Nathanial Cadwallader

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 In all we do, we make a choice.
When in doubt, choose for good.

— Nathaniel

A seemingly immortal man, kept alive by an intense faith in the power of goodness, mercy, and righteousness. Former priest, free sword, and soldier. He stands with those who choose to fight the good fight. Nathan can channel a bright white light, allowing him to heal at a touch, turn away darkness, and force beings of evil to retreat from his presense. Master of most forms of hand-to-hand combat despite his personal pacifism, he offers his services to those he feels can use them best.

## Personality

Nathaniel is quiet and soft spoken, having sowed his wild oats centuries ago in the First Crusade. He is industrious and tireless, focused on his goal of keeping people alive. He does this by both healing them, and making sure they are prepared for what might be coming. He is quick to laugh, but he doesn't normally laugh for long, seeing that there is always more for him to do.

## SKILLS

Nathaniel has always been intelligent, and always tried to keep up on his learning. When it started, Chemistry was trying to turn lead into gold and brewing a better type of beer. Since then, he has made sure to stay educated, reading books, auditing classes, and most recently watching as many documentaries and college lectures as he can.

Never an unhealthy person, the years spent pulling wounds and disease from the wounded and dying has wreaked havoc on a supposedly immortal body. While he is no slouch, and can push himself beyond the human norm, he is certainly not as healthy as he could be.

At this point in his life, Nathan has come to the decision that it is time to pass on his knowledge. He has a good aptitude for teaching and building a rapport with his students in both a one-on-one setting as well as a full classroom. He is best at teaching combat, but he can also impart academic knowledge as well. He takes it as a sacred duty for himself to impart any knowledge he has upon others.

Nathan has fought all across the world, and against a myriad of different opponents. A majority of those having been humans. He has trained extensively with all different weapons from bladed to blunt, to his bare hands. Though he now refuses to hurt anyone by his own hand, he still has the knowledge and muscle memory. He has also had almost 1000 years to learn every dirty trick, counter, feint, and tactic in the book and not in the book.

Nathaniel didn't just learn history, he has lived it. He can recount events like he was there, because he was. Unable to sit idle when armies go to war, Nathaniel has always been behind the scenes of the forces attempting to counteract those who would thrive on corruption or death. As such, he has an intimate knowledge of history and conflicts.

Like his work in hand-to-hand combat, Nathan has spent a considerable amount of his 1000 years just learning how to talk to people. He is fluent in English, Latin, Spanish, Welsh, Gaelic, French, German, Russian, Arabic, and even Japanese and Chinese. Most other languages he can pick up on relatively quickly, and learn in half the time most others can.

Centuries of putting people back together has rubbed off on Nathan. He is familiar with the human body, as well as the traumas it can suffer. He cannot perform surgery, but he can diagnose most problems, and perform advanced first aid on wounded individuals.

Nathan has never delved too deeply in the occult, but he has picked up a small amount of knowledge from his time moving through the underworld. He knows a few tricks and secrets to survive and help the people fighting to survive as well. He couldn't be a replacement for a Watcher's library, but he could supplement any occultist with his own experience.

A life time of seeing, enduring, treating, and healing of pain and injury have allowed Nathan to develop a handy ability to bypass the pain and endure the weariness of continued injury.

## CASTING

Nathaniel has a connection to something pure and life giving. He doesn't know what this force is, but Nathaniel approaches it from the perspective of an Abrahamic Religion. To him, it feels like a comforting and protective presence, radiating power not unlike the Sun. He calls on this power to Heal through quick prayer and incantation. Through this power he can seemingly bring people back from the edge of death, though if they have already passed away there is nothing this power can do for them. Nathan must be touching the injured party to impart any kind of healing. The lightest of wounds: bruises, cuts, burns, and small fractures are healed in a matter of seconds. Heavier injuries (large soft tissue wounds, large bone fractures, thoracic wounds, and burns covering up to 20 of the body) would take longer, 1-2 minutes. Finally wounds involving a massive loss of blood, sucking chest injuries, massive internal or external bleeding, and severed limbs could take up to 5 or 10 minutes of consistent channeling of the Source's power.

The same magic connection that allows Nathan to heal those injured also allows him to set out wards to protect individuals or spaces from intrutions by choice individuals. His wards manifest as a bright and warm light, like a noonday sun, shining from his hands or from an area protected by Nathan. Those the Ward protects, or does not deny, can see through the light without much difficulty. Those who the Ward applies to find themselves blinded as well as being unable to pass through. Nathan can either take the time to project a ward over an area, taking several hours, or he can manifest small wards eminating from his hands almost instantaneously. The larger wards around a location can ownly last for at most 8 hours, and take at least 30 minutes of walking the circumfrance of the area burning inscense and chanting. The smaller wards, though quicker, do not last longer than his simple brandishing of Nathan's hands, and end the moment he stops concentrating on it.

## POWERS

At a point in his life, close to his 30s, Nathaniel just stopped aging. The force that gives him his abilities apparently keeps him going beyond the life span of a normal human, and kept him vital and moving long since his body should have given out.

As a side effect from his ability to heal or ward an area, Nathan can emit bright light from his form similar to sunlight. Though this sunlight is not actual sunlight, it still feels like it, including warmth. With this, Nathan can illuminate darkened areas and provide heat and light for individuals. The Light isn't painful to creatures harmed by the sun's light, though they may feel uncomfortable around it. The intensity of it is like a bright floodlamp in the dark: painful to stare at, but otherwise not harmful.

The power that sustains Nathaniel past the ability to extend normal human life and youth, keeps him safe from death as well. He can take damage and injury that would kill or permanently cripple humans, and still return from them. His body will reform and heal, with the worst injury healing first, before any other minor injuries. They still hurt like hell though, and enough damage to him can cause him to pass out. Most minor injuries will heal themselves in minutes, while heavier wounds take hours to a day. Missing limbs take at least a week to slowly regrow from the stump left behind.

## ADVANTAGES

Nathaniel has done his best to be both a helper as well as a front line fighter. He does what he can to contact groups who many be taking a stand against Demons, Vampires, and Monsters, and offer them medical help or training in weaponry or tactics. Over the years, he gained a name and a presence for being an Ally that can be called on. He has many favors owed him, and he can always find help where it is needed.

Through his investments and friends, Nathaniel has a system of false IDs set up so he can move around the modern world with relative ease. He carries passports, IDs, and false documents at all times. Unless he is somehow under the most strict of scrutiny, he can move around the world without being harassed.

Nathaniel is a wanderer by nature. He never truly belonged any where in his life; not the church, not his family, and not in the Holy Land. He took to the road very early in life, not staying in one place for very long. Nathan's feet have always brought him where he needs to go and where he needs to be. He will feel a pull to an area of a city, state, or country, winding up exactly where and when his abilities will be needed. Nathan doesn't have any insight as to why he is here, or who needs his help, but he will be there and be ready.

Over the centuries, Nathan has carefully squirreled away money, resources, and other valuables into various channels for him to use throughout time. Because of this forethought, he is in no way hurting for money. While he is no Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or Bruce Wayne, he has enough to live comfortably and devote time to his life rather than spend time attempting to hold down a job.

## WEAKNESSES

Nathan is a ghost as far as government systems are concerned. He has no real identity as far as the systems of the world are concerned, and if he is put under any heavy scrutiny, he would almost certainly draw a substantial amount of attention from people who he really would not like to notify.

As a cost for the most incredible power of his Magic, Nathan must do all he can to not personally physically hurt a living being. Anything that breathes and thinks falls into this list. He cannot directly take action to hurt another, though he may encourage another or let that being come to harm through inaction. It is more based on the intention of Nathan's actions, rather than the act itself. He may not punch a mugger on the street, but if he dodges a punch and the mugger breaks their hand on a wall, then he is not responsible.

For every wound he heals or illness he alleviates, Nathan then has that wound rebound on him. He takes the wounds upon himself, and the damage to his own body. While his regeneration is enough to heal him, he still feels all of the pain and hurt from the wound as payment for removing it.

Born into minor Nobility in Wales in 1078, Brynmor Cadwallader was the second son and thus destined to be sent to the Church and represent his family there. He was raised in a monastery for a majority of his childhood. There the monks taught the young boy mathematics and how to read and write. The boy was very intelligent, and took to his learning quickly. Yet he resented the control the Church held on him, and the family that had packed him up and sent him off to be a part of it.

Brynmor grew up very strong and quick witted, but resentful and rebellious. He hated the overreaching power both his family and the Church had over him, and rebelled in small ways against his superiors, showing up late to prayers, taking extra time to do chores, and overindulging in the monasteries wine and beer stores.

Brynmor was ordained as a Priest just in time for the First Crusade to begin, and while he had taken vows of non-violence and peace, the wanderlust and search for adventure over took him and the young priest left with many Knights from the British Isle to the Holy Land. Along the way, he made friends with many of the Knights, offering absolution of their sins in exchange for money, food, booze, and most often training. He would work out with the knights and peasants, learning as much as he could of warcraft and life outside of the Church. The knowledge rocked him, and he knew that while what he knew about the Divine might be true, the Church as it was was very removed from those whom it might have helped.

Upon arrival in the Holy Land, Brynmor was very disillusioned with what he had become. He discarded his actual first name and took up the name Nathaniel, reinventing himself as a warrior-priest in service of the people of the Crusade. He cast aside his vows to the Church and God and took solace in the fields of battle and horror.

Nathaniel lost himself in the carnage of war. It wasn't long before the young man was picked up by a band of free swords operating out of the Holy Land. He made a name for himself as a tireless fighter of heathens and heretics. He did not care for his old family or his old life. He was simply a warrior now; no longer Noble, and no longer a Priest. While he still believed in the Almighty, he had grown disillusioned and angry with the way the Church was organized and the way it worked in the real world.

After the establishment of the Crusader states, the Free Sword company sent Nathaniel north and back to Europe. He was headed for the Balkan States, having been hired on to counter Islamic influence moving north and away from the Crusader states. Nathan didn't care who he was fighting now, as long as he had something to do. But the caravan would never reach the Balkans.

Along the way, the Free Swords were ambushed by demonic vampires who had sworn themselves to the Caliphates of Northern Africa. For four days, the mercenaries were the prey as they desperately attempted to survive against the vampires. At the end of the fourth day, only Nathaniel remained. He took refuge in an cave carved by desert winds. The stalking Vampires were content to let the young man quake in fear as they toyed with their prey. In a moment of fear and more than a little faith, Nathaniel found the backbone he had been missing. He raised his hands and denounced the vampires and creatures of darkness and parasites. In that moment, a glowing power erupted from his hands and shined toward the monsters. They ran from what they saw as the Sun come to Earth, fearing such power. Nathaniel, for his own part, felt his life was changing once again.

Now alone, Nathaniel wandered west. He returned to the winding hills of his homeland, finding himself once again in Wales. Violence held no appeal to the man anymore, instead deciding to live a quiet life on the Welsh coast. Fate would intervene though, when a local farm boy was severely injured near Nathan's cottage. Acting on instinct, Nathaniel called on the power within him again. The light shown from Nathan's hands, and he healed the young boy by laying on of hands.

While the deed was done in goodness and an earnest want to help, word got out of this miracle. Nathaniel was denounced as a warlock in league with the devil, and he was forced to leave the life he had started to build on pain of death.

Nathaniel began to wander, leaving his home behind to travel the world. Along the way, he did what he could to learn of his abilities, and be an ally to those he saw as downtrodden and ground down. He wandered from place to place, just trying to keep one step ahead of those who wanted him dead because of suspicion of witch craft. Over the years, he would meet others fighting the good fight against evil in the world. He would lend his experience as a teacher, healer, and protector. He would travel all over the world, helping to protect the innocent, and empower various organizations to fight against evil. He would never form them himself, but would offer his help and assistance when asked.

Over the years, Nathaniel Cadawallader would become known as a tireless Champion of the Powers, ally to the Watchers, a sometimes Teacher of Slayers, and Bane of Vampires. Most recently, he has come to the Pacific Northwest looking to add his power to the forces of Good and keep some innocents alive.

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