Maraca Antros

Maraca is the ? of Olirion and second in the chain of military command with only Emperor Vastos above him. He is extremely confidant of himself and his abilities, and frequently speaks his mind giving no thought to who it may offend. Maraca is a confrontational man and will tell you what he thinks whether or not you want to hear it.

## Appearance

Maraca has tan skin with brown eyes and dark hair. Due to his age, there is significant scaling over Maraca's face and hands. He typically wears normal military slacks: black pants and combat boots with a fitted black long-sleeve shirt, but occasionally he additionally wears the double-layered hooded cloaks of a lithic priest. Maraca is also blind in one eye due to the use of one of his techniques. He wears minimal jewelry, just a religious chain around his neck; Maraca also dyes his finger tips black or brown.

## History

Maraca's dad was an ankor from Wrathmire and his mom was an ankor from Olirion. The beginning of Maraca's life was in Wrathmire, where he joined the Wrathmirian military. This was before all out war in the country, but discrimination against ankor was increasingly prevalent, this partly fueled Maraca's drive to keep getting stronger. He eventually was called by Golvara, who trained him to become the faran of furnace fields, allowing him to access the natural energy present withing furnaces and the immediate area around them. Maraca saw this natural affinity towards furnace fields as a religious awakening, as furnaces are sacred to the ankor and seen as a connection to Lithos.

## Abilities

### Fire Art

Maraca is able to utilize his fire affinity to generate and manipulate flames. He is extremely skilled in the use of his fire art, particularly in the use of spatial techniques. He is able to send his energy so far into the sky that his techniques are compose above the clouds, typically out of sight. He uses this style of techniques in conjunction with his expertise on close combat fighting, but can also utilize it to play the role of support artillery.

### Requiem Eye

The Requiem eye is an advanced ocular technique that teeters on the border of the fire art and the heat art. As the heat art is seen by some as the natural progression of the fire art, some techniques of the fire art become very related to the principle of heat. This powerful techniques allows the user to detect fluctuations in heat at the molecular level, giving the user a plethora of information. Maraca uses it for a myriad of things, including monitoring his opponent's emotional state for the use of wrath, or monitoring muscle movement to predict his opponents attacks. The main drawback of the technique is that it causes the user to go blind after prolonged use, as such Maraca only uses the technique in his left eye, which is now completely blind. Maraca willingly took the trade off because of the power the technique would bring him and due to his belief that one eye is enough for him to best his opponents.

### Faran of Furnace Fields

Maraca is the Faran of Furnace Fields, giving him a major energy boost when he is in the vicinity of a furnace, with the boost getting stronger the closer he gets to the epicenter of one. While he is unable to manipulate anything from his environment, Maraca's boost to energy in his faran state is rather massive; Additionally, Maraca becomes essentially unaffected by heat, allowing him to stand within center of furnaces as well as walk through fire. When activating his faran state, Maraca's tattoos form as glowing red and black swirling lines all over his body.

### Wrath

Maraca was gifted wrath by Rafus Hargreeves. Wrath manifested in a very interesting way in Maraca, where he uses his voice to increase the amount of anger and rage present within his opponents. Maraca typically does this by simply talking to them, usually insulting them or something about their life to increase negative emotion. Once this anger reaches a critical point, a small creature known as a wrathling emerges from the target. Maraca has full control of these wrtahlings and is able to use them to attack his opponents as he sees fit. The wrathlings are beings of pure energy and eventually dissipate. Utilizing his skill in spatial energy manipulation, Maraca doesn't have to focus this ability on any one person and can do it to a group of people at once. The downside of this technique is that ?

### Close Combat Expert

Maraca is skilled in multiple styles of close combat, being able to switch up his fighting style mid-battle in order to suite his needs. Maraca's fighting expertise is part of what makes him so formidable, as he typically pressures his opponents into close combat fights, which he uses to weaken and fatigue his opponents before jumping back and raining techniques from above.

### Techniques

* **Sentinel Missile -** Maraca is able to call down "missiles" of fire to rain on his opponents from above.
* **Sentinel Pillar -** Maraca is able to fire a large column of fire straight down from on top of his opponents, when not in his faran state this technique takes a while to concentrate the energy, luckily for Maraca many people cannot see the technique while it is charging due to it being so high up.