Post by Amun Rajiri on Jan 21, 2009 22:55:31 GMT -5
Full Name: Virilius
Classification: Incubus
Gender: Male
Age: While appearing to be in his mid- to late-twenties, as an immortal being, Virilius is actually many more centuries older than that.
Appearance:
Standing at just over six-feet tall and walking around with his taut, muscular, and tanned torso exposed—only occasionally covered in a black velvet hooded cloak—Virilius often attracts attention wherever he goes. He has a pair of smoldering black eyes inlaid in an angular face, which looks as if it had been sculpted by a skilled artisan, and a set of thick, soft lips that seem to beg women to kiss them. His long, black hair cascades down his shoulders and back in fine strands that have a smooth sheen under both sun and moonlight.
When not wearing his black cloak, Virilius wanders through the countryside—and, sometimes, the cities—with little more than a pair of black leather trousers over top a matching pair of boots. Cinching the pants around his lean, chiseled body, is a black belt decorated in gold filigree with a red-jeweled clasp, while around his neck he wears gold, ruby adorned crest that was a gift from a long-dead noble woman that he had once taken as his lover.
Power List:
Dream dancing
Empathic Charm
Teleporation
Detailed Power:
Dream dancing: Virilius has the ability to slip into the dreams of anyone who is sleeping (usually human women) and manipulate their dreams to suit his own ends, most often by causing the sleeping victim to have erotic dreams so that Virilius may feed off of the lustful energy. He can even draw multiple sleeping people into the same dream.
Empathic Charm: Virilius can empathically manipulate the emotions of humans (again, most often women) in order to ‘charm’ his way into their lives by temporarily making himself seem irresistible to them and thereby make them easily susceptible to his coercion. This ability, however, is much more difficult to employ against heterosexual males.
Teleportation: Virilius can transport himself and others (and on rare occasions, some larger objects) from one place to another with light-like speed by making invisible tears in space-time, which heal a few seconds after he has teleported. This ability is limited to his line of sight or to specific places with which he has a great deal of familiarity. Performing ‘blind teleports’ to any other areas can result in him inadvertently teleporting into a wall, furniture, or even another person.
Alignment: Unaligned
Weapons:
Virilious carries a three foot long staff made of black granite. It is hard, heavy, and an extremely effective tool in hand-to-hand combat.
Personality:
Vain, self-serving and cunning like most incubi and succubae, Virilius is concerned only with himself and his own needs and will do anything, including using his abilities, to manipulate situations in order to achieve his own ends. Those ends, however, are rarely the grand schemes that occupy the minds of mortals and are almost always little more than ensuring his own survival or gaining some form of selfish entertainment. Loyal only to himself, he never builds lasting friendships and never forms alliances that he doesn’t at some point in time intend to break.
Although treacherous, opportunistic, and manipulative, Virilius is never malicious and is not without his own sense of humor. Albeit a mischievous one. He delights in pulling pranks—especially on the wealthy and the nobility—that leave the victims looking and feeling like fools and idiots and he has a playful demeanor that is at once both frustrating and charming. He loves playing mind games, especially those where he is able to turn his opponent’s own words or beliefs against him or her, and has a skillful knack of knowing just which buttons to push in order to get the reactions he wants out of people, especially women.
Skills:
Being several hundred years old and having travelled extensively in that time, coupled with the necessities of being an incubus, Virilius is fluent in a plethora of languages from a multitude of species. Most notable being those of the humans.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
While reasonably gifted in hand-to-hand combat (using his stave), Virilius is much more skilled at fleeing a battle or worming his way out of one than he is at fighting them. His greatest skill lies in his ability to move among the intrigues of the humans and twist them to suit his own ends.
History:
Virlius’ life began much like that of any other incubus. He was born, centuries ago, to a young, virginal human woman who had been ‘seduced’ and impregnated in her sleep by an incubus. The ‘virgin birth’ caused great controversy in the small Cadrial-Tiein village where she lived, splitting the community down the middle between those who viewed the event as a miracle brought about by the gods and those who saw it as a dark omen that symbolized the existence of demons in their midst.
For the early part of his life, Virilius and his mother were both loved and reviled by the villagers with whom they lived. He had few friends but, even at his young age, still managed to maneuver his way through the small communal society and, by virtue of the innate charm he’d inherited from his ‘father’, was generally left unbothered by those who despised him.
Virilius grew up believing he was human until, when he was twelve, he began to enter puberty and the changes that normally manifest themselves in young men his age started to have an even more powerful effect on Virilius. Undergoing a growth spurt among growth spurts, his appeared to grow taller with each passing day and his body quickly took on the masculine aspects of men twice his age. The most potent development in the young ‘man’, however, came with the intensely vivid erotic dreams he began to have when he was asleep. Night after night, he dreamt that he walked amongst the houses of the town where he lived to visit the vulnerable sleeping forms of the fertile female population, whereupon he would draw them into a waking dream and seduce them. It wasn’t until some of the women, many of them unmarried virgins, became pregnant—all of whom described a dream in which a man had come to them in their sleep—that Virilius realized that not only were his dreams not just dreams but that he wasn’t altogether human.
His suspicions were confirmed when, during another one of his dream walks, Virilius encountered a man that he had never seen before but that bore a striking resemblance to him: his father. The incubus explained to Virilius what he was, the nature of the dreams he was having and the powers that he would, in time, come to possess. But coupled with these lessons and explanations was a warning. Conflict was brewing, as many of the townsfolk had become frightened by the sudden spate of ‘virgin’ pregnancies in their midst and, convinced it was a sign of evil, were planning to purge the demons from their town. Waking and fearing the wrath of his neighbors, Virilius packed up what little he could take with him and fled the village under cloak of night, leaving his mother and the pregnant ‘virgins’ behind to be murdered.
As the centuries passed, Virilius moved about the continent and passed from village to village and kingdom to kingdom under a cloak of virtual anonymity. As his father had said, his powers grew over time, he ceased to age in his late twenties, and his control over his abilities had expanded. His grief over the loss of his mortal life dissipated over time and eventually Virilius learned to enjoy the life of an incubus. He rarely stayed in one place for long, set up hidden shelters all over the continent so he could teleport to safety, and wooed and successfully seduced a wide variety of women: several queens, a multitude of noblewomen, and hundreds of thousands of peasants. While imprisoned and sentenced to death for seducing a duke’s daughter, Virilius even seduced the same duke’s son and convinced the young man to set him free.
Of all of Virilius’ conquests, the most notable was that of a priestess in the Kingdom of Gelden. For it was here that Virilius came into possession of the red stone that adorns the clasp of his belt. It was, as the priestess had explained, one of nine such stones in existence that held great powers over the workings of the world around them. This stone had power over chaos. Realizing that having something of that power with him would make his ability to survive in the world, Virilius cunningly stole the gem and disappeared from Gelden before the priestess realized what had happened.
