zenethil // champion of light

Zenethil
Champion of Light

RACE,

Hylian

GENDER,

Male

BATTLE ROLE,

Healer/Magic DPS

SEXUALITY,

Heterosexual

AGE,

Thirty-seven

ALLIANCE,

Hylian Royalty
Captain of the Hylian Knights

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PERSONALITY,

Positive

• Courageous
  
• Dedicated
  
• Selfless
  
• Stoic
  
• Natural leader

Negative

• Stubborn
  
• Slow to trust
  
• Closed-minded
  
• Uncompromising
  
• Stuck in his ways

APPEARANCE,

For all his Hylian heritage, Zenethil clearly displays the marks of many hardships. Battle-scars line his stern face, almost permanently set in a determined frown, grey eyes made cold by years of leading men, and women, sometimes to their deaths. Brown hair, bunched atop his head, unkempt, held in place by a blue and silver band, completes the war-ravaged visage he presents to everyone.

Standing at six foot, nine inches, Zenethil is tall, even for a Hylian, and like most Hylians, is a comparatively slender individual compared to most other warriors, weighing in at only a hundred and eighty pounds. However, when clad in his full battle regalia, his stature becomes more akin to that which befits the commander of one of the single most cohesive and effective fighting forces in Hyrule. Reds and golds highlight the finely polished steel, carved intricately into the form of the griffon on the pauldrons, feathers lining his cloak and under-armour garb.

When in more formal dress, he tends to wear the customary reds and golds of the Hylian Knight heraldry, wearing ceremonial armour, a more ornate version of his regular battledress, his personal motif of the griffon repeated, moulded into the pauldrons, feathers embossed on the plates, picked out and laquered in red over the burnished gold.

WEAPONS,

The Blade of Acheron: An ornate weapon, passed down from Knight Captain to Knight Captain, this ancient heirloom has yet to reveal its full potential to Zenethil. The rubies set into it, particularly the massive one set into the pommel, glow with an inner light, revealing their innate magical properties, yet to be awakened…

ITEMS,

Zenethil possesses few things outside of his battle garb and ceremonial regalia, aside from a few heirlooms of his family. He does however possess a journal which he tries to keep as up to date as possible.

ABILITIES,

Acts of Penance (Leader Ability)

Vindication

Channelling righteous fury, Zenethil bombards his foe with ravening volleys of holy energy. Vindication fires 3 volleys of holy energy at a single hostile target. This is a ranged magical ability, and all damage dealt has the holy attribute.

Damage: Moderate per volley.
Range: Long
Cooldown: 6 posts

Absolution

Channelling sanctified blessings, Zenethil revitalises himself or an ally with volleys of nourishing holy energy. Absolution fires 3 volleys of holy energy at a single allied target. This is a single target ranged magical ability.

Healing: Moderate per volley.
Range: Long
Cooldown: 6 posts

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Acts of Redemption

Word of Glory

With a single, victorious cry, Zenethil washes himself with holy energies, strengthening himself, and forming a barrier that prevents damage from incoming attacks. This barrier prevents a moderate amount of damage, which lasts until depleted.

Healing: Large
Range: Self
Cooldown: 8 posts

Divine Renewal

With a flick of the hand, Zenethil bathes the target in a warm, holy light, that persists, restoring the targets health with its gentle touch.

Healing: Moderate, then small and end of next 2 posts
Range: Long
Cooldown: 4 posts

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Acts of Retribution

Holy Fire

Calling down a searing blaze of righteous flame, Zenethil burns the targets soul, and causing their soul to continue in it’s holy immolation. This is a ranged magical ability, and all damage has the holy attribute. The persisting effect is hereby referred to as Persisting Fire.

Damage: Large, then small at the end of each post for 2 posts.
Cooldown: 6 posts
Range: Long

Censure

With damning words, Zenethil places a divine edict upon his targets soul, weakening it, and continuing to pulse with their heartbeat. Each time Censure deals damage, the duration of Persisting Fire is increased by 1 post, and all damage dealt has the holy attribute.

Damage: Moderate, then 2 posts of small
Cooldown: 4 posts
Range: Long

Magical Prowess: Level 4 - The hylian's magical damage is multiplied 5 times over.

Supernatural Hearing: Level 2 - The hylian's hearing is multiplied 3 times over.

Zenethil, from an early age, has displayed incredible levels of dedication to his faith. Raised an orphan, left upon the steps of the Hyrule Castle cathedral, he was raised by monks and nuns, priests and priestesses. His piety and his conviction were truly inspirational, even to the most dedicated of practitioners. His early years were spent predominantly in communion with the Goddesses, living a life of humbleness, a spartan existence.

Naturally, however, as a teenager, he began to hear of the exploits of the Hylian Knights. Tales of bravery, of great deeds and of valour. His adolescence became riddled with the beginnings of learning the form and nature of bladework. He began to focus his attention to channelling his raw religious conviction into a more corporeal form. Becoming an acolyte of the Order of Divine Light, he quickly learned how to utilise both divine fury and righteous invention to both aid and attack.

His studies quickly garnered the attention of the Hylian Knights recruiting parties. His piety was enough to put most Knights to shame, and his raw magical ability was considerable enough to be deserving of tutelage. He was indoctrinated into the most pious of fighting forces, quickly becoming one of the foremost recruits amongst their recent acquisitions. A natural spellcaster, he was apt in the ways of healing, and of devastation. While less able than others with the blade, his capabilities in the more arcane arts made him an invaluable fledgling knight.

Soon after he earned his armour, aged twenty, he began to carve a name for himself. First, against the Gerudo raiders, plaguing the smaller settlements near to the desert. Then against the incursions of Bublins and Moblins. Each time, he proved his worth, proved his mettle, his skill and his valour, time and again, against numerous opponents, on multiple battlefields. With his aid, the Hylian Knights triumphed, as was, seemingly, their tradition, with fewer losses thanks to his healing magics. On the attack, he was a beacon, searing blasts of holy energy obliterating the impure and unworthy, burning a hole his brethren had forced open.

Eight years on, with numerous campaigns completed successfully, including a vast sweeping of the border towns and outposts, cleansing them of recurring Gerudo raiders, as well as numerous ReDead outbreaks, caused by necromancers, he earned the title of Knight-Lieutenant, after displaying a natural talent in leading men after the last Lieutenant died, caught in the death-throes of a particularly powerful necromancer. He had co-ordinated the efforts of the remaining Knights to exorcise the last ReDead from the township, before personally carrying his Lieutenant’s body back to the barracks to be buried amongst the rest of the glorious dead.

Eight years on, his list of successes having grown to a vast length of achievements, he was chosen by the Hylian Royalty as the next Defender of Light, Hylian Knight Captain, his predecessor dying in mysterious and suspicious circumstances. Inheriting the Blade of Acheron, the mark of office, taking the sacred creeds to protect and serve the Hylian Royal Family, in this instance, the young Princess of Light, Zelda, the last surviving member. Since then, he has not faltered, facing assassins, political intrigue, incursions from all corners of Hyrule, within, without and beyond. Never has his faith waned, and never has his dedication been stronger.

Surprisingly, Zenethil is a very talented musician, having learnt how to play the violin and the harp to quite a high standard after becoming Knight-Lieutenant, and having more time on his hands.

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