About Seth Shadrach, The VenumancerWork In Progress - Spell selection still in progress. character information and background:
Seth Shadrach aka The Venumancer
Init +2
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Spellbook (consisting of scribblings on many loose sheets of paper, back of envelopes, napkins, toilet paper, margins of newspapers, ancient parchment, clay tablets, etc)
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Seth sometimes remembers the life he had before he was gifted. He remembers standing in front of a group of teenagers. Mostly talking. Sometimes demonstrating interesting experiments. The youngsters were mostly attentive. He figured he was a Physics teacher, likely in a high school. And it seems that he was even popular. That was before he … fell in. Into other "worlds". His memory of them is blurry. Snatches of fire. Of ice. Of songs. Of silence. Of blinding light. Of nothing. Of faces. Or what would be faces if they when they took on remotely human shapes. What he remembers was walking. And walking. Sometimes talking. Picking up "knacks" along the way so that he could keep on moving. Through luck, some natural acumen, and perhaps some blessings of a greater power, he made sense of what's happening, and eventually made his way back. He was sure he was away for years. Decades. But everything was the same when he returned. Even his age. Except his eyes, which have become haunted and aged. But things started becoming not the same. He could see … things. And creatures. Hear them. Touch them. Even to “pull” them into his world. And sometimes, he returned to those worlds. And those knacks he took back with him, people would later term as magic. Everything fell apart in slow motion. (Or maybe he was coming together, but in a different dimensional plane from everyone else. It depends on perspective.) He remembers sitting in his room, staring into space for days at a time. (Although he was really communing with Shannala, a spirit from the Earth dimension, on the fluid dynamics of sand of different texture.). He must have lost his job along the way but how that happened, he does not quite remember. His husband tried to help, he thinks. He remembers Jon dragging him to a Dr Brandon, a psychiatrist. He remembers many shouts, many tears. But one day, he noticed Jon was not there anymore. He must have left but when that happened… well, what is time to someone whose vision stretches into the 7th dimension? Seth remembers becoming more together eventually. Most of the time. And ironically, the experience, although leaving him only a vague memory of what happened, left him the ability to recall very precise memories of everything that happens in his immediate timezone. (Or this version of Earth’s time.) And more importantly, he saw how torn apart the world was, and was becoming. So he left his life behind. It wasn’t much of one by then. He took those knacks he learnt to try to fix them. Often through requests from visitations. Other times on his own. Most of his work happens out of sight of the common eye through the various interdimensional planes. But some were very public. When he stopped a group of terrorists from crashing a truck filled with explosives into the Washington monument. (It would have opened a dimensional breach into a negative energy dimension.) Or when he held back Hurricane Sandy from inundating Manhattan. (He was really keeping an Old One from breaching into Earth.) He developed a cult following, and the media dubbed him the Venumancer. Which he paid no attention to. Might not even be aware, actually. Then one day, Abaddon the angel of destruction bid him to rescue a boy child that had become infested with demons from the 7th lower plane. Seth’s magic managed to draw them out eventually, but only by finally stabbing a cold iron kitchen knife into the boy's heart. He could save his soul from being devoured, but not his life. Unfortunately, Seth chose to do this during lunchtime in the middle of Time Square. And thus he was swiftly arrested. The year in the Cube was peaceful. He had an excuse to rest. And the soul of the boy child, Rob, has decided to accompany him in the form of a rat (i.e. rat familiar). |
