Ethereal the High

First and foremost, the most obvious trait of Augustus is his arrogance. Though there is always a cold expression on his face, it is a form of mockery to all those beneath him and his position of power. Despite his superiority complex, he does have a sense of just kingship; his approach on justice derives from his role as Ethereal the High, the representative of all Ethereals and their values. He respects, guides and protects his own people – being the loyalists, and those associated with them, but, he totally disrespects all opposition, and looks down on them as lowly as swine.

Augustus is not akin to doing the dirty work, though, he is entirely capable. If a conflict arises, that threatens his kingship, then, he can simply allow his trained soldiers or his Archangel to get the job done for him; now, do not think Augustus is lazy; it’s just he looks at minor affairs as unworthy for his divine attention.

In and outside of battle, Augustus is patient and calculating. These two traits make him a formidable leader, as much as a formidable combatant. He is able to perceive events almost as if he’s spent his entire 2.5 million years preparing for it. This patience allows Augustus to carefully read his opponent’s movements, and never hesitate to counteract on them – politically, and militaristically. What Augustus doesn’t use is deception. He is very straightforward with his approach, and never really sugar-codes anything socially and politically.

In the past and present, Augustus and those he employs have proven to be a reliable source of change, and as such, the puritan Ethereals love and respect Augustus even if he may not return that love and respect personally. He is a very hard-worker and spends most of his time in the White Palace. When an audience needs him, he will often grant them entry, and respect their wishes if they aren’t dramatically conflicting.

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Power: Seal of Heaven
Type: Supplementary/Offensive/Defensive
Level: 9
Name: Divinus Suscitatio
Description: Allows Ethereal the High to literally alter the Heaven’s above, and its conditions. These conditions can be dramatic or passively active. The change of the Heavens is well within the range of a mile at most, but, more commonly within a 50-100ft radius.
Drawbacks/Limitations: The changes can be made all throughout a post.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Balanced/Supplementary
Level: 10
Name: Olympus Appareo
Description: Augustus converts his entire being into white flames. Every aspect of him becomes godly spirit energy, granting him the ability to manipulate only the largest, effective and most powerful forms of Divinus Flamma. Because he is divine energy, he temporarily loses his physical being; making everything he touches scorch in a white flame. He can also manipulate the heavens at a larger and more significant scale, and it generally makes him more like a god then anything else. The form he likes to manifest in is often a giant, searing, Divinus Flamma lion.
Drawbacks/Limitations: This lasts for 6 of Augustus’s posts, and can only be used once per thread, with an expected waiting period for other threads that follow.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Offensive
Level: 9
Name: Astrum Pluo
Description: Augustus summons a barrage of comet-sized balls of white flame, that are equally destructive, leaving craters of 100ft into the earth upon impact. These white flame comets are totally destructive, and can result in a massive shattering of the earth beneath him. In order to successfully use this technique, he must be in the air, quite a few feet above to prevent himself from being damage as well.
Drawbacks/Limitations: A maximum of 12 comets come crashing down on the earth, scorching everything within 100ft of the comet’s impact, including a shockwave. This technique can only be used once per thread.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Offensive
Level: 8
Name: Stilus Tendo
Description: Augustus is able to instantaneously release a barrage of white flame tendrils – a maximum of 36 of them. These tendrils can easily burn through a substance, and quickly light the target aflame. They are very destructive, and each tendril is roughly 35ft long. They don’t all have to be released at once.
Drawbacks/Limitations: Once all 36 have been used, this technique requires a 3-post Cooldown in the thread for the user.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Defensive
Level: 8
Name: Ustulo Loricatus
Description: The user concentrates the white flames around himself. These white flames take the shape of a set of armor with a helmet, and the entire suit, granting the user protection from most opponent’s techniques, and capable of burning those who physically try to attack his being.
Drawbacks/Limitations: This technique lasts for 6 of the user’s posts in a thread, with a 12 post Cooldown.


Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Balanced, Supplementary
Level: 5
Name: Uranicus Adaugeo
Description: This ability allows Augustus to augment any part of his body with white flames, that in turn heighten that body parts strength, durability as well as grants it the ability to scorch its target with eternal white flames. It is most commonly used with the user’s fists.
Drawbacks/Limitations: The augmentation lasts for 12 of the user’s posts, with a Cooldown of 5 posts.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Supplementary, Balanced
Level: 5
Name: Arsenal
Description: The Arsenal ability allows Augustus to mold shields and weaponry with his Divinus Flamma power at any time so long as he is connected to his spiritual energy, and has enough of it at his disposal to create weaponry with. This is often used as a backup, since it doesn’t require as much spiritual energy, as do many of Augustus’s other abilities.
Drawbacks/Limitations: --

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Offensive
Level: 7
Name: Niveus Extraho Spiritus
Description: Augustus molds white flames in his stomach, and is able to fire the molded flames out of his mouth – like a dragon would its own. The inhaling of spiritual energy, and the molding process are very short, so, this technique can be used often by surprise. These beams can also be fired (more accurately, less powerfully) from his eyes.
Drawbacks/Limitations: --

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Supplementary
Level: 5
Name: Caecus Turbo
Description: This enables Augustus to turn his entire lower body into a spiraling tornado of white flames, granting him the ability of accelerated flight, as well as damage to the surface beneath him. It can also be used on his arms to create white fire drills, enabling him to drill through opponents or the earth.
Drawbacks/Limitations: --

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Supplementary, Defensive, Offensive
Level: 6
Name: Pennae di Palma
Description: This grants Augustus the ability to spur wings made up of condensed white flames, to spread from his back. These wings each extended roughly 15ft, and serve as excellent shields to most attacks, incinerating all in contact of them. Not only can the wings do this, but, they can also fire at most 2,000 needles of white flames at a time, causing mass destruction, and alighting plenty of things on fire.
Drawbacks/Limitations: This technique lasts for 5 of Augustus’s posts, with 3 of his posts as a Cooldown.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Balanced, Supplementary
Level: 8
Name: Omnipotens Tri Caput capitis Bestia
Description: After centering his spiritual energy for a brief period of time, Augustus can unleash three, terrifying lion heads at once, that serve as both serpents and lions in movement and attacks/defense. These three lion heads can whip, coil, bite, breathe white flames, and even create two long, clawed arms from each neck to serve for a slashing attack.
Drawbacks/Limitations: Each lion head can be out for 6 of the user’s posts, with a 10 post Cooldown.

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Offensive
Level: 5
Name: Orbis Niveus
Description: This ability allows Augustus to unleash a large, 20ft ft raidus, fireball from either his hands or his mouth. They are speedy and large violent balls of white flames, and can cause quite a lot of destruction if used properly.
Drawbacks/Limitations: Three fireballs maximum can be launched at one time .

Power: Seal of Heaven; Divinus Flamma
Type: Offensive, Supplementary
Level: 5
Name: Subtilis Morsus
Description: This ability allows Augustus to make fire needles even smaller and a lot sharper then the tip of his finger, from the tips of his finger, to precisely incinerate smaller parts of the target's body very quickly, or give off a burning sensation to the opponent's spiritual force – successfully subduing an opponent or heightening his/her use of spiritual energy.
Drawbacks/Limitations: --

Augustus, like all things originating from Astraia, the Realm of Ascension came from his father. However, the process in which he was created and the process in which all others aside from his own siblings were created were a lot more different. Instead of using his cosmic power to conjure living, breathing entities, he had created a lover for himself, to keep his emotions in check. As time progressed the Creator and Cyn, his beautiful wife, had children. One came earliest, being their eldest son, Augustus – who was destined to one day rule over all of Astraia, the Realm of Ascension.

The Creator championed his son, and wanted to instill as much of his influence into his eldest son as possible, so that when the time would come that Augustus would rule, he would rule like a God none the less like his father.

For the following couple of million of years, Augustus would create as much as he would destroy those on Astraia, the Realm of Ascension. His sense of just kingship continued to develop in his earliest stage of existence, and his father would always serve as a master to him. When conflict aroused on the surface of Astraia, the Realm of Ascension, it was starting to become commonplace for Augustus to serve as the judge, and his sense of right and wrong was truly powerful despite his dislike of the inferior races of Astraia, the Realm of Ascension, and Improba, the Realm of Dissension.

None dared challenge the heir apparent to the cosmic throne of all Astraia, the Realm of Ascension and his will was the will of god – and remains to be in the eyes of many that were raised under his reign. On drills when the Creator, his father would challenge his tactical prowess, Augustus had only been getting better and better, proving to be an excellent military commander as much of a political leader.

There was a violent aspect to his rule over the people. This would the life of a warrior as much of a prince of the Empire. His swordsmanship remained unmatched even among the more exceptional warriors of the Empire as well as his utilization of the bloodline powers he possessed.

Whenever any outbreaks would arise, Augustus would often send a voluntary force of the Empire’s finest armed men and women. They would undoubtedly suppress or totally demoralize their opponents, for Augustus had the innate ability to overshadow the military and its operations with his razor-sharp golden eyes.

When there was in fact a cosmic intervention, and two totally separate planes of existence, linked only by a network founded by the 1st “Death” of the Empire collided, Augustus’s father and link to the cosmos dwindled. This alteration in power triggered the Seal of Heaven within Augustus, and he unleashed new power over his people – more then he would’ve expected in times of such crisis. Those that abandoned their Emperor would eventually suffer the consequences. However, due to the puritan Ethereal’s and sophisticated Demonborn’s faith in Augustus, loyalists remained strictly by the Empire’s side.

As the new Ethereal the High, Augustus started out with his father’s policies, only to enact his own reforms shortly afterward. The people hold Ethereal the High in utmost and sincere regard, and all have faith that he will change everything, and return it back to the way it should be. To Augustus himself, this unity is significant, and though he may not express it himself, he has proven to be more then helpful as the leader of a once-more thriving Empire.

His goal? To return the Astraian Empire to its former glory at all costs.