Lanthanos Desrever

[Lanthanos]

[shadow=black,left,300]Name: Lanthanos Faustus Desrever III
Age: 46
Occupation: Alchemist
Race: Human (Modified)
Hair: Long and red, with one streak of stone-gray
Eyes: Black, like staring into two onyx stones
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 275 lbs.
Clothes: A circlet around his head, a pair of black pants, knee high black leather boots with yellow laces, and a black/violet shirt with extended shoulders. Also wears a pair of black leather gloves at all times.
Complexion: Fair skinned, but not extremely pale. Also has retained a youthful appearance.
Distinguishing Traits: Streak of stone-gray hair across his head. Also walks with a limp in his right leg.
Marital Status: Single
Personality: Haughty, intelligent, a gentleman at times, cruel at others
Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Skills: Knows a great deal of chemistry and biology, and as such can serve as a doctor of mediocre skill. Master level alchemy skills.
Weapons: Natural Weapons (explained below)
Armor: Natural Armor (explained below)
Powers:
~Crystal Growth- Can cause atomic structures to shift to result in the growth and shaping of crystal structures. Unless otherwise stated, crystals grown in this fashion are quartz in composition.

~Crystal Life- If Lanthanos wishes, he can use a portion of his own life force to give the crystal structures he creates a life of their own. They will obey his will until he dismisses them or they are destroyed. The larger the crystal he tries to animate, the more life force it takes.

~Shard Shot- After removing the glove on his left hand, Lanthanos is able to shoot crystal projectiles of diamond composition from that hand.

~Crystal Defense- A large portion of Lanthanos' body has been converted into diamond crystals, and as such, makes near impervious to pain in those areas. The affected areas are his left arm, his right leg, and the majority of his frontal torso.

Flaws:
Slowed down by his crystal leg
Lack of defenses on his backside
Weakness for the ladies

Short Biography: Lanthanos Faustus Desrever III was born the son of a standard middle-class family and sent to education. He was a notorious slacker, and showed no sign of ever becoming anything until one day, he picked up a book on alchemy and read it. His whole outlook on life changed and he worked like a visionary on the art.
----Seeing no feasible way to create a philospher's stone, Lanthanos sought instead to extend the human lifespan by alternate means. By combining human cells with crystal and rock structures, he sought to make his race more durable to the sands of time. He was proclaimed as a genius, until time for testing the procedures came.
----Fifty people volunteered for the experiments, less than five survived. Those who did manage to leave through the procedure were crippled for life, and died a few months later from organ failures. Lanthanos was chased from the scientific community as a menace. So he continued his studies in solitude. All this happened by the time he was 21.
----After 5 years of independent study and examination, Lanthanos figured out where he had gone wrong. Humans were carbon-based, so the procedure would natural have to create carbon-based crystals in order to properly fuse with the human subject. With no other subjects, he performed the procedure on himself, with frightening results. He succeeded in extending his own lifespan, for it is now 20 years later and he doesn't appear to have aged a day, but at the literal cost of an arm and a leg.
----Still, the loss wasn't a complete disaster, for he gained mystical control over the growth and movement of crystals. His life in solitude made him vengeful, and he has slowly been plotting how to get back at those who once scoffed at him.[/shadow]