A while back, I met a shiny demon, who demanded I write him the best RPG profile in the world. Well, I wrote up the first thing that came to my head, and it just so happened to be the best profile in the world. I can't remember it, and that profile I wrote on that fateful night didn't actually look anything like these ones. These are just tributes to the greatest profile in the world.
"How did I end up here? Let me answer your question with a question to myself and a long speech – what makes a hero? It's a secret. Nah, but seriously – what makes you a hero is being heroic. It's charging into battle not to satisfy your bloodlust or to prove yourself, but because you know you're doing what's right. You're willing to give your life to protect others. A long time ago, I thought it was giving them a strong ruler. For a while, I didn't even consider it. But then, travelling across the universe, I realized the truth behind being a hero. Behind being a Toa. It's not following a Code, or living on an island fighting Rahi. It's about accepting a call. As it turns out, my most recent calling was to annoy the Brotherhood of Makuta with really sharp protosteel weapons. So yeah, that's how I got here. And because our cause is right, we're getting out." – Levacius the Griffon
Name: Levacius the Griffon
Gender: Male
Species: Toa of Lightning
Allegiance: Escapee
Description: Levacius is a Toa of slightly above average height. His armor is white, though a large amount of damaged caused by shadow attacks have left dark scars across it, and many signs of battle damage can be seen. He wears a grey Kanohi Hau that appears to be badly damaged. His eyes are orange.
Mask: His Mask was originally a very powerful mask called the Kanohi Reh that granted numerous abilities. The massive amounts of damage it has taken in combat have left it with the balance and sight abilities of the Mask of Sensory Aptitude.
Weapons: Levacius is possession of two Electro Chute Blades that were taken from the Brotherhood soldier in charge of guarding his prison. One is modeled as a longsword (the V32 edition), the other as a shortsword (the V33).
Powers: Of all Toa of Lightning in the Matoran Universe, Levacius may be the most adept at the use of his abilities. The strongest and most draining of his powers he calls Disintegrate, which can be summarized as him draining the electrons directly from a solid object as if were absorbing electricity, thus destroying it completely.
Abilities: Levacius is also quite physically adept, and a natural leader and tactician. He isn't much stronger than is average, though, and while he doesn't tire easily, he's not much one for taking pain, preferring to deal it with his speed. He also has decent mental training, and can keep some things hidden.
History: (Age ~ 87,000 Years) Levacius began his life in the grand city of Metru-Nui, where he acted as a Matoran scientist and a student in Ga-Metru. Needless to say, he tired of the boring life and was recruited into Pridaks armies in the League of Six Kingdoms, where he rose to be chief scientist (not that they had very advanced sciences at that point). During his observations of Rahi activity, he noted that most were scheduled to die on one day – the same day – based on their structure. He realized that was the same day the League was going to attack Metru-Nui. Rather than get himself killed suggesting that the Brotherhoods armies could defeat them there, he fled at once, to the Northern Continent and the village of Targon.
The young Matoran made his home there, learning combat from a Turaga who had once been a Toa, and acting as a hunter in the village. Soon, however, the remaining soldiers of the disbanded League swept over the land, attempting to claim a new life for themselves – that new life being the conquest of the Continent, with the former generals now against each other. The Continent turned into a warzone the likes of which had never been seen before. Levacius and many others with him were enlisted into the militia of the current barony of Targon.
What happened during those wars could be scribed into a book. During this time, Levacius claimed the Toa Stone from the fortress of a rogue Toa who had been slain by mercenary Steltians in their employ, along with his Great Mask. With both, he became a Toa of Lightning, and like his predecessor (who had planned to sell the stone for a hefty sum) never accepted the Toa Code.
Levacius rose to become a rightfully feared warlord, and was known as the Marquis of Targon Rock, the mountain near his home where he made his fortress. His troops eventually conquered over two thirds of the continent until the Brotherhood of Makuta, fearing another League would rise, utterly crushed his most loyal forces at the command of Makuta Gorsat.
The Lightning Toa escaped, but made a problem of himself by trapping his fortress as the Rahkshi came. Three squads of the creatures were utterly annihilated, along with the entire mountain and all of the knowledge contained within its walls. Levacius vanished with the aid of loyalists, never to be heard from again.
Around that time, approximately 65,000 years BGC a rogue warrior known as the Griffon showed up on Stelt as a hired on guard. So it was at first, until the guard eventually rose to being the captain of his own ship, The Griffon. The Griffon ended up becoming a notorious smuggler and incredibly elusive to catch. His ship, one of the fastest there was, went through many iterations until finally becoming what he would call the fastest in the universe.
Many other strong, independent beings flocked to the Griffon, as his operations led to uncharted lands and unseen places as often as they did to simply stealing from a rich merchant. During this time, he began writing a book chronicling the Matoran Universe and all he had seen within. This grew to two, then three, and finally an entire series devoted to the many wonders of the universe they lived in.
At some point after the Great Cataclysm, he mysteriously vanished from the face of the universe once more. He appeared less than a year latter with quite a story about slavers and others, and reunited with the rest of his crew for a number of final voyages before the war that soon struck.
When the Makuta first began their onslaught of the universe following their throwing away of the plan, he and his crew were some of the first to go against them. Before the ships capture, he had succeeded in killing off a couple members of the original Brotherhood with those in his company, and hordes of lesser servants. Even after Daxia fell, the ship was still sailing over the seas of the Matoran Universe. Fear led to one of the Matoran they assisted betraying them to the Brotherhood, and their eventual capture.
Many members of the team who captured him wanted him dead. A number of the Makuta had even had issues caused by the Griffon in the past, especially after he turned his crew against the Brotherhood. Gorsat in particular wanted to rip him to shreds for the ancient embarrassment, upon finding who he was. If one is to believe him, he was tossed on the floors of Destral and defied the collective Brotherhood. Of course, his tall tales are almost as common as true events (sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, of course).
Whatever happened, he and his most trusted lieutenants were sent to Karzahni and imprisoned in the prison facility. For years, Levacius planned his escape, but constant mental barrages by their jailors kept him from succeeding. When the explosion occurred, the momentary confusion was what he had waited for years for. He disintegrated the bars holding him and the other prisoners in the cells with him back, and made a desperate run out of there.
He shows no favor to either of the Escapee leaders, believing himself the best suited to be in charge thanks to his experience. So far, he has made no actual moves in a bid for leadership, but that may change very soon.
"How was I captured? Unlike my partner here, I'll keep this short and down here on the real world. We were captured because we did what nobody else could do, and we lasted so long because nobody expected a small group of Toa and miscellaneous could challenge the might of the Brotherhood. Unfortunately, they were right. That's why I'm here. And I wouldn't have it any other way." – Xaiara Ialt'Mias
Name: Xaiara Ialt'Mias
Gender: Female
Species: Ce-Toa
Allegiance: Escapees
Description: Xaiara stands at below average height, and has an unusually low amount of organic mass. Her natural armoring is a shade of bluish black, with an exceedingly metallic glint on the upper arms, thighs, and chest, becoming mixed with swirling silver center towards the centers of these regions. Her mask's appearance is a hybrid of two others; a Kualsi above and a Kaukau below. There are a few differences, such as it folding out further along the side, but they are not as noticeable. It appears as her armor with the swirling silver, though the blue is more prevalent than the black.
Mask: Great Mask of Intangibility
Weapons: Xaiara uses no weapons, as she could not bring her weapons with her into that state.
Powers: Elemental Powers of Psionics. Her specialization is in telepathy, and she can send her mind out over incredibly long distances. She also constantly reads the surface thoughts of those around her, and is able to operate this way even in large crowds, to the point of picking out individual beings or sifting for certain ideas being brought up.
Abilities: Xaiara is a master of unarmed, unarmored combat, and can fare better fighting in that way than most can using weapons. She is immune to poison.
History: (Age ~ 73,000 Years) Xaiara hails from the Southern Continent, where she resided in the village of Ce-Koro with others of her elemental affinity. When she was only a mere Matoran, she was recognized almost immediately as one destined to become a Toa, and placed through rigorous physical and mental training. She was sent out of her village often to observe others and learn from them, and resided for a couple centuries in a monastery far across the Continent, where she spent most of her time studying with the monks, and the rest learning advanced unarmed combat maneuvers.
Eventually, the time came, and Xaiara was sent back home to undergo the ceremony that would conclude with her being granted the status of Toa. However, during her transportation 67,650 BGC, she was captured by a team of mercenaries working for a mysterious organization created to wipe out all potential Toa before they could be a threat to them.
Xaiara was imprisoned for many centuries more, using her meditative training to keep herself functional even though the guards provided but a fraction of the required nutrition. Indeed, many attempts to poison her were made, but her training allowed her to fend it off, and continue living even after other prisoners died in mere months. Finally, she was released, and asked to join the organization.
It proved to be a mistake right off the bat. On her very first mission, she dispatched her 'companion' (read: guard) by snapping the beings neck, and made her way back to her home in Ce-Koro. The seers there had already known of her coming, and made the way easy for her.
It was thus that in 67,000 BGC that Xaiara became a Toa of Psionics, appointed with many others to continue her training in the village and eventually venture out into the world to see what her powers could be used to do.
Xaiara eventually came into contact with the renegade pirate known as "The Griffon". She became the administrative assistant on his ship after many years of acting onboard, often taking care of the duties of mathematician and treasurer and keeping track of their resources and allies. Many times she was forced to correct his actions. About 50,000 AGC, the Griffon nearly got himself killed in the process of saving her from a swarm of Nui-Kopen trained to resist psionics abilities. He gave his name as Levacius, a former warlord on the Northern Continent, and the two became almost inseparable, and a nearly unstoppable duo in combat.
In the recent years before their capture, Xaiara was still onboard the ship and doing perfectly well. Her history was about the same as Levacius', though she was treated as merely another lieutenant rather than as the major threat that he was. She was kept chained with armbands that restricted both her psionic powers and her ability to use her mask and forced to work like everyone else. When the explosion went off, another prisoner shattered her bonds with his iron powers, and she was able to free the group with ease.
On the surface world, she is now the last of Levacius' former lieutenants, the others still imprisoned or having died in the escape; which is the better fate, they do not know. If Levacius were to make a bid for leadership of the Escapees, she would be the first person to side with him, until the bitter end.
"Evil cannot be destroyed. – Anonymous
Name: Suicavel
Gender: Male
Species: Toa (Mutated & Undead)
Allegiance: Brotherhood of Makuta (Tentatively)
Description: Suicavel is terrible to behold, especially knowing that he was once a Toa. His body from the waist up is mostly the same as a normal Toa, with jet black armor that the darkness surrounding him seems to cling to. Then you reach what sits on his neck, which appears to be that of a fully closed Rahkshi head thanks to his mutated facial structure and the mask fitted for it. Two crimson orbs hover in his eye sockets. He has four legs rather than two, and they end with terrible, clawed feet. The organic protodermis in his body is rotting, giving him a foul stench.
Mask: Suicavel wears a powerless, modified Kanohi. His face is incapable of wearing any others, and his damaged mind cannot focus enough to gather the concentration for a mask.
Weapons: Suicavel fights using a terrible weapon that appears as a Spetum spear with an extended shaft and blades on both ends. The blades are crafted of what appears to be obsidian. He also has clawed hands capable of shredding through armor.
Powers: Elemental Powers of Shadow. Suicavel has a number of new abilities to compensate for his loss of mask. The first is that with a touch, he can cause any of the effects that would be had by an Avsa. The second is that he can animate fresh and relatively intact bodies, such as those he slays by draining their life – animated beings are forced to do as he commands, and possess no non-physical powers. Without commands, they simply wander on their own in search of enemies to kill, hunting in packs like wild Rahi. The third is that he can see perfectly well in all darkness. Fourth and finally, his mere presence inspires fear in weak-willed beings, such as Matoran workers and other non-combatants.
Abilities: Suicavel is no longer alive, being animated to unlife by Brotherhood experiments. He is immune to diseases or poisons and resistant to both cold and mental attacks.
Weaknesses: Suicavel is unable to survive in sunlight, and its touch renders him completely powerless and, over extended time, could kill him. This can be alleviated by cloaking himself in darkness, but the sun is capable of eating away at what he creates elementally, making his only a temporary shelter. He is even more vulnerable to light than other Toa of Shadow are, and particular bright lights, even non-elemental ones, are able to drive him away for at least a short while. He also needs to absorb the full life force of at least one living being every 24 hours in order to hold his own spirit to the world.History: (Age ~ 40,000 Years) Suicavel has a history going into ancient history, but he has no memory of it – and nobody else really cares, so what happened in the past tens of thousands of years ago is completely irrelevant and pointless. What matters is this – he was a Toa of Ice captured by the Brotherhood and heavily mutated into the terrible, almost alien form he now possesses. He escaped his captivity and went into hiding. At some point, his head was cut off and his body and mask utterly destroyed.
Cue the Brotherhood discovering his resting place and ruined corpse while going on their rampage across the universe. The abomination was interesting to them, and still contained traces of what was used in the previous experimentations.
Eventually, they found one other thing – the body was still partially alive, even without the head, but could not function properly without a brain and was slowly dying. The spirit of Suicavel was twisted to the point that it could survive even without a body, but was still bound to it.
The scientist working on him made use of Fast Healing Kraata of the highest power to regenerate the beings head, but before they did anything else, removed the heart and other essential organs. Once the spirit was in full power animating the body, they strengthened it even further with their psychic powers and brought it to life.
As it happens, Bitil was the Makuta in charge of the full operation that resulted in a walking, mostly skeletal corpse with numerous powers. He brought his newly created pet, which required the life energies of other living beings in order to hold itself to the physical plane, along with him to Karzahni.
Suicavel hates all life, including the Makuta, and seeks to destroy it. He is indiscriminate in who he kills when he goes too long without draining life energy, but while sated usually behaves himself and stays away from Brotherhood agents bearing that mark – unless they're alone or in groups small enough to dispatch. He was released into the wilds by the Brotherhood when the first prisoners escaped, and is actively hunting them down.
During the day, Suicavel keeps to the jungles (where he is ignored by most Rahi due to being pretty much inedible) and occasionally to the mountain caves. His undead pets are usually found around him, but others are out in the jungle on their own. Overall, they currently total about two dozen.
It is intimidation that keeps him working for the Brothehood; any force of evil able to cow him would have his allegiance, but it would be one with the same amount of loyalty. Given half the chance, he would flee the island and wreak havoc where the Brotherhood could not control him.
"Come closer, mortal. Together, you and me, we can escape this island trap. I was brought here by… some mistakes I made, angering a member of the Brotherhood. No, no, I cannot tell you everything about me. Really, I don't even know what I did. I don't remember. But it was important, whatever it was. I'm a genie without a bottle, and that bottle is impossible to rub. It's been shattered, scattered. But come, mortal. Yield your soul to me, so that we may join together and leave this place." – Karilel
Name: Karilel
Gender: Male
Species: Ba-Toa (Spirit)
Allegiance: Independent
Description: Karilel appears to be a semi-substantial, ethereal figure. His form is distorted, and seems to constantly be shifting. He appears to be clad in heavy plate armor covered in spikes, with a Kanohi Hau, and has a large, flowing cloak that seems to move in the wind even when none is present. He has no armor on his arms except for at the shoulder and just below and his gauntlet clad hands; on his right arm, there is no arm present at all, just floating armor.
Mask: No mask powers, but he appears to wear a Kanohi Hau in his spirit form.
Weapons: While in material form, or in spirit form fighting an Iden-user, Karilel can manifest two war-axes made of spectral energy, and wields them with deadly effectiveness; see below for more information on thme.
Powers : Karilel has two forms, and his powers are quite different in both of them. For this reason, he has been given two special categories underneath.
---- Powers (Spirit Form): In Spirit Form, Karilel becomes immune to most physical attacks. Weapons charged with elemental energy are able to disperse him temporarily and cause great pain, but cannot permanently destroy him more than hitting water with a stick can destroy it. He can be targeted by psionics attacks, however, though he has powerful mental defenses. He can also be targeted by any life draining attack methods; the Felnas could disrupt his bond to the material world, and destroy him. In this state, he can detect powerful psionic beings, and speaks using telepathy. He can see through all forms of illusions and invisibility, and can communicate with Iden users. He is completely intangible, and can move through physical forms, or become completely invisible. He can travel incredibly fast in this state, at the level of a Kanohi Kakama, because he is merely floating. He is never detectable by anything other than sight. He cannot physically interact with the world in any way while in this state, and can only harm users of the Kanohi Iden while the mask is active. He can attempt to possess a corpse, either animated or deceased. If he can find a willing host, he can possess them as well.
---- Powers (Material Form): When Karilel possesses a dead body, he gains the ability to communicate with the outside world, and can materialize two war axes made of spectral energy (real enough to kill, but not real enough to be affected by any armor). The body becomes stronger and faster, but nothing else is gained. If the body is destroyed, he is banished for a full week. Alternatively, he can possess an animated corpse, in which case he gains all of the above and access to his elemental powers. If the body has a mask, he can use its power. Destruction in his form merely ejects him from the body, with no banishment. Finally, he can possess a willing host. This grants him control of the hosts body and all of their powers, along with his own gravity abilities. However, the host must have a strong will; otherwise, it is immediate death for both. The host can attempt to take back control whenever, but the longer they wait, the harder it is – eventually, Karilel would take full control, and the hosts powers would be lost. Their form would change to his over extended time, an ebon armored Toa. The would be resurrected.
Abilities: Karilel is a dangerous adversary in melee combat, wielding his two weapons with grace and efficiency. He isn't too shabby with his powers, when he has them. He has an understanding of most languages used in the Matoran universe in their written forms.
History: (Age ~ 100,000 Years) Karilel is an ancient Toa from the past long forgotten – and best forgotten. He was within at least the first 50 or so of the bunch brought into existence, and even then was a foul tempered brute that preferred to force things into happening rather than letting them take their course. Years gave him wisdom, and wisdom let him see the error in his ways – if he wanted things to happen, he had to take his time, and be prepared for long waits in certain situations. He also realized he didn't want to follow the Toa code and do things Toa were forced to do.
When he reached the Southern Continent, he began studying in libraries and travelling to new locations and cities, learning about the different species and about the universe as it unfolded. He also met another Toa, a powerful Plant Life user, who shared his ideology, and possessed powers greater than any he had seen before as far as mastery over her element. Until the day he died.
Karilel wore a Mask of Spirit, the Kanohi Iden. Before he died, he ejected his spirit from his body, hoping to play dead. It didn't work, and that would have been the end right there if his death hadn't come from a psionics rending his mind apart. His psych was ripped from his body, rather forcefully, and barely collected together by the rest of his spirit. His accomplice was rather quick with using her Mask of Reanimation to bring him, and the Toa of Psionics responsible (now with vines wrapping through his skull), into unlife. Immediately, he found he could possess his body, and retained his powers in the form.
They travelled to a small island in the south after many years, long after the fall of the League of Six Kingdoms. Rather than partners, though, he was now a second-in-command, relying on her for his existence. Despite their well planned siege of the nearby village, they were bested by the inhabitants, and the unexpected use of a Nova blast by one of the locals.
His partner was slain; he, on the other hand, was not. Over the many tens of thousands of years he waited, he grew stronger and stronger, and found he could take over corpses, animated or not, without assistance. He was free to wander the universe.
How much it must have disappointed him when he accidentally upset a member of the Brotherhood of Makuta, and was captured in a bizarre device powered by psychic energy. His actions, whatever they were, led to him being placed on Karzahni, where he would have remained as a trophy in its halls if it hadn't been for the entire room being destroyed. The vessel that contained him was shattered, and he was set free.
Unfortunately, that is not completely true. The vessels psychic energy remained, bonded to him and to some extent the Makuta base, where the shattered pieces of the vessel remain in the destroyed area and some trashed. He is bound to the island in this way, being unable to go more than 50 Kio beyond unless he gains a new body.
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