
Thanatos:
PL: 13
Strength 2
Stamina 3
Agility 4
Dexterity 4
Fighting 4
Intellect 0
Awareness 2
Presence 2
Skills: Athletics 3 (+5), Deception 6 (+8.), Insight 9 (+11), Intimidation 0 (+20), Perception 6 (+8.), Persuasion 3 (+5), Stealth 6 (+10/+22)
Advantages: Benefit 3 [Incarnation of Death], Seize Initiative, Sidekick 36 [Mortis]
Powers: Incarnation Of Death:
All Fear Death:
Enhanced Skill 6 [Intimidation +18]
Enhanced Advantage 3 [Daze (Intimidation), Fearless, Startle]
Everyone Knows Death: Comprehend 4 [languages; speak, read, understand, be understood]
Death Can Handle His Business: Enhanced Advantages 12 [All-Out Attack, Close Attack 9, Power Attack, Quick Draw]
Death Stare: Affliction 13 [Dazed, Compelled, Controlled; resisted by Will] (Extra: Area [Burst]); (Feat: Innate); (Flaw: Limited [Can only make people run away])
Immortal While Holding The Office: Immunity 1 [Aging]
Weigh A Soul’s Worth:
Enhanced Skill 4 [Insight +12] (Flaw: Limited [Only to judge the character of a soul in question])
Enhanced Advantage 1 [Ultimate Effort (Insight Checks)]
Death’s Cloak: (Removable –7 pts) [32 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
Socially Invisible: Morph 2 [appears as someone appropriate to the scene saw in (i.e. he may appear as a policeman when an accident takes place)] (Flaw: Uncontrolled [wearer has no control over what others see him as])
Protection Against The Elements And Harm:
Immunity 7 [Environmental Cold, Environmental Heat, Pressure, Radiation, Suffocation, Vacuum]
Protection 10 (Extra: Impervious 13)
Death’s Boots: (Removable –2 pts) [13 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
Silent As The Grave: Enhanced Skill 4 [Stealth +12]
Travel Across Any Surface: Movement 5 [Air Walking 2, Wall-Crawling 2, Water Walking]
Death’s Gloves: (Removable –1 pts) [6 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
No Door May Bar Him: Movement 3 [Permeate 3]
Death’s Hood: (Removable –3 pts) [12 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
Seeing Beyond The Veils: Senses 14 [Darkvision, Vision & Hearing Counters Concealment, Vision & Hearing Counters Illusion, Vision Penetrates Concealment]
Death’s Watch: (Removable –0 pts) [3 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
A Minute For Death: Affliction X [Hindered, Immobile, Paralyzed; resisted by Will] (Extra: Area [Burst] 4, Continuous Duration [+2], Penetrating, Progressive [+2])
Death Is Always On Time: Feature 3 [Shows a countdown of how much time a person has before their soul requires Death's attention, Guides wearer in the direction of a soul that requires Death’s attention]
Death’s Weapon: (Removable –10 pts) [44 pp]
Cannot Be Broken: Feature 1 [Indestructible]
Reaper’s Guns: Ranged Damage 13 (Extras: Perception, Penetrating)
-Reaper’s Scythe: Damage 13 (Extra: Penetrating); (Feat: Reach 2)
Offense: Initiative +3
Melee Attack +13
Ranged Attack +13
Defense: Dodge +13
Parry +13
Toughness +13* [*Impervious]
Fortitude +13
Will +13
Costs: Abilities 42+ Skills 11+ Advantages 40+ Powers 157+ Defenses 39= 290 pts.
Real Name: ZaneMortis:
PL: 10
Strength 6
Stamina 5
Agility 1
Dexterity 0
Fighting 4
Intellect 0
Awareness 2
Presence 0
Skills: Athletics 3 (+9), Close Combat [Unarmed] 3 (+7), Expertise [Survival] 2 (+3), Insight 3 (+4), Intimidation 6 (+7), Perception 4 (+5)
Advantages: All-Out Attack, Attractive (To Women), Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Hooves), Improved Initiative, Power Attack
Powers: Horse Traits:
Animal Senses: Senses 3 (Acute Scent, Low-Light Vision, Radius Sight) [3]
Animal Physiology:
Speed 3
Horse Kick: Strength-Damage 4 (Feat: Reach)
Natural Size: Growth 3 [+3 Strength, +3 Stamina, +3 Mass, +1 Intimidation, -1 Dodge/Parry] (Extras: Permanent +0); (Feats: Innate) [7]
Death Steed:
Immunity 10 [Life Support]
Immunity 10 [Mental Effects] (Flaw: Limited [Half Effect])
Immunity 80 [Toughness Effects] (Flaw: Limited [Half Effect])
Movement 4 [Air Walking 2, Sure-Footed 2]
Protection 3
Speed 7
Form To Suit Death’s Needs Array:
Death Goes For A Drive: Morph 2 [land based vehicles] (Feat: Metamorph)
-Death Takes Flight: Morph 2 [air based vehicles] (Feat: Metamorph)
-Death By Sea: Morph 2 [sea based vehicles] (Feat: Metamorph)
Offense: Initiative +5
Unarmed Attack +7
Ranged Attack +1
Defense: Dodge +12
Parry +12
Toughness +8
Fortitude +10
Will +10
Costs: Abilities 36+ Skills 7+ Advantages 6+ Powers 101+ Defenses 30= 180 pts.
Complications:
Disabled: Mortis cannot speak to humans, nor use his hooves to easily manipulate objects.
Loyalty: Mortis is unquestioningly devoted to the Incarnation of Death.
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 184 lbs
Hair: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Complications:
Allies: Thanatos often works in conjunction with the other Incarnations of Immortality (Time, Fate, War, and Nature) to stop the efforts of the Incarnation of Evil (Satan) while supporting the Incarnation of Good (Goddess).
Death Takes A Break: From time to time Thanatos needs to return to Purgatory so that he can rest from his work, but doing this causes a backlog in people in need of his service and once he returns to his duty he must work quickly to clear the backlog.
Enemy: Often times Thanatos finds himself having to deal with the minions, plots and schemes of the Incarnation of Evil (Satan).
Relationship: Thanatos is the lover of Luna Kaftan, influential American Senator.
Responsibility: Thanatos is the Incarnation of Death, and as such it is his duty to collect the souls of humans who are in a close balance between good and evil and determine if they should go to Heaven or Hell.
Background: Zane was living a pathetic life with little money when a magic gem merchant cheats Zane out of an opportunity for romance, and in response to the meager use of the prize he’d traded his romance for Zane decides to take his own life. As he starts to pull the trigger, he sees the specter of Death (actually the previous Incarnation of Death) advancing on him, Zane then pulls the gun from his own head and shoots Death right between the eyes. Zane is then visited by a woman who introduces herself as Fate, who insists that Zane must now assume the position of the man he has killed, since whoever kills Death must become the new Death.
Fate then leads Zane to the street outside his home where he gets his first view of a pale limousine with the license plate reading "Mortis"...his Death Steed (as Death rides a pale horse) who can assume the form of a pale boat, a plane, or a pale limousine, as well as the form of a pale horse. Fate then departs and leaves Zane in the care of Chronos, the Incarnation of Time, who then instructs Zane how to use his deathwatch, how Mortis changes form, how to use other instruments of the office Zane now occupies, and exactly what his new duties are; this entails residing in Purgatory and visiting Earth to collect the souls of humans who are in a close balance of good and evil and determine their eternal destination (Heaven or Hell) based on the amount of personal sins they have committed during the course of their life.
In the course of learning the job, he discovers that his coming into the office of Death was not accidental, but was manipulated by a powerful magician (Cedric Kaftan Jr.). Despite being a mortal, this magician has strong ties to the other Incarnations from Purgatory and reveals to Zane that the Incarnation of Fate arranged Zane's destiny for the magician's purpose. There is a prophecy which states that Luna Kaftan, the magician's daughter, is destined to thwart the schemes of the Incarnation of Evil, Satan. Luna Kaftan is thus a target for the forces of Hell and is in need of supernatural protection. The magician, who has done a great deal of research, feels that Zane is the best candidate for the Incarnation of Death to fall in love with Luna and thus want to protect her.
The only way for the magician Kaftan to meet with Death without Satan's knowledge is to die with his soul in balance. The magician chooses to sacrifice his own life in order to introduce Zane to Luna and explain to Zane the circumstances which brought him into the office of Death. The dead magician's plans however seem to go awry. Due to manipulation by Satan, Luna is also destined to die before she can fulfill the prophecy. The magician had used too much black magic for his soul to be in balance and in order to bring it into balance before committing suicide, he has transferred some of the excess evil of his soul to Luna's soul, whom he has assumed to be innocent of evil. However, Luna has a burden of evil on her soul already, and her father's scheme has tipped her balance so much that she is on the course to Hell. To correct this, she volunteers to switch places with one of Death's other clients. By sacrificing her own life to save another, she manages to balance the evil on her soul. Her actions play right into Satan's trap, who doesn't care whether she goes to Heaven or Hell, only that she dies and is no longer a threat to his plots. However, Zane has already fallen in love with Luna by this time, just like the magician had planned, and he refuses to take the soul of the woman he loves.
Now the motives behind the magician's choice of Zane are made clear to him when the other four Incarnations (Time, Fate, War and Nature) approach him and explain that they were all in on the plan. The previous Death could not be manipulated into betraying the duties of his office for love, so the other Incarnations decided to replace him with a young, stubborn man like Zane, who would.
Because Luna's soul is next in the queue, Zane cannot take the souls of other mortals until he deals with hers. He refuses to do so, thereby going on strike and leaving dying mortals in agony, unable to be released by death. As this is not to Satan's advantage, he first tries to bribe Zane, then intimidate him into going back to work. Zane, however, has had a conversation with Gaea, the Incarnation of Nature, who has demonstrated to him the absolute power each Incarnation wields in its own sphere of influence. Zane eventually realizes that the office of Death is unassailable by Satan and that he cannot be harmed within the sphere of that office. As an Incarnation, Satan himself has a soul and is subject to Zane's dominion. The conflict ends in a draw and Satan has no choice but to admit defeat. With Satan's plot exposed, Purgatory changes Luna's destiny and she is free to return to life. Zane lifts his strike, and with Luna under his protection, Satan can no longer interfere with her fate through the means of death.
When it came to Thanatos I took a few liberties, like making Death's weapon transformable between a pair of supernatural pistols and the scythe one would expect the Incarnation of Death to have.