Iziz
Character
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Intent: A powerful Piece of Armour to Even the Odds.
Development Threads:
- Acquired Phrik (P.106 backwards.)
- Acquired Terentatek Leather.
- Acquired Dashade Leather.
- Acquired Ysalamiri Specimens.
- An Alchemy Basin
- Forged the Skeleton.
- Shaper Forged // Completed (P. 104 Backwards)
Model: Vong Null-Cloak (Deathmaster's Mantle)
Affiliation: Iziz & Yun (Rookie)
Modularity: Colour
Production: Unique. (Two Exist.)
Material: Terentatek leather, Miriskin, Dashade, Phrik armourweave & a dash of alchemy
Classification: Anti-Force / Anti-Energy
Weight: 7 Kilograms
Quality: 10
Defensive Properties:
- Force Resistance: 10
- Blasters: 9
- Light Sabers: 8
- Electricity: 5
- Piercing: 4
- Kinetic: 3
The Quality of the armour comes not from its overall protective stopping power, but from its vast success in protecting against what it is catered for. The quality of the armour stems from it being forged by Ferus, a powerful Sith Alchemist and Darth within the one Sith as well as Yun, a potent Shaper of the Yuuzhang Vong. Together, their masteries combined to create a horrifying abomination not only able to defend against light-sabers and blasters and electricity due to the properties of the phrik armour-weave but also, the ability to defend against the force. Making the Null Cloak a devastating weapon against force users.
Special Features:
- Living Armour:
Like many of the Yuuzhang Vong armours, the Deathmaster's Mantle is a living material much like that of a manta, the living flowing being is not unlike a vong formed Ysalamiri allowing the cloak to keep its biological functions. The Phrik armour weave is meshed with the exterior of the creature to grant in an armour plating instead of having a natural chitin plating making it resistant to energy and strikes but far more vulnerable than the impressive near invulnerability of crab armour.
- Force Resistance:
The primary goal of the cloak was to create a substance which acted as a wall against powerful force users and their projectile abilities. The experiment was successful. Tempered further through the addition of Terentatek hide and true Miriskin, created by using Vong Shaping on live Ysalamiri to preserve fragments of their unique power within the chimera which resulted. The natural resistance combined further with its ability to project a skin tight variant of its bubble like a personal shield across its skin. allowing the user to wield force powers through the openings of the head and arms, but not through the Mantle.The power held within it makes the null cloak an extra-ordinary weapon, and is considered an artifact of great power.
- Energy Resistance:
More as a bi-product of the materials used as well as enhanced by the presence of a light Phrik armour-weave overlay. The cloak is moderately resistant to blasters and light-sabers as well as electricity due to Phriks defensive properties and unique quality of dispersing electrical charges. This defense applies to the point of being able to withstand some attacks and providing a fair sum of protection. While the cloak is not capable of resisting heavy weapons it is almost impervious to pistols and side-arm fire, while being moderately resistant to light-sabers. Though, as a cloak, and not a plated armour, the Mantle does little to nothing to resist against physical impacts, and well placed repeated blows from a light-saber will hew the Phrik weave reinforcing.
The Deathmaster's Mantle, also known as a Null Cloak is a chimeric amalgamation of rare and unique materials which all share a single common denominator, that they are resistant to the core functions of a force user. Each of the arranged components were taken and maintained through various means in order to preserve their nature of resistance in the force, some of the killed hosts had their organic material medically stabilized in storage vats, keeping synthetic circulation flowing as the tissue was kept alive for some time after the death of the donor. While others, such as the elusive Ysalamir, had to be kept alive in an atrium of Iziz's own creation until such a time that they would be able to be used to create the prestigious vestments.
The process did not go without hindrances however, the first and most harrowing of the trials was defeating the likes of the Dashade and the Terentatek, each were powerful foes especially against a force user, though, with the aid of Ferus as well as the forces of the Sith Assassins and their cunning, each of the materials found their way into the hands of the diminutive Jawa, taking them in hand and moving on with his plan. The Ysalamiri were another difficult find, as the creatures' claws dug deeply into the trees that they were rooted into, Iziz spent a great amount of time looking into the creatures, studying them, attempting to find a means of taking them back to his ship with them... Iziz had failed in removing the creatures from the branches of their preferred trees, and found it best to simply remove the branches with them on them, their death like grips proving to be their own undoing in the end. Combined with the collection of a few eggs, Iziz had more than enough material there...
Together with his master Ferus, Iziz began. With blood made into an alchemical basin from victims of the Sith Assassins' attack on Ssi-Ruu in which they claimed themselves a base. Iziz and his master worked some magic into the materials they could, forging the components of the Phrik, Dashade and Terentatek into the shape of the mantles that would be created for his master and himself, the broad shape was befitting that of a grown man, and a single Jawa. Far from finished however, the Mantles at this stage showed promise, but little finesse, due to the Ysalamir components being immune to the effects of Alchemy... another means was needed to be found to complete the combined material, merging it together into a single form in which their power was maintained... So the single question of 'how' was raised.
The answer, was Yun.
The mysterious Vong shaper who had aligned recently with the One Sith, fought side by side with Iziz in a grand battle to earn the trust of the Sith faction, as well as Iziz gaining the trust and favor of the shaper. Having previously attempted to look for a Vong colony with his master Ferus, several camps had been dried up due to attacks from the republic military... in honest, It was a miracle that Yun was found. However, through war, the two developed a respect, and when Iziz asked Yun if he would assist in creating the mantle he sought, the Vong agreed, but at the cost of receiving a copy of the mantle himself. Iziz agreed, forsaking the model that he had intentionally meant to bestow on his master as a gift...
The Vong worked his magic on the live Ysalamiri, (On all except a runt born from the eggs Iziz had captured who was destined to become a beloved pet. ) Shaping their flesh and warping their bodies to combine with the preserved leathers that had been shaped by alchemy and the force. Shedding the proverbial slag from the cloak with his incredible artform, while balancing the amounts of each material in such a manner that they would not counteract one another but rather work in tandem like that of tamahagane, supporting one another to create a greater strength. Yun managed to finish the cloak grafted to the phrik overlay, uniting the powers together like folded steel as their abilities compounded and came together in trace sums, which added to create a greater living whole of the creature which had finally been created.
The Mantle itself is a hooded long cloak, much like that of the sith, but thicker than most normal robes or leather due to the armour-weave grafted over-top of the hide. Without altering, the leather is a pitch, mat, almost tar-like black, which seems to almost absorb sunlight that it touches. The only sheen it seems to give off is a light rain-bow like colour when exposed to direct sunlight, much like the effect of oil under sunlight. The long sleeves are fitted nicely to the wearer's proportions as well as the tails of the cloak falling down to just behind the wearer's shins. Some hardened leather plates, buckles and belts embellish the cloak but offer little additional protection other than some utility and serving to decorate the cloak to look more regal and impressive. Done as Iziz uses this cloak to replace the mantle standard issue to the Sith Assassins, and was modeled to impress thusly. The creature itself, is not unlike a deep sea creature, blind to the world, interior gills breathing and feeding of plant matter in the air such as pollen and airborne seeds.
Example:
The end result was a mantle which was able to protect against light-saber strikes and electricity due to the phrik component and tough hide comprising the armour. While the living being possessing the ability to project a very small skin-tight Ysalamir "bubble" around itself almost like a personal shield, as well as being resistant to effects of the force which came into contact with it due to the dashade and terentatek components. The resistance worked to an extent that direct damage through the cloak would become difficult from 'most' sources. This allowed the user to be protected from techniques ranging from telekinesis, force lightning, drain and most projectile powers and even (though to a much lesser extent) shielding the user from extra sensory perception and even mental attacks while the hood is up. However the mantle itself was not without drawback, hurling foreign objects at the armour would find no resistance and it not only were the powers of the enemy resisted, but also the powers of the user. Meaning that force powers which attempted to enhance the cloak as well as effect the cloak such as Phase, repulses, screams and other powers which were required to pass through the living material and its barrier, were rendered almost useless to the user so long as the mantle was worn.
But so long as the user did not rely on such skills,
The Deathmaster's mantle was a near ultimate shield against the force itself.
A prize for any warrior.
"This skin will protect you Iziz, but it cannot protect you from the Dangers within."
-Snikch
