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| User: | elieatssin (355562) |
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| Name: | Eli Eden | |||||||||
| E-mail: | calculated.fate@gmail.com | |||||||||
| Bio: | Name Elisha "Eli" Eden Date of Birth August 7th, 1871 Age 136 Race/Species Human (Witch) Hometown Rome, Italy Physical description Eli is 6'1" with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He is built nice though he is not overly muscular, but very toned. He appears to be in his mid to late 30's, not showing his true age at all. PB Keanu Reeves Personality In a word, versatile. Of course that doesn't even begin to sum up his personality. He is intense. He is smooth. He is serious. He is comical. He is sweet. He is dangerous. He is the perfect gentleman. He is nothing of the sort. If you can think it, and if the occasion calls for it, Eli can deliver. He is a true chameleon, able to take on any shape or form, metaphorically speaking, that he needs to in order to achieve whatever it is that he needs to achieve. He is power hungry and yet constantly tormented and humbled by the images of sins that have bled into him over his century of life. He is damned, and he knows it. That's a hard truth for any man to live with, but he manages just fine. Background Eli was born in Rome on a hot day in 1871 to a non-Roman, but devout Catholic, family. He was given a typical biblical name, Elisha, which was originally intended for men but had long since fallen out of use even by the time of his birth. That was soon shortened to Eli when he was just a young boy. His family was rather typical Catholic, having seven children including himself, all boys, and attending Mass every Sunday. He was the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son, considered a lucky number by many, and he served his time as altar boy all throughout his youth before devoting his life completely to Christ and the Church as soon as he became a man. He was honored and revered as a priest, respected by the community, by his fellow clergymen, and after serving many years as a junior priest at a small chapel in Rome, he was approached by an Archbishop with whom he had never had contact before and offered the opportunity to learn about a part of their religion that was known to very few. It was the triple sevens that had prompted them to seek him out, believing that this would bring them great power into this little known sect. If Eli had known what he was saying yes to in advance, he would have never accepted the offer. In fact, he may have completely renounced the church all together and fled his home country all together. But he had no idea what he was saying yes to, and once he was in, there was no way out. The rituals of this new sect were so very strange, and he was initiated into them slowly, very slowly, though he was cut off from all of those he had ever known and taken to a far away place to study. Years passed and he was drawn further and further into their strange world until one day, he was finally confronted with the whole truth of what it was he was intended to do. Magic. Sorcery. Witchcraft. Of the most amoral sort. It was his destiny to cover up the sins of the church. This was what he had been trained for. It was his fate to ensure that all who passed away were given a clean slate before doing so. Well, not all, but the most powerful and affluent among them. He had entered the sect as a man of faith, a man of God, and he would serve the sect as nothing of the sort, having realized exactly how false all that he had believed in truly was. The particular brand of witchcraft he was taught could do many things. It could heal, it could create, it could destroy. But there was one thing in particular that he had the ability to do that was invaluable to the corrupt members of the Catholic church. He could take in their sin and make it his own. He could literally take every bad deed they had ever done and make it tangible so that he could devour it, leaving them free of sin, free to die, and him with the dirt of their deeds on his soul. In exchange, he would live a very long, very rich life. Why did he agree to this, one might ask. The answer to that question would be simple. The art had destroyed all of his faith and he was left with an overwhelming feeling of emptiness and wasted life. Soon he would be an old man and he would have nothing to show for his life at all. So he conceded, and as the most recently trained of his kind prepared to retire and greet his death with open arms, Eli performed his special brand of magic and released him from this life with a soul as pure as a newborn child. The pain was unbearable. He was sick for weeks afterwards, the weight of the most horrific of sins resting squarely upon his shoulders. After the initial shock passed, he performed his function well. He was called to the bedsides of bishops, archbishops, cardinals, patriarchs, and even a pope. Many decades passed and Eli never aged. He became rich beyond his wildest dreams, but his life was empty. And the one day, the secret came out and those in power took action by ousting the entire sect and excommunicating them all from the Church. Some of the old ones were killed, though the church denied any sort of involvement in that. Those that survived passed away and the art was all but lost, all but Eli, whose life would not end so easily. The excommunication gave him cause to delve even deeper into the darker aspects of witchcraft, searching for a way to unburden his heavy soul as he watched everyone and everything he had ever known wither and die and crumple into ash. He found nothing, but he learned plenty, and he began to travel, learning even more and more, trading his gift, the benefit of his secret art, for knowledge, to parties that were interested, and his vast fortunes to those who were not. Tired of it all, tired of moving from one place to another, he found his saving grace in the form of a demon. Even he couldn't help but to laugh at the irony. He was a bit of a legend by this point in time, only spoken of in hushed whispers and only by those who had in depth knowledge about the dark and dirty secrets of the Catholic church. The history was all but buried, but word of mouth was a powerful thing, even after half a century. But it was what he had learned within the sect initially as well as all the knowledge that he had gained after the church turned their back on him that gave him purpose. He was to teach at a school for supernaturals, including natural-born witches, like himself. As a solitary practitioner, there was no coven to leave behind, but perhaps the time had come to pass his sacred art onto one lucky, or unlucky depending upon how you look at it, youth. And Tiberius J Swann would be the perfect place to do just that. Abilities He is a very powerful witch and there isn't much that he cannot accomplish through witchcraft. His lack of a coven is both a strength and a weakness, however, as he does not have the power of anyone else behind him but does not have them weighting him down or have the connection with him that could make him weak to those outside of it. He is also a sin-eater, the only one of his kind left, though he is looking to pass that ability on to another seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. Weaknesses Eli is human, but he doesn't age like a human and he can heal himself through magic though he often times chooses not to. He has a lot of weight upon him, as in he has ingested a lot of sin over the years, and he is prone to periods of illness due to this, chronic headaches, and plagued by visions of sins that would turn anyone's stomach. Staff Position He is the professor for Practical Witchcraft (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced) and The History of Witchcraft. He will also be the one to conduct all Esbats and Sabbats from this point forward. | |||||||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||||||
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| Member of: | 3: tiberiusswann, tjs_ooc, tjs_storylines | |||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
