Poe finally picks up his bow

The history is a little long, hope you don't mind.

Name: Poe Black
Age: 17
Race: Elf
Sex: Male
Hair: Black / long
Eyes: Green
Weight: 160 pounds (about)
Height: 6 ft 3

Weapon: Poe main weapon is a bow The bow is incanted with a phoenix tear stone to help protect Poe from magical attacks.. Poe also has a short dagger, the blade is about 7 inches long, used for melee fights.
He also knows spells and carries a spell book.

Strengths: Poe best weapon is the bow, He fires 3 types of magic arrows as well as regular arrows, he Is good at water/Ice spells, and is also good at stealth, He is even able to run silently, and sneak up on his enemy. but he usually waits for the enemy to come close. Because he is an elf, Poe can hear better than most humans.

Weakness: The main problem Poe has is at melee combat. He has very little skill at hand to hand or sword, Knowing his weakness, he started practicing with a dagger. another problem when fighting melee is that he is not massively strong but makes up for it in speed and stealth. When it comes to magic, a lot of spells that are found in Poe's spell book can backfire if done with heist because Poe is not familiar with them. Also if Poe Casts spells without rest, the spells will become weak and backfire more easily. Because he has been practicing magic for only a few years, he can only cast two or three spells before they become weak. Clothing provides little protection from attack.

Skills/Magic:
arrow - Just an arrow nothing fancy.
Magic arrows
1. Ice arrows - When fired, this arrowhead leaves behind a tail of snow flurries. Ice expands around the target it hits. But the Flurries that appear in the air can be fallowed back to where the arrow was fired.
2.Fire arrows - The arrowhead on this arrow explodes on impact. catching everything around it on fire. Like the Ice arrows, fire arrows can be traced back to where they are fired because of the trail of smoke they leave behind.
3.wind arrows - Known for their power and speed. These arrows fire farther and faster than other arrows. When they strike the target The target flies back. The shooter of the arrow can loose his balance from firing the arrow because of the wind.


Spell book - Various spells can be found in Poe's spell book The spells are passed from generation to generation by using family spell books. A person from the family can cast a spell using a chant that is listed in the spell book. But each person must know the spell by heart in order to use it without using a spell book. The book helps the person casting the spell. By preventing backfires and reduce the damage caused by backfires. Also keep in mind that spells can just fail, causing nothing to happen.

When it comes to casting spells Poe has energy that is stored in his body and is used to cast a spell. The energy slowly recharges after a spell is cast, and the longer the parson is casting spells the more energy he has and the more a person cast a certain spell the less energy he needs to cast it. Poe only has enough energy to cast two or three spells if he casted them at their full power. If he weakens the spells he can cast four or five spells before he runs low on energy.

Spells
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Ice spells
Frostdew -Water quickly runs across the surface of an area and turns into ice. leaving everything around the area where the spell was cast covered with a thin smooth sheet of ice. This spell does very little damage but, is preferred by archers because the caster can stand outside the range of the spell well casting it and people can not get any grip and just slip and slide around.
Backfire – caster can slip on the ice
Poe Does not need his spell book to cast this spell.

Blizzard - Sharp spears of ice fall from the sky.
Backfire - if the spell backfires, the ice will fall on the caster
Poe can use this spell without his spell book

Ice Flurry - Long thin needles of ice forms around the caster and fly straight to the enemy.
Backfire - If this spell backfires, it can freeze the user.
Poe can cast this spell without his spell book but it is not as strong.

Water spells

control - allows the caster to control water. Water must be around for the caster to control
Backfire - When the caster cast this spell it quickly drains his energy.
Poe must use his spell book for this spell and the spell only last a short mount two minuets at most because of Poe's limited magical energy.

ball of water - a ball of water forms at the casters hands and flies at the enemy.
Backfire. - the ball can explode on the caster.
Poe does not need his spell book to cast this spell

shooting rain - raindrops form around the caster and then fly's at the enemy. Similar to Ice Furry but is weaker and takes less skill.
Backfire - the droplets don't fly towards the enemy and forms a fog around the caster limiting the site of the caster.
Poe does not need his spell book to cast this spell.

Fog - Forms a thick fog, making it impossible for everyone to see. Best used for escaping.
Backfire - limits the sight of the caster when cast.

Wind spells
*Because of Poe's inexperience with wind spells these spells are weaker and have a greater chance of backfiring, if Poe does not use his spell book*

Gust - Gusts of wind push the enemy back and lift him off the ground.
Backfire - gusts of wind push the caster back and throw him off the ground.

Tornado - Gusts of wind from a twister.
Backfire - caster can loose control of the tornado,
*When Poe casts this spell, the tornado is the size of a small dust devil*

Other Spells

Heal - magically treats the wounds of the person the spell is cast on.
Backfire - If the spell fails all of the casters magical energy is drained.
*Poe Can not cast this spell with speed, takes about fifteen minuets for Poe heal a person*

Teleport - This spell is a high level spell that magically teleports the caster to another location of his choice. The caster must have the image of the place in his mind before he can teleport to the place. the further away the person is teleporting to the more likely the spell will backfire.
Backfire - If the spell backfires two things can happen. The caster teleports to a place near where he wants to teleport to, (usually a few feet away about five to ten feet up in the air) or the caster flies backwards.
*this Spell Poe only uses as a last resort, It have a very high chance of backfiring on him even with his spell book*

Spells not listed – Because all of Poe's family spells are in Poe's spell book, there are spells that Poe can practice, but because Poe rarely uses them and are weaker and have a grater chance of backfiring, they take time to cast so Poe can not cast them in battle. These include Earth and Fire elemental spells.
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Pet – Poe has a Phoenix named Luna that he calls with a small flute that plays notes that human (or elven) ears cannot hear. Luna rescued Poe when he fell off a flying ship. She attacks by throwing Flames from her wings.

Personality: Poe is usually a shy, quiet, kind, good hearted Person. He is laid back, easy going and very rarely gets mad, Because of his shyness people might think he is deprecated. He is not quick to trust other people and is very cautious.
Poe is not the type of person who will stop to chat. When a person greets him he usually just saids hello or a s nods his head and a smiles. He rarely speaks in a group of people and would prefer someone to speak to him alone.
If someone talks to him he will talk back, and he will do his best to help a person who asked for his help.


Appearance: Poe's Hair comes down about three inches below his shoulders, with his long ears sticking out. Hie ears are about six inches long. Well traveling. Poe prefers to wear black boots, brown pants, Green shirt with a brown leather vest. When it is raining Poe wears either a green, dark blue, or black cloak. When he is traveling in colder weather he he wears brown or white pants made of skin (similar to dear skin) pants and a thick white or brown fur coat instead of the vest. He wears the white coat when snow is on the grown and the brown coat when there is not any snow.
Poe has his bow and quiver strapped to his back and a haversack strapped to his belt. The haversack has been magically enchanted to hold all of Poe's stuff.


History
Before Poe's birth - Poe Black Comes from the lands of Resanna. Resanna has suffered a war between elves and humans. The war lasted so long that all history before the war (even why the war started) was lost. What ended the war was when dragons who feasted on the slain grew in numbers and started attacking villages. Both the elves and humans knew they had to stop the dragons. When the Human capitol (name was lost) fell to to an attack from dragons. The only stronghold against the dragons was the elfin capitol called Sunselia. Humans and elves, decided to call a ceasefire and defend the city of Sunselia until the threat of dragons were over. The day before the Dragons attacked a fourth species came into the war, the Queen of the Phoenixes promised to help if after the battle there would be piece between the elves and humans. The battle lasted for weeks and in the end the dragons were defeated. And for the first time that the People remember there was peace.

Very few dragons remained, every once in a while they attack a small town or farm. But it was Rare. Elves and humans know live peacefully as neighbors. There are even half lings a half breed of elves and humans. There is a fountain in Sunselia, the ingravings on it saids, as long as there is water in this fountain, there will be peace. It it rumored that a feather off of the Phoenix queen is buried under it.

After Poe's birth - Poe Black was born in Sunselia 237 years after the war. His father taught him the ways of the bow. Poe practiced on a child's bow that had a low pull and only shot twenty feet. But Poe learned how to aim. But when he was six, the city was destroyed, by dragons, Nobody knows where the dragons came from but the city quickly fell. People say they just appeared, then disappeared. Some believe they were ghosts of the Dragons that attack completing the mission they failed over 200 years ago. But none has seen that many dragon since.

Poe was taken to an orphanage. He live there till he was nine, He casted his first spell at well living there. It was a spell that sent water that quickly froze. He cast it on accident and did not realize that he casted it until after he cast it, a bully that picked on him along with everyone else in the orphanage

Poe was adopted by Zacklin at the age of nine, an inventor well known for his inventions, most helped sailors navigate the seas. Zecklin also adopted a girl named Rachel

Zecklin lived tn Seaswell, A town that is a popular trading port. Because of this it is also very popular for competitions, especially archery. During this time Poe was given a bow and started practicing. His father's practice quickly came back to him and he started winning numberless competitions starting at the age of eleven.

When Poe was 13 Zecklin wanted to head to a small mountain town called, Christal Lake to study wind affects on different types of sails. Poe ask if he could stay in Seaswell, knowing that there would be no archery competitions in Christal Lake. The next month Zecklin and Rachel said goodbye to Poe as they left town.

Poe lived in an the Willow Inn an Inn/bar own by the Bartender. No one knows his real name, but if you mention the Bartender to anyone in Resanna and they know who you are talking about. Poe earned money by running errands and doing odd jobs around the town.

At age 14 Poe Decided that he would like to Visit Zecklin. So he started to prepare for the journey. He was about ready to go when he ran into a thief. Poe Fought back but failed. Everything was stolen from him. But Poe knew that he had to learn melee combat before he traveled.

The Bartender gave him a bow and a dagger the day after he was robed. He also taught Poe the Basics of fighting with a dagger.

An archery contest caught Poe's eye, The winner would receive a scroll for the wind arrow spell. Allowing one to enchant arrowheads with the power of wind. Poe won the contest and got the scroll.

Knowing that you can't read a magic scroll in less its in your spell book, Poe went to a Mage shop the next day.

“ah yes I'm expecting you, Hear is your Spell book.” The shop keeper said as soon as Poe opened the door. “also I added your family spells in the book as well, Water elemental spells will be your best, go on open it” Poe Opened the book and words magically appeared on the Page. “To add new spells to your book just lay the scroll in the pages and shut the book, Poe layed the wind arrow scroll in the book and it fused with the pages.

The shop keeper continued to tell Poe about spell casting how to avoid backfires.

Poe Spent the rest of the night learning to cast spells. He started casting water/ice spells with ease. He could cast a few fire spells, but they were less powerful than a match. But Poe knew that the more you use spells of a certain element, the stronger you will become at that element. When Poe open this book up to the wind arrow spell, he found the Ice arrow spell right behind It.

When Poe was 15, He was sitting in the Willow Inn bar and chatting with the Bartender. To their surprise a gypsy walked in the bar. “Hello Poe Black, my name is, Minna have a message from Zecklin.” “how did you know I was here?” Poe asked. “I have my ways” she replied. Poe looked at the woman, She was a half elf, short in height, and wore a purple dress. Poe took the letter.

Poe
I have something I want to show you, my friend Minna will bring you here.

Zecklin

Poe During the travel to Christal Lake Minna taught Poe more about spell casting and stealth, along with other survival skills. Poe looked forword to seeing Zecklin and Rachel.

After traveling through mountains for days. They Finally reached their destination. This is where Zecklin Lives. Poe said as he looked at the windmill, the door open and Rachel ran out and hugged Poe.

Poe was looking out an open window up on the top floor of the windmill. Because it was a new moon Poe could barely see the lake. But he did see the few lights coming form the windows of the houses near the lake, as well as the lights that from the windmills that dotted the surrounding mountain.

So what have you been doing in Seaswell, Poe turned around to see Rachel standing behind him. He started to tell he about the Past three years.


“So why did you build this hear.” Poe asked Zecklin, as he view the ship floating about 15 feet from the shore of the lake. “wait you wanted to study wind on different sails. I guess that would explain some of the sails. But not the ones sticking out of the side and running horizontal.

“Do you know about load stones? Zecklin asked.

“No” Poe Replied.

“than I will show you.”

Poe, Zecklin, and Rachel took a small row boat, boarded the ship. And went down into the hull.

To Poe's surprise the hull was just a big open room that contained two large rocks in it, one at the bow and one at the Sterm.

“these two rocks you see are load stones, blessed with the element of wind.” Zecklin saids.

“so the ship can fly?” Poe asked

“yep” Rachel said.

:”Its first fight is now.” Zecklin said. As the ships crew climbed on bored.

Poe was amassed at what he was seeing. Very few before has looked down upon the world form this height. He felt as if he was looking through the eyes of a god. Zecklin was taking notes on various things. And Rachel was controlling the ship.

From out of no ware a dragon attacked the ship. Poe Tried used his bow and arrows to fight the thing off but, the sails quickly caught on fire by the dragons breath. Poe fired an Ice arrow and hit the dragon between the eyes. The dragons tail destroyed the bow of the ship. Poe saw one of the load stone

The ship started falling. Poe knew he had to slay the dragon. Poe aimd another arrow, But the dragon flew into the ship. Poe lost his balance. He stumbled and fell. Poe felt the dragon fire surround him well he fell.


Poe woke, He was surround by what looked like dragons. His vision cleared and he saw that they were not dragons, but phoenixes.

“Welcome Poe Black.” a voice that seamed to come from his own thoughts said.

All but one of the phoenixes flew away.

“I am Mia, Queen of the Phoenixes,” Poe looked at the phoenix that did not leave.

“what brings me hear?” Poe asked.

“The Dragon that attacked you today was the same one who killed your parents,
he was meant to kill you,
Don't take revenge”

“what do you mean” Poe yelled

“Dragons are being forced
being controlled”

“By who” Poe yelled

A demon, Atticus is his name.

“Why” Poe replied

“I don't know
Take this scroll, If is the spell for enchanting arrows with fire.
Luna Rescued you, She will help you, Use this flute to call her.”

The Scroll and flute appeared in front of Poe. Poe took it A Phoenix landed decide him.

“You must be Luna” Poe said as he looked at the bird, The bird chirped, grabbed Poe with its beak, and flew off.

Two years later.
Poe was on Lunas back to visit Zecklin, who has built not one but 2 airships, Luna took a dive, Then Poe saw him, A demon was waiting for him. Poe Puled out his bow and fired an arrow.

“We finally meet Poe Black, You will never see this day end” The Atticus voice rang out and echoed off the hill sides. The demon took off spreading its winds and hurled its self at Poe. Poe Fired arrows at Atticus but The demon dodged them. Luna flew out of its as Atticus tried to claw the Phoenix.

Poe Jumped off Luna and Landed on Atticus. He pulled his dagger out and started cutting at Atticus skin. Atticus threw him off and Luna caught him. Poe Aimed a fire arrow and fired. The arrow hit Atticus right between the eyes. And broke a Rupee. That Atticus kept on his face to protect himself from the sunlight.

“We will meet again.” The demon flew into a cavern. Scraping his hands against the walls to cause it to cave in.

Poe jumped onto the ground and found the jewel that fell from Atticus' head, he did not know what it was for but He took it with him Knowing that it was of importance to Atticus.

1) In Weight, include the units. 160 what?

2) Daggers do not have one inch blades. That is called a pen-knife.

3) Please be more specific on what Poe can do with this spell book of his.

4) A little extra detail on Personality and Appearance would be appreciated.

I'll sort anything else out once you've done that.

added pound to weight

changed the word inch to foot

added spell names and info about spells

expanded on personality and appearence

Okay. Still some way to go.

1) I've never heard of a dagger with a foot-long blade before...maybe six inches would be better?

2) Every last spell needs a downside. Several of them do not. Change that.

3) Your Bio needs a reality check. No six-year-old kid could possibly learn how to use a bow; even in the Middle Ages, that didn't happen 'til ten or twelve. Also, nine-year-olds are not spellcasters of any degree, and seventeen-year-olds would certainly not be skilled.

Could you please remedy all that?

1) I've never heard of a dagger with a foot-long blade before...maybe six inches would be better?

Dagger magically reduced to seven inches

2) Every last spell needs a downside. Several of them do not. Change that.

done.

3) Your Bio needs a reality check. No six-year-old kid could possibly learn how to use a bow; even in the Middle Ages, that didn't happen 'til ten or twelve. Also, nine-year-olds are not spellcasters of any degree, and seventeen-year-olds would certainly not be skilled.

It it ok If I put that he was using a child's bow when he was six. One that has a low pull strength (about 20 pounds compared to 40-80 pounds of a regular bow) and only shoots 15 feet, and he did not use a regular bow until he was 11.

Poe started practicing magic when he was 14. The spell he cast when he was nine was an accident, Keep in mind that he is an elf not human. I also added that he can only cast two to three strong spells before the spells he can cast become weak.

also I added this paragraph to the magic section.


When it comes to casting spells Poe has energy that is stored in his body and is used to cast a spell. The energy slowly recharges after a spell is cast, and the longer the parson is casting spells the more energy he has and the more a person cast a certain spell the less energy he needs to cast it. Poe only has enough energy to cast two or three spells if he casted them at their full power. If he weakens the spells he can cast four or five spells before he runs low on energy.

My apologies for taking this long to get back to you.

Okay, the biggest problem I have here is the bow - I'm not sure a six-year-old could even use a child's bow. However, I'm willing to let that slide as he isn't human, so...

*approves*