Olaro
Class: Fighter
Powers: Mage-reading, Steady Mind (Immune to Hypnosis, Immune to Memory Alteration, Immune to Thralls/Charms, Immune to Daze), Perfect Memory, Living Library Mind-Link (Can freely access the memories stored in the Living Library, as well as share memories with the Living Library), Language Learned (can 'learn' a language and become Fluent in it after being exposed to the language (spoken or written) for an hour's time). Immunity to Shade Corruption.
Curiously born as a Fighter, he had no natural aptitude for magic when he was hatched. While both his parents, and Brother, were gifted in such ways he had no talent for it himself. Instead his personal skills were with physical fighting, the ease and strength of movements and the thrill of adrenaline that sparring with others brought him.
When he was a young adult he went to sleep one night, and was greeted by a stranger in his dreams. It was a Raveeness who welcomed him with a smile and an offer for an interesting learning experience. When he showed interest in such a thing, he was suddenly pulled into lucidity within the dream and the world around them shifted and remade itself. The landscape turned into a sprawling scene of crystal-structures built around (and within) redwood trees that stretched up to the clouds.
There were strange bipedal creatures there, tall and willowy, with thin wings wrapped around their bodies like makeshift cloaks. They looked like a cross between a reptile and an insect, each more unique looking than the last. The most unusual trait they all shared - a patch of purple-violet scales on their foreheads where a glowing eye-mark sat, as well as an unusual winged-shell that grew at the top of their spines. There was a matching, hovering, eye emblem over this shell.
"They were a people ahead of their time," the Raveeness with him, the only one who could seemingly see him, said. "Scholars that sought only to learn and share knowledge, and had created magic that would allow them to do so with ease. They opened their souls and minds to create a Living Library, a deep well of knowledge that all of them could freely access. Each life added more knowledge to their library, and as their population grew so did their knowledge base."
She smiled fondly at the creatures. "I wonder what their fate would have been, if someone had been kind enough to spare them from the tragic one waiting for them." Her smile vanished, slipped away to elsewhere. "I don't even know Who they were. What they called themselves. There's a point I can't access in the thread of these fates, and this is as far back as I can glimpse. But it's... enough. Enough to know that this power didn't start out rooted in evil."
She turned to look at him, but was unable to maintain his gaze. "They all died, and their world was feasted upon by a creature that gained a power like their Living Library, but twisted it up into something else. Turned it into a Hive, where the boundary between Minds became muddled and lost. That Hive still exists today, though it's evolved to have different branches - two of which I can sense in that world you call home." The Raveeness gave a hollow laugh. "I wonder if they'll notice anything familiar in you, or if ancestry and legacy are not so recognizable."
For a time they fell silent, just observing the denizens of this world. One that he came to learn was named Reavia'et, and that it became a world that would be unfamiliar to him if he'd been shown a more recent version of it, but that in the current time it didn't even exist anymore. Reduced to cosmic dust.
"Would you like to remember this place as it once was? To carry a bit of it's memory with you - the memory of Reavia'et, and the Living Library that was meant to be?" She asked, once the silence grew uncomfortable. When he answered in the affirmative she smiled at him one last time, and the dream blurred.
He came awake suddenly, with the memory of Reavia'et the Living Library still fresh in his mind (never to be forgotten), but the knowledge of the Raveeness' physical appearance was no longer there.
He woke up changed. Physically he gained purple-violet scales upon his forehead and back, as well as a winged-shell that he was quick to recognize as the Mind-Link of the Living Library. It was part of him; grown into his body and attached to his spine, but it didn't feel foreign or new. It didn't hurt to touch, and he could move the butterfly-like wings on the shell as if they were tiny mirrors of his own feathered ones. He also had access to the Living Library, which came with a deep well of knowledge of Reavia'et and how to grow/maintain crystal structures, plant undying gardens, and how to turn light into life-sustaining energy. His own knowledge was added to the library, and he knew (intrinsically) that any further knowledge he came to possess would be added to this library and he'd be able to forevermore access it (and grow it).
While the Living Library shares knowledge in the same way a Hive Mind does, it does not blur the lines of individuality nor act as an extended awareness of others connected to it. It is instead a well of knowledge that anyone with a Mind-Link to the Living Library can access and add to. While he will naturally gain knowledge/awareness of anyone else who has a Mind-Link, he will not gain access to their memories unless they actively share those particularities with the Living Library. An individual's Mind and Thoughts are not shared through this link.
The Mind-Link shell is genetic, and will be passed onto any offspring he has.
(The Reavia'et, Astralis, and Blue Hives do not have the capability to link to the Living Library or his shell-link.)
Powers: Mage-reading, Steady Mind (Immune to Hypnosis, Immune to Memory Alteration, Immune to Thralls/Charms, Immune to Daze), Perfect Memory, Living Library Mind-Link (Can freely access the memories stored in the Living Library, as well as share memories with the Living Library), Language Learned (can 'learn' a language and become Fluent in it after being exposed to the language (spoken or written) for an hour's time). Immunity to Shade Corruption.
Curiously born as a Fighter, he had no natural aptitude for magic when he was hatched. While both his parents, and Brother, were gifted in such ways he had no talent for it himself. Instead his personal skills were with physical fighting, the ease and strength of movements and the thrill of adrenaline that sparring with others brought him.
When he was a young adult he went to sleep one night, and was greeted by a stranger in his dreams. It was a Raveeness who welcomed him with a smile and an offer for an interesting learning experience. When he showed interest in such a thing, he was suddenly pulled into lucidity within the dream and the world around them shifted and remade itself. The landscape turned into a sprawling scene of crystal-structures built around (and within) redwood trees that stretched up to the clouds.
There were strange bipedal creatures there, tall and willowy, with thin wings wrapped around their bodies like makeshift cloaks. They looked like a cross between a reptile and an insect, each more unique looking than the last. The most unusual trait they all shared - a patch of purple-violet scales on their foreheads where a glowing eye-mark sat, as well as an unusual winged-shell that grew at the top of their spines. There was a matching, hovering, eye emblem over this shell.
"They were a people ahead of their time," the Raveeness with him, the only one who could seemingly see him, said. "Scholars that sought only to learn and share knowledge, and had created magic that would allow them to do so with ease. They opened their souls and minds to create a Living Library, a deep well of knowledge that all of them could freely access. Each life added more knowledge to their library, and as their population grew so did their knowledge base."
She smiled fondly at the creatures. "I wonder what their fate would have been, if someone had been kind enough to spare them from the tragic one waiting for them." Her smile vanished, slipped away to elsewhere. "I don't even know Who they were. What they called themselves. There's a point I can't access in the thread of these fates, and this is as far back as I can glimpse. But it's... enough. Enough to know that this power didn't start out rooted in evil."
She turned to look at him, but was unable to maintain his gaze. "They all died, and their world was feasted upon by a creature that gained a power like their Living Library, but twisted it up into something else. Turned it into a Hive, where the boundary between Minds became muddled and lost. That Hive still exists today, though it's evolved to have different branches - two of which I can sense in that world you call home." The Raveeness gave a hollow laugh. "I wonder if they'll notice anything familiar in you, or if ancestry and legacy are not so recognizable."
For a time they fell silent, just observing the denizens of this world. One that he came to learn was named Reavia'et, and that it became a world that would be unfamiliar to him if he'd been shown a more recent version of it, but that in the current time it didn't even exist anymore. Reduced to cosmic dust.
"Would you like to remember this place as it once was? To carry a bit of it's memory with you - the memory of Reavia'et, and the Living Library that was meant to be?" She asked, once the silence grew uncomfortable. When he answered in the affirmative she smiled at him one last time, and the dream blurred.
He came awake suddenly, with the memory of Reavia'et the Living Library still fresh in his mind (never to be forgotten), but the knowledge of the Raveeness' physical appearance was no longer there.
He woke up changed. Physically he gained purple-violet scales upon his forehead and back, as well as a winged-shell that he was quick to recognize as the Mind-Link of the Living Library. It was part of him; grown into his body and attached to his spine, but it didn't feel foreign or new. It didn't hurt to touch, and he could move the butterfly-like wings on the shell as if they were tiny mirrors of his own feathered ones. He also had access to the Living Library, which came with a deep well of knowledge of Reavia'et and how to grow/maintain crystal structures, plant undying gardens, and how to turn light into life-sustaining energy. His own knowledge was added to the library, and he knew (intrinsically) that any further knowledge he came to possess would be added to this library and he'd be able to forevermore access it (and grow it).
While the Living Library shares knowledge in the same way a Hive Mind does, it does not blur the lines of individuality nor act as an extended awareness of others connected to it. It is instead a well of knowledge that anyone with a Mind-Link to the Living Library can access and add to. While he will naturally gain knowledge/awareness of anyone else who has a Mind-Link, he will not gain access to their memories unless they actively share those particularities with the Living Library. An individual's Mind and Thoughts are not shared through this link.
The Mind-Link shell is genetic, and will be passed onto any offspring he has.
(The Reavia'et, Astralis, and Blue Hives do not have the capability to link to the Living Library or his shell-link.)