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The Enforcer
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Akateko Himura The Enforcer ![]() Even in the depths of hell, business still thrives. Demons themselves still have a need for items, for objects, for services. Even a loyal Hell Knight does not serve for free. Even if he does not expect money, he still expects compensation for his service. It is an exchange of goods, and where goods are exchanged, there are those who will see an opportunity, and begin preparing and creating goods to be exchanged. Thus it was that a group of demons who did just this, specializing in everything from weapons and armors, to potions, plagues, and enchantments banded together to combine profits and better organize business, trade and opportunity. Five hell based 'corporations' that formed a unifying organization. The Pendaghast Consortium. Naturally every business has employees, and a Consortium of five even more so. The Consortium itself employs specific employees meant for universal use across the five companies, one of the most important roles being the Enforcer. Doubling as both the muscle needed to keep other demons and wayward holy warriors in line, and representatives in business dealings, most of those who wish to do business with the Consortium will do so via an Enforcer. In this regard Akateko is one of the Consortium's very best agents. She is professional, brisk and polite, able to handily deal with even the most troublesome and irritable demons she might have to deal with. Yet she is also powerful, skilled and intelligent, giving her a handy grasp of battle, one that has carried her through numerous engagements on behalf of the Consortium. Yasha The Yasha are a rather odd species of Demon. Often confused with Oni or Asura, they are a type of demon that seems to be geared entirely for battle, fighting and conflict. Their skin comes in a variety of colors, usually bright, ranging from white, to red, to blue, yellow and even green. Their hair is usually spiked in some fashion and they often have some form of horn or horns. As one can tell simply by looking at her, Akateko has white-blue hair, with vibrant red skin and a single, long straight horn upon her head. With her species also comes a gift of great power. Most Yasha are born with a good deal of strength natural to them, fitting with their roles as warriors. However, if one were to take an old, seasoned Yasha and compare their power to when they were born, there are good odds that one wouldn't exactly see a very dramatic increase in power. Some Yasha can take tens of thousands of years just to double the power they were born with. This is because of another of the traits inherent to a Yasha. When in battle, a Yasha's blood sings. Their soul soars as the song of battle calls to them, their heart beating in time to the drums of war. In more practical terms, the very act of fighting causes their body to generate more power, more energy. They're like a perpetual motion machine, ever powering themselves, and the longer the fight, the harder they fight, the more power, the more energy their soul starts to produce to try to compensate and keep up with the demands of war, that the Yasha may keep fighting as long as needed. In simple terms, a Yasha almost never runs short of energy, and weakening a Yasha requires tremendous effort for a result that may well be very, very temporary. Even worse, the Yasha's power may slowly grow, advancing at steady rates, becoming stronger and stronger as the fight goes on. Although most Yasha do not even get to fifty percent before the drawbacks of this become clear. This power growth through combat is very temporary. It is also based in the 'spirit' rather than the body. A thin line for a demon but one that does technically exist. Their physical form does not develop with this increase in power. Unlike transformations or specialized techniques, this power growth is independent of the body, and thus it is quite possible for the Yasha's power to grow to a point that their body simply cannot handle it. As a Yasha grows in power across the course of the fight, their attacks will get larger, more powerful, more grandiose. While this can in part be explained by them slowly growing more intoxicated by the battle itself, in truth they are trying to vent as much of their growing power as they can. When a Yasha reaches the point where their soul is generating more power than their physical form can handle, this power will vent itself through the simplest means. Heat. Without an outlet through battle, the Yasha will find their growing power generating intense amounts of heat in their body. Intense amounts, to the point where even a Yasha with heat resistance will find their physical form being slowly cooked alive from the inside out. This results in damage independent of their foe, and will eventually lead the Yasha to collapse, or at least rendered unable to move as the heat simply overwhelms them. A phenomenon simply named, Overheat. Thus do we arrive at the crux of a Yasha's issue. In order to improve and grow in power, a fighter should push themselves. Either in fights, spars, or physical training the exercise should tax the body. It should leave one panting, there should be a dull, comforting ache of a hard work out. A yasha, due to the rate at which they replenish energy, must push themselves to the very edge just to feel the same ache, and actually receive any worthwhile benefit from a fight or exercise. This naturally thus puts them at the risk of increasing their power to the point where burnout looms overhead, and burnout can have very long lasting consequences. Thus, most Yasha gain power slowly, often in fits and starts as proper battles with genuine enemies push them to that limit. Leaving them in a state where once they recover, they were pushed far enough to actually receive a benefit, the body and soul improved, and not just in a temporary way. For Akateko Himura, the risk of Burnout and the slow accretion of power led her to research very different means of power and strength. Runes, Dragonflies, and Scrimshaw While Akateko is an accomplished and talented warrior, skilled in hand to hand, trained in a variety of weapons and with a fine ki control. She long ago delved into the works of magic. Specifically runic works. Akateko has spent millennia studying the various languages of runic magic. Symbols, languages, grammar and sentence structure. The way the symbols and strokes flow together to create complex, powerful feats of magic. Rune based magics can indeed be very powerful, and do just about anything ,but they ever require preparation. Runes can be inscribed on the fly, but such quick runes often don't have the power of runes carefully prepared, charged and inscribed upon objects. Yet, even with capsules or other means one could only carry so many and managing and cycling between them all can become complicated and complex. Which is why Akateko carries only one rune inscribed object, and has the rest of the runes used upon herself. Ever improving, and ever striving to find a way around the Rune 'quick cast' problem, Akateko stumbled upon the solution while consulting with a group of demonic surgeons. These surgeons specialized in flaying flesh from bone, utilizing the fact that a soul could not die, already being dead, to perform dissections, vivisections and surgeries that would simply not be possible. It was while seeing the skeleton completely bereft of flesh, the muscles, skin and organs hung above it, that a thought occurred. Why not carve the runes directly into the skeleton? Careful planning was made afterwards. Five years of careful work, using multiple dummy skeletons and going through a number of designs that got scrapped, reworked, scrapped and reworked again, before she settled upon what she wanted. Then there was nothing to do but see the surgeons, have her flesh temporarily flayed from bone, and her bone decorated with runes of great power and magic, turning her entire body into an impressive magical conduit, nearly as impressive a work of Runes as her primary weapon.
Edited by Akateko Himura, Jul 3 2017, 02:17 AM.
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