Lokesh

Name: Lokesh (Lok)

Concept: "Schizophrenic" Paragon of the Air Sages

Playbook: The Icon

Demeanor: Reserved, Sullen

Backgrounds: Monastic, Wilderness

Training:
Airbending

Fighting style Lokesh has rediscovered the use of Wind Swords (hilts) to help him control his bending. While this is lauded as a great feat by his father and the other Air Sages, and is one of the reasons for his being marked as the next High Sage, in reality it is because he needs the sword hilts to control his powers. Without them, his air bending his is wild and forceful like the untamed winds of a raging storm.

Stats:
Creativity +0, Focus +3, Harmony +1, Passion -1

Principles:

Role........
+3 O -3
+2 X -2
+1 O -1
+0 O +0 >Center
-1 O +1
-2 O +2
-3 O +3
......Freedom

Growth Points: 6

Burden and Tradition
Lokesh is the Paragon of the Air Sages. His rediscovery of the wind sword technique has set him on the path to being the next High Air Sage. He is set to replace his father, despite the fact that he is not yet a master. He is expected to be its exemplar, its single most crucial representative of the Air Nation out in the world, saddled with the weight of history. He has been told that he is vital to the world.

Responsibilities
Protect Humanity from natural disasters and dark spirits Guarding the Natural world against threats and destruction Serve and defend the Avatar.

Despite the high expectations of his father, Lok is torn regarding his responsibilities. Protecting humanity from nature and nature from humanity seems to be completely at odds within the young Airbender.

Because of that, and the fact that his hallucinations seem to focus on that duality, Lokesh has focused his attention on protecting the new Avatar.

Prohibitions
Never express great emotion Never start a fight Never use your position for gain or profit.

The monastic traditions of the Air Nation as a whole have always eschewed material wealth and leaned toward pacifism. Lokesh is expected to uphold those ideals. Airbenders have also been carefree and jovial, but the Air Sages have started to push the Air Nation toward a more serious demeanor.

This is in large part due to Lokesh's father. When Lokesh was young and got angry or sad... or his hallucinations scared him... storms would form over the Central Air Temple. His father pushed him to master his emotions, and that attitude spilled out to the rest of the Air Sages as a new ideal.

Icon Moves:
Use Their Momentum When you are engaged with a large or powerful foe, mark fatigue to advance and attack with Focus instead of Passion. If you do, you become Prepared and may also choose to use Retaliate as if it were an advance and attack technique.

Concentration. Take +1 Focus (max +3).

Advanced Techniques
Air Swipe (D&M) Mastered
Duck and Twist (E&O) Practiced

Connections:

• __________________ seems to not fully understand what it means that I’m the icon of my tradition… and I kind of like feeling free around them.
• The [INSERT EARTHBENDING AVATAR'S NAME HERE] makes me feel better about my responsibilities and my burden with a smile and a few kind words.

Moment of Balance
Others have laid a path for you that you cannot escape, but balance means you understand the limits of their vision. You make the role your own in this moment, charting a new path for yourself and your tradition. Tell the GM how your new understanding of your burdens forges a new way forward for everyone.

History:
What tradition do you represent as its icon? Why can’t you set down the role?
Lokesh represents the Air Sages as the Paragon of Air... destined to be the next High Air Sage. His father, the current High Air Sage, added a border to his Airbender master tattoos as a symbol of his stats. As the Paragon, Lokesh only has that outer border in the shape of a hollow arrow, that marks him apart from every other Airbender. There is no escaping his position.

Who was your chief mentor, teaching you the nature of your burden and its value?
His father, the High Air Sage, took the responsibility to mentor and shape young Lokesh. When Lokesh let his imagination run wild as a child and pretend he could do things he couldn't, and see things that weren't there, his father harshly stamped such things from his mind. Lokesh could not completely banish his hallucinations... the wolf-headed man and house-sized turtle still haunt him... but he has learned to ignore them for the most part.

Who showed you that even with the weight of your burden, you could still find ways to play?
Lokesh used to play with an imaginary friend as a child. A massive turtle the size of a house and the face of a lion, called Akupara. This was one of the only joys in young Lokesh's lonely childhood, but he was forced to ignore this hallucination, along with others, as he grew into the man his father wanted him to be.

What token of your burden and tradition do you always carry?
His tattoos are a constant reminder that he is the Paragon of Air. He also bears the crest of the Air Sages, which is the symbol of the air nation except bordered by a triangle instead of a circle.

Why are you committed to this group or purpose?
This purpose was instilled into him all through his childhood by his father and the other Air Sages. He has known nothing except this responsibility. The new Air Nation is till young... it's only been around for 27 years and it is still finding its way. The Air Sages can help them remember their heritage and let it guide them.

Also, Airbending is one of the only times he allows himself to feel anything, one of his only joys in life. He hopes to share that wither other Airbenders.

Hallucinations:
Although he doesn't know it, Lokesh's hallucinations and dreams are really visions of the second Avatar, Thaki. She was born of Waterbenders, but Wan had been unsuccessful in uniting and bringing peace to the various peoples of the world. When she started displaying Earthbending abilities, her mother was killed for consorting with the enemy and Thaki fled to the wilds.

She survived on her own, becoming half-feral herself, but eventually was found by a group of outcast hunters. They took her in and taught her to hunt. After her first kill, a giant wolf, she fashioned it into a mask and wore it as a badge of honor.

As she awakened to her Avatar powers and the spirit of Wan, she continued his efforts of bringing peace, but after seeing how the people of the towns consumed and hurt the spirits and nature to support their rapid expansion, she also tried to bring balance to the natural world and the human one.

Appearance:
The Air Sages and the Air Benders of the Central Air Temple have adopted what they call more 'traditional' colors. Orange is their primary color, as opposed to yellow, paired with white leggings, under robes, or skirts. This is supplemented with maroon and yellow as highlights. Maroon is often seen as a color of authority, with more influential members, such as the Sages or Air Masters, wearing more of it.

Lokesh has shaggy brown hair that tends to stick up all over the place after his air-bending. He has air-bending tattoos, but they are hollow. He only has the outside border of the arrows filled in, marking him as the Paragon of Air.

Lokesh wears a sleeveless orange tunic that hangs down to mid-thigh and has a "high Air-bender style" collar. He has a maroon sash wrapped around his waist and the brass symbol of the Air Sages adorning it like a buckle. The hilts of his wind swords are stuffed in the back, and his forearms are wrapped in white cloth.

He wears baggy white leggings and soft brown boots, with the angles and calves wrapped in burgundy cloth.