Brimstone

* Brimstone
* IRL

## Origin and Living Status

### Origin

Onyx's soul was sold to the Demon Lord Baphomet by his grief-stricken father, which would lead to his father's death. Orphaned into the world, Onyx struggled to lead his own life, going down a path of delinquency and eventually the dark arts, which would lead to him becoming a renowned con artist among the Supernatural community, but also well-respected magician and occultist.

### Living Status

Alive

*"My name is Onyx Augustine. I am the one who steps from the shadows, all trench coat and arrogance. I'll drive your demons away, kick 'em in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone because, let's be honest... who would be crazy enough to walk it with me?"*
—Onyx Augustine
**Brimstone**, known to the public as **Onyx Augustine** is a con artist, and a powerful magician. He works as an exorcist, demonologist, and master of the dark arts, though he refers to himself as a petty, occasional dabbler.

Onyx has lead people to believe that he hails from a magical faery kingdom called Hyperbole, and that he's actually the son of the Fairy King, Oberon. This however, is not true. He tells people this backstory because he finds it funny, especially when people buy into it. Although Onyx does have experience and knowledge in regards to Faefolk.

Presently, Onyx works as an occultist, paranormal detective, con artist, occasional hero, and everything in-between. However, every action Onyx takes, before anything else, is to further his own motives and goals.

## Biography

### Born into Blood

*"Where do you come from, Onyx?"
"The sordid passions of my parents."*
—Jason Kade and Onyx Augustine
Onyx is the current Cunning Magician, the Cunning Magician being the present member of a particular bloodline of magic-users throughout history. Named as such for their reputation, tendency, and ability, both magically and otherwise, to outsmart and trick Spirits, Demons, Gods, and just about everything else.

Onyx was born in 1991, however his mother died during childbirth. His father was so depressed and desperate to get his wife back, that he made a deal with a demon lord, in which he would exchange his son’s soul for his wife to be returned. This backfired horribly, however, as the demon did return the woman, but she was a hellish monster, who would end up murdering her own husband and cannibalizing his remains. The boy, Onyx, would then be marked with the Demon Lord’s crest. Onyx was raised as an orphan, going from orphanage to orphanage. By the age of 11, he had fled the last foster home he had been placed in by CPS, and was never found.

According to various sources, and hinted at by Onyx himself, the demon that created the Faustian Contract with Onyx’s father was actually Baphomet, a high-ranking Lord of Hell closely affiliated with Lucifer, and representing the symbolization of equilibrium, and seen more commonly as a devil-god rather than a regular demon. Baphomet is also commonly referred to as “The Anti-God”.

### Honing his Craft

He became a vagrant, moving from city to city as he struggled to make ends meet. Onyx grew tired of being a poor, useless drifter. So one day, he stole a book from an old, run down shop containing magic spells. At first, he believed the book to be merely a joke. The next day, he decided to ironically incant a spell involving Fire Magic. Before he could even realize, a man down the block in which he was on erupted into a fiery explosion. Shocked, confused, and scared, Onyx fled the scene. Having no clue what had happened, he brushed it off as a coincidence, or the result of something entirely unrelated to himself. Several weeks later, however, he tried again, far away from other people. This time, a tree combusted.

For the next several years, Onyx continued practicing the spells from the book he’d gotten. He quickly learned everything the book had to offer, and so he began looking for other knowledge about anything magical. Books, tomes, ancient scrolls, anything that could further satiate his own lust for knowledge and power. Then he began collecting all forms of magical artifacts.

### Dark Artist

Onyx would grow in power until he became a full-blown occultist. At first, he mostly used his powers on a small-scale. He would both jokingly, and seriously do exorcisms, purifications, rituals, curses, blessings, and the like. Onyx continued furthering his knowledge, and perfecting his abilities.

Eventually, Onyx became a big name among the magical community, but not as a hero to be revered. Instead, he was infamous as a conniving devil, someone who would just as much sell you out for a pack of cigarettes as quickly as he would accept your payment for a job. This didn't bother Onyx, in fact he found it to work in his favor. As far as he was concerned, the more known he became, the less likely it was for anyone to try bother, or mess with him, and also act as a way for him to get better jobs.

#### Dagger of Hex

On February 27th, 2016, Onyx found himself within the city of Emerald City, on the hunt for an ancient artifact that holds power on a cosmic scale. Onyx was after this artifact so that he could use to it heal a past lover's illness. While in pursuit of this Dagger, Onyx realized that Ian Murphy, a resident of Emerald City could possibly become intertwined with his plans to ensnare the Dagger of Hex. Onyx then quickly thought of a plan to nullify Ian Murphy temporarily, by trapping him in an alternate Astral Realm.

Onyx befriended Murphy's former partner in business, Jason Kade, and intuited his career as a vigilante. He earned Kade's support in his supernatural crusade.

Unintentionally, Murphy would go mad in isolation and betray Kade.

### Lost Street

#### Urban Legend

A few years later, in early 2019, Onyx learned of something which greatly interested him. An old folktale dating back centuries about an Old London drive called Lost Street, in which every clock in every house and building broke at the exact same time. Life continued on as usual, but the residents began to notice strange occurrences. Such as the day and night cycle seemed to be off slightly, and morning and night would come sooner or later than normal depending on the day. A couple days later, the residents woke up, finding their avenue to be located in the middle of a desert. Travelling merchants on camel-back explained to them they were in fact in the middle of the Gobi Desert, dazed, confused, and highly disoriented, the residents panicked. The merchants tried to calm them down, but before they realized it, they were in what appeared to be the middle of the ocean. Then, again without realizing, they were adrift in the emptiness of space.

The residents of Lost Street were doomed to continue trying to find their way back to their original homeland. Some say the residents managed to escape the mysteriously moving street, while others believe that the residents of Lost Street perished, alone, confused, and stranded in the eternity of space-time.

Fascinated, and drawn to the allure of the myth, Onyx set out on a quest to track down Lost Street. However, due to the fact that almost no information whatsoever was known about Lost Street's origins, background, lore, or it's whereabouts aside from rumors were known, he was essentially on a wild goose chase. However, there was one fact that was known about Lost Street, according to the myth. Lost Street was originally located in London, England.

#### Lost & Found

Onyx arrived in London soon after, and began collecting information in regards to the Lost Street legend from wherever he could. He met with dozens of specialists, both magical and otherwise. The majority of the information he would acquire would prove to be nearly, if not entirely useless. Everyone he spoke with, even the most knowledgeable magic associates he knew of, assumed and claimed that Lost Street was just a myth, and probably did not exist at any point in time.

Onyx was determined, and had a feeling that despite the contrary claims, it was in fact true, and believed Lost Street to believe. There we re far too many claims, and reports of appearances from all over the world for it to not be true. So Onyx began scouring the entirety of London, looking over every map, every census report, every bit of information he could find about the city over the past 100 years. Onyx had theorized that Lost Street, before suddenly disappearing, was in fact an actual street during World War I. For some reason though, there were no official records from the city government ever mentioning that Lost Street existed, despite the fact numerous elderly people recall say otherwise. Onyx would then make his way to the City Hall of London, and used his magic tricks to coerce the staff into allowing him to scour through the city's records.

It was here, when Onyx learned of a single mention of Lost Record as actually existing. Records indicated that a scientist named Dr. Hubert Munigold lived at 68 Lost Street in 1909, and had approached the British Parliament, and King Edward VII with the proposal that he could provide not just London, but the entirety of the United Kingdom with an infinite energy supply. He was officially sponsored by the UK Government throughout World War I, but there was absolutely no mention of him after the war, not even any form of death certificate despite his likely demise by this point (He was 59 by 1909). Onyx then began his investigation into Hubert Munigold, tracking down surviving descendants and getting as much knowledge from them as he could. He managed to acquire the personal research notebooks of Munigold from his great-great grand niece. The notebooks indicated that Munigold had discovered the existence of a new, unexplained energy source that seemed to be accessibly through corrupted radio waves. It was likely that this energy source was the contaminant radiation of a mysterious dimension that was leaking through to our universe via Arch Wormhole.

#### ?-??? Lost Street, Infinitum

Onyx was able to learn more about this radiation that Doctor Munigold was studying, and learned more about its properties and origins. It had been studied with further examination by several entities, one of which being Tóngzhì Corp. Onyx once again used his magic to make Tóngzhì personnel to learn more in regards to the radiation, which had been dubbed "**Omega Radiation**". Onyx realized that if he suffered from radiation poisoning, he'd be able to his magic to create a link to himself, and Lost Street, and enforce a Reality Anchor spell that would pull Lost Street from where ever it was, to his own location.

There was only one issue with the plan, and that was the only known place where there was Omega Radiation was on Dystopia. Although he had never been there, Onyx knew of Dystopia, and the unimaginable dangers it was home too, however he was too far deep by this point, and wasn't going to let it go now. He used a portal to get to Dystopia, and used a warding talisman to protect himself from anything the island might throw at him. He reached the area of the island where Omega Radiation appeared to be most plentiful. The Badlands. Omega Radiation was not lethal, or harmful to humans, however, those exposed to it would undergo a unique form of radiation poisoning, in that their genetic code would become scrambled, which would result in the degeneracy of genetic code to halt for some time, adding a few years onto any exposed organism's life. However, it's also believed that there's a extremely, infinitesimal chance that your genetic code would be reconstructed entirely, to create an entirely new organism. Biologically, you would appear, and seem human, but you would have been radically altered to the point you would be far from human anymore. This would result in a number of effects, such as newfound, miraculous abilities. However the chances of this happening again, are infinitesimally tiny. TO be exact, the chances are 1 in 102,685,000.

Onyx would expose himself to the Omega Radiation found in the Dystopian Badlands, and by doing so, he would then successfully attach a Reality Anchor to himself, and Lost Street. As he stood there, in the most hostile environment on Earth, a quaint, little English neighborhood would materialize itself from thin air. Finally, Onyx could summon Lost Street whenever he pleased, and have it travel anywhere in all of known existence he'd like.

## Personality

*"Whoever you are, I'm a nasty piece of work! Ask anyone!"*
—Onyx Augustine
Having witnessed the horrors of the world, Onyx is very cynical and seemingly unconcerned with the value of human life, often deflecting his real feelings with sarcastic jokes even towards the possibility of his own death. Due to the number of people who have died around him Onyx prefers to work alone and anyone he does work with, he avoids attachment so he won't be as hurt if they get killed. He is also known for having a very dry sense of humor.

Onyx often tends to defect emotions with humor. Loneliness, pain, and desperation motivate him due to his guilt. In his youth, he was an anxious boy with no self worth, and still has a hard time communicating his feelings, opting to mask them with sarcasm. He is arrogant, unpredictable, and likes to brag about his exploits. Onyx is actually an incredibly cunning and charismatic individual. More often than not, he is capable of talking himself out of any situation, rather than having to resort to violence like most others might. Due to this, Onyx is very easily able to make friends, and establish relationships, both platonic and romantic, with relative ease.

Onyx considers himself to be a Humanitarian, wishing to do good in his life, although he struggles with his inner demons, as he has caused the deaths, damnations, and brutal endings of many people, several he would consider friends, and lovers. From birth, Onyx has always been a combative, and argumentative individual. Believing the world to be out for him, he has always considered himself to be part of the counterculture. He has a tendency to put down others due to their beliefs or personal experiences, whether they be good or bad. He also has a terrible smoking addiction.

*"Just being honest."*
—Onyx Augustine
Onyx is also noted for being brutally honest with people, even angels, and never being shy of expressing his attraction to people he encounters.

## Physical Appearance

*"I have excellent posture."*
—Onyx Augustine
Onyx is a mostly unremarkable man, aside from his dashing good looks, and natural charisma which he uses in his machinations. His body is covered in various kinds of occult, and mythological tattoos that act as protection charms, warding casts, empowerment spells, and the like.

His tattoos cut off at his thighs, lower forearms, and above the neck, making it appear while dressed as though he may not have any whatsoever.

The only exception being a lone tattoo on his neck. Specifically, right on top of his Adam’s Apple. In which sits a tattoo of the Leviathan Cross, otherwise known as the alchemical symbol for Sulfur, aka Brimstone. Although Onyx claims it to be a tattoo, it appears more like a very deep scar, likely from being branded. On occasion, the “tattoo” will emanate with charred flesh, and embers can be seen around it.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"Magic was my salvation growing up."*
—Onyx Augustine
* **Magic:** Onyx Augustine is descended from a powerful lineage of magic users called the Cunning Magicians. Every Cunning Magician throughout history is infamous for their incredibly magical abilities, and their cleverness. Being able to outsmart and deceive the likes of Spirits, Demons, Gods, and everything else in-between. When he was a teenager, he started reading every book he could find on the occult. He taught himself spells, rituals, curses, and learned to conjure the dead. However, superior dark artists say his rituals lack the power of intention, and even refer to it as "mail-order magic," and call him "a magpie of magic" and "a thief of tradition," while his friends refer to him as "the best."
	+ **Alchemy:** Onyx can utilize Alchemy, the mystic and scientific pursuit of the power of the Philosopher's Stone and Universal Panacea, focusing on Elemental Transmutation (ranging from transforming base materials into purer (lead or iron into silver or gold), to making permanent changes on the state of matter (making glass malleable or durable, etc.)
	+ **Conjuration:** Onyx can bring forth any form of creatures, items, spirits, demons, deities and/or elements by either summoning, creating, or manifesting them in any particular way to do the bidding of the conjurer.
	+ **Evocation:** Onyx can call upon or summon a spirit or entity for a specific task, information, or some practical application aimed at manifestation in the physical world. After the operation, the practitioner dismisses or banishes the spirit to leave the room or space of evocation and complete the task.
	+ **Theurgy:** Onyx can call upon gods and other divine forces to perform miracles and grant power. This allows the user to become more powerful than those who rely on their own abilities but are reliant on the beings that aid them.
	+ **Invocation:** Onyx can use invocation; a magical ability that grants control over the targets (living or unliving) by using names or phrases to manipulate a person or the universe itself, their words provides them with control over who and what they desire to manipulate.
	+ **Incantation:** Onyx can achieve almost anything through incantations: a series of words and magical formulae that were originally used to perform spells, enchantments and even trigger a magical effect on a person or objects as long as they have knowledge of the language their magic is initiated by and the necessary power to do so.
		- **Spell-Casting:** Onyx can cast spells, which are formulae for producing specific magic effects.
		- **Abjuration:** The user can cast spells which can grant protection of various kinds, healing, prevent other beings from entering an area, force armor, purification and force fields.
	+ **Transmutation:** Onyx can alter or transform matter, energy, elements, objects, beings (animals, aliens, mythical beings, etc.), etc into anything else, either completely or partially, permanently or temporarily.
	+ **Divination:** Onyx can employ divination, a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Divination can communicate with the supernatural (i.e. gods, demons, spirits, nymphs) or by reading certain patterns.
		- **Capnomancy:** Onyx is able to divine the future through the movements of rising smoke. While this isn't an exact magic, and he believes this to be a tricky business, he is still an expert.
	+ **Necromancy:** Onyx has the magical ability that revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for good (i.e., resurrecting the dead), evil (in various ways), or neither.
	+ **Astrology:** Onyx can tap into the mystic energy found in astronomical concepts/phenomena.
	+ **Dowsing:** Onyx has the ability to locate people, objects and resources without the use of scientific apparatus.
	+ **Mysticism:** Onyx can utilize mysticism, the ability to acquire supernatural abilities by connecting to transcendental and/or holy forces in an altered state of consciousness; allowing users to perform extraordinary feats such as commanding concepts, attaining vast knowledge and possessing powerful dominion.
	+ **Occultism:** Onyx can utilize occultism, the belief in or study of the action or influence of hidden wisdom and supernatural powers, allowing the user to have foreknowledge about and behind the supernatural and how to perform them.
		- **Voodoo:** Onyx can utilize voodoo, ie. access supernatural forces to improve their daily lives to attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy.
	+ **Shamanism:** Onyx can perceive, contact, and bargain or control the spiritual world through shamanism.
		- **Spiritualism:** Onyx can utilize spiritualism, a belief-system/religion postulating that the belief of spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Perceived as a darker version of Shamanism.
	+ **Herbalism:** Onyx can utilize Herbalism, a study and practice involving the usage of medicinal plants, fungi, minerals and animal parts to create various healing potions, ointments and unguents.
	+ **Eldritch Magic:** Onyx can utilize Eldritch Magic, a variation of magic that is usually derived from some sort of Eldritch being.
	+ **Rune Magic:** Onyx is capable of using rune magic, a form of magic that uses runestones, a type of raised stone with a runic inscription, as a conduit.
	+ **Binding:** Onyx can weave binding spells around demons to control the
	+ **Exorcism:** Onyx specializes in exorcising evil spirits from people.
	+ **Mediumship:** Onyx can communicate with the spirits of the dead.

*"You said that every spell had its price. What did this one cost?"
"My own mortality. A few days' worth. Kind of like a reverse mortgage."
"You do that a lot?"
'I do what it takes."*
—Jason Kade and Onyx Augustine
* + **Self-Destructive Magic:** A forbidden magic that Onyx specializes in, this magic allows Onyx to use various spells and transformations that take massive tolls on the body, and cut many years off of the life of one's mind and body, but with this cost comes a powerful, and formidable force to be reckoned with.
	+ **Sleep Inducement:**
	+ **Sobriety Restoration:**

### Abilities

*"You're such a pessimist."
"Wrong. I expect the worst, so I prepare for the worst, and when the worst happens, I'm ready. But my outlook doesn't alter the reality of the world."*
—Almanac and Onyx Augustine
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Onyx possesses extensive, in-depth knowledge of the supernatural and paranormal. As a master of the dark arts, exorcism and demonology, Onyx is an intelligent magician, detective, leader and cartographer. He knows how to make demon seals of proprietary design.
	+ **Expert Investigator:** Onyx is an expert detective specializing in paranormal investigation, and he can quickly find trouble through means of scrying, as he effortlessly tracked the Dagger of Hex to Emerald City. He is also very thorough and observant of details, on par with that of a reporter.
	+ **Expert Tactician:** Onyx is an expert strategist.
	+ **Expert Mythologist:** Onyx is a master of dealing with paranormal/supernatural beings and how to understand, detect, and combat against them (vampires, monsters, aliens, etc.). He has spent his entire life learning not only magic, but ancient lores and cultures from all around the world, learning about every form of supernatural beastie out there.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Onyx possesses impressive linguistic skills, as he is fluent in 50 languages, including English, Spanish, Latin, Egyptian, Aramaic, Mayan, Enochian ("the language of the bloody angels"), Hebrew, Sanskrit, Assyrian, and Brittonic for spells. He is also familiar with symbols, such as the Eye of Horus (an Egyptian symbol of protection), the sacred cross, the Star of David, the omkar, the lotus, the shahada, the Triangle of Solomon, Elder Runes, Enochian script, the Breastplate of St. Patrick, Etruscan runes, the Seal of Solomon, the Taba'at Shlomo (AKA the Ring of Solomon, passed down to Solomon directly from Heaven to trap genies), the icon of Pazuzu.

*"I must warn you, I've got a hell of a right hook."*
—Onyx Augustine to Jason Kade
* **Skilled Combatant:** Onyx is proficient in hand-to-hand combat.

## Weaknesses

Augustine's skills to channel the divine can also be used to unleash evil.

## Weapons and Equipment

### Weapons

* **Mother Mary:** Old Mary is the name of a crossbow that was recovered by Godafrid van Helsing, a legendary occultist and monster hunter, and earliest known descendant of the Van Helsing line, dating back to the 7th century. Godafrid reportedly wrote in his diaries that he had uncovered the crossbow at the bottom of Mary's Well, in what is now Nazareth, Israel. His diaries report that the crossbow was owned by Mary's father, Joachim, who used it to protect his daughter, her husband, and their child during their pregnancy. During the pregnancy, Mary was vulnerable, and several threats attempted to kill her, and her unborn child. According to Godafrid's diary entries, Mary herself touched the crossbow, days before leading up to the birth of her child. Due to this, the Crossbow was not just empowered, but highly blessed, and the result was that any bolt fired from it would instantly kill any entity with evil intentions, but to those good of heart, it would "reveal the truth". Despite the blessing, the crossbow itself appears to be a completely normal crossbow. It has been modified, and refurbished several times over throughout the centuries, and yet it continues to remain blessed.
* **Good Neighbor:** Good Neighbor is a modified revolver pistol **that has** been modified, blessed, and enhanced to be far more effective against the supernatural. The gun itself has an unearthly resistance to almost all forms of attack, and includes grips craved from fragments of the True Cross, the metal is an alloy forged from a combination of Irish church bells, cold iron from crucifixes, and blessed silver. The Good Neighbor's bullets are regular bullets, however they're armed with explosive tips that contain holy water, clove leaf, white oak, silver shavings, garlic, and other folkloric ingredients.
* **Dagger of Hex:** An ancient artifact dating back to Sumeria, it was crafted by a Warlock who was betrayed by his Patron God, and decided to kill him. At the time, there was no way to kill a God, so the Warlock began studying, and learning, until he realized that to a kill a God, their very existence had to be negated. The Dagger of Hex itself is comprised of Numetal, a material from the borders of the galaxy, which is speculated to have been the debris created by the Big Bang.

### Equipment

* **Frankincense:** Onyx carries frankincense to flee the presence of malevolent energy.
* **Mandrake Root:** Malevolent spirits can't stand mandrake roots.
* **Sinew from Achilles' Heel:** Impervious to magic with the highest tensile strength on this world or any other.
* **Pouch of Salt:** Sodium, aka table salt, is one of the oldest, and most powerful purification and warding item
* **Ankh:** Onyx wears an Ankh necklace that acts as a protection talisman from all forms of magic. Onyx claims the Ankh is unlike any other, in that it's been touched by the Holy Spirit. As such, while being worn, John is even protected from the likes of angels. He doesn't wear it constantly however, as it is a heavy burden, and drains him incredibly.
* **Lost Street:** Onyx has the ability to summon a quantumly unanchored area of space which was once an English neighborhood, but now acts as Onyx's travelling headquarters. It contains his own residence, several guest houses, a pub, a movie theater, a grocery store, and several other conveniences.

## Relationships

### Family

* Father †
* Mother †

### Allies

* Jason Kade/Almanac - Acquaintance
* Logan Trent/The Militant - Acquaintance

### Enemies

* Ian Murphy - Unresolved, Temporary Prisoner
* Pareidolia - Enemy, Attempted Murderer
* Mars - Enemy, Political Opponent

## Trivia

* "Brimstone" is an archaic name for Sulfur.
* The tattoo/brand which Onyx has on his Adam's Apple is a Leviathan's Cross, which was also at one point the Alchemical Symbol for Sulfur
* A lot of the history and lore surrounding Onyx ties into several religious belief systems, and mythologies.