Appearance: Black cargo-style trousers, black shirt, black jacket, fingerless black leather gloves, and a short black cloak. He carries numerous pouches along with pockets either natural to his clothing or added to them. His brown hair falls below his shoulders. He has a tail and canid ears, but is not a full lycanthrope. He wears a faceplate that hinges on a padded iron strap that fits around his head, the 'mask' of which is crafted from tin and shaped into a wolf's face.

Background: Riston was once a demi-guardian to the goddess, Raven, until her disappearance. At one time purely wolf, his gentile nature, along with his body, was altered by Mephistos to serve the god's interest. For the single purpose of turning his daughter, Blade, inward to her inherant darkness, Mephistos succeeded in manipulating Riston's newly surfaced bloodlust to attack her at a crucial point in her life, injuring her not only in body, but in mind. With his task completed, Mephistos released Riston from his chains, leaving him alone and confused on the earth.

Strengths: Long distance combat and supportive magic. Riston's magic base is Reflect, he's most generally a protector when in a team setting due to his immunity to most magic attacks. Attacked with a blockable magic spell, Riston's body will naturally block it and recast it upon the attacker, the few exceptions are magics such as meteors, comets and individual limit skills. As a demi-guardian, Riston also has an extended lifespan and, though her celestial body is in stasis, he is still protected by Raven, no psychic can touch him, be it mentally or physically.

Weaknesses: Bloodlust. Though exceptionally calm and even-tempered if unprovoked, Riston will uncontrollably slaughter his mark if face to face with them, thus his long-distance attacking style. He can also smell blood in the air and will go to it if he has no pressing matters to attend to elsewhere. He also has a tendency to roam, searching for his mistress, making him oft times extremely unreliable.

Other: Riston's Pellet Bow does not fire arrows, but rather small glass pellets that encase varying effects, whether status, elemental or supportive. He keeps them seperated in his numerous pockets, and knows by the location of the pocket and the color of the pellet, what's it's added effect is. If confronted by his bloodlust, the fingers on Riston's left hand will expand into sharp claws that are more than capable of ripping through flesh. His 'mask' also serves a purpose, while down and displaying the wolf's face over his own, Riston is more at ease with himself and will fight his own bloodlust, but if it is raised the inner wolf within him clashes with his now human side and he tends to become increasingly aggressive. This creates imbalance within his mind, on one side the calmness, on the other the aggression, and he walks a very fine line between them, but in all, prefers the calmer side of himself.


Runes
Mastered Reflect
Mastered Dispell
Mastered Protect


Limit Skills
I. Cataclysm - when angered enough to use this skill, Riston's reflective base manifests, surrounding his allies as well and amplifying any magic attack used against them so that when it bounces back at the caster, it's twice as strong.
II. Armageddon - if pushed to the extreme, Armageddon manifests Riston's reflective base and blocks any and all forms of magic, including previously unblockable ones, then amplifies them to a maximum before bouncing the spell back onto it's caster. When this skill kicks in, Riston's body will glow a dim orange, the first sign to his opponent(s) that using magic will only hurt them. It's effects on Riston last for three days, during which time, magic is useless against him.

Guardian Stats
FORGE
A large timber wolf, Forge is most generally at Riston's side. His skill "Kindred" focuses on Riston himself, calming his bloodlust. Unless driven to an extreme or seperated, Forge helps to keep Riston's unnatural aggression in check.