Characters of Eden-IV

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This article deals with various characters for Character Roleplay related to Eden-IV and the various nations on the planet. Some of these may have individual articles. For the nation leaders, please see Leaders of Eden-IV.

OOC Information by designer

When designing these characters, I focused very much on the relationship between them, and the individual development each of them goes through during the RPs they are used in. Unlike the characters I designed for Cybergoddess, were focus was put mainly on realism in the character development, since the Cybergoddess world was strongly defined already by it's absolutely fantastic sci-fi environment, for Eden-IV I choose to explore a classical romantic theme when creating these characters.

For one thing, a predominant theme of Eden-IV are the Sourcerers and their magic powers, which they use to manipulate a world, which despite being a different planet, is closer to earth of the 20th century than the Cybergoddess world had been, at their will.

A person's magic powers are defined inside the Hexagram, which defines them to be of one of the six Colors of Magic available: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Black or White, at varying intensity (originally, I had intended it to be a pentagram, but the number of Colors Of Magic, which were six, not five, plus HEXagramm fits the theme better).

Now, as we can see, there exist two love triangles in the RP - one in the present, involving Scorpio, Lydia and Vedess, and one in the past, involving Hector, Angela and the woman that would late become Maleficent. Now, what do we get from two triangles overlapping? Shift one of them by 45°, and you will have an hexagramm. As you can see, I intended the hexagramm and its components to be integral, reoccuring elements visually aswell as plot-wise.

Each of the characters involved in this love triangles represent one of the colors aswell:

• Scorpio = Green
• Lydia = Red
• Vedess = Yellow
• Angela = White
• Maleficent = Black
• Hector = Blue

I also added a support cast to both of the main chara (which are rivals not only over Lydia, but eventually, over the fate of the whole planet): Scorpio is usually accompanied by Fafa and Methril as his squad members, while Vedess has his buddies Celine and Salsin, who defect alongsime him to Germanistan.

The Characters

Scorpio Arun

Scorpio Arun
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Age: 17 Race / Species: Human Nation Nova Roma ArmSuit Gunfire RM09

OOC Information

The main character. Original designs had intended him as a sort of experienced, hard-nosed mercenary character, but this design did not go well with the idea of implementing HOUSE into the storyline. He was originally thought to be much taller and have more muscles, aswell as short, lightly-colored hair. Later designs gave him the appearance and character known today. His new character was designed along the general idea of having a naive and childish main character, like explored in series like One Piece or several mecha series, were aswell, young boys and girls are trained to pilot robotic combat units, similar to the ArmSuits HOUSE soldiers are trained to use. The second influence for Scorpio's character came from designer Tiberian Destiny's own experience about the young people surrounding him: a disillusioned youth who concentrates mostly on acting cool. The designern thought how such person would react if plunged into a situation like the one Scorpio faces on Eden-IV.

IC Information

Scorpio is a young trainee ArmSuit pilot at Liamb HOUSE, who is frequently chosen to take part in or lead those operation that encompass the use of HOUSE's trainee squads. While, in career as a pilot, he can live up to the high requirements and responsibility placed upon him, his personal life is not quite as reasonable. Once given free time outside the academy on weekends, he drinks in unhealthy quantities and has sexual relationships with various girls, but never truly falls in love or is love with/by the girls he dates. In the academy, his main rival is Vedess, another trainee pilot of exactly his age, who is pretty much the opposite of Scorpio. Over the course of RPing, his feelings for Lydia and the course of events on Eden-IV change his character for the better, while Vedess ends as a tragic hero.

Special Move

• Psychic Berzerk - releases raw psionic powers. Scorpio freaks out and starts attacking everything the area with psionic abilities for awhile. Normal magic becomes unavailable. If he's pretty much healthy while in this status, this also puts a shield around him and makes him fly.

Lydia Dyani Avani

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Lydia Dyani Avani
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Age: 17 Race / Species: Psionic Nation Romera ArmSuit ArcAngel

OOC Information

For Lydia, an even wider range of designs had been explored, since her personality and appearance was defined pretty early, and remodelling required a lot of different designs. Original designs conceived her as a more martially dressed Romeran resistance combatant. Later designs still included the second face of every young generation: Rebellion, to match Scorpio's representation of the primary aspect. In Lydia's case this assumed a very practical aspect: Her home nation, Romera, was invaded and occupied by Germanistan some years before the story takes place. While most older people have accepted this, the young people of the nation began forming resistance groups, looking at their parents with disgust. Her personality and looks were also designed to be contrary to the design of the Valley girl stereotype that I used to create Scorpio's first girlfried, Tessa. Her last two name mean "Daughter of the Earth God and the Water Godess" and "Earth". Notably, she is the only character whose name means Earth, while Sun and Moon have three characters named after them.

IC Information

During her time with a Romerian resistance group, the FireSeeds, she was located by Dr. Moebius's research program on D²NA. She agreed to join the program if her group would receive military support from HOUSE. HOUSE agreed, and Scorpio and several of his comrades were dispatched to pick her up from Romera and in return deliver massive military supplies. From this point onwards, a deepening love triangle develops between Lydia, Scorpio and Vedess. Unlike Scorpio and most other members of the cast, who eventually find out that they are not humans, but "Humanites", artificial, mindless beings created by the true humans in order to colonize the planet and only became alive by the Kurnikovarium effects, Lydia is one of few survivors of the original human settlers, who, already possessing a soul, were instead mentally lifted up by one level - they became Sourcerers. Lydia as well has the potential to gain such power. Later, Lydia is infected by XenouHertz, a being capable of hacking into the minds of telepaths.

Special Moves

Divine Magic

• Divine Fire
• Holy Light
• Kamikaze (Holy Wind)
• Flood
• Purification
• Holy Earth

Xeno

• XenoWing
  • Sentry
  • Merciful Doom
  • SWARM
• XenoFist
  • Equalizer
  • Gattling
  • Wave Motion Cannon
• XenoHeart
  • Pulsar
  • SuperNova
• XenoSoul
  • Ultimate Weapon

Aodh Methril Charon

A member of Liamb HOUSE. Aodh frequently is put into Scorpio's squadron.

Fafa Elena Cira

Fafa Elena Cira
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Age: 16 Race / Species: Human Nation HOUSE ArmSuit SHRINE

Fafa is a member of the White Squadron of Liamb HOUSE, responsible for technical and combat support.

Akshar Chander

Akshar Chander
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Age: 17 Race / Species: Human Nation Germanistan ArmSuit Ragnarök

OOC Information

"Akshar Chander" means "Eternal Moon" in Urdu.

IC Information

Akshar and Scorpio are rivals since both entered HOUSE. Over time, a strange mixture of friendship and rivalry has grown between them. Essentially, despite their differences on the surface, each of them is the only who can really understand the other. While they do not see each other very often, both honor the skills of the other and aid each other in trouble. Vedess once said that he "'I'll be the only one I permitt to defeat you. No one else will... that's why I come to your aid."

Whereas Scorpio represents a careless and thoughtless attitude towards life, caring about little than "beer and boobs", Chander follows a self-imposed, nietzschean philosophy of self-refinement, which however gradually progresses into maddness. While both have been born with the same exceptional skills, they thus form two entirely different poles.

• Special Move
  • Aura - (Passive) Bestows varying beneficial effects upon allies inside a certain range. Effects depend on currently preferred color of magic and intensity of preferance.
    • White - Aura of Benevolence
    • Black - Aura of Hate / Aura Of Malevolence
    • Red - Aura Of Courage
    • Green - Aura Of Life
    • Blue - Aura of Learning
    • Yellow - Aura Of Honor
  • Soul Blade - Vedess charges his weapon with a randomly picked non-white and non-black magic spell (level of spell depends on Vedess' level) and attacks the enemy. Upon striking, the spell is releasedupon the target and adds to the damage from the strike itself.

Celine Ayfer Danay

Celine Ayfer Danay
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Age: 16 Race / Species: Human Nation Nova Roma ArmSuit Winter

OOC Information

The "moon" theme is repeated here: The name "Celine" descends from the name of an ancient greek moon goddess, Ayfer means "moonlight" in turkish.

IC Information

A trainee pilot who defected alongside Vedess. She was one of Vedess's "gang" during their time in Liamb HOUSE and relayed his orders to the rest of the gang, the Saberblade Boyz.

Special Move

• ZODIAC - Deals damage and status effects depending upon the Color of Magic prefered by the target.
  • White -
  • Black -
  • Red -
  • Green -
  • Blue -
  • Yellow -

Salsin Rumel Koray

Salsin Rumel Koray
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Age: 19 Race / Species: Human Nation Germanistan ArmSuit Hellhound

OOC Information

The moon theme is repeated for the last member of the team: "Koray" means "Glowing Moon" in Turkish.

IC Information

A trainee pilot who defected alongside Vedess. Salsin is a silent, serious, mercenary-type character that is absolutely loyal to Vedess, of whom he thinks that his ideas offer a better possible future than HOUSE. Although he seems hard-nosed and insensitive, he is actually very caring about his friends and people in general, if they are not his enemies. Unlike Scorpio, who prentends to be hard and hides his emotions (even from himself) on purpose, Salsin is just silent by nature. Although his ArmSuit, an Hellhound produced by Germanistan, is way outdated and no match for the ArmSuits deployed by HOUSE, he makes up for this with excellent fighting skills.

Special Move

• Ammo Converter - transforms the souls of killed enemies into magic bullets.
• Gunnery Sequence - fires a series of magic bullets.

XX Years ago

Before the events that take place today, the adventures of a small group of soldiers during the Psion War took massive influence on the events today.

Hector Raynhearthz

Hector Raynheartz
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Age: 27 Race / Species: Human Nation Sothfar Weapon Pulse Saber

A Sothfarian soldier before the founding of the Grey Guard. He got to know Shenna, who would later turn into Maleficent, at the Sky Bay, where she was an Entertainment Humanite. Hector fought against the Magerans and sabotaged their mothership, the XIII, cutting the Mageran divisions on the planet off from their supplies and reinforcements. Although by this he became famous as a war hero, he was thought to have died during the explosion of the XIII. Shenna, who was at that time turned into a telepath by the Kurnikovarium, turned to Black Magic from grief over his alleged death. However, years later, Hector returned and led an uprising against Tormatha, which resulted in returning and confining her to her home plane.

Special Moves

• Saber Dance - special move trained by Sothfar's elite guards. Hector fires his PulseBlade-Combiner once, then engages the target in close combat while avoiding any fire directed at him, dealing out rapid slashes with his weapon while firing at all surrounding enemies.

Hutch Atkinson

Hutch Atkinson
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Age: 32 Race / Species: Human Nation Sothfar Weapon Anchor Harpoon

Half afroamerican half inuit, Hutch was amongst the first wave of settlers on Eden-IV. He joined the Sothfarian Voluntary Army and served in a squad with Hector. After the war, he settled down in a Nessing village at the east coast of San'Dia.

Special Move

• Spade - Special move with harpoon. Causes either Blade or Earth-element damage. Sometimes, instant Death occures.

Howard Hawkins

Howard Hawkins
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Age: 29 Race / Species: Human Nation Sothfar Weapon PDA

Howard Hawkins wath a Sothfarian scientist and member of Hector Raynheartz's squad.

Special Move

• MyDoom - ultimate virus. Destroys any machine-type enemy or telepath instantly. Useless against non-psionic or non-machinery targets.
• My Final Heaven - ultimate Patch. Temporarily powers up the stats of any allied machinery or telepath targeted to their maximum.

The Sourcerers

The Sourcerers are a group of people that gained extensive psionic powers through the Kurnikovarium meteorite. The word "Sourcery" is inspired by the concept of wikipedia:Sourcery from the Discworld series of novels by wikipedia:Terry Pratchett and the word is a very obvious derivative of "Sorcery" and "Source", idicating that these people do not only use the power of magic to change creation at their will, but rather have become the very source of magic and thus do actually possess the power of creation.

Angela

White Magic

A Sourceress equalling Maleficent in power. On several occasions, she appeared to protect people from Maleficent, and always forced her to retreat, yet Angela never challenged Maleficent for control over Sothfar. She survived the end of Sothfar. After the war, she travelled the world and aided the remaining people to build up their independent countries. Propably, she knew of the fact that the survivors were not humans, but Humanites, so she taught them in "how to use their souls adequatly", in order to do decisions on their own and were not subjected to any order they might receive from normal humans. However, almost everything about Angela and the fact that the people on Eden-IV are Humanites was forgotten, and she only remained in the world's memory as offering help in rebuilding the world and founding HOUSE.

Magic

• Asumi
• Amaterasu

Maleficent

Black Magic

Main article(s): Leaders of Eden-IV#Maleficent

A powerful Sourceress that once ruled the nation of Sothfar in the days of the Psion War. She was killed by the MaGenetic Bomb. It is only later that Scorpio finds out she was actually his mother.

Special Moves (Magic)

• Maleficent (Spell) - ultimate Black Magic. Deals little acctual damage, but every status ailment aswell as causes Stat losses.

Tormatha

Blue Magic

Predecessor to Maleficent who first ruled Sothfar after the outbreak of psionic powers [1]. The sorceress Tormatha, who changed her own body into a chimera made up by a Black Dragon and a Water Elemental, was killed during an uprising of the Southfarian people shortly before the outbreak of the Psion War. Her Blue Magic is a type of magic that can easily replicate other magic. However, at a certain point of skill, Tormatha was not confident in simply enhancing her spell repertoire: She used extremly high-level Blue and Black Magic to transform herself into a Black Dragon/Water Elemental hybrid.

Special Moves (Magic)

• Tiamat Strike - summons the Queen of Dragons for a Chaos breath strike on the target.
• Tsunami - water-element damage spell.
• ShadowFlare - deals massive black magic damage on one target.
• Flare - massive fire damage one one target.
• Dragonfire - fire-element damage one target (Breath weapon).

Moves (Dragon+Water Elemental Form)

Black Dragon's Abilities

• Resistance to Acid
• Resistance to Water
• Line of Acid (Breath weapon)
• Water Breathing
• Corrupt Water
• Charm Reptiles
• Darkness (NPC Black Magic Spell)
• Plant Growth (NPC Green Magic Spell)
• Insect Plague (NPC Summon Magic, non-aligned)
• Hide
• Move Silenty
• Swim
• Frightful Presence

Water Elemental's Abilities

• Resistance to Water
• Swim +8
• Water Mastery
• Drench
• Vortex
• Alertness
• Cleave
• Great Cleave
• Improved Critical (slam)
• Improved Bull Rush
• Improved Sunder
• Iron Will
• Lightning Reflexes
• Power Attack

Note that this section is quite unclear, since it is currently RPed.

Jaffar

Yellow Magic

A powerful Sourcerer that batteled Maleficent before the Psion War. He lost, but managed to survive by retreating to a magical shelter, the Sourcerer's Pyramid, on the coast of San'Dia. His mind survived the end of Southfar, captured in this shelter, protected by Iron Guards, automatic guarding machines, magic robots, built from Earth magic and brought to life by Electricity magic, both Yellow Magic elements.

Special Moves (Magic)

• Sands of Time - Puts "Old" status effect on all opponents.
• Megalightning - High lightning damage on all opponents.
• Giga Lightning - Ultimate special move. Summon-class magic. Massive lightning on all opponents.

Verde

Green Magic

Verde Paradizo was the leading Sourcerer of Green Magic. He was responsible of terraforming on Eden-IV before he became a Sourcerer. After he received the immense powers of Sourcery, he began to transform large areas of the planet into a green hell, crazed about spreading immense amounts of life everywere. Remains of his actions can be seen in Romera, but most of his works were destroyed by the MaGenetic Bomb. Verde was pretty much uninvolved in the power struggles of the other Sourcerers.

OOC

"Verde" means "green" in Spanish and it is quite clear what "Paradizo" means. Thus, "Verde Paradizo" means "Green Paradise", which is fitting the peronality of this character.

Nasira

Red Magic

A Sourceress that makes only brief appearances. She worked as a right hand for Maleficent. At some time, she, like many other Sourcerers, tried to raise to power herself, and was subsequently killed by Maleficent. She was cursed to join the Grey Guard as a mindless guard of the Sabaa ruins, still possessing her vast magical powers, but without a soul or own will.

Special Moves (Magic)

• Ruby Light - Puts "Reflect" on all allies.
• Ruby Shoot -
• Ruby Beam -
• Ruby Flame - Medium fire-element damage on one opponent.
• Ruby Laser -
• Ruby Dust - Medium fire damage on all opponents.

OOC The name and appearance of Nasira is, like it was the case with Maleficent, taken from a Disney character: Wikipedia:Nasira (Disney Character).

Magi

Various types of magic

The Magi are a group of people that travelled to the impact site in order to become Sourcerers as well. However, they failed to control their powers, propably because they were not humans, but merely humanites that had already received the maximum effect Kurnikovarium offers for this race. The massive psionic uncontrolled psionic radiation stripped them off their souls, leaving nothing but empty shells that serve as vessels for the psionic powers to manifest.

Main article(s): Monsters of Eden-IV#Magus

XenouHertz

It is quite unclear what XenouHertz really is. It is commonly accepted that it is an artificial Sourcerer, an artificial intelligence developed as an anti-magic weapon by the Magerans. XenouHertz does not possess the psionic capabilities common for the other Sourcerers, possibly because it has no soul of its own. Yet, it is capable of hacking into the minds of Sourcerers and use their powers, that is why this being is listed in this section. While still being located on the planet Magera, which has since the end of the Psion War turned into a gigantic machinery-megastructure, the being constantly attempts to transfer itself to Eden-IV and succeeds to do so when Germanistan restores the ancient communication devices in Litovania and other places. From then on, using Lydia and what is left of other Sourcerers, XenouHertz begins influencing the course of the planet.

However, one cannot be sure of how much of Xeno's behaviour is caused by the original characteristics of the being. When Scorpio arrives on the megastructure to fight Xeno's last form, he first faces a cyborg version of Maleficent (as well as Lydia, who has been assimilated by Xeno, but is freed by Scorpio). It is mentioned by Maleficent in the dialogue that she actually controls Xeno using Technokinesis, and apparent psionic power that differs from the psionic powers used by the psionics of Eden-IV (Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis, Electrokinesis and various other elemental powers) in that it does not control an element, but rather, the incarnation of creativity itself. This can be used to control and infinitely manipulate any object merely by the thought of will. For example, a city requires years of architectural design, calculations, construction work and whatnot to be constructed. Nonetheless, it is an expression of sprawling creativity, negative entropy. Technokinesis supposedly can directly manifest the inherent power of creation that lies within any living being, thus allowing to create and manipulate anything. It is said to be the ultimate power, and Maleficent refers to it as rivaling the power of the gods.

Nonetheless, Maleficent and Xeno seem to be different entities, because even after Maleficent is destroyed, the megastructure continues to function, and the boundless energy Xeno is made of doesn't come to a rest until the "Core" holding it is destroyed. Presumably, his final form is "creational energy without control", some sort of progressive, chaotic big bang energy that boundlessly creates, but has lost all purpose and mind (Technological singularity).

Special Moves

XenouHertz moves depend on the body he controls. However, his own main ability is clearly Mind control. His own true body, the XenoCore, which is installed on the planet Magera, possesses some magic of it's own, mostly time/space- and astro-related.

• Daishi - Death Move. Does massive damage to all opponents.
• Force Blaster - Used each time 10% damage has been caused. Energy wave that hits everything around the XenoCore, containing all the damage the core has received up until then.
• Shield Blaster - Removes Shield status from one opponent, damages armor.
• Shield Sweeper - Removes Shield status from all opponents.
• HitPoints Blaster - causes incurable (!) damage on one target.
• HitPoints Sweeper - lowers health of all opponents to the minimum.

ArmSouls

Each ArmSuit has a software interface to correspond with the piloting human consciousness. These interfaces are known as ArmSoul. They are mostly coded as females for the (mostly male) pilot's conveniance. Though by default without any emotion, the emotions and desires of those that transfer into an ArmSuit are often imprinted into an ArmSoul, sometimes to such a degree that the ArmSoul adopts personality traits and behaviour from its pilot. Sometimes, pilots get so much absorbed by interfacing that their souls actually merge with the ArmSoul, never being able to return to their bodies again. Once a pilot dies in this condition, his soul leaves a permanent imprint inside the ArmSuit's psychical matrix, called a "Shadow".

EVA

EVA was more than an ArmSoul. She was actually the personification of HOUSEs central computronium core. Mark 4 AutoSuits were directly controlled by EVA via A.I. telepathy. EVA would absorb and abopt all ArmSuit personalities and abilities, making the ArmSuits she controlled nearly invincible both in strategy and tactic.

NAOMI

Angelita

Angelita was the ArmSoul of AEGIS. For a brief period (with AutoSuit Mark 3), HOUSE used copies of Angelita as pilots for their AutoSuits.

Series

Series was a blank default ArmSoul uploaded into the first line of AutoSuits. Like most ArmSouls, Series was female and worked via a feedback system between the AutoSuits computronic core and the Humanite implanted into the suit.

Minor Characters

• General Rajan - HOUSE general in charge of Liamb HOUSE
• Don Geoff - a businessman from Texana who invested into Liamb HOUSE during it's financial crisis to convert into a mercenary group.
• Tessa - Scorpio's first girlfriend. A girl from the Nova Roman aristoracy that dated him not for love but for the thrill of dating a warrior.
• Brooks - a soldier of the Germanistanian Army. He is member of many task forces that are encountered and somehow always turns out to survive even the hardest battles.
• Dorn - a soldier of the Germanistanian Army. He is member of many task forces that are encountered and somehow always turns out to survive even the hardest battles