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[IronyOwl]

Mage Lords. Individuals commanding incredible arcane power, known for many, many different things. Some are enlightened Mage-Kings, guiding their people to prosperity and justice. Others are insane despots, ruthlessly sacrificing their own subjects to slake their own thirst for blood. And many are simply powerful mages, concerned with but distracted from the everyday affairs of their people.

All, however, are ambitious.

You are just such a Mage Lord, having arrived on a plane of utter nothingness by choice or banishment. If the former, you have a truly ambitious scheme- you will create your own private plane of existence and rule over all that exists. If the latter, you most likely had powerful enemies indeed, to end up banished to an utter void like this. Pity it won't stop you, and might even prove useful to your schemes.

For this particular place is a void beyond void- too empty to even be dark. An endless loop of pure white, where nothing is or ever was. Except you, of course; that part's going to come in handy for what comes next. The only snag is that there also appears to be several others... this will complicate your plans of becoming an omniscient god of your own realm.

Spoiler: Gameplay Basics (click to show/hide)

Each turn, you may take a standard action, usually creating or inventing something, and possibly a handful of secondary actions, such as raising an army or casting a spell you know. The results will be determined by a standard d6, but with 6s increasing the level of the action and then being rerolled.

Every 10 turns, starting on Turn 10, a Challenge will appear. This could be anything from social unrest to ashen hellstorms annihilating all life in existence, but either way, how well you handle it will determine how much damage you take from it. Taking enough damage will destabilize you enough to throw you down completely, dismantling your empire and ruining your schemes. Another Mage Lord will most likely take your place in short order, though you may rejoin the waitlist as your old mage returning to power or a new one.

Some effects will be immediate and mechanically obvious, such as a +1 bonus to Attack values or a -1 penalty to a creation roll. Many, many more, however, will be more subtle, such as your people being literate or your tower being made of bones. These subtler effects can sometimes manifest as concrete modifiers, but far more commonly serve as prerequisites to other actions or conditions. Someone living in a tower of bones might have an excellent case for an action or creation that relies on being feared, for instance, whereas someone living in a tower of soap bubbles might find that trickier to justify.

Spoiler: Challenges (click to show/hide)

As mentioned earlier, every 10 turns a Challenge appears and must be dealt with.

To some extent, your readiness for a Challenge is determined before it ever occurs; if your entire empire is full of bloodthirsty warriors, for instance, you might be uniquely well-suited to handling a demonic invasion and uniquely crippled for dealing with economic reform. Challenges will attempt to be varied for this reason, but there are no particular guarantees a given Challenge won't be a cakewalk to one player or a death sentence for another.

The remainder of a Challenge is based on your skill and luck in handling it, which may take one turn or several. Valid solutions will generally remove your side of the problem with relatively little harm, while failed ones will usually damage you and then persist.

Initially, you have 10 HP. This is more a measure of your empire's cohesion and your control than it is your personal health, though certainly having their leader clubbed like a seal may be detrimental to the former conditions. HP is generally recovered by victories and advancements, and is lost by failing to deal with a Challenge appropriately. At 0 HP, your power base is broken and your empire falls.

Spoiler: Standard Actions (click to show/hide)

Terrain
Target: Connected Regions; creating Terrain involves creating a Region of it at the same time.
Description: Terrain is a collection of substances that make up part of the world, usually some varieties of stone, dirt, and air. It also covers weather and temperature, though these can be affected by outside forces.

Terrain does not include living things, such as plant life. It has a tendency to spread out to fill the Void, meaning some can generally be assumed to exist outside official Regions of it.

Region
Target: Connecting Regions, Terrain. Regions that are Connected may be accessed through each other, and usually represent adjacency. Terrain must match that of a Connected Region.
Description: Regions are basic areas of the world. Each Region is assumed to be large enough to hold one important feature, such as a settlement, and its surrounding environs. They may be assumed to contain myriad unspecified features of note, such as bandit camps or minor settlements, but such features are usually not useful for most purposes.

Regions are largely an administrative distinction, but are frequently enforced by geographic features as well.

Flora or Fauna
Target: Region
Description: Flora and Fauna are plants and animals, respectively. To be present in a Region, Flora or Fauna must be fairly numerous and well-entrenched, though isolated examples may be assumed to exist elsewhere.

Flora and Fauna may have a particular, fairly mundane strength or use, as well as a number of assumed but less specialized benefits, such as being edible or serving as an adequate building material. More powerful, noteworthy uses or abilities, as well as multiple specialized benefits, generally

Flora and Fauna may spread to Connected Regions that can support them, as well as undefined Terrain that's assumed to exist elsewhere. In the event of competition between them, forms better specialized to the niche and environment in question will generally win out against less prepared or more generic ones.

Minerals
Target: Region
Description: Minerals are noteworthy, usually fairly rare materials that might otherwise be defined as Terrain. Minerals are generally assumed to be self-replenishing, recyclable, or numerous enough to be functionally inexhaustible, though not necessarily easy to acquire. Minerals may also be found in small amounts in areas not normally known for them, though usually in conditions similar to official locations.

Sapients
Target: None
Description: Sapients are beings capable of forming major settlements.

Sapients are assumed to splinter off and spread out under most circumstances, including forming hostile raiding parties and other overt distractions, but will generally not form societies or settlements on par with more directed efforts without outside intervention.

Settlement
Target: Region or existing Settlement
Description: Settlements are major collections of Sapient habitation and infrastructure. They typically have an area of focus, which provides a concrete benefit depending on the Settlement's size. Settlements come in Village (1), Town (2), and City (3) sizes, and may be increased in size through the same process as creating them.

Settlements may be created with a specific focus in mind, which allows them to provide a benefit based on their size. Benefits are typically denoted with Roman numerals equal to the Settlement size, ie Benefit I for Villages, Benefit II for Towns, and Benefit III for Cities. Benefits may include new unit types, unit upgrades, bonuses to certain actions, or just about anything a specialized group of sapient creatures could be expected to provide.

Most focuses require a resource of some kind to work with, such as metal to fashion armor out of or animals to train as mounts. Needless to say, more powerful and specialized resources tend to provide more powerful and specialized benefits. Many focuses also require or benefit from an appropriate Technology.

Technology
Target: Sapients
Description: Technology is the technical mastery of some concept or task. Technologies that do nothing but unlock further technologies are possible, but most provide some sort of immediate or potential benefit.

The most common benefit of technology is enabling a new focus for settlements.

Spell Research
Target: None
Description: Spell Research is the mastery of some arcane spell intended for use by a Mage Lord. Lesser spells are usually attached to military Units or Settlements that have been created with an appropriate Concept.

Spells function on a pyramid system; unlocking more powerful versions requires a solid base of lesser examples. The maximum number of Spells you may possess in a given School and of a given Tier is 2 less than the Tier below it. There is no limit on the number of Tier 1 Spells you may acquire.

Concept
Target: None
Description: Concepts are advanced theoretical designs intended for a specific project. They are the methods by which creations can be granted far more powerful and unusual qualities than otherwise possible.

A Concept is an ability or quality that can be applied to another creation, which consumed it in the process. Multiple Concepts may be researched prior to a given creation, but they must all be applied or discarded at once; you may not hoard them to apply at will. Concepts may be molded to fit the quality of their creation, so even a good Concept may turn out differently than expected in practice.

Generally speaking, the difference between a quality or ability that requires a Concept and one that doesn't is how noteworthy the trait may become. Things best represented as special abilities or serving as the foundation for a specialized function generally require a Concept to realize, whereas more incidental differences often do not.

Modification
Target: Existing Creation
Description: Modifications are attempts at altering an existing creation, rather than generating an entirely new one. They may fine-tune a creation's nature or qualities, but may generally not completely replace or rewrite them.

Modifications may apply to an entire creation or merely parts of it, in which case the new creation is typically broken off as a separate entity. Modifications usually apply only to a specific Region; creations which have spread beyond that point must be manually and separately altered as well. Altering all official examples of a creation generally implies the alteration of loose, unofficial examples as well.


Other Actions
Sometimes you'll want to do something that doesn't really seem like any of these. In those cases, you can ask about the action, or just try it if you're feeling adventurous.

In some cases, especially for more powerful or complex effects, you may find combined actions with your fellow Mage Lords handy. Multiple Mage Lords working together can sometimes accomplish things a lone one couldn't even with repeated effort.

Spoiler: Army and Combat Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Army Mechanics
An Army is one or more Units that fight coherently as a unified force. Units may be added to or removed from Armies at any time, but generally any Units from the same player and with the same target will be treated as a single Army; that is, you may not attack separately with each of eight separate units or defend in waves.

Armies can generally be assumed to move wherever they like in a single turn, so long as that movement is uncontested and relatively easy. Moving through hostile territory, on the other hand, can generally only be done at a rate of one Region per turn. They may also only move between Connected Regions, and rough terrain or other conditions may slow them down.

Units may be raised at will, but generally require upkeep in the form of existing Settlements. Your maximum number of Units could very roughly be thought of as equal to the combined levels of all your Settlements, but numerous things may affect this, and more powerful or inefficient Units might require more, while weaker or more efficient ones might need only a fraction. Emergencies might also enable you to exceed your limit under certain circumstances.

Army Abilities
Armies have a number of traits and relevant stats, generally all drawn from their component parts. More specifically:

HP, Attack, and Defense: An Army receives a +2 HP bonus, but otherwise its HP, Attack, and Defense scores are the sum of its component Units'.

Keywords, Abilities, and Magnitude: An Army has values for each Keyword, Ability, or Quality it possesses, as well as a Magnitude which simply tracks the number of Units it possesses. Each instance of a Keyword, Ability, or Quality increases the Army's rating in that trait by 1. For example, an Army of four wolves, each counted as Living and Beasts, and four skeletal warriors, each counted as Undead, Infantry, and possessing the Shield Slam skill, would count as 4 Living, 4 Beast, 4 Undead, 4 Infantry, and possess 4 Shield Slam.

Many special abilities interact with or rely on keyword numbers in this manner. For instance, a healing spell might heal up to 4 Infantry, meaning an Army with 2 Infantry can only receive half benefit, whereas one with 6 Infantry could receive full, regardless of whether there was any indication that their Infantry were the specific Units damaged. Rarer abilities might even deal or restore damage equal to the number of Infantry, be that 0 or the entire Army.

Combat and Damage
Actual combat is quite simple- each Army rolls a d6, with the winner dealing the difference plus their Attack score to the defeated. In the event of a tie, each deals their Attack score to each other simultaneously.

Damage generally heals at a rate of 1 per Unit, but many factors can complicate that. Most notably, Armies generally do not heal while fighting; they must be taking no serious actions to heal properly. Furthermore, numerous skills, spells, and conditions can speed, slow, or simply alter or complicate the process.

In the event that an Army is reduced to 0 HP, it is defeated but not annihilated, as might be expected. Instead, the Army is returned to its general place of origin and must spend a turn recovering, at which point it will regain HP and may be healed as normal, save that it may not act until it is once again at full strength.

Pillaging and Control
Maintaining an uncontested military presence in a Region generally gives you some options as to any inhabitants. Most such actions have arbitrary and not immediately mechanical effects; for instance, pillaging a Region does not directly harm the Region or improve you, though it may have subtler impacts, especially if continued for some time.

The primary exception to this is that an occupied Region may be prevented from assisting its Mage Lord, effectively cutting off its Settlement's bonus. Obviously this is generally not a useful tactic in Regions that lack a Settlement, as you are essentially occupying uninhabited land.

Spoiler: Spells (click to show/hide)

Spells are potent abilities available to your Mage Lord. They also serve as useful foundations for teaching lesser versions to lesser creatures.

One Spell may be cast each turn, in addition to other actions. This can make them incredibly useful, as they can augment or duplicate standard actions.

Spells are divided into Schools, which are extremely broad themes. Just about anything can be slotted into a given School with the appropriate justification, and while Schools tend to have specific focuses and weak points, just about any general effect can be accomplished by a given School using the right Spells.

Spells are also organized by Level. Higher Levels are more powerful but also more complicated; in particular, poor rolls tend to have catastrophically worse effects with more potent Spells. There is no limit to the number of Tier 1 Spells you may acquire, but all other Tiers are limited to 2 less than the Tier below them.

As a general guideline to Spell Level strengths:

Tier 1: Powerful but basic. A simple damaging fireball or modest heal might be Tier 1.

Tier 2: More advanced or powerful. Buffing an Army's attack strength, damaging multiple units with lightning, or simply a more powerful fireball might be Tier 2.

Tier 3: Truly advanced. Granting a Unit a new ability, stunning or disabling parts of an enemy force, or boosting a Settlement's income might all be Tier 3.

Tier 4: Mighty. Dealing massive damage to an enemy Army, magically enhancing a unit of peasants to knight levels of prowess, or disabling an enemy Settlement without controlling it might all be Tier 4.

Tier 5: Godlike. Any standard action, plus more volatile whims, such as creating volcanoes, transforming entire Armies into something else, or enabling a city to fly, might all be Tier 5.

Specializations or weaknesses may affect these levels. A healing-focused School might treat most healing or protective spells as one Tier lower than normal, while treating most offensive options as one Tier higher, for instance.

Signup Sheet:

Name:
Physical:
Mental:
Bio (Optional):

I will be selecting 5 Mage Lords manually, rather than on a first come first serve basis. The waitlist will probably end up randomized with the remainders.

Special note on your first actions: Your first action will generally need to be creating a type of Terrain, else there's nothing for anything else to sit on. Your second should generally be creating your tower. Once you have a tower of any condition sitting on or in matter of any condition, you're free to do as you like.

[IronyOwl]

Playerlist:
-Lazy! Will be done later. Probably.



Waitlist:
-Jim (gman), plain masked man

[IronyOwl]

World Overview


Stub Mountain, Domain of Nix
A rather stubby mountain of plain grey stone.
-Structures: Stubby plain grey stone hovel, abode of Nix.
-Flora: Purple Bushes
-Fauna: Dire Honey Badgers
-Sapients: Goblins
-Minerals: Stub Iron

Bottomless Pit of Falling, Domain of Sylvia Jansen
A gaping abyss fed by sands that flow ever downwards.
-Connections: Sandstone Desert

Sandstone Desert, Domain of Sylvia Jansen
-Connections: Bottomless Pit of Falling
-Structures: Rickety boat, abode of Sylvia Jansen
-Sapients: Nosferatu Plants, Curinam

Warm Tidepool, Domain of Matt Highlander
Sandbars and shallow tidepools, only a few inches high or deep in most places. Slowly sucks down anything on it that weighs too much, like trees.
-Connections: Dewplains
-Structures: Eccentric Fairy Tail Giant Purple Crystal Tower, abode of Matt Highlander.
-Flora: Desert Shrubs, Sparse Marsh Grass
-Fauna: Stilt Deer

Dewplains
A flat, featureless plain, studded with excessive moisture and a bit misty.
-Connections: Warm Tidepool

Ashlands, Domain of Thrakor
A smoldering ashpit, covered in plumes from where anything at all disturbs the surface. Some power is leeched from living things upon their death, being absorbed and held by the soil.
-Structures: Temple Village, Jagged Obsidian Stalagmite, abode of Thrakor
-Flora: Ball Cacti
-Sapients: Drone Slaves

Cement Plain, Domain of Tooma Ebenon
A perfectly smooth, level plain of cement.
-Structures: Hellish Deathpit Lab; Regular Deathpit Lab, abode of Tooma Ebenon

Standard Bog, Domain of Morol Matas
A perfectly ordinary bog, save for the fact that it's very cold. The water even barely freezes over at times.
-Structures: Pillar of Solid Granite, abode of Morol Matas.
-Flora: Traproots
-Fauna: Stilt Birds
-Sapients: Stone Shamblers, Living Embers
-Minerals: Silverflow

[IronyOwl]

World Specifics

==Flora==

Purple Bushes
Fluffy purple bushes. They possess large, tasty but very sweet purple berries. Grow well in mountainous terrain, concentrating in small clusters.

Desert Shrubs
Plain, grey-colored shrubs, looking almost like tiny trees in autumn.

Ball Cacti
Fairly small, ball-shaped cacti, perhaps the size of a small melon. Their flesh is fairly objectionable-tasting, but not absolutely awful and it's sufficient to keep someone alive, if not happy or spectacularly healthy.

Sparse Marsh Grass
Long grass that grows in small clusters here and there. Decently tolerant of excessive moisture, but requires standing water nearby.



==Fauna==

Dire Honey Badgers
Utterly vicious animals the size of a dog but much squatter. They know no fear, pain, or remorse.

Stilt Birds
Monstrous, stilt-legged birds that feed on traproots and hunt Stone Shamblers for gizzard stones.

Stilt Deer
Very long-legged, graceful deer-like creatures. They're somewhat skittish and timid, carefully feeding on swamp grasses.



==Sapients==

Curinam
Intelligent chimpanzees, small but strong, not particularly bright. Able to alter their forms at will for short periods of time. Like keeping Nosferatu Plants as slaves for their delicious fruit.

Drone Slaves, Servants of Thrakor
Black-skinned, blank-eyed humanoids with smoothed-out features, all looking more or less identical. Worship the soul energy in the ash lands' soil as their sacred ancestors. Obedient and selfless to Thrakor.

Goblins
Small but cunning creatures with green skin, red eyes, a usually hunched posture, normally black hair with a rather receded hairline, pointed ears and noses, and several large, pointy teeth.
-Technologies:
   Dire Honey Badger Taming. Allows them to domesticate the vicious dire honey badgers of their home mountain.
   Natural Pacifism. Emphasizes avoidance of industry or war, in favor of living in simple harmony with everything.

Living Embers
Tiny little living embers, with powerful jumping legs, tiny arms, and a long flaming tail. Like to mischievously set things on fire.

Nosferatu Plants
Sinuous, black, wickedly-thorned plants that actively attack and attempt to drain and consume living things. Grow delicious-looking bloodfruits when full. Like keeping Curinam as slaves for their delicious blood.

Stone Shamblers, Servants of No One
Fairly large, hunched humanoidish things of stone, looking like they were cobbled together from several boulders and nearly being able to move on all fours without effort. They don't like trespassers, wizards, their home bog, or anything in or outside their home bog.




==Minerals==


Silverflow
A silvery metal that bends to the slightest touch, being nearly liquid even at normal temperatures.

Stub Iron
A material comparable to low-quality iron.




==Towers==

Matt Highlander's Stacked Crystal Tower
Several purple crystal boulders stacked on top of each other to form a tower, many of them looking like they have windows or are otherwise inhabitable.

Morol Matas' Pillar of Granite
A giant pillar of solid granite. It's magically imbued to possess an "inside" to those who can find their way in, but structurally it's completely solid throughout.

Nix's Stubby Stone Hovel
A plain, squat hovel of plain, grey stone.

Sylvia Jansen's Rickety Boat
A rickety boat designed to ride sand currents.

Thrakor's Obsidian Stalagmite
Obsidian stalagmite the size of a small mage tower.

Tooma Ebenon's Research Facility
A glasslike dome of energy flanked by four equally spaced pillars, located at the bottom of a lifesucking pit lined with green runes.



==Structures==

Death Pit
Black pit lined with ominously glowing green runes, designed to suck the life force out of things inside it. Has a similarly colored and adorned death sphere bobbing gently around above, with occasional green lightning crackling between the two. Empowered to the point where the pit emits a visible glow. Tooma's Old Research Facility is located at the bottom. Paved over with concrete that sags rather obviously.

Tooma's Old Research Facility
A glasslike dome of energy flanked by four equally spaced pillars, twisting obsidian things crossing the chasm they reside in. Located suspended in a hellish void at the bottom of the Death Pit.



==Settlements==

Temple Village
-Location: Ash Lands
-Inhabitants: Drone Slaves (all)
-Fealty: Thrakor (absolute)
-Bonus: Ancestor Worship I
A simple, ash-black village dedicated to the worship of the drone slave's sacred ancestors, meaning the energy of the dead in the ash lands' soil.

[IronyOwl]

This is the third world information post. This should be all I need, so feel free to post now.

[NRDL]

Name: Nix
Physical: Tall and thin, with oil black hair unkemptly hanging all over his face.  Wears a brown cloak, nothing fancy, with a hood.
Mental: Ruthless psychopath
Bio (Optional): Teleported to this un-plane due to a magical experiment gone wrong.

Did I do everything right?  This all seems really complex. 

[scapheap]

Name: Matt Highlander
Physical: Grey cloak, brown clothes, blue eyes, blond hair, fair skinned.
Mental: Friendly but sufferer traitors poorly
Bio (Optional): Matt learned magic the hard way, trial and error, to make the world a better place. 6 years down the road he became disillusion with all the backstabbing of the world and made a spell to leave this sinful world and start afresh.

[IronyOwl]

Did I do everything right?  This all seems really complex. 

Character creation is pretty easy, at least.

Most of the rest is just a god game where most things require other things to work right, plus codified armies to bludgeon other players with. And routine apocalypses.

[scapheap]

And routine apocalypses.

My favorite sort of apocalypses.

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Sylvia Jansen

Physical: a woman about 4 feet and 2 inches in height, has short blonde hair and very sharp features, is rather slim. Aged about 50, and definitely looks the part. Wears a blinding white cloak over a grey robe.

Mental: believes in the values of capitalism, has faith in the free market, main priorities are profit and economic growth. Also has great faith in technology, viewing it as a less-potent alternative of magic for the masses. Has a very merciless attitude towards those she perceives as "failures". Keeps trying to achieve her ideal of a society with only successful people in it.

Bio: Sylvia has always tried to achieve power in her life. Not magical power, mind you, but power over people. Magic to her is only a means to an end, a tool to create her own ideal society, one where people would be judged by worthiness, usefulness and daring rather than birth. A society that would cast aside the inefficient dregs that keep dragging it down. However, even after several decades of trying, she found that human society was simply unable to live by these principles. There was always something that made people want to help those less fortunate than themselves. After a long period of consideration, she finally realized what it was - their humanity.

Obviously, there could be only one solution. If humans cannot live in an ideal society, then they may remain in their respective horrible existences. Sylvia, you see, is going to make a new, better race of humans, people that could accept the ideals put forward by her. They called her crazy, and continued to do so when one day she opened a portal to a new, unknown place and stepped through, promising to return someday to enlighten the rest of the world.

[Toaster]

Name:  Thrakor
Physical:  A tall, slender man with very sunken features.  Looks like he hasn't had a good meal in a week.  His greying hair is slicked back.  His age is hard to judge, but he's probably in his forties.  Pale skin and piercing green eyes.
Mental:  A completely amoral person with zero empathy whatsoever.  Has absolutely no regard for the wellbeing of others, and is wholly interested in his own gain.
Bio:  Thrakor the Soul-Binder is a terrible, evil, amoral man.  His youth was characterized by experimenting on small animals with his budding magical talent and tormenting fellow children.  He was readily accepted into the local magical university due to his quite potent abilities.  After a couple years, though, he was expelled for stealing necromancy books from the school library.

But he had learned enough.

Starting with animals in the woods, Thrakor began experimenting on the souls of living things.  He found how to extract their energy and bind it to mundane objects, gathering the power they contained.  But animal souls were weak- barely a flicker of energy.  He needed more.  Starting with peasants on remote farms that wouldn't be missed, Thrakor started stealing the souls of humans.  They contained far more power than that of a deer or cow, and soon he grew bolder.  As his power grew, he was able to bind soul energy in bodies, creating an army of soulless husks to aid his conquests.  He began sacking towns.

At the height of his power, Thrakor attacked the most powerful city in the region... and was defeated.  His army fell to the heavy cavalry of the king, and he was captured and brought before a magical tribunal.  His crimes were reviewed, and it was decided that his corrupted, evil soul would be a blight on the land even if he was executed, so he was banished to this dimensional void... but as he was thrown in the portal, he summoned all the soul energy that he had captured back into his body.

Thrakor may be banished, but he is not without power.

[Wwolin]

Name: Morol Matas
Physical: A small man wearing regal looking clothes several sizes too large for him. He has pale green eyes, tan skin, and brown hair that is either becoming gray or blonde, anthough it's impossible to tell which.
Mental: Cunning and pragmatic, with a twisted sense of valor and a weakness for pretty girls
Bio (Optional): Ever since he was a child, Morol wanted to be a knight. He was obsessed with stories of damsels and dragons, and the moment he came of age, he applied for a job in the military. However, he was laughed at and turned down due to his diminutive stature, and he turned his focus to magic in order to plot his revenge. One day, he discovered an old tome, which was filled with incredibly powerful spells. Morol foolishly read the first incantation that he could find out loud, and was taken to a strange world which seemed to be completely empty. Morol saw this as an opportunity to start civilization all over again, and make a society where even someone as small as himself could become a great warrior.

[Spinal_Taper]

Is magitech okay? And do they all have to come from the same universe, or could they come in from a different continuum?

The backstory is finally done. Don't know why I wrote a novel for it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Tooma Ebenon (XC-007)
Physical: Tooma is a six armed cyborg. His torso is sheer cybernetics, with various runes and engravings placed into the metal. In the center of his chest there is a small hemisphere jutting out from the metal, with a light blue wisp glowing within it. Tubing and engravings lead from a metal pack filled with bubbling mana down his arms and legs towards small rectangular devices on the back of his hand and palm, also with runes engraved onto them.

His arms are made to look like muscles, with metal plating upon the underlying flesh. They appear to be extremely muscular, about 4-6 inches wide. The hands are humanlike, five fingered and also covered with the same bronze like metal. When he uses magic, the metal glows slightly, and small lights on the rectangular units light.

His head is simply a giant box of sensors, with a trench running horizontally where the eyes would be. The bottom of the trench is a clear black plastic, with red lights running beneath it. The top of the head is rounded, and has another rectangular unit atop it. As opposed to a normal neck, he has a metallic tendril which can extend and shrink depending on the needs.
Mental: Most of Tooma's body is only 5 years old. But his mind is that of a 143 years old Mage Lord. As such, he is wizened, patient and generous, but he's somewhat reserved in speaking, preferring not to speak about his past. He can also be stubborn at times.

Bio (Optional): Tooma grew up as an apprentice techno magus since he was a small child. He was born into his guild, the White-Eyes, where he was found to have remarkable abilities in understanding the underlying laws of magic. So, he was initiated into the sub-guild of meta-magic, becoming one of the most talented apprentices in that field. He accomplished this not only through his natural talents, but also through intensive study and focused training. But, with training taking up all his time, Tooma never had any time to make friends or be social.

He grew up with few friends and fewer close ones, spending most of his time training and studying right up to his graduation. He graduated with honors in his sub-guild, being recruited as the mage for an adventuring party straight out of school. The group, containing, other than him, a exo-suit wearing swordsman, a sniper and a stealth specialist found him to be an odd one, always off experimenting with his magic and gathering reagents rather than chatting with the group or helping to pack.

Their quests were primarily for the government, reconnasiance on the surrounding kingdoms, sabotaging weapons and armies. Eventually however, their group split up and they went their seperate ways. He went back to the wizards complex, where he continued his experiments and practice, discovering more laws of magic, as well as discovering more ways to use them. While his plan was to spend the rest of his life as a magical scholar, the government he lived under didn't see the same plan. They had him lead a magical research project for the purpose of finding a better method of mana transfer. Though he didn't know it, the intent of the device was to power a battle mech capable of massacring cities without the need for exotic materials or ingredients, using only magic instead.

Over the course of the research project, he was smitten by one of his fellow researchers, a fellow meta-mage. He requested a work place closer to hers, and over time, they grew closer, but as friends. As their relationship progressed, their research did as well, and they came closer and closer to a breakthrough.

When they came to their breakthrough, he worked up the nerve to ask her out, and she said yes, to his great relief. They set a date, set a place, and they met. The date went well, and they scheduled another.

Unbenownst to him, however, the military was already at work, developing weapons using their research. The first was a small automatic vehicle, about the size of a dog named XC-001, which wielded the power of a battleship in sheer magical strength. Of course, that was only in lab tests. When it was taken to the field, however, it's A.I. couldn't handle that much energy and was a sitting target for their foes. XC-002 to XC-004 suffered similar issues. So, they gave up on automated weapons, and began constructing stronger, faster battlesuits and vehicles.

By the time Tooma was 42, XC-005 had finished development. A battle tank the size of an apartment complex, it was a 5 man vehicle able to crush cities. And it did. City after city fell before it, then it was felled, by the only thing able to peer it. A nuclear warhead. Multiple, in fact, all focused onto the cockpit. With it's collapse collapsed the war machine. That, however, was not going to last if the military had its way, and they began construction of XC-006, an exosuit which was much smaller and less powerful, but extremely agile and much more mobile. With it, they were going to crush the remaining countries against them, who possesed no such weapon.

It was then, that Tooma's girlfriend, now wife, took a stand against the government. Before, she'd followed his cautious advice, that they couldn't stop such a force. After, she simply was too angry to listen. She went out to stop XC-006, alongside a group of people who shared her disgust. After a few moments of hesitation, he followed her, only to find that he was too late, in the form of a fireball where the army base once stood.

After this, he returned to their shared home, not leaving for a few weeks. During those weeks, rebellion and revolution sprung up in his home country, coinciding perfectly with the rebuttal of the countries they had invaded into their lands. The rebels and foreigners pushed into the capital, eventually conquering the Senate itself. There, the corrupt senators were put to death for crimes against the people of all nations. Sadly, the bloodshed did not end there.

Now that they'd conquered the land,the foreigners established a puppet state, which, as soon as it gained power, began to root out any and all loyalists to the old ways, or anyone who could pose a threat to their new regime. During this purge of the traitorous, families were ripped asunder and lives ruined. In addition, to the contrary of their claims of freeing the populace, the restrictions and injustices only grew stronger, as well as more numerous. However, they were in the name of protecting against an internal threat instead of a foreign one. Tooma did not stand for such things, not this time.

Inspired by the example of his late wife, he joined with a rebellion force as well, only to be suprised to find many of his partners from his old adventuring party present. After becoming reacquainted, they prepared to fight once more. But the war was a losing one, with the long arm of the law and the fact that the foes power base was distant to contend with, the rebels couldn't sabotage the government efficiently enough. Eventually, they thought they saw a weakness they could exploit, and sent Tooma, as well as another 6 soldiers to exploit it. But it was a trap, set up by a man broken under the interrogation of the government.

Without a way out, and low on everything from magic to throwing knives, the group was hopeless. Tooma, however, saw a way. He'd heard that one was able to convert their own life force to energy, then use it in a spell. But, the greater the spell, the greater the loss, and he gave up his life to teleport the group back to base.

The group got away safely, and spread the tale of his sacrifice. The story passed around the rebel circles, growing greater and greater. Days became weeks, weeks became months and months became years. While the time grew, so did his figure. He became a near-mythical figure, a martyr for them to rally around. But their spirit couldn't trump martial superiority. They lost battle after battle, hanging onto Tooma as a person to rally around.

Then the rebels discovered the XC weapons. While they didn't have the materials or tools to create any of the larger weapons, they did have the brains to create a new weapon. XC-007. They created it, powered it, but they couldn't give it a mind. Too small to have somebody inside, too valuable to be controlled by imprecise remotes. But, they did have the power to call back the spirits of the dead. Though the government didn't like this power, they were rebels, so they couldn't really care less. They took the spirit of Tooma back from the grave and put it into the XC-007. But not even a superweapon could stand against the governments power. But maybe, maybe, another plane could. Infusing it with interplanal mana and armoring it with the greatest metal they could find, they jettisoned the XC-007 into another dimension, with a mission to return once it had built an army.

[IronyOwl]

Hm. Pretty much anything fantasy should be fine, I think, so if you want to go magitech or anime or Kirbylike or whatever that all should work.

You may also come from completely different worlds/dimensions, yes.

[Toaster]

Now I want to scrap my guy and make Meta Knight.