Vortex Bluesong

"*I am THE Vortex Bluesong! If you didn't know me before make sure you remember my name!"*

-Vortex Bluesong

Vortex Bluesong is a wizard/fighter/??? party member of the **31/2 Men** or as he calls the group "the Vortex Crew". Vortex is a male Air Genasi, aged 23 as of the most recent session. He is around 6ft tall, covered in tattoo's of various spells and creatures, and the tattoo's he likes to show off the most, his own name, with Vortex being on his left arm, and Bluesong being on his right. As an Air Genasi, he is apart of a family known as the "Horizon's". He and his sister are the bastard children of Thunder Horizon and Abigail Bluesong. He is currently on the floor of beasts, surviving with his comrades attempting to find the exit of the floor.

### **Biography**

#### Early life

Vortex was born to a human women named Abigail Bluesong and an air genasi man named Thunder Horizon, his mother was always busy tattooing his father. He spent his time watching and learning his mothers techniques while his father ignored him. The other children in the village had never payed him much attention leaving him to his own studies and devices. His father while not abusive, obviously had no care about raising him, only telling Vortex to refer to him as "Mr.Thunder".

Flash-forward to 4 years into the future, Vortex is now a big brother to his new sibling Breeze, and his father's full sleeve tattoo is almost done with. His father grows further distant from his mother and children every day. When his father's tattoo sleeve was finished, he left as quick as lightning striking the ground. Three months after his departure, an unknown illness struck Abigail, leaving her on death's door. Her last words to Vortex were "Your real last name is Horizion.". Vortex with this knowledge , took his mothers writings and the knowledge from watching his mother work, he selfishly locked himself away to study and begin work on his own unique type of spell-casting, leaving his sister to be taken care of by Mary Bluesong.

#### Becoming an Ascender

17 years have passed after Vortex had begun work on his unique spell-casting ability and finally it had come to it fruition. He had become something called a tattoo mage. He said an awkward goodbye to plenty of people who had no wish of him to stay, as he left to sign up to become Ascender. Vortex then left for the first floor, the "Floor of Testing". There after becoming registered as a participant in the upcoming, he was assigned to a group of others that had similar hopes as him, much to his dissatisfaction. This group was the group we see today minus Ishiba. The managed to take on their initial tests with great prowess, and flew through the tests until they had arrived at the fated final test.

#### The Final Test to become an Ascender

During the Final Test that was to be had to make sure all the participants were able to become Ascenders, a seed was planted, and the task at hand was to climb it to the next floor, to officially become Ascenders. But as the seed was planted, one of the proctors had either something against Vortex's group or the Testing Committee in whole, had broken the floor beneath the testing area, revealing a large pit filled with darkness with no bottom in sight. This proctor, who was with the Rifters, had also directed another group to attack and knock Vortex's group into the pit. Although some of the group members had knocked their attackers into the pit, some groupmates almost got dragged down with them. Ultimately Vortex's group climbed the plant to officially become Ascenders as they watched more Proctors appear and fight each other.

#### Life as an Ascender

Vortex has definitely changed from the start of journey, as at the start of this journey to the top of the tower, all he cared about was power. But seeing the sights that he's seen and the people that he's met, he's learned that true power comes from the people you share bread with. Without his friends and the bonds he's made he would have been left far in the dust, sacrificing everything to continue climbing to attempt, even thinking about following in his fathers footsteps of sacrificing people to gain power. After accompanying his party as they traversed the shortcut known as the "Path of Pain", Vortex chose to step outside his fathers footsteps and become his own person and reforming the Bluesong family. By stepping out of his fathers shadowing and becoming the head of the Bluesong Family, Vortex has chosen his main aspect of his contracts which are Freedom.

His daily life consists of annoying Garruk, helping Gearby with his questionable practices and sparring with Ishiba. He does not try to hide who he is and is constantly trying to recruit the party and any passersby to join the Bluesong Family

### **Powers & Contracts**

#### Transmuter Blood: Embodiment of the Element of Freedom

For all he knows, being born with the type of blood sought after by many, having Transmuter Blood allows him to use more magic, allows him to embody an element. During an encounter during the clash on the final floor of the path of pain, Vortex had learned what it meant to be a transmuter and to embody an element, choosing the element of Freedom, escaping his father's grasp and freeing himself of his destiny to possibly slay his father with the eldmetal blade. He learned quickly that freedom does come with a cost.

These contracts are now null and void after the killing of the source of Weave. May be used in the future again with more cuils.

##### **Echoes**

Terms: Allows Vortex to use his aspect of freedom to freely manipulate echoes of failed timelines.

**Sacrifice: Mother’s Soul**

###### **21st Century Schizoid Man**

Interpretation Type: Technique

Allows Vortex to reach into failed timelines and embody echoes of chosen timelines. Using this ability, Vortex is able to change his personality to a chosen one of a failed reality, this new personality possesses different class abilities
**The Contractor may choose from echoes equal to his level:**

* [1-5]: One Echo
* [6-10]: Two Echoes
* [11-15]: Three Echoes
* [16+]: Four Echoes

**Conditions**

#### Old Contract

Vortex's contract was inspired by the tattoo's he watched his mother make when he was younger. Wanting to create a power that can overtake the Horizon family he wanted to be something that wasn't involved with the Horizon family's powers, being of storms and lightning, he used his contract to create something called the "Bluesong's Blessing(s)". Bluesong’s Blessing grants the user the ability to tattoo themselves and others then allows the user who tattooed the tattoo to transfer the weave through the tattoo’s allowing for the tattoo’s to come to life. Depending on where the tattoo is placed and what is tattooed there varying effects that come into place. But he had to willing give up his ability to cast some schools of magic to gain access to this power. The schools of magic he can still cast are evocation, conjuration, transmutation, abjuration.

**Aura of Freedom**

Vortex's new contract was formed out of ideals of Freedom and not being bound to anything except his own contract. The contract works by whenever Vortex is shirtless, he emanates an aura of "freedom" with himself being the midpoint of a 60ft diameter sphere. The aura of freedom effects everyone even allies, and as an extension of the contract, he may lose all of his spell slots and gain 3 exhaustion but his echo knights he control also emanate a sphere of anti-contract for the same range. The cost of this contract was a step towards a new person, not just a new Vortex, with the cost being the only thing he had remaining for his hometown in floor 3. He decided to sacrifice his Mother's tattoo kit to gain more power in hopes creating something new within, or outside the tower, possibly with a new identity alongside this contract.