Teacher: Yes
Name - Epalm Phoenix
Age - 36
Height - 6'2
weight - 200
Appearance – Epalm is somewhat tall for a person, however he’s not overwhelming. He has short brown hair and deep crimson eyes. He always has a kind look toward him, one of the more approachable teachers of the school just based on looks alone. Like his religion suggests, he wears red robes to signify his religion. One of his favorites is a robe that is a dark crimson color. It has white trim and a gold belt.
Personality – Epalm’s personality reflects exactly how he is, kind and caring. You’d be hard pressed to find anything or anyone that he dislikes. However, you can notice a bit of a dislike of demons due to his past. You talk to Epalm outside of his class and you’d wonder why some people are afraid of him at the school.
That being said, those lucky enough to get the man for class are in for it rough. Epalm is a firm believer in knowledge by experience. Those foolish enough to not take his class seriously are in for it. While his fiery passion of youth has quelled a bit in his older age, this seems to be the one area that he hasn’t quite fixed yet.
This is especially true for when Epalm is in his so called "Rage-mode". When Epalm becomes so enraged, his eyes will completely turn red. Epalm loses all focus and level-headedness, even forgetting who is friend and who is foe. His strength is increased greatly, as well as his magic, but it's highly unstable at this point and incredibly dangerous. It takes a lot to make Epalm get into full fledge rage, but I advise you run when you see him like that.
Background story - Epalm grew up in a traditional family. For generations they had all been good priests, not great but good. His family believes that he will bring them into the spotlight. Because of this, there is a huge amount of pressure on him to succeed. He was quickly introduced to his magic heritage and was trained intensely to fulfill his parents’ wishes to be the best. He quickly grew tired of the day to day training and eventually vowed to give up magic forever.
Epalm's parents tried many times to sway him back to the family tradition, but he refused, saying his pursue of happiness was much more important than studying in some old library for hours on end. Then, one night, his parents were murdered right in front of him by an unknown demon. He tried to stop the demon, but he was overmatched. The only thing he remembers of this mysterious attacker is the cold dark yellow eyes that he saw as the demon left him to die. However he didn't die and was able to heal himself in time, but it was too late for his parents.
Shortly after their death he started studying again and relearned everything that his family had learned and recorded in the archives. After studying for 3 years he left to find a school that his father mentioned in one of his journals as somewhere he planned on sending him to when he was old enough.
He arrived at the school and became a student, quickly learning all he could and ended as one of the highest in his class. After graduation Epalm searched desperately for his family’s killer, following every possible lead he could. However, after receiving yet another dead in, he took time to reflect on how he was living his life. He realized the only true time he felt happy, after his parents of course, was when he was at the school. He quickly returned to the school and asked the headmaster if he could help mold the young minds of the school, and he agreed.
Type - Priest, his family has worshiped Pyarados for many generations.
Fighting Style - Eplam’s fighting style is well rounded. Due to how he used to fight, he is a fairly decent close quarters fighter, however as he learned more spells he began to create more ranged skills, and can hold his own on both ends. Epalm has also perfected his fire healing over his travels, finally realizing his foolishness earlier than his life.
Weapon: Phoenix Blade. Epalm's sword was morphed from his old Phoenix Wand (a family heirloom mind you) which he still wasn't that creative of naming. The blade is roughly three feet long, pure crimson steel. The edges are jagged, as to represent the flames of Pyarados, and makes it into a great slashing weapon. The guard and hilt is roughly one foot long, making his weapon in it's entirety four feet long, not too long, but long enough to create serious damage from medium range.
Despite the fact that it is no longer his old wand, it still retained some of the abilites it used to give him. Epalm's strength, healing, and overall fire wielding/conjuring get a boost, his speed however decreses, due to the new armour and the overal weight of the blade itself. Also when his sword is in hand, a shoulderguard is created on his left shoulder. The symbol on it is Pyarados, to show his dovotion through and through.
Epalm's sword isn't as unique as Valas's, unable to summon it purely by name. However, a quick prayer to Pyarados, and his sword will litterally erupt from the earth, allowing him to summon it anywhere he's on the ground level of a place. Because of it's placement, the Blade is always at a high temperature, making it impossible for thouse not of the Pyarados faith (or an experienced mage in fire and heat) to even touch the blade. However only Epalm can use the blade. It will accept no other.
Trinkets - He wears a pendant under his one and only robe with the
Family Crest. He also wears rings on all of his fingers (excluding thumbs and middle fingers) that help him conjure up the fire necessary for his spells.
It looks like fun.
