Tempest

An ancient deity gone rogue, Tempest is undoubtedly dangerous. But beneath that deadly facade, she is deeply paranoid about losing what control she still has over others and herself.

She is driven by fear, grief, and arrogance, a dangerous combination that results in destruction at every turn.

## Appearance

Her height measures an impressive 10'4 (315cm) at the shoulder, making her the tallest on the server by about a foot. Her true appearance is unknown, but she takes on the form of a monstrous crow-like being with a thick mane of fluffy feathers around the neck and chest. She has eerily bright green eyes, though her right eye is pale and clouded, blinded from an old injury she refuses to talk about - presumably the fire that killed her old companion.

She has massive wings that allow her to travel long distances, with clawed tips that allow her to climb sheer surfaces with ease. Despite her intimidating appearance, in daylight she is put at a distinct disadvantage for the bright sunlight temporarily blinds her remaining eye and rends her weakened and defenseless.

In terms of clothing and accessories, it varies, though she is never seen without her signature golden crown. Generally, she can be found with either a posh red cape and scarf or with thick reddish green vines twined around her torso and neck. When she is angered, these vines grow dark red thorns and crackle with electricity, seeming to enhance her pre-existing powers.

Her true form is a shapeshifting, shadowy eldritch being made up of black vines and smoke. She much prefers her crow form, however, and only slips into her true form when absolutely necessary or when around someone she trusts (which is pretty much nobody). If you look very closely at her feathers, you'll see that they seem to dissolve or glitch out of view sometimes, replaced by thick black wisps of smoke that spark with electricity, or simply nothing at all.

## Abilities/Origin

**Canonical abilities:**

- Enhanced speed and strength

- Weakened and blinded by sunlight

- Control over various aspects of nature, including but not limited to: summoning earthquakes, controlling living entities such as plants or animals, and control over the weather (which includes summoning lightning).

- AS AN EGG: Complete control over the thoughts and decisions of sentient creatures. She seems to have lost most of this ability upon hatching, though she still has some sway over the minds of others, which she uses to her full advantage.

**Origin abilities:**

- **Birding:** *Takes triple damage from projectiles.*

- **Corrupted Form:** *Takes double damage from cursed weapons.*

- **Creature Of Shadows:** *Slowness, weakness, and blindness in sunlight.*

- **Gift Of The Winds:** *Can launch high into the air.*

- **Long Bones:** *3 blocks tall. (REMOVED DUE TO A BUG PREVENTING ELYTRA FLIGHT WHEN OVER 2 BLOCKS TALL)*

- **Natural Aura:** *Levitation, glowing, and regeneration around flowers.*

- **Large Talons:** *Deals slightly more meelee damage.*

- **Storm's Blessing:** *Speed and strength during storms.*

- **Talons:** *Can climb any vertical surface.*

- **Unnatural Anatomy:** *Slightly buffed attack range, reach, speed, and jump height.*

- **Unwieldy:** *Cannot use a shield.*

- **Winged:** *Has a permanent Elytra.*

## Lore

**Backstory:**

Tempest hatched from a massive Egg (like all of her kind do). The origin of such eggs is that the previous deity spends their last reserves of energy to produce an egg that will hatch as their successor; that egg has a defense system that more or less consists of taking over the minds of nearby sentient or at least semi-sentient creatures, forcing them to protect the egg with their lives so it hatches safely.

Unfortunately for Tempest that didn't go quite as planned, and she hatched while her egg was in a containment cell, which was a whole mess that involved a lot of unnecessary death as she tried to escape.

*(Her origins were different before the Egg arc started on the dsmp, but I thought it was a really cool concept and went with it.)*

From then on she was a traveler, and as her powers grew stronger, kingdoms and empires paid her in food and riches to fight for them or take down enemy kingdoms. Tempest was very good at what she did and took pride in her work, but garnered a lot of attention for herself- some good, some bad.

She's semi-immortal, meaning that she cannot be killed by any normal means and will only eventually die from old age after several thousand years. However, she could still feel pain, and immortality doesn't mean the pitchforks and burnings hurt any less.

After a few centuries of this she grew tired of the constant fighting and witch hunts against her, and 'retired', in a sense. She found a lush cave deep in the woods and went into hibernation for around 270 years, becoming covered in vines and undergrowth as the years went by.

Then, one day, she was (rather rudely, in her opinion) awoken by a mischievous, shapeshifting blue spirit. At first she was annoyed, and snapped at the spirit any chance she got. But over time they became close and traveled for a while, eventually settling into a familiar routine of exploration and relaxation. The spirit saw itself as evil, but its schemes were rarely more devious than replacing someone's wheat farm with beetroot, which puzzled Tempest but was also somewhat refreshing after years of more destructive activities.

Here came a century of peace and happiness for Tempest, lazy years spent tramping through flower fields and soaring above mountain ranges with her companion nestled in her feathers. Then, one day, disaster struck.

Her past had caught up to her, and she and her spirit friend were ambushed in the night and burned at the stake. She survived, as she always did. Her friend, however, did not. Sent into a blinding rage, she burned the kingdom to the ground in a cacophony of lightning and fire, and went on a rampage, destroying every settlement in her path. Not even the sturdiest fortress could withstand her earthquakes, vines, and storms for long, and whispers spread quickly of a rogue god, blinded by grief and flames.

She eventually came across the HalloweenSMP village and, about to burn it down like the rest, noticed that it was not filled with humans like every other settlement, but monsters and even deities like her. So she settled down on the outskirts, watching and waiting for the perfect chance to make her entrance.

**General lore and information:**

- Tempest blames herself a LOT for the death of her friend, which drives her to be reckless and self-destructive.

- She has an inherent distrust of other powerful beings and deities, because being one she knows how powerful they can be and she doesn't trust them not to try and hurt her.

- Tempest is an arrogant, dramatic lil fuck who believes she could never be wrong about anything. For confrontations, she will pick the time and place to be as dramatic as possible: for example, a room with an echo that makes her sound very intimidating, or summoning a storm so she can have the perfect dramatic lighting.

- She paints herself as a guardian of knowledge, due to everything she's gathered in her constant observations. She always seems to know way more than she should about... pretty much everybody, and uses this as leverage.

- She distracts herself by making redstone farms and contraptions, often spending days grinding for the materials and building the mechanisms. How does she do this without arms? Nobody knows.

- She tends to sleepwalk, going out into the night and watching people sleep as a side affect of her paranoia that she will be discovered and burned at any moment. She has no memory of this when she wakes up, but often finds her beak coated with blood with no idea who's blood it could be. On the nights she sleepwalks, she has horrible nightmares where she relives her friend's death, and often wakes up screaming.

- She has an extreme fear of fire due to the burnings, avoiding it at all costs and always keeping an eye on any monster associated with it. The only fire she is not scared of is her own, and any fire she can control. Her true fear is losing control over... anything really, she tries to gain control of whatever she's doing and gets sent into a panic the moment she loses that control over the situation.

- Her feathers are normally soft and fluffy, but when angered or frightened they become tough and razor-sharp, creating the rumour that her feathers are made of Netherite. She will not prove nor disprove this theory.

- Her kind is rumoured to have a form of dimensional control, projecting a copy of their consciousness across the fifth dimension (and by extension, into a new timeline or far into the past or future) when in great distress; however, this has never been proven...