Tennin Vikera

Tennin is an ex-professor at Ivoria and now conducts research under the funding of Bellaxandor Mink.

## Appearance

Tennin has short black hair and red, snake-like eyes. Like many Ankor, he dyes his fingertips; Tennin typically dyes his fingertips black, grey, or orange.

## History

Tennin was a professor at Ivoria in the material discipline, where he studied cursed objects, a highly specialized lasting technique of the Curse Art. He is a specialist on the curse art despite not being able to use it himself, and was the one to teach Jeera Sixirkan the basics. In the past few years, Tennin had the opportunity to travel with a few of his students and colleagues to Itengar for an archeological excavation of part of the Barys estate. The Barys family is a prominent tynar family credited for creating and extensively studying the curse art. While unable to get into any of the main buildings, a crypt was found in the family graveyard that contained cursed objects as well as a corpse believed to be Azome Barys, the original creator of the cursed objects technique. This greatly furthered Tennin's research and he even found a powerful cursed object housing an imperfect reanimation curse. After some initial research, Tennin became more and more adamant about using the imperfect reanimation curse on the mummified corpse of Azome Barys in order to greatly further his research. This plan was consistently shot down by the deans of Ivoria mainly because the study and practice of reanimation is strictly forbidden as well as the fact that it would take an extremely large amount of energy to utilize the cursed object. Tennin went behind the deans backs and used the cursed object anyway, injuring many of his students in the process and even putting one into a coma. He was promptly banned from Ivoria and had his credentials revoked, and even faced criminal charges before he fled the authorities. He was able to find refuge and funding under Bellaxandor Mink, provided that he continue his research for the eventuality of manufacturing them.

Azome Barys was a famous Barys researcher who conducted intensive research on the curse art and created the cursed objects. However, being a Tynar, she never had to worry about energy constraints; it took very large amounts of energy to both make and use the cursed objects, both steps taking more energy than the curse itself, and with more powerful curses these energy requirements were even higher. Since Azome was reincarnated through the imperfect reanimation curse, she is not able to utilize her own energy reserves for her art or tehcniques, and must rely on the reserves of Tennin, much to her own dismay. Azome and Tennin are currently researching ways to make the cursed objects much less energy exhaustive in order for them to have practical use among the non-tynar. She frequently complains about the slow pace of research due to these energy constraints.

## Equipment

### Cursed Objects

Tenin utilizes one-time-use objects filled with curse art techniques in battle and as research material. Currently, he is the only non-curse user to be able to utilize these objects without them constantly failing/exploding, as he was able to use is expert knowledge of materials to create a stable vessel with an energy mechanism inside that allows him to use the objects with lower energy requirements. He is still typically stuck with just using the weaker curses for now, as they barely have the energy to even make cursed objects with stronger curses. Tenin's cursed objects are made from a stone-like composite material in the shape of cylindrical tubes that have the symbol of the curse they contain imprinted on the side of them. The side opposite of the symbol has small holes where Tenin inserts intricately shaped pins formed from his dark art to activate the releasing mechanism, where stronger cursed objects require more pins. His method is highly specific towards him or others with as much or better control of the same art and is not viable for mass production.

### Azome

Using the imperfect reanimation curse, Tenins was able to resurrect Azome, a prominent and powerful member of the Barys family. Due to the nature of the imperfect reanimation curse, Azome was resurrected with her abilities in tact, but relies completely on Tennin's energy reserves. This means that any techniques she utilizes drains Tenin's energy as well as the fact that if they get too far from each other, the curse that keeps Azome reanimated begins to break down. Azome is a tall, female tynar whos mummified corpse is intricately wrapped in fine cloth. She rarely uses her techniques, as she is still not very good at making them energy efficient enough to not drain all of Tennin's energy.

## Abilities

### Dark Manipulation

Tennin is very skilled in the use of his dark affinity where he is able to make intricate dark constructs that he can use for attacking as well as utility.

### Techniques

* **Releasing Pins -** Tennin creates a various number of pins in order to unlock his cursed objects.
* **Animation Curse: ?**
* **Cursed Strangle -** After activating the cursed object, a black tentacle fires out of the cursed object. If it touches anything with an energy signature, the tentacle begins to grow other tentacles off of it, constricting the victim and slowly engulfing and suffocating them in a ball of cursed tentacles.