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Dirk, the Shadow Warrior. Trained by an Immortal

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QUICK STATS

Given Name: Dirk
Age: 20 (subjectively), 60+ [He's not sure!] (objectively)
Gender: male
Sexuality: heterosexual
Species: human
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 180lb
Eye Color: Grey →████
Hair Color: Blonde →████
Hairstyle: Short, spikey, tussled
Piercings: none
Relationship Status: single
Occupation: sword for hire
Place of Origin: Zantaric


IN-DEPTH STUFF

Physical Description
He is clad in black armor, much like that of his mentor, Ritousaey, wrapped in a deep black cloak, hood pulled up, and a black cloth mask that covers his nose, mouth, and chin. His grey eyes peer out, never missing anything. His gold locks peek out a bit from beneath his hood. An observant person would notice that he has a short curved blade under his cloak, across the small of his back, and many throwing daggers tucked all over his person. Anyone can see the dirk hanging on his hip, and the grappling hook that hangs next to it. Bare hands rest always at the ready, weapons easily deployed. The soft leather of his boots, make not a sound as he moves, and leave little trace of footsteps. He is plainly a warrior that favors stealth and cunning.

Personality
Dirk is a bit socially awkward. When most of your life is spent with on omnipotent being, it's hard to get any real understanding of the workings of interpersonal relationships. He flip flops from needy to aloof and cold, not knowing when it is appropriate to express his feelings, whether fondness or contempt, toward others. Despite his social shortcomings, Dirk is a decent companion to have. Beyond his skill as a warrior, and keen powers of observation, Dirk has nurtured a strong moral code, and is loyal to those of a righteous cause. The short period of his life he spent in Zantaric are a distant memory, but it is not forgotten. Through the journey he shared with Rit, he decided that he would not tolerate injustice and villainy. Now that he has returned to this world, he has decided to help those he can, and always be just and fair in his dealings with others.

Magic/Abilities/Skills
Skilled in all forms of martial arts the multiverse has to offer, Dirk is a peerless combatant. Having mastered every weapon available and that will come to exist over the next hundred years on this world, there are few that could stand against Dirk with skill alone. Not immortal or invulnerable, like his mentor, Dirk prefers to avoid the straight up fight, and uses stealth and misdirection to defeat his foes.

Gear
-Cloak of Stealth-
A dark cloak created by Ritousaey. It absorbs light, and with a single thought the wearer can make it darken the shadows around him. Others using the cloak must know the command word 'styx' to make the cloak work.

-Leather Shadow Armor-
Black leather armor created by Ritousaey. It allows the wearer to blend into the shadows around him.

-Onyx Ring of Force-
This steel ring set with an onyx stone absorbs kinetic energy through movement. Each movement the wearer makes with the hand stores a little more energy in the ring. Using the command word unleashes all the energy from the ring in a directed force. The more time between uses, the more power will have been stored. The more active the wearer the faster the enrgy will accumulate. Imagine a punch to your face in which along with a fist you get two months of stored energy that could take down a castle portcullis.

-Gold Ring of Staisis-
This ring makes eating and drinking unnecessary. The wearer can of course still eat and drink normally without any adverse affects. It also bends time for the wearer under very specific circumstances. As soon as the wearer falls asleep they are put into a different time flow allowing them to sleep as many hours as they need and awake as though no time has passed. While the rest and dreams experienced in this stasis act as normal, the time passed does not affect the wearers age. To the world around them it's as if they blink their eyes and are fully rested.

-Bracers of Swiftness-
These allow the wearer to move their arms and hands twice as fast as they normally would. Of course the wearer is still limited by their own reaction times, so a fast mind makes for better use of these bracers.

-Boots of Stealth-
Black, supple, leather boots created by Ritousaey. They absorb all sound that footsteps would normally make, no matter the ground being tread across. They also lighten the step of the wearer, leaving almost no trace as they pass.

-Glass Circlet of Mental Clarity-
Another magic item made for Dirk by Ritousaey, this indestructible glass circlet protects and enhances mental clarity. It does not make you more intelligent. It simply clears away the cobwebs of fatigue, or other mind altering effects. The wearer cannot be mind controlled, or put to sleep magically. No adverse spells that affect the mind will work on the wearer, nor will the normally debilitating mental fugue of a concussion. Mind altering affects of drugs are also kept at bay by this circlet. However, strong, non-magical sleeping drugs that attack the body as well as the mind, and bypass the wearers fortitude, can still cause the wearer to fall asleep.

-Amulet of Tongues-
Allows the wearer to understand and speak all languages universally. This does not apply to written words, only those spoken aloud.

-Mask of Hidden Breath-
This black mask that covers the nose, mouth, and chin, grants the wearer the ability to breathe in any environment unhindered, even a vacuum. It also absorbs the breath as it's exhaled, so that it doesn't disturb the environment or give away the wearers presence.

-Belt of Climbing-
This belt has many hidden tools in it used for climbing and scaling. Also, in combination with a grappling hook, it can be unwound to be a fifty foot cord that becomes rigid and gains hand and foot holds at the use of the command word 'uzbrdica'.

-Kukri-
It's just a Kukri. Nothing special, other than it's made of meteoric adamantine, so it's pretty indestructible, and ultra sharp.

-Dirk-
Made from the same source of meteoric adamantine as the kukri. There's nothing else special about this weapon.

-Throwing Daggers-
Lots of them. Hidden all over his person. The magic in them makes them disappear after a time, returning to their places in Dirk's armor.

Things of note

-The Custom Haversack of Aeytrious-
A small ashen gray satchel. Made by Ritousaey, Dirk wears this copy of the original slung across his back, under his cloak. The single baldric like strap goes over the right shoulder and links into the scabbard belted at his left hip. Each of the five pockets are attached to a different sub-dimensional pocket that vastly exceed the norm of such an item. As with any haversack, when reaching into a pocket for something specific contained within, the item you are seeking is readily available to your grasp. Normally when an item of this type passes through a portal or other dimensional travel type, it causes a violent tear in space, throwing everything into the astral plane, usually without survivors. This custom sack however severs and reconnects to its pocket dimensions as needed to prevent this from happening.

-Decanter of Endless Water-
If the stopper is removed from this ordinary-looking flask and a command word spoken, an amount of fresh or salt water pours out. Separate command words determine the type as well as the volume and velocity. The bottle is linked to an elemental plane of water and will never run out.
"Stream" pours out 1 gallon every 6 seconds.
"Fountain" produces a 5-foot-long stream at 5 gallons every 6 seconds.
"Geyser" produces a 20-foot-long, 1-foot-wide stream at 30 gallons every 6 seconds.
The geyser effect causes considerable back pressure, requiring the holder to have the strength and proper footing or else be knocked down. The force of the geyser deals is strong enough to do light damage or knock over a target. A command word must be spoken to stop it.

tansui sutoriimu - freshwater stream
ensui no sutoriimu - saltwater stream
tansui izumi - freshwater fountain
ensui no funsui - saltwater fountain
tansui no kanketsusen - freshwater geyser 
ensui no kanketsusen - saltwater geyser
teishi - stop

-Bottle of Air-
This item appears to be a normal glass bottle with a cork. When taken to any airless environment it retains air within it at all times, continually renewing its contents. This means that a person can draw air out of the bottle to breathe. The bottle can even be shared by multiple people who pass it around. The air does not escape from the bottle with any force, so cannot be used to fill an airless room or clear smoke. The bottle is linked to an elemental plane of air and will never run out.

-Hot Rocks-
These two rocks, one flint and one obsidian, together, can heat any liquid. When wet, and in contact with each other, the two rocks heat up. The greater the volume of liquid, the faster the rocks heat. Once they are dry, they begin to cool off, eventually reaching ambient temperature.


Relationships
Ritousaey is his mentor.
He attributes his better life to Axieva.


History
Born to a drug addled prostitute on the streets of Zantaric, it's a miracle that Dirk survived as long as he did without aid. Cast away like garbage, he lived like vermin, eating the scraps he could salvage from the waste. Muscled out of every good spot and bullied by larger kids, Dirk spent most nights starving and cold. Until that fateful day when a Peryton, named Axieva saved his wretched life. Though she didn't do much, but cry out at his mother for not caring for him, it was this act that changed his life forever. The divine being, all powerful guardian of the Multiverse, Ritousaey, who had recently joined Axieva on her journey, decided that her action deserved reward. So he gave Dirk his name and whisked the boy away through time and space. Teaching him and training him in all Rit found important, Dirk spent his youth visiting exotic locales across many dimensions. Once he had reached the age of twenty, Rit froze Dirk's age so that he could continue to learn beyond his years. After fifty years of tutelage, Rit returned Dirk to the moment in time in which he had originally been taken from. He now wanders the land, meting out justice when he can, and serving those in need.

Quote
"I'll fill the shadows with justice so that injustice must brave the light."
"Space breakfast is the best meal of the day."

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