Chang



Chang is a Shogun Samurai and member of G.H.O.S.T, fighting alongside Alpha team.

Abilities
Chang specializes in physical combat, damage absorption, and inspiring his fellow adventurers during battle. Further, he is known to use annoying antics to antagonize opponents into focusing their attention on him, taking physical attacks in lieu of his fellow combatants. Combatively, Chang excels at using the sansetsukon, a three-piece nun-chuck like instrument, designed for bludgeoning opponents.

Traits and Heritage
As a member of the tanuki race, Chang possesses several unique characteristics, such as the ability to shape-change other lifeforms or into a stone statue once daily for defensive means. Chang's spoken abilities are especially limited - the only audible phrase he is known to say is the name of his race repeated in quick succession. He can, however, communicate in common tongue more extensively in the presence of a psionic translator.

Chang hails from the Tanuki capital city of Bake-Danuki. As a member of a prominent  family, Chang led an archeology team in excavating the ancient ruins in search of learning more about the Wyrd of Topaz. During the discovery and exploration of the dig site, Chang inadvertently released Inari from her Topaz prison, ushering in a new and dire threat against the Tanuki race. Chang was then sent on a mission by the Council of 11 to leave the Neutral plane in search of aid in overcoming this threat from Inari. During the extraplanar travel, he was cursed, limiting his speech to only the word "Tanuki" by Inari to prevent him from communicating to others before Inari's conquest of Bake-Danuki.

Cursed and Beyond
Following his joining of G.H.O.S.T., Chang was again cursed by means of a Tanuki curse called the Wyrd of Topaz, an ancient transmutation spell. After months of attempts by various G.H.O.S.T. members and hired specialists well versed in such magical forms, it had been determined that efforts to restore Chang must come to an end when all efforts repeatedly failed.

G.H.O.S.T. Alpha Team was eventually successful in restoring Chang after expunging the corresponding topaz ring of its negative energy in a purification ritual.

Quote: "''tanuki. tanuki, tanuuuuuk!" ''-Chang.