LMAO! Now that is an analogy I can chuckle at!

Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing an anime character when they read what Laine says? He spells out everything "Oh my god, someone used an incredible amount of Magic, the Light kind that taps into the power of the worlds energy to create focused energies representing the light of the universe, and it disrupted my power web, which is a way of tracking magic I use."

Its not like a simple "Wow, I just felt someone use A LOT of Light magic...hmmm..." would be too short.

MLA does have a point.

Warmage, I want to get us to bastion so the siege can begin. Please do not sidetrack us.

Now, unless the Orcs are complete morons, wouldn't they notice a golden dragon smashing his way through the forest?

Also, what is the status on any sea races?

DB and I both came up with ideas for them, but had to negotiate exactly what their abilities were like. This is what we came up with.

Posidians
(sea elves)

Height: 5'7 - 6'7
Weight: 120 - 215 lbs
Skin Colour: Bone white, pale blue, Pale green, Pale purple or very pale peach, Stripped; generally exotic looking.
Hair Colour: Any colour
Eye colour: Any colour
Build: Thin
Physical Characteristics: long pointed ears. Three gills on each side of neck, (runs from bottom of ear to just below the jaw bone). No facial/body hair. Webbed toes and thinly webbed fingers. Powerful legs/arms for swimming. Smooth skin (silk-like to the touch).

Special Abilities:

Undersea breath: Ability to breathe under water. (duh)

Speed swimming: Powerful legs and streamlined body allows for swimming of up to 40 kmph. Also allows for jumps of up to 4 meters high

I just thought of this.

Would my guy have a crew?

Yes. Though consider most if not all of them expendable.

At least he isn't doing a "Magical Girl" transformation...we should all be thankful for that.


IHMN, I gather that the dragon is a very small one...and sort of incorporeal.

by the way, those jumps SAAM mentioned are a bit like dolphin jumps...you can't jump that high when you're out of the water. Also, your swimming speed is about twice/thrice that of an average human....40 Km/hr seems a bit high. Of course, you could use Water magic to greatly increase your swimming speed...

Edit - I just noticed I wrote a bit more then I intended for his bio...

Name: Osiris (Was born Nereus)
Species: Posidian
Gender: Male
Element: Water/Ice
Age: 167
Weapon(s): Depending on the situation, he either carries a steel harpoon or a steel cutlass. Also may carry a short bow, several iron throwing knives, or several iron javalins.

(That's just what he carries and uses, he has Goblin explosives inside his ship, as well as some Goblin repeating bows, and other weapons for his crew)


Clothing: Long, tight leather boots. Leather armbands and vest.

Appearance: Osiris is an androgynously handsome sea elf. Standing at six feet, his silky skin is a shade of pink and a pale purple. He wears a dark purple bandana over his head to cover his short, navy blue hair. His eyes are a deep, ocean blue. His long, pointed ears have several earrings in them, along the side. Over his well-toned, thinned swimmers body he wears a leather vest and a thinner white sleeved vest underneath it. His baggy black pants are held on tightly by a belt and are tucked into his boots, so the baggyness isn't noticable.

Bio: Nereus was a normal Posidian for most of his early life. Was raised as a sailor, went along with other Posidians to attack pirate, and escorted other ships. But, Nereus was intrigued by pirates and their lawless life styles. One day, during the night, Nereus ditched his village. He joined a crew of pirates along with some humans in search of Piracy. But, being a Posidian, most of the crew hated him. The captain however realized how useful a Posidian could be, and would maroon anyone who tried to kill Nereus.

After several raids on trade ships, most of the crew left Nereus alone since even though they hated him, he was to useful to get rid of. With his magic, Osiris could easily stop stops from escaping, as well as being able to fight off more sailors then the rest of the crew. And, most importantly, Osiris was able to fight off other Posidians. He refused to kill Posidians though, and instead would force them to retreat.

Over the years, after the second captain Nereus had served under on the same ship died, Nereus became the new captain. His first act as captain was to steal a sloop (Fast ship, picture below). He took everything from his ship, put it on the sloop, then he and his crew took the sloop. The previous crew had been left on Nereus' old ship. During the next few decades Nereus and his crew had become ships biggest fears. Bulane, Nereus' ship, was the fastest ship in the seas. Along with Nereus' water magic, it became even faster. Osiris could stop trade ships with his magic, then quickly board them, steal what he wanted, then leave.

After a couple more decades, all of Nereus' crew had died. Since almost every pirate was human, they had short lives. Piracy had begun to bore Nereus by that time though, and he took no action into getting a new crew. He sold his ship, and with his riches lived in a well known pirate port city. He opened his own bar, just to keep things exciting. He also payed for the construction of a new sloop from one of the best ship builders, though since he was a well known pirate, he had to use a human vessal to make the payments and oversee it. Twenty years later the Great Elemental War happened. This severly weakened his magic, which was one of the major reasons for his sucess. Since most pirates were stupid, no one really realized the weakening of the elements at first. Nereus used his new ship, the Okeanide, and took to the seas again.

However, people still knew of Nereus the pirate, though he was presumed dead. Nereus changed his name to Osiris, and changed his look completey (As a pirate he wore your stereotypical pirate captain clothes). He hired a crew from a port town (Not the pirate one), and worked as a trade ship. While some people noticed the resemblence between Osiris and Nereus, no one could prove it. Still, usually Osiris can only get jobs from minor ports who need any ship, while larger ports suspect him of being Nereus. Mostly though, Osiris now attacks pirate ships, since he misses some of his pirate life, but doesn't want to reputation of being an evil pirate again. No one is going to care if he sinks a pirate ship.


Picute of ship. Crew of 70, and 14 cannons.
http://www.geocities.com/captcutlass/ship/sloop.jpg

Due to his coloration and elements, he's probably a far Northern sea elf, from one of the oceans closer to the arctic.

[edit] Androgynously handsome? Agggh! BISHOUNEN!!! *gouges his own eyes out*