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[Comrade P.]

Wait, Kuvira kills Korra causing new avatar to be born in Earth Nation she rules over? That's... the one smartest move ever!

[kj1225]

Wait, Kuvira kills Korra causing new avatar to be born in Earth Nation she rules over? That's... the one smartest move ever!

At least, they say she killed the avatar. But no one has seen the avatar in a long time. So who knows if there even IS a new avatar yet.

[Comrade P.]

Ah, so there was no head on a pike, it is just said she did. Well, either way a winning move was done.

[WillowLuman]

Most of these are done now, the last one I'll need to go over some more. Let me know if there are any issues with these.

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Name: Lu Bu

Age: 28

Appearance: This gentleman puts you in mind of a regal dragon. He has narrow brown eyes that are like two splotches of mud. He is bald, but used to have luxurious, straight, midnight black hair. He has a masculine build. His skin is nut-brown. He has small feet. His wardrobe is composed of grey clothes that allow for easy movement. He wears a leather backpack that covers the sheaths for his swords.

Background:  Lu Was fairly normal being born to a family of fire benders. When he eventually left home he quickly ran out of money. He eventually learned sword play from a kindly older man and began taking jobs as a mercenary. He has a fairly good track record for not killing people when he fights them. The last big purchase of his that wasn't a variety of tea was his swords which are cremaics. Overall he's quite polite.

Skills/Abilities/Traits:
Decent Firebending (+1 to Firebending)
A superior sword fighter (+3 to precise swordfighting)
Dabbling first aid (+1 to first aid)
Polite (+1 to Diplomacy)

Combat Style/ MO: The first thing that comes to mind is that Lu doesn't kill if he can avoid it. His fighting style relies on how sharp his swords are to allow him to avoid grevious wounds while still making strikes that are deabilitatingly painful. He also makes sure to cauterize wounds of combatants after fights.

Posessions:
Backpack:
Tea set, Tea (enough for four occasions serving four people), bandages.
Cremaic swords

S'all good

Spoiler: Haka (click to show/hide)

Name: Haka
Age: 34
Appearance:
The usual dark skin from the Water Tribes. Haka has light-blue eyes bordering on grey. He stands at barely six feet in height, and has a fighter's frame. In the Water Tribe we wears the heavy coats of his people, but when back in the UR he wears the colors of his gang.
Background:
Haka was born and raised in the UR by a waterbending mother. He was led to believe that his father ran away, but in truth he was killed in gang violence. Haka was a delinquent child, playing hooky all day, hanging out with older kids who would steal and vandalize.

Things only got worse as his mother became more ill. He put his skills in stealing and extorting to use, getting money to pay for his mother's treatment. One day he extorted a cabbage seller who was under the protection of a gang known as Drake Sons, a group of firebenders. They burned down his home and stole his money. His mother died soon after.

Haka swore vengeance. A gang called Blood Moon hired him for his hate towards the Drake Sons and his potent waterbending. He later learned of his ability to bloodbend. The Blood Moon boss took him to the North Pole to practice bloodletting under pretense that Haka was learning about his roots. Haka inadvertently killed his boss with bloodbending, and since then he's been afraid to return to his gang.
Skills/Abilities/Traits:
Haka is proficient with waterbending and bloodbending. His work as a gang member gave him skills in breaking-and-entering and extortion, as well as hand-to-hand fighting. Haka is illiterate, uneducated, and rude. He has an anger problem that he struggles with.
+2 to waterbending
Able to immobilize/control 1 person, or partially immobilize/control 2 people during a full moon. Other waterbenders get periodic resistance rolls.
+1 to Hand-to-Hand combat
+2 to lock-picking
+1 to noticing security systems
+1 to intimidation, if possessing leverage.
-3 to situations requiring politeness, charm, diplomacy
Combat Style/ MO:
He likes to disarm his enemies with his waterbending. He won't kill if not instructed to, but he is no stranger to murder. When the full moon rises Haka turns to bloodbending to toy with his foes and to cripple them to stop their fighting capability. He knows how to rough house and street fight.
Posessions:
A gang symbol on his necklace.
A large waterskin he uses for waterbending.
A dagger for backup.
A locket from his mother.

Not much to say on this one, looks good.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Shojo. Introduces himself as Lord Shojo, but doesn't seem to care what people call him.

Age: Sixty-four.

Appearance: Tall, lanky, bald, and beardless. Shojo is always well-dressed, and will refuse to go anywhere if he does not have enough spare suits. His favourite consists of navy-blue trousers and jacket, a deep purple waistcoat, and lavender shirt (which most certainly does NOT look girly).

Background: Shojo was raised by a couple of librarians in the southern EE, whose love of books never quite rubbed off on him. As he got older, he spent more and more time with, as his mother put it, "the nasty man across the street". The nasty man just so happened to have a broad knowledge of stabbing things and getting away with it, which he secretly shared with his de-facto heir.
Once he was old enough to leave home, Shojo found himself in the business of assassination. After many years of honing his craft (and one-too-many high profile hits), he was forced to flee from the authorities, ready to sell his skills in exchange for not-being-executed.

Skills/Abilities/Traits: Shojo is good at sneaking around and doing stealthy things with his hands, like picking pockets or poisoning drink.
He is quick with his knives and good at hitting vital spots, but otherwise slow to recover from being hit and debilitatingly weak. He mingles well with high society, but doesn't consider lower classes beneath him. He is an excellent liar, and can often convince people of things that might seem outlandish at first. He knows a bit about poisons and has an exhaustive knowledge of suits and high-class fashion.
+2 sleight-of-hand
+2 stealth
+3 lying
+1 quick, precise knife fighting

Combat Style/MO: Shojo prefers to avoid a straight-up fight. If he can't weasel his way out of it somehow, he will liberally apply poisons, knives, and the bolt thingies under his wrists.

Possessions: Four long, narrow steel knives hidden inside his jacket; various vials of poison; a spring-loaded bolt-shooty-thingy (that's the technical term) under each wrist; a travelling case full of suits; silver pocket watch.

Still looks good.

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Name: Zen Tau (first name Tau last name Zen, but call him Ty, if you know him)
Age: 26
Appearance: The man is tall, standing about 6 feet and 7 inches high, and a body of a well exercised man, rippling with tensed muscles, though he lacks the bulk to look more than fit and slim. His face is in a constant smile of calm joy, especially when he is angry, though, in those situations, his blue-green eyes open wide enough for one to mistake that joy with pure madness.
Background: A several times over reeducated Earth Nation nationalist,  he once had a pention for copying the whiles and trappings of the UR natives. Of course this got him deeply into trouble, and once he turned the age of 20, after his last, more intense, reeducation attempt, which unraveled after two years, though not completely, he snuck out of the borders. Such a feat he could only attribute to luck, for his skill with earth bending, at the time, was nearly non-exsistant. After a few months of traveling, he managed to find someone, a young girl, willing to take him in, and, quickly, he became indebted to her and her affiliations. She found him a teacher for his martial craft, and, he became as much of an ally to her, as a lover. Sadly, such a relationship had its faults. In one of their missions, which brought him back to the nation he hated, he unintentionally betrayed her to an official, which got them both locked away. Before he could manage to brake them both out, she, in her anger and haste, tried to leave on her own, perishing in the process. He managed to luck out an impromptu escape, and even brought her body back over the border for a proper burial. Now alone once more, and scared, by both the Earth Nation and his own conditioning, he tries only to keep up her alive by living life in the way she once did.
Skills/Abilities/Traits:
Reeducated: (years of reeducation does take its toll on the mind. Why do you think he is constantly forced to smile?)
Anti-EN: (Losing much of what he loved to a country tends to put you off of its ideals. Especially if those losses wernt by choice.)
Earth Bending: (A talent in earth bending that was only gained through intense training)
Leaning on madness and depression: (Do I have to explain why?)
Twisted luck on his side: (For some reason, actions that benefit him greatly, always leaves someone else in painful want)
+2 Earthbending (traditional style)
+2 heavy-style hand-to-hand combat, solid-stance and large size
+1 intimidation/-2 diplomacy (constant smiling. Can be negated in situations where smiling is appropriate)
-1 to hiding (size)
Twisted Luck: must be explicitly applied to an action. Can give a bonus of up to +2 at the cost of an equal penalty to a random ally.

Combat Style/ MO: Traditional Earth Bending Martial arts and bare handed combat.
Posessions: Usualy wears badge overalls, a yellow dress shirt, and a brown hat. As for personal possesions, he has the house and picture of his now deceased girlfriend, and whatever cash was left from their last mission.

Alright, I've made Twisted Luck tactical

Spoiler: Turo Pakudzi (click to show/hide)

Turo grew up in Republic City. His parents weren't the richest, but could afford somewhat decent schooling for him. He discovered that he was a bender rather late - when he was 9. However, it became clear that he is rather talented bender - his first bending exprerience was metalbending the chair his classmate tried to hit him with. At age of fourteen, due to his poor results in school, he was kicked out. His parents suggested him to start training his bending to serve in Police, and so he did. And he has shown some talent in that. He was noticed by his teacher, former convict. He taught him some moves to use against police equipment and gave him some extra lessons in art of weilding sword and dagger.
When time came, and Turo had to decide whether he will serve in police or not, Turo refused to serve - he disliked the boundaries of law, he wanted to act freely according to his will. Fortunately, he made a great mercenary with skills like that - while training he developed rather unique combat style which uses sword moves extended with metalbending. He decided to hit the road and see the world, thus departed from Republic City and headed east.


Aged 22, average built, 6'2'' tall with a long scar along jawbone on his face left from his rough training days. Brings metal projectiles in a bandolier across his chest, a sword by his side and a dagger hidden somewhere in his clothes.
Dressed in a simple white shirt, brown checkered vest and trousers, wears leather boots with metal soles. A warm cloak/bedsheet is rolled and tied to his backpack.
Generally he is driven by wanderlust towards new discoveries.

Positive traits:
proficient metalbender (+2 to metalbending, +1 to earthbending, +1 to perception from required seismic sense secondary skill)
proficient swordsman, wild style (+2)

Negative traits:
undereducated - writes with a lot of mistakes, but reads fine (-3 to writing)

Combat style: Turo tries to fight on medium and short distances - he uses his bending on medium distances and his swordsmanship in close-quaters. His style is rather baroque - he only holds sword in hands nearly half of battle time, his sword almost looks like it is acting independent sometimes. Combination of martial attacks and sword swings and lunges all coming from different directions proved to be effective combination in some of Turo's minor conflicts with local UR bands on his way out of Republic City.
If enemy is beyond his reach, he tries to use accelerated metal projectiles to neutralize him, targeting to limbs in order to incapacitate. He also uses those in case he has do slow down the pursuit after him.

Possessions: backpack, woolen cloak (tied to backpack), some food and water (2 days), a rope (10 m), small iron ingot (1 pound), dagger (hidden), bandolier with 15 small iron projectiles, sword with sheath.

Not much change to the bonuses, should be good now.

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Name: Mao Pau (Commonly known as Colonel Pau)
Age: 49
Appearance: A classical military man now turned overseer of an Education camp in the Earth Empire. He is between the stages of young and old. His eyes are brown and his hair is black with a few strands of gray. His hair in particular is shaved on the sides as per military regulations by the Empire's military. He is 6 ft tall on the dot with a muscled body ready to start decaying away any second now.

Background: After his warlord pledged fealty to Empress Kuvira, Pau followed piously as a servant of the Empire. He began his military career as a Junior Grade officer but rose quickly through the ranks due to his merit shown during the Reunification. His Bravery, skill, and leadership are known amongst friends and foes alike. It is said that as a Captain he led the defense of a hill against a small alliance of bandits and rival warlords for 2 months until reinforcements were able to relieve him.
That said the glory days may be long gone as he has now been transferred to a Prison for political prisoners, insurgents, rebels, and even maniac killers. He thoroughly detests his assignment and has had second thoughts about the Empire but he dares not say or do anything rash for fear of joining those he oversees. Inside the Prison his strict military regime is enforced with beatings, solitary, being tied outside for days in the hot sun, and etc. His fellow correction officers are also known to be particularity brutish and sadistic as well.

Positive Traits: Leadership, Inspiring presence, Will breaker, hand to hand specialist (Intermediate) (rusty), Swordsman (Veteran) (rusty), and Earth Bender (Specializing in transforming a small part of a field to his own advantage or his opponents disadvantage).
+3 to swordsmanship (relentless, offensive style)
+2 to intimidation, interrogation, rallying
+2 to support-centered Earthbending (able to bestow terrain-based advantage/disadvantages in certain situations)
Negative Traits: Aging
Neutral Traits: Very well known (-1 to anonymity, -3 if in EE)

Fighting style: O.C.O (Officer Combat Operator): A combination of kickboxing, Self-Defense, Vital point hitting, Strong fencing, and Arena Control (Done with his earth bending). The officer in command usually uses his earth bending first to give himself and troops an advantage followed by dauntless attacking power via swords or hand to hand combat. It is not unusual for a small maze to be created by O.C.O's to help catch enemies back and kill them with their hands.

The One greatest weakness is that it takes up alot of energy and time is of the essence when fighting an operator and his squad.

(He usually chooses his sword as his primary fighting style)

Possession: Steel Long sword, Military Uniforms x5, Stocked office, and badge of honor (allows him to represent himself as a distinguished veteran of the Earth Empire Armed forces).

Bonuses should be good now. I still don't think we can have him show up at the start, but there's a lot of potential for bringing him in later.

Character sheet

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Name: Lei Tao
Age:19
Appearance: the lack of sleep this kid has is entirely tellable by that almost charcoal black sags under his bright blue eyes, his eyes almost look like lanterns in the dark, seas of hope in dread. His slightly tanned skin seems rather rough and his build is medium with some muscle in it. His dark brown hair is shaved in a buzz cut.
Background: Spent most of his years training in martial arts and expanding his knowledge on the world he knows quite a bit about survival and self defense. He grew up in a small town but what gave him the ability to have this much free time while the others were out in the fields was because of his rather corrupt father, the mayor of the town, who had become very wealthy and wanting the best for his family. Out one day after searching the woods for ingredients to his favorite tea he came home to both his parents laying dead on the floor of the living room. Several messages written in their blood were on the walls and a note left near his fathers body. Listening to the notes message Lei gathered a few of his things and left knowing if he stayed he would die. He now looks for work wherever he kind find a use for his skills. He left home when he was 17 and is now a mercenary.
Positive traits: Extensive training (for someone of his age) in martial arts and melee weapons, very good survival skills, knows edible plants in the wilds and how to hunt/trap, has a half decent understanding of fire bending
+1 to defensive-style fighting with most melee weapons
+1 to fighting with short, robust weapons (short-swords, escrima sticks)
+2 to survival (cooking, herbalism, fishing, trapping, etc.)
Firebender (no bonuses but can firebend)
Negative traits: he has chronic paranoia that his parents murderers will come after him one day, he is not very strong, he can not write except for signing his name (he can read though), he has very poor social skills
Fighting style: (think eskrima) he fights in a very defensive nature usually waiting for his opponents to strike, he tends to go for incapacitating shots over kill shots, if he can disarm his opponents he will, dirty fighting is just another way of staying alive

Possessions: a large leather backpack with a bedroll, two stiletto knives, two short swords that are in scabbards on his belt, a short, leaf tip spear that he usually uses as a hocking stick over a weapon, several sets of clothes, two well made hardwood batons 

Bonuses applied.

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Name: Unknown.
Age: Unknown
Appearance: Standing at 5'4, they cover most of their body in heavy clothing. The only thing known about them is their blue eyes.
Background: They have an unknown history. They have become a known figure, with a large number of cases involved in murder, breaking and entering, unlawful use of the bending arts, and smuggling. They are to be taken for questioning if seen.
Skills/Abilities/Traits: They are skilled at stealth. Though they are capable of that, they flourish in the art of bloodbending. On the other hand, they are wanted and could get arrested almost everywhere.
Waterbender (no bonuses but can waterbend)
+3 to Bloodbending (for the purposes of resisting other bloodbenders)
During the full moon, can partially bloodbend up to 4 people simultaneously, and fully bloodbend up to 2
+3 to Stealth
+1 to knifing
Combat Style/ MO: Do not underestimate the suspect due to their short stature. They don't have a combat style, but they often use stealth and bloodbending to their advantage, to a good efficiency so far.

I'll need to do some more work on this one, referencing the pm'd sheet.

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Name: Known as "The Jolly Bandit" or "Fire-Quencher"
Age: Late 30s-Early 40s
Appearance: 6'9 feet tall,weighs 300 pounds, He is wearing an eye-patch over his left eye. His face is pitted with scars and his nose has obviously been broken and poorly reset several times. His hair is unkempt and goes down to roughly an inch before it was chopped of with some kind of knife,His greasy beard goes down and covers his neck and lower face. He has  a green eye and his hair is dark brown. He has a very large beer gut and us somewhat chubby overall, However underneath he has the Muscles of a Gorilla. He is very calm and easy-going until he gets into a fight, In which case he almost instantly transforms into an insane Berserk Madman.
Background:  He was raised by superstitious Farmers that were very kind to him, But when he was 15 his home village was burned and pillaged by an insane Fire-bender and a handful of hired thugs, He's vowed to hunt down Fire-Benders ever since then and he proudly wears a necklace holding a tooth of every Fire-Bender He's ever killed. He takes enjoyment in burning Fire-Bender corpses. He also disdains the Rich because of their wealth and utter refusal to aid the starving and the poor,As such he often takes it upon himself to liberate their funds and distribute them to the needy, It's not uncommon for him to kill a rich person and then spend the contents of his wallet on drinks for random Tavern-goers and to then donate several thousand yuans to the Barkeep. He has a 100,000 yuan bounty on his head over several dozen accounts of murder and high treason, The bounty was set by several rich merchants and politicians who see him as a menace to society, A title which he wholeheartedly embraces as his own. He is quite infamous among local politicians and the Fire-Bending community.Likewise among the homeless community he is revered and they frequently hide him from law enforcement officers and aid him in fights, One bounty hunter stabbed him in the back and was killed almost immediately by no less than a dozen hobos and drunkards, Who then pooled their money to get him into a hospital.
Skills/Abilities/Traits:
Professional Brawler (+3 to heavy-style hand-to-hand combat)
Skilled Knife Fighter (+2 to aggressive knife fighting)
Skilled Club Man (+2 to club fighting)
Skilled Thrower (+2 to throwing)
He's an Alcoholic (+3 to alcohol tolerance, -2 to perception)
Reputation (-4 to anonymity in UR, -3 elsewhere, -2 to diplomacy except with some downtrodden folks (others are scared of him), +1 indimidation)
Size (-1 to hiding, +1 intimidation)
Blind, dumb luck (+1 to various things)
Combat Style/ MO: Drunken Berserking with a heavy amount of tanking.
Posessions: Gunther's Tooth Necklace,A stolen combat knife, A well-worn cudgel,10 throwing rocks,Filthy Cargo Pants, A Travel-worn Jean Jacket, A stained undershirt, Scuffed Hiking Boots, A Stolen Military Rucksack, A bottle of Whiskey(10).

Mostly fixed now.

Spoiler: Wei Li (click to show/hide)

Name: Wei Li

Age: 43

Appearance: Wei Li is average. Average height, average build, not particularely handsome nor ugly. He has short dark brown hair and a neat beard with dark green eyes.

Background:  His family hails from Ba Sing Se, from one of the poorer districts. Being without bending powers himself, he helped his family maintain their tea house. To make up for his lack of bending, Wei has always tried to construct gadgets to help himself in daily life. At the age of 28, after the death of his parents, he changed his name and moved to republic city to try and build up a new life. Through a series of events he has never before discussed with anyone, he ended up owning a bar. Nothing fancy, but he plays the part of barkeep when there are customers about and goes to his work room in the garage/storeroom to tinker with gadgets when there aren't many customers. Non-bender though he might be, times in the Ba Sing Se poor quarter did not produce weaklings. From time to time, drunken louts and thugs think they can bully the barkeep. But simply put, Wei can punch faster than most benders can bend.

Today, the Jolly Plum stands proud as ever, meaning it looks like the seediest of bars. Still, it's mostly thug free and has reasonable prices.

Skills/Abilities/Traits:
Chi blocker (+2 to precise hand-to-hand, able to paralyze people and prevent bending)
Great agility (+1 to dodging, fast movements)
Great stealth (+2 to stealth)
Gadgeteer (+3 to creating and using gadgets)
Mechanic (+2 to repairing machines)
Average (+1 to anonymity)

Combat Style/ MO: On foot, his first instinct is to simply never be seen in the first place. Should hand to hand combat occur, he tries to dance around his opponent, dodging attacks and using his chi-blocking to disable his opponent. Of course, Wei Li feels most at home when working with gadgets and mechanics of any kind. Why walk when you can drive, why fight hand-to-hand if you can get into a robot suit?

Posessions:-"Jolly Plum" bar, with all that belongs in a bar
-Tinkering tools
-Broken down future industries car, still working on the repairs.

All good here

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Name: Shangmu.
Age: 38.
Appearance: Gray eyes, shaven head. Tattoos typical of air nomads, usually hidden under nondescript robes [note: does not wear clothing typical of the air nomads, with the exception of his wingsuit, which is worn under his robes at all times]. He does, however, carry the signature airbending staff around. An experienced eye will realize what the staff really is.  5'10", wiry frame, nimble.
Background: When he was very young, the Avatar reopened the Spirit Portals. Since then, he has been able to airbend. He was brought to Northern Air Temple, but lost touch with the others during the destruction of the temple. He wandered into the Earth Kingdom, and once Kuvira remade it into the Earth Empire, hid his abilities. He secretly honed his abilities, surviving by using his abilities to steal food and money. When he turned eighteen, he was nearly caught by the Earth Empire, and killed someone to avoid punishment. Rocked by what he'd done, he vowed to adhere more strictly to what it meant to be an airbender, and has roamed the world ever since, helping those in need. He even reconnected with the other airbenders, earning his tattoos and the respect of the other nomads.
Skills/Abilities/Traits: Very fast, agile. Very mobile, especially with his bending. Exemplary airbender. Stealthy. Is physically weak, and his morality can sometimes get him into trouble - he can't simply leave people behind or kill his enemies. Also, if he comes toe to toe with another master, he will probably lose in a prolonged fight - he's definitely a skilled fighter, but not an incredible one. He's also not too hard to dupe. Very poor in close quarters fighting, and his effectivity goes way down if a chi-blocker manages to block his bending. Still very fast and mobile if that happens, however.
Master Airbender (+4 to airbending)
+2 to agility stuff (dodging, quick movements. Can be used in combination with bending bonus in certain situations)
+1 to stealth
-2 to strength checks
Combat Style/ MO: Always moving, tries to dodge and remain mobile. If possible, he avoids conflict. Slowly batters away at enemies when they try to hit him, eventually finishing with heavy techniques; ALWAYS tries to avoid killing opponents. Also does his best to protect his allies, at risk of his own life if necessary. If it comes to hand-to-hand combat, he will almost certainly lose - he relies on staying away from people, or buffeting them back if they get too close.
Posessions: Robes [non descript], wingsuit, airbending staff.

Should be good.

Spoiler: Sange 'Earthshaker' Yashaul (click to show/hide)

Name: Sange 'Earthshaker' Yashaul
Age: 24
Appearance: This man is very large and muscular. The only thing remotely feminine about him is his battle dress, which still looks manly on him. However, despite his bulkiness, this pinnacle of masculinity still appears to be handsome.

Backstory:  Great-grandson of professional wrestler the 'Boulder', Sange resumed the family tradition by becoming the 'Earthshaker', a title derived from his unique style of bending. His father, known as the 'Pulverizer', became the grand champion of the Earth Kingdom's wrestling tournament and urged Sange to do the same. Sange trained ruthlessly with both target dummies and live opponents, constantly sculpting his muscles and honing his earthbending skills simultaneously.

Positive Traits: Extremely muscular. Like, really muscular. They bulge even more when he's fighting. Sange isn't called Earthshaker for nothing - when fighting, every step he takes seems to shake the earth around him, often throwing people off balance. Him actually smashing at the ground is a whole different level of earthquake, and has been recorded as a registered earthquake several times.

Negative traits: While the Earthshaker speaks in third person often and is quite bombastic and reckless, he also has a weakness to women despite his strong and confident to charisma.

+3 to Earthbending
Famous (-2 to anonymity in EE, -1 anywhere else. +1 to charisma)
Bulky (-1 to hiding)
-2 to willpower when dealing with women (Probably won't actually roll on this, you'll have to RP it)

Preferred starting equipment:
His fists

THE EARTHSHAKER IS READY

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Name: Mar Zhiqiang

Age: 34

Appearance: A short man, standing at about 5' 5". Mar is what most men would call robust, he is heavier set but also well muscled from years of labour. His hair is a reddish brown, and it is well kempt, including a beard and extravagant mustache. His eye is brown, and over it he wears a monocle to keep his vision sorted, as where his left eye would be is a burnt husk, although he covers it with an eye-patch when in company. His clothes would be high quality, but due to hard times he recently fell on, they are tattered and worn.

Background: Born and raised in Republic City, to a firebending father and mother, Mar is a proud captain from humble beginnings. His father started their trading company which was successful in the early days, After years the fleet of trade ships reached nearly 10. However a slew of pirate attacks between Republic City and the water tribes, and some business ventures that fell through saw the company fall into a massive decline. Desperate to save the company Mar's father equipped what airships he had left with weaponry and set out on one last trade route. Three ships, the smallest commanded by Mar, The largest by Mar's father, and the third by his fathers trusted business partner made one fateful trip towards the north pole. Expecting the worse in pirates raids the ships were well prepared for attack, but not so prepared for the great storm that befell them, two of the ships were destroyed while Mar's only survived due to it's agility. Upon returning home, his mother was devastated by the news of her husbands death and fell into a great depression, and secluded herself from anyone. With only a small lightly armed ship at his disposal, Mar used what was left of the companies funds to refit the damaged ship and began to delve into shadier business, smuggling. On many occasions he ran afoul with pirates and local police forces. In one such skirmish a pirate firebender blasted his left eye to smithereens. With little money to cover the treatment and smuggling becoming increasingly unprofitable, he turned a blind eye to his past, and looked into mercenary work.

Skills/Abilities/Traits: Proficient Firebender: While not the best firebender around, Mar has had some training, but most of what he has learned has been from the school or hard knocks. Amateur lightning bender: Mar had no training in lightning bending, and only found out he had it in a tight pinch involving a pirate plan fleet, he managed to save his ship and knock out many of the fighters befre they pulled off. Skilled Swordsman: Years of fighting and sailing have made Mar skilled with a cutlass. Captain/Navigator: Mar has a knack for piloting and maps, his obsession with cartography has gathered him a huge number of air, sea, and land maps. Blinded on the left side: Mar is missing his left eye. Sordid Past: Mar may not get along with some officials, especially those involved in the trade business. Proud
 
Combat Style/ MO: Mar is an aggressive fighter, and uses a mix of bending and his cutlass to keep an opponent on the defense, never letting the enemy get their guard, however he is not completely useless on the defense, but it is not his strong suit. During his free time he spends his time training, eating, and pouring over his maps.

Possessions:
-Worn captains clothes
-Well Worn Cutlass
-Cache of money
-Captains Monacle
-His Maps
-Kaze no Dansā (Inazuma Class Airship)
 

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Kaze no Dansā
Class: Inazuma Class Airship (Sloop)
Length: 500 ft
Tonnage: 2000t
Propulsion and power: 4 Miduro Class Steam engines powering 6 Fukitsuke Class propellers. 2 Ippan-kun generators for general power usage on the ship.
Speed: 47 knots cruising / 65 knots maximum
Complement: 5-Skeleton Crew / 15- Optimal Crew
Armaments: 1 Port-side ballista in the hull / 1 Starboard-side ballista in hull / 1 Top-deck light catapult / One light torpedo rack
Faculties: Finicky Radio Room / Captains quarters / Dinning Quarters / Crew quarters for up to 20 / One flight with a slightly outdated biplane / Things most ships would have.

Let me know if you need me to fix something.

That airship is huge. If he's engaged in piracy/smuggling, something smaller might be better. Additionally, the main manufacturers of airships in the UR are Future Industries and Cabbage Corp, though perhaps that ship comes from a Fire Nation company. Why would an airship have a torpedo rack, though?

Lightning Bending is something any firebender could learn to do, with enough time and training. It's not something one could stumble upon mid-fight, due to the concentration required.

[zomara0292]

I love it. Lets start the mayhem.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Looks all good, thanks for the bonuses


Lightning Bending- could it happen by accident? Like mid fight you think you are going to die and you put all your focus and energy into one last attempt to disable your attacker and just accidentaly send a lightning bolt instead of a big fire ball?

[kj1225]

Oh, so cabbage corp guy didn't get shut down?

[Elfeater]

The torpedo rack is just something he picked up as he went along, it was not part of the main ship design itself. Also how long would you think the ship should be? I wasnt sure since the airships in the show were larger than a proper battleship in the ocean.

[Comrade P.]

Lightning Bending- could it happen by accident? Like mid fight you think you are going to die and you put all your focus and energy into one last attempt to disable your attacker and just accidentaly send a lightning bolt instead of a big fire ball?

According to uncle Iroh this is not how the lightning works. In-game, it's all about your roll, I guess.

I came up with that additional rule that might be reasonable to state - advanced bending (blood, lightning, lava, metal etc.) can only be performed if benders skill is over 10 and requires in-game training session and skill checks suffer -3 penalty, because those are way harder to perform, but damage is calculated with multiplier 1/3 instead of 1/5.

[Elfeater]

Lightning Bending- could it happen by accident? Like mid fight you think you are going to die and you put all your focus and energy into one last attempt to disable your attacker and just accidentaly send a lightning bolt instead of a big fire ball?

According to uncle Iroh this is not how the lightning works. In-game, it's all about your roll, I guess.

I came up with that additional rule that might be reasonable to state - advanced bending (blood, lightning, lava, metal etc.) can only be performed if benders skill is over 10 and requires in-game training session and skill checks suffer -3 penalty, because those are way harder to perform, but damage is calculated with multiplier 1/3 instead of 1/5.

So is everyone getting a say in what the rules are? Or whats the deal?

[Comrade P.]

Since I made a template of rules earlier, I'm just correcting myself.

[kj1225]

I don't think that would be to fun though. And considering that we had the option to start with special bending I don't think people would enjoy that as much.

[WillowLuman]

NINJAS: Specialized Bending

Many earthbenders seem unable to learn metalbending, so there's probably some natural talent required to pick it up, but advancements in training techniques seem to have increased the number who have access to it. Lavabending, on the other hand, seems to be a very rare "mutation."

Bloodbending and lightning bending seem only to require great skill and training, so any water/firebender (respectively) could potentially learn the technique. There seems to be a very rare natural talent for enchanced bloodbending, which may have existed for a long time but remained undiscovered until the technique was discovered

Combustion bending, like lava bending, is a rare "mutation"

No one seems to have chosen to start with lavabending. They still could (if they feel like revising their character), or they might have the natural talent required to learn it and pick it up later. I'll only allow one lavabender in the party, though, since they are really really rare.

Airships

Both the Earth Kingdom (before Kuvira) and the Republic City police seem to use Cabbage Corp airships, which by my estimate have cabin-capacity equivalent to the inside of a yacht

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Future industries made slightly smaller airships, which were used by the Equalists. They seem to have a cabin capacity similar to a tugboat

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On the other hand, Future Industries also made this behemoth. It has the standard underslung cabin (sizeable), some kind of huge bridge thing on the level of the balloons, AND a deck on top.

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Earth Empire airships. They seem superficially similar to the smaller Future Industries one, but their interiors seem to have a different layout, and they seem to have the capacity to carry several MECs.

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But, bear in mind that 27 years have passed, so designs may have changed/advanced.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Can I give my character a little bit of training in lighting use, not like mastery of it just something that he could use with a lot of focus?

[Comrade P.]

I don't think that would be to fun though. And considering that we had the option to start with special bending I don't think people would enjoy that as much.

My rule doesn't stop you from starting with advanced bending - you have it in your backsories, so it is good to go. What I mean is if characters do not wield such powers at beginning but develop significant bending skill with all the experience they had, they can't start advanced bending out of thin air - they ought to find a person capable of it and learn from him/her.

As for airships - they had planes in Legend of Korra, so why not gunship? For example, an old model of bomber plane (like one below), reinforced with extra armor, additional fuel tanks and extra two engines to be able keep two engines running and maintain other two in flight?