From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

Leonir
Player: @Hephastion
Also known as:	Leonir, Joshua, Avarise, and several others
Age:	Appears to physically be in his late 20's
Description:	There is no single description that would always be fitting for this shapeshifter
Base of Operations:	The Etoilles (Rogue Isles)

Leonir is a man neither young nor old. He seems to have appeared in the Etoilles in early 2009. Civil and courteous for the most part, elegant manners and polite it seems. A chance encounter with Raith Karanis led to a discussion, during which an apologetic Raith became somewhat intrigued by Leonir and asked him to guest at Inevitable Evolution for a few weeks; after clearing this with an IE Director.

Joshua Tagliano

Joshua was born an average mutant. He was a shapeshifter from birth, so he was always what people wanted to see. He lived to appease others and one day that cost him quite alot. At a young age, he encountered the Council and when they saw what he could do, they began to perform experiments on him to harvast the power for their own to create super-spies. It was not just Josh's physical form that changed when he shifted his shape but everything about him, so if they could harvest such abilities they saw it as a great way to create spies.

Unfortunately for Josh, he didn't know how to fight to defend himself when they abducted him to perform these experiments. So as a result, he spent his young life into his adulthood living in a small cell and occasionally being taken out to be experimented on. This was his life until around his twentieth birthday when he managed to escape by posing as a guard, they had assumed they broke his wall by that point, so had made it easy for him to escape without getting into any fights along the way.

Leonir

Leonir isn't really a man, he is a spirit. The man died centuries ago in the early part of the 1300's. The man was a wizard, he had the rare gift for magick and as such was able to alter his world to fit his desires. He wasn't the most powerful wizard of his time but neither was he the weakest, he specialized primarily in controlling others and himself completely with his magick, no one would die nor age nor get sick or healthy around him if he did not will it to be. As such, Leonir himself was effectively immortal. He did not live in great big castles like other wizards of the time, he didn't bow down to the kings of Europe nor did he even live in Europe for that matter. He became king of a small tribe in South America.

Eventually though, Leonir did let his body die...not because he was dying at the time, but because it had been two centuries since his birth and as such he wanted a new form. He became spirit only at that point and took over new bodies that interested him from then on. So for the next several centuries, he frequently changed forms and identities with each new stolen body. ...Around 2001, happened across a man who shifted forms infront of him, it was intriguing enough that he stole the man's body and kicked his spirit out of it within seconds of first seeing it.

Facts about Leonir

• His real name is not actually Leonir, almost as soon as he learned of the real power of names, he promptly created a new one and took that as his own, his real name is unknown to any who didn't know him in life.

• When he steals someone's body, he takes more than that, he takes their memory and everything about them, along with their personality into himself, what happens to their soul he doesn't know nor care

• He is a practiced swordsman from his centuries of practice and absolutely loathes guns and firearms of any sort.

• He can't die, he can have his body completely and utterly destroyed but would just inhabit a new one.

• He can't do any direct harm with his Magick's alone, not yet at least, but he can allow people to be sick and die far sooner than they should.

• He has many different forms and identities, the only three seen so far are Joshua, Leonir...which is just a suit of armor worn not the real form, and Avarise a more demonic looking form based on a demon he once met

• Whichever form he's in, the body-markings on him are always constant, they are actual tattoo's but to those magickally inclined, they could recognize them for what they are...a binding spell.

• He doesn't care to help people or hurt them in particular, he enjoys having fun...whether that's through helping others or hurting them doesn't matter to him.

• He is exceedingly wealthy, over the centuries he's gathered a large stash of valuable artifacts and priceless gems, along with a large stockpile of money

• He lies almost compulsively as smoothly as he speaks when talking of his past, it's second nature for him to hide the truth about his past and so he does just.