Erik "Magnus" Lehnsherr

[Magneto]

++Application for Enrolment++

The Person

Name: Born Max Eisenhardt, changed to Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, goes by Magnus generally

Age: 59

Place of Birth: Germany

Applying too: Xavier's

In what capacity: Staff, Deputy Head

Family:
Wanda/Scarlet Witch - Daughter
Pietro/Quicksilver - Son
Lorna/Polaris - Daugher

Height: 6"2

Weight: 190 lbs

Appearance:

Skills:
Magnus is a genius with competence in various fields of advanced science, especially in genetic manipulation, physics, engineering, and other fields of technology. Magnus is also a master strategist with extensive combat experience capable of surviving or even winning against what would appear to be a superior force. Finally, he has had extensive combat training, though he prefers to use his powers in combat situations.

Personality:
Magnus is many things, and one of them is a gentleman. He strives to be a well thought out, articulated and easy to get on with, if perhaps somewhat mysterious. He is also highly clever and possesses excellent foresight, a life of hardships has taught the man several lessons about life, some which have left him more then cynical on certain matters, especially concerning human tolerance.

Magneto however, is a radical mutant supremacist, who believes Homo Superior are Humanities replacements and as a step above on the evolutionary ladder, considers humans an inferior specie, and looks upon them exactly as he looks upon monkeys or dogs.

Likes:

• His fellow Mutant
  
• Academia
  
• Chess
  
• The Countryside
  
• Coffee on a nice summer morning
  

Dislikes:

• Human Oppression
  
• Narrow mindedness
  
• Naivety
  
• Weakness
  
• Humans in general
  

The Mutant

Codename: Magneto

Mutant Abilities:
Magneto's mutant powers give him mastery over all magnetic forces. He can perceive the magnetic forces of the earth and bioelectrical patterns of all living beings. He can draw on and use the magnetosphere of the planet, which extends far into space. He can use his power to reshape even the most indestructible metals in existence, including Adamantium. He can control even the most insignificant magnetic particles in the atmosphere and living beings, reversing their blood flow or ripping out any ferrous elements through their tissues. (He can create fields of magnetism strong enough to manipulate non-ferrous items as well, though he may be using anti-gravity fields to do this.) He has demonstrated the ability to lift tens of thousands of tons with his magnetic powers, although the greater he exerts himself the greater the physical and mental stress. He can erect magnetic force fields with a high degree of impenetrability around himself or others for protection and can fire bursts of magnetic (including EMPs) or electrical energy.

Because of it’s nature, electromagnetism being one of the four Foundation Forces of the Universe (along with gravitation and strong and weak nuclear bonds), Magneto's power is "for all practical purposes limitless". Although Magneto’s primary power is control over magnetism, he can also project or manipulate any form of energy that is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light, heat, radio waves, ultraviolet light, gamma rays, and x-rays. He can also manipulate gravitons to create an anti-gravity fields and has created traversable wormholes between two points on this planet. It has been theorized that perhaps Magneto may be living proof of Einstein's "Theory of Everything", otherwise known Unified Field Theory, that all forms of energy are inter-related. However, Magneto almost always uses only magnetism since it’s more difficult for him to manipulate other forms of energy. Since returning to Genosha, where he can use his powers in a more liberal manner, his body has started to regulate these energies, and it causes him less physical and mental stress.

Magneto's telepathic capabilities have increased noticeably over the last five years, mainly due to the time he spent in space, when his entire waking time was dedicated to use of his mental powers. He has developed the ability to influence people with some form of psionic beacon, he also has developed telepathic shields so powerful, no telepath can enter his mind if he has the chance to erect a suitable defence, all the better if he's wearing his helmet. Magneto has also exhibited powers of astral projection and has shown himself sensitive enough to pick up on the feelings of others, such as the New Mutants, passively. Due to his massive intellect, which has resulted in his mind processing information at an accelerated rate and the ability to perceive the electric synapses in the brain, his reaction time is fourteen point fives times faster then the average person.

Moreover, he can use his magnetic powers in more than one way simultaneously. He can completely assemble a complicated machine within seconds through his powers or fight off multiple opponents successfully.

Weaknesses:
Magneto must channel these fields through his nervous system and if he is injured his ability to channel large amounts of force and wield forces beyond magnetism is greatly hampered. By using his power on vast scales, he has frequently overloaded his nervous system, creating a chemical imbalance which some have theorized leads to his megalomaniacal episodes. On a couple occasions he has burned his abilities out completely through overuse, falling back on machines or other mutants to boost his powers until he can find a way to regenerate them.

History:

Max Eisenhardt was born into a Jewish family in Germany fifty four years ago, to many, Jews were still not particularly in some places. But life was certainly easier then it was some years ago. However, such a level of increased tolerance was not enough it would seem. Perhaps they were former Hitler supporters, or perhaps they were simply angry at the world, but when Max was still just a boy, his parents were murdered by a mob, leaving him alone in the world.

Fortunately, young Max was not a target of such brutality and was later adopted by a very wealthy couple indeed and it was in this home that he received a very high standard education. His life was, at this point, perhaps what could be called happy, or at least peaceful. When he was finally a fully grown man, he fell in love with a Roma woman from his town, Magda. His adoptive parents were most displeased, as they had better plans for a wife. Max took none of it, and he and Magda fled from Germany, they traveled for some years, before settling down in a town called Vinnitsa, here he and Magda would marry and give birth to their first child, Lorna.

The happy life in Vinnitsa would not last however, as once again it would be an angry mob that brought ruin to Max. An enraged mob made an attempt to kill Max, Magda and Lorna, locking the girls in their home and setting fire to it, while restraining Max from helping them. It was at this point that his powers manifested, and they manifested with a terrible force, killing the mob and causing massive damage to Vinnitsa. Magda was so terrified that she fled, taking Lorna with her.

Max would give chase after his beloved wife and child, hoping to bring the family back together again, his search would not be easy however, as he was a wanted man. It was then he met the renowned forger, Georg Odekirk, whom he paid to create his new persona, Erik Magnus Lehnsherr the Sinte gypsy. It took Magnus months to close to a year to find his wife, but when he did it was too late. When he found her, it was in a small house in a large city, a young woman at her side who clearly had aided her in giving birth to twins, whom Magnus would name Pietro and Wanda. Taking his three children, Magnus left and went to start a new life.

The family travelled much, and one placed they stayed for quite some time was Israel, near Haifa, where Magnus took up a job in a psychiatric hospital. In this place, he would meet a man named, Charles Xavier who quickly became a good friend of his, many nights they spoke and debated on the rumours of mutants in the world, even if neither admitted to the other they were a mutant. They would eventually discover each others secret, as they fought a man known as Baron Von Strucker, a battle that would leave Magnus with quite a supply of old Nazi gold, a finance he would later put to great use.

With this money, Magnus left Israel, promising to write to Charles as soon as he had an address Charles could reply too, a promise he kept. With the money he now had, Magnus was able to start a true home for his children, this led him to South Africa, where he purchased a very considerable patch of land, to set up a home. He himself would not be spending long here however, as he discovered an Island south of Madagascar, he knew from that day on it would be a home for mutants. That was when Magnus founded Genosha, using his powers he quickly constructed buildings of various types, visiting old places from his life he found those with special abilities and brought them to his new sanctuary. This became his secret project for years, an entire country was forming, and with his genius intellect and powers he was able to make it nearly impossible to discover or find, without knowing where it was.

Eventually the number of mutants living in Genosha was in three figures, and Magnus, now calling himself Magneto was their sovereign ruler, he even provided mutants with their own language, Epsilon-Omega, which was taken too remarkably well, soon producing music and plays in the language. His correspondence with Charles continued all the while, with Xavier sending letters to the house in South Africa, which was then forwarded to his Genosha Palace.

When the letters from Charles told him of the Mansion for Gifted Youngsters and the Massachusetts Academy, Magneto saw two things, his dearest friend in need of aid, and an opportunity. Magneto travelled to America, where he joined Charles in his school, and the two worked together to produce a machine the likes of which had never been seen before, Cerebro. With it, the two increased their ability to find mutants so Charles could recruit them for his mansion, providing them with a safe home, and Magnus could select from them the ones suitable to go to Genosha, when the time came for the Human/Mutant war he knew was coming.

After the mutant/human war, mainly between Genosha and the United States of America began, Magneto was involved in a series of conflicts, most famously the battle of Washington. Not long afterwards, he travelled into space where he constructed a massive super station, built into and on an asteroid the size of a small country.

The Master of Magnetism later returned to Earth, discovered what had happened with the rise of Apocalypse, making immediate plans with his Brotherhood to get the entire population to Hammer Bay, once it was achieved he and Exodus moved the entire city, tearing it from its foundations and moving it to the Asteroid. Once the process was complete, he called together his brotherhood and announced that until further notice, Apocalypse was the threat, not baseline humans. Since then, he has waged a war from space.


RP Sample:

So they had come, to destroy his wonderful Genosha. He knew the day was coming, when humans would strike out against mutants. And where better to strike, then the largest gathering of mutants on the planet? Their one true home! Well Magneto would not allow it, no army of sentinels would bring ruin to Hammer Bay while he was its ruler.

He stepped out onto the grand balcony of his palace, watching as the sky was darkened by the army of sentinels, dozens of them, if not hundreds. His hands reached out, pointing towards them with open palms, he tapped into the magnetic energies he so often played with, like a giant net they fell around Sentinels and delivered a vice like crush.

"Impudent Dogs! I shall set an example with you, for any who would threaten Genosha!" he roared, knowing someone would be listening from those machines, someone who was operating them, or leading them from far away.

++OOC Info++

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