(Credit to original artist which I currently can't find) "The only reason you're still alive is because I find your stupidity....mildly amusing" Basic Info: - Full Name: ??? (Birth Name), Leopold Vencha (Adopted), Lord Leopold (Self-Proclaimed) - Age: 55 - Gender: Male - Race: Pride Cult Kathar - Occult: Greater Valhersir Vampire, Void Demon Theurgist Core Concept: - A rogue, power-hungry vampire hell bent on making any who cross him suffer. He will go to many lengths to prove his superiority over others, at the cost of his sanity and humanity if he needs to. He still holds onto some parts of his old life worshipping Odella, but maintains self-worship above all else. Appearance Information: - The skin on Leopold's forearms, hands, and legs are black, and cracked patterns border it leading up to the rest of his body. A black, cracked marking can also be seen on his right eye, which has since been damaged. After a recent blood feeding, the eye has been restored in full, but the scar on his skin of the injury remains. (Skin) He can manifest and cleanse these mutations at will with Void Manifest. -Leopold possesses well-kept white hair, as well as pale grey skin of a Pride Cult Kathar. - Vampiric Form - Shard of Malice: Leopold's vampiric form takes on a metallic appearance. His skin appears to be made of Blacksteel, with white diamond patterns littered all over. His hair and eyes are similarly metallic, but white rather than black in color. The latter feature reflecting crimson red in the light. When damaged, a mix of red light and shadows fragment and chip the metal shell, leaving crystalline, glowing wounds. Proficiency Info: Strength: 3 Duelist Pack Heavy Pack Frenzy Pack Constitution: 1 Brute Force Pack Wisdom: 1 Arcana Bolts Dexterity: 1 Volley Assist Pack Dye Shot Pack Magic: 6 (Void) Sinistral Puppet Sinistral Sever Sinistral Break Sinistral Leap Sinistral Implode Radiant Push Charisma: 1 Spirit Anchor Pack Ability Info: Languages: Common (Free) Katharic (Birth Family) Life Story: - Leopold was born to an abusive father and sickly mother in a small village. - When his birth father died, he was eventually adopted into Fortel Vencha's family. Although the adoption itself was reluctant on both ends. - Fortel and Leopold grew up together, often at conflict with one another. Leopold worked to become a politician overseas but failed due to his incompetence. - Leopold, after receiving a vision of his death around his adulthood, sought out methods to prevent his end, and grew to become an Allegient of the Cabal and Crimson Witches, studying the arcane with their assistance and becoming faithful to Odella. He never took the leap of becoming a Witch himself however, though he claims he is one to this day. - After many years and a run in with a vampire coven, subsequently becoming infected, he grew selfish in his desire for knowledge, abandoning the Cabal and killing any Witch sent to kill him for his crimes. Eventually he arrived in the city, where he had heard of his brother's antics, now taking the moniker of 'Stray'. Deciding to stick around in the city to conflict with him and his friends once more. - In an effort to gain more power, Leopold deepened his knowledge into the forbidden art of demon and spirit summoning as well as rune/sigil magic to be coupled with his inherit daemonic abilities. His failed summoning rituals liter the more absent parts of Regalia, only recently obtaining success and anchoring a Void Demon to his soul as his servant. In exchange for power, he sacrifices small amounts of his life force and physical strength to this demon. Spoiler: Backstory Paragraph Leopold, or so he says his name is, was born to his Kathar mother and father in a small, rundown village, a memory he does not hold in high regard. A couple years into his life, his mother passed away, leaving him with his birth father, who was much harsher and abusive towards the young boy. Eventually, his birth father died, causing the boy to runaway from home, eventually running into and being adopted by Fortel Vencha’s family. Fortel and Leopold grew up together in constant conflict with each other, the ladder often teasing and bullying his adoptive brother for his interest in magic and old history, despite the fact that Leopold himself was interested in these topics as well in secret. Only maintaining this facade to feel superior to the younger child, Leopold embraces his new parent’s expectations of him, eventually working towards becoming a politician and receiving financial support from his adoptive family. Despite their support, it was never enough for the boy. He failed miserably in his political career, quickly being rejected from any further attempts to partake in it while continually receiving money to be wasted on novel and expensive pursuits of theatre, personal sword lessons, alcohol, and the like. Something he never bothered to admit, though, was his vision of his death at the advent of his adulthood. Bested by the hand of a youthful hero. A Yanar wielding 7 elements of magic. He feared his end, but also was intrigued by these 7 elements. He believed that if he was able to control these elements, these forces. He could prevent his death, and live forever. So he set about his research and work. His new obsession, leading him a path of darkness. Leopold found the Crimson Witches and, seeking a new purpose, allied with them for his search for more power and knowledge. Leopold, after years of working with other Odella followers, eventually strayed away from them and showed his true, selfish colors. Coupled with a recent vampire infection, he sought knowledge and power only for himself, and ruthlessly killing any Witch that tried to snuff him out for his crimes against the Cabal. After leaving the Cabal, he continued his research on his own. And, in a continued effort to prevent his fate, aided in fellow vampires to pillage and destroy Yanar villages across Aloria. His travels led him to Regalia, the city which he had known his dear brother Fortel, now taking on the moniker of Stray, was residing. It was time to pay his lifelong rival a visit, it seems.
Overall a pretty solid application, I have a note to make regarding the Personality section: @Jcboi5 Please expand each answer to a sum of three or four sentences, or replace it in favour of the Core List of Traits, consisting of Personality Type, Morality and Religion for a much swifter fix.
@Antimreoir Added changes. Would it be wise to put this section in a spoiler, or is it alright as is?
@Antimreoir Bumping. Also, made some last minute changes to some prof points if you don't mind. Added another sorcery spell and subtracted some points from rapier combat to do so. Hope that's alright.
@Antimreoir Heya! Just placing this here to let you know that I have given @Keldo127 permission to play this character for occasional roleplay encounters for my vigilante group!
@Antimreoir Added another sorcery ability and medical training, removed roguery ability, general prof point rearrangement. IC Explanation of changes are written in backstory under Recent Events. Changes made in Purple.
@Antimreoir Very small change, just replaced Dark Curse 2 with Element Brand 2, after some reconsideration and general lack of interest in the ability now. All prof point costs remain the same. IC Explanation remains the same.
This app needs re-review, though I can see that Antimreoir is no longer staff. Completely overhauled proficiencies, backstory, race, and age, but still kept the core concept the same, as well as applied the new character application format.
@FireFan96 Reworked this character for the Kathar update. Also changed Darkness 2 to Dueling Brand 1 for cool anime duels.
@Yurs Heya! After a lot of consideration, I decided to ret-con Leopold being a Crimson Witch and instead made him a vampire! Though I tried to make sure I changed his backstory as little as possible for this, so I said he was simply an ally/Allegient to them and turned on them after becoming infected as a vampire. If I missed anything because of this major change lmk!
Oh hello there. Everything looks fine on this app. Just thought you might've miscounted, because you only have 20 Specials here, not 21 which you could have. If you want, you can go ahead and choose one more! Regardless, re-approved.