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The Valiant

Perses

Son of Atlantis

"I am most certainly not a fish!"

Warrior-Mage and Blacksmith

Player: @IonutRO

Affiliations

Super Group

None

Rank

N/A

· Other Affiliations ·

Atlantis
Ravenswood Academy

Identity

Real Name

Perses Ptolemaios

Aliases

None

Birthdate

11^th of March 1996

Birthplace

Atlantis

Citizenship

Atlantis

Residence

Millennium City, MI

Headquarters

None

Occupation

Blacksmith

Legal Status

Non-person Sapient

Marital Status

Single

· Known Relatives ·

Aegaeus Ptolemaios (Father)
Aethra Ptolemaios (Mother)
Egeus Ptolemaios (Grandfather, deceased)
Four brothers and three sisters

Physical Traits

Species

Atlantean

Sub-Type

Mutant

Manufacturer

N/A

Model

N/A

Ethnicity

Atlantean

Gender

Male

Apparent Age

17

Height

6'0"

Weight

158lbs

Body Type

Athletic

Hair

Blue-Green

Eyes

Luminescent Keppel

Skin

Aquamarine

· Distinguishing Features ·

Powers & Abilities

· Known Powers ·

Atlantean Physiology
Divine Ancestry
Atlan's Gift

· Equipment ·

Atlantean Golden Armor
Atlantean Warriorblade

· Other Abilities ·

Atlantean Wrestling
Ancient Atlantean Magic

Backstory

Before Surfacing

Perses was born in early 1996 into one of Atlantis' numerous noble families and having spent most of his younger years being homeschooled, having little to no social contact with other children of his age. In reaching his teenage years, he began training with his father in the ways of war, learning strategy, tactics, the proper use and maintenance of armor and weaponry, and everything else an atlantean warrior needed to know. The first major change in Perses' life came shortly after his sixteenth birthday, when his grandfather, Egeus Ptolemaios, passed away, the entirety of house Ptolemaios entering into a month long mourning.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the family members however, Perses' grandfather had left something in the teenage lad's room the day before he died -a book, old, blackened, and worn, paper pages clinging together still thanks to long forgotten magics. Perses, having found the book when returning to his room for the evening, openend it curiously to find a sheet of gold paper between the pages, thereon -in fine atlantean handwriting- being written a message from his grandfather:

"Grandson, I do not have much longer to live -and I do not trust any of your brothers with this secret- but I have seen how you stay up at night to study books about the sorcery of old, how you read tales of the great powers and deeds of the ten sons of old. I know that you are the only one that will be able to keep this book safe. What you have there, child, is a book of spells, ancient, forbidden spells, from before the time of The Cataclysm. It is an artifact that been handed down from father to son within our family for generations until it made its way to me from my father. Even in my younger days I could see how your father was short sighted and bullheaded, thinking that the warrior's path was all that mattered; the man lives for and cares too much for conflict to ever be someone I could entrust with this secret, even today he believes that might is supreme. What I want you to do child is to take the book and hide it, do you understand, child? Study its contents in secret if you must, but most important is that you forever keep it safe and hidden. And should you choose to learn from it,I trust that you will never use the more vile spells found within its pages. ~Egeus, fourth son of Hippolytus and Accalia of House Ptolemaios"

Perses spent the next year of his life secretly studying the language of Urlogos, the tongue in which ancient atlanteans wrote and spoke their spells, a language composed of Words of Power. In that time he managed to learn a few spells from the pages of the blackened book, minor cantrips and tricks. Whilst his secret studies flourished, so did his 'surface' life: he kept training with his father in the ways of battle, continued learning the proper etiquette of atlantean noblemen, and even received several love letters from more than a few young noble maidens as he grew into a handsome young man, always refusing them graciously and politely.

Brave New World

Shortly after his seventeenth birthday Perses was confronted by his father, the old man informing him that he had been chosen to be sent to the surface world, where he would learn the ways of surface dwellers for the sake of better relations between humanity and their sea dwelling cousins. Perses was surprised, and initially quite against the idea, but his protests were all for naught, his father's insistence won in the end, and so Perses was now set to live amongst the "landers" for the next decade of his life.

Within the week Perses was almost full ready to leave, he was to be taken to the surface by an UNTIL submarine and dropped off at their Millenium City HQ, where PRIMUS personnel where set to escort him to Ravenswood Academy, where he was set to study much like Prince Marus himself had. However things did not go as planned, shortly after arriving at the UNTIL HQ a group of Altantean Isolationists -having hidden amongst the envoy meant to ensure Perses' safe arrival on the surface- attempted to assassinate the young man, one of them managing to smash his breathing apparatus in the process, depriving Perses of water to breathe... except nothing happened, much to Perses' surprise -and everyone else's- the young man could breathe perfectly fine in the

The Isolationists had not anticipated Perses' possession of Atlan's Gift, nor did they fully think out their assassination attempt as they soon found themselves gunned down by both UNTIL and PRIMUS personnel with stunner weapons, being captured and imprisoned by UNTIL temporarily -as the attack took place within their base- before being handed over to the Atlanteans to be deal with.

Failed Academics

However, because of a mixup in PRIMUS' papers, Perses was not formally enrolled into Ravenswood Academy, PRIMUS assuring him that this will be corrected and that he should be joining the Academy soon enough. This prompted the young man to ask if there were other such schools in the country, the PRIMUS personnel confirming that yes, there were. "Must I truly go to this one specifically? Why not another?" the boy then queried. His handlers agreeing, there was no real reason for him to attend Ravenswood Academy specifically, it was chosen only because it was where Prince Marus studied during his stay on the surface. "I should be allowed to chose my own place of learning, should I not?" Perses then asked, the PRIMUs personnel deciding to let the boy choose for himself what school to attend. "Then I would like to see a list if I may do so."

And so they did bring him a list of potential schools, dozens of them all across the United States, the list being written in Atlantean no less. It took Perses several hours to decide as he took his time silently reading about the schools and reviewing every single one of them but in the end a decision was finally made. "I have decided that I wish to attend Nexus Academy." he declared, beginning his studies at the school a mere two weeks afterwards.

Sadly, Perses did not fit into the school at all well, probably for the better seeing as the school shut down within the next year -but that's another story-, and after dropping out he decided to enroll into Ravenswood Academy -as was originally intended for him.

Powers and Abilities

Racial

Perses, as an atlantean, has the natural abilities to see in the dark and breathe underwater, he is also resistand to intense pressure and intense cold thanks to his natural environment being the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He is also a descendant of lord Mneseus, one of the ten children of the god Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito, daughter of the farmer Evenor and his wife Leucippe, the first atlanteans. His lineage provides him with a lifespan twice as long as a normal atlanteans, though he is not aware of it. Finally, he possesses the ability to breathe air, a rare gift amongst the normally water breathing atlanteans.

Training

Perses possesses basic combat training from his father, he is skilled in the use of most melee weapons and of weapons of atlantean design, and has hand to hand combat training in a style that resembles wrestling to some extent..

Knowledge

Perses possesses basic knowledge of tactics, though he lacks any tactical experience. He is knowledgeable in smithing, swordsmanship, atlantean hand to hand combat and atlantean mysticism. He also posseses knowledge on the geography of atlantean territories, its surroundings, the city itself, and on atlantean culture.

Languages

Perses speaks atlantean as his native tongue and has the ability to speak fluent english, he is not literate in english as he is in atlantean however. [Can't read the latin alphabet and doesn't know how to spell english words.]

Magic

Perses is secretly interested in the mystical arts, forbidden by atlantean culture as the megalomania of sorcerers is what led to the empire's downfall and to the cataclysm that reshaped the world into how we know it to be today, atlantean clerics being the only ones allowed to use magic, and even then, only the theurgic magics powered by their gods. Over time he has managed to teach himself two spells, one that allows him to repair broken items, though it does not work on anything enchanted, such as his equipment [see below], and a spell that can create roughly one pint of water.

Equipment

Perses is in the possession of a set of Atlantean Golden Armor [sans helmet], a staple of atlantean armorsmithing, this kind of armor is made of a bronze-orichalcum alloy, allowing it to absorb energy attacks as well as it defends against physical ones, this set appears to be weaker than those issued to atlantean soldiers.

Alongside his armor, he also possess an Atlantean Warriorblade, a large two handed sword enchanted with orichalcum to become wieldable with only one hand with ease.

Weaknesses

Aquatic Dependance: Atlanteans are aquatic lifeforms, their skin must remain moist or they start drying up and suffocating to death, that is, if they can even breathe air to begin with, as it is a rare gift amongst Perses' kind. If he doed not immerse or douse himself in water for a long period of time, an atlantean will die of dehydration.

Young and Inexperienced: Perses is just a teenager, whilst he has received some training in combat, he is no veteran, and can easily be outsmarted and outmanouvered by someone with more combat experience than him.

Heat and Dehydration: Intense heat, as one would realize, will accelerate the rate at which Perses' skin loses its moisture, speeding up the process of dehydration, and thus forcing him to seek out water before he loses conciousness from suffocation and ultimately dies.

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