Post by Mordokku on Feb 4, 2007 16:09:06 GMT -5
The Hylden are an ancient race that was born in a similar way to the vampires, but their creators were light elementals rather than dark. They however, are not created through a blood curse, rather they are a race of their own. They stand a little taller than most humans ranging from 6ft to 7ft and have a strange, etheral beauty that is on par with the elves.
They are, like the vampires, powerful in magic and in body and are usually adept at anything they try their hands at, with their only real weakness in their natural abilities being in slightly less skilled in the classes that relate to nature. Their only real other weakness is darkness and night. When in sunlight they are able to use their full powers and many loose their natural magical powers at night, finding that their physical strengths are halved too. As time passes these weaknesses dissapear almost entirely however and the eldest and most powerful hylden are unaffected by the night's weakening effect, although they are still weaker against dark magic than any other.
Like vampires the hylden have special, unique powers that grow and develop as they age. If they wish to they can impart their soul into another hylden and give them their full powers. This is the hylden equivelant of a vampire draining another vampire and has the side effect of the absorbed hylden's mind being merged with the absorbers. They are all immortal too and have a degree of regenerative power but nothing on a vampire's level. Most are also xenophobic and are highly distrustful of other races which leads them down evil paths rather than the good they almost all aspire to be. Should they turn down evil paths enough however, they will devolve into skeletal parodies of their former beauty.
Pictures
(Normal hylden):
(Devolved hylden):
They are, like the vampires, powerful in magic and in body and are usually adept at anything they try their hands at, with their only real weakness in their natural abilities being in slightly less skilled in the classes that relate to nature. Their only real other weakness is darkness and night. When in sunlight they are able to use their full powers and many loose their natural magical powers at night, finding that their physical strengths are halved too. As time passes these weaknesses dissapear almost entirely however and the eldest and most powerful hylden are unaffected by the night's weakening effect, although they are still weaker against dark magic than any other.
Like vampires the hylden have special, unique powers that grow and develop as they age. If they wish to they can impart their soul into another hylden and give them their full powers. This is the hylden equivelant of a vampire draining another vampire and has the side effect of the absorbed hylden's mind being merged with the absorbers. They are all immortal too and have a degree of regenerative power but nothing on a vampire's level. Most are also xenophobic and are highly distrustful of other races which leads them down evil paths rather than the good they almost all aspire to be. Should they turn down evil paths enough however, they will devolve into skeletal parodies of their former beauty.
Pictures
(Normal hylden):
(Devolved hylden):
