Base Race Upgrade - Ash Elf

**Gamemaster** · Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:27 am

Ash Elves

Ash Elves (New Character): A breed of elf that splinted off countless millennia ago, the Ash elves are an exiled variant of the race who were expelled for the boons of the elves due to their affinity to the void, an unknown entity at the time save for them. Filled with unusual ceremonies and rituals, the mystic nature of the Ash elves is largely a mystery with them residing in the fringes of society mostly only seen in the desert mountainous regions of Ishgar. One of the few things that is known is their birthing and coming of age rituals which involved the embedding of a void shard in the heart of the baby which is carried until they become recognized by their society as an adult. The crystal is then removed along with the heart and reforged in the heart of a volcano into a Soul Shard, a pseudo-phylactery. Once reforged, the ash elf can freely pluck their very soul from their chest and return it just as easily. Due to the powerful magic properties of their Soul Shard, Ash elves are frequently enslaved as magical vessels for powerful Wizards and Witches and thus conceal their Ash Elf heritage commonly rounding their ears to blend in with human society.

Ash Elves (New Character Details): The user is one of the Ash Elves.

Ash Elves (Burn): Sometimes, the Ash Elf society accepts prospective elves looking to convert. Wood Elves may attempt to prove their worth and sacrifice their heart to the void to accept its blessings. Should they be lucky, the void will bestow them with the same powers as the Ash Elves.

Ash Elves (Burn Details): Ash Elves use the burn function to burn away a portion of their experience and statistics to successfully sacrifice their heart into the void becoming an Ash elf.

Perks

Void Resistance: Ash Elves receive Minor Resistance to Void-based Content.
Heartless: Due to their heart becoming transformed into the Soul Shard, the user becomes immune to vital hits in their torso.
Born in Flames: Ash Elves are incredible mages with them all possessing an affinity for fire as a result, any fire-based magic they possess will be one rank higher for all spell-types while any non-fire-based magic will be combo-elemental for the same rank as both elements.
Cursed Mana: Spells cast by the Ash Elves drain the opponent's mana of an equivalent amount to one rank lower than the spell's rank. This stacks with other mana drain effects.
Call Soul Shard: The Ash Elf can summon their Soul Shard into the topic. This restores their mana pool to the maximum, however, the danger level of the topic is changed to Orange for the Ash Elf.
Night Vision: Ash Elves can see in the dark as though it is day. This also allows them to see through magical darkness and invisibility.
Stolen Soul Shard: Should the user be defeated after using the Call Soul Shard effect, whomever they are fighting may steal it as a pouch-based item allowing them to manipulate the Ash Elf and use the Call Soul Shard effect themselves for half the potency. The user may retrieve the Soul Shard into their inventory by either defeating whoever is holding it or by giving it back in topic.

Spells

Name: Flame Coil
Mana Cost: -
Requirements: 50 RP posts as an Ash Elf after this has been purchased
Type: Offensive
Element: Arcane
Range: Self
Cooldown: 5 Posts
Duration: Sustain
Effect: The user covers themselves in an inferno consisting of their raw willpower damaging everything that is within 5 meters of them for 1x S-Ranks worth of damage once per turn. Doing so, however, directly pulls from the user's essence causing them to take damage equivalent to the rank of the spell once per turn. This is a transformation and not a spell. Therefore, it cannot be canceled by artifacts or magics that can cancel spells.
Name: Breaking the Shard
Mana Cost: -
Requirements: 100 RP posts as an Ash Elf after this has been purchased
Type: Supplementary
Element: Arcane
Range: Self
Cooldown: Once per month
Duration: Instant
Effect: The user may throw down their soul shard into the ground destroying it entirely with another slowly reforming over time within their body. In doing so the effect of Call Soul Shard applies once more to the user while the user's allies and companions will receive 2000 Mana or 10% of the user's total mana pool whichever is greater. Once doing so the user's hair will shift to white and they will immediately be on a countdown receiving 1x S-Ranks worth of damage to their overall durability which can not be healed each turn. Being knocked out as a consequence of this spell will prevent them from being revived through any external sources.