Offensive[]
- Children of Hephaestus have the ability to create and control fire; however, it is extremely chaotic and will burn anything near it no matter the intention of the child of Hephaestus. They can shoot fireballs, streams of fire and coat weapons in flame. The more fire summoned and controlled, the more energy is drained.
Defensive[]
- Children of Hephaestus can become resistant to all types of physical attacks for a short time.
- Children of Hephaestus are able to create a wall of stone, no larger than 2 to 3 times the size of the user, to temporarily block attacks
Passive[]
- Children of Hephaestus are innately extremely resistant to heat and fire.
- Children of Hephaestus are innately stronger and faster than others.
- Children of Hephaestus possess an ability to instantly understand how to use and wield any weapon they possess with no training beforehand.
Supplementary[]
- Children of Hephaestus have the ability to release heat from their hands in order to cauterize an open wound.
- Children of Hephaestus are able to create a smoke screen that suffocates and hinders enemies for a short time, using it to either escape or do one sneak attack
- Children of Hephaestus have the ability to control a single mechanical object with their mind; doing so, however, immobilizes the child of Hephaestus until control is broken. This only works on objects mechanically controlled, not objects controlled by magic.
- Children of Hephaestus can telekinetically move weapons under their own possession and use. They can move up to 3 large weapons at a time, such as swords, axes and hammers. Or up to 10 small weapons such as throwing stars, knives and caltrops. The longer weapons are telekinetically held, the more energy is drained.
3 Months After Character is Made[]
- Children of Hephaestus have the ability to curse an opponent’s weapons, armor and shields, make it softer, somewhat fragile or even rusted. This would last for a short time and make it easier for the user to attack. They can also repair weapons and armor with a thought and enchant weapons/armor to perform/defend against twice the amount of damage for a short time.
6 Months After Character is Made[]
- Children of Hephaestus are able to summon a humanoid automaton to fight for them for a short time, the automaton cannot be bigger than 2-3 times the size of the user. It may possess one weapon of the user’s choice and will take a basic appearance of a Greek soldier, but the user can customize their armor or facial appearance. The automaton will have no special abilities other than it’s strength, stamina and endurance. ( No powers over Electricity, Magnetism, Flight. etc) The user however has a hard time moving while the automaton is present. The automaton will follow any command of the user, after a short time the automaton will crumble and fall apart. The user will be left quite drained.
9 Months After Character is Made[]
- Children of Hephaestus can transform their bodies into pure metal for a short time, making them stronger and far more durable. They can also shift and transform parts of their body into weapons in this state. They also have the option to add an incredible amount of heat to their metal form, doing this would make the transformation even more draining than before. Choosing to become molten metal means the user burns anything they touch, enhancing their offensive abilities. Once the transformation is complete, the user is incredibly drained. Even moving wouldn’t be possible for a long time and they could possibly faint.
Traits[]
- Children of Hephaestus are known for making great mechanics and blacksmiths. Able to make, upgrade and repair all sorts of weapons, machines and devices including automatons, armor and transforming weaponry.
- Children of Hephaestus normally grow up to be excellent sculptors, stonemasons, architects,construction workers, carpenters and woodworkers.
- Children of Hephaestus normally feel comfortable in forges and other warm areas, making them great fire-fighters and volcanologists.
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Passive[]
- Priests/Priestesses have a direct telepathetic connection to the god they represent, which is mostly used to deliver messages, for duties and for prayer.
- Priests/Priestesses are able to read auras and sense spiritual essences.
- Priests/Priestesses are able to see through the mist.
- Priests/Priestesses have a telepathic connection with the god they represent's animal symbol.
- Priests/Priestesses have the ability to heal minor wounds, and soothe the pain of major or fatal wounds.
Traits[]
- Priests/Priestesses tend to have the traits of the god they represent's demigod children.
- Priests/Priestesses do not date at any time, and are celibate. If they do decide to date, they lose their priesthood.
The next months were spent packing and moving to North Caucasus, a new start for Sofia and her baby who was born later that year on December 8th 2008. The little baby girl was then named Aguya Kovalyov after the fire wrought ironwork that was her mothers medium of art. Unfortunately later the next year the Insurgency in North Caucasus began and war filled the streets where the pair lived. They lasted 2 years after the war officially began before fleeing North Caucasus, driving in Sofia’s beat up car.
The drive was long with little stops and poor Aguya crying almost non stop. They had almost arrived at the border of Russia when another car slammed into theirs, Sofia was saved from most of the worst harm getting bruised and having a broken arm but unfortunately Aguya went flying from her makeshift car seat and badly hurt herself. An ambulance came a few hours later and rushed them to a hospital in Europe where they treated Sofia’s arm and surgery was performed on baby Aguya. Due to the late arrival of the ambulance and being admitted to hospital almost 4 hours after the crash they could not save Aguya’s legs and so at a meger two and a half years old the toddler became wheelchair bound.
Time passed on and they were relocated to Ireland since the country they had been in hospital in refused more refugees. The council flat they had moved into wasn't in the nicest neighborhood, the other children made sure that Aguya grew she knew she did not fit in. So proceeded her lonely childhood, Sofia doing two jobs to be able to stay in their terrible council house and afford Aguya’s medical costs. It reached the point that it seemed life could only get worse when life decided to give them joy. Sofia met Keiran and the two fell in love and soon after were happily married.
Aguya gained three older brothers and later along the line a little brother and sister, she went from a small family of two to a large family of eight. Her older brothers were very protective of her and she adored her younger siblings. Troubles smoothed over and Aguya felt like she needed a change to mark this new life as different from her old life, so at five years old managed to convince her father and mother to give her a more Irish name and so Aguya became Enya.
Monsters came for her when she was around six or seven, Enya herself couldn't remember the monsters themself but her brothers could. Keiran's father was a demigod child of Apollo and so Keiran had some godly blood in his veins that he passed down to his children. Even with the weakened godly blood the family still attracted monsters. When Keiran found out from Sofia that her daughter was a daughter of Hephaestus he made his sons swear to protect young Enya when she herself could not.
Keiran also began training Enya in long ranged weaponry as her wheelchair bound form would make melee weapons vastly difficult to weild. This provided a decent distraction as Enya had an innate knowledge on weaponry she put down to her fast learning. Although Enya was always interested in making things, her mother would bring Enya up to her studio and taught her how to manipulate the metal to create beauty the mortal way.
It was the day that Enya was staying late after school doing an afterschool activity listening to music, probably louder than she should have been when the spark flew. It took half an hour for half of the building she was in to catch fire and for Enya herself to notice the smoke. She grabbed the laptop she was using and wheeled herself out of the room to see another student trapped in debris and hear the fire trucks alarms. Wheeling over to the other student she hefted the debris out of the way, the poor kids shirt was on fire so Enya practically ripped it off. With the boy on her lap she dodged flames and debris and ten minutes later the fire crew found them all covered in ash and soot coughing. But it wasn't till Enya was falling asleep that the thought drifted to her, the fire never harmed her.
Enya then became fascinated by the fire after this encounter, sometimes holding lit matchsticks in her palm watching it burn away and not burn her. She became more active in helping her mother in the years after the accident and so became complacent with her lifestyle. So she was unprepared for what happened when she was twelve, Enya didn't know how the creature had found her but she knew it had come to kill something. Enya was taking a wheel around their local park late in the evening looking for some inspiration with a sketchbook and fountain pen, she had a little device that linked to her parents phone's so she could alert them if she was in danger. She just stared at its glowing red eyes and massive size frozen in fear and fascination, but stunned as it ran past her, Enya’s head spinning around faster than it ever had towards a young boy no older than she was. The monster thundered across to him with its jaws wide. In a split moments decision she spun her chair around and drove towards beast and boy.
She raced as fast as she could but it seemed as if what was happening was happening in slow motion. The beast's jaws widened and the boy trembling as a tear rolled down his face. Enya’s hand whipped out faster than she anticipated, sending the fountain pen speeding towards the beast embedding itself into its hide, achieving what she had wanted; the beast's attention away from the kid but now its glowing red eyes were targeted on her. It was on her in an instant and Enya had enough time to shout “RUN!” at the boy before the beast's jaws clamped around her, she smiled a smile that only people who had accepted the oncoming death had at him and with a final breath shouted “GO!”.
She lay there on the ground bleeding out, the beast disappearing off somewhere else satisfied that its bloodlust was fulfilled. Enya weakly reached for the device that was just out of her reach just before she lost consciousness she prayed to whatever gods were out there. It seemed she was heard for she woke up to an unfamiliar place in a place too large for any mundane person and a person watching her. When the person spoke to her its voice was gravelly and told her that she was safe now but she had a choice; spend the rest of time here and work in the forges under the guidance of the Elder Cyclopes or go back to where she was and die. Enya agreed to work in the forge and the person told her to promise on the River Styx to work in the forges under the Elder Cyclopes to create weapons, tools and gifts, to return to the forge if her services were ever needed, and to work to the best of her ability. Not really knowing the scale of her promise Enya promised anyway and she could faintly hear the rumble of thunder clouds.
Enya’s promise slowed her ageing to almost a crawl and they helped her create some leg braces that she could use for getting about when her wheelchair was too clunky. For three years she served under The Elder Cyclopes in Hephaestus forges, assisting him create weapons. She’d sometimes deliver weapons to camp from the forges, a few trips which sparked her interest in the place. Sometimes she would dream for her family and sometimes she’d dream of camp. It was no surprise when she asked if she could go to camp; the first time she asked the Elder Cyclopes' declined her request, the second time she asked to go to camp the Elder Cyclopes' wavered in their decline, so a third time she asked and the Elder Cyclopes' approved her request with the condition she would be would be called on anytime to return to the forges. Enya eagerly agreed to this and went on her way.
She did not have many belongings when she arrived, only a small bag of clothes, some tools, a bronze circlet, and a wooden pendant with her fathers symbol on it around her neck that during her time at the forges discovered it turned into a recurve bow. She proudly walked past the barrier where she was claimed as a child of Hephaestus towards her new home. She in her first two days found out about the available priest spot for her cabin and decided to become a priestess, a few days later Enya was the priestess for Hephaestus.
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