Nova, "One who brings a new era"

## Appearance

Nova is a 6'3 human man, wearing a worn trench coat that seems chewed up at the bottom of it. A holster with a handgun sits at his waist, an axe strapped to his back. An intricate snake tattoo rests on his right arm.

## Backstory

Nova is a man from Earth, or at least one version of Earth. The year is 1644, but many things are different in this time period. The english colonists attempted to take over the Americas, but were met with a force they were not expecting.

The indigenous people of the Americas had a different history than what our earth has, as magic and monsters from another realm had entered Earth through a portal, changing the American continents forever. The indigenous people of the Americas were faced with new challenges, devils and demons, beasts and monstrosities, and many other terrible beings. But the portal brought through with them the weave. The weave flowed throughout the Americas, and the spiritualistic ideals of the indigenous people started to come to life. Many people of each tribe developed extraordinary powers with hunting, others were granted powers by great beings they believed in, and most had basic abilities over it. The lands were alive with magic, and the indigenous people called the weave "spirits of ancestors", their beliefs encircling around these ideals.

The invading creatures started to grow active, growing in power and spreading across the continents. People from many tribes rose up to defend their communities from the monsters that seek to destroy them. Because of these advancements in their culture and the need for better defense, the indigenous people progressed much faster with their technology and practices. This was while the renaissance was starting in England countries. As time went on, they built more uniform structures, needing to band together tribes to defend and learn from each other better. They discovered faster travel with one creature that entered the Americas, a creature they called Mosi Runn. These large cat-like creatures would carry them across the continent, establishing trade, and further advancing their societies. When the England explorers decided to arrive in the Americas, they found a much different world than the one they found in our earth. They believed the Americas were full of evil demons and witches, and sought to kill every last one of them, sparking a war against the indigenous people.

Nova was born years before the war had sparked, born to the Navajo tribe. His family was modest but hardworking, and only had Nova, adverse to the larger families that others had. His grandparents were not around when he was born because they had taken an expedition into the portal when it had opened once, and have not returned since.

Nova's father, Dakota, was a former leader of a small tribe, one that had lasted many generations in his family, named the tribe of the water snake. He had met Nova's mother, Catori, after she had been banished from another small tribe, for reasons she never told Nova. Dakota did his best to defend his tribe from dangers, but his body had grown frail before old age for reasons healers could not understand, and visions he had that tribe leaders were blessed with would keep him almost comatose for many hours. Dakota had to make the hard decision to give up his tribe and merge with the Navajo. Nova was born not long after the union, and was fortunate to be in good health. He grew up wanting to be strong, to be able to protect his family. Nova was to be a spirit warrior, having had some blessings of the spirits bestowed on him from his lineage, but he could not progress as far as others because he had to take care of his frail father often.

Because of the war, many younger people were asked to join the fight against English, one of those being Nova. Nova’s father had described to Nova a vision quest he foretold, which was uncommon as now that there were less tribes but more people, tribe leaders were not able to tend to every one who was destined for a quest, and those that had powerful magic would be needed to protect civilization. He was told that Nova would need to find the gateway that brought the spirits to their world, and bring the blood of the white man. Nova, uncertain of what it all meant, promised his father he would see to what this meant, and soon was sent off to fight against the invaders.

The natives had discovered a form of gunpowder, giving them a steady ground against the invaders who were also well armed. But the Magic's and hunting abilities of the indigenous people made up for this. During his time serving, he eventually found the gateway his father told him about. He was sent on a mission to find them as invaders had tracked it down and were looking to destroy them to cut off the power to this world. Arriving at the location, the large gate towers over the invaders, with many tons of explosives being set up to try and destroy it. Nova arrived alone, and from the underbrush managed to take down the invaders before they could finish, but not before what explosives there were already laid down started to explode. As the white man’s blood flowed across the entrance of the empty archway, white hot energy flowed inside it and filled the interior. A strange land was shown beyond… but not before the explosives went off. Nova was flung into the portal, hurling through blinding white light…. before appearing on a cobble stoned ground in a heavily populated town known as Osteria