Torshael Peregrin

Torshael has two other forms: he can shape shift into a human, looking like a mortal man in nearly every way, or a lion, as pure white and blue-eyed as his natural coloring. He makes more use of his human form than his lion form, but never in battle, only for diplomacy, for though tall, it is slender, and does not take well to gaining muscle. He is devastatingly handsome in this form, with a soft, almost boyish look to his face, perfectly placed eyes and nose, a full mouth, and silky white hair, trailing down his back in untangled curls. For effect, his clothing is mostly white and silver.

As a lion, his most rarely used form, he looks the most powerful, physically, of all three forms, and his mane is as full as his supernal form. There is definitely muscle there, and his beautiful grace turns predatory, his pale blue eyes more piercing. He only uses this form when he wants to intimidate-- which isn't often, anyway-- and intimidate with fear, rather than regality, which is positively rare.

His new position makes Torshael both proud and worried: he is proud to be trusted with something so important, despite his young age and overall lack of experience, but he is worried that he will not do the task justice. He very much wants to bond, thinking it is The Thing To Do to be a proper warrior of light and a proper Favored Supernal, as if bonding will help erase his doubts and give him more confidence. He isn't naive enough to think bonding will be a cure-all, nor would he be cruel enough to put all of that weight onto a hatchling's shoulders. All he could ever ask of a bond is steady companionship, a source of support and a fellow warrior, whose bonding will hopefully prove to him he's on the right path.

Being out of the High One's realm for the past three years has been something of an eye-opener for Torshael, both building up and rattling down his self-confidence by turns and in different ways. Meeting, conversing with, and most decidedly not battling with various infernals-- including those which are good aligned!-- has shaken him out of the bulk of his arrogance, and though he falls back on it when feeling at his most uncertain, he is still a much gentler creature now than he used to be. 

The two entered official training at court at age three, and left it two years later to do the High One's bidding in the world, as a pair. Now, two years of fighting infernals, rescuing the innocent, and making small parts of the world temporarily safe again later, Torshael has been deemed experienced enough, adventurous enough, and decorated enough to be given a new position-- an entirely new position, one no Favored has ever been given before. He has been given new orders, directly from the High One, to investigate infernals spreading from the supernals' realm into the Nexus. He is the first Favored to be sent out of the supernals' realm, and Tayne, of course, is going with him.

Because he is pure white in color, making him as a rare Favored of the High One, Torshael has a specific ability granted only to Favored Supernal, called purity, which creates a wave of holy power which can purify a spherical area around him, up to half a mile in radius. Evil caught within the sphere of power are either purified or destroyed. As he is still young, Torshael isn't very good, yet, with this ability, but practice and experience will improve it. A side effect of this ability is that, whenever he has holy power gathered around him, no matter how low the level, he has a heightened awareness of good and evil, particularly in people. 

Torshael's Story

The First Hatching

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