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Introducing Ulysses Seamus Mahoney

Ryan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:26:20 +0000

Ulysses Seamus ”U.S.” Mahoney, an orphan left at the church steps, grew up within the church orphanage but also spent much time on the cruel streets learning of the many vices and pleasures the world outside had to offer a resourceful young man. Playing on his natural gift for oratory and his ripe source material of religious text he plied the streets of his youth charming and entertaining travelers and locals alike relieving them of a “small donation” (or more likely conning or cheating them out of a much larger gift) to help do “the lords work.”
The priests of the church took notice of young Ulysses gifts and pushed him towards a life of service to the church, hoping to steer him toward a path of enlightenment and service to the church and its people, and also no doubt as a vital fundraiser. As he matured Ulysses fell more and more into the trap of sin and vice; drinking, gambling and consorting with women. He squanders his priestly gifts with no direction or apparent plan.

Underneath the bluster, there is a caring man mostly concerned with the health and wellbeing of the common man. He is despite his vanity and selfishness a defender of the weak and wretched and most strong advocate of the injured, abandoned or the outcast. In the back of his mind he has made himself out to be a bit of a Robin Hood taking money from the “haves” and using it to service the weak and poor, however the majority of his earnings go directly to servicing his own appetites. There may be some greater destiny in his life but he is likely unaware of it and under prepared for it. The fact that he is still favoured by his Patron “The Lord” seems to be a good sign.

Introducing Li Jun Fan

Brian — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:10:04 +0000

Li Jun Fan is a monk of the Mitose clan. Their monastary is in the mountains near DunGul. The Mitose clan believes in balance and harmony in all things. Since Jun (Family name is Li, given names are Jun Fan) was a small boy he has trained his body and his mind. Now he is on a journey to restore harmony to Abomnikus. Entropy and the Relentless must be vanquished, and balance restored.

On this journey, Jun is also trying to find the Path to Enlightenment. Once the path is found, then the real journey to enlightenment can begin.

Introducing Raziel Lochlan

Ryan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:27:41 +0000

Jonathan Lochlan was not chosen to the priesthood, he was born into it, coming from a long line of priests of Dougal. He learned of the heroic labours of the brave heroes of Abomnikus at his fathers knee, and listened to the ballads of noble deaths at his mother’s breast.

He took to the sword fast, and was considered the most gifted student any in the monastery could recall since before the time of the iron abominations.

When he was five, he single-handedly drove off two relentless who had stumbled across he and a trio of his fellow students who had been sent on their spirit quest. He nearly died from the wounds he suffered in that battle, but now he wears the scars on his chest as a badge of honour and a reminder to always stand vigilant against the machines.

When he turned eight, he began a squire to the Fist of Dougal (his church’s army), and after ten grueling years he has earned the mantle of “Knight in Waiting”.

On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, during the ritual of Naacht Wis Nugaar, “The Night of the Holy Vision” Jonathan dreamed that he was holding a brilliant glowing sphere, warding off a horde of mechanical monstrosities. He saw a beast large enough to blot out the sun, it opened its thousand mouths and began to sing the song that would signal the end of the world. He looked on as the sphere glowed brighter and turned his body into pure energy. A silence washed over the scene as all sound was absorbed by his body, and then a massive explosion of pure energy enveloped the him and the beast. He awoke with a feeling of peace and calm, as he realized that his sacrifice would save Abomnikus and return it to an age of wonder and prosperity not seen since before the great war.

He has taken the name Raziel, after the legendary warrior who carried the secret of the old ones into battle and died a glorious death to end the great war.

Raziel now stands at the ready, prepared for the glory of the coming battle, knowing his will be a glorious death which will make Dougal himself weep with pride when he returns the abominations to the soulless hell from whence they emerged.