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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8234822" data-attributes="member: 30538">Phosta<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-P2BWcsQ/0/c0a69e2e/S/phosta-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Born in one of the many petty kingdoms of the Far North, Loran Phosta was unfortunate enough to be born a sorcerer in a time and place where it was taken for granted that any such individual had made dark pacts for their power. Knowing that she could not maintain the deception for very long, she ran away from home when she was sixteen, traveling south to lands that seemed more sane. She followed many paths in the years that followed, sometimes a sage, sometimes a soldier, but most often an adventuring mage, testing her power against opponents.As she grew older, Phosta increasingly took comfort in her belief that her power, far from being the product of the Ruinous Powers, derived from the Sun Prince, who was born from light before there even was a dawn. Yet it seemed to her that there was more to the light of the sun than met the eye. Through experimentation and study, she discovered the existence of the sorts of light that would be dubbed 'infrared' and 'ultraviolet' by the scholars of another world, and strove to master these sorts of light as well.After long years of study, she achieved her goals ... and collapsed, for her achievement really had taken everything she had, and death drew near. Yet she heard a voice urging her that this was far from all that she was meant to do, and Ascended as an Initiate of the Sphere of Power, finding herself on the road to Pandiomon, and running towards its gates with the enthusiasm (and, she was pleased to note, the body) of the young girl she hadn't been in quite some time, certain that she was about to meet with the Sun Prince.Well, she did, eventually, but Phosta was rather startled to find out that he was not her patron. Instead, she had been guided, all her life it seemed, by Valerias, the Patron of Love and Romance -- two things that had she had never had any time for! When she babbled out her lack of understanding, Valerias had said something nonsensical about faith being the belief that all power can't be seen, and then something a bit more plausible about how all her life had been consumed by her love for her magic. Still bewildered, Phosta yielded to her patron's guidance and joined forces with the other Initiates who'd arrived around the same time as herself.Out of all of them, Phosta is probably closest with Gebure, even though she thinks that they couldn't be more opposite. Their spheres are opposed, and where Phosta is a sorcerer who struggled to become a soldier, Gebure is a soldier who stumbled into sorcery. Yet the two of them work rather well together, much as their respective patrons do. Not just like them, though. While Phosta is coming to understand how much of her life was (in Valerias' opinion) wasted because she never sought romance, she's much more interested in finding an everlasting love instead of her Patron's constant hopping from relationship to relationship. Most of the time, at least.Of all of the Princesses, Phosta is probably the most concerned about events on the continent, specifically those in Galantri, where she lived for much of her mortal life. She hopes that they'll be able to do something about the madness that has lately engulfed the land, and is consequently somewhat impatient to be done with their adventures in the the Dragon Empire. That Valerias, of all people, keeps urging her to be patient is almost more irony than she can stand. It doesn't help that her identity as one of the Ascendants has been exposed to a vampir who's also come here from Galantri, one Ethan Grimaldi, who seems to be interfering with her activities out of petty spite. That he apparently became a vampir through making dark pacts is just the cream of the jest.Phosta -- PL 10Abilities:STR 2 | STA 3 | AGL 3 | DEX 3 | FGT 3 | INT 2 | AWE 2 | PRE 5Powers:Ascendant: Immortality 5 (one day); Immunity 1 (aging); Movement 1 (dimensional travel to home plane), Reaction (death); Movement 2 (dimensional travel to planes of the Sphere of Power), Standard Action - 15 pointsEnchanted Breastplate: Impervious Protection 5; Removable (-2 points) - 8 points"I Walk With the Light, and the Light With Me": Environment 1 (Bright Light) - 2 pointsLight Magic: Array (21 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blast of Light: Ranged Damage 10, Accurate - 21 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blast of Unseen Light: Ranged Damage 10, Subtle - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blinding Burst: Perception Area Cumulative Affliction 10 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Fortitude; Visually Impaired, Visually Disabled, Visually Unaware), Limited to Vision - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Burst of Light: Ranged Burst Area Damage 7 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Ghostbane Burst: Ranged Burst Area Damage 9, Affects Insubstantial 2, Limited to undead enemies - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Light of Healing: Ranged Energizing Healing 5 - 1 point</li> </ul>Sense Immortal: Senses 2 (ranged detect immortal) - 2 pointsSpeed of Light: Enhanced Defenses 10 (Dodge 5, Parry 5); Flight 7 (250 MPH) - 24 pointsAdvantages:All-out Attack, Attractive, Equipment 4, Fearless 2, Improved Initiative, Language 2 (Alven, Galantrian, Koine, Zwergen, [Dannic is native]), Power Attack, Ritualist, Taunt.Equipment:Staff (Strength-based Damage 2, Reach 1.)Home Plane: Size Huge; Toughness 10; Features Communications, Concealed, Defense System, Grounds, Gym, Isolated, Library, Living Space, Power System, Personnel, Security System - 16 points.Skills:Acrobatics 4 (+7), Athletics 4 (+6), Close Combat: Staff 4 (+10), Deception 7 (+12), Expertise: Magic 6 (+11), Insight 4 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+9), Ranged Combat: Light Magic 5 (+8), Sleight of Hand 6 (+9).Offense:Initiative +7Unarmed +3 (Close Damage 2)Staff +10 (Close Damage 4, Reach 1)Blast of Light +10 (Ranged Damage 10)Blast of Unseen Light +8 (Ranged Damage 10)Blinding Burst -- (Perception Area Afflction 10, Resisted by Dodge)Burst of Light -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 7)Ghostbane Burst -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 9)Defense:Dodge 12/7, Parry 11/6, Fortitude 4, Toughness 8/3, Will 10Totals:Abilities 52 + Powers 77 + Advantages 12 + Skills 22 + Defenses 13 = 176 pointsComplications:Upholding Good--Motivation. Easily Distracted by Romance. Nemesis (Ethan Grimaldi.) Patron (Valerias.) Secret (immortality.)</blockquote>

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