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MrRandom · #**1163** [ ] 01-14-2008, 02:59 AM

After examining my broken Sig link, I realized that Falenor needed to be re-posted, so here he is:

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Name : Falenor

Age : 25

Gender : Male

Race : Human

Hair : A vivid orange colour, medium length and in disarray.

Weight : Around 70 kilograms

Height : About 190 cm

Weapon : Falenor carries a two-handed staff made from yew wood inlaid with several rubies. It's hopeless in combat, but serves as a reasonable conduit for his powers. If he has it, his power will be more efficient.

Armour : Falenor wears what at first glance appears to be quite boring garb, but when he feeds energy through it, the fibers lock into place, creating armour as hard as steel, with none of the weight. It only retains this property as long as he is fueling it with energy, however.

Strengths : Falenor's primary talent is his ability to manipulate many forms of energy. As such, any pure energy attacks against him will be unlikely to succeed, since he can control the attack and aim it back at the attacker, or even absorb it (provided he is fully aware of the attack, of course). He is particularly good at manipulating heat (and therefore fire) and electricity, having put a fair bit of training into thise particular forms of energy. He also wields minor control over gravity and kinetic energy (motion). He can also be quite speedy when he needs to be by firing jolts of electricity to specific nerve points. He is also much more intelligent than the average human.

Weaknesses : Falenor is rather physically weak, and particularly vulnerable to physical attacks. While he can absorb some kinetic energy, he finds this rather difficult. Also, energy conjured by magic is harder to control with his power, and therefore quite dangerous to him. In addition, while his powers have no actual range limit, the further away something is that he tries to affect, the more energy it wil require.

Skills : Falenor's primary talent is his ability to manipulate many forms of energy. This talent's applications are many and varied, but he has focused on developing certain areas of it, granting him a few "main" powers. These are not the limits of his skills, however using his skills in other ways will be less efficient and less effective.

Firestream - The name isn't entirely accurate. This skill actually projects a beam of heat, which can be expanded into a wave or cone if need be. It will, however, be a stream of fire if certain combustible elements such as petrol are projected along with the beam. It is quite hard to see, but easy to hear.

Minor Telepathy - While he cannot mind read, exactly, he can sense the general feelings of another person by examining the electrical impulses firing in their brain. He can also flawlessly "mind read" anything purely electronic, such as a robot.

Force Barrier - This produces a faintly glowing blue barrier in any shape, which will repel anything that comes near it with kinetic force proportional to the amount of energy he puts into it. Note that it will not only repel matter, but anything that comes into contact with it. If anything manages to touch it, it disappears immediately. One of his more common uses of this is to create a U-bend shape to deflect ranged attacks back toward their source.

"Flight" - By absorbing the gravitational forces around him, Falenor can fly through the air. Since he absorbs the gravity, the technique is self-sustaining, however he cannot use his other powers while flying.

Kinetic Blast - While he cannot use telekinesis, Falenor can project waves of kinetic energy at objects, knocking them away from him. This technique can be used as an outwardly-projecting sphere, but at a much higher energy cost.

Heat Shield - He can create a barrier of heat in a certain area. While it won't stop things from passing through it, it will heat up anything that passes through it. A lot. It shows up as a glowing red screen in the air wherever it was created.

Energy Form - Falenor can transform all the atoms in his body into pure energy. This will make him much harder to hit with physical attacks. However, it leaves him vulnerable to other forms of attack, and requires a lot of energy to initiate, though none over extended periods. It also requires a while to initiate, so he can't just use it when he sees someone attacking him. He also doesn't need to breathe in this form. He can also create copies of this form, whether he is in it or not.

Nerve trigger - By firing electricity down choice nerves, Falenor can accelerate his movement, or cause muscle twitches in his opponents by touching them. This requires extreme precision and sometimes goes wrong.

Lightning Call - By manipulating negative ions in the air, Falenor can throw bolts of lightning at his foes (to damage), or himself (to absorb). The longer he concentrates, the more and better bolts he can throw, but the more energy it requires.

Lightning Shot - This taps into Falenor's energy directly to ionize the air around him, providing a single path for a bolt of lightning which arcs from his palms. This path can be through anything conductive, for example an opponent, or an electrical circuit.

Energy Transmution - Falenor can transform one form of energy into another. Generally completely efficient, it is harder to use against magical energy.

Reflect - Falenor surrounds himself in a bright blue barrier, which obstructs all forms of energy from entering or leaving it. This drains Falenor's energy very fast if maintained, but can be put up quite quickly at a high initial energy cost. He cannot initiate attacks while performing this technique.

Telepathic Stance - Falenor focuses his minor telepathy into the gems on his staff, allowing him to multiply it's power significantly. He can now glean much more information from people's minds. He is also able to transmit information via electrical energy directly to other people's minds, such as words or a diagram or even a song or some such. However, this stance requires around 15 secs of uninterrupted preparation.

Detection Stance - By closing his eyes, Falenor can sense energy in the region around him quite accurately, letting him pinpoint things that may otherwise be hidden from him. However, things with a comparatively weak energy sugnature might not be visible under this stance.

And many more besides, Falenor has merely to think of a use for energy and he can take advantage of it, though he has to train in it for a long time before he can use it well. He has a few non energy-related "abilities" as well

Inventive - Falenor is rather intelligent, but is particularly adept at inventing and fixing things with whatever happens to be around. Many of the devices he invents can be powered with electricity he can supply with his other talents.

Appearance - Falenor clothes himself in a plain dark maroon T-shirt and navy blue jeans. He often wears an electric-blue cloak with a hood large enough to cover his eyes. All these garments are made of special fiber that becomes very hard when energy is fed through it (see the Armour section). He usually walks barefoot, creating a pair of energy shoes if he needs them. His hair is bright orange and wild, his eyes are usually emerald green, but turn blue when he is manipulating most energy, electric blue when he uses electricity, and a deep crimson when he uses fire or heat. Other than this, he looks quite average (Unless he's carrying his staff, of course!)

Personality - Falenor is generally a kind, compassionate person, but is always after more power. This, of course, is a dangerous trait. He will usually help people where he can, but is reluctant to put himslef at risk to do so. He looks out for himself mostly, and is a rather withdrawn person, though he will happily converse with anyone who comes over to talk to him, especially if it's an intellectual topic. He knows how it feels to feel hopeless (from personal experience), and tries especially hard to turn people's lives around, feeling he owes it to the universe after it fixed up his life so well. He tries to avoid being arrogant and over-confident, but is not always successful. Before he does anything, he will relentlessly analyze the situation if time allows for it, and sometimes spends hours at a time hovering slightly off the ground while thinking about his best course of action. This also helps him to gather his power and focus. He is usually rather contemplative, and often will not hear what someone says due to being lost in thought. He concentrates very hard on almost everything he does. He might appear cheerful on the outside, but anyone who really knows him knows of his horrific past and that he is a much more serious person than he appears.

Once, he was a very scientific person, always believing in what he could see, and what could be proved, and what was known to be correct. After he gained his powers, Falenor began to question his old views, not least of all because he seemed to be able to sense an energy entirely unrelated to bodily functions within everyone he met. Nowadays, he is very open-minded, readily able to believe and understand things that he would simply have rejected before.

Biography - Falenor was born into an incredibly poor family in a slum on a little-known world far away from anywhere. His father died from disease when he was very young; this left a lasting impression on him. His house consisted of three rooms : One bedroom, one bathroom, and a living room. He rarely had enough to eat or drink, and disease was commonplace where he was living. He had four brothers and three sisters, of which one brother (named Learon) and sister (named Maria) survive to this day. Growing up, he had to make do with what little entertainment he could find. Often he would go down to the nearby drain and skip stones with his siblings and other friends. From this, he learned some of the basic mechanics of motion.

When he was about seven, Falenor was fully confronted with the girm reality of life in a slum. Of his family, only his mother and two of his brothers and sisters were still alive, disease and starvation claiming the others. In order to put food on the table, Falenor's mother had to send Learon and Maria to work in the industrial district far away from their home. Every day they would have to walk for about an hour before reaching work, then walk back late in the evening. So he was left with very little to do during the day. He went about amusing himself by examining all sorts of plysical interactions, such as the best way to skip stones and how to throw rocks for mazimum distance. He was fascinated by simple machines like the pulleys used to haul building materials, and the basic mechanics behind the bow which was kept in their hut as a family heirloom.

At age 10, only Falenor, Learon, and Maria were left, their mother and remaining siblings having passed away. To earn enough money to survive, Falenor had to volunteer as a test subject for various scientific projects. At first, it was simple stuff, like testing new prescription medication. He was out almost all day doing these tests, and in his rare moments of free time he would work on inventions and such. The first thing he came up with was a simple spring-like mechanism that would allow you to absorb more energy from each step while walking, meaning you tires less quickly. He made three, and gave one to each of his siblings, keeping one for himself.

When he turned 12, the company he was testing for came up with a new drug that supposedly granted a sudden burst of energy. When Falenor took the drug, however, it permanently decreased his muscle strength to the point that he could hardly make it to the lab every day. While the effects slowly decreased, they never dissipated entirely, and he had to spend the next year living at the lab because he could no longer walk there on his own. Many other painful experiments followed.

On his 13'th birthday, Learon and Maria, who were now 14 and 16 respectively, pooled their collective savings and bought Falenor a pair of proper running shoes. With these, Falenor could finally live back at his house again, which he did because he missed his brother and sister so much. He quickly set about trying to improve his new shoes, but to no avail. About 6 months later, he had come up with a simple device to purify water. This device, while not perfect, saved the lives of many of his fellow townspeople, since their only source of water was a badly polluted river that flowed from the industrial district upstream and had all the waste from the district dumped in it, including dangerous waste and various pieces of useless machinery. This made him rather popular in town.

About 3 months after his 15th birthday, Falenor was asked to test a revolutionary new treatment for mental disabilities. He was put in a mostly white room and strapped to a chair, and had a large, white helmet strapped to his head, and electrodes on various points on his face to monitor his vital signs. The scientists fired a charge through the electrodes, and at that point Falenor stopped being able to think straight. Whenever he tried to think about something, his concentration wandered. Having inflicted this on him, the scientists then tried to cure him of it. They switched the helmet on, and there was a low-pitched noise that slowly grew in volume. At it's loudest, the noise nearly ruptured Falenor's eardrums. After a few minutes, barely visible to the naked eye, soft, blue ripples began emnating from the helmet. Though they might have been hard to see, they showed up on the scientist's monitors as waves of energy radiation. They just ignored them, despite the danger they might have posed to everyone present, such was their desire to get money off this project. After about 10 minutes, the experiment began registering dangerous levels of electricity entering Falenor's brain, and he begins screaming for them to stop. And yet they continued. After 15 minutes, Falenor is in extreme pain, and doesn't feel like he can take any more. He finds that he can concentrate again, though. So the treatment works, he thought grimly. At this stage, he is in so much pain that all he wants is for the machine to stop. At this point, a wave of electricity shorts out the helmet, destroying it entirely. The wave goes through the computers being used to monitor it, too, destroying all the data they had collected on the helmet. Falenor stumbles out of the chamber, dazed but happy to be alive. The scientists are in the computer room, all getting angry at each other. As he walks out for the day, he sees a large formula covering a whole whiteboard. He spots a flaw in it and corrects it, much to the amazement of the scientists.

After about a month, Falenor realised that his intellect had been boosted by the experiment when he found a bunch of broken machinery in the river and reassembled them into a pocket-sized device for sensing large energy pulses, so he could tell if the scientists were making another, similar device. He now spends his spare time fixing machines that float downstream, and taking apart the ones that are beyond repair to reassemble them or use the parts for fixing.

Another 4 months later, winter has set in. Their poorly insulated house is freezing in winter, and the rest of the town/slum district doesn't fare much better. One night, as he lies in bed freezing, he thinks to himself "if only I was a bit warmer...". Strangely, he suddenly feels warmer! Not sure if he's dreaming or not, he pinches himself hard, but doesn't feel any different. He goes and asks Learon about what's going on. Learon tells him that he's just hallucinating, probably from that brain experiment he had done on him before. As Learon turns to leave, Falenor puts a hand out to stop him. Learon notices that Falenor does seem a bit warmer. "How odd" they both say. Falenor goes back to bed, warm and strangely content.

The next day, Falenor wakes up early and heads down to the river to skip stones again. He looks for a while before finding a suitable stone. He prepares to throw it, thinking "This is going to be my best stone skip ever - I can feel it!". He throws the stone, which bounces off the water...
...repeatedly. It veers away from Falenor and begins heading upstream. In total, it bounces about 56 times off the water. Falenor stares at the stone in disbelief as it heads upstream.

As he heads home, Falenor sees a kid staring up into a tree looking sad. He looks up into the tree and sees a kite stuck in it. He climbs up the tree to get the kite, but just as he grabs it, the branch he's standing on snaps and he starts falling. As he falls, he tries desparately to grab the tree, but fails. "Dammit! I can't hit the ground at this speed..." he thinks. He closes his eyes...then opens them and realises he hasn't hit the ground yet. He looks down and sees that he's floating a little way above the ground! He touches down softly and keeps heading for home.

When he gets there, he tries in vain to light the fireplace; no-one has been able to light it for a few weeks since the real cold set in. Just as he throws down his flint (stones he was using to make sparks) in frustration, the fireplace roars into life! "OK, this is getting weird" he thought.

He then heads out to the river to pick up a few more parts, and notices a machine in decent enough condition. Oooh, I can fix that, he thinks to himself. So he takes it and a few other spare bits and bobs home and fixes up the new machine.

Once he's fixed it, he figures out that's it's an electric sewing machine. He goes to put it in the pile with all the other electronically powered devices (He's accumulated a fair few!). Now, if only I had a source of electricity, he thinks, I need to fix this T-shirt...as he thinks this, the machine whirrs into life! It looks like an ordinary sewing machine, but Falenor feels something...strange about it. So he takes the T-shirt inside and sews it up with the machine. He puts on the T-shirt, and then heads outside. He trips over a rock and sees a nail on the ground he's about to fall on. "Dammit, that could be fatal! If only this shirt were strong enough to resist penetration...". When he gets up off the ground, expecting to see a nail sticking out of his sternum, he instead sees the nail bent on the ground. "OK, now that's just downright bizarre" he thinks to himself. He goes and tells Learon about what's been going on over the past few days.

Learon is rather interested by all of this. He takes Falenor inside and asks him a few more questions about it. Then he asks Falenor to think hard about igniting the fireplace. The fireplace bursts into life, and Learon notices Falenor's eyes turn a deep crimson colour for a second. Amazed by this, he asks Learon what he thinks is going on, to which Learon replies "if I didn't know better, I'd say you had some sort of weird powers now. No, wait...I think that's exactly what happened. Can you think of anything that might have happened to you to cause this??". Falenor then remembers the scientist's most painful test, and how it ended with the helmet shorting out. "I think I might know what happened..." he says, and explains to Learon. Learon then tells him to go and try shooting fireballs at a tree. Falenor tries this, but nothing seems to happen. Learon then tells him to try setting the tree on fire. This does work. Falenor finally works out what is going on. "I think I might be able to control certain forms of energy or something like that. It still doesn't explain the thing with the nail, though. Hang on a sec...". Falenor concentrates on sending energy through his clothing, then he whacks himself with a stick. The stick breaks in two. "That's interesting...". Falenor then promptly goes and mends his jeans with the machine as well. He also crafts a blue hooded robe with some spare cloth. Now what to do, he thinks to himself...

Falenor decides to spend the next few years of his life honing his newfound skills in the wilderness nearby. He spends the next 5 years living off the land and practising his new talents, getting stronger with each passing day. He cuts down a small, young yew tree with concentrated heat and carves it into a staff; this process takes about a month to complete. Once he finishes with that, he builds himself a little shack from fallen branches etc. This will be his home for the next four years 11 months. He then makes a quick trip back to town to tell Learon, Maria, and the rest of the townspeople where he is going so they can visit him if they want, then heads back to the wilderness.

Three years later, on his 18th birthday, the townspeople get together some cash and buy Falenor a set of five small rubies in gratitude for all his help over the years. Falenor is speechless; this is a fantastic gift coming from such a poor town. He thanks them all sincerely and tells them that when he returns, he will do all in his now quite considerable power to help get the town running better. He spends the next few weeks hunting, training, and embedding the rubies in the tip of his staff. He then discovers that when holding the staff, he can manipulate energy a little better. He tells himself to thank the townspeople even more when he returns.

Two years pass, and Falenor returns to the town. He is greeted with much happiness, and people immediately find jobs for him. He fixes a couple of roofs, helps build a new town building, and improves his filter design with a bacteria-killing electricity grid for the water to pass through. Not only does this completely purify the water, the concept is so sound he gets it patented and sells it as a super-cheap purifier. Despite the low price tag, demand is so high that he gets a LOT of money, which he promptly gives to the town council. He heads back to town to oversee it's expenditure

After another two years, the town is looking much better. Falenor lives in an average-sized house now, but demanded that his old three-room shack be left as is as a testament to his origins. He tries to think of what to do next in his life. He looks to his older brother, Learon, for guidance, as he often does. Learon says that he has been granted a wonderful power and that he should use it to do good in the world. Falenor tries to think of a way to do this, then remembers all the pain the scientists put him through. He tells this to Learon, who says "Well, you could put an end to many people's suffering by stopping their experiments, couldn't you?". "But how am I supposed to get there?" he asks. "The lab was surrounded by tons of high-tech security. I think it was to keep out spies or something". After a bit of thought, Falenor remembers the incident with the tree and the levitating, all those years ago. Though he has never tried it, Falenor suggests that he might be capable of flight.

He spends the next week practising flight. He tries several different approaches. First, he tries simply willing himself into the air. This brings him a few centimetres above the ground, not really practical for much. Then, he tries summoning up a wind to carry him into the air. Still no luck. After that, he tries propelling himself into the air with kinetic energy. This seems to work, but causes a massive energy drain. Finally, he tries absorbing the gravitational potential energy that he gains when he propels himself into the air with kinetic energy. This works much better! Plus, since he is gaining energy by using it, it seems he can fly for as long as he wants! He tries firing lightning bolts into the air...and falls right out of the sky, stopping himself a hair's breadth from the ground. Learon, who had been watching, burst out laughing. Once he'd finished, he asked Falenor why he had trained so hard to fly in the firstplace. Falenor says he wanted to stop the suffering of the test subjects at the lab he was at when he was younger. So he flies over to the lab and storms in, his eyes glowing crimson, and his figure distorted by a heat haze. He addresses the scientists, shouting "I never want anyone else to go through what I had to. If I hear anything about people suffering here, I will descend on this lab in a plume of fire and destroy...parts of it." Having said this, he heads back to town and tells Learon of his actions. Learon congratulates him on his work.

Another two years pass. Learon and Maria have left town to seek their fortunes elsewhere, and Falenor feels he should do the same. He begins travelling and seeing all the wonders of his world. Then one day he looks to the stars and wonders if there are other worlds out there somewhere. So he creates a force barrier around himself and travels into space in search of other life, though he can only travel in short bursts, and has to be careful.

One year on, and he still hasn't found another world. His 25th birthday rolls around, and this is where his story truly begins...