Character Sheet (SPOILER)
John Erling
1,8 Meters tall, 18 years old, light blue eyes, short black hair.
The MC for this story. His parents are from Scandinavia, they never were specific about their past. His parents loved to spend time in the wild nature, mountain climbing, hiking, and sleeping in the forest. Naturally, John had to accompany them from an early age, and from them, he had learned a lot about surviving in the wild. But because of this, John has become rather awkward around other people and tends to spend his time thinking. He has barely any friends in school but gets along with the teachers.
His blessing is from the goddess Echidna, the snake goddess. The priests of Athena don´t have any records of this blessing and are not sure about John´s training.
Currently, he has three familiars that he can only summon for one hour each and they each have a cooldown of three hours.
Familiars:
Quetzal the flying snake.
Length, around one meter.
Has green scales and a pair of feathery wings. Feathers were also on his head and his tail, and the feathers of his wings are orange.
Quetzal has an affinity with wind magic but has only a weak poison that only slightly paralyzes its targets. Quetzal is by far the fastest and the most agile of the three snakes, but also pretty frail.
He likes to play around; his favorite resting place is on top of John´s head.
Python and Typhon, the two-headed snake.
Length, around one meter.
Python and Typhon are just regular a snake with two heads.
The two are the physically strongest snakes and their scales are pretty tough.
They have an affinity for both poison and earth magic.
It´s not sure if the two are equal in control over the body or if one of them controls the body.
The two quarrel sometimes with each other, but mostly not for a long time.
Sushen, the holy snake.
Length, around one meter.
A holy snake with healing capabilities and an affinity with light magic.
Sushen is the leader of the three and the most intelligent of the three, although a bit childish from time to time.
His attacking power is by far the weakest among the three.
Father Alexander
The head priest of the church summoned John and the others. He is friendly toward everyone and has a good relationship with John and is always there to help him out. He can be rather calculating and ruthless if he has to be.
He has some history with general Selena and her father. He is also one of the loudest voices for a new conflict with the demons. Believed, through the records from the last war with the demons 100 years ago, that the demons are still weakened, and this the best opportunity was to destroy them. This is why he and the other priests had summoned John and the others as heroes, to aid them in the war.
General Selena
A battle-hardened warrior that has seen more battles than she wants to admit. Only being in her early twenties, she is the youngest general in the kingdom, but no one was dumb enough to doubt her. She is cruel and heartless when it came to training soldiers, and it certainly is not different with the heroes.
Queen Lilith
The current queen of the demon empire, Lilith had been the queen for more than 200 years and had spent most of that time quelling down rebellions. The war with the humans was just an important side thing. Now that she has the rebels cornered, she can focus her eyes on the looming threat of the coming war.
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