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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Ushahin Dreamspinner
CANON: The Sundering
AGE: Unknown, but over 1,200 years old. Looks to be in his mid to late twenties.
APPEARANCE: Looks like this, dressed more like this. It's also worth noting right here that he looks slightly different in canon. His face and body are both supposed to be horribly shattered and broken in canon, to the point where his face has several spots caved in and his hands are so crippled that they can't properly hold objects.
CANON POINT: The end of Godslayer
BACKGROUND: Here!
PERSONALITY: Ushahin is a character who is defined by madness. Originally, he was a typical child, if a bit quiet and withdrawn due to knowing himself to be different. He suffered immense trauma when he was nearly stoned to death around the age of seven or eight, and as a result, both his mind and body were broken beyond repair. His moods are mercurial, his perspective on situations strange, and he doesn't always make sense when he tries to put his thoughts into words.
Rather than let himself be healed in body and mind by his master Satoris, he's mentioned as turning down the offer several times. He relishes in his madness, for he gives him a perspective that no one else possesses and allows him to use abilities that nobody else has. It's much easier to see that his madness is a way for him to get into the minds of others and manipulate them, which would make anyone a little insane. He sees the threads that connect the world and where they will lead, even if he is powerless to stop them from coming true. This both torments and frustrates him as none of his companions believe the warnings he tries to give them.
Despite supposedly being on the side of "evil", part of Ushahin's character is that he continuously acts according to his own twisted set of morals. He genuinely cares for the dark lord Satoris he serves, his "cousins" Tanaros and Vorax, and his adopted mother the Grey Dam. He grieves for all of them when he learns that they have, one-by-one, died. This isn't to say his thinking is completely white and moral. He does do things like try to kill Cerelinde on multiple occasions, for she is a link in the prophecy that will destroy his master and home. While this is the only attempted murder shown, it's implied he's done the same to others in the past, and has tormented others into insanity merely because he could.
While he serves the dark lord in his world and would gladly slay every last one of his enemies, he's not without a compassionate side. While his companions Tanaros and Vorax serve for vengeance and wealth, respectively, Ushahin comes to Satoris because there is nowhere else in the world he belongs. He requests that a place be made for those in the world that have been driven mad through neglect, cruelty, or just luck of the draw. He genuinely cares for his "madlings", and while he does use them sometimes for his own purposes, he is never malicious or cruel to them. When he defies Satoris to kill Cerelinde and uses his madlings to do so in a failed attempt, he claims that he acted alone to spare them punishment.
Despite his many close brushes with death, Ushahin survives the entire book, the only member of Satoris' forces to do so. He's got a determined streak that allows him to survive when anyone else would have died. There's also a deep streak of contempt in him for the other races. He's the "child of three races" without truly being a member of any of them. While he would gladly find a place he could belong if he could, the other races see him as an abomination. Without being able to find a place, he grows bitter after time and takes up the role of the boogeyman of their dreams. It is a role he relishes, seeing it as a way to get revenge on all those who did nothing to stop the torment he received as a child. Though it's not necessary to do so during his journey, he makes a point to enter the dreams of people as he passes through the land and give them nightmares as he passes through.
ABILITIES: -Dream-related abilities: He can enter the dreams of others while he's awake or sleeping, with distance being no factor, seeing as how he psychically travels the whole of the entire continent trying to find certain people. While in the dream, he can manipulate, change, or even put his own thoughts into the dreamer's head. He has an affinity for giving people the same nightmare that he's prone to have of being stoned to death from a first-person perspective. Fortunately, his ability affects nothing in the real world, leaving only the dreamer's mind vulnerable. The only defenses shown to be strong enough to drive him off are powerful magical wards.
-Psychic-related abilities: He mentions several times that he can "scry the minds of others", which basically means he can read minds to some extent. He's shown doing so only a few times in canon and the only experience fully detailed almost kills him, since the creature he attempts it on is a dragon. Another favorite of his is to find out a person's greatest fear and make them experience it in the real world, such as when he makes the vain immortal sorceress Lilias experience the sensation of her own mortality and growing old. He's shown to push his own madness and despair on other people, giving them an emotional state that can confuse them for several minutes, a handy tool to have in battle. Another ability he has is what he calls "the glamour". Basically, he puts an illusion over himself, making him seem harmless to the person or animal looking at him. People see only a normal human-being while animals tend to forget he's even there.
-Ravens: He's got an affinity for the birds. He uses them to either see through their eyes to spy on people, can combine them to form a giant "Ravensmirror" that allows him to view things going on elsewhere, and uses them as a psychic ladder made of tiny, linked minds back to the real world when he goes too far inside someone's mind.
-Immortality: He has a form of immortality granted to him by Satoris burning a brand into him with Godslayer, which is basically a chip from an object that helped to create the world. It's immortality more along the lines of the Norse gods than the Greek. He doesn't age, but he can still be killed.
-Practical skills: While he's no master of the blade, he did spend over a thousand years watching one of the greatest swordsman in the world, Tanaros, wield one. He's shown to be able to adequately wield one in canon, albeit a little awkwardly since he can only fully use one arm. He's also a fairly good horseback rider, being able to get inside the animal's head, even the Darkhaven mounts that are temperamental and don't let most people ride them.
INVENTORY: -A horse from Darkhaven. They've been bred over a thousand years to differ slightly than regular horses, having sharper, almost canine-like teeth to bite enemies in battle. They also are extremely smart, almost preternaturally so, which makes them difficult for inexperienced riders to control.
-Fetch, a Darkhaven raven. Fetch is one of the many ravens Ushahin has a special affinity for. He was saved from freezing to death as a chick by Tanaros and repaid the man by giving him his loyalty. As a dying gift, the Grey Dam, Ushahin's adopted mother, gave him a power similar to Ushahin's own psychic one. He can form images in his head and put them into other people's heads, showing Ushahin, for example, exactly where and when Tanaros died. It is limited by his intelligence, which is still only that of a very smart bird.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: A pale, broken face is seen on the network. At first, his eyes are closed, and his breathing is so steady that he very well might be asleep. Abruptly, he speaks. "Is there anyone else awake right now? Your minds are all so very noisy this evening."
His eyes, a blue that's washed out to a pale grey by the dim light, finally open. They are mismatched and even in the room's one source of light, the one with a fixed pupil is tight with obvious pain. When he speaks, it's in a soft voice, the kind that despite its tone, can command and give orders to underlings nonetheless.
"What is it that troubles you in the small hours of the morning? Old memories that fester and rot into bad dreams, perhaps? No, don't bother to lie. All of your secrets are already known to one they call Dreamspinner." A faint smile, like the edge of a knife, hovers around his lips. "If anyone sees an unfamiliar face in fogs of their unconsciousness tonight, now you shall know why."
LOG SAMPLE: Here!
NAME: Shade
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Ushahin Dreamspinner
CANON: The Sundering
AGE: Unknown, but over 1,200 years old. Looks to be in his mid to late twenties.
APPEARANCE: Looks like this, dressed more like this. It's also worth noting right here that he looks slightly different in canon. His face and body are both supposed to be horribly shattered and broken in canon, to the point where his face has several spots caved in and his hands are so crippled that they can't properly hold objects.
CANON POINT: The end of Godslayer
BACKGROUND: Here!
PERSONALITY: Ushahin is a character who is defined by madness. Originally, he was a typical child, if a bit quiet and withdrawn due to knowing himself to be different. He suffered immense trauma when he was nearly stoned to death around the age of seven or eight, and as a result, both his mind and body were broken beyond repair. His moods are mercurial, his perspective on situations strange, and he doesn't always make sense when he tries to put his thoughts into words.
Rather than let himself be healed in body and mind by his master Satoris, he's mentioned as turning down the offer several times. He relishes in his madness, for he gives him a perspective that no one else possesses and allows him to use abilities that nobody else has. It's much easier to see that his madness is a way for him to get into the minds of others and manipulate them, which would make anyone a little insane. He sees the threads that connect the world and where they will lead, even if he is powerless to stop them from coming true. This both torments and frustrates him as none of his companions believe the warnings he tries to give them.
Despite supposedly being on the side of "evil", part of Ushahin's character is that he continuously acts according to his own twisted set of morals. He genuinely cares for the dark lord Satoris he serves, his "cousins" Tanaros and Vorax, and his adopted mother the Grey Dam. He grieves for all of them when he learns that they have, one-by-one, died. This isn't to say his thinking is completely white and moral. He does do things like try to kill Cerelinde on multiple occasions, for she is a link in the prophecy that will destroy his master and home. While this is the only attempted murder shown, it's implied he's done the same to others in the past, and has tormented others into insanity merely because he could.
While he serves the dark lord in his world and would gladly slay every last one of his enemies, he's not without a compassionate side. While his companions Tanaros and Vorax serve for vengeance and wealth, respectively, Ushahin comes to Satoris because there is nowhere else in the world he belongs. He requests that a place be made for those in the world that have been driven mad through neglect, cruelty, or just luck of the draw. He genuinely cares for his "madlings", and while he does use them sometimes for his own purposes, he is never malicious or cruel to them. When he defies Satoris to kill Cerelinde and uses his madlings to do so in a failed attempt, he claims that he acted alone to spare them punishment.
Despite his many close brushes with death, Ushahin survives the entire book, the only member of Satoris' forces to do so. He's got a determined streak that allows him to survive when anyone else would have died. There's also a deep streak of contempt in him for the other races. He's the "child of three races" without truly being a member of any of them. While he would gladly find a place he could belong if he could, the other races see him as an abomination. Without being able to find a place, he grows bitter after time and takes up the role of the boogeyman of their dreams. It is a role he relishes, seeing it as a way to get revenge on all those who did nothing to stop the torment he received as a child. Though it's not necessary to do so during his journey, he makes a point to enter the dreams of people as he passes through the land and give them nightmares as he passes through.
ABILITIES: -Dream-related abilities: He can enter the dreams of others while he's awake or sleeping, with distance being no factor, seeing as how he psychically travels the whole of the entire continent trying to find certain people. While in the dream, he can manipulate, change, or even put his own thoughts into the dreamer's head. He has an affinity for giving people the same nightmare that he's prone to have of being stoned to death from a first-person perspective. Fortunately, his ability affects nothing in the real world, leaving only the dreamer's mind vulnerable. The only defenses shown to be strong enough to drive him off are powerful magical wards.
-Psychic-related abilities: He mentions several times that he can "scry the minds of others", which basically means he can read minds to some extent. He's shown doing so only a few times in canon and the only experience fully detailed almost kills him, since the creature he attempts it on is a dragon. Another favorite of his is to find out a person's greatest fear and make them experience it in the real world, such as when he makes the vain immortal sorceress Lilias experience the sensation of her own mortality and growing old. He's shown to push his own madness and despair on other people, giving them an emotional state that can confuse them for several minutes, a handy tool to have in battle. Another ability he has is what he calls "the glamour". Basically, he puts an illusion over himself, making him seem harmless to the person or animal looking at him. People see only a normal human-being while animals tend to forget he's even there.
-Ravens: He's got an affinity for the birds. He uses them to either see through their eyes to spy on people, can combine them to form a giant "Ravensmirror" that allows him to view things going on elsewhere, and uses them as a psychic ladder made of tiny, linked minds back to the real world when he goes too far inside someone's mind.
-Immortality: He has a form of immortality granted to him by Satoris burning a brand into him with Godslayer, which is basically a chip from an object that helped to create the world. It's immortality more along the lines of the Norse gods than the Greek. He doesn't age, but he can still be killed.
-Practical skills: While he's no master of the blade, he did spend over a thousand years watching one of the greatest swordsman in the world, Tanaros, wield one. He's shown to be able to adequately wield one in canon, albeit a little awkwardly since he can only fully use one arm. He's also a fairly good horseback rider, being able to get inside the animal's head, even the Darkhaven mounts that are temperamental and don't let most people ride them.
INVENTORY: -A horse from Darkhaven. They've been bred over a thousand years to differ slightly than regular horses, having sharper, almost canine-like teeth to bite enemies in battle. They also are extremely smart, almost preternaturally so, which makes them difficult for inexperienced riders to control.
-Fetch, a Darkhaven raven. Fetch is one of the many ravens Ushahin has a special affinity for. He was saved from freezing to death as a chick by Tanaros and repaid the man by giving him his loyalty. As a dying gift, the Grey Dam, Ushahin's adopted mother, gave him a power similar to Ushahin's own psychic one. He can form images in his head and put them into other people's heads, showing Ushahin, for example, exactly where and when Tanaros died. It is limited by his intelligence, which is still only that of a very smart bird.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: A pale, broken face is seen on the network. At first, his eyes are closed, and his breathing is so steady that he very well might be asleep. Abruptly, he speaks. "Is there anyone else awake right now? Your minds are all so very noisy this evening."
His eyes, a blue that's washed out to a pale grey by the dim light, finally open. They are mismatched and even in the room's one source of light, the one with a fixed pupil is tight with obvious pain. When he speaks, it's in a soft voice, the kind that despite its tone, can command and give orders to underlings nonetheless.
"What is it that troubles you in the small hours of the morning? Old memories that fester and rot into bad dreams, perhaps? No, don't bother to lie. All of your secrets are already known to one they call Dreamspinner." A faint smile, like the edge of a knife, hovers around his lips. "If anyone sees an unfamiliar face in fogs of their unconsciousness tonight, now you shall know why."
LOG SAMPLE: Here!
