorite and most used spells are listed below.
Shift/Travel ~ Saren's teleportation spells, both of them have their uses and are incredibly precise as far as how accurate they are with arrival. Though Shift is his combat teleporting spell, even in high powered combat, and as such far quicker and only taking a mental thought to use, but a shorter range. While Travel has a longer range and can carry others with him, even across dimensions, but requires a about 3 seconds to use.
Fire Blast ~ Saren quickly channels a blast of mana into his hand that takes the form of a rolling ball of violet fire that can quickly consume anything it touches. It barely finds Earthly metals to be of any protection other than blocking line of sight. His quick blasts are enough to punch holes through an inch or so of solid steel each, while his slower and stronger blasts are of course, more devastating. The stronger blasts of fire blast, much like other high powered attacks, would rip through virtually all modern mundane creations. At it's higher levels, each blast could shred through feet of steel.
Energy Arc ~ Saren channels mana into his hand and then through the air and back into his hand or to the ground or other object, which takes the form of violet electricity as it courses through the air electrifying everything it touches.
Healing Light ~ Saren can even channel energy into a soft purple glow that quickly repairs injuries to creatures and objects alike. Though repairing objects does at least require him to have a basic idea into the functioning of how it works or what it is for. He claims he can use it to revive the dead, but he almost never does except in dire emergencies, since it lets them tap into his mana until they next go to sleep.
Flight ~ Saren's magical flight is a good deal faster than his running speed, but again, it isn't as fast as a number of people of his power level. In a full out burst of speed, Saren can reach 120 miles per hour.
Mental Strike ~ Saren channels mana through his natural telepathy to create mental attacks of varying strength. The breadth of his mental attacks are incredible, he can use it to cause mild headaches to unbearable migraines, blur a person's senses to completely locking a person's mind down, all the way to leaving subtle compulsions or even attempting to dominate a person's mind with his own.
Magical Contract ~ Saren can create and seal iron clad, unbreakable magical contracts that usually have the person signing over all their magical talent and mana to him upon their death in exchange for his aid. Though he can create contracts for other people. If one person does something to attempt to break the contract, such as trying to get rid of their magic when they find out they owe it to Saren now, the contract strips that party of their powers and give it to Saren. Luckily for Saren, it means if he tries to break it, his powers are removed and immediately returned to himself. So it only leaves him magicless for about ten seconds, but frees the other person of their requirements.
Equipment: None. He can conjure on the spot what he desires or needs.
Weakness: Anti-demonic magic or weapons. Tends to stand out of a crowd. His anger though hard to stir is explosive and he looses most of his judgment when angry. He does have a human cohort that is fragile and he actively protects from harm.
First off, pedophilia. Gross topic, and no body likes it. Yes, he has a child form and is a type of demon normally desiring/requiring acts of physical and sexual nature to survive, though he does not have the desire/need to perform the acts and wouldn't perform said acts, especially in the form of a child. He even finds pedophilia incredibly distasteful. He uses the form to influence people at a critical stage towards evil or as another power source before they know better, childhood.
Secondly, there is the topic of an incubus with no sex drive and how it would starve to death. The assumption made at the creation of the character was that lust in any form and other strong emotions, can be used as an alternative feeding method to the normal lust in the form of sexual gratification that the standard incubi require. In other words, a lust for power/blood/etc, anger, love, rage or fear could be used instead of the standard idea of just lust for sexual pleasure.
Thirdly, is the assumption that follows a common mythology that demons are angels that rebelled and were cast out of heaven. Thus while still angelic beings, no longer hold all of their former glory and hold lives of sin. I am also aware of the horrid wording of the race, it was intended as a reference to this belief. For any confusion it created, I am sorry.
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Name: Saren Doril
Age: Ancient
Gender: Male
Race: Incubus
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Power Level: 8
Timeline: Modern, can travel to other times
Appearance: Saren's primary form is that of a young boy roughly 11 years old with soft brown hair and lightly tanned skin. His eyes are brown with, just around the iris, a gold crown. When in the form of the young boy, he dresses in light clothes - mostly green and blue. Though the form is deceiving, while it looks small and frail, he's still has all of his strength and speed.
His older form that he uses from time to time, is a slender well shaven man with straight brown and the same eyes as his child form. Though in this form, his tanned body is thin and lean with very defined muscles that are generally hidden behind his black suit with a red undershirt and a black and red stripped tie. In both forms, his eyes always seem to hold a very strong tug at everyone that sees them, snagging their attention.
Of course, he does have other forms he can take, but all of them are male and unless he decides other wise, are all incredibly attractive or cute depending on the age.
Personality: Saren is an incredible actor, with his child form always having a bubbly, carefree attitude that is impossible to anger and very energetic. He also tends to have a fondness for women and seems more energetic around them, while calmer around men. But it appears as nothing more than a childish fondness for likenesses of a maternal figure, since he never has a parent with him.
On the other hand, his adult form acts incredibly polite and could easily pass off as a true gentleman in most social situations. He holds doors for people, pulls out chairs for a woman he is eating dinner with, and has great table manners. Even in this form, angering him is next to impossible, and he is very calm and unnervingly patient. Though he takes flirting differently depending on where he is at, in a public place he tends to politely thank them and change the subject while in private places, he would generally lightly flirt back.
In both forms, he does from time to time offer is aid to another person, and at first, never asks for anything back in return. After a while though, he will attempt to get the person to sign a contract, if he is in his adult form. His child form does it more loosely and have the person agree to help or do any one thing for him.
Despite him being an incubus, he apparently as almost no interest in the physical pleasures most incubi and succubi do. Very rarely, does he take advances, and when he does it almost always ends at a light kiss, except when he is using it as an attempt to get them to accept his aid or sign a contract with him.
History: Saren's birth was far before written human records began to be wrote down, and telepaths that have tapped his memories can see images of the Earth when it was new and the fallen that walked the Earth after the conflict. Saren was one of the first few full angelic beings born after the Rebellion and a group of angels being cast out of heaven. So his history expands a good chunk of Earth's own history.
In his earlier years, Saren followed most of the same patterns that all Incubi did, sleeping with and impregnating women. Though that changed when he was summoned and imprisoned by a powerful magician that was intoxicatingly beautiful and her magic stemmed both from her beauty and her force of will. During the years he was bound and trapped, he quickly learned the beginnings of magic including a method of taking another's powers with a magical contract.
It was decades later when the sorceress died that he finally escaped, as by that time his knowledge and understanding of magic far outstripped that of her apprentice. When he attacked the apprentice following his escape, wholly out of a desire for a touch of vengeance he was cursed with her dieing breath. A curse that inverted his morality, or was supposed to. Instead it removed his desire for physical and brought the desire for magical power to the for front - starting his wave of aiding sorcerers and sorceresses, warlocks and witches, even normal people that had high amounts of magical potential or magical power but didn't have access to magic spells to use the power.
And over the years, he amassed a massive pool of knowledge about spells and magic in general. With a large pool of mana to draw from. Also, he lately has been adventuring with a mortal human, Jeremy, as his primary company for the last two hundred years. Jeremy is kept alive and in a fairly young body, roughly twenty, by Saren's magic and is considered Saren's closest friend, which is an odd claim for someone that is technically a demon. This was due to Jeremy cutting a deal with Saren, considering Saren's fondness of his child form. Pretend to be Saren's adoptive father, in exchange for being made immortal. Though Saren eventually grew moderately attached and protects Jeremy because of friendship instead of protecting his investment.
Powers: Angelic Body: Saren in naturally immortal, both to aging and from sustaining massive trauma that would kill him. The killing blow causes his being to disperse and reform hours or even days later. His physical abilities are also greatly enhanced compared to that of a human. He ability to see and hear are so far beyond acute, with his hearing inhumanly sharp - he is able to hear, but not understand a whisper from over a hundred feet away. His mental reflexes are just as well rapid enough that he can perceive, follow, and react to creatures moving around the speed of light, which allows him to react to fast characters with purely mental actions. His physical strength is immense compared to a human's though he ability to lift objects is limited to about half a ton. Meanwhile, his speed when flat out running is 72 miles per hour. Fast but not very fast for his power level. His form is also very tolerant to harm of all kinds, including an ability to quickly heal from injuries. Oddly enough, he can sense people moving by non-visual means by either listening to them move or sensing the movement of the heat inside their body or the air around them - thus rendering it worthless against cold blooded creatures and when the air is the same temperature as the person's body.
Telepathy: Saren is able to communicate with others mind to mind, or even large groups of people. Oddly enough, he can even project the messages so it appears to come out of the air or out of a solid objects. His resistance to mental attacks and invasions are also incredibly heightened.
Remote Viewing: Saren is able to tap into some of his magical potential, his mana, to magically see in places where he physically isn't. The sensory input also includes hearing as well. He is able to maintain two sensors at the same time without affecting his ability to perceive his current physical location. Though while maintaining the effect, he can not use spells other than Travel to get to the location.
Remotely Invisible: Saren's magic protects him from the scrying abilities of mages and other beings including machines oddly enough. He doesn't show up to anyone remotely viewing an area, nor can cameras or video recorders capture his image - he still has a reflection. This has no effect on energy sensing or infrared vision or any other method of telling one's location by sources other than simple image capturing.
Supernatural Pull: Saren's eyes hold a subtle magical pull to whoever is looking in them, compelling them to be captivated by his appearance. He can flood mana into this to strengthen the effect if he desires though.
Magic: Saren possesses knowledge of nearly every spell ever thought of, combined with the ability to quickly create new spells on the fly using his knowledge of magic. He can even mix different magic forms together into one spell to get his desired result. His favorite and most used spells are listed below.
Shift/Travel ~ Saren's teleportation spells, both of them have their uses and are incredibly precise as far as how accurate they are with arrival. Though Shift is his combat teleporting spell, even in high powered combat, and as such far quicker and only taking a mental thought to use, but a shorter range. While Travel has a longer range and can carry others with him, even across dimensions, but requires a about 3 seconds to use.
Fire Blast ~ Saren quickly channels a blast of mana into his hand that takes the form of a rolling ball of violet fire that can quickly consume anything it touches. It barely finds Earthly metals to be of any protection other than blocking line of sight. His quick blasts are enough to punch holes through an inch or so of solid steel each, while his slower and stronger blasts are of course, more devastating. The stronger blasts of fire blast, much like other high powered attacks, would rip through virtually all modern mundane creations. At it's higher levels, each blast could shred through feet of steel.
Energy Arc ~ Saren channels mana into his hand and then through the air and back into his hand or to the ground or other object, which takes the form of violet electricity as it courses through the air electrifying everything it touches.
Healing Light ~ Saren can even channel energy into a soft purple glow that quickly repairs injuries to creatures and objects alike. Though repairing objects does at least require him to have a basic idea into the functioning of how it works or what it is for. He claims he can use it to revive the dead, but he almost never does except in dire emergencies, since it lets them tap into his mana until they next go to sleep.
Flight ~ Saren's magical flight is a good deal faster than his running speed, but again, it isn't as fast as a number of people of his power level. In a full out burst of speed, Saren can reach 120 miles per hour.
Mental Strike ~ Saren channels mana through his natural telepathy to create mental attacks of varying strength. The breadth of his mental attacks are incredible, he can use it to cause mild headaches to unbearable migraines, blur a person's senses to completely locking a person's mind down, all the way to leaving subtle compulsions or even attempting to dominate a person's mind with his own.
Magical Contract ~ Saren can create and seal iron clad, unbreakable magical contracts that usually have the person signing over all their magical talent and mana to him upon their death in exchange for his aid. Though he can create contracts for other people. If one person does something to attempt to break the contract, such as trying to get rid of their magic when they find out they owe it to Saren now, the contract strips that party of their powers and give it to Saren. Luckily for Saren, it means if he tries to break it, his powers are removed and immediately returned to himself. So it only leaves him magicless for about ten seconds, but frees the other person of their requirements.
Equipment: None. He can conjure on the spot what he desires or needs.
Weakness: Anti-demonic magic or weapons. Tends to stand out of a crowd. His anger though hard to stir is explosive and he looses most of his judgment when angry. He does have a human cohort that is fragile and he actively protects from harm.
