Saturos [Reserved]

Franchise: Golden Sun
Canon: Yes
Custom Title: Fallen Hero of Prox

Real Name: Saturos
Alias: None
Alignment: Neutral
Age: Unknown; but his physical appearance would lead to twenties or thirties
Gender: Male
Family: Possible family in Prox; unrevealed

First and foremost, Saturos has an amazing level of endurance, both physical and magical, due to his Proxian heritage. It borders on superhuman, as he has been shown to fight against, and withstand the attacks of, four Adepts simultaneously, even when his powers were cut by nearly two thirds thanks to the powers of Mercury Lighthouse's beacon.

His physical strength, as well, is heightened, being supposedly a match for many human men in terms of raw strength, being able to lift, in theory, as much as five tons.

Saturos's stamina is also quite high, being able to fight, travel, and expend his energy for several hours or even days without showing signs of slowing down, and this also leads to amazing recovery times, and even may hint at a low-level rapid-healing factor. But if he actually has a healing factor, it is superficial enough to be of no major use in a battle, only perhaps healing minor wounds and preventing major bloodloss at most.

Saturos is also a skilled combatant, both hand-to-hand, and in general melee combat. He is more than adequate when using his bare hands, and far above average when wielding his sword. He is quite capable of fighting off three or more opponents barehanded, and besting, or at least fighting effectively, a dozen or more opponents when wielding his sword.

And finally, to conclude Saturos's physical abilities, it can be assumed his senses are enhanced, to a degree. His hearing, especially, is much more acute than a human's, able to hear roughly five times more effectively than a human with perfect hearing. His sight is also roughly twice as sharp as someone with perfect vision, but his sense of smell is just the same, or perhaps slightly more sensetive, than a normal human's.

Curiously, despite his alignment with the Mars Clan, or perhaps because of it, he has a peculiar immunity to cold temperatures and, moreso, to hot temperatures. Particularly, in the near sub-zero climates of Prox and the unbearable heat of the Lamakan and Suhalla Deserts, Saturos has never once shown any adverse reactions to these temperatures, possibly due to his Psyenergy, or perhaps because of some natural immunity to temperatures.

Continuing, Saturos can only be considered a master of Mars Psyenergy, using it with extreme efficiency and power. He has been called the most powerful warrior in Prox, and not solely because of his superb physical attributes. Saturos is by far the most powerful Mars adept of his time in Weyard, next to the Wise One, naturally. He can use almost any form of Mars Psyenergy, giving him a plethora of methods for combat.

As well, he is also versed in some forms of Venus, and even Jupiter, Psyenergy, being able to use certain 'spells' from those two branches of Psyenergy.

And now, to clarify, here is a list of Saturos's Psyenergy, in alphabetical order and by element. Csick on each Psyenergy spell/series for more information on it.

Mars Psyenergy
Aura Series
Beam Series
Firey Blast Series
Fire Series
Flare Series
Fume Series
Guard Series
Heat Wave and Liquifier
Impair Series
Pheonix*
Planet Diver Series
Volcano Series

Venus Psyenergy
Cure Series
Gaia Series
Quake Series
Ragnarok**
Sabre Dance
Spire Series

Jupiter Psyenergy
Impact Series
Quick Strike
Slash Series
Thunderclap Series
Weaken Series
Whirlwind Series

And finally, to finally end Saturos's powers, Saturos can also use the creatures of the embodiment of nature's forces, the Djinn, to heighten his own powers and even summon the embodiments of those forces. And he has no shortage of Djinn, having gathered and 'tamed' no less than six Djinn of the Mars element, and four of Venus and Jupiter into siding with him.

Mars Summons
Mars
Kirin
Tiamat
Meteor***

Venus Summons
Venus
Ramses
Cybele
Judgment

Jupiter Summons
Jupiter
Atalanta
Procne
Thor


((Thank you to Golden Sun Wikia for the descriptions of everything! ^^

* Note: This does NOT, in the way it will be used, actually revive the DEAD. As that would be cheap, and rather impossible, unless, of course, that could be acceptable. In which case, I suppose it shall...

** Note: Saturos can only use the Ragnarok version, not Odyssey.

*** Note: This is NOT FF7 Meteor, it won't destroy the planet; Saturos uses his Psyenergy to contain the blast and destruction to a localized area.))

Despite Saturos's phenomenal skills in melee combat, he can still be damaged just as easily as any normal human, it just takes far more to slow him down than it would for a normal human. But it would not be overly diffucult for another competent foe to defeat him.

Mercury Psyenergy, manifested in this world as water magic, is disastrous for him. It quenches his fires and will weaken him for a few moments after being struck by it. Only for a few moments, but in those few brief seconds, a competent foe could deliver a crushing blow.

Ignorance. Saturos is rather ignorant of how this world works. Its' ins and outs escape him at times, and lead him to be somewhat easily manipulatable, often being coerced into doing things that are rather...unjust.

Honor...of a sort. Saturos will, plain and simple, not strike down an unarmed or helpless opponent. He will only fight to the death if forced to by circumstance, necessity beyond avoidance, or if his opponent can remain conscious and fighting until the end. This has led to him letting his enemies go and not slaying them more than once, which, in turn, led to his own defeat. It should be quite obvious why this is a bad thing.

And finally, Saturos is extremely confident in his own abilities, leading to very, very bad situations where he might rush blindly into a confrontation without thinking of the results. He does not believe he is indestructible, but he does believe that no ONE opponent can best him, no matter how powerful they may be.

Saturos hails from the northernmost settlement on the world map, Prox. He, like the people of Prox, is of a distinctive race that is very humanlike but characterized by almost reptilian scales and spikes on various areas of their flesh - but more importantly, their natural proficiency to the Mars element. They are thus afforded both a natural toughness and a natural immunity to the constant cold of their environment. Among Prox's warriors, Saturos has become recognized as the village's strongest, even amongst his contemporaries Agatio, Menardi, and Karst.

Three years before the present (of Golden Sun), the chieftain of Prox, Puelle, found that the abyss at the edge of the world a distance north of Prox has been consuming the world's end down in Prox's direction, and that in the future, it would eventually destroy both the town and the nearby Mars Lighthouse. Puelle and the Elder of Prox make the deduction that this is caused by the absence of the force of Alchemy, long sealed in a state of dormancy since the world's ancient past ages ago, and that to circumvent this the Elemental Lighthouses must each be activated with their respective Elemental Stars, currently hidden within Sol Sanctum in Mt. Aleph down south in Angara. However, when Prox sent envoys to the town at the foot of the mountain, Vale, to explain circumstances and persuade the elders to retrieve the Stars to light the Lighthouse Beacons with, the envoys were steadfastly turned back by the town's elders and mayor. Prox's ruling body was soon forced to make the decision to have the Stars outright pilfered from Sol Sanctum. So, Puelle organized a raiding party of Prox's finest warriors, headed by the extremely talented Saturos and Menardi, and sent them down to Vale so as to retrieve the Stars in a covert operation.

Saturos, having triggered the storm that caused the fall of the Mt. Aleph Boulder, is one of the only two members of his raiding party to survive Sol Sanctum. When Saturos and his raiding party arrived at Vale and infiltrated Sol Sanctum during the night, they came upon the sanctum's ancient riddles and traps. One of the switches they triggered, alas, was one such deathtrap: In a matter of minutes, all of Saturos' raiding party was dead, and Saturos and Menardi barely survived to make it out of Sol Sanctum. A violent thunderstorm manifested around Mt. Aleph and over Vale as though specifically triggered in response to Saturos' intrusion, and a large boulder situated on Mt. Aleph named the Mt. Aleph Boulder became dislodged and rolled on a course of destruction through the town below.

As Saturos and Menardi reconvened in hiding in an abandoned area in Vale that was evacuated due to the storm, they suddenly found that they were being eavesdropped on by two young Valeans, Isaac and Garet; Saturos and Menardi immediately knocked them unconscious so that the boys would lose their memories of the Mars Adepts. Saturos and Menardi began to leave the town, but as they passed along the town's flowing river they discovered four more Valeans floating in the river unconscious: Felix, his two parents, and Isaac's father Kyle, all of whom had been knocked out and away by the fall of the Mt. Aleph Boulder. Possibly out of remorse for the disaster they caused for the town, Saturos and Menardi saved the four Valeans' lives and took them back with them on their return trip to Prox. Saturos and Menardi would report to Puelle and the Elder everything about what had transpired.

Over the next three years, Felix and the Valean adults lived new lives in Prox, and were nominally kept as captives of Prox. Saturos insisted to Puelle that the Valeans be explicitly held as Prox's hostages (possibly having the idea that they could be a bargaining chip that would prompt Vale to trade the Elemental Stars to them), but Puelle disagreed and willed that the Valeans be set free. In the meantime, Saturos and Menardi conducted some in-depth research on each of the Elemental Lighthouses, and they discovered that, in order to even enter a Lighthouse, you need an Adept of that Lighthouse's respective element, meaning that Saturos and Menardi would need to be accompanied by at least one each of a Mercury Adept, Venus Adept, and Jupiter Adept the next time they set out to light the Lighthouses. (The Jupiter Lighthouse, in particular, also requires the usage of an artifact named the Shaman's Rod for whatever reason.) Therefore, Saturos decided that Felix would serve as the Venus Adept of their future party, and as he trained Felix he bent Felix to his will by making use of the fact that Felix's parents will be kept quarantined at Prox and will only be set free once all four Elemental Beacons are active and Alchemy has been restored to the world. In addition, during their research ventures, Saturos and Menardi encountered the Mercury Adept Alex, a guardian of the Mercury Lighthouse, and Alex agreed to ally himself to them and their purposes, himself interested in the prospect of bringing the power of Alchemy back to Weyard.

By the present day and age, the Adepts Saturos, Menardi, Alex, and Felix depart Prox on Menardi's Lemurian Ship and set out on their worldwide journey to restore the Elemental Lighthouse Beacons and subsequently restore the power of Alchemy to the world. The four travelers sail to the peninsula of Idejima on the continent Gondowan and anchor their ship there, and travel north to enter Angara and eventually reach Vale and Sol Sanctum. Before they enter Vale once again, Felix forces Saturos to promise him not to let any of the people of Vale, particularly Felix's former childhood friends Isaac and Garet and especially his younger sister Jenna, get involved in what they're trying to do. The Mars Adepts and Felix then lodge at Vale's inn without introducing themselves to the Mayor of Vale (recall that it was the Mayor who turned Prox down previously), and Saturos and Menardi conduct a preliminary investigation around town.
Saturos and Menardi stop by the cottage of a wizened scholar of Alchemy, Kraden, and attempt to glean information from him about Sol Sanctum by telling him about how "the Elemental Stars are the key" to their plan to "set the elements into motion", things that not even Kraden and the elders of Vale are aware of. Kraden uses his cunning to send them away by stating that he has a big errand to run with Isaac, Garet, and Jenna. Saturos and Menardi convene in secret and note that Kraden's knowledge of Alchemy and related matters is no meager thing; he would be invaluable for them to use for the purposes of their quest. They are suddenly happened upon, however, by the three teenagers Kraden was waiting for (though unnerved by Saturos and Menardi's somewhat non-human appearance, Isaac and Garet do not recall their previous encounter with the pair three years back), but after a brief but tense interaction, Saturos decides to let them pass and see Kraden.

Saturos and Menardi take Jenna and Kraden hostage and demand Isaac hand them the Elemental Stars.When Saturos, Menardi, Felix, and Alex eventually commence their secretive second raid of Sol Sanctum, they find that none other than Kraden and the three teenagers Saturos saw earlier are exploring the sanctum on their own as well. Saturos and Menardi are quick to seize the situation and take Jenna and Kraden hostage, and make demand that Isaac and Garet fetch the Elemental Stars for them. When Kraden asks what guarantee he and the others have that Saturos will not harm them if they comply, Menardi has Felix remove his mask and reveal his identity to those who believed him dead since three years prior, shocking everyone effectively into submission. Isaac and Garet hand Saturos three of the Elemental Stars; when Isaac removes the fourth Star, the Mars Star, from its pedestal, however, the volcano that is Mt. Aleph begins to stir, and everyone watches as the almighty entity and protector of Alchemy's seal, known as the Wise One, emerges into view. Saturos' group realizes that they cannot get the Mars Star without very likely dying, so they must flee with their lives at the expense of leaving Isaac and Garet and the Mars Star behind. Obviously it would completely defeat their purpose if the Mars Star was lost for good, but before they flee Alex proposes to take Jenna and Kraden with them as captives that accompany them on their quest; if Isaac and Garet survive, he reasons, they will pursue Saturos' group to try to free Jenna and Kraden from their grasp, and they will bring the Mars Star if they want Jenna back. Saturos and Menardi agree, and reluctantly flee the erupting chamber and sanctum with three of the four Stars in their possession. [edit] Angara and the Mercury LighthouseSaturos' group have already caused the world to begin changing by setting off Mt. Aleph's eruption, which showered Psynergy stones across Weyard, changing the lives of many a person and wild animal. And now, the four travelers and their two captives aim to climb and light the nearest Lighthouse, Alex's own Mercury Lighthouse. After passing through the town of Vault, through the Goma Range, and then north through Bilibin Cave, they reach Imil. After Alex admits them into Mercury Lighthouse with his Mercury Psynergy and the group climbs through the Lighthouse to arrive at the tower's aerie, Saturos and Alex cast the Mercury Star into the well of the Mercury Lighthouse to light the Mercury Beacon. With one Lighthouse lit, three remain before the seal on Alchemy is broken.

As soon as the Lighthouse Beacon is activated, a group of four young traveling Adepts suddenly arrive to confront them: Alex's clanmate Mia, a young boy named Ivan, and none other than Isaac and Garet, who survived Mt. Aleph's eruption and have indeed come to stop Saturos' quest and take back Jenna and Kraden. Saturos and Alex immediately hide behind the Mercury Beacon to discuss this, and shortly afterward Saturos steps out to accost Isaac's party while Alex watches from secret. Saturos instructs Menardi to take Jenna, Kraden, and Felix with her and leave the Lighthouse while he engages the opposing Adepts in battle. Not surprisingly, Saturos is an extremely powerful and capable combatant who could easily have killed all of Isaac's party were the circumstances normal. As fate would have it, however, Saturos finds he is battling with a huge handicap: The purified energy influence exuded by the nearby Mercury beacon directly contrasts and inhibits Saturos' innate Mars powers, leading to Saturos' eventual and surprising defeat by the four Adepts. Alex immediately makes himself known and stalls for time for Saturos to recuperate by talking to Mia and Isaac's party, and then Alex and Saturos flee the Lighthouse from Isaac using the elevator from the Beacon. After the events at Mercury Lighthouse, Saturos and Alex rejoin Menardi and the others, and they immediately resume their journey to the next Lighthouse.

In the extended period of time to come, Saturos' group travels all across Angara, along the way either directly or indirectly causing problems for the various towns and locations they go through to impede the progress of Isaac's pursuing party. Among Saturos' less-than-honorable activities during this period are when he crosses through Bilibin Barricade and pushes Kolima children already petrified as trees by the curse of Tret into the river for no apparent reason; when his group reaches Fuchin Temple and he forces Master Nyunpa to reveal his secrets so that his group can then cross through Mogall Forest; and beyond the town of Xian, Saturos causes a landslide at Alpine Crossing to block off an important trade route and prevent Isaac's party from catching up to them, in the process injuring and trapping an uninvolved person named Hsu. Saturos and his band soon travel through the scorching heat of Lamakan Desert without much incident or trouble because, as the oracle Hama theorizes to Isaac's pursuing party at a later point, Saturos' Mars-based powers somehow allow them to suppress the heat for his group.

Saturos and his group eventually pass by the town of Kalay at southwestern Angara and take a ferry service across the Karagol Sea to the continent Gondowan, where the next lighthouse, the Venus Lighthouse, is located. While they travel through the Suhalla Desert in the Lighthouse's direction, effortlessly slaying the powerful Tornado Lizards that have taken over the desert along the way, Saturos happens upon the young girl Sheba lost in the desert. He sees she is, in fact, a Jupiter Adept - just the element of Adept his party needed so that the the Jupiter Lighthouse could be explored and activated in the future - so he and Menardi take her captive just like they did with Jenna and Kraden before; Felix, directly in response to Saturos' kidnapping of yet another previously uninvolved party, begins to mount objections against Saturos' procedures. They soon arrive at Venus Lighthouse, and Felix, like Alex with Mercury Lighthouse, uses his Venus Psynergy to admit them entry into the tower.

Saturos and Menardi have a falling out with Felix over the involvement of Sheba in their quest.In Venus Lighthouse, as Saturos' party climbs up through the tower, Saturos and Menardi take Sheba with them to the top as they order Felix and Alex to lead Jenna and Kraden outside to Idejima, the place where Menardi moored their ship a long while back. Saturos and Menardi are on the verge of lighting the Venus Beacon on the Venus Lighthouse's aerie, however, when Felix suddenly arrives by himself. Felix demands to know why they haven't released Sheba to the Laliverans, but when Saturos explains how she is needed for Jupiter Lighthouse, Felix proclaims he will take Sheba away from Venus Lighthouse and bring her down to Idejima for safety's sake, but Saturos and Menardi deny Felix his demand, pointing out out that they cannot trust him anymore thanks to his outburst. Felix prepares to battle both Mars Adepts outright when at that moment, Isaac's party arrives at the aerie to confront Saturos and Felix. A tense standoff occurs, and Saturos threatens to harm Sheba unless Ivan gives him the Shaman's Rod in Ivan's possession. Isaac and Ivan agree to his terms, assuming that Saturos means he would free Sheba from their hold once they have the rod, and Saturos has Felix be the one to take the rod from Isaac so as to ensure his continued loyalty to them. But Saturos only clarifies to Isaac afterwards that he only said he wouldn't let harm come to her; he never actually said he'd let Sheba go, to Isaac's party's exasperation.

Saturos and Menardi then decide it is time for Isaac's party to die, and they launch an all-out offensive against Isaac's group. The master Mars Adepts are indeed immensely powerful opponents together, and unlike at Mercury Lighthouse their Mars powers are not inhibited. But nonetheless, the fierce battle eventually ends in victory for Isaac's party. But Saturos and Menardi are not out of the picture yet: After Isaac confronts Felix over the latter's involvement in Saturos' quest, Saturos arises and casually tosses the Venus Star into the Venus Lighthouse's well, to everyone's surprise and Isaac's horror. As the Venus Lighthouse activates, the energy output by the forming Venus beacon revitalizes and recharges the pair. Saturos and Menardi then execute their ultimate power: magically merging together to form a single, gigantic, terrifying creature resembling a two-headed dragon. The beast attempts to overwhelm and annihilate Isaac and his group with its superlative Mars powers, but Isaac and his friends ultimately slay the dragon. The dragon reverts to the defeated forms of Saturos and Menardi, who can only express disbelief at their complete defeat before falling backward into the Venus Lighthouse's opening. Thus do Saturos and Menardi meet their, apparent, shared demise.

However, as they fell into the well of the Venus Lighthouse, Saturos's body broke apart into particles of a grayish substance, like mist, and vanished. It was some time later, and in a vastly different world from his own, when he recovered. It had been solely due to his own endurance, and the properties of whatever sort of time-space anomoly that had brought him here that he still lived. He was thankful for being alive, but at the same time, he was filled with sorrow. He did not see Menardi, or any of his other allies, anywhere.

He hoped, without much conviction, that they had survived in the same fashion as he had and were somewhere in this world as well, but the thought that weighed on his mind more was the fate of Weyard and, more specifically, Prox. He would never know what became of his world, but, at the least, he could do his best to prevent another tragedy like that from coming to this world, by doing his best to keep the balance of power intact.

Hello! My name is Failmaster and I have been a member on The Grey Divide since late last year (December is when I started being active, I believe). The other characters that I role-play are: Nightmare, Albert Wesker, and William Overbeck. I hope you plot the end of stupidity me!!!

I plan to take up Saturos as a replacement for Nightmare. I'm sorry to anyone who had anything going with Nightmare, but I kinda lost my muse for the Azure Knight. Literally, it is dead and not coming back...most likely ever. v_v