The third of my Character Bios! (six more to come!)
I was originally going to post Belor, but I got requests for Melin instead, so here he is
Melin
(Yes, I don't have the battle-sprites yet. As his character doesn't come in until around a third of the way into the game, I postponed on drawing his battle sprites.)
Stats
Background
They say that some men just want to watch the world burn. Melin is absolutely not one of those men. Melin the Mad Monk is one of the type of man who wants to nurture and preserve the world, caring for it, bringing it up under careful and loving guidance; and then when the world leasts suspects it, stab it in the eye with a blunt potato before watching it burn just to mess with the world's mind. Mere chaos is not enough for Melin, madness and insanity is an artform to him, there is little point in destroying someone when it's far more satisfying to take the opportunity to drive that person into madness and allow him to self-destruct on his own.
Though linked to the events of the war between the Theocracy and the Resistance, Melin was not originally from Theocracy lands. He was born in a village near Exenes where, as a child, he watched his parents killed by plague. He survived the plague, but not before sickness had severely warped his mind. Since then, he has suffered delusions and madness. He wandered until he came to Olar Temple, the center of learning for all warrior monks where he was accepted. He stayed there for many years as a guest, then as a student. Though a promising student, Melin was expelled from the Olar Temple when he managed to drug half of the temple elders at a feast causing them to have a drunken, and violent orgy or chaos that left no fewer than seven masters dead. Though he never raised a finger against any of the masters, the mere fact that seven of the most respected fighters died because of him inspired fear throughout Olar.
He was thus banished before completing his training. He spent the next few years wandering, training himself and honing his abilities as a monk. As such, his technique is vastly different from any monk formally trained at Olar, yet his style is no less potent. Truth be told, it's quite possible that his abilities might even surpass some of the masters at the temple. His wanderings eventually took him westwards, into Theocracy lands, where monks were fewer than in Exenes lands. Everywhere he went, he spread his own brand of madness, leaving broken and twisted minds in his wake.
Recentlly, he was overpowered and captured by the Theocracy. Though not exactly a magic-user, he still possessed, as a monk, magical abilities and was thus of worth to the Theocracy. He was experimented on by the Theocracy, and, like Kay, he was not driven mad by their experiments, though unlike Kay, this may be because he was already insane to start with. He was accidentally freed by Jaina (occurs 1/3 of the way into the game) while in Banware. While having no real vested case in either the causes of the Theocracy and or the Resistance, he saw this as an amazing opportunity to wreak chaos on a scale he had never been able to reach before. Only time will tell though, what havoc his actions will cause in the grand plan, and what, if any, Legacy his madness will leave behind.
Personality
Though certifiably insane, Melin is rather lucid and cognizant of the minute details of the world and people around him. Melin is extremely intelligent and cunning, a fact that even Hector Sogin, who is loathe to ever admit others might be as good as he is, admits that should Melin ever be free of his madness, he would be a formidable foe on the battlefield. Because of his insanity though, he turns the powers of his mind to what he does best, sowing discord and chaos wherever he goes. He does not, however, enjoy acting directly. Rather, he relies on subtlety and small, seemingly insignificant actions, that often spiral and snowball into even more devastating effects than if he had actively pursued a specific goal.
Because of his madness and penchant for chaos, both Jaina and Gayla despise him, and only allow him aboard the Mistrunner because of the knowledge he posseses about the Theocracy. Jaina argues that because they already have Kay, they shouldn't have any need for Melin. Gayla on the other hand, believes that they need all the information they can get, and thus just tolerates his prescence. Even Molok, who is usually one of the more abrasive of the party, dislikes Melin and would rather that the mad monk not be on the ship.
Contrary to the others though, Hector holds Melin in high esteem. He says that though Melin is insane, at least he's honest. All the others have ulterior motives for doing what they do: Kay wants his memories back, Jaina wants to prove herself, Molok wants revenge, etc... but Melin, on the other hand, says that he wants chaos, and is true to his word. No hidden agendas, no sneaking around, just plain and brutal honesty.
Powers
Melin is a relatively well-rounded character. He has decent health, respectable attack and speed, and can even cast buffs in combat. Where he shines though, is that he can deliver elemental attacks using his already powerful physical attacks. Belor, for example, can dish out extremely high levels of physical damage, but when faced with an opponent that takes no damage from physical attacks, he becomes relatively useless. Kay, when he is armed with the right equipment, can cast elemental magic, but usually only a single type at a time. When faced with an enemy resistant to that single element though, Kay loses most of his offensive abilities. Melin, on the other hand, can deliver both physical and elemental damage in a single attack. He is thus useful when just what enemies are coming is unknown. Despite being weaker than Belor, slower than Jaina, less magically inclined than Kay or Molok, He can shape himself to any situation, allowing him to always be useful whereas the others can be rendered dead weight in certain situations.
Equipment
Perhaps Melin's greatest weakness is that he only wears the most basic of armor. He cannot even wear light armor, and is instaed limited to cloth and robes. He thus relies on buffs and amulets for his physical defense, and his high dudge rate should it come to such. As for weapons, he can share weaponry with both Jaina and Belor, though his specialized gear will always be better for him than Belor's or Jaina's. Unfortunately, this specialized gear can only be acquired at Olar Temple, and it is not until later in the game that the player gains access to the temple, and then only if Melin's sidequest is properly activated and followed-through.
Being from the third world, I reserve the right to speak in the third person.
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