A veridical dream, so fervent
Look now.
You wouldn't want to wake up either,
If you have a dream like mine.
A dream, so... reality-shattering.
Are you not curious?
Come, let us explore, the world of dream.
His Discarded && His newfangled
IDENTITY
a life well-lived, not a single regret left, except...
| Information | Status |
|---|---|
| Name | Theostra Malliere |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 80 |
| Place of Origin | England |
where time flows differently inside the land of dream, i am its emperor.
| Information | Status |
|---|---|
| Name | Deostreav Engraze |
| Epithet | The Swevening Salamander |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 4536+ (approx.) |
| Place of Origin | Agnitium |
CHAPTER ONE
His True Calling
Although born as an unwanted peasant in harsh times, it seems that Fate has another purpose for letting him into this world, and with the tinkering hands of fate, he was chosen to be the one to lead in another reality that is known as the Dreamlands.
CHAPTER TWO
An Escape From Reality
Having been chosen as one of the Dreamers in the Dreamlands, which is another plane of reality that is comprised from all that is fantasy from the Waking World, he is given a mission to rebuild a fallen kingdom, Agnitium, that is supposed to belong to him. In order to do so, he will need to gather a lot of people under him and make a name for himself as The King of Agnitium.
Thus, the young Dreamer decided to set out for an adventure that he has always dreamt of after seeing the wonder of the world. Oh, this is for both of the Kingdom's sake and himself, so it's fine? Right? Afterall, he's suffered quite a bit in the Waking World, there's no rule saying he cannot have fun in this new Reality by exploring this vast and curious Fantastical World.
CHAPTER THREE
Agnitium Rising
Though it took him decades in Dreamlands and years in Waking World to build up a reputation under his name deserving that of a Leader and a King, Deostreav persevered through the countless fun he had while adventuring. As if oozing natural charisma, people were drawn to him and voluntarily followed him wherever he goes, and when they heard of him trying to rebuild his fallen Kingdom, most of his friends agreed to inhabit the Kingdom.
However, managing and maintaining a Kingdom is not so easy as rebuilding one. As someone who's not well-versed in politics and all that both in the Dreamlands and Waking World, he is now faced with a challenge harder than ever, since adventuring is far more easier than managing a Kingdom.
CHAPTER FOUR
REJECTION
Deostreav who eventually got cornered by Politics decided to disappear from his own Kingdom and once again decide to go on an Adventure. However, as if responding to his wish, the World led him to a strange creature that would attach itself at Deostreav's face as a mask to hide his identity as well as wiping his memories clean, freeing him from all the responsibilities, guilt, and the thing he has experienced, letting him experience a new thing.
Once again, Deostreav escapedβrejected his own reality like he did to his Waking World.
CHAPTER FIVE
Confrontation
After he is awakened and is beaten back to his senses, Deostreav decided to at last face things properly, and ended the war single-handedly because of his previous affiliation while going on as Theostra. However, the remnants of some kingdom was not satisfied and decided to borrow the power of the vile Creatures, and in an attempt to defeat them, Deostreav decided to find more knowledge on his modern waking world to defeat them, only to find an even more terrifying horror truth lying...
CHAPTER SIX
After finding out his world is thoroughly described in a certain book in his waking world, he decided to read it thoroughly, finding out the horrifying truth of his Dreamlands. Deeming the root of all evil is that thing protecting the Gods, he decided to go at the core that is the Crawling Chaos instead, only to be toyed with.
After he was defeated, the Avatar of the Outer God inflicted him a Curse befitting of his defeatist nature, a curse of endless loop. Because of that, Deostreav/Theostra is now stuck in an endless loop unless he defeats the Final Boss of the Realm.
This is the current state of Deostreav, thus why he seeks more power/knowledge/powerful allies.
AGAINST THE DOOM
APPEARANCE && PERSONALITY
Deostreav, at a surface glance, is often described as someone who is too serious due to the stern, calm, and cold looks and vibes he emits.
As you get to know Deostreav, however, you can see that he's not all that stiff like how his visage draws him to be. Always calculating the benefit of socializing with someone, he is more than glad to be friends with people he finds intriguing and will bring him the aid (whether in becoming his ally or simply giving him additional knowledge) he needs.
Because of that, he's often adapted his façade to each of respective person depending on how important they are. The people he's been friends with describes him as serious yet easygoing, easy to talk to, domineering, kind, knightly, attentive, worrywart (paranoid), charismatic, courageous, unrelenting, passionate, full of confidence, a selfless and caring leader, and a Heroic Figure.
However, the Deostreav that most people knows is but a fake façade that he dons in order to win their trust. While it is true that he once bear the fake personality that his fake façade uses, his gallant character is no more.
Bearing the curse of infinite loop where he is forced to live over and over unless he defeats the Evil residing in his dream realm, Deostreav had learnt the hard way that his former, prideful, idealistic self is nothing but a naΓ―vety to be thrown away, because what he needs in order to save his world and his people is power, making him to be a power-hungry and extremely cold, always calculating, he's become a very cautious and wary person, almost to the point of paranoia.
Because of the continuous loss he had throughout his loop, he's come to hold genuine human relationships in low regard, unnecessary, and developed a mindset where he is the only human alive and everything exists only for him to use to further him complete his goal.
Or at least, that's what he believes him to be so. Naturally, a person can't change easily, he's still at his 3rd round, a remnant of his true self still lingers, wanting an easy way out that will never come with his bad tendency to easily give up (rejecting the reality/situation he is in), and that is why he believes he had to change himself.
Deostreav, all in all, is a lonely man, almost broken from the stress and fatigue he's accumulated trying to find a way to get stronger in order to save the world and the people** he rules over.
POWER & ABILITIES & EQUIPMENTS
Superhuman Physical Characteristics
| Tier: | High 5-A | 4-C, Likely Higher |
|---|---|---|
| Attack Potency: | Dwarf Star level+ | Star level |
| Speed: | FTL | Massively FTL+ |
| Lifting Strength: | Class M | Class G |
| Striking Strength: | Dwarf Star Class+ | Star Class |
| Durability: | Dwarf Star Class+ | Small Star Class |
| Stamina: | Absurdly High | Magic-dependant |
| Keyword: | Base Form | Nightbreaker Form |
Range: Extended Melee with a Hrovnger (sword), higher with magic.
Standard Equipment: Grandeous, Core Ruby (Magic), Mask of Atziluth (Convertible)
Intelligence: Deostreav is pretty much an unparalleled swordsman and martial artist, that is both a legendary soldier and war hero who was able to be the factor of the ending of the war in his waking world and ended most conflicts in Dreamlands single-handedly. His days as an adventurer and a soldier in two different made him inherit many different techniques both in swordsmanship and battle, thus why he is extremely talented and strong in technique. As a leader and a general, he is also a master tactician both in war and battle, capable of devising a strategy in the heat of the battle. He is cold, calculating, and ruthless, with almost no moral standing in his way, he would do anything to reach his goal.
It is to be noted that the abilities listed below are pretty much nothing compared to his Reality Warping ability that he often uses subconsciously to shape his own realm as a Dreamer. But lately he was able to utilize this to travel in-between realities and dimension, similiar to a Dream Travel. But he is still unable to control this ability completely as his imagination is lacking, and Reality Warping depends heavily on the User's imagination.
Master Swordsman & Martial Artist + Insight
Deostreav is both a fighter both back in his waking world and the dreamlands despite being noble-born prince in the dreamlands. This causes him to be extremely knowledgeable and experienced regarding fighting, having lived for 80 years in his waking world and 4500+ years in the dreamlands, he has absorbed countless of decades old knowledge regarding combat and general knowledge from both of his waking world and in his dreamlands.
It is also worth to be mentioned that he spent the rest of his freedom days on the waking world travelling around, learning various swordsmanship and martial arts from many different countries, making him at least one of the strongest normal human warrior in the waking world. Additionally, living for 4500+ years in the dreamlands and having involved in countless battle and war certainly honed his already gathered waking world experiences and techniques to the utmost extend, and by now, he should be if not the strongest human, then one of the strongest in the dreamlands that he inhabits as The Agnitium's Supreme King Hero of Salvation.
His fighting style is mainly composed of his experience and techniques, extremely patient, resilient, and cautious, he usually refuses to reveal his hand and prefer to go on a defense, analyzing each and every move and because of his experience dealing with various enemies, he can easily distinguish their fighting style based on their posture, gait, breathing, and many more, and all that information allows him to 'formulate' an 'image' of his enemy inside of his head, simulating all the thousand of attack patterns it would possess, he is very patient and resilient as he will battle over and over as the fight goes on, he will never take the offensive if he is doesn't see a chance to win, he will either retreat, or stay defensive until he finds a way to win.
Regarding techniques, it is also related to the experience, he is an extremely fast learner, almost to the level of a copycat one could say, and he is also extremely good at identifying the weakness of each technique, that is why he tossed away some of the technique he learnt and used only what he thought is useful, combining them all into one nameless technique accumulated throughout his life filled with battle.
Aura [FIRE] / NIGHTBREAK FORM
Even though he is not proficient in manifesting magic in a physical form because of his weak imagination, he holds an immensely enormous magic tank inside of himself being one of the great dreamer that was able to actually influence the dreamlands with his memories and imagination alone. His magic capacity, if visualized into an image, could create a whole new solar system by himself, including all the life inside. Such is his magic prowess.
However, this enormous magic sleeping inside him is surpressed by the Core Ruby given by Agnitium's protector that is Runasvara, that also gives his element-less magic power a fire property according to his the Agnitium's royal family bloodline.
Because of his lack of creativity and imagination in applying magic, he created a whole new way to apply magic to himself by coating himself in his own magic, this works because in his imagination, magic is able to amplify one's nature (e.g. water, fire, earth, wind.) and that is why he got inspired on amplifying his own nature and managed to amplify his own physical prowess dramatically.
Entering this form will slowly make the white streak on his hair spread, eventually coloring his whole hair white, as if trying to protect itself from the intense heat he generates by himself. However, that is only a temporary and upon cancellation, will return back to red in days.Entering this form will slowly make the white streak on his hair spread, eventually coloring his whole hair white, as if trying to protect itself from the intense heat he generates by himself. However, that is only a temporary and upon cancellation, will return back to red in days.
In this form, he emits heat unbelieveable it almost vaporized the air and the water, but because of the surpressing factor that is the Core Ruby, he is limited to emitting maximum half of the Sun's heat. Despite being unable to manifest a magic into physical form, he is extremely proficient at controlling the aura and where to focus, making the heat is capable to be transferred into his Grandeous, a sword capable of withstanding the heat and is able to cut almost everything because of the overwhelming heat and flame condensed inside of the sword itself if he wills. This gives him the ability of:
Fire Embodiment
Heat Embodiment
Durability Negation [if not surpressed, he can concetrate all his fire to just destroys everything with the sheer heat contained inside his sword/fist]Existence Erasure [if not surpressed, he can concentrate all his fire to eradicate someone instantly from existence because of the extreme heat]
Grandeous
A simple sword made from a well-tempered steel, that somehow is able to evolve because of Deostreav's influence. Capable of doing subconscious reality-warping, Deostreav thought that this sword was some kind of a heirloom from the Agnitium family, capable of withstanding the flames of the Agnitium Family's bloodline, and thus out of misunderstanding and admiration, altered the properties of a sword from a steel sword anyone can find anywhere easily into a precious heirloom capable of withstanding even the hottest of the hot temperature.
This sword also doesn't seem to rust nor to be able to become blunt at the slightest due to the altered properties of it being more than mythical-rated weapon.
The sword is also carved with various thaumaturgical symbols he learnt from both the waking world and Dreamlands, imbuing the sword with several enchancement such as:
Dimensional Storage: the ability to store the sword in a dimensional pocket and manifest it whenever and wherever the user wishes.
Annihilation: borrowing the power from hateful star's thaumaturgical symbol, any entity killed by the weapon will annihilate the immediate space around it. The size of the annihilation zone is proportional to the size of the entity killed.
Dominion: After recognizing Deostreav as its master, the sword can be moved according to Deostreav's thought and intent, similiar to a telekinesis but strictly only to Grandeous.
Core Ruby
Placed inside of his chest by Runasvara, the Ruby acts as a surpressor to his enormous magical power and to his destructive capacity that may endanger even his own ally. The Ruby possesses the flame properties that has been passed down through the generation by the heir of the Agnitium family.
Though, that has no meaning to Deostreav since his magical prowess is at least ten times more bigger than the current magic the ruby possesses. It did, however, give his magical power a fire property like many other of the heirloom.
The core ruby possesses the property to absorb any attack in the form of fire and changes it into its own magical power, so often in battle, fire, instead of hurting Deostreav, would empower/heal him instead. The Core ruby seems to possesses a thought of its own, a grouped thought from all the Agnitium past heir.
Mask of Atziluth [Integrated]
Composed from a matter that is not of this world and is from a completely different reality, it explained itself to possesses the property similiar to a matter coming from the space that the Outer God inhabits. It names itself as Tulzscha, after being called to the waking world, it assumes a gaseous form, penetrates the planet to the core, then erupts from below as a pillar of flame, reaching into a different reality that is the Dreamlands. Because it cannot move, it is forced to inhabit a host and in this case, Deostreav. The mask takes a starfish-like shape and a horn in the forehead accompanied with two goat's horns above, covering his whole eyes while still letting its host to see through.
This Mask was shown capable of wiping/storing a whole memory and creating a new persona exclusive to when the user wears it and in this case, it is Deostreav's old self when he was still not conscious of himself being in a Dreamlands. In other words, a fragment of his past in the Dreamlands. Because of this, the new Deostreav names himself Theostra and developed himself as a separate person, possessing a soul itself given by the Mask that claims itself as Tulzscha.
It is not known what the mask desires, or what is its goal, but it seems to not interfere with its host daily life and actions and only serves as some kind of wish-granter, responding to its user wish the first time, for Deostreav, it is to start anew and escape from Reality, thus why it created a new persona for Deostreav.
However, after the Mask is destroyed in a battle against his own manifested Core Ruby, it seems to have disappeared completely and only left an after effect that is darkening its user's skin and giving them horn, plus granting them power unimaginable for a fraction of second only to protect them. Core Ruby has noted that the Mask lives inside despite not having a physical form anymore since the wish is now different.
The Mask also may have possibly lessened the curse inflicted to Deostreav by making him to reset to a point farther than the Crawling Chaos intended, making it possible for Deostreav to have a time to prepare for the next stage.
Unfortunately, despite being a wish-granter-like item, it does not respond well in his fight against the Last Boss, possibly because of their connection and similiarity being an Outer God, it avoids to show up and instead only assisted a little bit in lessening the curse. It is possible that it is currently recovering or gathering more power and because of that it is unable to help against an avatar of such terrifying being, and it could be also one of the reason why the mask decided to attach itself to Deostreav. What it feeds upon to get stronger is unknown, but Deostreav feels no notable changes inside of his body nor mind.
Core Ruby once commented that it feels uncomfortable since the Mask decided to inhabit its Master's body.
It is also to be noted that Deostreav's capability is extremely boosted upon usage and donning the persona of Theostra because of them being the same, yet different person. Some of them are:
Magic: Deostreav already possessed an enormous amount of magic inside of him, he just lacked the means to manifest it because of his lacking imagination. However, with the help of a new persona whose imagination is more than enough because of its carefree child-like mind, he is able to cast almost every magic in existence. However after the mask disappeared and the persona fused to become one with Deostreav, he has lost all this privilege, and can only be activated once again through Yehidah Form.
YEHIDAH: As noted above, after the mask disappeared, it left an aftereffect of giving the user in the form of a darkened skin and horns. This form is given the name Yehidah because in the Kabbalah, Yehidah is the highest plane of the soul, in which one can achieve as full a union with God as is possible. This change at the moment can only be achieved in an emergency, life-threatening situation and can only emerge at the mask's will, protecting Deostreav. However, in just a mere fraction of seconds, the power granted by this form is noted by Deostreav as, "Capable of Destroying the countless universes in a blink," which means may give the user some kind of ascendancy to a higher-plane of dimension/reality, ascending them to a higher being. It is unknown what further effect it holds as it is still regenerating and gathering more power to restore itself to original state of power and refuses to show up unless the user is in danger or life-threatening situation.