Elric Eppstein

when hope was high

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  On the ouside I am pretty wit
  and charm in spades, gentle
  water waves of kindness and
  slate-surfaced good intention.
  I am shallow lakeside ripples,
  beckoning and warm, and deadly
  because still water runs deep
  and inside I'm rotten ugly,
  with bone-deep and gangrenous hatred,
  spreading weed-like tendrils of insanity,
  lurking, hungry, at the bottom.
  
  
  
• Vampire

  
  

  Strengths Enhanced senses Elric's sensitivity to the sun stems from well-developed night vision. He possesses enhanced smell, sight and hearing. Enhanced Strength Elric is physically more advanced than the normal human. He can sustain extreme exertion. Enhanced Speed Ric is fast on his feet, though he doesn't employ it often. Thusly he cannot sustain great speeds for a long amount of time. Regeneration After feeding on blood, Elric has the ability to regenerate wounds. The more regeneration necessary, the higher quantity/quality of blood needs to be consumed. When he has not fed in some time will struggle to regenerate wounds with speed faster than a normal human's, and wounds regenerate their fastest within an hour of feeding. Upon ingestion, humans can take advantage of his vampiric blood as well.

  Weaknesses Sunlight This is the bane of any vampire’s existence. Direct sunlight contact has the ability to kill Elric after only a few hours. Heavy cloaking and eye protection can allow brief moments of daytime walking, from one shaded location to another. Feeding Nearly all of Elric's abilities are significantly diminished if he does not feed regularly. A lack of blood can cause weakness, dizziness, decreased ability to tolerate holy objects and sunlight. Feeding consumes his thoughts if hungered. Poor quality of blood, such as animal blood offers very little boost to his strength. Holy & Hallowed Objects Objects that have been blessed by priests or divine entities are considered to be “holy” and have crippling effects to Ric. Items like holy water act as the equivalent to acid and may burn his flesh on contact, buthe often does not feel the effects until necrosis of upper tissue layers begins. Hallowed Grounds weaken him when he stands upon them; he cannot enter churches.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Previous Magical abilities
  
  
  

  ● Mental manipulation ⇢ - can manipulate brain synapses, thoughts; mind control. ● Elemental control Earth/Fire/Air ⇢ Revives plantlife. Creates Small flames. Increase gusts. Water ⇢ His element. Can flawlessly mirror the fluidity of water, thus he can manipulate water waves, create them, shape them into different items or weapons. Can paint magically, extract water from a target's body, can manipulate blood and extract it.

  ● Aural magic Life draining ⇢ can absorb the life energy of the target and utilize it in some way. Cannot drain energy to the point of death. Astral projection ⇢ astrally projecting himself into targets' dreams. ● Transfigurations ⇢ alters the properties of an item, transform it into something with the same weight, density and shape; Elric can transfigure same size items into one another and at times, enlarge an item as well, change its physical proterties.

  
  ● Precognitive visions/dreams ⇢ Can see a person's future in his dreams. Controlled.
  ● Retrocognitive visions/dreams ⇢ Can see into a person's past. Controlled.
  
  

  ● Manipulation of bodily kinesthetic ⇢ can control the tightening and relaxing of the muscles of bodies other than his own, can increase or decrease the work of organs (other than the brain), - Stitching - a.k.a. healing - can 'stitch' minor wounds closed and can increase/decrease bleeding - Reverse-stitching - can cause wounds that he has closed to reopen; can inflict wounds that were not previously existent on the target's body.

  ● Illusions ⇢ Elric can make the target see, hear, smell, taste and feel things that are not there. He can create entire illusory worlds and warp his targets' perception of reality. • Dreams ⇢ can play on the target's psyche so their subconsciousness makes their deepest fears surface while at rest; specializes in night terrors and nightmarish lucid dreams; sometimes unknowingly gives people a look into their past (accidental precognition) • Hallucinations ⇢ can extend his illusory abilities to the target's wakefullness and twist reality to such an extent that they see or hear things in a different light.
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  LORE

  ABILITIES
  He mainly dabbles in black magic and mental magic, which, when employed by a man with his affliction, is considered dangerous and mildly dark.
  
  
  

  

  

  Magical Lore

  Take a coin. A simple one. Look at it. It has two sides - heads and tails.
  It represents you. Two sides of the same coin - two worlds that you experience. One side represents your own little personal space - your inner world, hence - heads. The other side, tails, represents the outer world, everything physical around you, including your body. The outer world is corporeal, palpable, a sensory and locomotory experience, whilst your inner world consists of thoughts, memories and ideas, all of which are perceptory experiences; mental ones, which cannot be trnaslated into the physical world directly from the mind, but use a conduit - the body.
  The two worlds have no way of becoming one as the coin has two sides for a reason - one cannot view both of them simultaneously. You cannot make a perception physical and, normally, you cannot affect the world with your mind directly.
  
  But we can...
  
  Now spin the coin
  Observe as the two sides blurr together imperceptably.
  That is magic...
  
  According to that there three types of magic:
  
  
  

  The Pledge

  The Pledge:

  The first main branch of magic is pledge magic. It is the simplest. It pertains only to the outer world that one experiences - it is the ability to use one's inner world to affect and alter the world around them. All types of magic that affect the physical environment fall into the category of pledge magic (telekinesis, elemental control, charmwork & transfigurarions, to name a few).

  
  
  
  

  The Turn

  The Turn:

  Branch of magic, characterized by the ability to manipulate and alter a world one does not experience and, in normal circumstances, would not have any access to - another person's inner world (their mind). Turn magic is mental magic. It is much more dangerous and complex than pledge magic as each individual mind is uncharted territory, navigable only to those mages with great perception of the depth of the human consciousness ( consciousness, subconsciousness and deep subconsciousness). Like pledge magic, turn magic has several levels of difficulty, according to the part of the mind one seeks to affect. Threading through the subconsciousness is the easiest, as the thought process there isn't volitional - it is much easier to manipulate involuntary desires and thoughts than voluntary ones. Affecting the subconsciousness usually happens easily during dream states as the mind is most volatile and flexible whilst in deep sleep - signs of a mage tampering with one's subconsciousness are usually odd and unexplainable dreams. As dreams stem from the uncontrollable part of the mind, they are altered when a change in the subconsciousness occurs. Controlling conscious thought is harder as that part of the brain works actively against the magic user when it detects an unwanted thought. That type of turn magic is commonly referred to as mind control.
  
  Conscious and subconscious turn magic doesn't require more than a fifth of the mage's mind to be concentrated on it and thus the magic user can remain fully conscious whilst performing the turn. It can be done whilst the mage itself is sleeping - basically, dream-walking. So to say, only a tendril of the mage's mind needs to be connected to the target's.
  
  Entering the deep subconscious requires the performer's mind to be fully connected to the mind of the target - to be fully submerged in the target's inner world where they have no control over the environment. Even when the target is human, their mind has natural defences which can neutralize the threat - throw the mage out of their personal space or, in some extreme cases, destroy the parasite mind latched onto theirs.

  
  
  
  

  The Prestige

  The Prestige:

  The Prestige is the most intense and impressive magic that a witch performs in their entire life - it is an incredible phenomenon, which happens only once, if at all, to a magic user. Theoretically speaking every witch has the potential for a prestige, but less than a fourth of the magical population of the world ever achieves one. It transpires only in the case of incredibly intense emotions, which birth single-minded thoughts and desires.
  
  In the case of such extreme emotive states even humans are capable of spinning the coin - telekinesis can form by normal humans subjected to huge amounts of stress or those who undergo traumatizing events; the phenomenon 'hysterical strength' (I.e. parents lifting whole cars off their children) is also a magical burst achieved by normal people.
  
  When born magic users are subjected to similar factors, the results vary, but one tendency remains - The Prestige is always the highlight of a witch's magic; the peak of it. It is a moment of impact when the magical mind is overwhelmed with so much emotion that it gains the ability to alter the fabric of time and change reality. A thought forms so intensely and persists so strongly that it is made physical, real. It's often referred to as a 'dream come true' or a 'granted wish'.
  
  Prestiges tend to hold a negative connotation in the magical world and with reason - happiness and positive emotions are rarely the cause of the prestige and thus little good usually comes out of a Prestige magic. Furthermore, the emotion felt most intensely and the one that causes most single-minded thoughts, is anger and one's desires during such states are hardly logical. Prestige due to sorrow often has distorted results - turning back time to save a loved one leads to witnessing their death again, only in a different manner.
  
  The Prestige changes a person, depending on the thought they've made physical, fhe wish their magic has granted to them.