Without further ado:
Character: Ethan White
High Concept: Soldier turned Evocator turned Pele’s agent
Trouble: Bully, meet fist.
Aspects: Elite Soldier with a curious mind, My x wife is a blood sucking monster – literally, Maui’s Fishhook.
Background:
Ethan was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He joined the Army after high school and served for several years as an Army Ranger.
As a Ranger, he excelled at hand to hand combat, firearms, and was incredibly tough both mentally and physically. However, on a mission in Afghanistan, his team got into a firefight with insurgents, one of whom was a channeler who erected a kinetic barrier. Ethan’s team won the firefight with no casualties but he could not write off what he had seen to a trick of the light.
He soon found out that asking questions about what he had seen was not welcome in the military and helped make his decision to get out of the Army.
Aspect: Elite Soldier with a curious mind
What shaped you:
Upon returning home after ETSing from the Army, Ethan had to go to court to finalize a messy divorce. While in the courthouse, he witnessed three cops get taken down by a ghoul and became totally, "clued in." After this experience, Ethan delved into the study of magic with a single minded determination. He sought out several wizards, read as many books as he could find, and through sheer effort of will he became adept at evocation.
However, unknown to him, the scuffle at the courthouse had had an impact on his x wife as well. She went searching for answers herself, but naively delivered herself to a coven of black court vampires.
Evan discovered this fact when she attempted to kill him while he was on a date. He was able to escape with his life, but only on account of his budding evocation.
After this happened and his date wouldn’t talk to him anymore due to his psychotic x (he told the truth about who it had attacked them but omitted the vampire part), he started wandering the countryside, destroying vampires with cold conviction.
Due to his experiences, he has a loathing of all creatures that must feed on others to survive and knows more about vampires than any other kind of supernatural monster.
Aspect: My x wife is a blood sucking monster, literally.
Your first adventure:
After one of Ethan’s friends from the military contacted him and invited him on a trip to Hawaii, Ethan accepted. It was a good time to take a break from his studies and his work. Ethan has been working as a clued in mercenary, taking down supernatural entities for money.
One evening when Ethan and his friends were having fun on the beach, Ethan thought he heard screams in the distance. Since his friends were pretty much passed out drunk, he went to investigate alone and found a tourist couple being attacked by water fae.
Ethan blasted them with spirit evocation back into the ocean, giving the tourists time to get away. However, instead of running with them, Ethan took out his pocket knife and waited for the two fae to come back and fight.
He defeated them… barely. After the fight when he was walking back, he felt like he was being watched.
He had a hard time explaining all of his bruises and scratches to his friends so he claimed he got in a fight with a bum. They thought it was funny. He eventually went on a walk alone to be by himself and reflect on the fight before. While on the walk, he came across an old woman in dark clothing who was picking flowers. He warned her not to mess with the flowers since they belonged to Pele, and soon afterwards he was attacked by another dark creature from the fae.
Ethan was tired of fighting from the day before, and he gathered up quite a bit of power before letting it loose. The creature was utterly torn apart.
After the creature was terminated, Ethan was surprised by the old woman transforming into the young, beautiful form of Pele. She told Ethan he had two choices; He could either be granted power and serve her, wearing an item of great power while going through his tumultuous life (feeding her with the violence near the artifact) or she would orchestrate his death before he could leave Hawaii.
Ethan accepted and went through Pele’s ritual, becoming a supernatural warrior. Since then he has been wandering, looking for people to help. He has made peace with his deal with Pele since he grasped power to help others in the first place. Now he just needs a cause to believe in.
Aspect: Maui’s Fishhook
Superb(+5): Guns, Discipline
Great(+4): Athletics, Fists
Good(+3): Lore, Conviction
Fair(+2): Endurance, Might, Alertness
Average(+1): Scholarship, Weapons, Investigation, Intimidation, Presence, Investigation
All other skills at mediocre (+0)
Stress:
Physical: [ ] [ ] [ ] ( [ ] [ ] ) +1 armor
Mental: [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Social: [ ] [ ] [ ]
Mortal Stunts:
Armed Arts(-1)
Knife and sword weapons are used based on the fists skill.
Supernatural Powers:
Evocation
Spirit, Air, Light
Control: (Spirit+1, Light+1), Power: (Spirit+1)
Item Slots – 2 focus, 4 enchanted
Ring +2 spirit defensive conviction
Ring 1 Offensive Light 3 times a day (aimed with guns),
Bracelet 4 shift block 3 times a day.
Refinement (Evocation) (-1)
Item of Power (+2)
Maui’s Fishhook
Unbreakable
Imparted Abilities – Sponsored magic
Sponsored Magic – Thaumaturgy and Evocation (-3)
Item of Power
Pele’s Dagger
Unbreakable
Mystical Obsidian Dagger, weapon +3. Has the aspect, Collateral Fire Damage (trails sparks and flame while used)
Considered Holy
The Catch (+3)
Ethan loses one tier of /all/ his physical supernatural abilities while on or in the ocean. The ocean and and the sky are not places of power for Pele.
Inhuman Strength(-2)
Inhuman Speed(-2)
Inhuman Toughness(-2)
Wizard’s Constitution (-0)
Ethan will live a long time now.
Total Refresh: 1
Other weapons/equipment:
Colt 1911 – 70 years old. Has the aspect, “Old Faithful”.
Uses handloaded +p rounds with small amounts of garlic sealed in the hollow points with wax.
Kel Tec RFB, 308 bullpup assault rifle. Has the aspect, “Deadly Technological Marvel”
Uses handloaded +p steel core ammunition