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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1932299" data-attributes="member: 4134">And another one from me:Verions of the Ancient. (FR again)Again, first the rules-stuff. Elan Kineticist (Psion) 13, Al N, Str 8, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 21, Wis 13, Cha 12 (without items). Major items: Headband of Intellect +6, Sage Psicrystal. 5 Knowledge Skills with +21 or more.Although Verions appears as a human in his twenties, he's neither as human or as young as he seems: About 5000 years ago (shortly before the rise of Netheril), a group of Oghma-Worshipping arcanists, priests and psionicists created a cabel whose task it was to preserve - and collect - knowledge, and experiences. They intended to stay around for a long time, but weren't keen on turning themselves into undead, as most undead became quite mad over the time, which would defeat their purpose. Instead, they found, deep within the astral plane, instructions on a ritual that would strip the humanity from the target creature and turn it into a being of psionic power - the race known as elan. This race could use psionic energy to heal, protect and sustain itself, and their body would not age at all. To prevent the insanity brought by centuries of experience and knowledge, the ritual that turns someone into an Elan would strip the recipient of most of his knowledge - only a select choice of memories and abilites would remain with the character, the rest would be transferred to a device called the Nexus of Knowledge, which would serve as the cabal's library. This ritual could be repeated as often as one wishes, transferring the excess knowledge every time and giving the target a fresh start.One of the cabal was verions, back then a loremaster of Oghma. over the centuries and millenia he walked many an adventurer's path - wizard, sorcerer, warmage, psion of just about every discipline, wilder, even soul knive, as well as some weirder careers. Every time he thougt he reached the zenith of his power, transcending the normal boundries of power, he'd return to the Nexus to surrender his experiences and memories and start another career. His current incarnation is that of a kineticist and knower of things. He appears as a human in his twenties, of moderate height and wight, with brown eyes, black hair and white skin. He wears robes that seem to have gone out of fashion aeons ago (which indeed they have). Besides psicraft, he is very learned in all things arcane, religious, psionic, and concerning the planes and history. Besides priding himself to know the answer to most questions about his chosen topics, he uses his knowledge to discern the strengths and weaknesses of his enemies and plan his strategy accordingly. He doesn't engage an enemy without a proper strategy, but he's quite capable or forming such a strategy within moments.Besides verious mind-over-energy powers which are the bread and butter of a kineticist, he knows several powers to protect and heal himself, to tear down the supernatural defenses of his enemies, or to reduce his enemy to dust. He can also use his psionics to understand every language known and see things as they really are, he can use his mind to move matter in a rather abrupt fashion, and he can take control of not only the mind of the enemy, but even of his very body. His most powerful psionic trick is a brief glimpse into the future, which can be the difference between life and death - and has been in more than one occasion.He can manifest his psionic powers in rapic succession, even two at once, and has no problem concentrating even in the thick of battle.Verions doesn't care much about good and evil, or law and chaos, if you want, his sole concern is the preservation of knowledge (though he won't stand idle while innocents come to harm and he could prevent that). While more conventional heroes make enemies of those who enslave and slaugter people, Verions concerns himself with those who would destroy knowledge or keep the public in the dark. His most recent enemies were the Nilshai, a weird alien race of sorcerers who sought to eradicate the star elven race in their home plain of Sildeyuir - obliterating the mithral elves knowledge without hope of retrieval. In one spectacular duel he managed to take out several nilshai as he stripped one of his confidence (and ability to cast spells) while at the same time reducing another to a mere trace of fine dust, then he mentally dominated of the most powerful of the remainding ones, turning it against its peers, and finally he took over a powerful undead giant bodyguard - gaining manual control of its limbs rather than mind, fatally surprising its master who thought undead were beyond a psions power.</blockquote>

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