Zale Kelsha
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Zale Kelsha | |
| Player: @Zacklanning | |
| Origin: | 
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| Archetype: |  /
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| Security Level: | 50/?? |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Zale Gatala Kelsha |
| Known Aliases: | None |
| Species: | Kaleshka |
| Age: | 23 (Human) 18 (Kaleshkan) |
| Height: | 6'4" |
| Weight: | Variable |
| Eye Color: | White |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Artekeran |
| Occupation: | -Weaver
-Summoner -Tyrfing employee |
| Place of Birth: | Galerta, Artekera. |
| Base of Operations: | Galerta/Paragon |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| -Ability to use and manipulate magic
-Summoning Guardians -Warping Holy energy around himself. -Channeling the 'Breath of the Divine', a blast of holy energy so strong it can obliterate any living being and completely nullify the existence of anything unholy (ie Demons). | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Confidential | |
| Equipment | |
| Confidential | |
| No additional information available. | |
((WIP))
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History
Zale is from a manufactured race, known as the Kaleshka. They were created by the Guardians, extremely powerful, near omnipotent entities which would be akin to our own world's demons, though with a few subtle differences.
Social Casts
The dimension of Artekera, is run in a balance of four tiers of social levels, these are:
General Public - The general populace of Artekera, most are able to use magic, albeit it somewhat limited in comparrison to the weavers.
Weavers - Extremely tallented mages and scholars, all are capable of 'plucking' at the strings of magic in order to create spells, the group usually talks about how magic 'sings' to them.
Summoners - The summoners are the second highest rank in the society, second only to the council themselves. Summoners are bonded with a Guardian, by having their soul torn apart and used as a cage for the Guardian's, giving them the ability to push over into the Guardian's home dimension and pull them through with them, it also increases their magical potential substantially.
The Council - The council comprises of around 5 individuals, each of which have been affected by a defect which causes the Kaleshka to lose the ability to commune with magic. The reason for the choice, was to ensure that all decisions made on lawful actions would be made from a non-biassed view point.
Other Levels
Criminals - Simply put, crime is very slim in Artekera, however, there are those who may develop a defect when they are created, which means that if they come into physical contact with anything from outside of Artekera, they are instantly displaced dimensionally and cease to exist. This defect is linked directly to criminality, and each Kaleshka that is born with this defect is given the oppurtunity of a life of solitude, death at birth (choice from the parents) or to go about their life normally, but suffer the consequences should they ever turn to crime.
Artekeran Society
In the Kaleshka homeland, names are extremely powerful, sacred terms, shared only between friends, family and the council, a Kaleshka will also only introduce themself to another when they have decided that enough information has been exchanged between the two. This has been alikened to the Guardian's fusing with a summoner, only the summoner will ever know the name of the guardian which becomes bonded with it, and thus the Kaleshka follow this same path for their own names.
There is also a large social stigma associated with showing their faces in a place other than that which they were born, it is seen as disrespectful, as they are trying to blend in with a culture to which they do not belong. They often go to other towns in sealed suits, contained magically to ensure that they do not unwillingly show themselves to other members.
Powers
Zale is a gifted weaver, having the knowledge of his Guardian passed down onto him when he fused with it.
He is able to manipulate an energy source known to his people as the 'Breath of the Divine' a magical ability so strong that it's very use is enough to obliterate a single target with one shot. The move does however take a little time for Zale to charge up.
More recently, Zale has been able to dip into the Guardian's home dimension and pull forward holy beasts in order to defend himself and attack his foes.
Zale's guardian will also never let Zale fall to his death, it will feverishly search the afterlife in order to pull him back if it needs to, mainly due to it's requirement of having Zale around in order to actually move outside of it's own metaphysical existence.
Maskless
Recently, Zale has been seen about without his mask, possibly due to being convinced by friends or possibly as he's begining to see Earth as his home, either way, he still seems very uncomfortable about it all.
Blinded
In his latest scuffle with Zekera, Zale was struck by a beast summoned from Zekera's own twisted will, the corrupted magics used to summon the creature tore Zale's senses apart, as well as his flesh, rendering him blind.
He is currently working out how to see with only magic though it isn't always simple.
Death
When Zale had an unfortunate run in with J'Kaira he met his end at her hand, sending his Guardian back to the Kaleshkan home dimension, Zale allowed himself to be destroyed by the demon's hand.
J'kaira was sent after Zale by The Summoner of Artekera, a man infused with the power of the Kaleshkan's creator and destroyer, Artekera.
Friends, Associates and Enemies
Friends
Charlie Cooper - Probably one of Zale's first human friends that he trusts enough to show his face around, Zale's attitude towards her is often somewhat like an older brother in a manner of speaking, or at least as much as he can understand it as.
Beauregard - A friend and Acquaintance, Beau seems to be one of the few people around who understands Zale's feelings about giving out his name to other people, being one of the first humans he interacted with however, has left Zale with the impression that most of them have wings and are hiding them somehow, a fact that he has started putting a lot of time into researching.
Associates
Uni-Con - Zale is now a common face around the Uni-Con offices, being helped and in return helping, Tyrfing, the magical division, he works part time as an acquirer of magical objects and also in small scale enchantments for staff weapons and armour. Zale doesn't really understand why people pay money for things that can be made from thin air in his homeworld, but they seem happy enough to hand it over for such a service, so he does it without much question to it.
Enemies
Zekera Havoren - Zekera is the reason Zale is here in the first place, sent after the rogue Kaleshka in order to destroy him, due to his guilty actions in wishing to set the Guardians on a spree across alternate dimensions. Though Zale is somewhat stronger powerwise, Zekera has always learned how to be one step ahead of the young weaver, possibly due to the defect present in his body, rendering him both criminally insane and completely unable to interact with things from any other dimension. Zekera has also been gifted with powers unlike most other Kaleshka, a bizzare ability to warp the living essence of any being around himself, be that to drain every aspect of their life force or simply bombard them with dark energies. He also seems to have made a pact with an unknown dark Guardian which manifests itself during fights in order to detain his foes.
Other
- Zale's theme song - Arranged by @Zacklanning - ((it's on the left in the file list)) [1]
