Character Name: Ziel Canon: Cradle Character Blurb: Cultivator takes grievous spiritual wound and loses most of his powers while also watching his sect get massacred. Gets depression, but can't quite get himself to fully give up. He has horns and a big hammer. Faction: Undecided. Maybe Flotsam, they specialize in recovering junk, after all.
Character AU Name: Ziel AU Blurb: The Dawnwing martial arts school trains up monster hunters, trained to fight monsters ten times their size and win. To fight armors on foot. It was a prestigious school for insane badasses, until they bit off more than they could chew. SOME kind of force bigger than they could handle that isn't the Empire itself attacked the school and destroyed it. Ziel led the survivors away, hoping to find safety in a nearby imperial stronghold.
Unfortunately, some nefarious imperial decided it would be way funnier if, instead of offering sanctuary, they killed all the refugee trainee dawnwings (possibly because the school was strong enough that it could resist imperial decrees sometimes) and steal their power. Ziel fought to cover their retreat to his last breath, and utterly failed to save anyone. His opponent didn't kill him, though. They left him alive, but horribly wounded, both in body and spirit.
Ziel, formerly a HUGE badass with a name known and respected across Esthere, is now a shadow of the man he once was. Using more than like 3% of his former strength causes him endless agony. He's searching for a way to heal himself, but he isn't that motivated. Why bother with revenge? It won't bring back the dead.
But an ember of the heroic figure he once was still smolders within him. It won't let him give up entirely, and it won't let him stand aside while others are suffering. So he trudges on, endlessly, wishing he could give up but not being able to.
Preestablished CR Hooks: Ziel needs people who knew him when he was a hero (either personally, or by reputation) and can try to shake him out of his depressive funk. He also needs younger heroic types (he's 35) who he can end up as a mentor figure for. Desired CR + Hooks: The number one thing I want is a villain who can be the one that killed his school, who he can then smash into a paste in a moment of catharsis at some later point. IC Plans: I don't want him to STAY a depressed wreck, obviously. He needs some kind of miracle cure to get his spiritual injuries on the mend, and then he needs friends to yell at him until he stops being full of self-pity, and then he needs to go fight something ten times his size and win. Other: He's very tall
Ziel of the Wastelands
Canon: Cradle
Character Blurb: Cultivator takes grievous spiritual wound and loses most of his powers while also watching his sect get massacred. Gets depression, but can't quite get himself to fully give up. He has horns and a big hammer.
Faction: Undecided. Maybe Flotsam, they specialize in recovering junk, after all.
Character AU Name: Ziel
AU Blurb: The Dawnwing martial arts school trains up monster hunters, trained to fight monsters ten times their size and win. To fight armors on foot. It was a prestigious school for insane badasses, until they bit off more than they could chew. SOME kind of force bigger than they could handle that isn't the Empire itself attacked the school and destroyed it. Ziel led the survivors away, hoping to find safety in a nearby imperial stronghold.
Unfortunately, some nefarious imperial decided it would be way funnier if, instead of offering sanctuary, they killed all the refugee trainee dawnwings (possibly because the school was strong enough that it could resist imperial decrees sometimes) and steal their power. Ziel fought to cover their retreat to his last breath, and utterly failed to save anyone. His opponent didn't kill him, though. They left him alive, but horribly wounded, both in body and spirit.
Ziel, formerly a HUGE badass with a name known and respected across Esthere, is now a shadow of the man he once was. Using more than like 3% of his former strength causes him endless agony. He's searching for a way to heal himself, but he isn't that motivated. Why bother with revenge? It won't bring back the dead.
But an ember of the heroic figure he once was still smolders within him. It won't let him give up entirely, and it won't let him stand aside while others are suffering. So he trudges on, endlessly, wishing he could give up but not being able to.
Preestablished CR Hooks: Ziel needs people who knew him when he was a hero (either personally, or by reputation) and can try to shake him out of his depressive funk. He also needs younger heroic types (he's 35) who he can end up as a mentor figure for.
Desired CR + Hooks: The number one thing I want is a villain who can be the one that killed his school, who he can then smash into a paste in a moment of catharsis at some later point.
IC Plans: I don't want him to STAY a depressed wreck, obviously. He needs some kind of miracle cure to get his spiritual injuries on the mend, and then he needs friends to yell at him until he stops being full of self-pity, and then he needs to go fight something ten times his size and win.
Other:
He's very tall