RANK. E AGE. Chick's been around way too long to keep track of that crap. DOB. If I knew, it would probably be a lot easier to guess her age. ETHNICITY. Has none, takes a human form to fit in and conserve power. OCCUPATION.Crappy Doctor RESIDENCE. Some so-so apartment near Time Square.
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Once upon a time, long before the days of the Greeks, a powerful being was born from the foul deeds of a primeval chaotic god. This mass of tendrils was known as Namtar, master of disease and decay. Namtar lived to spread suffering across ancient humanity, and demanded tributes to quell his plagues. Namtar as a grand and powerful being, however its life of casting shadows of the earth was short lived. When the Greek gods came into power, the cunning Namtar took the form of a lowly human to escape the fate of many of its fellow primeval gods, that is to say most of them faded away. Namtar was one of the survivors...but on the downside it now had to live amongst humans.
Over the centuries, Namtar has taken on many forms of various sizes, names, and genders, however its outlook on the world has mostly remained the same. For one it hates humans, it thinks they are whiny fools who can't do anything for themselves. There is a reason it liked to make them suffer and plead for mercy. The only thing it hates more than humans is their various religions, without them it would still have unlimited power. If it were to run into another deity, it would most likely be rather hostile toward them.
It still likes to make humans suffer by spreading weaker diseases. At one point it was even able to make a plague again, the event that is now known as the Plague of Justinian (the first major instance of the disease known as the bubonic plague, so technically Namtar inadvertently caused the black death a century later). However it was with this plague that Namtar lost most of its power and was forced into a divine hibernation for hundreds of years to recharge.
When it awoke, the world was at war and times had changed. Namtar traveled the world in a new female form and soon decided to rest in a city known as New York in the odd country of America. Unknowing that it..ahem she was in the capital of super natural activity, Namtar (deciding on the disguise name of Margret) forged a doctor's degree (she had to pull a fine share of strings and slit a disturbing amount of throats) and set up her own private practice, where she made money miraculously healing the ills of humans...ills that she would cause. As she spent time in this huge city of fools, Namtar adapted to the modern mindset, gaining some rather sour personality traits such as a mastery of sarcasm, potent impatience, and an all around uncaring/unfeeling attitude. Years passed and to avoid awkward questions Namtar slightly modified her form and pretended to be "Margret's daughter" Samael. She is still a doctor, gaining some income and slowly charging for another big plague...
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POWER. you may have up to three powers
POWER. they don't need to be all related thematically, but random selections are frowned upon
POWER. please provide a description of each power, including (especially!) their limitations
ASSET. please provide a description of and explanation of how your character acquired the asset
ASSET. some assets are standard like wealth and apothecary, but others really benefit from detail--an artifact, a liege, a sanctum, etc are all much cooler if you put more thought into them!
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played by ooc name
Last Edit: Dec 29, 2012 16:19:53 GMT -5 by navitas
RANK.Rank E AGE. Older than time DOB. Unknown ETHNICITY. Unknown OCCUPATION. Technically a book shop owner RESIDENCE. Atop the Empire State Building
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When light began to spread across a newly formed universe, Raziel was created to guard the secret of its creation. As worlds were formed and lifeforms began to thrive, Raziel was soon entrusted with all the secrets and mysteries that flowed throughout our dimension. Raziel is a radical Watcher, which means she takes her job with the utmost seriousness. Since she eventually could not even trust herself with the secrets of the entire universe, she began mentally funneling them into an enchanted book: The Divine Codex.
Funneling parts of someone's memory can leave them a bit scatterbrained, an unfortunate side effect but necessary. Add the fact that she currently splits her consciousness between her always active true form and her willing servant and one may find that Raziel is not at all fun to talk to. She c- oh you wanna know about the whole split conscious thing? Well you see, Raziel has one other duty as a watcher, and that is to protect humanity in general from rouge Hayyoth, the divine creatures that hold the universe together. For this, she keeps her true form always intact but since she isn't too good at multitasking thanks to the whole scatterbrain thing, she has relied on humans to help her guard the Divine Codex. Since most humans end up taking a peak into the codex, resulting in their immediate erasure from existence, Raziel has been forced to take a dire measure. This measure is splitting her consciousness between her true form and a willing servant, a suicidal woman named Abigale. This way, Raziel can do both jobs personally, Abigale doesn't have to kill herself or live, and Earth doesn't have to be burned away by rogue six faced holy creatures. Everybody wins!
Fudge I lost track of my first point, ah yes Raziel is weird. A side effect of the whole split consciousness thing is the fact that her personality is split between the two forms as well, making both beings mentally unstable. The Abigale part is constantly unfocused and likes to jump subjects during conversations. She is frigidity and easily frightened, mix that with a large amount of paranoia and you have yourself one twisty nut. However she is also polite and tries her best to keep things calm. Her true form on the other hand holds Raziel's more viscous traits, such as her violent temper, cold exterior, ruthless fighting style, and almost uncalled for rudeness toward other watchers. Of course, she more often than not pours the rest of her consciousness into one being or the other when faced with certain threats, such as watchers or demons coming into her store(Abigale) or someone attempting to take the codex(True form). With one consciousness Raziel's personality is restored, and you will find yourself with a wise, cold, paranoid guardian who will stop at nothing to get you to leave her alone.
Raziel currently uses Abigale to run a small bookstore, where the codex is secretly hidden. Though lack of use of her powers has made her weaker than she was long ago, she still uses every trick she can to protect the codex.
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KNOWLEDGE MANIPULATION: This power was entrusted to her so that she may obtain a ton of information at once. However, she now uses it to transfer this information into the Divine Codex. Unfortunately, at Rank E this is the only way she can use this power for now, she can only transfer information into the codex.
CONSCIOUSNESS SPLIT: This power is actually available to many of the old watchers but only Raziel has bothered to use it. She can split her consciousness in half and have half of it control the body of a human. At Rank E, she can only control one weak minded human who willingly gives themselves to her, this being poor suicidal Abigale. The drawback to using this ability is that you can only fully control one being at a time, which means she is constantly split minded between the human body and her true form. She can transfer the rest of her consciousness into a body but the other body will remain lifeless and be at risk.
TRUE FORM: Raziel must stay in her true form to be prepared for divine threats. Her monstrous true form is a 6'9 humanoid with long pointed legs and long skinny arms. She has six black wings that hang on her waste and are naturally used to fly great distances. She wears black and white armor that has several spots covered in fur and goes up to her pale shoulders. She wears a smiling mask to hide her face and has a large black stone halo that curls upward and slowly spins in place. She is agile and quick in this form, wielding a large claymore to dispatch her foes. Unfortunately at Rank E she has no other powers in this form.
POWER I---WARD: When she was forced to guard the Codex herself, Raziel taught herself how to use wards. She is no good at it though, at Rank E she can only cast a single minor ward over a small area. There is a hallway in her store, behind a secret passage, that leads to the codex. In this hallway is the ward, if one goes passed the ward they will be teleported back to the entrance of the book store. The ward fades upon use.
ARTIFACT II---DIVINE CODEX: A powerful book that holds all of the secrets of the world. It is hidden well in Raziel's book store, and she goes to great lengths to keep its location a secret. The Codex is a dangerous item, it holds a countless amount of information and if it is opened, all of that information will dive into the nearest source and over flow their mind. It is made to be read by watchers, thus only watchers can easily transverse the codex's chapters in search of information. Humans will most likely go insane from information overload, as will human like creatures such as vampires and werewolves. A fae has never read it, so I can't tell what will happen if they do, nor has a demon. It hasn't been opened in over three hundred years, and Raziel hopes to keep it that way.
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played by Smiles
Last Edit: Jan 13, 2013 12:57:11 GMT -5 by navitas
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