Jonah

Name: Jonah

Age: Approximately 25 years old.

Race: Armai, War Elf

Sex: Male

Hair: Short, spiky brown hair, though some hairs are slightly silver.

Eyes: Red.

Weight: 134 pounds.

Height: 5 foot 10.

Weapon/s: His main weapon is a traditional Armai long sword, made from a combination of lightweight titanium steel, and magically reinforced crystalline alloys. It can cut through most materials, including mid level magical barriers. He is highly skilled with this weapon, training with it from the age of sixteen.
He also carries many silver throwing knives, effective against many magical creatures, including the common werewolf.

Armor: He wears an Armai chest piece, with a shirt of light weight chainmail beneath. He wears padded leather gloves, protecting his hands from bow fire. He wears a black tunic, decorated with runes and boots with light weight crystal plating to protect his feet. Similar plates are fitted around his groin and leg areas. The chest piece is resilient against many types of magic, though is weak against ice. The crystal plates give resistance against bow fire, but strong blows from close combat weapons will dispel them. This means that their magical essence will wear away, leaving them heavy and brittle, with little to no protective ability. They also mold to Jonah’s body, to give more comfort.

Strengths: He is quite strong, highly intelligent and extremely agile. Skilled with both a sword and magic his key strengths are is willpower and endurance. His strongest forms of magic are light and shadow magic, his weakest being fire and ice magic. He has been taught other forms, though tends to use them only in the direst of circumstances. Combat can only go so far however, his words must walk the rest of the way. He is a strong believer of negotiation before violence able to talk is way out of situations that an other would be stumped by.

Weaknesses: Due to his Armai chest plate, he is weak against ice, and extreme cold. His lack of ability in the use of fire and ice magic also prevents him effectively shielding against attacks of that sort. He is also very reluctant to take life, preferring to be a coward rather than a killer, sometimes leading him to break down into a state of inability on the battle field. He can also easily fall for beautiful women as he wishes to find love, sometimes as far as feeling a deep urge to protect them even if they are trying to butcher him.

Spells: Jonah is highly skilled in Light and Shadow magic, talented in Water, Earth, Air and Mind magic and almost useless at Fire and Ice magic. This also equates to how well he can protect himself at various types of magic. While he may be able to fully repel a Shadow based attack, his shielding would be easily torn down by a Fire based spell.
Jonah’s spells are none verbal, their true names unspeakable in any tounge. They manifest on his command, their nature warping to fit what his mind desires of them. To easier manifest such forms, he may think words that inspire his mind in a certain way, allowing him to easily cast such spells.
Each type of magic has its own capabilites:
Light Magic: Create Light, blind enemies, make enemies photophobic, make enemies burn in sunlight, minor healing spells.
Shadow Magic: Diminish light, create pitch blackness, various destructive spells.
Water Magic: Breathe underwater, walk on water, drown enemies, create bridges of water, sterilize wounds.
Earth Magic: Can control rocks, make rocks explode, create platforms and bridges, suffocate or crush enemies, knock down walls, create golems.
Air Magic: Fly, Improve speed and agility, Hold breath indefinately, suffocate enemies.
Mind Magic: Telekinises, Teleportation, Telepathy, Make enemies flee, drive enemies insane, control peoples minds. (Mind control works best if the controlled mind is near death.)

Skills: Jonah can read and write in a variety of languages. He has a good knowledge of different plants and animals as well as first aid. He is also an accomplished rune smith, allowing him to enchant various objects with magical effects, as well as allowing him to mentally scry areas he has visited.
Jonah is very good at talking to people, is looks charming those he wishes to get information on, or using his humor and well versed manner of speech to make valuable allies. This comes in handy when being supplies as he is often short of money and his only option is to barter.

Race Characteristics: Jonah is an Armai. All Armai have the following characteristics; Red Eyes, Pointed Ears, Strong resilience against disease, extremely long life span.

Appearance:



Jonah is quite tall, his broad shoulders giving him a sense of stature and power. His face is weathered and seems ancient, the lightly tanned skin sharpening his features. His hair is dark and spiked, streaks of silver subtly present. His eyes are deepest crimson, a sign of the blood he has and shall shed. His clothes are black, a tattered and torn tunic hiding his armor beneath, an electrum colored chest of metal and crystal. A slash across his chest gives a blue glow, but its source is hidden beneath the tatters. Slung across his back is his sword, its dark metals casting a bizarre glow in the sunlight. The hallmarks of a soldier.

Personality: While Jonah was still part of the army, he was an easy going man, one who would always stick up for his friends no matter the cost. After he was falsely accused and exiled for cowardice he became a lonely and uncaring wanderer. His ld personality still showed through in the form of and honorable ally who would assist those who gave him aid. After a meeting with a great man in a similar predicament, he became more like his old self and started his life again. Now he is a caring, if sometimes cold seeming man, who tries to help those in need and only take life when absolutely necessary.

Biography: Jonah was born 25 years ago. His father was the great mage Mars, his mother was an elf called Lorelei. At the age of three, magical occurrences began happening around him, indicating he would become a magic user, and due to his father, likely one of great skill. His father began teaching him magic for seven years, before sending him to the Armai training academy. There he learned to read and write, improve his magical skill and learn the art of combat. At the age of fifteen he graduated, the youngest to ever do so. He was gifted his armor, weapon and his eyes were turned red. Over time he learned the craft of runes and was soon on the frontline of many of the greatest wars. He was often the one who kept morale up, earning several medals for his troubles. However it was soon to come to an end.
In the midst of battle his good friend lay injured and would likely die. Jonah tried to get him back to the trenches, but his officer told him to press forward. He ignored him and upon returning to the trenches was exiled for cowardice when he in fact was rescuing an injured soldier.
He wandered the world, surviving off the wilderness. He worshiped no God, for he thought surely they would help him. He forgot his past, forgot about the loving parents he had left behind. He became cold. He saw many great things on his travels, many terrible things on his travels. The fury of the great beast Charybdis, the jungles of the Ancient world. But he looked upon them with no awe or wonder.
Then he met a great man, who showed him the world before him. This man was like him, exiled from what he had known but this man was still hopeful for a better future. He took Jonah back to Charybdis and slew the beast, instead of leaving it to hurt the innocent. The man took him to a small village, a village that was under attack. While Jonah reached for his blade, the man simply talked to the beasts, and they left soon after. That was when Jonah realized, that fighting was not to be the first choice, but to be the last. He had opened Jonah’s eyes and he became the friendly, morale lifting elf once more.
He could still kill, but only beasts. He only killed other elves when absolutely necessary. The man showed him what happened after death and to not be afraid. To have no regrets.
He has a single dream; to find one he can love, one whom he can care for, for all eternity.

Journeys of the Haven:
While wandering between worlds, Jonah came across a tavern in which he met a man by the name of Crackle (2 Parts Surprise, 1 Part Battle - Beh). A friendly game of drinking and betting soon escalated into a brawl beyond compare. During the fight, one of Crackles throwing knives became lodged in his back, causing havok with his muscles and bones. Soon after, Jonah was stabbed in the chest, causing him to near death. Through some obscene act of luck however, the Aura coating the blade had spread to Jonah's body, partially regenerating him. Managing to remove the blade and knife, Jonah destroyed the tavern before moving onto a new world. He does not trluy know what happened that night, nor what it's effects may be in the long run, but he is eager to find out. He has not repaired the cut in his tunic, so the blue glow of the wound can be seen by any who face him.
Roleplays:
Jonah's Training Thread: In Progress
Halls of the Wicked: In Progress
2 Parts Surprise, 1 Part Battle: Completed

Alright, overall the profile is okay. I just have a few issues with some parts of it. Firstly as concerns the strengths and weaknesses sections -- I'd like to know more about him as a person rather than his magical abilities. Remember that this isn't an RPG.

About his armour... you say that strong blows can dispel it. What does that mean, exactly?

As for the magical spells, I would like to know a lot more about how his abilities work, and how he uses them in more detail.

Lastly... I would really appreciate if you could add a bit more detail into the bio. Such as about his travels after being exiled. And about the man he met and why he had such an effect on him. Just bolster up the section.

Updated.
If there are any more questions or problems let me know and I'll fix them.

Okay, I guess the bio is as good as it gets, and it's alright considering he's your first character. Some of the magic is a bit too powerful though. It's not very realistic that he'd have so many skills in all the elements. Maybe you could just focus on a few elements which he's good at?

Also this might be nitpicking, but did Elves really have titanium? XD

The magic is powerful but remember, the types he is good at are mostly none combat for the most part, (Light, Water, Earth, Air and Mind) with shadow being the only one that is majorly offensive.
Holy, Thunder, Ice and Fire are what I would see as combat spells. They may be powerful, but remember that Jonah isn't very good with them and will probably never use them.

And yes, these elves do have Titanium. If you've got insane mages hurling fireballs all over the place you're going to need something a teeny bit stronger than iron.

The bio will probably evolve more when i get the stream of CJ to burst its banks.

So approved?

XD

Fair enough, I guess. But could you remove the skills he's not good at if he can't use them? You don't really need to include every single possibility. Just keep the details for the ones he *does* use, and do away with the rest. ^^;

After that, yeah, it'll be approved.

Removed the magical types he can't use, but kept in the stuff about how he is weak against fire and ice magic. Also kept the stuff about how his shielding strength differs depending on the spell used againts him.

I still think the Earth and Mind spells are a bit too powerful. Just don't overuse them too much in RPs just to make your character seem overly powerful, alright?

*approves*

Also you could always try out the Battle School to get more acquainted with role-playing if you'd like. ^^