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Infobox
Maxima Priscus
Maxima the Neoteric
BASICS
nicknames: n/a
pronouns: he/him
dob: 5/3
age: 35
sexuality: gay
height: 6'10"
build: lanky
APPEARANCE
Tall and thin as Garleans tend to be, the only things that mark Maxima as something other than standard human are his height and the pearl-like third eye between his eyebrows. He has long brown hair (usually kept tied back for convenience), lavender eyes, and light skin with a warm tone that suggests he'd tan well. He wears glasses, and keeps his facial hair to a neatly-trimmed goatee. Living in the city, he dresses for comfort and practicality, preferring earth tones in his wardrobe choices.
PERSONALITY
positive
idealistic, adaptable, courageous
idealistic, adaptable, courageous
neutral
restrained, quiet, pragmatic
restrained, quiet, pragmatic
negative
melancholy, compartmentalized, traumatized
melancholy, compartmentalized, traumatized
ABILITIES
Enhanced Awareness
The Garlean third eye in the middle of the forehead grants them unusually strong proprioception and spatial awareness, making them better than regular humans at flying airships, shooting guns, and other activities that need a good sense of aim and trajectory.
The Garlean third eye in the middle of the forehead grants them unusually strong proprioception and spatial awareness, making them better than regular humans at flying airships, shooting guns, and other activities that need a good sense of aim and trajectory.
Non-elemental powers
Levitation: Can hover one foot above the ground.
Butter-no-jutsu: Can perfectly duplicate anything, but the duplicate is made of butter.
Fishing Boon: Anywhere he fishes, he is guaranteed to catch either a fish or some kind of a treasure.
Regeneration (High): Cuts and bruises heal within minutes, more severe injuries within two hours. Can survive fatal injuries and fully heal within 1-2 days.
Elemental Forcefield (Master): Multi-person forcefield that can last for 5 minutes, or a smaller force field that can last for 10 minutes.
Levitation: Can hover one foot above the ground.
Butter-no-jutsu: Can perfectly duplicate anything, but the duplicate is made of butter.
Fishing Boon: Anywhere he fishes, he is guaranteed to catch either a fish or some kind of a treasure.
Regeneration (High): Cuts and bruises heal within minutes, more severe injuries within two hours. Can survive fatal injuries and fully heal within 1-2 days.
Elemental Forcefield (Master): Multi-person forcefield that can last for 5 minutes, or a smaller force field that can last for 10 minutes.
Element: Fire
Conjure Fire (high): Can conjure up a person's worth of fire.
Conjure Smoke (medium): Can conjure up a bucket's worth of smoke
Fire Manipulation (high): He has good control over large fires, able to snuff them, make them larger, or cause the flames to form shapes.
Heat Manipulation (medium): He can finely control the heat levels of something he touches, and somewhat control the heat levels of things in the same room.
Elemental Imbuement (medium): Can imbue his weapon with fire for one minute at a time.
Blue Fire: All fire that he conjures is ceruleum-blue.
Fire Immunity (Low): Can be immune to fire for 2 minutes.
Fire Breathing (low): Can breathe a small lighter-size flame.
Body Heat (low): Always extra-warm to the touch.
Self-Sacrifice (high): Can give up to 50% of his own health to heal someone else who's injured or low on energy.
Conjure Fire (high): Can conjure up a person's worth of fire.
Conjure Smoke (medium): Can conjure up a bucket's worth of smoke
Fire Manipulation (high): He has good control over large fires, able to snuff them, make them larger, or cause the flames to form shapes.
Heat Manipulation (medium): He can finely control the heat levels of something he touches, and somewhat control the heat levels of things in the same room.
Elemental Imbuement (medium): Can imbue his weapon with fire for one minute at a time.
Blue Fire: All fire that he conjures is ceruleum-blue.
Fire Immunity (Low): Can be immune to fire for 2 minutes.
Fire Breathing (low): Can breathe a small lighter-size flame.
Body Heat (low): Always extra-warm to the touch.
Self-Sacrifice (high): Can give up to 50% of his own health to heal someone else who's injured or low on energy.
Element: Earth
Conjure Plant (low): Can conjure a single flower.
Plant Communication (basic): Can communicate with plants in simple terms.
Plant Manipulation (high): Can control the movement of medium-sized plants like bushes and vines telekinetically.
Magnetic Sense: Can always sense where the magnetic poles are.
Metal Manipulation (low): Can manipulate softer metals such as aluminum and copper.
Conjure Plant (low): Can conjure a single flower.
Plant Communication (basic): Can communicate with plants in simple terms.
Plant Manipulation (high): Can control the movement of medium-sized plants like bushes and vines telekinetically.
Magnetic Sense: Can always sense where the magnetic poles are.
Metal Manipulation (low): Can manipulate softer metals such as aluminum and copper.
Magical Flaws
Berserker (low): After taking a serious hit, roll a d20. If below a 5, you fly into a rage.
Increased Libido: Gets horny more easily particularly during elemental months.
Fear of Heights (low): Gets anxious when flying or high-up.
Berserker (low): After taking a serious hit, roll a d20. If below a 5, you fly into a rage.
Increased Libido: Gets horny more easily particularly during elemental months.
Fear of Heights (low): Gets anxious when flying or high-up.
Environmental Magic - Seawater
Can control about a bathtub's worth of seawater, moving or shaping it.
Can control about a bathtub's worth of seawater, moving or shaping it.
Persona
Navigator-style Persona: Tacitus Appears as a hovering mechanical drone of some kind idk I'm not a visual design person
Skill: Position Hack - 25% chance to ambush enemies before a battle starts.
Skill: Analysis - can identify the strengths and weaknesses of an enemy seen previously
Skill: Emergency Shift - can teleport an ally out of mortal danger to safety
Skill: Labyrinth Scan - Tacitus can map out a gate or labyrinth.
Navigator-style Persona: Tacitus Appears as a hovering mechanical drone of some kind idk I'm not a visual design person
Skill: Position Hack - 25% chance to ambush enemies before a battle starts.
Skill: Analysis - can identify the strengths and weaknesses of an enemy seen previously
Skill: Emergency Shift - can teleport an ally out of mortal danger to safety
Skill: Labyrinth Scan - Tacitus can map out a gate or labyrinth.
Monster Transformation
Canine - Borzoi A brown-furred sighthound with a white circular mark on its forehead
Traits: Improved sense of smell
Canine ears + hearing
Full transformation
Pack instinct
Tail
Speed Boost (medium)
Lie Detection
Hellhound
Awareness: Can sense any living presence within the Fortress of Meropide, unless overridden by stealth powers.
Canine - Borzoi A brown-furred sighthound with a white circular mark on its forehead
Traits: Improved sense of smell
Canine ears + hearing
Full transformation
Pack instinct
Tail
Speed Boost (medium)
Lie Detection
Hellhound
Awareness: Can sense any living presence within the Fortress of Meropide, unless overridden by stealth powers.
Geo Vision
Elemental Sensing
Elemental Conjuration - Earth
Elemental Manipulation - Earth
Elemental Skill: aris et focis - manifests Geo energy into a soup pot which gradually heals someone standing next to it. (Healing - Medium)
Elemental Burst: e convivor convictio - dispels the soup pot to shield allies and boost Maxima's strength. (Shield - High and Attack Boost - Low)
Passive Skill: ad abundantium - 1 in 3 chance of cloning any meal successfully cooked. (Cooking Boon)
Elemental Sensing
Elemental Conjuration - Earth
Elemental Manipulation - Earth
Elemental Skill: aris et focis - manifests Geo energy into a soup pot which gradually heals someone standing next to it. (Healing - Medium)
Elemental Burst: e convivor convictio - dispels the soup pot to shield allies and boost Maxima's strength. (Shield - High and Attack Boost - Low)
Passive Skill: ad abundantium - 1 in 3 chance of cloning any meal successfully cooked. (Cooking Boon)
Thief Dressphere
Changes his outfit to a set of thief gear, wielding double daggers.
Skill: Steal - You have a chance of being able to lift an item off a target. Chance increases if you actually try to be sneaky.
Changes his outfit to a set of thief gear, wielding double daggers.
Skill: Steal - You have a chance of being able to lift an item off a target. Chance increases if you actually try to be sneaky.
Inspiration - Medium
As long as he's wearing the hairclip Wriothesley gave him, he can give an inspiring speech that makes up to 4 people twice as strong for up to 5 minutes.
As long as he's wearing the hairclip Wriothesley gave him, he can give an inspiring speech that makes up to 4 people twice as strong for up to 5 minutes.
RESIDENCE
Maxima currently lives in the Fortress of Meropide; his room is described here.
BACKGROUND
Maxima's parents were political activists seeking to make the Garlean Empire they lived in more just, and he joined their cause when he was old enough. When they died under suspicious circumstances, he carried on their work, choosing to forego personal relationships out of awareness that he was likely to meet the same fate. He thought they'd made a breakthrough after the Empire's defeats in Ala Mhigo and Doma, only to discover that his faction was being used as a pawn to reinforce the control of the greater evil that had been puppeteering the imperial family since the Empire's founding.
His only recourse was to flee into exile and throw himself on the mercy of the recently liberated, who were more than willing to welcome the intelligence he could bring on the Empire's current dealings. Knowing that he would be called traitor for it, but also that his homeland would never be truly free until its current rulers were toppled, he threw his lot in with them wholeheartedly. And when civil war caused the whole Empire to fall into chaos, he agreed to help guide a relief expedition collected from all the nations who had once been their enemies, right into the heart of his homeland.
The war is over. The last heirs of the imperial family are dead, and the Garlean Empire's infrastructure is in ruins. What's left is a scattering of refugees, both former soldiers and civilians, huddled in the wreckage and being tended to by the relief contingent, slowly trying to work out how to rebuild their lives and construct a functioning nation; this is where Maxima belongs, and he means to make that rebuilding his life's work.
His only recourse was to flee into exile and throw himself on the mercy of the recently liberated, who were more than willing to welcome the intelligence he could bring on the Empire's current dealings. Knowing that he would be called traitor for it, but also that his homeland would never be truly free until its current rulers were toppled, he threw his lot in with them wholeheartedly. And when civil war caused the whole Empire to fall into chaos, he agreed to help guide a relief expedition collected from all the nations who had once been their enemies, right into the heart of his homeland.
The war is over. The last heirs of the imperial family are dead, and the Garlean Empire's infrastructure is in ruins. What's left is a scattering of refugees, both former soldiers and civilians, huddled in the wreckage and being tended to by the relief contingent, slowly trying to work out how to rebuild their lives and construct a functioning nation; this is where Maxima belongs, and he means to make that rebuilding his life's work.
INVENTORY
Linkpearl
A small magical communicator which can connect to other linkpearls over long distances. Reactivated to connect with his cell phone as a fancy Bluetooth headset.
A small magical communicator which can connect to other linkpearls over long distances. Reactivated to connect with his cell phone as a fancy Bluetooth headset.
Warding Scale
A dragon scale augmented by alchemy, meant to guard the holder against corruption by magical influence. Currently inactive.
A dragon scale augmented by alchemy, meant to guard the holder against corruption by magical influence. Currently inactive.
Gunblade
It's a sword with a gun in the hilt, or perhaps a gun with a sword attached to the barrel. These are standard-issue military gear for the Empire, and can fire ordinary bullets or explosive charges. He currently has three rounds of explosive ammunition.
It's a sword with a gun in the hilt, or perhaps a gun with a sword attached to the barrel. These are standard-issue military gear for the Empire, and can fire ordinary bullets or explosive charges. He currently has three rounds of explosive ammunition.
Imperial Officer's Armor
A full-body suit of standard-issue Imperial officer's armor. It's made of interlocking metal plates and hardened mesh weave, like a knight reinforced with Kevlar. Officers' armor specifically is lacquered with a substance that reduces magical conductivity - this prevents the wearer from casting spells effectively but also insulates them slightly against incoming magic.
A full-body suit of standard-issue Imperial officer's armor. It's made of interlocking metal plates and hardened mesh weave, like a knight reinforced with Kevlar. Officers' armor specifically is lacquered with a substance that reduces magical conductivity - this prevents the wearer from casting spells effectively but also insulates them slightly against incoming magic.
High Heels
A pair of nice high heels from the gacha.
A pair of nice high heels from the gacha.
Rock Pillows
A set of pillows that look like very much like rocks. They are thankfully soft. He finds them kind of charming.
A set of pillows that look like very much like rocks. They are thankfully soft. He finds them kind of charming.
Singing Frog
A frog that sings and dances, but only when he's around. If he tries to show anyone else, it acts like a normal frog.
A frog that sings and dances, but only when he's around. If he tries to show anyone else, it acts like a normal frog.
Li'l Cactus
An anthropomorphic cactus friend who lives in his room in Meropide. They are shy but are happy to listen and write down things he tells them about his adventures. Sort of an impromptu therapist?
An anthropomorphic cactus friend who lives in his room in Meropide. They are shy but are happy to listen and write down things he tells them about his adventures. Sort of an impromptu therapist?
Shoebill
A massive shoebill stands in the hallway near his room and stares at people who pass by. It likes to eat fish.
A massive shoebill stands in the hallway near his room and stares at people who pass by. It likes to eat fish.
Plush Octopus
A dapper octopus plushie with a top hat.
A dapper octopus plushie with a top hat.
Dinosaur Plushie
A cute dinosaur plushie. Maxima has never heard of dinosaurs and believes it to be a dragon.
A cute dinosaur plushie. Maxima has never heard of dinosaurs and believes it to be a dragon.
Tea Friend
A living teapot that is more than happy to try to make sure you have a nice relaxing tea time.
A living teapot that is more than happy to try to make sure you have a nice relaxing tea time.
Steampunk Hairclip
A steampunk-styled clip that's meant to tie back one's hair, the decoration on it has a tiny set of gears that gently spin and rotate, but doesn't make a sound. A Christmas gift from Wriothesley - see abilities section for more.
A steampunk-styled clip that's meant to tie back one's hair, the decoration on it has a tiny set of gears that gently spin and rotate, but doesn't make a sound. A Christmas gift from Wriothesley - see abilities section for more.
Dragon
A horse sized dragon. It can breathe a stream of water and fly.
A horse sized dragon. It can breathe a stream of water and fly.
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