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[Khaiel]

You wake up. You can't remember who you are, but you start to see... things. Someone is looking at you. She looks like a young woman, in her early 20s, but you notice that something isn't quite right about her. Her eyes are of two different colors, and they way she looks at you fills you with fear and awe at the same time. She seems curious about you. And at some point she finally speaks.

"Tell me. Who are you?

You have to give it to her. That's quite a good question.

This is a Suggestion Game that takes place in the same world as Lord of War, although several hundred years later. In this Game, you are a Lord of Nightmares. But for the time being, not even you know what that is. As of now, you don't remember your own backstory, only your name and some few things about you, including your powers.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Fill this character sheet with your suggestion.
Name:
Gnosis: Gnosis is a number that goes from 0 to 50 that represents your existential power. For a Lord of Darkness it takes 3 values. The first is its natural Gnosis, the second is its Gnosis while inside its area of influence (its natural Gnosis +5) or while in possesion of its Node, a powerful artifact or place that represents the essence of the Lord of Nightmares. The third one is its Gnosis while both in the possesion of its Node and inside its area of influence. The initial Gnosis for the Player Character is 30. More on this later.
Origin:
Supernatural Powers: Your Supernatural powers. You can choose 2. If you choose only one, you get special benefits.
Source of Power:
Description:
Attributes: You have 8 Attributes: Agility, Dextery, Intellegence, Perception, Power, Strenght, Toughness and Willpower. Each starts at a level of average. There are 9 levels for each Attribute: Extremely bad, Bad, Somewhat bad, Below Average, Average, Above Average, Somewhat good, Good, Extremely Good. All Attributes start at Average, and you get 10 points to spend on increasing them. You can also decrease an Attribute to Below Average in order to increase another Attribute one point.
Skills: You have 30 points to spend on skills. Each skill can have up to 10 points before any modifiers. Skills include Unarmed Combat, the use of any weapons and any other thing you can think of (and that hopefully makes sense). Skills get a modifier based on the most important Attribute. This modifier is +1 per every level of that skill above Average. I will be the final judge on which attribute applies to each skill.

Spoiler: Origins (click to show/hide)

Wake Spectre: The Wake is a strange reflection of the material world, and it is where Lords of Nightmares live. Wake Spectre are reflections of people created when they die while experiencing a strong feeling. You receive more power from your Power Sources. You are obsessed with the feeling that is your Power Source for some reason.
Undead: You are an undead, a creature animated by forbidden energies You can have a feeling usually labeled as negative (like hatred or suffering) as a secondary Power Source. You can't choose Ki as one of your Supernatural Powers, and not undead might be suspicious or outright hate you.. You have to choose one type of undead:

• Liche: A wizard of great power that chose to become an undead, transforming his body into an undead entity. You start with a +3 bonus to your Knowledge of the Occult skill, as well as a +2 bonus to your Magic User skill. You have a -1 level to Tougness and Strenght and you have to choose The Gift as one of your Supernatural Powers and Necromancy as your only Specialty.
• Spectre: The corrupted soul of a dead person. You are immaterial, and you can move through the real world and the Wake at will. You cannot interact with physical objects unless they are designed to magically interact with immaterial beings.

Demon Duke: Demons are essentially evil made physical. They are created by the so called Demon Queens using the souls of evil mortals. Demon Dukes are high hierarchy demons created using the most powerful of these souls (and sometimes even more than one soul). You get a +5 bonus to divide between your Attributes, with a max of +3 to a single Attribute. You can only choose negative feelings as your Power Source, and you are vulnerable to summoners while outside your domains.
Shide: You are one of the Shide, "fairies" of old myths. You get The Gift as a free Supernatural Power. You are vulnerable to summoners while outside of your domains.
Kami: You are one of the Kami of the island of Varja, one of the demigods that ruled the island in ancient times, albeit one expelled from its home. You start with a Node. Should your Node be destroyed, you are dead.
Demigod: You are an ancient Demigod from a long dead culture, or a new born Demigod. Your initial Gnosis is 35. You can't have a Node. You can choose one of the following types of Demigods:

• Elemental Deity: You are linked to on of the 6 elements: Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Light or Darkness. You get the Gift as a free Supernatural Power. You have to choose you own element as one of your Specialties, and you can't choose its opposite.
• Dead God: You lost most of your followers and power once, and were thought dead by other supernatural entities. You don't need as many people experiencing the feeling that is your Source of Power to retain your status as a Lord of Nightmares. If you lose too much power too fast, you risk going dormant for months or even years.

Spoiler: Supernatural Powers (click to show/hide)

The Gift: The Gift of Magic, as it is called. You can use magic. You have 5(+5 per every level of Intellegence above Average) points to divide between the 11 Paths of Magic (Creation, Destruction, Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Light, Darkness, Illusion, Essence and Necromancy). You can only have up to 10 points in each Path. When choosing Paths, you can specialize in a Path, which increases the power of your spells of that Path and decreases your resistance to spells of the opposite Path (for Necromancy, that's one random Path chosen by RNG). You can also spent points on Metamagic Principles that increase the power of spells regardless of their Path. These Metamagic Principles are Bellum Archanum (Metamagic Principles that cover the mastery of magic combat), Potestas Archanum (Metamagic Principles that cover the recovery and use of magical energies), Esoterus Archanum (Principles that cover the use of magic energies indepedently from spells or to increase their effects) and Cognos Archanum (Principles that cover the greater knowledge of spells, increasing, showing mastery beyond just knowing how to use them). Each Metamagic Principle can have up to 15 points spent on it. If you choose the Gift as your only power, you get extra +5 points.

Ki: Ki is the power of soul and body. It increases the physical capacities of its users, and lets them do impossible things. You get 5 points +1 per every level of Strenght, Dextery, Power, Willpower, Toughness or Agility above Average and spend them on several specialties. These are Offense, Deffense, Physical Increase, Speed and Movement, Supernatural Detection and Hiding, and Superhuman Combat. If you choose Ki as your only specialty, you get +2 points for each of those levels of Attributes above Average.

Summoning: Summoning is the power of dominating supernatural entities. You get 10 points +3 per level of Intellegence and Power above Average. You can spend those points on Calling, Dominating, Binding and Banishing. You can specialize in a kind of creatures (fire elementals, demons, and so on), which increases your skill level on all of those by 1 when using it on that kind of creature and reduces it by 1 when using it on any other kind of creature. You have to choose this power alongside Ki or Magic.

Nemesis: Nemesis is a power related to Ki, but different. It counters supernatural powers, diminishing their effects, and makes its users more resistant to damage. Nemesis has no specialties/points to spend, but is stronger when not used alongside another power.

Psychic Powers: The Power of Mind. You get 5 points +3 per every level of Willpower above Average. You can spend these points on Telepathy, Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis, Physical Increase, Teleportation, Chaos Control and Electromagnetism. The more points you have on one of these Disciplines, the more powers related to it you will be able to use. If you choose this as your only power, you get 10 points +4 per every level of Willpower above Average.

Physical Might: This represents mere combat skill and natural abilities. This has no points, you choose three specialties from the list. Even if you don't choose this Power, you get one Specialty:

• Movement and Reflexes
• Resistance
• Metamorphosis
• Natural Weapons
• Martial Arts
• Armor

Spoiler: Source of Power (click to show/hide)

Lords of Nightmares feed off feelings of those in their areas of influence. You can choose one feeling, although you can also feed (although it is more difficult) off other feelings, specially if they are similar. Feelings can be positive (love, happines...) or negative (despair, hatred, fear...), although Lord of Nightmares usually feed off negative feelings.

Spoiler: Gnosis (click to show/hide)

Gnosis represents one's connection to the Supernatural and importance in the world. There are very few ways to increase someone's Gnosis, like some powerful spells and rituals.

Gnosis 0: This is the normal Gnosis for humans, animals and other races not vinculated to the supernatural.
Gnosis 5: The average Gnosis of creatures that, while still not supernatural, have a connection to it.
Gnosis 10-15: These are either important members of races that would otherwise have 0-5 Gnosis or minor supernatural beings.
Gnosis 20: Most supernatural creatures have this Gnosis. People destined to change the fate of the whole world also have this Gnosis.
Gnosis 25: This is the usual Gnosis for more powerful creatures, like medium hierarchy elementals. No natural being can have a Gnosis this high, and any spell, ritual or artifact used to attain this or a higher Gnosis transforms the essence of the subject. This is the minimum Gnosis required to use High Magic (Spells acquired thanks to the ninth point on a Magic Path). Usually beings this powerful cannot die of old age.
Gnosis 30: High Hierarchy Elementals, powerful angels and demons or ancient dragons that have become supernatural beings are some examples of beings with this Gnosis. Beings with this Gnosis can "read" auras, detecting the mood of people and wether supernatural powers have been used in an area recently and how powerful they were.
Gnosis 35: Beings this powerful have often been called demigods. Someone with this Gnosis can influence the area around him, so for example if a dark elemental had this Gnosis, an area where he spent a lot of time would become cold and dark, and possibly increase the power of dark magic used inside it. This level of Gnosis also grants a kind of inmortality. As long as the killer of a being of this Gnosis has 25 or more points of Gnosis below his (so for a Gnosis 35 being, it would be 10 or lower), it can ressurrect after a time. This, however, could take months or years depending on the damage suffered.
Gnosis 40: This is the edge of Divinity. Beings this powerful can influence reality, making their actions against lower Gnosis beings much easier as they influence the outcome. They can also create Avatars, that will be less powerful and have 15 points of Gnosis less than the original creature. This is the minimum Gnosis required to use Divine Magic (Spells gained thanks to the tenth level on a Spell Path) and the maximum Gnosis any Lord of Nightmares has ever attained. Most gods in Greek Mithology would have this Gnosis, for example.
Gnosis 45: Beings this powerful can walk between planes of existance, usually walking from the Wake to the real world. The only way to kill them is to be killed by beings with a higher Gnosis than them or to have their souls destroyed by extremely powerful magic. In Greek Mithology, Zeus would have this Gnosis.
Gnosis 50: Beings this powerful can alter reality with their thoughts. Their only limitations are other beings with a Gnosis as high as theirs or beings from outside this reality that don't follow the laws of Gnosis. It is thought there are no longer beings this powerful in the surface of the world.

[Wwolin]

Name: Calawart
Gnosis: 30
Origin: Shide
Supernatural Powers: The Gift (Innate, Fire V, Illusion X (Specialized), Cognos Arcanum  V), Ki (Defense V, Physical Increase II, Supernatural Detection and Hiding V, Superhuman Combat V)
Source of Power: Confusion
Description: His true form unknown to all except for himself, Calawort uses illusions to appear as the least-favorite uncle of whoever is observing him. In the event that the observer lacks uncles, he appears as a big shaggy dog instead.
Attributes:
Agility: Average
Dexterity: Above average
Intelligence: Good
Perception: Above average
Power: Somewhat good
Strength: Average
Toughness: Somewhat good
Willpower: Above average
Skills:
Unarmed Combat V
Improvised Weapons (Chairs, tables, laundry baskets) X
Ventriloquism V
Speechcraft VII
Musicality III

[Lyeos]

Name: Calawart
Gnosis: 30
Origin: Shide
Supernatural Powers: The Gift (Innate, Fire V, Illusion X (Specialized), Cognos Arcanum  V), Ki
Source of Power: Confusion
Description: His true form unknown to all except for himself, Calawort uses illusions to appear as the least-favorite uncle of whoever is observing him. In the event that the observer lacks uncles, he appears as a big shaggy dog instead.
Attributes:
Agility: Average
Dexterity: Above average
Intelligence: Good
Perception: Above average
Power: Somewhat good
Strength: Average
Toughness: Somewhat good
Willpower: Above average
Skills:
Unarmed Combat V
Improvised Weapons (Chairs, tables, laundry baskets) X
Ventriloquism V
Speechcraft VII
Musicality III

Sounds good.
+1

[Khaiel]

Added a little bit detailing the benefits of Gnosis. Having a high Gnosis gives you the benefits of that level and the levels below it.

EDIT: That sheet is incomplete. You need to spend points on Ki specialties.

[The Froggy Ninja]

ptw

[aattss]

Name: Doom
Gnosis: 30
Origin: Demon Duke
Supernatural Powers: Ki (Offense 5, Defense 4, Physical Increase 5, Speed and Movement 4, Supernatural Detection and Hiding 7, Superhuman Combat 5)
Source of Power: Dread
Description: He often takes the figure of a 2 meter tall samurai, enjoying the thrill of playing hide and seek with innocent civilians before slaughtering them.
Attributes:
Agility: Good
Dexterity: Good
Intelligence: Average
Perception: Average
Power: Good
Strength: Good
Toughness: Good
Willpower: Average
Skills:
Hunting 5
Katana Mastery 8
Intimidation 7
Movement 10

[Wwolin]

Added a little bit detailing the benefits of Gnosis. Having a high Gnosis gives you the benefits of that level and the levels below it.

EDIT: That sheet is incomplete. You need to spend points on Ki specialties.

Fixed. Also, I'm assuming that since all Shide have The Gift for free, we get the bonus for having Ki as our only power?

[Khaiel]

Added a little bit detailing the benefits of Gnosis. Having a high Gnosis gives you the benefits of that level and the levels below it.

EDIT: That sheet is incomplete. You need to spend points on Ki specialties.

Fixed. Also, I'm assuming that since all Shide have The Gift for free, we get the bonus for having Ki as our only power?

Yup

I kinda like your sheet, although I wanted something serious to come out of this. This being Bay12 though, I kinda expected something like this.