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Post by redundant on Jul 17, 2012 22:47:07 GMT -5
Helios
Alias: High Priest of Elysian
Age: Guesstimated 200 years
Family:
- Hesiod, deceased, Adopted Father
- Clio, deceased, Adopted Mother
- Eos, unknown, Maenad
- Aurora, unknown, Maenad
- Pegasus, unknown, Companion
Rank: High Priest—acting Prophet in service to the King and Queen of Earth
Power(s): Helios’ has use of whatever power the Shrine grants him. As such, he must pray for the power to be able to use it and hold a protective shield around the Earth from oncoming enemies. Helios can have visions and transfer his power to the Earth or the Holder the Golden Crystal. He can also travel through dreams and call upon Pegasus if need be.
Abilities:
Hindsight- Helios has particularly good hindsight for someone who can’t read the future. He reads into things well and offers wise advice; which is the reason why he’s called upon the Queens and Kings in case of emergency.
Traits: Helios is a soft-spoken, polite young man who barely raises he voice, much less speak out of turn.
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Background: By the law of Elysian, it is said that only one High Priest may live and serve the Royal family at the same time. It is the spirit, the laws say, which only one can possess at a time, born in the body of mythical creature turned man. The spirit is eternal and is only lives once the Priest requests it—whether he do so by wishing to be human and mortal truly or by violent death in the line of protect the Earth. When he first came to the shrine, the Maenads told Helios that priest before home was a man who was once a phoenix and died soon after he left to serve a Queen from a far off land. There is no doubt in Helios’ mind that moment the former priest had chosen to leave his service did Elysian chose him. Helios does not recall his own birth—he was not born of a woman, that he knows—but he does know that he was found a toddler in the heavy forests of the Western Kingdom and that he was found by a young woman, only married one month before. That woman was named Clio and she became his mother from that day forward.
His adopted parents were good people, he will tell you that if you ask him, and his mother was beautiful, with dark skin and shining green eyes and a warm smile he could never forget. She was a storyteller and she would always tell him that on the day she found him, she had watched a horned horse with the wings of an angel nuzzle and nest him before vanishing at the sound of her step. She called Helios her ‘Little Unicorn’, the child the gods had sent to her when she could not bear her own. Helios’ father was Hesiod, a scholar and a man of strict learning, though he could still be gentle in the hours of the night when he took his son, whose eyes he would say were too old for his young age, out to see the stars shining above. He taught Helios to read and to write, pleasantly shocked when the child of barely eight sucked up his notes with the ease of a man four times his age. Helios was a strange boy, his father would say; the complexion of a northerner, the mind of a wise nomad, always, always with the long, thoughtful stares that bore into the hearts of all the people he had met and tell him of their deepest, hidden dreams. It isn’t a wonder why Helios never took to the other children and instead went to the forest to read and stay with the animals that, for whatever reason, would not harm him.
When Helios turned fourteen, a small war had broken out through the land and every boy of age was being called into the draft to fight. However, as the soldiers came to collect the young boy and arm him with a sword he could hardly lift, Helios ran away into the forest, ignoring his father’s voice as he cried. He ran until his feet could not take him anymore and collapsed, sobbing like a coward into the grass, afraid of the violence that came with war. He never wanted to fight, he said to nothing, he only wanted to protect and to dream. And as he said that, something wet and warm pressed to his cheek, white fur blinding his left eye. There Pegasus had found him and comforted him, shielding his trembling shoulders underneath its wings. H supposes that was a sign of Elysian because when the soldiers and his father found him, they bowed their knees and told him of his destiny. And after that, Pegasus took him from his home to the Shrine, where the Maenads greeted him as if he were an old friend—he felt at home there, soon enough settled into the prays and the books that were gifted to him. He never saw his parents again, which sadden him to know end, but time tests and helps heal a broken heart and soon enough Helios was content, even when his parents’ death came—mother by disease, father by death. He loved them both and he knew that sadness would not be the way to the honor their memory. So Helios learned and he served and when the King and Queen came to him with worries on their lips, he silenced them with advice and knowledge. He has done so for two hundred years and now he watches the skies that his father once spoke to him about; the stars more active in regards to the Prince more so than they have ever been before.
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