Nathan Hall

Nathan Hall

Vital Information

Gender Male Species Human Source Original Faction Union Rank 6-General Function Librarian Groups Heaven Or Hell, Gatecrashers Union, Thousand Dreams

Other Information

Age (Appearance) Generically Youngish Age (Actual) "Enough" years old. Still Aging? Yes Height Average Weight Below-Average Hair Color Dark Brown Eye Color Dull Blue

Quote

"This is incredibly worrying."

Profile

Nathan Hall is rather unusual for such a normal guy. Unification brought him into the multiverse as a mere mundane librarian from a modern, unremarkable world, but a parade of poor luck and strange friends has rocketed him to multiversal relevance. Since then, he's gotten tangled up in the destruction of the grand conspiracy of the Shadow Government, the resolution of the sororal strife between two knights of Panaan, the recovery of the powerful Draupnir seal shards, the grand plot by Elliana Fairchild to ascend to godhood, and the warmongering of the Kingdom of Baron, along the way picking up everything from mechanical wings, to a gunblade, to shielding technology, to a sonic device, He's also gained the power to enhance his actions and manifest sorcery with Essence, channel the power of the Elder God Hastur, affect the world through the heavenly power of Faina, and wield both white and black magic. But some things never change, and Nathan still solves problems as best he can with investigation, negotiation, and level-headed thinking. Despite the vast array of changes and accumulations, the core of his personality remains the same. Nathan is still a passive, uncertain, easily worried stick in the mud, with an unbreakable habit of refusing to act on emotion.

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Powers

Stoicism: Nathan has made a habit of consciously rejecting all emotion and a certain portion of unwanted physical sensation.

Resources and Equipment: Nathan has accumulated a variety of resources. See +info Hall/Resources.

+info Hall/Resources

Wings: Nathan has a set of artificial wings, engineered and given by Untamed Breeze, that he can use for long-term sustained flight. They fold up into a compact shape rather like a small backpack, and bind to Nathan directly like a harness when active, interfacing with him directly. He is often rather clumsy with them, as he lacks the instincts necessary for their more graceful use. He can overcome this through absolute focus (see Absolute Focus in +info Nathan Hall/Desperate_Measures).

Protective Gear: Nathan keeps motion-sensitive and integrity-scanning goggles with him, which form a set with a rather effective bulletproof vest. The goggles are surprisingly effective in preventing eye damage as well. They provide visual indication of motion and their internal systems can have other data routed through them to display what is needed, as well as processing integrity scans or motion data. He also has a shield generator based on Holtzman effect technology, which forms a form-fitting barrier against objects approaching him at speeds greater than a few centimeters per second. It does not provide any advantage in grappling, can be shorted out by sufficient electrical discharge, and can be easily detected from a great distance by the vibrations it produces.

Book: Nathan keeps a rather unassuming-looking leatherbound book on-hand. It is tuned, through previous use, as a valid receiver of psychic or supernatural emission. Entities with significant psychic or supernatural presence, or simply Elites with no other means of communication or in dire need, may, if they so choose, write within it without significant effort, working from arbitrary distances and without major information limits.

Elder Sign: Recovered from cultists dedicated to Dagon, Nathan has several necklaces bearing the genuine Elder Sign. The necklaces can be used as a ward against otherworldly threats of a supernatural nature.

Dire Lance: A large orichalcum lance called Bringer of Righteous Rest. Nathan can attune to it, making it significantly lighter in his hands. It is stored Elsewhere, and can be summoned to his hands at will.

Spanner: Nathan has a sonic Spanner, a small device capable of limited mechanical manipulation (such as opening some locks), some electronic manipulation (such as basic password cracking or temporarily disabling security systems), and aural effects (affinity for sonic and sound technologies, capable of emitting nearly any frequency of sound beyond the absurdly high). It also has a small sensor suite and data storage/transfer system.

Other: Nathan is a pack-rat. From one encounter to another, he'll usually keep everything he finds on his person.

Conduit: Nathan has gained a vast amount of experience in acting as the conduit or avatar of other, more significant powers. He can adapt fairly quickly, albeit clumsily, to any power bestowed upon him permanently or temporarily. Permanent powers he is a conduit for are listed in +info Hall/Conduit

+info Hall/Conduit

Power Awarding Prana (Untamed Breeze): Nathan has been given access to a small amount of Solar Essence, allowing him to learn and make use of certain abilities exclusive to Solars. This has slowly lead to general Essence awakening, allowing him to expend quantities of his limited essence to increase success in feats of strength, mobility, defense, or mental feats.

The Yellow Sign (Hastur): Nathan has been granted the ability to act as a conduit for Hastur's unique brand of reality-warping while wearing her sign on a medallion. He can shape constructs of limited lifespan out of solid magical energy by weaving spells appropriate to their complexity with gestures, generating objects or new terrain. Resilience, complexity, special properties, lifespan, distance from Nathan, or offensive capacity are directly proportional to the time of weaving, increasing it. Similar difficulty arises for removing or breaking existing materials. Adding to his own body takes the shortest time, but altering the bodies of other entities is impossible.

Phenomena (Faina): Nathan has been endowed with the phenomena of the Storms in Fall, allowing for limited manipulation of, and resistance to, electricity and meteorologically-inclined water. Common uses of this include creating or dispersing clouds and localized "rain" or "snow", creating small gusts of wind and breezes, and the generation of electrical differences prone to causing electrical discharge. Due to seasonal associations, this is always cooling instead of heating, causes hibernatory or temporary shutdown influences where applicable, and has increased potency when used in a manner that ends a cycle, causes a harvest, or occurs during autumn seasons.

Other: Nathan has inherent potential for manifesting intentionally endowed power in Earth or Storm magic, albeit with a limited, though increased, skill. Thusly empowered, he can alter natural terrain quickly and to great effect, such as raising or lowering large portions of the earth. He can also perform more precise manipulations of electricity, such a long-distance bolts.

Knowledge: Nathan is knowledgeable in a variety of historical matters, as well theoretical studies of many more common world mechanics. While he can't do any degree of direct engineering, he can often make use of existing equipment optimally, or enhance the efforts of a specialist. Hall himself is specialized in Creation Thaumaturgy (utility alchemy, minor enchantment, mild warding, exorcism, and supernatural communications).

Sorcery: Nathan had his potential as a user of magic awakened under the tutelage of Breeze, and has gained access to the first circle of Creation's brand of sorcery, as well as generally awakened magical potential. See +info Hall/Spells for more information.

+info Hall/Spells

The Violent Opening of Closed Portals: Applies great force to every threshold within a single structure that Nathan touches that is not protected through appropriate magical or technological countermeasures, blowing out windows, devastating wooden doors, removing metal ones from their hinges, and jamming open thresholds like blast doors. If there is no external door and no major countermeasure in place, a large opening is created through up to thirty feet of material.

Incantation of Effective Restoration: A repair spell that can restore individual components or simple artifacts to functional state, though it could not, for example, restore lost information in a damaged computer system, or replace lost fuel. The aura of synthetic Elites can occasionally re-purpose this as healing for specific areas of their body.

Coin of Distant Vision: Generates a coin, which Nathan can use to project his senses of vision, hearing, and smell. He can also determine the approximate distance and direction from himself to the coin. The coin effectively lasts indefinitely, though it can be destroyed or disposed of.

Calling the Stalwart Servator: Creates a stout, rough clay figure, though generated without need for actual clay materials. It can lift up to 10 tons and is capable of crude, but sturdy excavation and building, and performs simple tasks by Nathan's command. It cannot engage in any kind of combat, will not defend itself, and if struck in any fashion with hostile intent, it will immediately vanish.

Impervious Sphere of Water: Summons a sphere with ten-foot radius around Nathan, consisting of magically breathable water, with surface tension and internal integrity that acts as a defensive shield preventing attacks from entering or leaving the sphere It can be maintained over time, but is immobile, and sufficient force will dispell it. Once no longer maintained, the water has no special properties. (When cast underwater this spell produces a bubble of air with the same properties.)

Scholar: Nathan is a Scholar, a supernatural expert on combat theory. With these powers, he can Scan his enemies, to understand their strengths and weaknesses with but a glance (consent required). He has access to very basic Black and White Magic spells from the Blue Planet, essentially elemental magic dealing with fire, water, earth, and wind. He also has acquired the ability to create pacts with Eidolons, magical entities that can be called into battles, and can summon them for a single attack, or for the duration of the battle. (+info Hall/Eidolons)

+info Hall/Eidolons

Midgardsormr: A giant serpent Eidolon of incredible size, it is a powerful beast of the Earth element. It fights with body slams, and it uses its massive poison fangs to bite into enemies. It also has a number of magical powers such as Earth, Quake, Gravity spells, and even Tornados. Its strongest attack, Abyssal Maw, cracks open giant tremors in the earth, and causes massive earthquakes. (PL 32)

Byakhee: A giant winged eldritch creature. It is capable of attacking with its body, mouth, and limbs. They are capable of space travel, and secreting strange and dangerous fluids.

Lamia: A female Eidolon which is half snake, half woman. In combat, her physical attacks revolve around slapping, and wrapping around her opponent. She also has a number of basic magical spells. She can cast most basic elemental spells, higher level Fire spells such as Firaga, and various status effect spells. Her strongest ability, Entice, is a magical effect used to confuse enemies and turn them against eachother (consent based).

Friends: After nearly two years of making connections in the Multiverse, Nathan has many powerful friends, many of whom will protect and help him.

Desperate Times: Nathan is reserved; for the most part, he does not use all abilities and resources available to him. He can only be made to do so by severe emotional crisis. Events such as great need for him personally on a grand scale, death or threat thereof to close friends, or similar situations are required for this. (25 -> 35) (see +info Hall/Desperate_Measures)

+info Hall/Desperate_Measures

Absolute Focus: Nathan has the capacity to re-purpose his stoicism into a tool of sorts, forcing out non-Persona psychic influences and absolutely ignoring physical damage to his person, as well as permitting incredible focus, facilitated by his Essence, on combat activities, allowing for incredible feats of dexterity and quick-thinking, planning out combat strategies in fractions of a second.

Draupnir's Sealbearer: Nathan has a shard of the seal on the demon Draupnir lodged in his torso that cannot be removed through standard means. It allows him to channel a significant amount of Draupnir's necromantic power, which, through previous experience in sorcery and acting as a conduit, Nathan can direct into kinetic blasts and shields, overclocking of systems in a vehicle or weapon, waves of kinetic force, imbue weapons and his body with corrosive energy, and give gratuitous power output if used as a human power source.

Old One's Librarian: Nathan draws on Hastur's power even more, manipulating it with more speed and precision; his focus allows him to weave complex constructs in mere moments with minimal motion, generating vast creations with small gestures and utilizing these for precise and powerful attacks and defenses, as well as emitting powerful projectile bolts.

Autumn's Tempest: Nathan channels the Phenomena of Storms in Fall to the height of its power, creating a potent storm atmosphere, capable of summoning and precisely directing everything from intense wind and rain, to lightning bolts, to powerful hail and even the early blizzards that arrive before winter.

Nine's Blade: A gift from No. 9, this is a powerful shotgun mounted along the body of a short sword, and usable as both. An ionized particle field that covers the edge of the blade gives it a distinct red trail through whatever air is passes through, and enhanced cutting and blocking ability.

Persona: A Persona is a construct formed within the mind, traditionally modeled after a figure found in mythology or legend of some kind and matching with the basic nature of the user's personality. Nathan's Persona is Atropos, the third Greek Fate, which he may call upon for brief periods to assist in combat through helpful offensive techniques. At the time of writing, the only way to activate it and its associated drawbacks is through immediate unavoidable deadly force directed at Nathan, though after the initial activation under deadly circumstances it can be brought to bear through sufficient force of will. See +info Nathan Hall/Persona for more details.

+info Hall/Persona

Persona (Combat): Nathan may, through sufficient concentration and expenditure of willpower, briefly summon his Persona to aid him in combat directly through offensive physical action that it takes separately from Nathan's form and action. Attacks applied to it directly translate into psychic feedback to Nathan, appropriately harming him as much as such an injury would harm the Persona.

Aura Resonance: As a side effect of having this Persona, Nathan projects an aura of numb stoicism, a calm that is less tranquil and more forced, as though a certain part of surrounding circumstance is inflexible and impossible to negotiate, whether or not that is true.

Persona's Gift - Moment of Peace: This resonance ties in to form an 'aura' that comes into effect whenever Nathan makes an effort to calm, placate, or otherwise prevent agitation in those who know him, providing a minor boost of a particularly supernatural variety in diplomatic or social efforts to subdue.

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Flaws

Emotional Disconnect: Nathan has a hard time figuring out both the emotions of those around him and his own, often favoring a blanket disregard rather than any attempts to clarify either. While it may be difficult to get him to act on emotion, it is quite easy to manipulate it if one simply wants to inflict suffering, and this creates a predictability and lack of energy in his actions. He is also easily lied to.

Pacifism: Nathan will not act violently if he believes there is a possibility of a nonviolent solution. Enemies who create situations that can only be resolved by violence can take advantage of this by simulating viable nonviolence options.

Obliviousness: More a product of Nathan's obsessive focus than anything else, Nathan excludes all other input when presented with any particular problem or engagement of his attention. When thus engaged, he automatically fails to detect attempts at stealth around him and tends to have reaction times up to a few seconds delayed when approached or attacked, making it easy to disable him quickly.

Only Human: Besides some enhancements to himself as a result of awoken Essence, Nathan is still largely just a mundane human. He is not trained to roll with punches, deal with grappling, or dodge on instinct, and for the most part will not contend effectively in any one-on-one confrontation with an Elite. This extends to mental influences as well. Unless extremely focused, he tends to be easy to push around psychically.

Easily Discouraged: Nathan is a passive person, and this extends to statements made about him. He will be easily discouraged from acting by the simple act of making intelligently-founded statements about the weaknesses he thinks he has, both real and imaginary. Unless he has others there to encourage him, or has reason to enter a significant emotional crisis, he is likely to automatically fail many directly confrontational social efforts, both in and out of actual battle.

Insatiable: Nathan is psychologically incapable of contentment. It is simple to get his help because he can't stand not helping someone who asks. This makes it exceptionally easy to manipulate him into helping any efforts, something which has resulted in a betrayal once already.

Cut Off: Much of Nathan's abilities are fueled by other entities. If these can be turned against him, they can immediately cut off his access to various powers. If he is turned against them or coerced into betrayal, similar revocation can occur. Characters who this is available to are listed in +info Hall/Conduit

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Relationships

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Youka: The person apparently responsible for Nathan's rise to power, a fact for which Nathan is appropriately grateful. While Nathan is less in need of the lessons she provides him these days, he is still inclined to help her when he can, and she is still technically the one he's apprenticed to, in some ways. Recently less active, but when she is active, Nathan finds himself conflicted in his objection to her high-energy impulsiveness and his appreciation for the things she does for him.

Pegasus: Pegasus is both Nathan's girlfriend and a very important symbol to him. What began as Pegasus dating him for fun while she was a psychotic murderer turned into a stable, healthy relationship when Nathan helped Amalthea to redeem and repair her. Not only is she his girlfriend, she is also something of a symbol for the best outcomes of Nathan's own hopes. They are very private about this relationship, and it's often the case that people don't even know they're dating.

Amalthea: The future in-law, as sister of Pegasus, has a nice friendship with Nathan. Nothing especially close, but they have helped each other enough that Nathan trusts her very much, and the two are often quite friendly with each other. They have a share of injokes they exchange, and Nathan is still waiting eagerly for Amalthea to turn up any information about her parents, so that he can assist her in bringing the two to justice.

Ellestaria: A slightly more distant associate, Nathan finds most of his ability to relate to her comes from her academic and controlled nature. Nathan is fascinated by her bioscience projects and her homeland, and enjoys working with her, but does not tend to interact with her regularly in any more social capacity. Mutual trust founded in Nathan's efforts to help Amalthea is still relatively strong.

Ariel: Nathan's niece by involvement in her construction. She is young and full of potential and Nathan sees her as something similar to himself, a person who could be cultivated into a majorly important figure with the right influence. Not a close relative, but Nathan is still protective of her, and attempts to guide her towards an appropriately responsible and self-restrained kind of personality… Not that she seems to need much help with it these days.

Psyber: With the exception of one issue, Psyber and Nathan work together seamlessly, and they are connected, socially, very well. A relatively close friendship, Nathan imposes a calm rationality onto Psyber at times when it is necessary, while Psyber forces Nathan away from being consumed by his more obsessive tendencies and keeps him positive, indirectly relieving stress through pranks and other suchlike. The two tend to trust each other to a fairly substantial degree, and despite a troubled difference of opinion, they have a long positive history.

Sakura Haruno: Due to misunderstandings surrounding George, Sakura has several negative opinions of Nathan. Nathan would very much like to have a more positive relationship with her, and tries to ease tensions when he can, but fully acknowledges her feelings for the most part. Depending on how things progress, this could turn into giving up on the matter and petty resentment of the grudge, or an actual, proper talk through the misunderstanding.

Raven DeVanos: She seemed to dislike Nathan for a long time, and then she seemed to be more okay with him. He understands this is likely due to his association with No. 9, and does not really resent it. Loose associates, occasional friends. She sends him food a lot, he is appropriately grateful for that. She has also trained him in various matters, protected him in others, and in all matters that are not simply talking on the radio, has tended towards more positive actions, a fact which has stuck with Nathan directly. It has also confused the hell out of him.

Staren: Loose associate, leaning towards friendship. Nathan does his best to guide Staren into gaining some social ability, to uncertain effect. There is an oscillation between appreciation for Staren and his capacity to listen and understand, and an exasperation with the sheer quantity of misunderstandings that have yet to be resolved.

Kirito: Nathan helped him out for a time. At times, Kirito has acted as a bodyguard of sorts, especially during the war on Baron. As a result, they have a very loose friendship, though both are introverted and prefer a more distant sort of relationship anyway.

George (Dropped): Would like to achieve something resembling friendship, but cannot, due to the assorted psychological circumstances this character is subject to. Mostly George hating Nathan.

Kevin Graham (Dropped): Nathan had a loose friendship with this person, who assisted him in matters related to George, and advised him regularly during the incident in which George's unique psychological issues came to a head.

Himei: Nathan has worked together with Himei on many occasions, and has learned to trust her fairly well. While they are not heavily social towards each other, they are friendly whenever they happen to interact and have a relatively high degree of trust. Nathan has worked with Himei through a wide variety of situations, and finds her reliable, trustworthy, straightforward, and fairly intimidating socially, resulting in a trust that lacks much social connection.

Vervi: A good friend. Nathan owns this Shinki, and she is both a dependable assistant and a good friend to him; there is a mutual protectiveness and respect alongside a positive social exchange. While the whole situation has some substantial awkwardness for Nathan to deal with, he has learned to overcome it after owning Vervi for a year.

Na‘Sabal-Une Fang: Nathan teaches Nasa how to read, Nasa does mischief in Nathan’s general direction. While Nathan trusts her intentions to be positive, he is uncertain about her reliability, and is extremely intimidated by her, socially. Efforts are made to establish friendship, however, on both sides.

Lilitu: Rapid oscillation between friendly respect and pettiness since neither of them have apologized for an extremely minor misunderstanding from a long time ago. Loose friendship at best, petty bickering at worst. Do not ask Nathan Hall about Lilitu and that time he dove into a soul unless you want Lilitu receiving passive aggression levied with the strength of ten in-laws.

Luca (Dropped): Luca thinks Nathan is her servant. Nathan indulges this, because he is a pushover. He uneasily tries to figure out what her deal is, due to a variety of mixed signals she gives about her regard for his safety and happiness. Nathan will die if he goes without immediate medical attention after he consumes food cooked by her. Nathan has infrequently consumed food she cooked for him.

Hastur: Nathan refuses to acknowledge that he is actually a loyal cultist for her. Hastur provides him a limited set of powers, and in return, Nathan does what he can to help her. He oddly finds the Unspeakable One relatable due to shared academic interests. Her social position is less that of a friend and more of a combination of a very good teacher and a distant, foreign, trustworthy relative.

Tshallandria: A relatively trusted Confederate. She is responsible for several of Nathan's advancements and has maintained an honorable and honest sort of relationship with him, as well as acted as a guide at times. Not a friend so much as an infrequent mentor and occasional therapist. Nathan Hall is extremely confused by this character.

GLaDOS (Dropped): Something bouncing rapidly between GLaDOS bullying him and GLaDOS protecting him. Nathan had no idea what to make of this, and still does not. All of his feelings towards GLaDOS are either helpless confusion or cautiously optimistic confusion. He can't even resent her abuse of him.

No. 9: Nathan Hall's best friend. Nathan will trust Nine with his life, and has done so in the past. The two confide their emotions heavily in each other. With the exception of military secrets, there is little that one will keep hidden from the other. Nathan provides a sort of sanity induction for Nine, while Nine provides unfiltered wisdom on the subject of emotional matters, and occasionally offers his services for murdering Nathan Hall's enemies.

Laer: She keeps messing with him and he is not sure why. He doesn't hate her but he wishes she would maybe go away.

Golbez (Dropped): Substantially responsible for manipulating Nathan into performing an accidental regicide. Nathan has not forgiven him, and is still hunting for him. No social connection, just a mild case of the nemesis.

Mir: Nathan is confused about this person. He does his best to help her where possible, because of her relatively positive history of helping her world. He is also worried by her anti-human racism and cautiously approaches the issue of breaking her out of it when there are opportunities. Uncertain social connection, much more certain work connection.

Elliana Fairchild: Nathan feels a fairly substantial degree of hatred towards Elliana Fairchild. He blames her for forcing him to constantly escalate his own power in order to keep up with her schemes, though has mostly forgiven her for stabbing him and trying to kill his friends. He insists on holding a degree of responsibility for her actions and obsessively attempts to thwart her schemes, often at the expense of happiness, sleep, and health. While he respects her in a sense, and will often jump at the chance to ally with her against other forces, his feelings towards her are primarily negative, a sort of chaotic mixture of civil antagonization and potent rivalry. He is extremely conflicted about how similar he to her and is easily agitated by suggestions of their similarity. This sentiment is extremely volatile and subject to change and influence.