Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: in his early 30s
Personality: In todays world one would call him a eccentric. But in this world full of freak occurences simple peasants both admire and fear him. At least those that know him. He has a habit for "enhancing" his deeds in his stories. A lot of people who consider themselves more powerful and intelligent are extremely quick to underestimate him and his weird gadgets and contraptions, being completely unaware to the amount of raw damage he can deal by things who by this worlds logic are impossible. He can also cobble up pretty much anything provided he has an idea and a sufficient amount of metal, wood and sometimes coal.
Appearance: He is usually wearing a lightly grey and black robe fused together with metal in some parts. He wears a medium sized backpack on the back filled to the brim with various gadgets, potions and chemicals. Under the robe he wears a unique metal armour protecting his chest. Sometimes when he is without his robe this armour can be distinctly seen. He also has a rather distinct monocle on his left eye, capable of extending and providing sight at longer distances. His hair is greyish and moderately long.
Technology: (before someone complains: all of these have a weakness as you can see. And they are generally not very accurate. Also they are tedious in conservation, so it won't be easy for this guy.)
His backpack is a host to many different contraptions. These include:
- Steam bombs (emitting vast amounts of smoke, they are easy to produce and hence he has a lot of them.),
- Light bombs (phosporous bombs emitting vast amounts of light on detonation, may be lethal to vampires.),
- Miniature Greek fire throwers (in the form of a pistol, it doesn't emit a large flame, feeds off of a small tank placed on the pistol itself. Fire can be intimidating, but due to the nature of the Throwers these are a strict shock weapon. He has two of these, able to wield one of them in each hand. The oil runs out fairly quickly though.)
- Flying Bombs (somewhat similar to arrows, there is no launcher.
He has to ignite the fuse by hand then throw the arrow before the fuse reaches the tube and the arrow itself ignites. The problem is this also isn't accurate so it's more of a shock weapon if not used against large crowds.)- A hand telescope (allows him to extend his view over a large distance, obviously)
- Custom crossbow (can shoot arrows long distance, and is equipped with a primitive scope.)
He also wears:
- Carapace armour (think plate armour but doesn't encumber movement that much, still - it's not indestructible or particularly protective for that matter. It only protects him on the chest and neck.)
- Custom boots (they look like normal boots with a sort of compressor on the sides. It allows him to jump from bigger heights than a normal human and not break his legs thanks to the suspension. "A bit higher" means about 15-20m.)
- Hand blades (large pads on the forearms once activated reveal a short slashing sword each.)
History: Borutz was born into a peasant living close to the big city of Maynor. Since childhood he was always hearing about various mages and sorcerors wielding all kinds of powers. There was even a mage initiate in his own village, in the form of a boy possesing an extraordinary power of controlling fire and an extraordinary arrogance to go with it. As young Borutz tried to conjure his own spells based on water, the mage boy often ridiculed him to the point as to interfere in Borutz' spells. Eventually Borutz called him to a match, but as he himself possesed a small amount of the raw power that his rival wielded, he quickly succumbed. Not disillusioned by this fact in the slightest he started using what nature has truly given him: brain power. Two months passed and Borutz once again called the self-confident initiate to a duel. But this time he won, as the opponent was completely unprepared against the young genius' tricks. After Borutz defeated him, the initiate left the village promising vengeance, meanwhile Borutz himself was regarded as the village hero. Years later he hasn't stopped cobbling together genius machines which helped his village grow considerably. Upon hitting his 30th birthday he has decided that he will leave his home and travel in the name of science and wisdom. After a while he adopted the moniker Borutz the Steammeister, each year growing closer and closer to becoming a true technomage. During his few years out he has fought quite a few foes, especially vampires and other nightly beasts. He has developed a set of unique weapons of terror against the very inventors of terror themselves. Currently he prowls without a clear goal, helping people here and there when it comes to "disposal of bad blood".
Edited by Blodo, 21 August 2006 - 01:47 PM.
