NAME: Overlord Zaul Witches' Name: Equis Serpentes
AGE: 19 Physical/Mental Age: 25
GENDER: Male
BREED/SPECIES: Volcano Order (dragon, unicorn)
COLOR: BODY: A deep sea green (sign green #006B54) HAIR: A blood red (cadmiumreddeep #E3170D)
EYES: Bright yellow (cadmiumlemon #FFE303)
DESCRIPTION: Zaul has the wings, tail and is partially scaled like a dragon. The rest of him is from his unicorn blood, horn and hooves.
DETAILS

POWERS:
Flight: He can fly but his heavier weight causes him to fly at a slower speed. (top speed, 25 mph. Just a bit faster than running)
Winking: Zaul is a master of winking and has gained expertise in his abilities through extensive practice and use. With the amplification of his winking due to the magic from his dragon blood, Zaul can wink to a place as long as he's been there once before and seen the place. Also, though he can wink to any place he's seen he can only do so up to a range of 20 miles[6 leagues/160 furlongs.]
He can wink through buildings as long as the inside is at least 10feet by 10feet of space. Lastly,here's Zaul's wink maximums:
large jumps: 5 jumps of 20 miles in succession, beyond this and he'd pass out.
medium jumps: 10 jumps of 10 miles in succession.
small jumps: 15 jumps of 5 miles in succession.

Power Drain: This is his special power. Zaul can drain the essence of others that causes them to use magic and their powers. He must be within a foot's range, so he can touch them with his horn or hooves. When he does, he drains the opponent's energy. If the opponent becomes "empty" s/he will feel exhausted and most likely will need to sleep, for those with weaker stuff they immediately collapse into unconsciousness. This ability replenishes a small amount of Zaul's energy, but he would need to drain many ponies or creatures for it to be worth anything. opponents can fight this as they would a mental (mind control, mind reading etc.) attack.

Zaul's Power Drain works by contact which must be maintained the whole time. Once contact is broken the power drain stops.

0-30 seconds (contact): only drains magical energy, he does not gain any of his opponet's power.
31-60 seconds: drains a small amount of energy and gains 1 mintue's worth of the opponet's power.
2 minutes: Can either drain magical energy to last 2 minutes, or gain the opponets power.
5 minutes: Can either drain magical energy to last 5 minutes, or gain the opponent's power.
10 minutes or more: The opponent is drained of all power and goes unconcious. Zaul can now use any of the opponent's powers for up to 30 minutes before loosing them. This is only if he were able to imoblize the opponent.
*Zaul could kill with this power but he would have to remain in contact with the opponent for 30 minutes and not be disturbed. He would then gain the opponent's power for one full day before loosing the ability. Member's approval would be needed to kill his/her character.
*After 5 minutes, Zaul does not drain energy, all he can do is take the power from his opponent. This means his maximum energy drain is 5 minutes worth of energy.

PERSONALITY: Zaul holds trust, honesty and loyalty in high regard. If for any reason he feels you have betrayed him, he doesn't hold back. There are no second chances in his mind, if you betray him once you will do so again. He is the epitome of a military ruler, he believes in gathering good intelligence, learn all you can about your enemies and then find their weaknesses.

HISTORY: Little is known about him among the lower ranks of the Order. He came to be the current Overlord of the Volcano Order after the death of the old Leader. Some say that the leader was his lover others, his brother. Zaul tends to delegate all commands down to the masses through his five Hipparion. These five have gained his complete trust and respect.
In 18 AGD he sent a small scouting force across the southern sea to test the troops fighting skills. The one squadron that returned told of dragons and the battle of Elysian Fields known to the VO as the "Day of the Dragons". Since then, Zaul has been re-evaluating his plans adjusting for the new information. There have been rumors that he and a special counsel have made some break throughs with regards to the Witches' magic.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

FAMILY: TBA
FRIENDS: TBA
OCCUPATION: Leader of the Volcano Order
HOME TOWN (or current area of play): The Volcano

Woohoo! Looks like fun. I can call him Mr. Teddydragonkins. O=<
I wanna RP with him sometime!

I'm not ignoring this fella... just hoping to tweek him out a little via chat with Jennifer.

Hey, guys. About this guy, do you still want a review, Jennifer? If you do, I'm ready to make one. But I hear that you and Sider are working on it via chat...so I don't know... .

Just let me know!

I'm going to be re-writing him but your welcome to post a review. It may help me smooth out the wrinkles. I am going to be dropping the fire power so you know. along with some changes to his breeding.

So yes, plenty of changes forth coming.

Hee heee, well okay. Hmm...I'm not gonna do a thorough review just yet then, since you say many changes are coming. I'll just give you a general comment.

Basically, I think the characte concept is very well thought out . I definitely like the body appearance, personality and history. He pretty much sounds like someone to be feared, which, of course, is exactly what I would expect from the leader of the VO.

As for his powers, I very much like them. No seriously, he's a...ermm..I can't use swear language here Anyway, yup, he's the leader of the VO so I do expect him to be very powerful and a very very hard to defeat warrior. I suppose all these changes you're talking about are...because you're thinking of limiting his powers a bit?

Well, to be honest, I do believe he's very powerful, but I was gonna say: I think it's pretty much alright. I feel it's only natural that the leader of the VO is a mighty warrior (otherwise, I doubt he'd be the leader of such a wild bunch of nature freaks), and I think you're an old enough member who has proven to be sensible when rping , so you could be granted such a char. Thus I was gonna say that I'd be OK with most of his powers. However, I was indeed gonna ask you to limit them a little. The Winking and Fire Mastery powers seem fine to me, to be the leader of the VO. The Power Drain one, though, does worry me a little. I was gonna ask you to drop one of them, or to work out on that Power Drain thing a little, etc, but since you say you're gonna make changes, I don't really know how it will turn out.

Just to give you a general suggestion: hmm, the Drain Power itself does seem pretty powerful to me, since it would virtually render almost any pony close to him helpless. The distance thingy and the fact that a strong pony can fight it off sounds cool to me, since that's a rational limit to the power. I was gonna say that if you wanna keep it, perhaps you should drop another power. Or if you prefer to keep the others as they are, perhaps you should drop or reduce more the Power Drain one. Heee, I'm being confusing, I know. Well, I'll just wait for your edited version before saying something more concrete, kay?

Cool char, all in all. Can't wait to see him in action!

Okay he's been updated. I changed his name since it didn't fit with his new description. I don't know if I like it or not, I was also thinking Overlord Void. But that didn't sound quite right either. so, if anyone has any suggestions on a name, I'm willing to hear them

Remember he is the leader of the VO, so he's going to be a bit more powerful than most. Oh! if you'd like I could think up a special weakness to him as well, like a deadly allergy or something, to make up for his Drain Power. Just keep that in mind, thanks!

Quick bump to say I've seen this, will get back to you later .

I've seen this...
He rocks!

and I've always loved his technical name "Equis Serpentes"
I would consider going with a shortened version of that or why not the whole thing?

Anyhow... I'm not completely ready to do a full review but it's on my to do list.

Hey ya...
Sorry for the delay.
Here's the run down

For such a powerful character (as I would expect from something that can control the Volcano of Gloom) I find that he is incredibly balanced. Like so well balanced that I have little to question or object to.

I honestly can not find anything "off" about this fella though I do believe that he has the potential of being a pivital character and should there by be approved by 3 mods instead of two. This is more of a suggestion then anything else and if the other mods feel that 2 approvals will suffice it's fine by me.

Anyhow...

KK a 3 mod approval is fine, I won't be at all opposed to it. Not to mention that if I go stagnant due to my up coming job, he'll be a MOD operated character as well.

SO no one should feel as if they can't have a say in him.

Thanks for the approval, waiting for at least 1 more.

Just a gentle Bump to see about getting this guy approved.

I'm a bad mod. FV kept poking me to review Zaul, though. *pats FV's head*

I think he looks fine! He's free to run amuk and destroy all he can in Ponyland!

Excellent! thank you Colormist, it's ok I know you've been busy.