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Magical Ability:

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Mathias' magical gift is actually that of a curse. When he drank from the spring of immortality he was also cursed by it as well. His gift allows him to assume the form of a Wraith and walk the spirit world. While doing so he can pass through solid objects and temporarily possess anothers body unless resisted. For the most part his "possession" is more like being a passenger; he shares their senses and can effectively spy on them. The curse comes in the fact that he cannot enter places warded against spirits and can be exorcised from a place in the same way a spirit can be banished. When banished in such a manner he tends to vanish and reappear miles away. If he is destroyed in his corporeal form then he is stuck as a Wraith until his anchor is destroyed or the gods grant him release.
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Perdition; Mathias' cursed blade, it contains a fragment of his soul and is forged from blessed silver that is hardened by magic. The weapon it's self cannot be destroyed without first expelling the soul within. While in his hand it lends him the strength of two men in prime physical condition, can kill supernatural beasts and connect with spirits as if they were in the flesh. The fragment that resides in his blade anchors him and allows him to find his way back to the physical.
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Appearance:

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While the stories told about him making him out to be some grizzled veteran, Mathias actually retains his youthful appearance. He has long dark hair that sits about shoulder length and even darker eyes that are rimmed by a golden tint that glows a warm a yellow. His face is covered in many, many scars from countless monsters and battle. There is perhaps more scar tissue than skin on the left half of his face. Mathias generally wears his hair in a very loose tail, very unkempt.
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His attire is fairly standard for someone who wanders. A dark brown overcoat that covers most of him, sword at his left hip in sheath. Under his coat he wears a shirt of chain mail that is made from a light weight metal, something he won from a Dwarf. A chain hood hangs out over the back of his coat. A knife is visible strapped to his boot and one is also hidden on his belt hanging horizontal along the back.
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Personality:

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At the very core of his being Mathias is an honourable man, a good man. He cannot overlook a terrible situation and he will do right if he is able to. Unfortunately this is sense of morality has been damped by centuries of life that have left him quite apathetic to it all. Eventually as an Immortal you begin to wonder, "What is the point to it all?" and he has not found that answer in over four thousand years. Every battle he walks into he walks in with the hope that it will finally be his last only to come out alive every time. He longs for death or to find that spark that makes his existence worth holding on to.
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When working he has a lone wolf mentality, everyone else'd just slow him down. This is also further reinforced by the fact that he talks down to most who would try. His long life finds him calling everyone young and not holding much faith in their short experiences. He says what he thinks because he does not truly feel bad about anything. Mathias is also a man of few words, often it is hard to engage him in a conversation longer than eight words and a few grunts. If your information is not useful or you are not offering drink he has little patience for it.
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History:

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Drip.. Drip..
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They were warned that this birth would bring darkness to their world. Screams, a cry, and the mother fell limp in the bed dead from the trauma. From the moment of his birth he was already a killer, having taken his mothers life in exchange for his own. That is what his father told him, that was the message that was beaten into him from the moment he could stand on his own two legs. Mathias only survived infancy to the age of five due to his wet nurse, a trusted friend of his mothers. By the time he could walk and talk on his own his father was tired of his presence. The boy was traded as an apprentice to a famed monster hunter, his father got peace and Mathias found chains.
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His was a life of horror, of violence and yet he still grew into a man who understood right from wrong. There was no grey area for a monster hunter, there was alive and there was dead. People deserved life, anything less than that was turned to ash or destroyed entirely. Every day he was trained to fight for his life, every day he survived the training to the surprise of his master. When there was nothing more to be taught, he was given the final initiation; he would drink from the spring. His master had many enemies however and he would play right into their trap. During the ceremony they were ambushed, his master slain, and he was cursed. Their battle spilled into the spring temporarily tainting it and drawing the wrath of the gods, twisting the gift into a curse. The pain as his soul was sundered from the physical was intense, so intense he thought he would die. The world turned black for him and when he woke he was different.
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It was smoke that woke Mathias, that brought him back from the nothing. Staggering his way towards the smell he would find the village in flames. No one made it out alive- bodies hung from their homes burning from the inside out. This was the moment that forced him to take it all seriously, to use this life he was forced into. Mathias would track the Witch for decades, always a step behind until a stroke of luck found the right information in his hands. He would have his vengeance and his fight saved a single life that night. As he cast the Witch down the cliff side a tiny girl appeared to him, he would take her under his wing until they were safe. She would live and word of his deed would spread often in this manner for hundreds of years until it all started to lose meaning to him. He could save four? Five? Sometimes even a town. But for every one he saved hundreds more died to monsters, to war. Defeated by this realization his only useful skill in life started to seem rather pointless in the scheme of it all.
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Mathias found his way to the top of Naihan Mountain and cast himself from it's highest peak. Once more the world went black and all was still. During his descent his powers saved him from the fall but left him somewhere between life and death. Thirty years later he woke from that death like slumber only to realize the full extent of the curse that was placed upon him; his body would not let him end his suffering. It was a Dwarven scouting party that found him, brought him to their hold and brought him back into the world. In repayment of that debt he would kill monsters of the deep mountains until the day it was held fulfilled. That day would not come until the end of the war between species, until the human king forced a peace upon the world and he would emerge from his debt into a new world; one he no longer recognized.
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Miscellaneous:

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Mathias is a Monster Hunter who kills thing like Wraiths, Vengeful Spirits and all other sorts of beasts in the world. Unfortunately the Spring of Immortality turned him into a monster as well. Due to his work during his search for meaning he is actually quite revered though thought to be long dead. Tales of his deeds are often exaggerated.

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Mercy

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Already a member lol