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Effect: Kara has been cursed with multiple lives, though this blessing he is always set to revive after his death so long as he has a soul with which to reincarnate. However, this immortality comes with the fact that he does age, but in cycles. Etana will often spend about four days at a time at each stage of life before being forced to "die" only to return renewed.

He is essentially cursed to live and die over and over, but if killed any any stage of life he will return as the next stage of life having forgotten his identity until the next phase which is extended by [5 - 6] days depending on how he died.

[Etana]

[Kara]

[Bel]

[Shenshen]
Weaknesses:
- This only works so long as he still has a soul
- Provides no real benefit outside the immortality
- Memory loss when it happens.

Effect: Kara has been cursed with the ability to see the content of a persons soul to a deep level, living and deceased. These nature of it, however, depends on whether or not he is using both eyes to do it. With merely one eye he can tell if a person's wants, desires, and if they tend towards purity or corruption.

With both eyes this effect is multiplied allowing him to see "echoes" of pain upon the soul and possibly even echos of events that will allow him to understand a person more, but it can at times be unwanted and overwhelming.
Weaknesses:
- He must have use of his eyes to do this.
- His eyes are clearly shining when he is doing this.
- [Player permission must be had].
- It requires great focus, and when done accidentally it can blind him and result in him receiving too much information.

Effect: Kara essentially subsist off the evil of others forcing him to engage with rather unsavory elements in order to heal, or wounds heal incredibly slowly (Even a minor cut can take days to heal.). The evil of others are often manifested as shadows he can "eat" often curing them but also influencing him slowly.

The stronger the shadow he "eats" then the better he heals.
Weak evils only result in minor wounds [Ex: Small cuts, bruises, etc.]
Strong Evils (Sins primarily) will confer the best benefits [Ex: Fatal wounds, deep cuts, broken bones, etc.]
however the stronger the shadow the more he is corrupted.

but he cannot subsist of his own evils, but he can essentially lead others into evil essentially being forced to test his heroism in order to keep himself in uninjured.
Weaknesses:
- Wounds can take extremely long to heal if he's not feeding.
- He has to eat other's "evils" in order for it to work.
- He is essentially allergic to people who are entirely pure.

Effect: Kara's blood, once blessed, is now heavily cursed, a trait shared across all of his lives that now identify him as being who he is. This blood carries a great power within it however.
It slows his aging while it sits within him, but upon shedding his blood it takes on separate benefits such as allowing him to curse an object making its edge poisonous, or forcing him to share pain with another.
Downsides:
- The more blood he looses the weaker he gets and that power does not return until he begins a new life.

Effect: A twisting of Etana's vows it is essentially a type of contract made between Etana and another party (Or several) that will essentially make him their "hero" until such a time as he is killed, or the goal of the contract is completed.

While they are bound they essentially share experiences mind, body, and soul but with the other party able to influence Etana more and more and possibly even weaken should the contract be formed with someone whose emotions and memories are too strong for him to handle.
Weaknesses:
- Depends on the person, but at times the nature of a person can be too much and results in him being too confused or confused to work.
- Player planning.
- Has to be possible for him to accomplish.
- Multiple contracts are incredibly hard to manage.
- Cannot break a contract or he will be killed on the spot.

An old hero, born many lifetimes ago. The lives Kara have lived, and the tales he can tell are quite numerous. He always likes to begin at the start, a distant dream lost to him, but one beginning his journey through ages.

A young man born to a worker of stone and a scribe to the age old kings. He spent his days like other children, playing and learning about the world around them. Kara was no different from anyone else and would remain no different though his father saw fit to ask a friend to teach him the blade. Kara wasn't always the strongest, and learning the ways of combat caused him quite a few sore fingers.
However, what he learned there was the purpose of combat was to protect those who could not protect themselves. The world wasn't just for humans, but it was for other strange creatures as well and they were not always kind to the simple humans. Men themselves were a threat, and it was up to those who knew how to fight to aid others. A noble aspiration, one that was drilled into him over the course of years.

Eventually the young man would turn into a soldier. He took to his duty with all the grace....of a raging bull, but he did it none-the-less becoming quite known among the people for his love and care, but his rambunctious nature did cause quite a stir. He was a trouble maker and a letcher, but he was a good man all the same willing to defend the people at the drop of a hat and he did. Whenever trouble came he rushed to their aid with the others and fought away whatever threat there might have been.
Years and years he gave until one day a demon had come to take the soul of a young boys mother away. No one else was willing to help them, but Kara? He stepped up to the plate to challenge the demon who had come to devour the woman. He engaged in combat against it, and while he fought his best he was defeated and nearly killed.

The demon took the boys mother away to its lair. Despite his defeat, the man would go after them even injured to make sure the boy did not lose someone so important to him despite being outmatched already. He followed them until they came to its lair, a dark place filled with nothing but evil that even shook Kara, and yet he went in the lessons of his teacher sticking with him.

The deeper he went the heavier the air got, and the weaker he felt and yet he pushed on until he reached them, the demon about to finally feast when he rushed in again and again he was easily beaten and this time he had nothing to separate himself from death except....the spirits appeared to help.
They saw fit to help him because of how far he was going for a family he hardly knew and blessed him, giving him the strength and abilities to defeat the creature though the battle was tough.
It took everything he had not to simply keel over once the fight was done, but she managed to pull her back to the village and reunite them. He was hailed as a hero for his actions and celebrated, but then came a question.....what was he to do?

He consulted the magi who told him that there was a divine presence among him and that if he wanted answers he would need to find some way to contact the gods themselves. There were others this had happened to before, many before and many after and this would require a quest. Kara actually had no interest in this initially, as being the tool of the gods was far from his goal in life. He asked them if there was a way to rid himself of the spirit, but there was no answer for such and in that culture you did what the gods asked of you, so he was shuffled along.
Kara began to travel his homeland searching for answers to his new life, but as he did he realized just how things were. There was a great darkness found and few people willing to fight against it. Kara found himself pulled into mess after mess on his search and drawn into battle against thieves, madmen, monsters, and villains. The more he searched, the more he fit into the mold the gods had for him.

Eventually his quest would take him to the final stop of that particular life, drawn into battle against a powerful monster, a dragon who had slain many in its wake. He was contacted by another being, not quite blessed, but powerful in their own right. They wished his help in slaying the creature where their abilities were not enough.
Kara was hesitant, but when his next clue led him in that direction he agreed to help them. They spent months tracking it back to its lair, and even more time trying to kill it though each and every time it would escape them.
It wasn't until they enlisted the help of a wandering priest that she managed to push it into a corner. He and his companion fought hard against the dragon whose very blood corrupted the world around them and turned it to dust. They could not kill it no matter how hard they tried and the dragon dealt Kara a fatal blow.

However as he laid there, he was confronted by the very beings he served and told his purpose, to help fight against such horrid beasts. If he were to accept he would receive the rest of his blessing, and be branded as a champion. Kara accepted without hesitation and was fully blessed. He rose to fight and soon found the blood he had spilled gave him the ability to deal a powerful wound to the beast. They also sent another spirit, this one giving him ability to purify the corrupted waters and use them as he pleased.
Fighting with stronger spirit he and his companion were able to fell the beast. Kara was made a hero among his people. The gods told him that this would be his task from now until they felt fit to release him from their service.

Thus began Kara's many lives. He was allowed to live out his life and die as anyone was once his tasks were over, if the gods needed him. He would die, and return sometimes in the same era, or sometimes another always to confront some evil that the gods could not be tasked with keeping themselves.
Kara was made to live many lives as a man, or a woman. His rebirths took place in not only in his homelands but others in far away places allowing him to meet many though he rarely if ever kept the memories when he moved on. He even had his loves, though many were short lived due to his nature, he never did truly forget them no matter who he might have been.

He was finally reborn into the modern age, but curiously bearing an old countenance he once did even if he did not remember. His gods never appeared to give him a perpouse however leaving the man to live, lost. Perhaps his gods saw fit to give the soul some much needed rest, or perhaps they no longer needed him he was unsure.
He saw fit to become a traveler instead having no immediate task. He did offer his serves here and there to confront some manner of darkness, but he always felt rather lost at least until he received some manner of hint from a blind spirit and her rather strong companion. A place called Soleil, a place that called to his very soul for reasons he did not know. He didn't go immediately, instead choosing to establish himself more in the world.

However he was called back once again and during the course of that adventure he was forced to make a harsh decision that change quite a lot for him and his nature. Due to that he found himself abandoned by his gods and cursed by a new one but...freed in a way perhaps. Given lease to return to Soleil he did so hoping to return to normal life...but things aren't always so simple.