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Full Name: Alto
Species: Lion
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Arrival Method: Blue Breach
Player: Singh

Physical Profile:
- Feral Lion
  • Height & Weight: 4' Tall, 400 Pounds
  • Apparent Age: Older Lion of 7-8 years
  • Character Build: Thin
  • Body Type: Quadruped
  • Usual Clothing: None
  • Voice: Deep, Rumbly and Male
  • Usual Scent: Lion, Feline
    - Picture
    User Image

Full Description
4' Tall Lion, around 8 Foot from Tip to Tail. Generally dark mane, with brown to reddish highlights. Though streaks of white are present here and there. Grey eyes that sometime glow subtly in the darkness of their own accord. Covered in scars, right ear is half bitten off.
- Anthro Lion

Full Description
A fairly short lion, he doesn't really stick out of the crowd much. Apart from his mane fluff he is thin, walking on digitigrade feet. Generally short fur, human hands and blue eyes. The right ear being half-bitten carries over into this form as well.

Inventory
- Items
  • - Magical Trinkets and Tools
    Description
    Small carving tools to create runes, minor magical components, a small set of hyena teeth and finally a jar of salt that automatically refills with more salt.
    Quantity
    01
- Weapons
  • - Tooth &
    Description
    Claw
    Effective Range From Character
    Basic tooth and claw
    Normal Power
    Melee
    Quantity
    Nothing super out of the ordinary for a lion

Skills & Abilities
- Language Fluency
  • Common
  • Scent-marks
- Vocational History
  • Familiar
  • Vagabond
- Education History
  • Basic literacy, Basic primal magic knowledge
- Noncombat Skills
  • - Primal Magic Competence
    Description
    Minor-Moderate capability of primal magic, mostly focused around himself, his body and his shifting. Can sense magic, mana etc flows to an extent.
  • - Hunting Competence
    Description
    Solo hunter for most of his life, very competent at hunting prey of many sizes and knowing how to fight.
  • - Basic Combat Competence
    Description
    He's decent at fighting quadrepedal or depending himself in a scrap bipedal. Nothing spectacular to note or good with human weapons.
- Comb Training/Skills/Experience
  • - Primal Magic Competence
    Description
    Minor-Moderate capability of primal magic, mostly focused around himself, his body and his shifting. Can sense magic, mana etc flows to an extent.
  • - Hunting Competence
    Description
    Solo hunter for most of his life, very competent at hunting prey of many sizes and knowing how to fight.
  • - Basic Combat Competence
    Description
    He'

Paranormal Abilities

- Ability List (6 abilities)
  • - Primal Shifting
    Effect
    Can shift from a bipedal form to his default quad form.
    Limits
    Takes at least 30 minutes to do so. Very uncomfortable during the process.
    Repercussions
    Heavy hunger afterwards, exhaustion. Cannot be done more than twice in 24 hours without serious metabolic repercussions.
    Other
    He does it the slow way, not a poof and done.
  • - Illusory Disguise
    Effect
    Can create a minor illusion of a human face on his body and human feet instead of footpaws when in bipedal form.
    Limits
    Easy to identify - not perfect or even get it completely right - e.g. face not always right, too hairy in places, etc etc.
    Can only cast once / day, lasts only for 4 hours.
    Repercussions
    Needs a long rest between castings, needs to eat more food.
  • - Passive - Prolonged Aging and Longer Lifespan
    Effect
    As part of his work as a familiar, he was granted very slow aging. His life span is much longer than that of an average lion, being closer to 60-70 years, similar to a human.
    Limits
    Still aging, just a lot slower than a lion normally would.
    Repercussions
    None
    Other
    Includes minor regeneration of teeth and other bits and pieces that would normally wear out within a few years.
  • - Enhanced Immune System and Healing
    Effect
    Better than average immune system and healing, especially from critical wounds. The more wounded he is, the faster he heals.
    Limits
    Not wolverine scale or similar, basically turning what may be months or years into weeks or months. Does not regenerate lost limbs, organs, body parts etc. Just recovers from wounds faster. Similarly, immune system can be overwhelmed by a strong enough disease - just most of the regular ones won't kill him (even though he'll still feel deathly ill).
    Repercussions
    Requires long rest and lots of food to compensate for the energy expended. Cannot donate blood to other lions due to incompatibility in immune system.
  • - Mane of Holding
    Effect
    His mane acts as a portable bag of holding. He can stuff items in there! Anything that could disappear into the mane floof will in turn stay in the small pocket space.
    Limits
    40KG Limit, items max size is that of a large water bottle or similar. Cannot add in other bags of holding or dimensional spaces. Magical items can cause the space to get wonky.
    Repercussions
    None
    Other
    Floof of holding :3
  • - Minor Body Adjustments
    Effect
    Can magically alter his own body in minor ways. This includes changing mane color, adjusting length of tail, size of body parts, etc. Useful for disguising and fooling humans that he's a different lion or to blend into the forest around him. Also useful to adjust a claw to be opposable or more flexible in case he needs to use human tools.
    Limits
    Unless he refreshes it, lasts for 4-5 hours maximum. Extent of changes cannot regrow lost limbs, body parts etc. Is only temporary and he will revert back to his 'baseline' in either quad or bipedal form.
    Repercussions
    Increases metabolism by 20-30% depending on the extent of the changes. Tires easily.
    Other
    Minor changes only. More changes = more effort and energy needed.

Background


World Information:
Magical Earth-like world, similar to Faerun or Golarion. Various human races, beastfolk races, lots of medium-low magic with rare instances of high magic amongst practitioners. World not too important as he lived a largely isolated life, focusing on a few villages and smaller towns.

Character Background:
- Very Early Life 0-5 years old
Alto was born in a private 'zoo' run by a baron of a medieval peasantry. Separated fairly early in life from his mother, he was purchased by an apprentice magician known as Occadius. The magician sought to use Alto as a familiar - lifting him up in intelligence magically and raising him partially like one would a pet at first, then a beloved companion as he grew older. Much of Alto's life was learning about Occadius, helping him with his tasks and of human society in general. It was during this time he learnt to read and write the human language, even coming to speak it fluently with the aid of primal magic. This was by far the happiest time of his life as Occadius treated him more akin to a student and partner than he did a pet and familiar.
- Adventuring Life 5-24 Years old
Occadius' venture into magic did not last forever though. Changing trends and visions towards magic in the wider kingdoms saw him retire from his practice and releasing Alto from service. He had met a young name Hilda and intended to settle down and have children. While Alto was welcome to stay, the lion saw it as an opportunity to branch out and grow on his own. He parted from the pride of his youth and took to the wild, seeking the company of other intelligent animals, the occasional Fae and druids that still remains outside the sphere of the human kingdoms. The next 15 years saw him live a largely solitary life of adventure, travelling across the wilderness, occasionally surprising and befriending humans but otherwise staying at the edges of civilization.

He mastered enough magic to enter into the major kingdoms on occasion to either trade or take up mercenary work but by and large kept to himself. His adventuring career ended when he hit his mid 20s though when a particularly bad run-in with the baron that had once 'owned' his family. He narrowly escaped recapture after a failed attempt at freeing some of the baron's other animals from the zoo. In the process he earned a bounty that saw his involvement with the human sphere largely come to an end.
- Wild Life 24 - Present
Since the incident Alto has spent his time mostly in the wilds, avoiding civilization for fear of professional bounty hunters that would seek to capture him. He has tried to keep somewhat in touch with the humans though, very rarely making touch with the odd village miscreant or outcast or otherwise communing with more open-minded elders and druidic organizations. Occasionally he has acted in defense of villagers and others out in the wild - but the fear of collateral damage to them has forced him to keep his distance. It was a sunny morning when he was asleep that a blue migrant took him from his world and brought him to Infinitas.

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Jan 10, 2024 4:29 PM
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