Ah, yes, my favorite type of combat. THIS type of combat requires insane amounts of brute forcing and strategy. Where-as technology takes time to produce and is a battle of two forces with limited resources, magic is a much more unpredictable type of combat which requires you to be able to outdo your opponent, sometimes in a mere instant. Let us discuss...
This RP was founded in 2006 by Hikaru, Kai, and myself, among others. Back in the original days, we didn't really have any technology. There were no ship battles, hardly any guns... It was all magic. We created a system which required innovation to achieve victory, a system which, surprisingly, has helped me out in real life. In these types of battles, creativity really is the key.
A great way to learn how to fight with magic is to read other topics where people fought with magic, but forget that, the only really good fights with magic here are the ones where the fighting was REALLY ADVANCED. We've gotta start you off smaller.
Let's do this.
I need a character to work with from you. Post a template here, or, at the bare minimum, a link. One of your existing characters. The one you're fighting with right now is preferred.
Here's my character:
Name: Zere
Age: Like thousands, maybe close to a million years old. He appears to be an old man.
Race: Sage
Alliance: Anrufe
Biography: Long story. Was a Keeper of the embodiment of Destruction (one of the original four who sealed Destruction in Erebus where he would slumber for centuries). He was a subject of the Genesis Kingdom, ruled by one of his fellow Keepers, where he was a minority. He, unlike most of the kingdom, lacked the strong Genesis Magic that the Dragon Sages of this Kingdom had. He joined with other minorities to form a group within the Kingdom known as District 23.
District 23 fabricated a mass war between the Genesis Kingdom and the Phoenix Kingdom that would eventually lead to both kingdoms dying out. In a final battle with the Genesis King, he was "sealed" inside a blue orb, meaning that he and the rest of the District 23 were literally inside the blue orb, trapped in a sort of prison realm which was inside the blue orb itself. He would spend the next century trying to escape.
Finally, someone found the orb he was trapped in. That someone was a young four-to-five year old Hikaru Tyris of the Era Village, a Phoenix-Dragon Sage. Zere tricked the young girl into releasing him from his prison where he would proceed to further trick her into leading him into the Era Village where she lived. On the night that Hikaru's twin brothers, the heirs to the power of the Genesis King himself, were born, Zere tricked Hikaru into destroying the Era Village as he attempted to get his revenge against the Genesis King by destroying the remnants of his precious power.
As the village was burning in flames, Hikaru herself attempted to destroy her twin brothers. She was unable to do so, due to their enormous amounts of power locked within them. With her inability to destroy the two infants, she did the next best thing. She locked their dragon powers deep within their soul
1. With only a small amount of Phoenix Magic within their blood, not really at their disposal, and now no Genesis Magic they could use, they were rendered powerless.
That would eventually change after years, but that's a story for another day.
Zere took Hikaru under his wing. In the last battle that took place within the village, Zere and Hikaru confronted a team of three Guardians, self-proclaimed inter-dimensional "police" who were trying to stop the two. Zere, in that battle, started his training of Hikaru in dark magic, teaching her much about reading from a spellbook in that battle alone. They walked away alive.
Zere trained Hikaru for years, often taking her on trips to various villages of enemies that Zere needed to destroy while Zere himself investigated various things about his past. Fast-forward thirteen years, Hikaru is eighteen years old. She's incredibly strong now. Zere sends her on her way to destroy her brothers once and for all, while he basically vanishes, keeping low for the next few years.
With not going out of Zere's story but just to explain something, Hikaru and her two brothers would go on to break into the SP dimension ("Mortal Dimension"), after years of it being in exile. As many sages now discovered this dimension, those three in particular would establish three kingdoms and take over much of it, becoming known as the Sage Three...
Zere would meet back up with his pupil and her brothers in the SP Dimension when her brother, who didn't remember Zere at all, hosted a magic tournament known as the Excel Tournament. There, Zere, who only Hikaru happened to recognize, fought to achieve victory... But his true goal was to destroy K2323 and Kai, who had unlocked the Genesis King's power and were now a lot stronger than they had been when they were born.
Zere had become a master of Sealing magic, using "seals" to do all sorts of things like trapping objects within pocket dimensions, changing personalities, etc. He used these seals to control Kai and force him to work alongside Zere. With some of the strongest magic users around gathered at the tournament, Zere freed his long-sealed people of District 23, and with them and Kai's inside help, began their assault at the Excel Tournament.
They would be stopped, and after a day or so of intermission, the tournament finals commenced. During the final battle between Kai and Emily (may have been semifinals, don't remember), Zere once more launched an attack and basically destroyed a lot. He successfully managed to kill K2323, and nearly killed Hikaru and her apprentice, Emily. K2323, trapped in the Spirit Realm and waiting to be judged, used an incredibly powerful spell to lock Zere in the Spirit Realm, trading places with him so he could once more join the living.
Zere would eventually be freed from his prison in the Spirit Realm by a rogue clone of Kai named KiaB, who offered him and several others who had long fought the Sage Three to join a group he was forming known as the Anrufe. He obliged. Together, they caused a lot of damage in their first few days, taking advantage of a crisis which was ongoing for the people of the dimension.
The Anrufe eventually settled into their new life, settling in their base at the Ground Island. After helping cause a lot of destruction such as with the rising of the Twilight Empire, and various other events, the Anrufe became well-known for their movements. After the fall of the Sage Three and the rise of various mortal, technological empires in the dimension, the Anrufe became a major power. Being one of the only major forces of magic left in the dimension, they became an enemy of the Alliance, an alliance of mortal empires with major political power in the region.
Without going into too much detail of all the events of the Anrufe, let us fast forward to more recent events. Ten years after the Nyx War, the war which caused the downfall of both the Alliance and the Nyx Federation, the Anrufe awaited their great return. For the last ten years, Zere had been in a sort of hibernation, as had the rest of the Anrufe, training by feeding magic and spirit energy into their body. Basically, they supercharged their batteries.
One day, Chaos unbinded Zere from his slumber. The two Anrufe operatives had a lot of work ahead of them. They had to find their leader, KiaB, a new body. He had sustained many damages from fighting in the Nyx War ten years before. Chaos and Zere set off to find the perfect host. (See this topic:
http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=99.0)
After visiting various worlds of such groups as the Legacy Empire, the Archive, and more, the two were still so much less closer to finding KiaB a body. That situation eventually resolved itself when KiaB found his own body. Shortly afterwards, Chaos took power of the Anrufe away from KiaB. With Chaos in charge, Zere now had a whole new array of missions to go on.
One particular mission? The two were going to get rid of Kai Tyris once and for all. When they attacked one of his planets (See this topic:
http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=395.0) a large battle occurred. Zere ended up nearly dying when Kai attacked him. Kai's attack would have drained Zere of not only his magic, but his very life force. In a last attempt to save himself, Zere siphered his energies into Kai, trapping himself inside Kai's brain. Kai was not even aware.
Zere watched Kai's actions, lived Kai's life. He was like a backseat passenger, unable to take action, only capable of watching. It took him nearly a year to escape. When he did, he joined a group known as the World Without Boundaries which wanted to destroy enemy empires and bring the universe under one rule. With his superior skills in magic, Zere was able to advance the work of the WWB, going as far as to destroy a few planets. (See the following topics:
http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=2283.msg23631#msg23631 http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=2266.msg23502#msg23502http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=2194.msg22625#msg22625 )
When Zere got intel that his father, who he long believed to be dead, was still alive and hiding out on Elemora, Zere ordered an attack on the planet, a search for his father, against WWB orders. He would have received disciplinary action had he not entered a hyperspace window, chasing his father... What happened to him after that? We don't really know...
What we do know is that just recently, a figure who looked like him, under some sort of trance, was fighting at the GOL Spacestation. Soon afterwards, he was freed from this trance. Unsure of what happened to him over the last few months, he returned to Ground Island... And what awaits now? Who knows.
He hasn't been amongst his Anrufe brothers and sisters in about a year. Now, he's back.
Weapons: None are needed.
Magic Level: 4.
Appearance:
Okay, I don't need something like that, I just need something, no matter how detailed it may be, to work with. A character.
