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Character Application
Character DescriptionGiven Name: Lambert Rivii
Alternate Identities: 'Mutant', 'freak', 'monster'... The list goes on, as long as it's derogatory. 'Lambo' to some. 'Black Cat' to others.
Hero, Villian or Neutral: Tends to gravitate towards Neutral, but is a definite villain to certain people.
Gender: Male
Age: ~350 years old.
Species: Mutant, but globally human.
Apperance: Grey hair, numerous scars on his body, including his face most notably being the one that cuts somewhat deeply from forehead down to his left eye. Beyond that, his physique is rather lean but hidden under his armor. Said armor is mostly color neutral with bits of grey/dark blue. He hides a metallic cat pendant under his clothes.
Lambert is also somewhat tall at almost 1M88.
Characters Biggest Strength: Lambert is extremely cunning and usually outsmarts his opponents by being several steps ahead. He also lacks the ability to feel empathy for his fellow man, or at least that's what he wants people to believe.
Characters Biggest Weakness: The plethora of side effects to his mutations, paranoia, streaks of sudden anger, and even hallucinations at times.
Motivations and DesiresPrimary Goal: Meet with the last member of the Wyvill family.
Secondary Goal: Meeting Balder.
Fears: Due to his mutations and his rather long life, Lambert has been through a lot. But nothing strikes him down more than the memory of the Rivii fortress getting raided. It sure as hell won't make him run,
but it'll surely trigger his hallucinations and paranoia.
PowersPrimary Source of Powers: Training, mutations, magic.
- Rivii Kotik Physiology:
Effects: Because of his mutations, his body has been altered so much that his reflexes, strength, stamina are all peak human, if not inhuman entirely. The precise effect of the mutations are as follows: Peak human strength, peak human reflexes (As in capable of redirecting a crossbow bolt back to its sender.), peak human stamina (The ability to recover fully from a 100M sprint in around 7 seconds).
It also entails the ability to drink the potions made for them and through that, gives them a peak human metabolism that can help recovering from wounds that would be otherwise fatal with the help of their potions.
Side effects include sterility, immunity to disease, loss of emotions, loss of empathy and cat eyes. Lambert however never seemed to suffer through the loss of emotions and simply has them dulled, whether it's an effect from the mutations themselves or because of his life, there is no clear way to tell.
Weaknesses: Despite having an enhanced metabolism and whatnot, the mutation was made to work in the early renaissance era against magic threats such as mages or monsters, not against ARs, shotguns or sniper rifles. While Lambert may put up a fight, a well placed shot will end him just as well as snapping his neck for instance.- Kotik Bladesinging:
Effects: Throughout the ages, chanting certain words to cast spells has been a common medium, however, the members of the Rivii family when they created the Kotik also made some research over that medium of casting. And so, every Kotik then became trained with an art called bladesinging. Which essentially consists of uttering words of power to give different attributes to their weapon.
Lambert however, due to time has lost some of the words, as they are part of an ancient elven tongue that isn't used anymore. As such, he only knows how to briefly electrify his sword, make it spontaneously combust, or send a wind blade.
Weaknesses: The only metal known capable of resisting constant use of such magic is silver, and as such, while the techniques to forging swords stay the same, the same problem remains, it cannot be cast on something that shoots, such as a gun for instance. And any self respecting Kotik will only use it on their silver sword.
However, there is also the matter of the fact that only Kotik can use it due to the fact that a human attempting to say the same things at the same volume would get their vocal chords shattered. While this may not be the case for Lambert, his old age as a Kotik makes it so that his vocal chords get sore after a while, so much so that he'll need several hours to say anything again, much less bladesing at all.
Equipment: High grade Silver/Titanium alloy sword: A sword, long of about 1M70 and made of a silver titanium alloy capable of sustaining a Kotik's bladesinging.
High grade Leather/Mail armor: A somewhat normal light armor, if a bit uncommon in its making. It allows for freedom of movement, while still allowing a decent amount of defense to the user. Made for sneaking around and sabotaging.
Kotik Potions: Due to the fact that most of the original recipes for each potion has been lost, all of them are healing potions. Or rather, metabolism enhancing potions that enhance Lambert's natural metabolism to heal faster. Of course, it won't stitch wounds together, but it'll keep him fighting for longer.
BackgroundOccupation: Monster Hunter/Kotik
Training and Education: Throughout his life, Lambert has seen many of Rivii fortresses fall, and has attended each of them to some degree. But the one that brought the mutations was the first, and the last he saw. Farraige Dùnta.
Things any characters might know about them: Absolutely nothing. The only one that may know of Lambert doesn't even know if he's alive.
Group Affiliations: What remains of the bloodlines Balder created.
History and Bibliography: In his youth, Lambert was a pretty normal kid, almost died several times of several deadly diseases, had few friends and lived in the slums of Krakow. Until he was kidnapped by the Rivii family to make a new generation of Kotiks.
At first, he thought he'd welcome the occasion, after all, his parents had done nothing for him, might as well go through with it. And so he did. And progressively, he became quite skilled.
Then came the mutations, once he was of age. And once those happened, he never saw the world the same way. The week that followed the doses, he was found squirming and trashing in pain, knowing his body was being literally torn apart.
When the initial side effects subsided, he had effectively become a Kotik in the true sense of the term. But that meant nothing to him, he knew what the mutations did to him, he knew what they had brought.
So he left, and for ten straight years, no one had heard of him. Until he came back, with his opinions of the Rivii vastly changed. Where he once wanted to just slaughter them all, he now knew exactly why they had done this. And while it hadn't been enough to forgive them, he pledged formal allegiance to them. Officially serving as a monster hunter.
However, despite all the work he did, all the work the Rivii did on their own, they were never appreciated to their true value. And so, pogroms after pogroms happened. More and more fortresses were destroyed, and soon enough, he found himself to be among the last ones alive of his clan.
Every apprentice he had taken, every pogrom, it had taken a serious toll on his mental health. As such, he decided to move somewhere else once the last fortress fell. Maybe he'd find Balder there, maybe he'd help him find who remains.
Summary:Mentally ill mutant, somewhat bitter.
There, now we wait for the burns.
But in short, here's my character for Dyelli's arc.
A few comments and questions...
What is a 'Rivii Kotik'? I know that 'Rivii' was how Andrzej Sapkowski originally wrote 'Rivia' (as in Geralt of Rivia) and I'm getting a Witcheresque vibe from this guy. From my limited knowledge of such things, 'kotik' is the romanised version of 'Котик' (kitten in Russian)... which explains the cat medallion.
You mentioned ancient elvish... how would you feel about merging the concept of elves in your story with the fae (who are a fairly established part of GAU)? The two are pretty much interchangeable in folklore and it would give your guy the opportunity to (potentially and if PL agrees) to learn some new phrases off the ones of the ones already in/planned for the thread. Ris is currently alive and murdering though he's likely to try to trick your guy into commanding the sword to turn into an angry taipan...
