Ibai

## Ibai Blackburn

Ibai Blackburn is an aberration, and the scion of the Blackburn family of Rainlords. His parents are Nere and Ismael Blackburn.

## Description

Ibai is physically in his thirties, but is described as having a personality so cheerful and inquisitive that even people talking to him in person often find it hard to remember his age and think he is much younger.

## Personality

Like all aberrations, Ibai is generally cheerful, curious and energetic. Unlike most, he has a strong sense of honor, is unwilling to kill innocents and has a great respect for life as he only grew his powers through the consumption of animal souls using every part of the animal to reduce and tried to make himself see it as hunting.

## History

Ibai was implied to have been created by Parson in order to blackmail the Blackburn family into helping him when he attacked the other Rainlord houses. For a long time before his conception, his mother was inexplicably infertile. During his childhood, his parents were surprised at his precocious understanding of and curiosity towards morbid subjects like death. After failing to curb his behavior with corporal punishment, they began punishing him with prolonged isolation and boredom. This may have given him a better understanding of suffering, and combined with teachings about honor and the value of life, it seems to have made him unwilling to kill in the wanton fashion of most aberrations. Despite this, his family feared to let him free, and he spent almost his entire life confined to Marshrock.

Ibai made friends with Emiliana during her captivity at Marshrock. When he tried to participate in the Siege of Marshrock after the besiegers broke in, the secret of his existence was blown, but Emiliana convinced the other Rainlords that Ibai was not like other aberrations and could be kept alive. This ended the siege, since the Blackburns were only opposing their fellow Rainlords out of fear for Ibai's safety.

Ibai was captured by Gohvis when he tried to rescue Emiliana from the Attack on Dunehall, and was taken along with her to Gohvis's base in the Library of Erudition. He soon angered the Library by trying to read various books without Gohvis's permission. At Emiliana's suggestion, he decided to write an original book as an apology gift to the Library. It turned out that he has a tremendous knack for writing, and he created dozens of books within months. His books seem to resemble surrealist children's novels, yet are oddly charming and compelling even for adults. Gohvis notes that Ibai's books are probably the first creative works of any aberration (other aberrations invariably being destroyers rather than creators), and that the first books ever written are said to have had the same strange allure.

## Powers and Abilities

As an Aberration, Ibai has several powers available to him.

### Teleporation

Ibai has the rare aberration power of teleportation. Not only does this power allow him to teleport himself and anything small enough to be encompassed by his shadow, it also allows him to see the souls of anyone in the place he is teleporting to, which prevents him from accidentally running into people on the other end when he teleports. This power is extremely useful to him because it does not require a lot of power to use to great effect, allowing him to meaningfully contribute to fights far above his level without consuming human or reaper souls to grow stronger.

### Aberration Shadow

Like all abberations he has a shadow which protects his body from harm but it is a very weak shadow for an aberration his age because it only grew by consuming the souls of animals which he hunted but the souls of animals are less potent than those of humans or reapers. It is unknown how much control he has over his shadow as he has never used it in direct combat before.