User blog:GrandMethuselah67/Character Sheet 3: Walker Hawthorne

Name: Bradley Carlton Strange-Panderghast

Shadow Name: Hierophant

Aliases: The Magic Prodigy, The Balanced One, Peacekeeper

Age: 22

Species: Human (half-dragon)

Powers: Magic, The Words of Power, The Art of Onikaze

Abilities/Skills: Supernatural Intelligence, Enhanced Swordsmanship, Spell Casting, Spell Creation, Scientific Prowess, Adaptive Magic

Alignment: Chaotic Good (at best)/ Chaotic Neutral (at worst)

Affiliations: The Inner Hallows, The Wizened Council, The United Human Empire

Motto: "Slaying Eldritch Abominations one sleepless night at a time."

Quotes: "Regardless of what the old men who have been living since the 22nd Century say -- or hell, since the Roman Empire -- magic is nothing but extremely complicated science. Things like shooting fireballs and manipulating probability have quantum mechanical implications."

"I think my life can best be described as a scary movie. Things jump out at me rather predictably at this point."

"HAH! I KNOW YOUR TRUE NAME YOU CASUAL."

"Congrats. You've managed to act in the most predictable way possible. Checkmate, and may Lord Death have mercy on you."

"I saved the universe once. No, really. Hey, stop laughing! Ugh, stupid mindwipe..."

Theme: Wizards and Warriors

Occupations: Archaeomancer, Second-Tier Master Mage, Guardian of the Inner Hallows

Archetypes: Deadpan Snarker, Badass Bookworm, Awesomeness by Analysis, Crazy Prepared, The Chessmaster

Origin Story: Born on the floating city of Sequastria on planet Earth with no parents, Bradley was born into an "old culture" that rejected transhumanism and embraced a different lifestyle. Due to this, he is not augmented like most other humans, so he needs things like glasses because he has poor eyesight. However, his magical talent awakened when he was twelve, and it was revealed that he was a Balanced One -- a mage that can use all five branches of magic. The city rejected him for his powers, but eventually the Wizened Council, the world governing body for magi, found him and took him under their wing. He attended Crowley Academy in what was Boston.

Powers/Abilities (In Detail)
Magic: Bradley, as a mage, is able to use magic. His power awakened when he was about twelve, and his master (who had the second name Einrich) took him in around the same time. Over the years, Bradley has shown to be quite magically talented, able to learn and memorize spells with ease. He’s shown an exceptional amount of mana control too, never wasting a spell and always managing to think ahead before he slings power around. As a balance mage, Bradley is able to use all five branches of magic (Air, Earth, Water, Fire, Energy) and has mastery over all five branches. His combination of both raw power and sheer skill make him a formidable mage.

-Water Magic (Dark Aspect): The five branches of magic don’t necessarily represent elements – although many mages specializing in a branch can evoke said element – they represent concepts. The dark aspect of water represents cold logic, analysis, and death. Dark water mages are necromancers and time manipulators. Bradley in specific can use this branch for necromancy and to manipulate shadows and ice.

- Fire Magic (Dark/ light aspect): The dark aspects of fire magic represent what is forbidden and progression. Technology and “forbidden magic” are aspects of dark fire magic. It also ties into the concept of passion that Light aspect fire magic has. Bradley uses this branch for technomancy. Bradley also uses the light aspect of fire, which represents passion and energy used in a positive way. Bradley uses this for motion magic.

- Earth Magic (Light Aspect):  The light aspects of Earth represent naturalism and strength. Shamanism and storm manipulation are aspects of Light Earth Magic. Bradley uses light-aspect Earth magic to manipulate gravity, storms, and life.

- Wind Magic (Dark Aspect): The dark aspects of wind magic represent trickery and illusion. Along with summoning wind and lightning, dark wind mages can be enchanters, chaos mages, and storm callers. Bradley uses this for chaos/Fae magic, space magic, and enchantment.

- Energy Magic: Energy is a neutral branch of magic that represents change. Bradley uses the energy branch of magic for transmutation, electromagnetism manipulation, and energy manipulation.

-The Croneforce:  While he was in the Realm of Faerie, Bradley was marked by the Sidhe Sorceress Saorise as a champion of the Autumn court. As a result, he can channel the Croneforce into his spells. The Croneforce adds autumn magic to his own magic, making them incredibly more powerful and terrifying. Using the Croneforce does slowly eat away at his soul, so he can’t use it too much.

-Venandran tattoo: Bradley was also marked by Venandra, the underwater city inhabited by an ancient civilization. With this tattoo, he can channel the cold power of Tiamat, goddess of the Primordial Seas into his magic. This gives his attacks a blacker aura that tends to freeze things. He can also use this tattoo to activate Venandran technology.

-Improvised Spells: A mage has to always be prepared. This is usually done in the form of stacking spells before they go out. Actual spells, however, are different from improvised magic. Improvised magic is random and can use up either a small amount or a large amount of mana. Improvised spells do not require magic words (but the mage can use them if they so wish), and they're extremely unpredictable and prone to failure.

Spells
-Protect: Bradley’s level one protective spell. If using water, he weaves a wall of ice with his mana that could deflect most basic attacks, but shatters under the force of gunshots. When using wind, he creates a small web of probability around himself that increases the chances of any oncoming attacks missing by a little bit. Costs the least amount of mana.

- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Protecta: Bradley’s level two protective spell. With water, Bradley creates a thick sphere of water or a rigid sphere of ice that can deflect many gunshots at once. This shield, however, will shatter under the weight of most spells and more powerful weaponry than a handgun. With air, the web of probability becomes a bit stronger, increasing the chances of attacks missing and adding in the effect of spells backfiring by more.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Protectiga: Liam’s final protect spell. With water, the shield of ice becomes thicker and strong enough to deflect bombs and more powerful weapons/objects/spells. With air, the chances of attacks missing or backfiring becomes nearly absolute. Bradley’s ice shield will be shattered if it takes enough punishment however, because the damage directly drains his mana reserves.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Gale: A basic wind spell Bradley uses for offense. With this spell, he summons a simple gust of wind that’s equal to a shotgun blast.

-<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Galea: The second level wind spell for Bradley. His gust of wind becomes strong enough to tip cars over and knock doors off of their hinges.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Galeiga: The third level of wind spell for Bradley. His gust of wind either becomes a full on gale force wind or a tornado. He can also use this spells to call storms and lightning capable of destroying massive objects. The exact scale of this power depends on how much mana he puts into it.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Ice/Water: Bradley absorbs the heat from the general area of the spell to freeze a small object or water. With water, he summons enough of any liquid on the periodic table to fill a cup or douse an enemy.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Icea/Watera: Bradley absorbs more heat, allowing him to freeze a wider array of objects. He also gains the ability to conjure ice and snow. With water, he summons enough liquid to drench an enemy. He can also now pressurize it to use it as a gun. He can also manipulate liquid around him and use it as various constructs. He can shoot a liquid green energy from his wand that erodes the enemy slowly.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Iceiga/Wateriga: Bradley’s heat absorption allows him to call upon blizzards and snow and ice. He can create entire ice storms that affect a wide area and freeze enemies solid. With water, Bradley can now summon tsunamis and supertsunamis from his wands, funnels, and enough pressurized water to cut through thick steel. The eroding energy from his wand now eats up the enemy within seconds and can be used on larger objects like buildings.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Jinx: Using chaos magic, Bradley increases the probability of something going wrong for his enemy. This can be a spell malfunctioning, a weapon jamming, or a car just not starting.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="line-height:18px;color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;">Jinxiga: The second and final level of this spell, Bradley manipulates probability to further decrease his enemy’s luck. At this point, Bradley can cause any machine to malfunction or a large amount of enemies to trip over themselves at a crucial moment. At higher-end levels of this spell, Bradley can cause the worst case scenario to happen to an enemy or give them phenomenally horrible levels of luck.

<span style="line-height:18px;color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Petrify: Using his probability magic, Bradley manipulates the probability aspects of atoms and turns the target's carbon atoms into silicon atoms, turning them into red hot stone.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Geas: Using chaos magic, Bradley forces an oath upon his target. If they break the confines of this oath, they're stricken with horrible luck proportionate to the importance of the oath. Bradley can also do this to inanimate objects and concepts to gain control over them (ex: making a deal with a tree so that its fruit always heals him, at the price that he must always plant the seeds afterwards).

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Interface: With technomancy, Bradley can use his mana to tune into any machine or network in the area and manipulate it in a various amount of ways.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Modify: Bradley can use this spell to modify any machine. He can also use this to fuse two machines together or fuse certain machines with his body. With a combination of the “Interface” and “Modify” spell, he can create a “technomagical” machine with the right parts and a general idea of what he wants it to do.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Rise: With his necromancy, Bradley can raise zombies or shades (ghosts made of nethereal darkness) to do his bidding. The amount of figures he raises depends on the amount of mana he pours into the spell and how well he’s thought out the spell. He can use this spell to communicate with ghosts or simply raise the dead for an amount of time depending on the ritual he uses.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Motion: Using the light aspect of fire, Bradley changes the speed of himself or anything around him in a subtle way.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Motioniga: Bradley changes the speed of anything around him in a dramatic way. With this, he can also negate friction and inertia, making things go on forever. He can also absorb kinetic energy around him for various effects.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Fire/Fira/Firiga: Bradley summons fire from his wand or staff. Depending on the level of the fire spell, it can go from creating simple campfires, to fireballs, to entire firestorms.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Earth/Eartha/Earthiga: Bradley summons mounds of dirt, rock, sand, or other Earthen materials to attack his enemy. Depending on the level of the attack, it can go from slabs of jagged rock to creating earthquakes or volcanoes.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Gravity/Gravia/Graviga: Bradley alters the gravity around him to varying degrees. At the weakest, this could involve a blast of force with the same force as a punch to nearly knocking them out of orbit. He could also "move" the gravity in a particular location to another location.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Energy Manipulation: Bradley, with various spells, can absorb or manipulate energy. This includes electricity, light, kinetic energy, heat, and sound. He can listen to all levels of sound and see different forms of light in the electromagnetic spectrum.

- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Change: Using the energy branch of magic, Bradley turns one object into another at the molecular level. This can be living organisms as well as nonliving materials.

-Warp: Using Space Magic, Bradley creates a warp bubble around himself that is only marginally connected to the space inside of the bubble. He can also use these warp bubbles to create pocket dimensions and portals.

-Shift: Using Space Magic, Bradley manipulates the dimensions around him. He can stack dimensions, increase a target's dimensions or decrease them. He can even teleport through dimensions and go to "subspace".

-Move: Using Space Magic, Bradley moves his form or other things in a variety of ways. With this, he can be in multiple places at once, connect certain spaces to others, and create voids by moving space.

-Mental Manipulation/Telepathy: With various spells, Bradley can read and manipulate minds. He uses this most commonly for illusions.

-Mutate: Using life magic, Bradley changes a living being. Depending on how much mana he puts in the spell, this can be something as simple as giving them another finger to something as drastic as changing their appearance or turning them into organic abominations.

-Flora: Using life magic, Bradley manipulates plants/ fungi around him. He can make vines or wood grow out of nowhere, he can create wood gollums, and he can manipulate fungi.

-Fauna: Also using life magic, Bradley manipulates animals. He can use this to take on traits of animals (a Dolphin's sonar sense, an eagle's eye), he can enrage animals within a certain area and command them to attack an enemy, and he can manipulate pheromones.

Equipment/Skills
-Guardian Armor: Using equipment available to him in the Inner Hallows, Bradley created a technomagical armor. This armor's magical properties allow him to shapeshift into anything, fly, and regenerate. This also enhances his physical capabilities, making him as strong as most transhumans.

-<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Expert Planner/Tactician: To be a mage, you have to be prepared and plan ahead of the game. Bradley, as a mage, is very good at this. He’s able to quickly formulate plans in combat, and he usually has scenarios he’s planned for in the event that he’s attacked. His style of planning doesn’t really involve a lot of fair play. He’s pragmatic when it comes to protecting himself or anyone else.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Genius Level Intellect: Magic isn’t simply fireballs and thunderbolts. Magic is a science, and it takes some serious knowledge on geometry, advanced mathematics, and quantum mechanics to pull off some basic calculations to complete a spell. Bradley's abilities in mathematics, conceptual geometry, and quantum mechanics easily mark him as a genius.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Onikaze: Bradley is a master of Onikaze. Onikaze focuses on being unpredictable, allowing the practitioner to teleport around unpredictably with space magic and slice through armor. It also focuses on speed, allowing the samurai to become a blur in the eyes of his enemies, only to be seen when it’s too late. Currently, Bradley has great swordsmanship skills and can hold his own in a hand-to-hand fight.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Vector Bracelet: Bradley has an enchanted bracelet that puts a natural “vector field” around himself that he can manipulate. Within a close range, he can manipulate the direction any force acts upon an object, and can even use this ability to condense air into plasma and create strong gusts of wind.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Wand: Bradley has two basic wands made out of silver. He uses them to channel quick and easy spells, as well as improvised spells. With two wands, he can cast two spells at once.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Staff: Bradley’s staff is made out of lightweight oak wood. In the wood are symbols that allow him to shoot various elements out of the tip (the symbols acting as charges). He can also use this to perform more heavy duty spells, like storm calling.

<span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">- <span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:helvetica,arial,'lucidagrande',sans-serif;line-height:18px;">Katana: Bradley has a katana due to his training in Onikaze. The steel seems to be enchanted to never grow dull or never break.

-Beam Katana: Along with his regular katana, Bradley has a beam katana. He can channel and condense his mana into an energy blade capable of cutting through anything. He can also use this to channel his spells.

Data/Stats
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Base of Operations - The Inner Hallows
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Biography
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