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Name: Latroma
Age: Over 18
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Character(s) Played: N/A
IC
Name: Zelgadis Graywords
Canon: Slayers (TV Series)
Canon Point: End of Slayers Next
Age: Around 21
Appearance:
Image: here
Zelgadis is an amalgamation: 1/3 human, 1/3 Blow Demon (a blue-skinned goblinoid creature with pupiless yellow eyes) and 1/3 Stone Golem. This has resulted in a man of average height and athletic build with toughened blue skin that is dotted by large, smooth stones all along his body. His rigid, spiky, blue hair is sharp like a porcupine's to the touch and his skin has a smoothness that is not rough to those in contact with it, but resilient and stiff enough that it deflects melee weapons wielded by those without some form of augmentation.
He generally favors beige or bland colored clothing that covers almost all of his body and is just loose fitting enough to enable him to move freely in combat. He is almost always found with a longsword strapped to his side, a full-length cloak on his back and pouches with mystical implements as needed. He favors fingerless gloves, a hood and wears a half face mask covering his mouth and nose when he is in areas not disposed to treating non-humans well. He has a calm, stiff bearing and speaks with a cool confidence under most circumstances that has charm but lacks much in the way of overt charisma. His ability to lead seems to come more from force of personality than it does from a debonair persona.
Abilities:
-Biology: Being 1/3 Stone Golem and 1/3 Blow Demon because of the twisted arcane experiments of Rezo the Red Priest, Zelgadis is both incredibly long lived by a human's standards and extremely durable. When faced with swordsmen of normal strength, wielding weapons that are not magically enhanced, he has been seen blocking their attacks with his bare arms. He ages at somewhere around ½ to 2/3 the rate of a normal human and appears to need less sleep and food than average. When assaulted by magical attacks, he is resilient but not invulnerable.
The downside to his resilient body, as was seen when Hellmaster Fibrizzo attacked him in the latter part of Next is that, without magical healing, it is difficult to treat any wound that Zelgadis actually sustains. Medicine in his world has little to no idea how to handle the biology and anatomy of a man who is essentially a chimera of a human, a monster and a magical construct. So, if a wound is sufficiently great that he cannot treat it magically himself due to a lack of concentration, Zelgadis will almost certainly need magical or augmented healing to allow for anything other than stemming blood loss and binding a wound. This is especially important as he seems to recover from wounds comparatively equivalent to a normal human.
-Expert Swordsman:
While not a sword master like Rodimus or Gourry, he is an accomplished fighter with experience in tactics and the use of the blade in combination with his magic. In fact, when his measured approach to combat usually means that Zelgadis will rely on blade when it is sufficient, drawing on his magical prowess only if actually necessary.
-Magical Prowess/Sorcerer:
Zelgadis is arguably one of the 10 most powerful wizards of his generation, and is well aware of the fact that he is right around the 10 spot and will never ascend any higher without significant magical intervention. Those who are above him are so far beyond his capacities, including his teammate Linna Inverse, that by Slayers Next's conclusion he has had to accept and make peace with the fact that he will always stand well below their abilities, while at the same time dwarfing the magical skill of virtually any other sorcerer that they meet in the world.
His magic focuses primarily on Shamanistic Practice, which in his world translates to elemental spells of Air/Lightning, Earth, Fire and Water/Ice. These take the form, usually, of defensive protections and shields and attack spells wielding the element themselves, along with a small collection of “Utility” spells and augmentations to equipment. Additionally, Shamanism includes “Spirit Magic,” which is focused primarily on dealing with “Mazoku” varieties of monsters, who are themselves spiritual entities and immune to many forms of black magic and basic elemental spells. Spirit magic generally attacks the 'spirit' and essence of a target, enabling it to strike down Mazoku of significant power. Zelgadis has been shown to know a smattering of Black Magic and no Chaos Magic (singular to Linna Inverse in Slayers Next), which is entirely attack-magic based on the powers of greater demonic entities such as Chaos Dragon King Gaav (“Gaav Flare” being the famous example of that one's magic). Such spells are devastating but frequently inconsistent in effect on Mazoku, sometimes because the Mazoku themselves may be the source of the magic. (For example, at one point, a powerful sorcerer attempted to use the “Dragon Slave” spell, thought the most devastating of all attack spells known to man against Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, only to find it did nothing, as Ruby Eye himself was the source of that magic).
Zelgadis is a midling level Black Magician, and has full and complete mastery of all Shamanistic Magic of all five elements, including the 'ultimate' spell of Spirit Magic, the “Rah Tilt.” In general, Shamanistic magic is deadly in combat, but causes no more chaos to the surrounding area than one would expect of a fireball or explosive device.
Will this Magic Require Warping: Based upon the rules as stated, I do not believe that his magic requires warping. While his partner Linna can destroy entire cities with her spells, Zelgadis' magic is generally not as destructive. He basically plays like a D&D Sorcerer within normal limits whose magic is more or less in line with combat with faerie creatures, not altering the face of the game.
However, if you feel it needs to be toned down, just let me know.
Personality:
Zelgadis is a man on a mission, but after years of having been on that mission, and after watching as the original goal of that mission has ultimately and completely been destroyed, he has become considerably more patient in fulfilling the last stage of that mission. His mission, you ask? To become human again. Trusting in his relative, the great sorcerer Rezo the Red Priest, and lusting for greater magical power, Zelgadis made the unwise bargain in his youth to allow Rezo to perform a magical experiment on his body. Rezo did this for his own reasons, with little regard for Zelgadis' well being, and the result was the chimeric body that Zelgadis now lives in. It is inhuman, and in his mind ugly, unnatural, hated by many townspeople, feared and monstrous, not to mention uncomfortable and frequently troublesome. It denies him the ability to bond with others emotionally in the same way, and so he has devoted much of his life to vengeance against Rezo and to finding a cure if he has to pry it out of Rezo's cold, dead hands.
Well, it's been a few years. Rezo is dead. A clone of Rezo known as Copy Rezo is also dead. Neither of their deaths provided the cure that he so desperately yearned for, and furthermore their lives and the madness that both of them fell into caused Zelgadis to see what might become of him too if he allowed his single-minded devotion to one thing to consume him utterly. It has caused him to become more patient, measured, calculating and willing to compromise than he was years ago when he first met Linna as her enemy. He wants to find a cure, but in seeing what Rezo became when he was so desperate to gain his sight and cure his blindness, he has come to realize that there are prices that he is not willing to pay to achieve that end. Furthermore, he has come to embrace that there are simply things and people in this world that are more important to him than a cure. Watching two of his closest allies, Zolf and Rodimus, die at Shabranigdu's hands, he has become more intimately aware that he actually cares about certain people in his life and wants to protect them, latching onto Gourry, Lina, Amelia and to a lesser extent Sylphiel as people who he trusts with his life, and for whom he would risk his own existence. When he first teamed up with Lina, he was a man ready to leave her to her fate, but by the time of the battles with Gaav and Fibrizo, he nearly died to protect his comrades, grievously wounded in a fight with Hellmaster Fibrizo he was well aware that he would not likely win.
Zelgadis is still incredibly self-conscious about his appearance, a thing seen in every single season and half-season story-arc conclusion where he refuses to depart with the person he has become closest to in the months leading up to that point, and instead departing with only a keepsake to remember them as he seeks a cure. He becomes romantically close to Amelia, but shuns full embrace of her interest, presumably because of his body consciousness issues, though he carries the keepsake at the end of the first season as a reminder of her affection. Any moments of flirtation early on between he and Lina are quickly quashed, mostly by him gruffly changing the subject and never returning to it even after a few brief encounters in the second season, prior to her professing her love for Gourry. While, by the end of Season 2 it is apparent he is interested in Amelia in turn as she matures as a person, he is unwilling to embrace her while he is still in his current state.
Zelgadis is not a man with many prejudices. He was perfectly willing to work with the werewolf Dilgear, and is willing to treat with Mazoku such as Xellos (though he finds the latter to be a rather offensive and difficult being to trust). However, he is very much a soul who does not judge a book by its cover and who views negatively someone who does. This initially causes there to be friction between he and Amelia, whose black and white view of the world, justice and Mazoku takes time to be grown out of. The two only really develop as friends and potentially more down the road when she grows out of this and makes peace with him for earlier misjudgments.
He is calm, cool and collected normally, methodical in his mindset and analytical. There is a bit of a seething anger in his youth that has bubbled down to a simmer by the time of Fibrizo's death. It can return at times, but seeing both incarnations of Rezo die has soothed much of his youthful rage and given him perspective because of the fact that neither truly died by his will but rather their own follies. He can be snarky and mildly sarcastic and seems to have a well developed, but subtle sense of humor. He is moderately well mannered and polite in most exchanges, but with a cold and detached approach to those that he does not know well. He enjoys refined pleasures, without indulging in them like the nobility and has a bit of a penchant for academic pursuits for their own merits.
In a lot of ways, he is the “Straight Man” to Lina, Gourry and Amelia's more aggressive tendencies. Without Sylphiel in the party (which is a rarity), he is the cool, aloof one who puts up with being the occasional butt of his teammates' jokes and who tolerates the frequently high energy antics of those that he works with. A consummate professional, he is also the level-headed one of the party more willing to accept that there are limitations to his and their abilities and the one to recommend a retreat to regroup and rethink when necessary, where most of his party would probably continue to charge in ahead. In this sense, at times, he comes off as his team's “babysitter,” the one who keeps them from getting too far in over their heads, or more often the one who is helping to pull them out when they've gotten in too deep.
History:
Zelgadis Graywords is the byproduct of cruel manipulation by a family member, horrible decision making of a young man and a terrible mistake with unspeakable consequences. Rezo the Red Priest, one of the most powerful arcane forces of all time, was his great grandfather, cursed with blindness. He was a healer of incredible renown but unable to cure his own blindness which drove him to madness and secret performance of countless atrocious acts in the effort to find a cure for his ailment. One of these atrocities was the alchemical and magical experiment that turned Zelgadis (who agreed because he sought magical power and trusted Rezo) into a hybrid chimera of a blow demon and stone golem.
In rage, Zelgadis plotted revenge against Rezo while serving him and his secret monster minions, while at the same time seeking a cure for his condition. It was during this period that he came into contact with Lina Inverse, initially sent to recover the philosopher's stone from her possession. In the ensuing kidnappings and fights, he finally turned on Rezo and allied with Lina and Gourry in their efforts to face down Rezo and ultimately the possessed shard of the spirit of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, the Mazoku king of their realm split into pieces in an ancient battle. He watched as Rezo finally opened his eyes by dark magics, only to release Ruby-Eyes. In the final confrontation with him, they were given a critical second to claim victory by the lingering spirit of what had once been his Great Grandfather, a man who might still have had some good left in him, not to mention a glimmer of remorse for what he'd done to Zelgadis.
Zelgadis would again and again team up with with Lina, Gourry and eventually Amelia as they became more and more deeply embroiled in the games of demonic politics of the Mazoku. Forced to first confront a clone of Rezo who sought to surpass the original, he aided in bringing the last memories that they were aware of in his lineage down. In the aftermath of Rezo's legacy, however, the quartet had drawn the attention of the Mazoku priest Xellos and his enigmatic master, one of the five lieutenants of Ruby-Eyes. Xellos drew the team into a conflict between two of the other lieutenants, Chaos Dragon Gaav and Hellmaster Fibrizo. Gaav, who had been seeking to influence mortals to favor him and gain power so that he could oppose is own lord one day and gain autonomy on his own terms, came repeatedly against the heroes, but only when he revealed himself publicly to Lina did Hellmaster reveal himself. Weakened by Lina's chaos magic, Gaav was killed by Hellmaster Fibrizo, who turned on Lina and threatened to destroy everyone that she loved, nearly mortally wounding Zelgadis in the process in order to coerce her to cast the “Giga Slave,” his plan being to kill her in the process and unleash the full power of the spell without control, destroying the world. The resulting fight brought Fibrizo face to face with the source of that Chaos Magic, the so-called Lord of Nightmares, who annihilated him for his temerity, giving him the oblivion he had sought for at least himself. In the aftermath of the near destruction of the world, Zelgadis bid his friends farewell once more, departing to seek a cure with a keepsake of Amelia's still in tow.
Sample(s):
Network Sample:
[Zelgadis had taken a minute to figure out the functions before he went pushing buttons. He'd already seen at least one person make a general fool out of themselves by tapping at it and staring so close that he'd seen the pupil of their eyes. He had enough pride to take his time and do previews before sending out a first message.
So, he was now seated in a chair next to a tavern's table, a mug of ale there resting next to his hand. His hood was drawn and a mask covered his face. Normally, he wouldn't go so far as to conceal his appearance, especially now that he was certain of the fact that he was surrounded by enough fae creatures to hint that nobody was going to judge him on his looks. However, his being here practically screamed 'Xellos,' and he had picked up just enough enemies in his life that he didn't need to advertise that he was here... and besides... anyone that he actually liked from home? They'd recognize him like this.
His fingers tapped a staccato rhythmn on the table top and he seemed to be thinking something. No, introductions were fruitless. Asking 'does any of you know a Lina Inverse' was positively idiotic. If she was here, all he would have to do was find the trail of destruction near a bar, and he'd find her quickly enough. The same went for Gourry and Amelia to differing degrees. So, for the moment it was a game of one step at a time.]
So then. [His voice was smooth, careful, measured.] While I am stuck in this place, finding a means to go back through the woods to where I came from, I find myself in need of employ. It seems that the work I am accustomed to is common enough, even if the clientele is predictably questionable.
Ensuring one is paid properly generally requires two things. Numbers. Competence. I am looking for one, perhaps two others who can handle themselves in a fight, and who are willing to get their hands a little dirty without delving into this business of … souls. [His lips made a scowl under the cloth.] I have standards, and so should anyone who works with me.
Contact me at the … what the devil was this called? Ah, the Crimson Flagon. I will be in the bar for the next few evenings, drumming up odd jobs. I'm told I'm hard to miss in a crowd.
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Log Sample:
Spikes of earth shot up at a gesture of his hand, crackling with power and sundering the goblins ranks. It was barely a fight, but he couldn't fault the townspeople. Local militia weren't built for these numbers. He swung with his sword, cleaving the last, bold one to draw close in two and rising, breathing a little more heavily than when the fight had begun. “Well, that was a decent workout. Almost a pity there isn't a real fight too be had here.” Setting the blade on his shoulder, he turned to look over his shoulder at his companion of the moment.
“You're not half-bad at this. So tell me, are you the sharing type when it comes to those skills, or do we both prefer the tall, dark and mysterious routine?” Just the briefest of winks and a smug grin. What? He was allowed to enjoy the look he so carefully manicured when it was amusing. “We should chase the rest. Bit filthy work, but they always come back stronger if you don't.”
OOC
Name: Latroma
Age: Over 18
Contact:
Character(s) Played: N/A
IC
Name: Zelgadis Graywords
Canon: Slayers (TV Series)
Canon Point: End of Slayers Next
Age: Around 21
Appearance:
Image: here
Zelgadis is an amalgamation: 1/3 human, 1/3 Blow Demon (a blue-skinned goblinoid creature with pupiless yellow eyes) and 1/3 Stone Golem. This has resulted in a man of average height and athletic build with toughened blue skin that is dotted by large, smooth stones all along his body. His rigid, spiky, blue hair is sharp like a porcupine's to the touch and his skin has a smoothness that is not rough to those in contact with it, but resilient and stiff enough that it deflects melee weapons wielded by those without some form of augmentation.
He generally favors beige or bland colored clothing that covers almost all of his body and is just loose fitting enough to enable him to move freely in combat. He is almost always found with a longsword strapped to his side, a full-length cloak on his back and pouches with mystical implements as needed. He favors fingerless gloves, a hood and wears a half face mask covering his mouth and nose when he is in areas not disposed to treating non-humans well. He has a calm, stiff bearing and speaks with a cool confidence under most circumstances that has charm but lacks much in the way of overt charisma. His ability to lead seems to come more from force of personality than it does from a debonair persona.
Abilities:
-Biology: Being 1/3 Stone Golem and 1/3 Blow Demon because of the twisted arcane experiments of Rezo the Red Priest, Zelgadis is both incredibly long lived by a human's standards and extremely durable. When faced with swordsmen of normal strength, wielding weapons that are not magically enhanced, he has been seen blocking their attacks with his bare arms. He ages at somewhere around ½ to 2/3 the rate of a normal human and appears to need less sleep and food than average. When assaulted by magical attacks, he is resilient but not invulnerable.
The downside to his resilient body, as was seen when Hellmaster Fibrizzo attacked him in the latter part of Next is that, without magical healing, it is difficult to treat any wound that Zelgadis actually sustains. Medicine in his world has little to no idea how to handle the biology and anatomy of a man who is essentially a chimera of a human, a monster and a magical construct. So, if a wound is sufficiently great that he cannot treat it magically himself due to a lack of concentration, Zelgadis will almost certainly need magical or augmented healing to allow for anything other than stemming blood loss and binding a wound. This is especially important as he seems to recover from wounds comparatively equivalent to a normal human.
-Expert Swordsman:
While not a sword master like Rodimus or Gourry, he is an accomplished fighter with experience in tactics and the use of the blade in combination with his magic. In fact, when his measured approach to combat usually means that Zelgadis will rely on blade when it is sufficient, drawing on his magical prowess only if actually necessary.
-Magical Prowess/Sorcerer:
Zelgadis is arguably one of the 10 most powerful wizards of his generation, and is well aware of the fact that he is right around the 10 spot and will never ascend any higher without significant magical intervention. Those who are above him are so far beyond his capacities, including his teammate Linna Inverse, that by Slayers Next's conclusion he has had to accept and make peace with the fact that he will always stand well below their abilities, while at the same time dwarfing the magical skill of virtually any other sorcerer that they meet in the world.
His magic focuses primarily on Shamanistic Practice, which in his world translates to elemental spells of Air/Lightning, Earth, Fire and Water/Ice. These take the form, usually, of defensive protections and shields and attack spells wielding the element themselves, along with a small collection of “Utility” spells and augmentations to equipment. Additionally, Shamanism includes “Spirit Magic,” which is focused primarily on dealing with “Mazoku” varieties of monsters, who are themselves spiritual entities and immune to many forms of black magic and basic elemental spells. Spirit magic generally attacks the 'spirit' and essence of a target, enabling it to strike down Mazoku of significant power. Zelgadis has been shown to know a smattering of Black Magic and no Chaos Magic (singular to Linna Inverse in Slayers Next), which is entirely attack-magic based on the powers of greater demonic entities such as Chaos Dragon King Gaav (“Gaav Flare” being the famous example of that one's magic). Such spells are devastating but frequently inconsistent in effect on Mazoku, sometimes because the Mazoku themselves may be the source of the magic. (For example, at one point, a powerful sorcerer attempted to use the “Dragon Slave” spell, thought the most devastating of all attack spells known to man against Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, only to find it did nothing, as Ruby Eye himself was the source of that magic).
Zelgadis is a midling level Black Magician, and has full and complete mastery of all Shamanistic Magic of all five elements, including the 'ultimate' spell of Spirit Magic, the “Rah Tilt.” In general, Shamanistic magic is deadly in combat, but causes no more chaos to the surrounding area than one would expect of a fireball or explosive device.
Will this Magic Require Warping: Based upon the rules as stated, I do not believe that his magic requires warping. While his partner Linna can destroy entire cities with her spells, Zelgadis' magic is generally not as destructive. He basically plays like a D&D Sorcerer within normal limits whose magic is more or less in line with combat with faerie creatures, not altering the face of the game.
However, if you feel it needs to be toned down, just let me know.
Personality:
Zelgadis is a man on a mission, but after years of having been on that mission, and after watching as the original goal of that mission has ultimately and completely been destroyed, he has become considerably more patient in fulfilling the last stage of that mission. His mission, you ask? To become human again. Trusting in his relative, the great sorcerer Rezo the Red Priest, and lusting for greater magical power, Zelgadis made the unwise bargain in his youth to allow Rezo to perform a magical experiment on his body. Rezo did this for his own reasons, with little regard for Zelgadis' well being, and the result was the chimeric body that Zelgadis now lives in. It is inhuman, and in his mind ugly, unnatural, hated by many townspeople, feared and monstrous, not to mention uncomfortable and frequently troublesome. It denies him the ability to bond with others emotionally in the same way, and so he has devoted much of his life to vengeance against Rezo and to finding a cure if he has to pry it out of Rezo's cold, dead hands.
Well, it's been a few years. Rezo is dead. A clone of Rezo known as Copy Rezo is also dead. Neither of their deaths provided the cure that he so desperately yearned for, and furthermore their lives and the madness that both of them fell into caused Zelgadis to see what might become of him too if he allowed his single-minded devotion to one thing to consume him utterly. It has caused him to become more patient, measured, calculating and willing to compromise than he was years ago when he first met Linna as her enemy. He wants to find a cure, but in seeing what Rezo became when he was so desperate to gain his sight and cure his blindness, he has come to realize that there are prices that he is not willing to pay to achieve that end. Furthermore, he has come to embrace that there are simply things and people in this world that are more important to him than a cure. Watching two of his closest allies, Zolf and Rodimus, die at Shabranigdu's hands, he has become more intimately aware that he actually cares about certain people in his life and wants to protect them, latching onto Gourry, Lina, Amelia and to a lesser extent Sylphiel as people who he trusts with his life, and for whom he would risk his own existence. When he first teamed up with Lina, he was a man ready to leave her to her fate, but by the time of the battles with Gaav and Fibrizo, he nearly died to protect his comrades, grievously wounded in a fight with Hellmaster Fibrizo he was well aware that he would not likely win.
Zelgadis is still incredibly self-conscious about his appearance, a thing seen in every single season and half-season story-arc conclusion where he refuses to depart with the person he has become closest to in the months leading up to that point, and instead departing with only a keepsake to remember them as he seeks a cure. He becomes romantically close to Amelia, but shuns full embrace of her interest, presumably because of his body consciousness issues, though he carries the keepsake at the end of the first season as a reminder of her affection. Any moments of flirtation early on between he and Lina are quickly quashed, mostly by him gruffly changing the subject and never returning to it even after a few brief encounters in the second season, prior to her professing her love for Gourry. While, by the end of Season 2 it is apparent he is interested in Amelia in turn as she matures as a person, he is unwilling to embrace her while he is still in his current state.
Zelgadis is not a man with many prejudices. He was perfectly willing to work with the werewolf Dilgear, and is willing to treat with Mazoku such as Xellos (though he finds the latter to be a rather offensive and difficult being to trust). However, he is very much a soul who does not judge a book by its cover and who views negatively someone who does. This initially causes there to be friction between he and Amelia, whose black and white view of the world, justice and Mazoku takes time to be grown out of. The two only really develop as friends and potentially more down the road when she grows out of this and makes peace with him for earlier misjudgments.
He is calm, cool and collected normally, methodical in his mindset and analytical. There is a bit of a seething anger in his youth that has bubbled down to a simmer by the time of Fibrizo's death. It can return at times, but seeing both incarnations of Rezo die has soothed much of his youthful rage and given him perspective because of the fact that neither truly died by his will but rather their own follies. He can be snarky and mildly sarcastic and seems to have a well developed, but subtle sense of humor. He is moderately well mannered and polite in most exchanges, but with a cold and detached approach to those that he does not know well. He enjoys refined pleasures, without indulging in them like the nobility and has a bit of a penchant for academic pursuits for their own merits.
In a lot of ways, he is the “Straight Man” to Lina, Gourry and Amelia's more aggressive tendencies. Without Sylphiel in the party (which is a rarity), he is the cool, aloof one who puts up with being the occasional butt of his teammates' jokes and who tolerates the frequently high energy antics of those that he works with. A consummate professional, he is also the level-headed one of the party more willing to accept that there are limitations to his and their abilities and the one to recommend a retreat to regroup and rethink when necessary, where most of his party would probably continue to charge in ahead. In this sense, at times, he comes off as his team's “babysitter,” the one who keeps them from getting too far in over their heads, or more often the one who is helping to pull them out when they've gotten in too deep.
History:
Zelgadis Graywords is the byproduct of cruel manipulation by a family member, horrible decision making of a young man and a terrible mistake with unspeakable consequences. Rezo the Red Priest, one of the most powerful arcane forces of all time, was his great grandfather, cursed with blindness. He was a healer of incredible renown but unable to cure his own blindness which drove him to madness and secret performance of countless atrocious acts in the effort to find a cure for his ailment. One of these atrocities was the alchemical and magical experiment that turned Zelgadis (who agreed because he sought magical power and trusted Rezo) into a hybrid chimera of a blow demon and stone golem.
In rage, Zelgadis plotted revenge against Rezo while serving him and his secret monster minions, while at the same time seeking a cure for his condition. It was during this period that he came into contact with Lina Inverse, initially sent to recover the philosopher's stone from her possession. In the ensuing kidnappings and fights, he finally turned on Rezo and allied with Lina and Gourry in their efforts to face down Rezo and ultimately the possessed shard of the spirit of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo, the Mazoku king of their realm split into pieces in an ancient battle. He watched as Rezo finally opened his eyes by dark magics, only to release Ruby-Eyes. In the final confrontation with him, they were given a critical second to claim victory by the lingering spirit of what had once been his Great Grandfather, a man who might still have had some good left in him, not to mention a glimmer of remorse for what he'd done to Zelgadis.
Zelgadis would again and again team up with with Lina, Gourry and eventually Amelia as they became more and more deeply embroiled in the games of demonic politics of the Mazoku. Forced to first confront a clone of Rezo who sought to surpass the original, he aided in bringing the last memories that they were aware of in his lineage down. In the aftermath of Rezo's legacy, however, the quartet had drawn the attention of the Mazoku priest Xellos and his enigmatic master, one of the five lieutenants of Ruby-Eyes. Xellos drew the team into a conflict between two of the other lieutenants, Chaos Dragon Gaav and Hellmaster Fibrizo. Gaav, who had been seeking to influence mortals to favor him and gain power so that he could oppose is own lord one day and gain autonomy on his own terms, came repeatedly against the heroes, but only when he revealed himself publicly to Lina did Hellmaster reveal himself. Weakened by Lina's chaos magic, Gaav was killed by Hellmaster Fibrizo, who turned on Lina and threatened to destroy everyone that she loved, nearly mortally wounding Zelgadis in the process in order to coerce her to cast the “Giga Slave,” his plan being to kill her in the process and unleash the full power of the spell without control, destroying the world. The resulting fight brought Fibrizo face to face with the source of that Chaos Magic, the so-called Lord of Nightmares, who annihilated him for his temerity, giving him the oblivion he had sought for at least himself. In the aftermath of the near destruction of the world, Zelgadis bid his friends farewell once more, departing to seek a cure with a keepsake of Amelia's still in tow.
Sample(s):
Network Sample:
[Zelgadis had taken a minute to figure out the functions before he went pushing buttons. He'd already seen at least one person make a general fool out of themselves by tapping at it and staring so close that he'd seen the pupil of their eyes. He had enough pride to take his time and do previews before sending out a first message.
So, he was now seated in a chair next to a tavern's table, a mug of ale there resting next to his hand. His hood was drawn and a mask covered his face. Normally, he wouldn't go so far as to conceal his appearance, especially now that he was certain of the fact that he was surrounded by enough fae creatures to hint that nobody was going to judge him on his looks. However, his being here practically screamed 'Xellos,' and he had picked up just enough enemies in his life that he didn't need to advertise that he was here... and besides... anyone that he actually liked from home? They'd recognize him like this.
His fingers tapped a staccato rhythmn on the table top and he seemed to be thinking something. No, introductions were fruitless. Asking 'does any of you know a Lina Inverse' was positively idiotic. If she was here, all he would have to do was find the trail of destruction near a bar, and he'd find her quickly enough. The same went for Gourry and Amelia to differing degrees. So, for the moment it was a game of one step at a time.]
So then. [His voice was smooth, careful, measured.] While I am stuck in this place, finding a means to go back through the woods to where I came from, I find myself in need of employ. It seems that the work I am accustomed to is common enough, even if the clientele is predictably questionable.
Ensuring one is paid properly generally requires two things. Numbers. Competence. I am looking for one, perhaps two others who can handle themselves in a fight, and who are willing to get their hands a little dirty without delving into this business of … souls. [His lips made a scowl under the cloth.] I have standards, and so should anyone who works with me.
Contact me at the … what the devil was this called? Ah, the Crimson Flagon. I will be in the bar for the next few evenings, drumming up odd jobs. I'm told I'm hard to miss in a crowd.
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Spikes of earth shot up at a gesture of his hand, crackling with power and sundering the goblins ranks. It was barely a fight, but he couldn't fault the townspeople. Local militia weren't built for these numbers. He swung with his sword, cleaving the last, bold one to draw close in two and rising, breathing a little more heavily than when the fight had begun. “Well, that was a decent workout. Almost a pity there isn't a real fight too be had here.” Setting the blade on his shoulder, he turned to look over his shoulder at his companion of the moment.
“You're not half-bad at this. So tell me, are you the sharing type when it comes to those skills, or do we both prefer the tall, dark and mysterious routine?” Just the briefest of winks and a smug grin. What? He was allowed to enjoy the look he so carefully manicured when it was amusing. “We should chase the rest. Bit filthy work, but they always come back stronger if you don't.”
