Amahte Remnao, Ancient Vampire

[nubite]

Let's start my characters with a personal favorite of mine:

Name: Amahte Remnao

Alias: Haru Bezzarik

Age: 3345

Gender: Male

Race: Vampire

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Power Level: 8

Timeline: Modern-day Earth but with creatures of the night

Appearance: Amahte has had many looks over the ages. Currently, though, Amahte prefers a black trench coat over a white dress shirt and a black tie. He wears black slacks and black dress shoes.
Physically Amahte is fit, if not muscular. As per being a Vampire, his skin is a pure white color. His eyes are red and he has black hair.

Personality: Amahte as he is today is patient and thoughtful. His dedication to his kind and forming a lasting peace between Vampires and humans is remarkable. Amahte prefers to think his way through any problem. When pushed to a fight, Amahte unleashes all his might and fury upon his foe.

History: Amahte was born into minor nobility as the great Tutankhamen ascended his throne. Amahte was only ten years old when Tutankhamen sadly passed away. Amahte's life was relatively normal after that, until shortly before his thirtieth birthday. On that day, he was unfortunate enough to meet a cruel Egyptian Vampire, Uro Rasui. Uro bit and turned Amahte. Years later, Amahte would come back to Egypt and kill Uro. Amahte would spend the next several millenia building a personal fortune and occasionally siring new Vampires. Amahte landed in the US at the turn of the 20th century and then changed his name to Haru Bezzarik. He then lived in relative isolation until synthetic blood was discovered. He would then become the Vampire world's greatest advocate. When V-AIDS broke out, Amahte spent several small countries worth of money researching the disease and potential cures. Scores of Infected Vampires would flock to his labs to try out any cures. To this day, Amahte fights a two front war; one front, of technology and science against V-AIDS; on the other, of armies and might against an over zealous Church.

Powers: Mind Manipulation, Phantom Replicates, Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Transformation, and Magic

Equipment: Twin steel katanas

Weakness: Standard Vampire weaknesses; sunlight, stake through the heart, holy symbols, etc.

[Ninmast]

I'm not entirely sure he's actually an 8 in power level. Could you please elaborate further on the details of his powers?

[nubite]

The PL system is confusing so I could be wrong. But to answer your question:

• Mind Manipulation - One of the first skills Amahte honed as a Vampire, Mind Manipulation is an advanced form of Telepathy. Unlike the relatively soft touch Telepathy uses to infiltrate the mind and suggest actions, Mind Manipulation allows Amahte to break all but the most resilient minds and bend them utterly to his will.
  
• Phantom Replicates - A most useful skill to learn and master, Phantom Replicates allows Amahte to create up to five 'copies' of himself. They are illusions that break when they sustain enough damage but are unable to actually cause damage. Through more honing of this skill, Amahte can increase the amount of Replicates he can create as well as their durability.
  
• Super-Strength - Like all Vampires, Amahte has gained strength regular humans can never know. Amahte can ease lift a car in both hands.
  
• Super-Speed - Another ability all Vampires have, Super-Speed could be more accurately be labeled as Super-Reflexes, though it encompasses both. Amahte has enhanced reflexes and foot speed, meaning he can dodge things that a human couldn't, like bullets; also it means he can move faster than humans.
  
• Transformation - Amahte is able to take the form of many natural creatures, mainly wolves, dogs, and bats. Amahte rarely uses this offensively though he could. This is mainly for disguise and ease of travel.
  
• Magic - The newest and therefor weakest ability Amahte has picked up. This hasn't coalesced into a specialized field yet, though it will later. Amahte can create fog, turn water to wine and raise and or lower temperature.
  

Hope that helps

[Ninmast]

Yes, this elaboration should go under his Powers section.

Just a few questions to clarify the powers, if that's alright.

So Mind Manipulation is basically like Force Dominate? In KotOR, the classic Force Persuade has two ranks in its power tree. The first, available to all Force classes at level 1, is the Force Persuade any trained Force user has. The second and more powerful is Force Dominate, which forces an action rather than merely psychically suggesting it.

Phantom Replicates, they can't cause damage and they disperse after sustaining damage? Are they otherwise mobile, or are they stationary?

Super-Strength, a car is the highest he can handle easily? How easily? Like, that's the largest weight he can meaningfully employ repeatedly in battle without overexerting himself? How heavy can he handle with effort, that he can't do repeatedly without straining himself? A van? SUV? Hummer? 18-Wheeler?

Superspeed, how much faster can he move than humans? Fifty miles per hour? A hundred? Five hundred? Can he break Mach 1?

Do his animal transformations have any special abilities above and beyond normal creatures of their type?

So his magic hasn't really progressed beyond cantrips yet?