Comprehensive Study of Rhulan's powers

The comprehensive study of Rhulan's powers.


  While it would be easy and tempting to refer to Rhulan as an unstoppable force of magic; while not wholly inaccurate it would be a tad too vague and disengenious to the complexity of this character's wide abilities. To begin Rhulan is almost never encountered in her (original) form, instead she utilizes a wide array of transformations and avatars with various abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. In truth this is actually a species trait for what she really is. These various forms one must be sure to remember are not power ups, some are weaker than others and have various stats and capabilities; with their own strengths and weaknesses. Rhulan switches between these forms either by physically transforming from one to another, switching them out via magic, or as a thought projection. In this last case one form, her primary or current form goes to sleep or hibernates and her mind projects another form; however most forms utilized this way have a rather unfortunate condition; they operate just like a person in a dream with little regard to inhibitions, reason, and operate almost soley by emotion; even those forms that would normally be fully rational and concious if projected this way behave in this manner. Which brings up one other problem with all transformations they give Rhulan a sort of "split personality". All the forms have one set of memories *with two exceptions: when she intentionally gives herself amnesia for one reason or another to limit her power/trap herself in a specific form for a set duration. And the other exception being pure emotional thought forms which don't care for memories outside their set task, behaving fully within their form and instincts*. Now despite the one set of memories the split personality aspect comes about as various forms have different degress of ethics, morality, and outlooks; some more obvious than others; and may even work against their own other forms' interests at times as a result. Or else work to restrict them. As these forms have such varied power and personality some mistakenly regard them as "aspects" of a greater whole; Rhulan herself has even made this mistaken assumption when in a memories limited form. Especially as some forms have such greater power than others it becomes easy to assume THAT form or THIS form is the primary, true, or original; even to such an extent that spells that force shape shifters into their true form will shift into that form which she at the time thinks is her true form.

   Rhulan's transformations can be categorized as such:

   Elemental
   Demonic
  Divine
  Eldritch
  Mundane *this being a relative term in this case*


  Rhulan spends most of her time in her "Sorceress" form which she often regards as her primary form, especially as mentally it is one of the more balanced forms, and power wise has some of the widest selection of abilities without a loss of control. As a note there as a general rule the more powerful a form is, the less concious control she has over it with the strongest forms practically acting like a summoned spirit that performs a specific single focused task and then reverts back; or else is a being of pure raw emotion on a time limit *such as when she next wakes up or is "snapped out of it"*.  Rhulan also spent over 10,000 years in her Sorceress form at one time going from a limited powers and memory reincarnated as an infant relearning and regrowing her powers of this form experience. As a result it has become her most comfortable, a physical form with a wide variety of powers, high stats but not break the world around her high, concious control, and able to think straight without any overpowering emotions *except maybe ego/pride*. As a result of this, this form is most often regarded as the primary form; especially as she will switch to other forms from this one and back to this one to take control of the wandering thoughts and emotions of her other forms and refocus on her tasks. Not surprisingly, during her time reincarnated in this form she actually unlocked many of her other forms again and with her limited knowledge of herself considered them to be special transformations skills/spells that she dubbed "Cataclysms". All but a few of the mundane forms were relearned this way. However as a result of rebuilding her Sorceress form and regaining her powers this way she has developed a few odd side effects for it that will be explored in detail in the Elemental transformations section. Although as a side note: the Sorceress form used to have a weakness to "Holy Energy" that made this form feel violently ill and even become physically weak. However since the reincarnation and linking her other transformations to this form as the center that particular weakness was removed.

   Sorceress form basic details:
   Abilities: Wide Variety of powers, Spell Caster (Elemental Magic),
   Strength: A class
   Speed: B+ into the A- with spell assistance
   Durability: S class

   Description: She stands 5'10'', has straight dark red hair that is mid-back length, her eyes are a dark blue, she appears to be either Caucasian or Asian depending on who is asked as her facial features arn't really human proporsion but some may say she has an Elfish or Feline quality to her face, which tends to trigger the uncanny valley affect in some people making her instantly minicing, or else very alluring. Some worlds would say she looks like an anime character almost. Her clothing of choice is a rather cliche sorceress outfit, black high heel boots, tight black pants, a corset like black top with red laces, a black cape with a red interior lining.

   Particular items for form: Her clothing is "shadow cloth", while her cape is a "Dimension Cape". The Dimension Cape is a special technological item whose interior shifts from red to black to form a portal into which she can place and access items. She also has this linked up to a large warehouse with mechanical tentacles that can shoot out from it to collect and even attack things. As well when in use she has been known to spin and slice through opponents as the edge of the cape has become a dimensional instability horrizon.

    She has a wide variety of weapons and magic items at her disposal as a result from various magic swords from her Rune Sword to the Thousand Year Sword that she spent so long creating; as well as various guns and other devices. She may also summon her battle robot maid Amara from her shadow linked up to this cape, as well as use a nanite egg to create minions from available materials *she can also do this with her elemental magic so it is somewhat redundant save that these are mechanical in nature so magical defenses arn't as useful against them*.

   Sometimes she may also have a snake brace on her upper arm that is actually her daughter Hanalan the dragon overlord hitching a ride on her, or a red gem necklace that is made from a chaos crystal granting her control over any evil spirits in the area and summoning them (this is a form of magic she doesn't normally use). She will occassionally have this stone in a black claw like staff instead of a necklace in which case she may fire chaos bolts from it...which she can do by hand as well. However in more recent times it has become rare for her to use special items. These and many more magic items are at her disposal, although again she doesn't use items as frequently anymore and only really relied on them when in a weakened state such as during her Society of Sorcery days and right after she was freed from her imprisonment of stone. Otherwise she simply has a hobby of collecting such artifacts and may use items from her collection more as a novelty, to throw opponents off her actual strength, or other reasons depending on the circumstances such as a world where people only use items for magic so as not to draw attention to herself.

  Special Defenses: Absorbs magic, chi, demonic, and divine energy. High level Defense Aura, and an enhanced version she can conjure up called Celestial Aura that allows her to breath in space, survive cold temperatures, be emersed in lava/solar plasma. While new and exotic spells can work on her, they usually can only work once as she adapts to them *as seen with the mirror of Syris which turned her to stone; yet her body gradually adapted to this state by projecting thought forms and an astral body, and once freed the same magic item only worked for a few seconds and then never again*. Of note also is her outfit, the steriotypical black sorceress outfit resembling pants, high heel boots, and a corset top is made of a material called "Shadow Cloth" that adds to her defenses and can change shape; although she rarely uses it for any specialized purpose and just likes how it feels on her body and the ability to change her outfit with a magic command.

  Weaknesses/Oddities: *Used to be weak to holy energy*, Cold magic is the exception to being absorbed. This form cannot use ice spells and ice spells used on her cannot be absorbed, forcing her to rely on physical strength against them while utilizing her Celestial Aura for defense. As well she does not absorb kinetic force or psychic powers; although her mind is far too chaotic to be read properly and probing her depths can drive a telepath insane given her eldritch nature. However if caught unawares sleep inducing psychic pulses work on her to make her tired and go to sleep...however this may also result in a thought form emerging from the astral plane shortly after, and due to the psychic nature this is usually one of three forms (The Fairy Queen, Primal Shadow, or The Netherian Succubus). However chemical means of inducing such a state do work; provided they are strong enough to affect an Aesperian's high tolerance which her Sorceress form is essentially a high level Aesperian. Although for some unknown reason alcohol affects her; in short she can become drunk and pass out.

    While not really a weakness there is one other hole in her defenses worh noting, earth based attacks. Unlike gas and energy based magic which she can absorb the element with the magic, earth based magic while she will absorb the magic energy she won't absorb the earth matter *rocks, soil, ect...* and can still be hit by it. Why she will either dodge or juggernaut through such attacks with punches and kicks or deflect with her own attacks and shields. There may be a relation here as to why ice gives this form so much trouble as another solid mass.

Most commonly used skills/spells in this form:
Telekinetic Hold/Thrust (use of psionics to hold and throw individuals)
Thunder Cannon (beam of plasma and electicity)
Elemental Spheres (spirit spheres containing a symbol of an element that explode as a blast or cyclone of that element)
Lock Breaker (a skill that unlocks almost any lock and can break any barrier so long as her mana is high enough)
Mana Blasts (various purple-violet energy blasts of pure mana)
*Various Electric, Fire, and energy attacks*
(these are of course only a small sample, being a master of elemental magic the list is far too extensive; although as a note she has demonstrated the ability to cast extremly powerful high level spells such as Thunder Blast, Mystical Destroyer, and even Chaos Blast and Chaos Destroyer.)
  -Thunder Blast is a massive lightning bolt summoned from both hands when brought together after charging up electricity around them outstretched that is powerful enough to blow holes in the sides of buildings and blast apart cars.
  -Mystical Destroyer is a large purple beam that distorts and destroys physical matter as a form of pure magic.
  -Chaos Blast is a large dark red beam of pure chaos energy that annihilates matter and energy in its path, usually a forbidden spell she uses it only on eldritch as one of the few things that can harm such beings.
  -Chaos Destroyer a powerful black beam that destroys and reorganizes the reality within its influence based on the users' will. Even in Sorceress form this spell takes time to use and needs to be from a distance.

  *the sorceress form can also use Omega Level spells (such as the Demiurge of Ra or Zeus' Cannon *a hurrican made of fire and a massive electric beam able to annihilate a city respectively*, but this is extremly rare given the massive destruction and only done in pocket dimension battles or against massive enemy space fleets and the like.

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  We will now explore the other transformations starting with the Elemental Catagory as it is the most used and connected to her sorceress form; being they were the first transformations Rhulan relearned after reincarnating. Due to the fact her Sorceress form is designed to focus on "Elemental Magic" an unexpected link occured between the sorceress form and the elemental forms that cemented her belief for millenia they were extensions of that form. This oddity being that when in her sorceress for or any of the elemental forms and she is blasted with "too much" of a particular form of elemental magic; those she has a corresponding form too she will automatically shift into that form. This can look intentional to some opponents, say for instance she is standing there as a Sorceress and a demon blasts her with an intense amount of fire magic and from the flames she walks out as her cocky Inferno Queen form. She has learned to block this over the years but too much at once and not shielding from it properly and the transformations will be triggered. This is due to her magic absorption defense, as it is an automatic defense mechanism/feeding mechanism as it were where she simply absorbs magic directed at her. This aligns with her stored in her astral form transformations and brings them out in full.

    As a note before hand there are two elemental forms that cross over with other categories; (Demon of Darkness) and (Holy Angel of Light), this being darkness and light crossed over with a demonic transformation and a divine transformation. We will keep it simple to start with.


Fire: The Fire Queen Inferno
  Rhulan's skin turns a light pink with a red glow around it, her hair becomes wavy and a much lighter shade of red. Her eyes may stay blue or turn light red. Her clothing in this form tends to be shorts with flame patterns, a red bra like top, and a black or red with flame patterns vest.

  This form has a minor personality shift, she becomes a tad more cocky and "hot headed". Also more of a "party girl" persona. Her stats undergo a minor shift.

  Strength: A class
   Speed: A
   Durability: A class

  Her powers in this form are limited to fire, but she is quicker at their use not requiring spells, the most typical being.
  Fire Ball
 Fire Rocket (like a fire ball only faster and longer ranged with a larger explosion)
Fire Blast
Combustion (makes things just burst into flame)
Hell Fire Blast (a powerful blast of fire with a hint of demonic energy that makes the burns continue to burn even when the flame is out)
Inferno Blast (a white hot beam of flames)

This form can of course use any higher fire attacks and lower ones as well, including oddities like Pyrokinetic fire morphing *making flames take on weird shapes*, Omega Fire Ra (summons a large phoenix of fire that can take out a whole army, and so on.

  This form also is prone to summong a fire based chain sword for combat that can even shoot into the ground and shoot up a large number of fire chains from below to target a whole area.

  This form however is extra weak to ice magic, but can get a leg up on earth magic by melting stone and metal into lava at which point this form gains control over them.

  This has been a brief description of this form's capabilities.