Ianos the Grey Sage

David Attenborough as Ianos Lampadis

GENERAL Name: Ianos Lampadis Birthdate: April 5 Faction: Inhumans Codename: Ianos the Grey Sage Position: Sage Hometown: Attilan FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 5'9" Father: Caerus Weight: 155 lbs. Mother: Portumna the Librarian Hair Color: White Siblings: NA Eye Color: Blue Children: NA

Background

Ianos Lampadis is the latest in a long line of Inhuman scholars devoted to preserving the Grey Book, a series of excerpts from the Codex Regius (also known as the Codex of the Inhuman Kings and Queens). His family was not of great birth, though his mother experienced terrigenesis as an amanuensis, able to convert thoughts and ideas into precise written transcription or data files. As such he grew up around the libraries and schools.

Recognized as a scholar of great acumen and introspection, he was selected young as a student to the Magisters. Ianos applied himself diligently to his work. He served as a clerk and scribe, copyist, and data technician. He came late to terrigenesis, at close to age 27, by which time his path seemed quite clear to serve the library into old age. That was before they realized he had the extraordinarily rare gift to dreamwalk.

Ianos ended up assigned under a demanding mentor, one of the hidden Grey Sages. Not long into King Myran's reign 7000 years ago, the Order of Grey Sages went underground to preserve especially noteworthy information about Kree-Inhuman history. The order was thought lost when Myran moved Attilan from the North Atlantic. His mentor, Portunus, was the latest sage and deemed Ianos' role invaluable in service to Attilan. He spent years as an apprentice, painstakingly memorizing the work and exploring lost places, being more of an active archaeologist than living a quiet life. When Portunus died, he assumed the role of a senior sage for Europe, stationed in Scotland to watch over the European and North African ruins.

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• Inhuman Physiology: Ianos has superior strength, stamina, durability, reflexes, and dexterity to a peak human, adjusted for his advancing age. Think of him as Captain America +1.
• Astral Projection: Ianos can project an astral version of himself into a subject's dreams or the astral plane. The recipient doesn't require psychic abilities to interact with him, and psychics or mystics with mental resistance can detect/resist his intrusions. Dreamwalking requires the target to be asleep.
• During astral projection, his physical body remains behind, capable of maintaining autonomous functions but otherwise vulnerable. After 30 hours unattended, it begins to deteriorate from lack of nourishment. He is unaware of any threats unless the damage is sufficient to interrupt his powers. He returns to his body with limited conscious effort.
• His astral form moves rapidly through the astral realm. It cannot be perceived in the 'real world' without magic or psychic abilities. Lacking a physical presence, it cannot interact with objects or move. Ianos has comparable strength, speed, and agility to his body when in the astral realm. He can communicate normally using any language he knows with other denizens.
• In a dream realm, Ianos can reshape his appearance completely. He can modify the environment of the dream to suit his whims, fashioning buildings, objects, and people wholecloth. None of these are real and exist outside the dreamer's mind. Attempting to subvert the dreamer's natural personality or wrest control is by consent only and difficult for him. The dreamer can unconsciously reshape their own dream.
• Ianos is ejected from a dreamscape if the dreamer awakens. If he's on the astral plane and ejected by a greater force, he returns immediately to his body.

Skills

• Archaeologist: Ianos is essentially a Masters level archaeologist with 100 years of experience in the field. He knows his way around the field, basically.
• Boating: Though frail and old, he can handle most boats from rowboats up to yachts and fishing boats.
• Inhuman History: Ianos is an expert on Inhuman lore, as a student of the library of Attilan and a member of the Grey Sages. He can provide a complete and thorough overview to students. His area of expertise is the rebellion of Randac (25,00O YA) against the Kree, and the subsequent removal of Attilan from the North Atlantic by King Myran.
• Kree Ruins: His specialty in the Grey Sages is the location and disposition of Kree ruins. In particular, those where Kree researched and experimented on humans.
• Languages: He knows fluent English, Kree, Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic. He can read and understand Scots Gaelic, Sanskrit, Old Norse, Old Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Mayan, and a plethora of other ancient languages required for plot purposes.
• Survival: Ianos has spent the better part of his adult life in remote areas, like St. Kilda Island, roughing it. He's an old hand at reading weather, navigating in the dark, pitching tents, gleaning off the land, and avoiding typical wildlife and environmental dangers.

Advantages

• Library: Ianos officially works for the library of Attilan. His official work goes back to Attilan by the slow boat to the Himalayas. He is respected for his discoveries.
• Money: Ianos has a small cache of British pounds, American dollars, and Norwegian kroner that amounts to about $10,000 to cover his expenses as he needs it.
• Secret Order: Ianos is a member of the Grey Sages, a small, secret order devoted to preserving knowledge about Kree-Inhuman ruins, ancient Inhuman history, and the somewhat heretical Grey Book. He has rather accurate information about ruin sites in particular.

Flaws

• Attilan First: Ianos' loyalties are to Attilan, his order, the ruling family, and himself in that order. They aren't interchangeable and that can give him headaches when royals or councilors tell him to jump and he knows he damn well can't.
• Kree Target: Inhuman enemies, especially the Kree, would /love/ to know what Ianos knows. He has all the typical enemies of his people and then some.
• Old: Ianos is really getting on in years. He knows his time is nearly up. He's also pretty damn frail.
• Secret Order: Being in a secret order means you don't talk about the secret order. Ianos preserves invaluable information and he's isolated from other Grey Sages, prohibiting him from knowing much.
• Unsympathetic Culture: Attilan doesn't think much of Inhumans living outside Attilan. They view Ianos' posting as something of a punishment or an undesirable outcome, like an American posted to, say, Poland. Someone has to do it. But you have to wonder why.
• Inhuman Weaknesses: Ianos is badly affected by pollution. Prolonged exposure will leave him weakened and ill. He can limit this by spending time in pristine environments.

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1964-07-23 - King's Men 13: Eternal Summer (log: crystal ianos inhumans kamala karnak kingsmen plot rogue thor)

1964-07-22 - King's Men 12: Burning Earth (log: crystal ianos inhumans kamala kamala-khan karnak kingsmen nexus plot rogue steve-rogers thor)

1964-07-21 - King's Men 11: Bleeding Sun (log: crystal ianos inhumans kamala karnak kingsmen nexus plot)

1964-07-17 - King's Men 7: Eternal Spring (log: crystal ianos inhumans karnak kingsmen plot)

1964-07-11 - King's Men 6: Dead of Winter (log: crystal ianos inhumans karnak kingsmen nexus plot)

1964-07-10 - King's Men 5: Fleeting Winter (log: crystal ianos inhumans kamala karnak kingsmen nexus plot)

1964-07-09 - King's Men 4: Evening Reverie (log: ianos inhumans kamala kamala-khan kingsmen plot)

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