Reply #14: I've got an imp too... [View All]

[Mythsaje]

Quickfingers. Created by Jaz herself. "Spirits" like Quickfingers and the djinn Dylan (who's featured in Tales from the Magitech Lounge and this current novel) are little more than very complex spells with the power to infinitely renew themselves. Imps are impervious to physical damage, for the most part. They can teleport or turn ethereal at will. It's theorized that if you dropped one in a vat of acid, it would destroy it, but that's a heck of a lot harder to manage than it sounds.

The body of the imp is formed of several hundred mana threads gathered around a very complicated core spell that is, in effect, its ego or soul. The djinn is composed of even MORE threads and was once a human being.

Jaz is a lethal fighter as well. Deprived of her magic, she still has use of her swords, particularly the twin blades Passion and Storm--high crystal katanas sharper and harder than any metal known that can disrupt the cellular regrowth of even immortals and thus as lethal to them as to any mortal.

She also wears a symsuit, living armor capable of accessing power on a higher plane than even magic. Nyx's sym allows her to create and weave webs of force like a spider, but Jaz's sym--well, I'm not sure WHAT it does. :D

Raven, the vampire mage, has the power to be totally and completely invisible. Very few beings can sense him if he doesn't want to be noticed. He's immune to psychic awareness, impossible to track magically, and pretty much untouchable. He's also the Lord of Dogs and sometimes partnered with Cerberus, a canine modified by Loki into what he calls a "foo dog." No one's quite sure what the limits of HIS powers are either.

My vamps are different than most. Their bodies are composed of a colony of mutable, cooperative cells that can mimic the function of any other cell in the body. That's why they heal from most damage almost immediately. Their single weakness is the brain and brainstem. Destroy those and you destroy the vamp. Lycanthropes, created by a modified version of the same metavirus, are extremely dense--powerful and quick with the same basic weakness. Vamps all have different powers that seem to vary based on their own personalities, and often adopt a connection to whatever animal they feed from upon first being turned.

My immortals are similar in a way to the vamps, in that their bodies are composed of cooperative cells, but each cell contains the information necessary to regrow the whole body if necessary. Their weakness is crystal weapons. Well, all but Deryk Shea and his son Justice Breed (also known as ArchAngel). Deryk may be unkillable and ArchAngel--well, he's an energy being currently residing in a super high-tech android body.