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GM, I would like to withdraw my application for this game. While I'd love to play in it, I find myself at full capacity. Hence it's wiser for me to withdraw.

Thanks very much for the game you've proposed and the creative mood you have endeavored to set in this thread, imagining Nephilim was very entertaining and I'll certainly keep the concept for another game.

You're more than welcome to do so! I love both themes you picked, as a huge fan of both of these games.

YBD, I've included several more things for you in Nephilim's profile. Feel free to browse to discover more about some of his past incarnations, a portrait of him, or even his theme song.

This is Lithrac's submission.

Name Nephilim Aetas

Race Deva

Class Oracle (Time mystery, Shattered Psyche curse (from Iron Gods; barring that, Haunted would achieve nearly the same effect story-wise as far as character design is concerned, though not putting emphasis on the overlapping personalities to my taste)

Theme Skyseer

Party Role Buffer/Debuffer/Healer

Introducing Nephilim
Nephilim is a deva who was originally born a human in around 40 B.O.V. according to his estimate. While like most devas he doesn't recall his past lives (including his original one), his curious nature has led him to investigate his previous incarnations, thus gathering little by little pieces of a vast puzzle. He knows that he was a human at the time of the war with the Eladrin, and that he fought in the Risur army at that time. Flashes and fractured memories haunt him continually though, so his later incarnations have been increasingly difficult. In the last one, he has chosen to bind his fate to Risur's, since one of the sole things he knows for a fact is that he has always had ties with this realm, ever since his first incarnation and his fateful transformation into a deva.

One thing of note is that Nephilim strongly believes that he doesn't progress in life (for example, when he levels up), but he's merely recovering some of his latent abilities he developped in his past incarnations. His life-changing experience as the goddess Srasama was slain during the battle he most likely took part have created (or perhaps strengthened?) a bond between Nephilim and Reida, the plane of distance and time. He has grown to understand time in a vastly different manner than most sentient beings do, and has developped nascent powers to control it. He believes that over the course of his past incarnations, he has made great steps towards understanding himself and his powers, but that he sadly forgot all of it. However, he knows that given his curious and meticulous nature, his past self has most likely hidden the gathered clues of his Magnum Opum somewhere in Risur... but where?

Why he joined the RHC
Nephilim quickly understood that he wouldn't get very far in his own investigation of his past incarnations without the means to do so. Finding the place where his past self stashed the state of his investigation would be a great start towards resuming his path to understanding himself, but he needs the means to do that. Moreover, serving Risur was one of the few certainties he could cling to. Thus, he has decided to remain in his home country and endeavor for it to bloom throughout time. Who knows, by joining the RHC he might even find someone who knew one of his past incarnations? Or have these incarnations already followed that course and joined the RHC years ago? So many questions remain.

Note to YBD: This character's concept is strongly inspired by the film Memento. If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend you do, it's amazing. When I read about the devas' background and pushed the concept forward, this concept came naturally. The choice of the curse (Shattered Psyche) is also linked to that particular feature: his "added" incarnations over time aren't completely silent, which had the effect of making him slightly mad (multiple personalities overlapping), but increasingly so as the incarnations add up. This has also allowed him to remember fragments of his past, clues to help him find who he once was... and eventually silence the inner voices (or so he believes!)