Quelle the Owl

This is an article about Quelle the Owl, a character created by TheSkullWolf on 12/29/2013.
Quelle is a twenty-four-year-old owl. He was the former king of the Limerook Kingdom prior to its collapse. Quelle has the power of chess-piece manipulation, but also uses a bit of forbidden magic.
==Personality==
Quelle is a serious bird. He does not usually joke around and does not seem to smile for almost anyone. The only person that has ever seen him smile is Tyren, who describes him smiling as being "surprisingly more creepy than heart-warming".
Quelle is known to act like a know-it-all. He is always calculating possible outcomes of events. This is especially apparent when he is playing chess. Some people that have played against him claim that he is "reading his/her mind" instead of playing legitimately. However, this is false as Quelle is not capable of mind-reading. 
Quelle is driven by his desire to find an opponent capable of defeating him. He believes that one has to face defeat so they can become stronger. However, as he remains undefeated, he considers himself to be "just as weak as he was when he was born".
==History==
Quelle was born to the royal family of a medieval kingdom. The kingdom isolated itself from modern civilization and as a result never became industrialized. The royal family had a tradition of being expert chess-players, and Quelle was no exception. He was a natural-born chess-player, able to defeat every maid and butler at the age of ten. His father, the king himself, recognized this and often complimented him, saying that he would one day become a great ruler of the kingdom. Little did the man know that this would not be the case.
One day, a seventeen-year-old Quelle had ran out of people to play chess with that he had not already beaten, so he challenged his own father. The king gladly accepted challenge and the two proceeded to play. Quelle purposefully made himself seem like he was losing until mid-match, where he suddenly formed a bet with his father. He demanded that if he won then his father would surrender the throne to him. At first the king refused, but constant blackmail from his son and the fact that the match was being watched by several commoners forced him to accept. At this point Quelle began to take the match seriously and turned the entire game around, defeating his father.
The king, a man of his word, shamefully gave up his title and disappeared, never to be seen again. However, Quelle also gave up the throne and left the kingdom to find a more challenging opponent. Without any ruler, the kingdom quickly became enveloped into chaos and slowly crumbled over time, eventually being taken over by a rival kingdom. 
==Powers==
Quelle has the power of chess-piece manipulation, manifested from his desire to find a stronger chess player than himself.  He can make regular chess pieces move on their own. He can make these pieces fly at high velocities, turning them into tiny missiles of death.
Quelle also has an arsenal of personally-crafted chess pieces. They are much more durable than regular pieces. Being made of special material that is extremely flexible, he can manipulate the very shape of these pieces, adding blades or drills at the end of the pieces to make them even more deadly. He can even make them explode, though the blast radius is tiny and meant to cause damage in specific places (for example, the enemy's limbs).
Quelle also dabbles a bit in forbidden magic. He knows two specific spells that he considers to be "forbidden moves", due to their potential to kill the enemy. Both of these spells drain a large chunk of Quelle's energy.
===Forbidden Move: Heaven's Bishop===
A large bishop the size of a building falls from the sky (or from heaven) and lands straight on the target. It has the high chance of crushing the target to death. It also will cause a shockwave around itself upon hitting the ground.
===Forbidden Move: Hell's Chariot (also known as Hell's Rook)===
A large rook the size of a building emerges halfway out of the ground directly under the target. The rook is made of molten rock and has the potential to burn the target, along with the damage that would be done to the target's legs from impact.
==Skills==
===Rapid Thinking===
Most individuals can only process so many thoughts at a given time. However, Quelle does not seem to have this limitation. He can process hundreds of thoughts at a time. This has been known to drive some mind-readers to the point of brain damage and insanity.
===Flying===
Being an owl, Quelle is naturally an expert flyer. He can stay in the air for hours before needing to rest.
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