Immortal Powers and Abilities

First if you wish to know how to create an immortal click here.

Note: None of these powers exsist in the character until he has had his "first death"
Note 2: Immortals are SDC creatures just like there human counterparts
 

From the dawn of time we came moving silently down through the centuries,living many secret lives, strugling to reach the time of the gathering,when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we among you untill now

~Juan Sanchez Villa Lobo Ramirez,

Powers

  1. Ageless - An immortal isn't exactly immortal, he is more ageless for the reason that he can be killed in a specific way (see limitations).  However they will not contiue to age after their "first death" they will be frozen in there current age and not even the temporal spell Time Warp: Age can change there age.
  2. Sense other Immortals and those who will one day be immortal.  This is a "buzzing" sense that activates when they come within a 100ft. range of another immortal like them.  This ability also takes effect when the person is an immortal who has yet to go through "first death".
  3. Near Immortality - Immortals cannot be killed by nearly any means (see limitations).  They are not completly immune but after mear moments of appearing dead there body will repair itself and the immortal will return back to life.
  4. Regeneration - An immortal regenerates SDC and hit points at a rate of 1D10 SDC every melee round.  Anyone who witnesses this ability will see electricity go over the length of the wound and completly heal it leaving no mark or scar. (Note: Uranium rounds have no effect on an immortal's healing process.)
  5. Attuned with a Sword and other edged melee weapons (axes, spears, knives, ect.) and in there hands they become MD weapons with a MDC.  Also an immortal is +2 to strike with an edged melee weapon.
  6. The Quickening - The quickening is a force that is the reason an immortal is immortal, without this quickening the immortal is no longer immortal.  The quickening is made up of energy that stores the skills, mental attributes, and psionic ability.  When an immortal is killed by another Immortal or by someone who would one day be an immortal then the dead immortal's power is transfered to the other immortal.   The power includes complete healing of he other immortal, also the gaining of all psionic powers the other immortal possesed.  The effects of the recieving of a quickening is shortness of breath, and a general weakness.  The effects disappear after about an hour.  It is possible for a mortal to absorb this  power but he gains no skills or psionics or metal attributes (see Quickening Junkie).
Limitiations
  1. The Head is the one area of an immortal that can kill him.  If the immortal is beheaded then he is permenantly killed and if the killer or someone within 10 ft of the killer is immortal the quickening is released.
  2. An immortal is setrile and cannot ever give birth to children unless the prize is won (see culture)
Culture
    The immortals have blended in with humans and have followed that culture except for one thing:  that in the end, there can be only one.  It is an immortal's belief that when all other immortal's save one is killed the the victor recieves enough power to shape the course of human destiny.  It is truely unknown if it is true but the Gathering is rapidly approaching so who knows.
    Immortals follow certian "rules" of combat absolutly NO immortals will break these rules, they are tradition:
  1. Mortals are forbidden to interfere with the game
  2. Combat is strickly one on one
  3. Holy ground is safe, no immortals will fight another on holy ground
  4. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
The Prize
    The prize is what all immortal strive to get.  They will fight to the last to get this...the rumor is that it is enough power to rule all of humanity for eternity.  In actuallity it probably enough power to rule mankind for eternity if used correctly. The prize provides the following powers to the immortal.
  1. The Choice - After recieving the prize the immortal makes a choice whether or not to become completely mortal.  This ability has its appeal to those who are in love of are good for it allows them to live and grow old with their lover as well as be able to sire children.
  2. After the choice the immortal becomes a powerful psionic with a sort of super-super telepathy.  They can instantly and at a planetary range listen and speak to the thoughts of any creature on the planet.  This ability can break through any and all mind blocks.  No mind is closed the One.
  3. Ultra Mind Block- the immortal can nolonge have his mind read and noone can even see his/her aura unless the One allows it.