Nyn

Basics:

• Name: Nyn
• School: Lichthart
• Age: 16
• Year: First
• Gender: Male
• Height: 172 cm

Race and Class Details:

• Race name: Celestial
• Racial abilities: The abilities of a Celestial vary from individual to individual. Nyn has glowing ethereal wings, but they don’t allow proper flight. He does, however, have the ability hover slightly above the ground, but this doesn’t have much practical utility beyond softening falls.
• Racial weaknesses: As with abilities, the weaknesses of Celestials differs from person to person. Nyn is very light, even when not hovering, this means that when knocked back he goes much farther than others.
• Class: Inspired (Magician)
• Sub-class: Channeler
• Brief sub-class summary: A magician with the power to channel their Passion through their weapon. Channelers are very adept at the manipulation of Passion. This ability is very potent, it even allows channeling others’ Passion and manipulation of Beasts, but much like classes with similar powers it requires very rare and very specific configurations of Passion. The art is brought to new generations by Master Channelers taking apprentices. Masters typically tutor apprentices in seclusion from a young age, which allowed the tradition to avoid some of the . . . suboptimal developments similar arts have suffered.

Individual/sub-class powers:

A Channeler’s aptitude in manipulation of Passion allow them to execute a variety of techniques. The two most basic, which define the sub-class are:

• Resonance: The Channeler aligns their energies with their weapons and a spell. Depending on the spell this typically confers benefits to the Channeler and imbues their weapon with that spell.
• Channeler Spells: Channelers have plenty of weird spells, many of which have niche, harmful or otherwise undesirable effects when not used with Resonance. Still, they should not be underestimated, their powers are known to have generated some very impressive effects, even if odd, and not all of their spells are weird.

Examples of more advanced techniques:

• Spellshare: By aligning themselves with another willing person a Channeler can often gain insight into their Passion and Resonate with their abilities, which allows for some very unconventional applications.
• Spellsteal: A more difficult version of Spellshare which works by manipulating someone else’s Passion and aligning with that. This is much more complicated, but means that the other person does not need to be willing.

Appearance:

• Picture:

• (Yggdrasill [sic] ToS (warning: don't google that, very spoilery.))
• Weapons and combat gear they use: Nyn’s weapon of choice is the bow, but a Channeler is required to know how to wield all conventional weapons.

Nature:

• Hometown: Novo Strella
• Personality: Nyn’s attitude is relaxed by default, but he knows when he needs to be serious. He’s talented and lucky, which he attributes to being in tune with some cosmic will. He refers to this will as “the Flow” and is pretty spiritual about that whole deal, it’s inspired by the way many Channeler abilities work but is mostly just speculation. However, he harbors quite a few insecurities because of what happened to Erd.
• How committed they are to their region: Nyn doesn’t really care, he’s primarily concerned with getting Erd back.

Backstory:

To be able to truly begin to understand the events that led to Nyn ending up where he is now requires one to start long ago, with Sliver’s first Channeler. This Channeler, now known as the First Master, was a legendary fighter, said to be a god in a one-on-one, but disappeared soon after teaching the art of Channeling to an apprentice. The Second Master still lives, but has abandoned his duties as a Master, having passed that role on to his two apprentices, Master Blix and Master Ompreym. Blix and Ompreym began their training at about the same time as the Second Master started becoming really wealthy, enough to make sure that this Channeling tradition wouldn’t have to worry about funds for a very very long time. Blix and Ompreym were very close during their training years. After both became Master Channelers they worked as guardians and researchers.

About 7 years ago, as Master Blix was visiting Novo Strella, he sensed the presence of a potential apprentice – a boy with a Passion fit to study Channeling – for the first time. Master Blix approached the family of the child, who asked the child if he was interested. This child was Nyn Altenova, whose family was relatively unremarkable when compared to other Novo Strellans. Nyn had been interested in duels for a long time at this point, so of course he accepted. But at this time Nyn was too young even by Channeler standards, so he would have to wait. Two years later Master Blix found another potential apprentice, who also accepted. Now Nyn was also old enough to begin his training, so Master Blix returned to ask if Nyn was still interested, which was the case. And so Nyn and Erdedrikas were brought to the two Master Channelers’ base of operation, Crescent Castle, situated in the North.

Much like their Masters Nyn and Erd became very good friends. But all of this would soon fall to pieces. The first few years of Channeler training are purely theoretical due to it being a very complex art, and the apprentices being children, but after three years Nyn and Erd were rarely allowed to test some of their abilities against some very weak Beasts under the supervision of a Master. During one of these, while overseen by Master Ompreym, Nyn and Erd were pitted against a Binding Biblilex – an odd Beast shaped like a book, weak but capable of inflicting serious harm on Memory. But this Biblilex was stronger than average. Nyn begged Master Ompreym to intervene, but the Master just cruelly stated that this would be a “good challenge”. Erd bravely fought the Beast, determined to protect Nyn even though Nyn was more skilled than her in most aspects, but she wasn’t strong enough. Nyn wasn’t hurt by the battle, but Erd was left unconscious. After Master Ompreym realized that Erdedrikas had lost more than enough Memory to reach a negative value he noted how much he could learn from this, and left with the girl, leaving Nyn behind, devastated.

Nyn returned to Master Blix, but Master Ompreym and Erd never did. The following years of training were . . . gloomy, to say the least. Nyn had lost his dear friend while Master Blix had been betrayed by the man he trusted deeply. After some time things got better, but nowhere near as good as things had been before. One day Nyn announced his intention to attend a combat school, they both felt that was a good idea, even though Channelers traditionally didn’t go to those. At first Nyn wanted to go to Pensalir, but soon got the feeling, which he claims is a sign from the Flow, that something bad was going to happen there and that he should go to Lichthart instead, and so he decided he would study at Lichthart.

• Sexuality: Homosexual
• Passion: 8
• Memory: 7

The Rest:

• * Any other students that they already know and what they think of them:
• Notes: Since Channeling is complex and has weird spells they most likely won't do what you think they'll do if you somehow copy and cast them, I write this because I know there are characters with that power.

Normal Theme Alpha: Yggdrasil (XC2; possible spoilers)

Normal Theme Beta: Where We Used To Be

Battle Theme: Still, Move Forward!