I always promised to post a backstory for Ryu which I did have >.> it is currently 7 pages, I was just always afraid of being accused of a mary sue due to the whole planeswalker thing.
For me yes planeswalkers had powers beyond what that of even Tyrant had (pre nerf atleast) but they paid for it in losing connection to what made them people, the places they grew up in, the people they knew. If they lived long enough what would it be like to know the world you grew up on is dead, to know that you could go stand on the spot of your birth and it would be unrecognizable, I coupled that with him being a user of necromancy and shadow magic to truly push him into being isolated. It is really to late to do the full thing now, no real point but a quick synopsis is something you guys deserve.
The short version is that Ryu started out as a paladin, powerful in the magic of the light he was in silvermoon (yes that one) when the scourge (yes that one) attacked, he was in the last wall of defenders that were allowing the civilian population to escape, in doing so he allowed himself to be captured and later transformed into a death knight, and murdered his lover at light's hope chapel, she died in his arms as he regained his mind, in the final assault against Icecrown he took a blast from an undead dragon's breath which encased him in ice. As his last breath steamed against the icey cage, the spark of being a planeswalker ignited and he leapt away from his birthworld.
Thousands of years later the great mending (when planeswalkers changed from godlike beings to just powerful mages that had the ability to step through worlds at a whim), long story short he bound his soul to a katana made from the fang of a spirit dragon (Kukusho the evening star for MTG savvy people) and regained his aglelessness, to continue his travels through the multiverse. Eventually he settled in paragon city to defend its people against all sorts of threats, and to study the nature of portal corp's portals and how they affect time and space and eventually met some people he liked and for the first time in about ten thousand years he had a home.
Now...I gotta figure some way to kick his rump out of paragon city, but well I hope you guys find some solace in that atleast one of the heroes of paragon will be out there among the endless worlds, thinking of the only place he considered home.
I am going to miss you crazy crazy people.
I always promised to post a backstory for Ryu which I did have >.> it is currently 7 pages, I was just always afraid of being accused of a mary sue due to the whole planeswalker thing.
For me yes planeswalkers had powers beyond what that of even Tyrant had (pre nerf atleast) but they paid for it in losing connection to what made them people, the places they grew up in, the people they knew. If they lived long enough what would it be like to know the world you grew up on is dead, to know that you could go stand on the spot of your birth and it would be unrecognizable, I coupled that with him being a user of necromancy and shadow magic to truly push him into being isolated. It is really to late to do the full thing now, no real point but a quick synopsis is something you guys deserve.
The short version is that Ryu started out as a paladin, powerful in the magic of the light he was in silvermoon (yes that one) when the scourge (yes that one) attacked, he was in the last wall of defenders that were allowing the civilian population to escape, in doing so he allowed himself to be captured and later transformed into a death knight, and murdered his lover at light's hope chapel, she died in his arms as he regained his mind, in the final assault against Icecrown he took a blast from an undead dragon's breath which encased him in ice. As his last breath steamed against the icey cage, the spark of being a planeswalker ignited and he leapt away from his birthworld.
Thousands of years later the great mending (when planeswalkers changed from godlike beings to just powerful mages that had the ability to step through worlds at a whim), long story short he bound his soul to a katana made from the fang of a spirit dragon (Kukusho the evening star for MTG savvy people) and regained his aglelessness, to continue his travels through the multiverse. Eventually he settled in paragon city to defend its people against all sorts of threats, and to study the nature of portal corp's portals and how they affect time and space and eventually met some people he liked and for the first time in about ten thousand years he had a home.
Now...I gotta figure some way to kick his rump out of paragon city, but well I hope you guys find some solace in that atleast one of the heroes of paragon will be out there among the endless worlds, thinking of the only place he considered home.