Mara is a healer that has been hunted across realms and times. He is a healer, a cleric, a mystic, a nurse, a doctor, a medical officer. He is a master of disguises and has taken on several identities through the years. He appears on the younger side with an athletic, muscular body. He has some body hair, but the majority of his body is smooth.
Personality
A very warm and caring person, but a bit of a follower and does not see his ability to heal or control life as anything worthwhile. He is powerful, but doesn't see it that way thinking he is more of a sidekick than a hero. He follows orders well.
Background
Born during the Middle Ages, Mara has been around for many lifetimes with his regeneration ability healing him faster than he can age, repairing cells and keeping him young forever. As a young man he used his powers to heal others, which led the Church at the time to condemn him as a heretic and forcing him to go on the run. Over the years he has always adapted to the trends of current society, staying ahead of those who might condemn him. However, in the modern era he was caught healing patients who would otherwise have needed very expensive health care, which led executives of a major health care corporation hire professionals to hunt him. He has evaded these agents in the past, but they persist as a problem for him. He continues to work as a nurse, but has changed his appearance focusing on a more current trendy appearance. He has always been hunted and would love to finally find someone willing to protect him and keep him safe.
SKILLS
MEDICINE - Expert: Mara is a skilled nurse and has been around for several lifetimes due to his high healing ability and regeneration. His focus in patient comfort and medicine. He is smarter than most current doctors and experts, but keeps a low profile preferring to work at the bedise rathn than in an office or research clinic.
SCIENCE - Expert: Mara is an expert in anatomy, microbiology, biology, zoology, chemistry and organic chemistry. He is also a skilled toxicologist and knows how to identify poisons and diseases
POWERS
HEALING - Enhanced: Mara can heal others with a touch. He can heal damage, regrow bones or limbs, cure diseases, poison and ailments like fatigue, blindness, dearfness, paralysis. He must be able to touch the person to heal them.
LIFESCAN - Supreme: Mara has xray vision which he uses to examine broken bones and other diseases. His vision not only is more thorough than an x-ray, CAT scan, or MRI, it can also sense the vital life energy of a person allowing him to determine how close to death they area, general estimate death and can identify living or undead creatures. Mara can use his vision to detect people in darkness, concealment or through walls. This ability has no effect on inanimate objects.
LIFE CONTROL - Enhanced: Mara can control all powers of life. He is a pure conduit of life energy. He is able to exert powers over the life energy of another person within line of sight. He can inflict weakness on a target, cause nausea, momentary illness, pain or extreme pleasure. He can stop reflex functions like breathing, heart beating, circulation. He can cause blindness or deafness and rob people of their senses. Mara has been known to use this ability defensively by slowing pursuers, making them out of breath or blurring their vision. Used offensively, Mara can cause paralysis, coma and even death. As this power directly affects the body, it can be counteracted by sufficient levels of physical toughness or regeneration, or other forms of physical defense.
LIGHT CONTROL - Basic: Mara has some form of basic light control. When he heals or using his healing or life control power, he sheads light like a halo around him. He is learning to control his light aura, but at most he has learned to make it not noticable during the day or in a well lit area. In darkness or dim lighting, his halo still shines clear.
REGENERATION - Supreme: Mara is able to regenerate and heal massive amounts of damage. He heals minor damage in seconds, major damage in minutes and can regrow his own limbs in hours.
WEAKNESSES
HUNTED Mara has been hunted in the past by both the church and the large biological/pharmaceutical companies. During the age of the Inquisition and such, Mara was hunted by the church. His ability to heal was claimed to be nothing short of a "Miracle," only God is able to perform "Miracles". They wished to silence him and stop him from performing more "Miracles" unless they were sanctioned by the Church, but this is not the problem it once was, as the power and extremism of the Church are not what they once were. In the modern day, Mara has been hunted by agents of a large health care corporation because he healed patients whose care would have made the company a lot of money. They would not be adverse to capturing him and using him as a lab rat to help them find more cures for things they can in turn sell to the masses for large profits.
