<strong>NAME:</strong>Lowan Malakta<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Lowan is quiet and menacing.  He has a force of presence and a charisma that strikes fear in all but the purest of heart.  His ambition and self seeking tendencies leave all in question to whether or not he can be trusted.  Yet, he obeys a code of honor, honor amongst thieves if you will, but he is a master at finding his way through a contract so that he is always at the top of the stack when all is said and done.  He believes in a fair fight, which is probably his most glaring weakness in character.  He will not take some one down without challenging them first.  He is shrewd.  When he laughs, it is only at the expense of another.  Evil, cackling laughter that sounds like so many dead leaves blowing through a steel grate.  Cold and calculating, he only lets others think that they have won an argument with him.  Always better to listen and study your opponent whilst they make a fool of themselves.  Never one to trust, he always provides himself a way out of every situation.  If he and a party strove for a comon goal, as long as he achieved it, it was fine by him.<br/><strong><br/>Background:</strong>Lowan never saw his family except on holidays, but all he takes from the memories is a loathing hatred from the experience.  They were sweet do gooders that had such high hopes for him.  They placated and fondled him when he was beaten to within and inch of his life.  See, he was not all that well endowed and was picked on often.  Turn the other facial feature, they would say with a smile and a pat on the head.  And back off to boarding school it was.<br/><br/>Within his studies, he found his out.  He was rather good with his hands and his language skills were second to none.  When they went over arcane magics in primary school, he drank it up like a sponge.  He exhausted every resource the expensive school he attended had in its vast library and started experimenting on his own with the incomplete formulas he found.  He never had all that much success.  He did find that he could cause those around him to randomly stumble and fall and he fed off of their discomfort.  There was plenty of entropy in the world around him and he could feel it and draw from it.  Nothing in his school taught him this, he could simply feel it.  He learned draconic too and was fascinated by the power of the language.<br/><br/>He easily talked his parents into sending him further into an education of magic with the coercion of his teachers.  His talent was apparent.  His parents were eventually talked into the a mind set of how a mage would help the family business.  With them in his corner for now, he headed of to mage school.  He was able to formulate his spells more accurately and he learned more about what he drew upon from the unfortunate class mates of his.  The entropy he found and felt all about him was the decaying life force of all living things.  It was classified as negative energy and was frowned upon as being evil.  He did not care however what it was classified as, it held the key to his power.<br/><br/>In his second year at the academy, he was met by one of his teachers who offered him some extra curricular work.  Obviously his questions about his interested area of study had raised some eyebrows, but had also garnered some attention by those that believed as he did.  The only problem was that it required him to drop from the school and his only means of existence to this point of his young life.  He was only 16.  But he was not without means.  He had been stealing money from anyone that trusted him blindly enough for him to not get caught.  Thus, it was on one of his long holidays that he disappeared as far as the living world was concerned.<br/><br/>His master was as cruel as all the bullies he had grown up with, but Lowan was used to it.  He knew he was in his element now and he was learning more and more by the day.  Gone was the sham of a life he had lived till this point.  He waited for the appropriate time when he had learned enough and had discovered the location of his masters most prized tome.  Without so much as a sign of gratitude, upon his twenty fifth anniversary of his birth as close as he could figure, he stole the tome and fled as his master laid passed out on the table post ritual that had gone just a bit over the deep end.  Lowan had fresh lacerations and bruises to show for his eves work too, but they were only temporary.<br/><br/>He had enough money now to live securely and knowledge to make his way.  He feared though every day that he would be found and made out as the old person of his youth.  He now introduced himself as Master Malakta to any who asked and did odd jobs to survive.  He worked night and day at the tome he had stolen to unravel its secrets.<br/><br/>Within this time frame, he became well acquainted with with Ciara Ferragio.  Through her he was able to acquire more work that paid lucratively while he continued his studies.  Within this tome, he soon found that there was a focal point to the power that he sought to master and it lied deep under the earth, withing the underdark.<br/><br/><strong>Arcane Definition of Lowan's Necromancy.</strong><br/><br/>Lowan had the fundamentals of an arcane knowledge and appreciation for the working of spells.  He simply was bored of the arcane manipulations and components required to fuel his spells.  His was a foreboding and near indomitable will.  His charisma also was something fearful to behold.<br/><br/>With the former, he sought out all the chaotic entropy in every little action around him and bended it to his needs.  He took the negative energy and made it subject to his form and law.  The chaos subjected to an order that fueled his darker needs for power and mastery of all those weakling around him.<br/><br/>His commanding presence also lends to his will when he faces the undead.  These focal points of negative energy can be unraveled like a puzzle.  Upon study and observation, and with the right words, these puzzles can be undone.  The simpler manifestations of the undead community are put together very simply.  When you are dealing with the more complex constructs of a Liche, for instance and however, you have memories and a life force pattern woven into the negative energy matrix that requires specific knowledge of the entity to unravel the puzzle.  Same can be said for any of the intelligent undead, like Vampires.  These complex energies that have been manipulated and stored to fuel skeletons and zombies, etc are consumed by the destruction of their constructs.<br/><br/>Is the breakdown of living things chaos and entropy?  Why yes, I am glad you asked that.  The ordered use of this energy however is what differs this line of magic from that of the Entromancer.  All things die daily.  This breakdown of an ordered and living system is due to the deconstruction of a living matrix.  This is not a force working against living systems, yet is a byproduct of this entropy.  Due to Lowan’s particular upbringing, he has been able to find the positive in all processes.  He can tweak and manipulate energy of the root kind of his enemies and associates alike.  As their bodies decay, he feeds off of it to power his arcane discipline.  It alone has kept him sane due to the horrid amount of belittling and degradation he has suffered at the hands of others.<br/><br/>After Lowan had truly learned to appreciate the dangerous game and energy balance he was playing with, he took precautionary steps with the help of his master.  He created an essence ward for himself that protected him from the all to possible and dangerous amounts of feedback his still living body could have to the channeling of negative energy.  He had an indestructible container around his neck that held a still beating piece of his heart that was surgically and arcanely removed from him.  His skill and that of his master helped him to formulate a ward that kept in perfect balance the link to his still living tissue.  He had perfectly frozen life and death in separation from his core.  This alone warded him from complete corruption in his more powerful spells.<br/><br/>Even so, the channeling of the negative energy had its effects on his body.  Though his life’s thread was secure and protected, his extraneous tissue and substance continued to be assaulted by his use of negativity.  He was gaunt and more portrayed the frame of a person twice his age.  He is not skeletal, but he is not filled out either.  In his humanity, his skin held the pallor of one who rarely saw the sun, but he wasn’t white as per say; more ashen.<br/><br/>His implement was that of the bone stave.  He had studied long and hard on a manner to subject a Cave Troll to a continual degenerative process that was entirely natural.  The subject was able to regenerate and sustain its own life thread.  Thus a cycle of death and decay and renewing existed in the subject.  With the arcane ritual he had used to secure his own heart tissue, Lowan did the same to trap all of the essence of the life and death struggle into the skeleton of the Troll.  Then Lowan used an accelerated decay of the living matrix that overcame the regenerative process to kill the Troll.  Lowan, however, trapped the battle and conflict ethereally within the bones.  The process was long and difficult and the bones as of yet still lived, to some extent.  The Troll was not willful enough to exert itself over Lowan’s own control.  The same could not be said however for any who came in contact with these same bones.<br/><br/>When Lowan needed a minion, he was able to summon the Troll in the form of a Wight.  Due to the regenerative nature of the creature’s former existence, the Wight was quite resilient.  If he was turned or rebuked, drained of negative energy, etc…  He did not cease to exist, he merely re inhabited the warded bones that Lowan had possessed and recharged till he could be summoned again.<br/><strong><br/>Spells Known:</strong><br/><br/>Arcane Projectile<br/>Duration:  Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  100 feet plus additional for concentration.<br/>Casting Time:  Seconds based on number of projectiles cast.<br/>Description:  This is an unerring and completely accurate missile attack based solely on the will and mastery of the caster.  All the targets must be within the immediate focus of the caster not to exceed a 60 degree arc, or anything greater than peripheral vision.<br/><br/>Stumble:<br/>Duration:  Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  Sight.<br/>Casting time:  Reactionary and opposed.<br/>Description:  The caster builds upon a moment of entropic release from the target and manifests it in a physical way to impede the target.<br/><br/>Discern Order:<br/>Duration:  Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  Touch.<br/>Casting time:  Concentration equivalent to the task at hand.<br/>Description:  The caster takes a chaotic interpretation of a set system and interprets it logically and concisely.  The interpretation results in the ordered system meeting its desired constraints to produce its given result.  Examples include locks, puzzles, riddles, logarithms, etc.<br/><br/>Classify:<br/>Duration: Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  Touch.<br/>Casting time:  Concentration equivalent to the power of the object.<br/>Description:  The caster reveals with energies the exact nature and properties of an object.<br/><br/>Siphoning Health:<br/>Duration:  Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  Touch.<br/>Casting time:  Decisive action.<br/>Description:  The caster takes the negative decay of the targets life matrix and maximizes it to damage the target and heal the caster and equal amount.<br/><br/>Negative Energy Expansion:<br/>Duration:  Over time negatable by targets concentration of positive energy.<br/>Range:  Sight.<br/>Casting time:  Reactionary, Opposed, concentration to prolong effect.<br/>Description:  As a more devastating form of the stumble effect, this spell seeks to capitalize on the negative energy produced by the target and exponentate it to devastating effects in unraveling the life thread of the target.  The longer the caster concentrates on the effect, the greater the damage caused.<br/><br/>Negative Energy Feedback:<br/>Duration:  Instantaneous.<br/>Range:  400 hundred feet.  Area effected to be equivalent to time concentrated upon by caster.<br/>Casting time:  Equal to time concentrated upon plus time to reinforce wards versus negative feedback.<br/>Description:  The caster incites an area equal to his concentration time to reactively expand its negative energy to damage any in said area.  Undead have a save versus said damage.<br/><br/><strong>Abilities garnered vis his Necromatic discipline.</strong><br/><br/>Immune to Draining attacks.<br/><br/>Highly resistant to negative energy attacks.<br/><br/>Physical attacks do him little damage due to his bodies progression to an undead construct form.  He does not readily bleed.  His skin is near immune to slashing attacks, though he is twice as vulnerable to blunt assaults.  Piercing attacks once through his tougher than normal skin, effect him normally.<br/><br/>Takes double damage from positive energy our light based or lawful good or holy energy attacks.<br/><br/>Vision based on living versus dead.  IE, the dead are black holes of darkness, the living are bright warm spots regardless of light.  Magical darkness does not negate this ability.<br/><br/>(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd225/ancientaction/DrowGlaveyes_copy2.jpg)<br/>(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd225/ancientaction/Xans.jpg)<br/><em> More to come . . . </em>