Albain

The reticent twelfth prince of a destroyed kingdom, due to his Shade ability manifesting very early in life he was basically forgotten and neglected for most of his formative years. In mid adolescence he discovered that he possessed the power to create self-contained worlds within artworks and started regularly withdrawing away into them, taking comfort in the fantasy worlds and using them to escape from reality. It was with that ability that he escaped the human's attack on his kingdom, not even realizing something was wrong until he found himself unable to exit the artwork. The kingdom and all the artworks in it had been destroyed in the assault and he spent many years searching for a way back, riding on songs and stories that grew steadily darker and more hopeless until he finally managed to find a place where he could exit. And when he did he tried to return home, only to find that his kingdom and all his family and people had been destroyed by the humans. He was alone.

Despite that, Albain had no real attachment to his family or his old home and didn't see himself as capable of doing anything against the people who destroyed it, instead just wandering away to search for a new one. With no real ability to fend for himself beyond the basics, he ended up protecting a group of refugees in return for them building a home for him and caring for his needs. Shrouding a forested valley in Nysa in near-permanent fog and earning it the name of Misty Valley, he kept hostile forces away and lived there quietly for many years, occasionally disappearing into the books and artworks that others had given as gifts or tribute. 

PERSONALITY

• Quiet, withdrawn
• Calm, dignified, serene
• Gentle, placid, kindhearted
• Agreeable, passive
• Airheaded, spacey
• Escapist, resigned
• Lonely, empty
• Depressed, suicidal

POWERS

• Shade - passive ability that reduces people's ability to perceive his existence; makes him easily forgettable. The effectiveness of this ability lessens the stronger his relationship with a person or if they form an interest in him, however it makes it difficult for him to form relationships or for people to remember him enough to think about him and develop an interest
• Fog - conjures a fog that can be manipulated to have following effects on the people and space within it: erase the memories (up to half a day's worth), put to sleep, confuse and disorientate, cause hallucinations, negate/weaken magic attacks, alter the trajectory of projectile attacks and disrupt magical and technological based communications. The effects can be set to exclude individuals or to only affect individuals who fulfill certain conditions (eg. human, hostile). He is also able to sense whenever someone enters the fog and any major disturbances within it as long as he is currently inside the fog's range. The fog can be spread over a wide area and be kept there near-permanently as long as his markers are still standing, even if he himself is not within the fog's location. If he is severely weakened or killed however, the fog will disappear.
  • He is also capable of altering space within the fog and suffocating people in it, but has never tried it and is unaware of this potential use. 
• Fantasia - able to create a world inside artwork (eg. paintings, stories, poetry, music, etc) or enter people's dreams, able to bring people with him into the fantasy worlds, able to hop from world to world if there are other artworks nearby, able to use a particular artwork as an anchor point and walk from one newly created world all the way back to the anchor point but has to pass through artworks in between
  • This ability has never been revealed to anyone else and the limits of it are almost completely untested
• Form Shift - able to switch between human, nonhuman and beast forms. His beast form is of a huge, softly glowing, almost translucent white stag over three meters tall (not including antlers)

WEAKNESSES

• Very little combat capabilities, if he finds himself in combat he will use fog to distract opponents so he can run away. If pushed, he will turn into beast form to try and kick his opponents, possibly to death, so he could run away
• If the artwork used as Fantasia's anchor is destroyed, it may take him years to find his way back
• Fog can be blown away by wind or blasted away by explosions, has limited effectiveness on individuals with strong willpower, non-biological nature, high magical ability, or mental powers of their own

NOTES

• Basically has no marketable skills whatsoever
• Has a rudimentary grasp of the English language, only understands basic conversational English but cannot read or write
• As far as anyone else knows, his only special ability is Fog (form shift is standard)
• Has a tendency to disappear into libraries and museums and reappear months or even years later
• Loves collecting books and artwork