Post by Phennais on Feb 11, 2012 18:13:57 GMT -5
Full name: Phennais (fe-nay-us) Sanctum
Nickname(s) or Alias: Phennais, Phantasm, Ghost.
Gender: Male
Race: Half Technician and Half Shaman
Age: 22
Languages spoken/Native language: English, Telepathy, Latin.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Figure/build: Phennais never reveals his body to anyone, he is always cloaked in an extremely large black coat. As a shade (explained below), anyone that sees him will only find a long and thin skeleton. The bones are black as night and the only thing covering them is a thin black mist in the shape of a robe with a hood.
The only skin Phennais does show is his face. He is white, probably more than he should be, but his paleness doesn't matter. His face is long and gaunt. There are prominent bags under his eyes, the scars from much sorrow seen. His lips are a thin line that rarely move except for when he speaks. If you're lucky (and stupid enough) you might see him frown.
Hair: His hair manages to show off a little bit of his personality. It is straight and uniform at all times, never a strand out of place. It is the perfect shade of midnight black, which tends to be the theme of Phennais' appearance. His hair is combed forward in the front, down in the back, and to the sides on the sides. The top is about an inch thick and the rest lies at three fourths of an inch.
Eye colour: Midnight black- soulless, heartless, and hopeless.
Tattoos/Piercings: Nonexistent.
Distinguishing marks: Nonexistent.
Clothing Style: The only thing Phennais can ever be seen in is a large, broad shouldered cloak. It covers his entire body and trails out over half a foot on the ground. Again, it is midnight black through and through. There is a large hood that can often be seen completely covering Phennais' head and shrouding his face in night. The cloak is split down the middle, allowing it to be opened. When Phennais does chose to do so, his body is still hidden. Within the cloak is a large cloud of darkness that covers anything and everything. This cloud will sometimes seep out of the cloak and create a black looking fog. That is what leads several people to believe that Phennais is a ghost, a phantom, a nightmare.
Because the cloak is so large and because it covers all of Phennais' body, no one really knows how large Phennais really is. The cloak gives him the height of exactly seven feet. He is three feet across and half a foot thick. Oddly enough, these dimensions have a habit of changing. A lot.
The cloak has no sleeves, it raps completely around Phennais' body, as I said. If Phennais were to raise his arms, the cloak would move with him. If Phennais ever made some movement that would normally expose his hands, feet, arms, legs, etcetera, the black cloud will cover it all up. When Phennais removes the cloak, his entire body transforms into a shade, a dark, ghost like creature that is only visible by those that have a strong tie to the darkness.
HEALTH
Addictions: Nonexistent
Allergies: Nonexistent
Any physical ailments/illnesses/disabilities: As a shade, Phennais is completely incapable of doing any physical action. This means that without his cloak, he is utterly useless.
He also extremely dislikes the sun, so much though, that he rarely goes out in it, preferring to work at night. When he is in the sun, he seems to be slower, weaker, and altogether unwilling to do anything besides walk to get out of the sun. This may also occur in brightly light rooms or any place......... bright.........
PERSONALITY
Personality: Although Phennais may seem as the most anti-social person you have ever seen, he actually is pretty social. He has a strong hand for politics and has served as a council member for Death City on multiple occasions. He can be seen hanging out at cafes and can actually be quite charming. It usually is an act though. He, in truth, is actually a very cynical and negative person. He may smile at you and act friendly, but in his mind he believes that most people are little better than a squealing chimp. He believes them to be idiots and fools. He sees them as a waste of his time, unless of course he wishes to be social. He rarely does put up with actual idiots and only socializes with people who have a glimmer of intelligence and aren't committing a stupid/illegal act every half minute. Of course, Phennais believes there are very few people who are truly like this.
Besides his social life, Phennais holds a love for beauty in nature. If he can avoid the sun, he loves to roam forests and climb mountain tops for the peace and elegance of it all. He sometimes visits art galleries to view different masterpieces and if you're lucky, you might be able to have a conversation or two about his favorite artists or pieces. You know he likes you if he shows you different places he has found with natural beauty.
Every now and then, he will go to a high-end, sophisticated party and have a little fun. He may even go just to perform on the piano, something he picked up as a child and quickly mastered. Don't watch his hands though, never watch his hands. Phennais does like to have fun, mainly by messing with peoples heads. One of his favorite things to do is speak in alliteration, which really throws people. He has an odd sense of humor, but can understand and tell a joke everyone will like. You will just be surprised at what he laughs at, and you'll be surprised by his actual laugh......
Religion wise, Phennais is a grade A atheist. He has never been religious, as his parents raised him to be atheist. He independently built up his dislike for people who are too religious or too stuck up to be understanding of others religions. More than once he has killed people who have fought or insulted him about his and other people's religion.
Likes: The night, books, the piano, politics, nature, art, alliteration.
Dislikes: The sun, idiots/fools/however you wish to describe stupid people, crime, criminals, churches, overly religious people, discriminatory people.
Fears/phobias: Nonexistent. Due to his submersion in the dark, nothing really can shake him. The only thing that can bother him is if he were to find out that he couldn't avenge his parents (explained below). At times, people have questioned him on his fears, he only laughs. Although, such a thing has caused a problem or two......
Favourite colour: Midnight black (flat, not sleek).
Personality Strengths: Fantastic actor, therefor he is able to meld with most people, as long as they aren't too judgmental.
Personality Weaknesses: Resents the majority of the world population and a lot of things within the world, leading to a large chunk of bitterness.
Hobbies: Piano, Reading, Going on nighttime strolls.
Taste in music: Most anything elegant.
Significant/special belongings: His cloak.
Talents/skills: Telepathy, ability to turn into a shade, piano.
EATING HABITS
*Note, no one has ever seen him eat or drink, you might see him order food, but you will never see him consume it. You'll look away for a second and his meal/drink will be half gone. This is actually the instance for anything he has to touch/pick up except for a few exceptions. One moment it will be there, then it will disappear, then it will reappear where he wants it. Spooky, right?
Favorite food(s):Most pastas.
Favorite drink(s): Coffee, black.
Disliked food: Chicken, don't ask.
Disliked drinks: Lemonade.
COMBAT
Fighting skills/techniques: He uses mainly magical attacks, such as the dark cloud from his cloak to attack. When he does physically attack, its usually using his cloak to attack people with. He can punch if he wants to, but the cloak will still be covering his fist. He has the ability to cover people with his cloak and make them disappear, forever lost within the cloud.
As a technician, he is able to wield a weapon. Due to Phennais' large affinity for the dark, the weapon must lay in the dark side also. The shadow cloud is what really wields the weapon and it is directed by Phennais' mind. Most weapons aren't willing to be handled by a cloud of darkness so Phennais happens to not be partnered.
Special skills/magical powers/etc:
1. Darkness Cloud energy conversion magic:
This ability allows Phennais to convert the darkness in the cloud into dark magic. It can be used for several effects, mainly the following:
One major one-
- Death Scathe: When Phennais opens his cloak and the cloud is rapidly converted into a large beam of dark magic. Keeps on going until it hits something that stops it or it is worn down enough to deteriorate.
One minor one-
- Black Cat: Phennais claws out to attack and the darkness seeps through the cloak and rapidly converts into a dark claw.
**Both of these consume amounts of the Darkness Cloud. Due to the fact that there is a limited amount of the darkness, only one major attack OR a few minor attacks can be used at once. Phennais then must wait for his soul to regenerate ALL of it. Also, without the cloud, Phennais is severely weakened physically. If the whole cloud were to be used, Phennais would likely collapse.
2. Cloak removal Shade transferal movement:
As I have stated before, whenever Phennais' cloak is removed, he immediately turns into a shade. He must put his cloak back on again to become "normal". As a shade, he is able to transport to the nether to conduct any unholy business he might need to attend too.
Weaknesses in combat:
See **
Anything holy powered will immediately do him in
Removing his cloak removes him from battle (good luck getting it off though).
Strengths in combat: He is able to wield strong magic and a weapon, but never at the same time.
FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FOES
Parents names: Seran Sanctum and Lisbeth Sanctum (deceased).
Siblings: Nonexistent.
Other Important Relatives: Nonexistent/Deceased
Partner/Spouse: Lethnen Almadi (weapon partner)(deceased)
Children: Nonexistent
Best Friend: Lethnen Almadi (deceased)
Other Important Friends: Nonexistent, for now.
Acquaintances: Nonexistent, for now.
Pets: Nonexistent, for now.
Enemies: "Codwyry Duwcythraul"
BACKSTORY
Describe their childhood (newborn - age 10):
As a child, Phennais Sanctum was a perfectly normal child. He was raised as a normal child by his two normal parents, Seran and Lisbeth Sanctum. They lived in a normal neighborhood in a normal house. They had normal friends and did normal things.
When Phennais was four, his parents finally realized that their son was a genius (but still normal). He knew how to read at a high school level and could speak English with few flaws. Anything taught to the young boy stuck, and at age seven, he was already in high school. No one ever teased him and he had plenty of friends. It was a perfect life, as perfect as perfect can be. He never had to worry about money because his parents had very well paying journalism jobs. He had everything he wanted and reached age ten with a college scholarship and several academic awards from every field of education.
Describe their teenage years (11 - 19):
The perfect life, thats what was Phennais' reality. But it all ended when he turned fourteen. Unbeknownst to him, his parents had recently sent three very important members of an anarchist group to federal prison. The entire operation was being shut down by the authorities and the married couple were experiencing the best moments in their careers, maybe even the best moments in their lives. But the anarchist group was more than just an anarchist group. It was a kishin cult named "Codwyry Duwcythraul" and they were bent on creating another demon god. The cult had branches all over the country, and as more and more of them were shut down, the more and more the cultists grew angry at the two people who caused it. Finally, on Phennais' fourteenth birthday, the cult sent the top assassins to dispose of the Sanctums. At exactly 11:25, three masked men broke into the house, slipped into the journalists' bedroom, and shot each one six times in the chest with handguns equipped with silencers. At exactly 11:55, the assassins left no trace. In the morning, Phennais woke up, excited for his fourteenth birthday, and found his parents dead.
In the following year, the poor boy was swept up in a rush of reporters, crime scene investigators, child service agents, adoptive facilities, and an overwhelming grief for his lost parents. He quickly graduated college with top honors, then ran away from the orphanage. He knew that the three men who killed his parents were alive, that they hadn't been caught and that they were now the leaders of "Codwyry Duwcythraul". They were rebuilding the cult, and Phennais wanted to tear them down.
He knew he had to grow stronger if he were to destroy the cult.
He prayed to any god that could kill them all, even if he never believed in a divine power. The god of hell, Enfer, granted him the ability to do it himself, with time. Phennais made a deal with the god, he offered up everything holy in himself, including his own last name, for a cloak of pure darkness. His soul was bound to the cloak, and he was given all the abilities he has today, and the ability to get stronger.
With the cloak, Phennais joined the SRA, then quickly graduated. The last mission he went on, his graduation mission, was with his best friend and weapon partner, Lethnen Almadi. They had to take out a rogue golem, and they succeeded to, but not without a terrible accident. As Phennais drove his friend claymore into the heart of the beast, a large chunk of rock flew out from it. The rock hit the blade and trapped Lethnen underneath. He reverted to his human form to try and get the rock off, but the golem collapsed without his heart. The monstrosity landed right on Lethnen, crushing him to death.
After that terrible event, Phennais began to serve as a freelancer, if only just to get away from the grief. He would get rid of threats, teach a couple classes, anything. He would even work for some of the SRA enemies, for the right price. Whatever it took to bring him closer to stopping those of whom he hated.
Describe their adult years (20+):
From the age of nineteen to his current age, Phennais has been freelancing, growing stronger and stronger. He has collected vast amounts of information on "Codwyry Duwcythraul" and is now just waiting for when he has enough strength to take them down.
Zephyros
Nickname(s) or Alias: Phennais, Phantasm, Ghost.
Gender: Male
Race: Half Technician and Half Shaman
Age: 22
Languages spoken/Native language: English, Telepathy, Latin.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Figure/build: Phennais never reveals his body to anyone, he is always cloaked in an extremely large black coat. As a shade (explained below), anyone that sees him will only find a long and thin skeleton. The bones are black as night and the only thing covering them is a thin black mist in the shape of a robe with a hood.
The only skin Phennais does show is his face. He is white, probably more than he should be, but his paleness doesn't matter. His face is long and gaunt. There are prominent bags under his eyes, the scars from much sorrow seen. His lips are a thin line that rarely move except for when he speaks. If you're lucky (and stupid enough) you might see him frown.
Hair: His hair manages to show off a little bit of his personality. It is straight and uniform at all times, never a strand out of place. It is the perfect shade of midnight black, which tends to be the theme of Phennais' appearance. His hair is combed forward in the front, down in the back, and to the sides on the sides. The top is about an inch thick and the rest lies at three fourths of an inch.
Eye colour: Midnight black- soulless, heartless, and hopeless.
Tattoos/Piercings: Nonexistent.
Distinguishing marks: Nonexistent.
Clothing Style: The only thing Phennais can ever be seen in is a large, broad shouldered cloak. It covers his entire body and trails out over half a foot on the ground. Again, it is midnight black through and through. There is a large hood that can often be seen completely covering Phennais' head and shrouding his face in night. The cloak is split down the middle, allowing it to be opened. When Phennais does chose to do so, his body is still hidden. Within the cloak is a large cloud of darkness that covers anything and everything. This cloud will sometimes seep out of the cloak and create a black looking fog. That is what leads several people to believe that Phennais is a ghost, a phantom, a nightmare.
Because the cloak is so large and because it covers all of Phennais' body, no one really knows how large Phennais really is. The cloak gives him the height of exactly seven feet. He is three feet across and half a foot thick. Oddly enough, these dimensions have a habit of changing. A lot.
The cloak has no sleeves, it raps completely around Phennais' body, as I said. If Phennais were to raise his arms, the cloak would move with him. If Phennais ever made some movement that would normally expose his hands, feet, arms, legs, etcetera, the black cloud will cover it all up. When Phennais removes the cloak, his entire body transforms into a shade, a dark, ghost like creature that is only visible by those that have a strong tie to the darkness.
HEALTH
Addictions: Nonexistent
Allergies: Nonexistent
Any physical ailments/illnesses/disabilities: As a shade, Phennais is completely incapable of doing any physical action. This means that without his cloak, he is utterly useless.
He also extremely dislikes the sun, so much though, that he rarely goes out in it, preferring to work at night. When he is in the sun, he seems to be slower, weaker, and altogether unwilling to do anything besides walk to get out of the sun. This may also occur in brightly light rooms or any place......... bright.........
PERSONALITY
Personality: Although Phennais may seem as the most anti-social person you have ever seen, he actually is pretty social. He has a strong hand for politics and has served as a council member for Death City on multiple occasions. He can be seen hanging out at cafes and can actually be quite charming. It usually is an act though. He, in truth, is actually a very cynical and negative person. He may smile at you and act friendly, but in his mind he believes that most people are little better than a squealing chimp. He believes them to be idiots and fools. He sees them as a waste of his time, unless of course he wishes to be social. He rarely does put up with actual idiots and only socializes with people who have a glimmer of intelligence and aren't committing a stupid/illegal act every half minute. Of course, Phennais believes there are very few people who are truly like this.
Besides his social life, Phennais holds a love for beauty in nature. If he can avoid the sun, he loves to roam forests and climb mountain tops for the peace and elegance of it all. He sometimes visits art galleries to view different masterpieces and if you're lucky, you might be able to have a conversation or two about his favorite artists or pieces. You know he likes you if he shows you different places he has found with natural beauty.
Every now and then, he will go to a high-end, sophisticated party and have a little fun. He may even go just to perform on the piano, something he picked up as a child and quickly mastered. Don't watch his hands though, never watch his hands. Phennais does like to have fun, mainly by messing with peoples heads. One of his favorite things to do is speak in alliteration, which really throws people. He has an odd sense of humor, but can understand and tell a joke everyone will like. You will just be surprised at what he laughs at, and you'll be surprised by his actual laugh......
Religion wise, Phennais is a grade A atheist. He has never been religious, as his parents raised him to be atheist. He independently built up his dislike for people who are too religious or too stuck up to be understanding of others religions. More than once he has killed people who have fought or insulted him about his and other people's religion.
Likes: The night, books, the piano, politics, nature, art, alliteration.
Dislikes: The sun, idiots/fools/however you wish to describe stupid people, crime, criminals, churches, overly religious people, discriminatory people.
Fears/phobias: Nonexistent. Due to his submersion in the dark, nothing really can shake him. The only thing that can bother him is if he were to find out that he couldn't avenge his parents (explained below). At times, people have questioned him on his fears, he only laughs. Although, such a thing has caused a problem or two......
Favourite colour: Midnight black (flat, not sleek).
Personality Strengths: Fantastic actor, therefor he is able to meld with most people, as long as they aren't too judgmental.
Personality Weaknesses: Resents the majority of the world population and a lot of things within the world, leading to a large chunk of bitterness.
Hobbies: Piano, Reading, Going on nighttime strolls.
Taste in music: Most anything elegant.
Significant/special belongings: His cloak.
Talents/skills: Telepathy, ability to turn into a shade, piano.
EATING HABITS
*Note, no one has ever seen him eat or drink, you might see him order food, but you will never see him consume it. You'll look away for a second and his meal/drink will be half gone. This is actually the instance for anything he has to touch/pick up except for a few exceptions. One moment it will be there, then it will disappear, then it will reappear where he wants it. Spooky, right?
Favorite food(s):Most pastas.
Favorite drink(s): Coffee, black.
Disliked food: Chicken, don't ask.
Disliked drinks: Lemonade.
COMBAT
Fighting skills/techniques: He uses mainly magical attacks, such as the dark cloud from his cloak to attack. When he does physically attack, its usually using his cloak to attack people with. He can punch if he wants to, but the cloak will still be covering his fist. He has the ability to cover people with his cloak and make them disappear, forever lost within the cloud.
As a technician, he is able to wield a weapon. Due to Phennais' large affinity for the dark, the weapon must lay in the dark side also. The shadow cloud is what really wields the weapon and it is directed by Phennais' mind. Most weapons aren't willing to be handled by a cloud of darkness so Phennais happens to not be partnered.
Special skills/magical powers/etc:
1. Darkness Cloud energy conversion magic:
This ability allows Phennais to convert the darkness in the cloud into dark magic. It can be used for several effects, mainly the following:
One major one-
- Death Scathe: When Phennais opens his cloak and the cloud is rapidly converted into a large beam of dark magic. Keeps on going until it hits something that stops it or it is worn down enough to deteriorate.
One minor one-
- Black Cat: Phennais claws out to attack and the darkness seeps through the cloak and rapidly converts into a dark claw.
**Both of these consume amounts of the Darkness Cloud. Due to the fact that there is a limited amount of the darkness, only one major attack OR a few minor attacks can be used at once. Phennais then must wait for his soul to regenerate ALL of it. Also, without the cloud, Phennais is severely weakened physically. If the whole cloud were to be used, Phennais would likely collapse.
2. Cloak removal Shade transferal movement:
As I have stated before, whenever Phennais' cloak is removed, he immediately turns into a shade. He must put his cloak back on again to become "normal". As a shade, he is able to transport to the nether to conduct any unholy business he might need to attend too.
Weaknesses in combat:
See **
Anything holy powered will immediately do him in
Removing his cloak removes him from battle (good luck getting it off though).
Strengths in combat: He is able to wield strong magic and a weapon, but never at the same time.
FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FOES
Parents names: Seran Sanctum and Lisbeth Sanctum (deceased).
Siblings: Nonexistent.
Other Important Relatives: Nonexistent/Deceased
Partner/Spouse: Lethnen Almadi (weapon partner)(deceased)
Children: Nonexistent
Best Friend: Lethnen Almadi (deceased)
Other Important Friends: Nonexistent, for now.
Acquaintances: Nonexistent, for now.
Pets: Nonexistent, for now.
Enemies: "Codwyry Duwcythraul"
BACKSTORY
Describe their childhood (newborn - age 10):
As a child, Phennais Sanctum was a perfectly normal child. He was raised as a normal child by his two normal parents, Seran and Lisbeth Sanctum. They lived in a normal neighborhood in a normal house. They had normal friends and did normal things.
When Phennais was four, his parents finally realized that their son was a genius (but still normal). He knew how to read at a high school level and could speak English with few flaws. Anything taught to the young boy stuck, and at age seven, he was already in high school. No one ever teased him and he had plenty of friends. It was a perfect life, as perfect as perfect can be. He never had to worry about money because his parents had very well paying journalism jobs. He had everything he wanted and reached age ten with a college scholarship and several academic awards from every field of education.
Describe their teenage years (11 - 19):
The perfect life, thats what was Phennais' reality. But it all ended when he turned fourteen. Unbeknownst to him, his parents had recently sent three very important members of an anarchist group to federal prison. The entire operation was being shut down by the authorities and the married couple were experiencing the best moments in their careers, maybe even the best moments in their lives. But the anarchist group was more than just an anarchist group. It was a kishin cult named "Codwyry Duwcythraul" and they were bent on creating another demon god. The cult had branches all over the country, and as more and more of them were shut down, the more and more the cultists grew angry at the two people who caused it. Finally, on Phennais' fourteenth birthday, the cult sent the top assassins to dispose of the Sanctums. At exactly 11:25, three masked men broke into the house, slipped into the journalists' bedroom, and shot each one six times in the chest with handguns equipped with silencers. At exactly 11:55, the assassins left no trace. In the morning, Phennais woke up, excited for his fourteenth birthday, and found his parents dead.
In the following year, the poor boy was swept up in a rush of reporters, crime scene investigators, child service agents, adoptive facilities, and an overwhelming grief for his lost parents. He quickly graduated college with top honors, then ran away from the orphanage. He knew that the three men who killed his parents were alive, that they hadn't been caught and that they were now the leaders of "Codwyry Duwcythraul". They were rebuilding the cult, and Phennais wanted to tear them down.
He knew he had to grow stronger if he were to destroy the cult.
He prayed to any god that could kill them all, even if he never believed in a divine power. The god of hell, Enfer, granted him the ability to do it himself, with time. Phennais made a deal with the god, he offered up everything holy in himself, including his own last name, for a cloak of pure darkness. His soul was bound to the cloak, and he was given all the abilities he has today, and the ability to get stronger.
With the cloak, Phennais joined the SRA, then quickly graduated. The last mission he went on, his graduation mission, was with his best friend and weapon partner, Lethnen Almadi. They had to take out a rogue golem, and they succeeded to, but not without a terrible accident. As Phennais drove his friend claymore into the heart of the beast, a large chunk of rock flew out from it. The rock hit the blade and trapped Lethnen underneath. He reverted to his human form to try and get the rock off, but the golem collapsed without his heart. The monstrosity landed right on Lethnen, crushing him to death.
After that terrible event, Phennais began to serve as a freelancer, if only just to get away from the grief. He would get rid of threats, teach a couple classes, anything. He would even work for some of the SRA enemies, for the right price. Whatever it took to bring him closer to stopping those of whom he hated.
Describe their adult years (20+):
From the age of nineteen to his current age, Phennais has been freelancing, growing stronger and stronger. He has collected vast amounts of information on "Codwyry Duwcythraul" and is now just waiting for when he has enough strength to take them down.
Zephyros
