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THE EMPEROR UNDYING

The Locked Tomb CANON 10,000+ AGE Meridian FACTION Tier 1 HARMONIZATION LEVEL

Harrow the Ninth (Post-Canon) CANON POINT Male (he/him) GENDER Iconoclast ASPECT Tier 0 DISCORD LEVEL

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

John is described as a very average-looking person, like a history teacher with the eyes of an eldritch monster. Described as "a deep rainbow oil slick, ringed with white. The pupils were as glossy black as the sclera", and as being unsettling to look at for too long.

SHARD

John's Shard is embedded directly over his heart in the centre of his chest. It is not very pretty at all, being a red quasicrystal — an impossible crystal that only forms where an atomic bomb has been detonated. It kinda looks like meat and gristle, which is nice.

ASPECT TATTOO

His Iconoclast tattoo is over his ribs on the left side of his chest.

PERSONALITY

BACKGROUND

He's God, the Emperor of the Nine Houses, the King Undying, the Necromancer Prime, the Kindly Prince, etc., etc. and it's a lot, so here's a helpful wiki link since it's all heavy Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth spoilers ✨

ABILITIES & SKILLS

NECROMANCY

› Necromancy involves the manipulation of thalergy, thanergy, and souls. It is divided into the three schools of bone magic, flesh magic, and spirit magic. As the God who gave necromancy to the Nine Houses, naturally John has unparalleled skill.

› Thalergy, or life energy, is inherent in most things in the universe. It is created by cellular growth and reproduction and most planets and all organisms contain it.

› Thanergy, or death energy, is produced by cell death. The Nine Houses are the only stable forms of thanergetic radiation as a result of the Resurrection.

Necromancy works off of specific theorems. A sufficiently powerful necromancer given the appropriate theorems would be capable of reproducing John's abilities, and so some he's kept some of them very secret. In Kenos, the foreign energy in the world and the Shards has altered them to be a lot less "efficient" than they should be. John can learn how to tweak them over time and feel like he's accomplishing something, but mostly it allows for his ridiculously OP abilities to be adjusted according to fun and fairness.

› Capable of instantly healing someone else's wounds.

LIMITATIONS: He will technically be capable of instant healing, but the presence of the Shards will resist his power in action, meaning the overall efficacy of his healing can be adjusted to whatever works for the situation (mostly what's fun for everyone). He can heal living and dead bodies, but he cannot resurrect anyone. It might also be spicy to have his abilities be further affected by Harmonisation and Discord since it's already a disruptive force that will frustrate him lmao.

› Can puppet the living and dead bodies.

LIMITATIONS: Puppeting other PCs would obviously require explicit permission from other players and mod permission if NPCs are involved! How long he can keep in control would depend on the willingness of the person he's controlling and whether or not they're a Shard-Bearer. Again, the Shards will be tricky interference because having something slowly eroding the connection makes it more interesting. A living body with a dormant or willing mind could be controlled much longer than someone who was fighting him. Distance would also be taken into consideration.

› Able to sense thalergy (life energy), thanergy (death energy), and souls.

LIMITATIONS: Applies to this and the next couple of abilities. John has ten thousand years of experience knowing everything about the human body, but he has no experience with non-humans. I assume that to him, all non-human anatomy is kind of weird, and he needs time to figure it out. He has an opt-in post if he might be able to sense anything weird about anyone here!

› He can use flesh magic to harm or heal anything as long as he can understand its body.

› Capable of sensing minute details about a person's anatomy.

› He can create undead constructs from small bits of existing materials.

› He can puppet and reanimate dead bodies.

› He can manipulate souls and summon and bind ghosts.

› He can create wards from bone and blood.

› He can drain another person's energy or use them as a battery.

› He can create explosions using necromantic energy.

› He can share sensory input with someone else.

› He can use necromancy to learn more information about items.

INHUMANITY

While John appears human, he describes himself as "remade" and has become something else. To those who can sense souls, John's would appear shredded beyond repair and likely be difficult to perceive for too long. If Lyctors are described as black holes, John's is something impossibly beyond that; it is the "death of light".

› Functionally immortal. Minor, partial damage to his body heals within seconds, but total destruction of his brain or body is fatal.

LIMITATIONS: Injuries will heal at an accelerated rate but not instantaneously. The more severe the damage, the slower it will take to repair itself. Enough non-fatal injuries will be debilitating enough to slow or stop him completely until he has time to deal with them.

› He can tweak his own biological functions.

LIMITATIONS: Even in canon, he still needed to eat, sleep, etc. but could tweak the processes indefinitely. It wasn't ideal, but doable. This basically operates like drinking coffee to stay awake or taking an appetite suppressant. It works better than either of those things because he's messing with his actual body, but it's still just a stopgap. Eventually, he needs actual rest or sustenance, or he will just black out from exhaustion.

PERMISSIONS

PLAYER INFO

Played By: min

Contact Info: koutenko | koutenko#5884 | pm

Permissions / Opt-Out: here

IN CHARACTER

Physical Violence: Yes! He really has no reservations about anything.

Death/Dissipation: Open to it, but since it will be a pretty big deal for him to go through it, I'd like to make sure it's the right time for it.

Physical Affection: John is awkward about affection in general and will be extremely wary as people have used his feelings to manipulate him in the past and he will not trust easily. Not off the table by any means, but inevitably an uphill battle from start to finish.

Shipping/Sex: He has no shame and is super casual about sex. He thinks a lot of people in Kenos are attractive and would probably be open to sleeping with them if he had the chance. I lack the spoons to write smut, but I'm very open to writing just about everything else, so I'm very open to John having all kinds of off-camera hook ups. He is actively trying not to catch feelings or know anyone, so no worries losing anything of value in handwaving the sex lol

Mental/Communion: Yes! He will hate it because he is an extremely secretive person who is afraid of his secrets getting out, so the very idea that anyone mightt ever have that kind of access to the inside of his head is not something he's comfortable with, but I will have a lot of fun.

Offensive Subjects: rich people, climate change, betrayals lmao

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