The Cardinal Sins

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Out of the dark depths of Hell come the Cardinal sins that plague all mortals on earth. These sins walk the world looking for new souls to corrupt and condemn to eternal damnation.

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Name: Wrath

Age: Around 6500 years old

Gender: Male

Race: Embodiment of sin

Hair: He is bald

Build: Wrath is incredibly strong, his muscles are large and veins usually show themselves through his skin. His build makes him look like something of a monster more than a human

Height: 8”5’

Eyes: Wrath’s pupils glow red with anger and the whites of his eyes are bloodshot

Distinctive features: Wrath has a slight tint of red all around his body and is covered with black tattoos, designs all coming out from a pentagram on his chest that glows red when he casts a spell. The tattoos are engraved into his skin.

Deep-set scars from past battles also mar his skin.

Clothes: Wrath only wears the bottom half of a black, spiky suit of armor forged in hell. Aside from this, he wears only piercings.

His face is full of piercings, he has eyebrow rings, earrings and nose rings. He also has a large amount of rings on his back that range in size from huge rings that span the length of his entire back to a lot of small rings that dot his back. These rings seem to be used more to torture Wrath than decorate him. The wounds that these rings created are heavily scabbed and look bloody and absolutely disgusting.

Weapons:

Broadsword of Rage – This double-edged broadsword is three times the size of a normal broadsword to be proportional to Wrath’s massive build. The metal of the blade is chipped at the edge and stained with blood from repeated use. The hilt is iron like the rest of the sword, but encrusted with rubies.

Abilities:

Hellfire – Wrath makes an underhand throwing motion with his arm and the ground in front of him bursts into flame and continues in a trail in front of him for 50 feet or until the trail hits something, the trail explodes.

Vengeance – If Wrath sustains an injury; he uses the hate put behind the strike that caused that wound to create a red ball of energy. If he has a large gash in his flesh, he launches a powerful spell that explodes on contact with anything it touches. If he has just a small cut, then the spell he casts is small and weak or it may simple fizzle when cast.

Wrath can't cast this spell in combat. To properly cast this spell, Wrath must collect all of the energy from his wounds and form it all into a ball. Needless to say, he can't do this while being stabbed repeatedly in the chest.

Anger – Wrath goes into a fit of rage, swinging his broadsword wildly in the general direction of his opponent. While in this rage, the pain received from successful hits is drastically reduced and Wrath’s strikes are much more deadly.

Roar of Terror – Wrath stops in place, takes a deep breath and emits a debilitating, ear splitting roar at his opponent. If someone is near enough to him, this roar will deafen temporarily, blow the enemy back and disorient him/her.

Inward Hate – If Wrath is losing the battle his is in and sustains multiple injuries, he goes into a fit of inward hate, thinking himself not good enough. In hate for himself and anger, he inflicts a large amount of damage on himself, wildly tearing into his skin with his fingers and mauling himself with his broadsword. The blood that pools on the ground creates a human-like form that is very agile and is able to turn its arms into weapons, a kind of alternate to Wrath if his warrior-like fighting style isn’t working. This lasts only as long as Wrath continues mauling himself.

Pyromania - Wrath’s love of fire gives him control over it. He is able to bend existing fire and create fire.

Dark Temptation - Wrath casts a curse on his opponent that makes him go into a rage, no matter how calm or collected the opponent is, he will experience extreme anger and most likely attack Wrath directly and without strategy or otherwise just cloud his judgment with anger, this lasts for six turns or until the opponent is able to shake the curse off.

The Fifth Circle of Hell – (Cannot be used in tournaments) a mentally draining spell, Wrath changes the entire arena into the Fifth Circle of Hell. The fifth circle is the Stygian marsh that surrounds the city of Dis. In this marsh, the people who had been condemned to hell for sins of anger fight each other on the surface. Wrath is able to easily trample over these people to get around, but for his opponent, it’s a bit harder. The swamp is muddy and the people fighting in it will sometimes grab onto the opponent or hit him. This lasts five turns before the arena turns back to its original form.

Other abilities/attributes:

Wrath isn’t a strategically gifted fighter. He fights by berserking his way toward his enemy. He rarely stops when hit; he feels the pain but doesn’t usually react to it. The downside to this is that he usually won’t feel when his wounds begin to get serious and fatal.

He is a very powerful fighter; a single swing from his broadsword could slice through a tree. But his power comes at a cost, Wrath is an incredibly slow fighter, it takes more time to swing his sword once than it would an experienced warrior to swing four times.

Personality: Wrath is the angriest, most sadistic sin out of the seven. He always chooses the most direct way to solve his problems, demolishing everyone and everything in his way. He always chooses the most sociopathic ways to kill his enemies, when he can, he’ll try to trap his opponents and torture them as much as he can before finishing them.

Background: 6500 years ago when the bible says the world and man were created, sin was also created. When Lucifer dropped out of heaven and hell was created, all seven sins were given mortal bodies to inhabit and walk the earth with. They were given these bodies so they can carry out Satan’s bidding on earth and spread sin to whatever mortal they could. These bodies could be killed, but they’re just reincarnated and come out of one of the many gateways to hell around the earth.

Wrath, after being released into the world, just found that he liked to kill people and entice others to kill people. With the help of Greed, he started the Crusades. With the help of Lust, he lured the victims of adultery to acts of murder. With the help of Pride, he drove so many people to become sociopathic serial killers.

While not killing or causing other people to kill, Wrath rests in hell where he laughs at the damned souls that suffer eternally.

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Name: Greed

Age: Around 6500 years

Gender: Male

Race: Embodiment of sin

Hair: His hair is medium-sized, short and black. It comes down to just over his ears and parts down the middle. He also has some stubble on his jaw

Build: Greed’s body is thin but strong, his body is built more for flexibility and lightness than strength.

Height: 5”11’

Eyes: Greed's eyes glow solid gold.

Distinctive features: The most distinctive feature about Greed is that he has a black tattoo on the left side of his face in the shape of a pentagram, it seems to be engraved into his skin. The tattoo glows golden when he casts a spell or uses abilities.

Clothes: Greed always wears a black robe with Celtic designs sewn into the fabric with gold thread. While wearing the hood, it conceals his eyes and most of his nose no matter what type of lighting he is in. The robe contains chain mail underneath the fabric that protects him while letting him move around freely.

At the bottom of the robe, a black mist envelops his feet. He never touches the ground, but floats upon this cloud.

Spoiler: General appearance 

Twenty points to the first person to PM me who I edited to make Greed! =P

Weapons:

Dagger of Indulgence – This dagger is completely made out of gold from the hilt to the blade. Although the blade is made out of gold, it is still as sharp and tough as steel. Both the hilt and the blade are artfully decorated with beautiful engravings depicting Celtic designs similar to the ones on his robe.

The hilt is encrusted with all kinds of jewels including sapphires, rubies, diamonds and emeralds. The blade is encrusted with all the same kinds of jewels along the dull side.

Abilities:

Overindulgence – Greed places a curse on his opponent, momentarily placing him in his perfect world where he has money, girls/guys, weapons, whatever he could hope for. It also places him in his most desirable place, be it the household of his childhood or a nice palace. Of course, it’s only an illusion and only lasts for four posts, and Greed must take the role of someone in his dream or the illusion will be broken.

The Greed of Fear (Sloth) – Greed has the ability to blend in with the shadows and become nothing but a puff of smoke and hide until he sees the perfect time to strike. He usually uses this style of fighting in shady areas such as a forest or swamp. When using this style of fighting, his pentagram glows blue (that of Sloth)

The Greed of Power (Wrath) – Greed uses his agility to hit the opponent over and over again, gradually wearing him down. Using this power, Greed greatly increases his speed, but as a result, he finds it hard to control himself and often finds it difficult to stop himself from attacking the opponent directly and without strategy. This is usually used in very open places like planes and grasslands. When he uses this style of fighting, his pentagram will glow red (that of Wrath)

Golden Fire – This ability is used just like pyrokinesis (He’s able to control existing fire and create fire with his mind), except that the fire has a nice golden color to it.

Dark Temptation – The opponent suddenly becomes incredibly concerned with his material possessions almost to the point of obsession. The opponent will frequently check his pockets to see if anything has been stolen and check is weapons and armor for any evidence of damage, if he finds any damage or anything had fallen out of his pockets (currency, random trinkets, etc.) it’ll cloud his judgment and he’ll be more concerned with finding the lost item or repairing the damage than the actual fight. This lasts for three posts.

The Fourth Circle of Hell (Cannot be used in tournaments) – Greed transforms the entire arena into the Fourth Circle of Hell. The fourth circle is a large, narrow chasm that goes around in a circle. The chasm is wide enough to walk comfortably in, but the damned push boulders large enough to fill the chasm around the circle for eternity. Someone in the fourth circle would either have to hop over the boulder or be crushed by it. The walls of the chasm extend upwards until they cannot be seen any longer so climbing out is impossible. This lasts for six posts.

Other abilities/attributes:

Greed, instead of walking, glides around on a black cloud. He can also fly, when he does, he leaves behind a trail of the black cloud that can choke his opponent if inhaled. He can temporarily turn into just a black cloud of smoke for a couple of seconds.

Greed is more of an agile fighter; he is given the body of someone who would commit the greatest sin for money – an assassin.

Personality: Being a sin born of Pride and Gluttony, he has a mix of both of their personality traits. He will usually make fun of his opponent in battle, pointing out his faults and listing what he could have, but doesn’t. Envy’s and Greed’s personalities usually clash.

Greed will also will take anything of value he finds. Anything he wants, he takes, and if someone is in possession of that item, he’ll simply kill that person.

In battle, he'll usually be as calm as he can.

Background: 6500 years ago when the bible says the world and man were created, sin was also created. When Lucifer dropped out of heaven and hell was created, all seven sins were given mortal bodies to inhabit and walk the earth with. They were given these bodies so they can carry out Satan’s bidding on earth and spread sin to whatever mortal they could. These bodies could be killed, but they’re just reincarnated and come out of one of the many gateways to hell around the earth.

Greed began traveling with Gluttony when he started walking the earth. They were very similar sins and found that they worked well together. Greed would usually go around sitting on Gluttony’s shoulder.

Together, Greed and Gluttony corrupted people to overindulgence. The people they corrupted spent all of their money on useless and indulgent items and exploiting their friends which ultimately led to their damnation.

The two sometimes team with Pride to corrupt officials into abusing their power. The three have corrupted people like, for example, King Henry VIII. Lust helped a bit with him though.