Potential newbie with a potential pain in a lot of butts.

[trollsdragons]

Greetings, good folk of Imperial Saga - name's Wingus (Hello to at least a few people I know already!), and I'm currently thinking about bringing this jerk to your rather interesting game: Xellos, from Slayers. Now, the rest of this will have some spoilers on Xellos' canon background - granted, it's a canon that's been around for a good long time, but warning just in case.

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I'm still reading up on setting stuff, but I thought I should toss an entry out here - mostly because there's two big things about Xellos.

One, Xellos is a schemer, a troll, and if it serves his purposes, a backstabbing son of a bitch. He'd be the type to seem like he's working for Group A, but then it turns out he was with Group B, and then you eventually find out he was actually working for Group C all along to wreck both groups, and he'll do it with a smile. So, looking at things, he would be an Intelligence Operative for whoever his big boss is, and either spy for one of the others, or pass himself off as a Courtier. I also imagine that he'd be more active and less passive now, depending on his big boss' goal, with the appearance of Caster being out and about, which brings me to my second thing...

Two, in-canon, Xellos is a member of the Mazoku, or Monster Race, or demons - whichever translation you prefer to use. Nasty creatures that live on the Astral Plane and project forms onto the physical plane to interact and cause chaos among the regular people. Their goal is destruction of all that lives - and one of Xellos' goals was to follow Lina around, and keep her protected from some rogue Mazoku so that his current master's plans could come to fruition. He's also very old - 1000+ years, and would know Lina from when she was originally alive.

So the thing here is wondering what would make him playable here - Lina's app has the Mazoku replaced with higher-functioning beings from the Rift. Reading on the player plot page, that states that such Rift beings are generally limited to mod playing unless permission is given. So, for the modfolk, should Xellos be a being from the Rift? Or perhaps from Hell or the Netherworld? I'm pretty flexible, I just need a little guidance on which way I should bend.

So the tl;dr version - needing some factions or kingdoms that he can be working for to eventually double-cross save for his true alliance, and what kind of creature he should be for this setting.

Comments

[king_of_flames]

Well, considering that Roy is Lina's Master, these two definitely need to meet at some point. I also kind of want to do something with Athrun, due simply to the seiyuu jokes that could be made.

[trollsdragons]

Oh yes - he'll definitely be interested in meeting who Lina is answering to. And I'm always up for voice-shenanigans.

[pink_dragon_spooker]

Being Caster is Suffering.

Also, to be clear: I'm fine with retconning the Mazoku to be something different than the higher-functioning Riftspawn if there's a better idea.

[trollsdragons]

Miss Lina, you don't look a day over 500~!

Going by comments below, looks like we won't have to do that, so I suppose all we'll need to work out is some of the finer points of what happened in this world.

[nightskymaster]

Xellos can most certainly be from the Rift. That's not at all a problem. Considering what he is in-canon, it's a fairly good fit.

Alas, I do not have any kingdoms to offer you, but might I say this brand of awesome was exactly what I wanted to wake up to this morning.

[imperial_mods]

Feel free to shoot me a message either on this journal or via IM at BeholdtheVoid, there is a thing we can do with Xellos that may be fun.

[trollsdragons]

Excellent, excellent, and glad to provide - just hope I can live up to it in practice!

[ninesouls_ninetails]

Well, actually, I am planning on creating a Rift-based faction soon with Dark Lord Ninetails as its head. Located at the artificial Oni Island, it's Tokoyami, working its way into the heads of several different states and sowing chaos from within. Ninetails will eventually as Rao take over the position of Pope, heh. This faction definitely needs more members. So far, it's only Dakki.

Then there's also Team Evil for your consideration.

[trollsdragons]

Wriggling into places he shouldn't be and stirring up chaos is pretty much Xellos' job description, so very interested in that faction. Veeeerrry interested.

[ninesouls_ninetails]

What a coincidence! That pretty much makes all the members backstabbers of some variety. One thing to note is that while the leader is a Dark Lord, she's under the service of the Emperor of Everlasting Darkness who... probably isn't at the level of the Lord of Nightmares, but somewhere above the four Demon Kings.

I don't know if that would change Xellos' plans, but hey.

[trollsdragons]

Iiiiiinteresting.

Still hammering things out, but this sounds like one of the groups that Xellos would work with primarily.

[thousand_curses]

I have the most trustworthy character who's interested in your faction (as an ally if I can get people back in the Netherworld, anyway).

Considering who it is, that's kind of sad.

[timeforcourage]

If he's from the Rift, it'd have to be...a secret.

I think there are "Great Demons".

[force_and_style]

Team Evil is hiring! We specialize in people who are totally going to inevitably betray each other for their own agendas!

[trollsdragons]

I could see Xellos doin' stuff in the shadows for/with them, but not openly associating with them. :|a