Post by Romulus Jei Owen on Dec 3, 2012 5:05:28 GMT -5
Name: Romulus Jei Owen
Description: A tall, svelte figure, standing about 6’ 1”. He is garbed in an all grey uniform with interlaced bits of white along the edges and cuffs of his clothes, his long silver hair covering one eye most of the time, and his left arm adorned by an intricate metal apparatus.
Age: 43
Personality: An intellectual with a knack for being melodramatic and moderately pessimistic. Though being a man of science, Romulus has a tendency to focus on himself and make irrational observations, but only in a negative context, and usually relating to how events seem designed to make his life troublesome. Easily excitable when it come to new information about anything and everything, Romulus finds it easy to get along with people due to his genuine interest to get to know them, but this has a tendency to backfire, as his interest sometimes gets in the way of his common sense, causing him to approach otherwise unruly customers or dangerous situations. Though he may be a bit of a pessimist, he takes a proactive role when he thinks there is something wrong, but that doesn’t stop him from complaining all the same. Overall, he’s a genuine person, whom, aside from him being a bit whiney and overreacting, is quite easy to get along with.
Alignment: Has personal ideals that one would consider good, but it truly neutral in his actions to an absolute level.
Equipment: The large metal contraption on his left arm called the Alternator; a device that allows for Romulus to connect his being to the quantum strings on a low level allowing for the alteration of space via changing objects or forces on a subatomic level.
Weapons: His vast intellect and creativity.
Combat: Romulus is not a skilled combatant by any measure, but with the combination of the Alternator and his intellect/creativity, Romulus put to use all his abilities at physical alteration, commonly in the aims of simply defending himself or pacifying his aggressor. In necessary situations, Romulus will use his powers to kill, without hesitation.
Magic: The Alternator grants the ability to shift space as the user sees fit, thought there are several aspects of this item that are off limits to Romulus. His control can be exerted over all tangible matter that is non-sentient, such as plants, the earth, laws of physics, chemical compositions of non-sentient matter, objects overt characteristics and the list goes on. The alteration of space runs on a formulaic system, so each change requires a complex set of formulas that function under the rulings of quantum mechanics, each one taking a decent amount of time complete, until memorized that is. The products of these alterations are absolutes and are only prone to failure or misfires by human error on Romulus' behalf.
Flaw: Romulus, for all his apparent free will, is always leashed by the will of the Being, and as such, is more a force of nature that interjects in situations more then person. Being directed by the Being, Romulus' actions must always be for the sake of balance and the greater good, meaning the his actions could lead him to directly oppose heroes just as he might villains. This can make Romulus seem good or evil in the eyes of those watching his actions, and as such, Romulus realizes that he might very well be vilified by those he works with, or even aims to protect, or seen as an momentary ally to those he directly opposes.
History: Growing up as a scholar in Santo-Luce, Romulus had a profound fascination with space and subsequently inter-dimensional travel. From a young age he sought to understand the world around him, but that task was made moderately difficult by his ineptitude for magic. Channeling his intellect away from the arcane and divine teaching, Romulus focused on the Scientific aspects of the world around him in hopes that he could achieve his dream of discovering inter-dimensional travel. But fate would not be so kind to the flourishing Scientist, as his ideas and theories were met with ridicule and animosity from the magical community.
Not being intimidated by the threats of his magical colleagues, Romulus continued his studies and went to publish several papers about physics and the channeling of natural energies through glyphs to alter the physical being of metals, a.k.a. alchemy, at an early age. After continuing his studies for many years, Romulus decided to put his know-how of physics, engineering and the slight magical understanding he had pickup over the years to attempt his breaching of the dimension barrier.
With the aid of his assistance and with funding from Santo-Luce’s scientific community, Romulus created a mammoth mechanical creation that he called the “Dimensional Displacer” Upon activation, the device created an inescapable implosion, subsequently tearing open an inter-dimensional rift that ended up consuming his entire lab and all that resided inside it.
Upon regaining consciousness, Romulus found himself within a purgatory-like plain of existence, his heart aflutter with the thrill of his accomplishment, but also crestfallen at the end result of his experiment. In time, he came to discover that the dimension he had traveled to was in fact a kind of sentient being, a world that was not governed by natural laws like Allorum, but rather that it was ruled by a kind of supreme force that controlled the dimension as it saw fit. The Being saw a great opportunity with the appearance of Romulus and sought to “hire” him for the purposes of preventing a great catastrophe that threatened the very totality of existence. The problem was as such: if Trucido succeeded in his gambit to destroy Crepusculum, a ripple effect would traverse all other dimensional planes, causing each reality to fragment into a variety of reality shards, each one possessing only several aspects of the total reality. Each reality would thus lose it’s sustainability and quickly dissipate as it collapsed under it own faulted existence.
Using its complete universal control, it fashioned the Alternator, an object that would grant its user control over space, and fused it to Romulus’ left arm. Romulus could do little but except the Being’s offer, both from a logical and fanciful point of view, as without his compliance, there was no way the Being would send him home, plus the ability to control space as he saw fit was like a dream come true. But the training required to learn the device was arduous and mentally taxing, as the wealth of information he had to learn to use it was beyond anything he had ever experienced before. The knowledge of the physical universe was required to use such an object, and mastery of such material would have crushed the mind of a less educated man, but Romulus persisted through his lessons diligently. Using the blank universe as his training ground, Romulus became acquainted with the inner workings of the device and eventually gained enough knowledge to create a dimensional rift of his own.
Tearing open a portal, he prepared to return to Allorum and begin his new journey as a knight in service of the Being that gave him a second chance, but all did not go exactly as Romulus initially thought it would. Upon the defeat of Trucido at Romulus' hands, the young scientist learned that this dimension was in fact a alternate dimension to the one he was native too, and, with Trucido defeated, he was allowed to try and return back to his original one.
Amidst his searching, The Being continued to call for Romulus' aid, calling for the rectification of instances and problems across Allorum's alternate dimensions, so as to prevent forces that would threaten universal balance within the universe and its multiple dimensions. In these instances, Romulus came to learn that as time and space function in absolutes, he would have to do likewise, and was forced to adopt a more harshly pragmatic standpoint on the resolution of threats.
Coming to accept the words of the Being fully, Romulus consigned to his fate as a dimensional warrior, and bounds from dimension to dimension, his fate to forever fight that which threatens the balance, be it with in the confines of one dimension, or all of them, by any means necessary, and by any sacrifice necessary.
For now, Romulus has landed within this Allorum, and awaits direction from The Being as to his next move.
Description: A tall, svelte figure, standing about 6’ 1”. He is garbed in an all grey uniform with interlaced bits of white along the edges and cuffs of his clothes, his long silver hair covering one eye most of the time, and his left arm adorned by an intricate metal apparatus.
Age: 43
Personality: An intellectual with a knack for being melodramatic and moderately pessimistic. Though being a man of science, Romulus has a tendency to focus on himself and make irrational observations, but only in a negative context, and usually relating to how events seem designed to make his life troublesome. Easily excitable when it come to new information about anything and everything, Romulus finds it easy to get along with people due to his genuine interest to get to know them, but this has a tendency to backfire, as his interest sometimes gets in the way of his common sense, causing him to approach otherwise unruly customers or dangerous situations. Though he may be a bit of a pessimist, he takes a proactive role when he thinks there is something wrong, but that doesn’t stop him from complaining all the same. Overall, he’s a genuine person, whom, aside from him being a bit whiney and overreacting, is quite easy to get along with.
Alignment: Has personal ideals that one would consider good, but it truly neutral in his actions to an absolute level.
Equipment: The large metal contraption on his left arm called the Alternator; a device that allows for Romulus to connect his being to the quantum strings on a low level allowing for the alteration of space via changing objects or forces on a subatomic level.
Weapons: His vast intellect and creativity.
Combat: Romulus is not a skilled combatant by any measure, but with the combination of the Alternator and his intellect/creativity, Romulus put to use all his abilities at physical alteration, commonly in the aims of simply defending himself or pacifying his aggressor. In necessary situations, Romulus will use his powers to kill, without hesitation.
Magic: The Alternator grants the ability to shift space as the user sees fit, thought there are several aspects of this item that are off limits to Romulus. His control can be exerted over all tangible matter that is non-sentient, such as plants, the earth, laws of physics, chemical compositions of non-sentient matter, objects overt characteristics and the list goes on. The alteration of space runs on a formulaic system, so each change requires a complex set of formulas that function under the rulings of quantum mechanics, each one taking a decent amount of time complete, until memorized that is. The products of these alterations are absolutes and are only prone to failure or misfires by human error on Romulus' behalf.
Flaw: Romulus, for all his apparent free will, is always leashed by the will of the Being, and as such, is more a force of nature that interjects in situations more then person. Being directed by the Being, Romulus' actions must always be for the sake of balance and the greater good, meaning the his actions could lead him to directly oppose heroes just as he might villains. This can make Romulus seem good or evil in the eyes of those watching his actions, and as such, Romulus realizes that he might very well be vilified by those he works with, or even aims to protect, or seen as an momentary ally to those he directly opposes.
History: Growing up as a scholar in Santo-Luce, Romulus had a profound fascination with space and subsequently inter-dimensional travel. From a young age he sought to understand the world around him, but that task was made moderately difficult by his ineptitude for magic. Channeling his intellect away from the arcane and divine teaching, Romulus focused on the Scientific aspects of the world around him in hopes that he could achieve his dream of discovering inter-dimensional travel. But fate would not be so kind to the flourishing Scientist, as his ideas and theories were met with ridicule and animosity from the magical community.
Not being intimidated by the threats of his magical colleagues, Romulus continued his studies and went to publish several papers about physics and the channeling of natural energies through glyphs to alter the physical being of metals, a.k.a. alchemy, at an early age. After continuing his studies for many years, Romulus decided to put his know-how of physics, engineering and the slight magical understanding he had pickup over the years to attempt his breaching of the dimension barrier.
With the aid of his assistance and with funding from Santo-Luce’s scientific community, Romulus created a mammoth mechanical creation that he called the “Dimensional Displacer” Upon activation, the device created an inescapable implosion, subsequently tearing open an inter-dimensional rift that ended up consuming his entire lab and all that resided inside it.
Upon regaining consciousness, Romulus found himself within a purgatory-like plain of existence, his heart aflutter with the thrill of his accomplishment, but also crestfallen at the end result of his experiment. In time, he came to discover that the dimension he had traveled to was in fact a kind of sentient being, a world that was not governed by natural laws like Allorum, but rather that it was ruled by a kind of supreme force that controlled the dimension as it saw fit. The Being saw a great opportunity with the appearance of Romulus and sought to “hire” him for the purposes of preventing a great catastrophe that threatened the very totality of existence. The problem was as such: if Trucido succeeded in his gambit to destroy Crepusculum, a ripple effect would traverse all other dimensional planes, causing each reality to fragment into a variety of reality shards, each one possessing only several aspects of the total reality. Each reality would thus lose it’s sustainability and quickly dissipate as it collapsed under it own faulted existence.
Using its complete universal control, it fashioned the Alternator, an object that would grant its user control over space, and fused it to Romulus’ left arm. Romulus could do little but except the Being’s offer, both from a logical and fanciful point of view, as without his compliance, there was no way the Being would send him home, plus the ability to control space as he saw fit was like a dream come true. But the training required to learn the device was arduous and mentally taxing, as the wealth of information he had to learn to use it was beyond anything he had ever experienced before. The knowledge of the physical universe was required to use such an object, and mastery of such material would have crushed the mind of a less educated man, but Romulus persisted through his lessons diligently. Using the blank universe as his training ground, Romulus became acquainted with the inner workings of the device and eventually gained enough knowledge to create a dimensional rift of his own.
Tearing open a portal, he prepared to return to Allorum and begin his new journey as a knight in service of the Being that gave him a second chance, but all did not go exactly as Romulus initially thought it would. Upon the defeat of Trucido at Romulus' hands, the young scientist learned that this dimension was in fact a alternate dimension to the one he was native too, and, with Trucido defeated, he was allowed to try and return back to his original one.
Amidst his searching, The Being continued to call for Romulus' aid, calling for the rectification of instances and problems across Allorum's alternate dimensions, so as to prevent forces that would threaten universal balance within the universe and its multiple dimensions. In these instances, Romulus came to learn that as time and space function in absolutes, he would have to do likewise, and was forced to adopt a more harshly pragmatic standpoint on the resolution of threats.
Coming to accept the words of the Being fully, Romulus consigned to his fate as a dimensional warrior, and bounds from dimension to dimension, his fate to forever fight that which threatens the balance, be it with in the confines of one dimension, or all of them, by any means necessary, and by any sacrifice necessary.
For now, Romulus has landed within this Allorum, and awaits direction from The Being as to his next move.
