Khayyal<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name:</strong> Mike Campbell <br/><strong>Sex:</strong>   Male <br/><strong>Concept:</strong>  A comic book artist becoming his own super hero.   <br/><strong>Path:</strong>  Obrimos <br/><strong>Order:</strong>  Adamantine Arrow <br/><strong>Virtue/Vice:</strong> Faith/Pride <br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong> Mike is a mocha skinned man, passing tall, with curly hair that he wears in a shoulder length pony tail and a neatly shaped beard.  He favors jeans or khakis, button down shirts—sometimes dressy, others rayon with a sexy anime character on them—and often a leather vest.  He usually wears a trenchcoat over this.  <br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Mike’s a cheerful guy with a youthful sense of humor.  Beneath this, he is deeply spiritual and only partially aware of exactly how dangerous he has become.  <br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> Mike grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, where everyone and his raven has a writing project.  Gamer, anime and cartoon fan, and all around creative person, he shared ideas with his friends and they wound up writing a small mecha comedy with his friends.  After attending junior college, he got up the resources to go to an art school in New York.  <br/><br/>   After finding a promising critique group on line, he wrote and illustrated a series he called, “Righteous Heathen Latrel.”  This featured a mix of super powered martial arts and sci fi.  His protagonist Kevin Latrel—the heir to an ancient school of Kenjutsu who’s students feel a mandate to bring the vengeance of heaven upon the truly evil.  Having been rebels and vigilantes through out most of history, the school was small and bore a bad reputation.  Nonetheless, Kevin joined the star fleet when a reptilian species invaded the allied worlds.  He was captured in action and put in a gladiatorial arena.  After three years he escaped in a stolen long range fighter and crashed on the occupied planet of New Israel.  A slightly isolationist world of largely colonized by Caucasian orthodox jews, Kevin seemed doomed to not fit in, but—by local prophecy—he received a mandate from God to become their protector and lead the rebellion against the alien oppressors.  <br/>   Mike first met Martin through a mutual friend, a doctoral student in Linguistics, Jacey Talia “J.T.” Kirk.  Mike gamed with J.T. on Saturday nights, when she made time for the hobby to keep her sanity.  Since then, he’d been visiting J.T. during office hours, asking her to check his Hebrew dialogue.  <br/><br/>    J.T. introduced them casually, and they exchanged a few words from time to time.  Before Martin did his research trip, they got to know each other better when Mike introduced a few Islamic characters to his series and needed help with Arabic.  <br/><br/>    He wasn’t able to pay, but he could buy dinner, and he was an attentive listener.  <br/> <br/>   The night after he got an offer of employment from Image comics,  Mike found himself looking in the mirror mounted on his closet and finding Kevin looking back at him.  After a moment, he stepped into his reflection and journeyed to the watchtowers.  <br/><br/>   Since then, he has apprenticed under an old Japanese man named Motoyoshi, earned a pre-Meiji katana, and joined the Adamantine Arrow.  He publishes his comic monthly through Image and makes a respectable living.  As part of his full membership in the Arrow, he has made an oath to defend religious diversity.  <br/><br/>   At a meeting of the consilium in Norfolk, he ran into Martin again.  Knowing better than to call him by name, he gave the man a firm hand shake and introduced himself, “Glad to see a familiar face.  Call me Khayyal.  How is all this treating you?”  <br/><br/><strong>What I offer to and expect to get out of this game are:</strong> Hopefully I won’t be expected to post more than once every day or so!  I hope to have a good game and learn this system and setting better.   <br/><br/>http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=577012 (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=577012)<br/></div></div>