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Kotaro

Type: Cave/Sky

Gender: Male

Base Colour: Iridescent

Age: 167 (Level 7)

Length: 6'11"

Height: 7'10"

Automatic Abilties: Sacrifice, Cat Eyes, Falcon Eyes

Special Abilities: Acid Box, Acid Dragon, Acid Scream, Acid Shower, Air Blast, Attention Slip, Bat Hearing, Bloody Fury, Burning Skies, Call Rain, Control Wind, Darkness, Ensnare, Fast Wing, Find Home, Ghost, Gouging Claws, Healing Touch, Illusion, Infrared, Invisibility, Levin Bolt, Levitate, Lightning Blade, Lightning Call, Lightning Dragon, Link, Liquid Kat, Metal Blade, Metal Shard, Pinpoint, Poison Claw, Razor Claws and Teeth, Reflex of the Teknikat, Shape Change, Shield, Shocking Grasp, Silent Glide, Silent Step, Slumber, Spike Tail, Tekniblur, Track, Wing Blades

Appearance: At night, Kotaro appears to be blue-white, but daylight---when it hits just right---gives his fur a rainbow-like sheen, like the surface of a soap bubble, or oil on water. Black glare stripes curl around a golden muzzle and guard his sapphire blue eyes. His large ears are violet, as are his paws. Thick, short stripes of alternating gold and violet trail down his back. The tuft at the end of his semi-short tail is violet streaked with gold. His wings are violet-feathered save for the largest of them, which are black as midnight.

Kotaro's body is almost exactly like that of a Cave Kat's: small and compact, large-eared and large eyed. The giveaways to his Sky Kat father are his normal-sized glare stripes and, of course, his wings.

History: Kotaro's Sky Kat father---Railan---was one of the first to flee the Hymbroad after the development of the Sky Kat Curse. He flew far south to the southern point of the Hymbroad Island, rested to gain his strength, then began the lengthy flight across the ocean. During the flight, a mild form of the Curse that he had contracted developed further and soon became delirium. Blinded by his fever, Railan lost all track of time, until the day a horrid storm struck. The winds buffeted his body beyond his control and tore the air from under his wings. He plummeted from the sky and crashed...

...into a forest. The storm had carried him far south to the Continent of Weskain. He could hardly rejoice, however, for his delirium had worsened and now wasn't at all helped by his injuries. Unable to more, and therefore unable to hunt, he surrendered himself to starvation. Unconsciousness soon followed, though through brief moments of awareness, he acquired memories of small kats, of many tails lifting his battered body, and of a tunnel leading under the roots of a gigantic leatherleaf tree.

Sometime later Railan woke far underground, in a cave of soil and rock. His injuries were healed, clarity was returning to his mind, and a bowl of Ru broth was pressed against his lips. A Cave Kat Clan---Deepshadow---had found him and brought him in. A half-dozen kats---including two Golds---had healed his injuries and managed to purge the illness from his body. They fed him and nursed him back to health. Having nowhere else to go, Railan remained with the Cave Kats once he had recovered, and took a den near the surface as his own. He befriended the Deepshadow Kats as well as many of the Forest Kat Clan Silverthorn, who lived aboveground. Railan ended up falling in love with a Cave named Seroka---one of the Gold kats that had nursed him back to health.

Little Kotaro was the result of their union.

One day when Kotaro was sixty-two, he went outside with a group of his Cave friends to play. While the youths were outside, they were discovered by a sixth level Guilder who was looking to earn a name for herself. Viciously, she attacked the young kats. Fiercely protective of his friends, Kotaro fought back with all his heart. With his combination of acid and lightning, he was able to hold her off until help---in the form of a Plateau/Valley hybrid---arrived.

Once the Guilder was no longer a threat, Dier'nal---the hybrid---thanked Kotaro for his help. Nothing the youth's mixed lineage, he told Kotaro of the Protectors. The winged Cave was captured from the first words, and could think of nothing better than to be a Protector as well. His parents were reluctant to let him go, but eventually they sent him off with their love and blessings. Kotaro was a born guardian---they could not deny him this.

Kotaro was taken to meet Falcon, and inducted into the Protectors. Dier'nal took it upon himself to train the kit, and teach him ways to fight the Guild and its Multicolour warriors. With his inherent ability to prevent his opponents from using many of their attacks, he made an excellent Protector.

Railan, Seroka, and Dier'nal are all now long dead. Kotaro is a very honourable and knightly Protector, and is rather powerful. He's no match for a Guilder like Q'uara, but he easily takes down those who rely heavily on their abilities to fight. He's known among the Protectors for his strong sense of justice and his desire to protect the weaker. He has no mate or kits, having devoted his life to protecting others.

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