Post by Henry Bloodwrath on Jul 7, 2008 17:43:34 GMT -5
Name:
Henry Bloodwrath (not birth name)
Age:
34 years
Birthday:
May 26
Race:
Immortal
Species:
Warlock (male witch)
Family:
4 younger siblings, father, mother; all deceased.
Appearance:
77 inches or 195.58 cm tall (less than 5 cm short of 2 m). Thin, but not skeletal or gaunt. Prolonged use of the fire element has turned hair and eyes a vibrant red. Hairstyle is *au naturale* (doesn't care about styling it). Usually wears a cloak with hood while traveling. Uses a 7-foot obsidian staff with blood-red runes to focus his energies and to reduce casting time.
In an attempt to lessen his presence's impact upon others, uses pinewood smoke to mask his scent/smell. Boots, greaves, pauldrons, and armbands are made of obsidian and salamander leather. Pants and shirt are also of salamander leather, but gloves are made with wyvern leather with a few garnets sewn in. He also wears a vest with many pockets for ingredients and various items.
Celebrity Avatar:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38375000/jpg/_38375019_darko_150b.jpg>
Celebrity Claim:
Jake Gyllenhaal
Personality:
Honorable to a point. Has some sense of chivalry: ladies must be protected, but women who are *not* ladies are treated equally. Determines "ladyship" based on actions and feelings of women, not their social status or race/species. Fears death (to the point of nightmares), and doesn't react well to shocks. Also occasionally has nightmares about his family dying.
Has a short, explosive temper, but when the anger fades, he doesn't hold grudges most of the time. Distrusts humans and aquatic creatures. When challenged to a duel or sparring match, if Henry is close to winning over the opponent(s) by a large margin, he tends to slow down, leave gaps in his defences, and starts to gloat over the opponent(s). If close to losing, fear of death and anger at weakness buffs up his strength, but leaves him weak and exhausted afterwards.
Henry is a loner, and fiercely dislikes crowds and/or attention.
History:
Born in the mortal realm to a mortal family, Henry did not develop his powers until he reached his 18th year. His family, the Davidsons, consisted of himself, four younger sibilings, his mom, and his dad. They lived far away from the Gaian border, and thus had had little or no contact with magic besides parlor tricks.
When Henry attained his powers, he practised them in secret, with a little bit of private/public experimentation (keeping a candle lit on a brother's birthday cake, for example). A few years later though, the secret came out when he stopped a conflagration near his house before the fire department came. Though at first relieved at the close escape, the neighbors started to falsely suspect Henry of creating the fire himself. His ability was leaked to the media, along with the rumors, and Henry Davidson became famous (or infamous) overnight.
He rejected multiple offers from various military organizations and mercenary guilds, and received tons of hate mail as well. He puzzled over the hate mail until he realized that some people somehow hated magic instead of liking it or just not caring. He puzzled even more over a wierd letter that told of more magic users beyond a barrier in someplace called Gaia. Eventually, a mob formed during the night and attempted to burn down the house. As his family ran out, each of them were shot, as the mob couldn't see who was running in the smoke, and frankly didn't care. As Henry woke up to the sound of the first gunshots, his eyes snapped open and started running outside. However, by the time he got to the door, the last shots had faded away, and the mob had started to dissolve, as they realized that they had murdered regular humans. However, as Henry came into the light, the mob briefly regathered and people started reloading their guns.
In shock, Henry just stared at the bloody scene in front of him, lit by the flames of his house behind him. As the sound of guns cocking, he came out of his shock with a massive surge of anger, and literally incinerated a portion of the mob in front of him to ashes. With that, the rest of the mob stared, and then started to flee. With rage still burning within him, Henry systematically incinerated all the humans as they fled, and then noticed some police cars up the street.
The police had come, but to join the mob instead of to restrain it. Seeing the inferno in front of the Davidsons' house, they rushed up and proceeding to barrage Henry with tear gas grenades. Easily burning them up before they could reach him, Henry pulled some fire from his house and fed it into the police cars' fuel tanks, resulting in spectacular explosions. As all of the perceived enemies had fled or been killed, he abruptly lost consciousness and collapsed in front of his house, as it finally started to collapse.
The next morning, Henry came to his senses and again stared morosely at his family's bodies and used his sorrow to fuel some small flames to use with their funeral pyres. After that, he gathered what few belongings he had that had escaped the flames, and traveled to where the mysterious letter had mentioned a crack in the barrier to Gaia. Once he got to the crack, Henry saw other people go through a checkpoint of some kind, waving blue cards at guards there. Not having a card himself, he used a combination of heat waves and thermal blasts to hide himself from view and to unsteadily levitate past the checkpoint into Gaia.
Once in Gaia, he traveled towards a nearby mountain, so as to see what he could see, avoiding others as much as possible. To his surprise, he didn't feel particularly hungry or thirsty, and was able to slake his thirst and take the edge off his hunger with small streams and fish. Upon arrival at the mountain, he discovered that it was a dormant volcano.
Setting up a temporary lean-to, Henry started tunneling into the side of the mountain using fire with a bit of earth magic to melt and shape it. After a few weeks, still in solitude and not seeing any other form of intelligent life, Henry had tunneled into a cavern and had created a cave system. The entrance itself was high up on a cliff, and though there was a large expanse of rock near the entrance, the path to the entrance was incredibly steep, as Henry normally ascended and descended by levitation. About 10 meters beyond the entrance, there was a short plummet, only about 30 meters, and that entered into the main cavern. The various caves off in the sides were designated for storage, a dungeon (he read plenty of fantasy back in the mortal realm), and an entrance to one of the magma rivers within the volcano.
Henry kept track of time, first by cutting notches in a stick when he got in Gaia, and then by etching notches on the cave walls. Furthermore, he developed a slow-burning stationary fireball that provided illumination for one week, and so notched weeks on the wall, rather than days. To determine when each of the 7 timekeeper fireballs would be lit/relit, he fashioned a primitive sundial on the rocks in front of the entrance.
After he had finished the creation of his home, he started on the project of mutation, and started to produce salamanders, wyverns, and other creatures. Due to a few cases of creatures going rogue and escaping, he cut away most of the cliff around the entrance, besides the rock platform, and made the path up to it steeper than it already was, and put several ladders into the path as well, to prevent former creations from returning. In addition, a few flying creatures, such as the wyverns, posed an aerial threat, so to speak, so he experimented with forms of magic other than fire again, and created two golems by the entrance. He set these to prevent creatures from getting in, but made no preventions against humanoids.
After awhile, Henry had developed the salamanders and wyverns enough to skin a few of them for armor. He included obsidian in the workings, and used various elements to fine-tune the armor (water to mold it, earth to compress it, etc.). Having found some gemstones while mining the cave system, he included them in one of his cave systems, setting another golem there to prevent anyone who didn't have the correct magical pass-sign (rather than pass word) from entering or leaving. He included some gemstones in the creation of his armor, in order to buff a few abilities. Lastly, Henry created an obsidian staff a little taller than he was, and inlaid it with runes so he could cast a few spells without chanting the phrases, greatly reducing the casting time.
Being in the last stages of modifying the creatures (creating different genders rather than neuters), Henry started to research up on dragons as well as the surrounding countryside, to see if he could find out where the letter from so long before had come from, and where the magic users it had mentioned were.
Eventually, other mortals who had come through to Gaia as well, but who were anti-immortal, discovered that new, dangerous creatures were coming from somewhere, and mounted an expedition. They one day found the cave entrance at the cliff, and proceeded up the cliff face. Here, the ladders had an unforeseen benefit: the expedition couldn't take horses or very many supplies up the cliff to the cave. Once they got to the entrance, they noticed two statues (the golems). Deciding that the statues were mere decoration, the expedition pressed onward, and started to encounter various strains of salamanders and wyverns (some salamanders were self-inflammatory, others spat fire; some wyverns spat poison, others acid). After losing a few members to the creatures and the pit, they eliminated what creatures were up there and descended carefully to the bottom of the pit into the cavern.
Upon their arrival, they met Henry, who had just equipped himself with his armor and finished his staff. Unaware that his eyes and hair had turned red, and that his eyes glowed a little from the recent magical working, he was surprised when they started accusing him of being a demonic creature and started attacking. Shaking off the double shock of meeting humans for the first time in years, and being attacked by them, Henry created a wall of fire and surrounded the humans with it, incinerating any arrows that flew from beyond it.
All the men there (the women were guarding the pack animals outside) instantly misunderstood the meaning of the firewall, and suicided, thinking it was a trap for the demonic immortal to devour them at its leisure. Henry was busy healing a nearby salamander that the intruders had injured, and only rose to see that they had gutted themselves. Immediately extinguishing the firewall and hurrying to them, he saw that all but one of them were beyond help, and that one was still alive.
Healing the unconscious young man as best as he could, Henry then lifted the corpses to the cave entrance, and then the man too. After securing the creatures that were loose, and storing the dead creatures in a special cold room (taking heat away from it to freeze it), Henry proceeded to the entrance, and took in the situation outside.
The women outside, thinking the silence after the clash of arms and "whoosh" of fire ominous, had sent a few members up the cliff. As Henry arrived at the place where the golems were situated, the first of the women crawled onto the platform. She could not see at first the bodies --- they were set behind the golems. However, the young man was visible beyond the statues, and Henry had calmed down from his use of magic enough that his eyes had stopped glowing. As the woman first gasped, then cried out to the others about the status of the young man, Henry stepped out.
Quickly stating that he had healed the man as quickly as he could, Henry tried to defuse the shock of the women. One of the next women to get onto the platform had a bit of white magic, and started to heal what wounds Henry could not heal. After the injured man's situation had been stabilized completely, and after five or six women had gathered on the platform outside, the leader of those asked Henry who he was and what had happened to the rest of the group. Henry replied with his first name, and reluctantly admitted that he was the inhabitant of the caves. While their faces started to whiten or redden, he also asked them why they were invading his home.
After they explained their purpose, Henry was at a loss. Upon their repeated inquiries into what had happened to the rest of the group, he replied that he had trapped them, and then they had attempted to commit suicide. Henry tried to defend himself, saying that he was tending to one of his tame creatures and that he had rescued the young man.
Saying that, he (unwisely) brought out the corpses behind the golems. Seeing the bodies, however, a few of the women who had bonded to the men cried out in anger and attacked Henry. He fell back, and cast a wall of fire blocking the entrance to the cave. However, with that event, the rest of the women, and the young man who had just regained consciousness, started to attack. One of the witches with the group was water-oriented and extinguished the flames. As the rest of the group rushed towards Henry, he modified the instructions of the golems, and the 2 golems moved to defend him. Seeing them move, some of the outlying members of the group halted, but the rest of the group urged them onwards. While this was taking place, the rest of the women had either come on the platform or had almost reached it. The man came forward with a mace and smashed the small lean-to and the sundial that was next to the entrance, and then rushed forward towards the golems and Henry.
Seeing that wanton destruction, Henry again lost control of his rage, and used two simple spells. One was medium fire ball, sending the group out of the tunnel and onto the platform, and the other spell severed the platform from the cliff.
After the cries had died out, Henry constructed another platform, this time with hinges, and searched the corpses for what they had. With this, he discovered a few maps, the local coinage, and some more weapons. Lastly, he levitated what horses and pack animals that hadn't fled or weren't able to into the cave. Then, with keeping a couple aside for further experimentation, he let the rest of his creatures loose on the pack animals. After taking the maps to his scrying room, he modified the golems' programming to defend against ANY intrusions into the cave system, unless the intruder displayed the correct magical pass-sign, like the golem guarding the treasure.
After putting the weapons away into another room, he went to sleep. During the few years after this, more groups came and were defeated easily. Henry learned that he was regarded as an evil warlock from a later group, and promptly redecorated the cave entrance with obsidian rocks streaked with red lava, as well as "No Trespassing" signs. Lastly, he started to train some salamanders and wyverns like guard dogs for the caves.
In the years since, his reputation has gone down (or up) in certain circles, but he has not yet been approached peacefully by other mortals or immortals. The volcano he is on has stayed dormant, and is populated with rogue creatures, making any approach difficult to say the least. By looting invaders' corpses, he has learned a little about what has happened to Gaia an the mortal realm, but his knowledge about the current status quo is severly limited.
Anything Else:
Magic is mainly focused on the fire element. Small inroads were made into other elements by self-learning, to balance out the advantages and disadvantages. Can use fire magic in non-direct-damaging ways (thermal updraft to temporarily levitate, heat waves for illusions and camoflauge), but main strength is in direct damage (fireballs). Has modified staff with runes to shorten casting time. Also has inlaid some basic spells into the staff itself for near-instantaneous casting, such as the thermal levitation and camoflauging heat waves. Lastly, has researched some mystic magic in order to breathe underwater as well as to mark and recall teleportation sites, among others. The recall spell is also inlaid into the staff.
No fashion sense whatsoever, choosing practicality over looks. Can sprint fast for a short time, but has little endurance for non-magical exercise. Can use his staff adequately in self-defense.
Has researched magical races, and helped to create/repopulate some as well by carefully infusing lizards with fire and other elements to hatch salamanders, wyverns, and others. Currently researching dragons, and trying to search for them (magically) to see if this elder race exists, and if they do, to parlay with them for knowledge. Has acquired books from groups of intruders, and has an extensive cave that is only partially filled with books.
His creations that have not gone rogue can be considered as pets. If they go rogue, he first determines if they are fertile. If so, he releases them outside. If they are infertile, then he slays them and uses the bodies as research/clothing/building materials.
Henry Bloodwrath (not birth name)
Age:
34 years
Birthday:
May 26
Race:
Immortal
Species:
Warlock (male witch)
Family:
4 younger siblings, father, mother; all deceased.
Appearance:
77 inches or 195.58 cm tall (less than 5 cm short of 2 m). Thin, but not skeletal or gaunt. Prolonged use of the fire element has turned hair and eyes a vibrant red. Hairstyle is *au naturale* (doesn't care about styling it). Usually wears a cloak with hood while traveling. Uses a 7-foot obsidian staff with blood-red runes to focus his energies and to reduce casting time.
In an attempt to lessen his presence's impact upon others, uses pinewood smoke to mask his scent/smell. Boots, greaves, pauldrons, and armbands are made of obsidian and salamander leather. Pants and shirt are also of salamander leather, but gloves are made with wyvern leather with a few garnets sewn in. He also wears a vest with many pockets for ingredients and various items.
Celebrity Avatar:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38375000/jpg/_38375019_darko_150b.jpg>
Celebrity Claim:
Jake Gyllenhaal
Personality:
Honorable to a point. Has some sense of chivalry: ladies must be protected, but women who are *not* ladies are treated equally. Determines "ladyship" based on actions and feelings of women, not their social status or race/species. Fears death (to the point of nightmares), and doesn't react well to shocks. Also occasionally has nightmares about his family dying.
Has a short, explosive temper, but when the anger fades, he doesn't hold grudges most of the time. Distrusts humans and aquatic creatures. When challenged to a duel or sparring match, if Henry is close to winning over the opponent(s) by a large margin, he tends to slow down, leave gaps in his defences, and starts to gloat over the opponent(s). If close to losing, fear of death and anger at weakness buffs up his strength, but leaves him weak and exhausted afterwards.
Henry is a loner, and fiercely dislikes crowds and/or attention.
History:
Born in the mortal realm to a mortal family, Henry did not develop his powers until he reached his 18th year. His family, the Davidsons, consisted of himself, four younger sibilings, his mom, and his dad. They lived far away from the Gaian border, and thus had had little or no contact with magic besides parlor tricks.
When Henry attained his powers, he practised them in secret, with a little bit of private/public experimentation (keeping a candle lit on a brother's birthday cake, for example). A few years later though, the secret came out when he stopped a conflagration near his house before the fire department came. Though at first relieved at the close escape, the neighbors started to falsely suspect Henry of creating the fire himself. His ability was leaked to the media, along with the rumors, and Henry Davidson became famous (or infamous) overnight.
He rejected multiple offers from various military organizations and mercenary guilds, and received tons of hate mail as well. He puzzled over the hate mail until he realized that some people somehow hated magic instead of liking it or just not caring. He puzzled even more over a wierd letter that told of more magic users beyond a barrier in someplace called Gaia. Eventually, a mob formed during the night and attempted to burn down the house. As his family ran out, each of them were shot, as the mob couldn't see who was running in the smoke, and frankly didn't care. As Henry woke up to the sound of the first gunshots, his eyes snapped open and started running outside. However, by the time he got to the door, the last shots had faded away, and the mob had started to dissolve, as they realized that they had murdered regular humans. However, as Henry came into the light, the mob briefly regathered and people started reloading their guns.
In shock, Henry just stared at the bloody scene in front of him, lit by the flames of his house behind him. As the sound of guns cocking, he came out of his shock with a massive surge of anger, and literally incinerated a portion of the mob in front of him to ashes. With that, the rest of the mob stared, and then started to flee. With rage still burning within him, Henry systematically incinerated all the humans as they fled, and then noticed some police cars up the street.
The police had come, but to join the mob instead of to restrain it. Seeing the inferno in front of the Davidsons' house, they rushed up and proceeding to barrage Henry with tear gas grenades. Easily burning them up before they could reach him, Henry pulled some fire from his house and fed it into the police cars' fuel tanks, resulting in spectacular explosions. As all of the perceived enemies had fled or been killed, he abruptly lost consciousness and collapsed in front of his house, as it finally started to collapse.
The next morning, Henry came to his senses and again stared morosely at his family's bodies and used his sorrow to fuel some small flames to use with their funeral pyres. After that, he gathered what few belongings he had that had escaped the flames, and traveled to where the mysterious letter had mentioned a crack in the barrier to Gaia. Once he got to the crack, Henry saw other people go through a checkpoint of some kind, waving blue cards at guards there. Not having a card himself, he used a combination of heat waves and thermal blasts to hide himself from view and to unsteadily levitate past the checkpoint into Gaia.
Once in Gaia, he traveled towards a nearby mountain, so as to see what he could see, avoiding others as much as possible. To his surprise, he didn't feel particularly hungry or thirsty, and was able to slake his thirst and take the edge off his hunger with small streams and fish. Upon arrival at the mountain, he discovered that it was a dormant volcano.
Setting up a temporary lean-to, Henry started tunneling into the side of the mountain using fire with a bit of earth magic to melt and shape it. After a few weeks, still in solitude and not seeing any other form of intelligent life, Henry had tunneled into a cavern and had created a cave system. The entrance itself was high up on a cliff, and though there was a large expanse of rock near the entrance, the path to the entrance was incredibly steep, as Henry normally ascended and descended by levitation. About 10 meters beyond the entrance, there was a short plummet, only about 30 meters, and that entered into the main cavern. The various caves off in the sides were designated for storage, a dungeon (he read plenty of fantasy back in the mortal realm), and an entrance to one of the magma rivers within the volcano.
Henry kept track of time, first by cutting notches in a stick when he got in Gaia, and then by etching notches on the cave walls. Furthermore, he developed a slow-burning stationary fireball that provided illumination for one week, and so notched weeks on the wall, rather than days. To determine when each of the 7 timekeeper fireballs would be lit/relit, he fashioned a primitive sundial on the rocks in front of the entrance.
After he had finished the creation of his home, he started on the project of mutation, and started to produce salamanders, wyverns, and other creatures. Due to a few cases of creatures going rogue and escaping, he cut away most of the cliff around the entrance, besides the rock platform, and made the path up to it steeper than it already was, and put several ladders into the path as well, to prevent former creations from returning. In addition, a few flying creatures, such as the wyverns, posed an aerial threat, so to speak, so he experimented with forms of magic other than fire again, and created two golems by the entrance. He set these to prevent creatures from getting in, but made no preventions against humanoids.
After awhile, Henry had developed the salamanders and wyverns enough to skin a few of them for armor. He included obsidian in the workings, and used various elements to fine-tune the armor (water to mold it, earth to compress it, etc.). Having found some gemstones while mining the cave system, he included them in one of his cave systems, setting another golem there to prevent anyone who didn't have the correct magical pass-sign (rather than pass word) from entering or leaving. He included some gemstones in the creation of his armor, in order to buff a few abilities. Lastly, Henry created an obsidian staff a little taller than he was, and inlaid it with runes so he could cast a few spells without chanting the phrases, greatly reducing the casting time.
Being in the last stages of modifying the creatures (creating different genders rather than neuters), Henry started to research up on dragons as well as the surrounding countryside, to see if he could find out where the letter from so long before had come from, and where the magic users it had mentioned were.
Eventually, other mortals who had come through to Gaia as well, but who were anti-immortal, discovered that new, dangerous creatures were coming from somewhere, and mounted an expedition. They one day found the cave entrance at the cliff, and proceeded up the cliff face. Here, the ladders had an unforeseen benefit: the expedition couldn't take horses or very many supplies up the cliff to the cave. Once they got to the entrance, they noticed two statues (the golems). Deciding that the statues were mere decoration, the expedition pressed onward, and started to encounter various strains of salamanders and wyverns (some salamanders were self-inflammatory, others spat fire; some wyverns spat poison, others acid). After losing a few members to the creatures and the pit, they eliminated what creatures were up there and descended carefully to the bottom of the pit into the cavern.
Upon their arrival, they met Henry, who had just equipped himself with his armor and finished his staff. Unaware that his eyes and hair had turned red, and that his eyes glowed a little from the recent magical working, he was surprised when they started accusing him of being a demonic creature and started attacking. Shaking off the double shock of meeting humans for the first time in years, and being attacked by them, Henry created a wall of fire and surrounded the humans with it, incinerating any arrows that flew from beyond it.
All the men there (the women were guarding the pack animals outside) instantly misunderstood the meaning of the firewall, and suicided, thinking it was a trap for the demonic immortal to devour them at its leisure. Henry was busy healing a nearby salamander that the intruders had injured, and only rose to see that they had gutted themselves. Immediately extinguishing the firewall and hurrying to them, he saw that all but one of them were beyond help, and that one was still alive.
Healing the unconscious young man as best as he could, Henry then lifted the corpses to the cave entrance, and then the man too. After securing the creatures that were loose, and storing the dead creatures in a special cold room (taking heat away from it to freeze it), Henry proceeded to the entrance, and took in the situation outside.
The women outside, thinking the silence after the clash of arms and "whoosh" of fire ominous, had sent a few members up the cliff. As Henry arrived at the place where the golems were situated, the first of the women crawled onto the platform. She could not see at first the bodies --- they were set behind the golems. However, the young man was visible beyond the statues, and Henry had calmed down from his use of magic enough that his eyes had stopped glowing. As the woman first gasped, then cried out to the others about the status of the young man, Henry stepped out.
Quickly stating that he had healed the man as quickly as he could, Henry tried to defuse the shock of the women. One of the next women to get onto the platform had a bit of white magic, and started to heal what wounds Henry could not heal. After the injured man's situation had been stabilized completely, and after five or six women had gathered on the platform outside, the leader of those asked Henry who he was and what had happened to the rest of the group. Henry replied with his first name, and reluctantly admitted that he was the inhabitant of the caves. While their faces started to whiten or redden, he also asked them why they were invading his home.
After they explained their purpose, Henry was at a loss. Upon their repeated inquiries into what had happened to the rest of the group, he replied that he had trapped them, and then they had attempted to commit suicide. Henry tried to defend himself, saying that he was tending to one of his tame creatures and that he had rescued the young man.
Saying that, he (unwisely) brought out the corpses behind the golems. Seeing the bodies, however, a few of the women who had bonded to the men cried out in anger and attacked Henry. He fell back, and cast a wall of fire blocking the entrance to the cave. However, with that event, the rest of the women, and the young man who had just regained consciousness, started to attack. One of the witches with the group was water-oriented and extinguished the flames. As the rest of the group rushed towards Henry, he modified the instructions of the golems, and the 2 golems moved to defend him. Seeing them move, some of the outlying members of the group halted, but the rest of the group urged them onwards. While this was taking place, the rest of the women had either come on the platform or had almost reached it. The man came forward with a mace and smashed the small lean-to and the sundial that was next to the entrance, and then rushed forward towards the golems and Henry.
Seeing that wanton destruction, Henry again lost control of his rage, and used two simple spells. One was medium fire ball, sending the group out of the tunnel and onto the platform, and the other spell severed the platform from the cliff.
After the cries had died out, Henry constructed another platform, this time with hinges, and searched the corpses for what they had. With this, he discovered a few maps, the local coinage, and some more weapons. Lastly, he levitated what horses and pack animals that hadn't fled or weren't able to into the cave. Then, with keeping a couple aside for further experimentation, he let the rest of his creatures loose on the pack animals. After taking the maps to his scrying room, he modified the golems' programming to defend against ANY intrusions into the cave system, unless the intruder displayed the correct magical pass-sign, like the golem guarding the treasure.
After putting the weapons away into another room, he went to sleep. During the few years after this, more groups came and were defeated easily. Henry learned that he was regarded as an evil warlock from a later group, and promptly redecorated the cave entrance with obsidian rocks streaked with red lava, as well as "No Trespassing" signs. Lastly, he started to train some salamanders and wyverns like guard dogs for the caves.
In the years since, his reputation has gone down (or up) in certain circles, but he has not yet been approached peacefully by other mortals or immortals. The volcano he is on has stayed dormant, and is populated with rogue creatures, making any approach difficult to say the least. By looting invaders' corpses, he has learned a little about what has happened to Gaia an the mortal realm, but his knowledge about the current status quo is severly limited.
Anything Else:
Magic is mainly focused on the fire element. Small inroads were made into other elements by self-learning, to balance out the advantages and disadvantages. Can use fire magic in non-direct-damaging ways (thermal updraft to temporarily levitate, heat waves for illusions and camoflauge), but main strength is in direct damage (fireballs). Has modified staff with runes to shorten casting time. Also has inlaid some basic spells into the staff itself for near-instantaneous casting, such as the thermal levitation and camoflauging heat waves. Lastly, has researched some mystic magic in order to breathe underwater as well as to mark and recall teleportation sites, among others. The recall spell is also inlaid into the staff.
No fashion sense whatsoever, choosing practicality over looks. Can sprint fast for a short time, but has little endurance for non-magical exercise. Can use his staff adequately in self-defense.
Has researched magical races, and helped to create/repopulate some as well by carefully infusing lizards with fire and other elements to hatch salamanders, wyverns, and others. Currently researching dragons, and trying to search for them (magically) to see if this elder race exists, and if they do, to parlay with them for knowledge. Has acquired books from groups of intruders, and has an extensive cave that is only partially filled with books.
His creations that have not gone rogue can be considered as pets. If they go rogue, he first determines if they are fertile. If so, he releases them outside. If they are infertile, then he slays them and uses the bodies as research/clothing/building materials.