Nomus

[Nomus]

Name:
Nomus

Age:
Who knows?

Gender:
Given as male

Species:
Apparently humanoid

Description and Physiology:
Nomus's general appearance can be described thusly. For starters, he has no face, but a mask where it would otherwise be. The mask curves around the front of his head, tapering to a point at the bottom, and to three points at the top, like a shield. It is as hard as diamond, and has the appearance of black brushed metal. Etched on the mask around the edges are intricate patterns of what seem to be circuitry or channels of some sort, but the most striking things about the mask are the eyes and the mouth. The eyes are essentially carats punched through the mask, but shallower and more sinister, while the mouth is like an upside-down-capital-delta, but with a small upwards protrusion making it look slightly like a W but with the central peak lower down.

Through the eye and mouth holes, green tendrils of energy are constantly flowing out as if trying to force the mask off of Nomus's face. If the mask were ever removed, his face would be nothing but a green furnace, destroying everything Nomus would cast his faceless gaze onto. The back of his head is covered by the same substance that makes up the mask. On the top of his head sits a simple white top hat, with a simple green band of ribbon.

As for the rest of Nomus, he is always garbed in a long white tailcoat, with white gloves on his seemingly humanoid hands, long black boots, and an elaborately carved metal staff by his side. The staff's carvings can make those viewing it feel uneasy, as the intricate lines and patterns seem to shift and stir almost unnoticably. Even a still photograph of the staff is imbued with this same subtle uncertainty of form.

Physical Abilities:
Nomus can defend himself with some degree of skill and grace, but more often than not prefers not to get undesired stains on his suit and gloves.

Supernatural Abilities:
Many of Nomus's special abilities stem from his staff, which he treats with as much care and respect as if it were a physical part of his body. Indeed, he can sense its location and can almost instantaneously appear wherever his staff tends to drift.
Nomus's staff glows with a faint green aura and tends to drift independantly of him, possessing a limited degree of free will.
Nomus can control his staff whether he is directly holding it or not, so long as he can see it and there is an uninterrupted path from his hand to the staff. If these conditions are met, he can create, shape, change and destroy almost anything he desires given time out of a strange black matter with interesting properties.

As mentioned earlier, removal of Nomus's mask will give way to a raging inferno of green fire, and occasionally wisps of this fire will flow from the eye and mouth slots in his mask.

Home:
Nomus has no disclosed home.

History:
An enigmatic figure, Nomus simply turned up to Blackstar one day, and that's as far as anyone in this world seems to know. His actions and references seem to imply he has had a very long and complicated history outside of Blackstar.

Alignment:
Neutral

Personality:
Unpredictable, to say the least. Usually calm and cautious, but woe betide those who anger him.