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[danceswithwerewolves]

APPEARANCE
At a distance, his halo makes Mathias' eyes look bright blue - but up close, they're a rather more mundane brown. His ears come to a slight point, but they're not nearly long enough to be elven, and they're usually hid beneath likewise mundane, slightly shaggy brown hair that always seems to have a bad case of static spikes.

At just a shade over four feet tall, under a hundred pounds dripping wet, and just generally scrawny of build, nobody's ever going to find Mathias physically imposing. He favors clothing that has a lot of volume to it - billowing, hooded cloaks, loose shirts and baggy pants, held together by belts and the odd chain in all the right places. He favors red, black and silver - usually in the form of a gray silk shirt, black pants, and a blood-red cloak.

ABILITIES, POWERS, AND ODDITIES
First and foremost, Mathias is a magus. He constantly has an aura of power about him - all magi do. His causes those who enter it to feel a distinct chill in the air, and at closer range, this is coupled with a staticky electric feeling that engulfs the entire body - basically, it feels like lightning is about to strike. Further off, out of the range of the chill effect, his aura can be perceived as a faint halo of electric blue light limning any visible skin, and especially concentrated around his eyes. Interestingly, this halo effect goes away once you enter the chill zone.

He's a master of elemental manipulation, particularly electricity; he can arc weld or plasma cut with his bare hands, and he throws a particularly nasty variant of chain lightning that can bounce between up to ten targets in one shot, or bounce between two of them pretty much as long as he pours the power on. His next best element is heat - both ends of that spectrum. The air around him carries the aforementioned chill effect because he's constantly drawing in power from the atmosphere around him.

For all his magical might, however, Mathias is really pretty weak, physically - he's no stronger than an average human of his size and build, and since he's constantly tense, he's not terribly flexible, so he's never going to be what you'd call a great fighter. He does have plenty of stamina, though - it's a necessity, working with the forces he commands.

Where he really shines is in the fine manipulation of energies. If pressed, he can basically make a human (or near human) body do pretty much anything he wants, by manipulating nerves from the outside. He doesn't like to do this - it's entirely too much like mind control, and that's a great big NO where he came from - but in a pinch, or with permission, it's one of his most useful skills.

The final oddity about him is... kind of something you'd expect around any high powered electricity, really. There's always a faint smell of ozone in any area he occupies.