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This article deals with various characters 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 Hexagramm, 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 pentagramm, 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 =
• Lydia =
• Vedess =
• Angela = White
• Maleficent = Black
• Hector =

I also added a support cast to both of the main antagonists (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

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.

Lydia

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.

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

Methril

Fafa

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

Vedess

Celine Danay

A trainee pilot who defected alongside Vedess.

Salsin Rumel

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.

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

A Sothfarian soldier before the founding of the Grey Guard. He 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.

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

Special Move

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

Howard Hawkins

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.

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.

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. 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, Tormath was not confident is simply enhancing her spell selection: 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
• 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.

[name still missing]

Green Magic

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.

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 suceeds 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.

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.

Minor Characters

• 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.