Koray E. Nightingale

"I am not a good man or a bad one.I am just a man who does what he feels is right."

- Koray

Appearance:
He looks like a raggedy old man with his long shaggy shoulder length jet black hair with grey strikes in it; with a matching Van Dyke Beard. He also has Alluring Teal color eyes. He has a lithe build to him.

He stands at six feet tall. and is a whopping one hundred and eight pounds under weight.(Thanks in large part to a strict diet. An due to him being taught a thief must be as light; As possible in order to preform the necessary acrobatic skills necessary for escape.).

Though he may be Sixty years old he only looks forty at most(Though his grey strikes in his hair and beard give away his true age.). He has fair skin.

Normal Attire: He generally wears a brown duster coat over a black vest with a white turtle neck shirt under it. With some kind of baggy pants with sandles

Magician Attire: He generally will wear a nightingale inspired mask over half his face; while wearing a black robe over a Rustic suit which covers a white turtle neck under a matching rustic color vest and dress pants. With Black Oxford shoes.

Personality:
During his old days as a thief koray's personality was that of a suave,cunning and Alluring gentleman thief;

Koray is loyal to his friends and family to the point of going so far as putting himself in harms way if it means helping his friends and family members.

Ego. friends. recklessness.

While still present; He has changed a bit over the years becoming more Family ordinate and having a almost fraternity with his apprentices though more so with Flint and Nickelae and their love of magic tricks. Going so far as to teach them some tricks.

He generally feels his age when seeing his grandson and family; But even more so when ever he thinks back to the old days.

Weapons:
Thunder Bird:(Dust Taser Staff) DTS: Takes the form of a three foot long cane with a silver nightingale's head on one end of it. It has a mix of hard wood and soft wood. It uses a black bamboo style wood for the outside with a Douglas fur for the inside. Allowing it be strong and sturdy to it with flexablity to spare. In short a well balanced weapon.

First form:Takes the form of a sword in which any dust placed on the tip of the bottom end of the staff cane transform the cane's edge into that of a blade. Though he generally uses ice to make it the most.

Second Form: Takes the form of a taser in that the silver handle can come off(If he so choices it.) and be fired by pressing the chin of the bird to fire a tweleve feet long conductive cable with barbed tip beak that can house various sortments of dust inside though generally uses lighting dust for a quick ten second stun on a opponent.

Third Form: Koray simply takes the handle off it and stuffs it in his pocket till later time or for a quick one two combo.

Secondar Weapon:Talons Of Nightingale's:Ten Claw Dust Rings; Worn on each of Koray's fingers and are used for close quarters combat and climbing as well as dust casting techniques as the rings are used as a form of conduits for his dust casting. The way he casts these dust techniques comes in the form of hand signs(Other wise known as Finger Tutting). These can range from simple hand jesters to elaborate ones depending on the spell being used.

With this comes advantages and disadvantages; The advantages are being able to use dust up close and far away. Disadvantage being the spells being render useless should he not be able to use his hands.(Such as having them crushed or bonded.). While he has found ways to over come this disadvantage it is still rather difficult for him to over come.

Abilities:
Koray has spent years studying dust amassing a well of knowledge that only a true Dust user could know. Though he is skilled in all dust types and their various forms; Ice dust is where he excels at having used it the most of all through out his thieving career and into his magician career. Going as far as to use it in his staff and rings to give him a edge with his unarmed/armed combat skills as well as his dust casting; to quickly,silently and subtly take down opponents.

He is also fairly skilled in unarmed combat able to disable and disarm most unskilled opponents and even a few skilled opponents. However where he true excels at is evasion and misdirection. Often time evading opponent's strikes and even using his par core skills to get up and over them or below and behind them. While using his skills as a thief and a magician to subtlety underhand his opponents through the use of deceptively cunning tricks and gadgets;

(These are some of his various dust techniques in order from weakest to strongest as well as how complicated they are.)

Dust Techinques: Anemoi's Breath(Wind + Gravity): A strong gust of wind caused by Koray flicking his wrist in the direction of a enemy.(Can knock down down a grown man and if times by two can send vehicles flying/cause them flip over.)

Noncombat::Over his many years as a thief and a magician he has amassed some skills fitting of a Master thief and adept magician. Of these skills he excels at pick pocketing and safe cracking as well as slide of hand and misdirection;

His other thief skills are lock picking to which his skill in it are fairly decent enough so that he can at the very least break into a house without damaging the door.his skills in avoiding detection up there with the likes of ninjas in that he has been able to sneak into some fairly heavily secure locations without being spotted;

he isn't the best at trap detection but he is good enough to avoid trip wires and false bottoms but anything using tech would most likely get him and finally;

A skill he learned from his friend Margrit; He isn't as nearly skilled at disguise making as Margrit is but he can at the very least pull off some rather elaborate disguises to trick people into letting him in.

His other magician skills are stage illusions; Which he performs with the aid of his assistants; Micromagic(Close up magic tricks): A thing he does for folks wishing a audience with him. Then finally but not least Escapology in that he often performs dangerous feets of escape from seemingly impossible circumstances.

One that he has even had his assistants do for him if he wasn't feeling good generally making sure it possible for them to escape before hand. He is also a skilled hand at some minor magician skills that he uses within his stage performances as well as his close up acts such as production,Vanishing,Transformation,restoration,transportation,transposition,penetration and finally generally for his grand final levitation.

Aura/Semblance:
Koray's Aura is Red and he has a fairly large amount of it.

Semblance:Grackles:

Fire Dust: Phoenix:With fire dust the birds take on a fiery aspect and are able to burn; The enemy as well as create torrents of flames when in a large enough group and can encase a enemy in a pillar of fire as they circle around them.

Ice Dust: Alcyoneus: With Ice dust the birds take on a sort of KingFisher like bird appearance and are able to create cold ice winds and freeze their enemies in place.

Over the years Koray has delevoped various variations to his semblance and has learned some other uses for it.

one of these is called Bird's eye view: In which Koray summon's one grackle from a glyph and takes control of it thus allowing him to see and hear. Whatever the bird sees or hears this has allowed him to eavesdrop on people and thus gather some intel on things without being spotted.

Backstory:
Koray comes from a wealthy family however unlike most families who made a living through weapons smiting and dust mining.Koray's family made their wealth by stealing from rements wealthy up class people as well as the corrupted criminals in the criminal underground.

At a young age koray was regaled with tales of his father and his team exploits they did; With those stories in mind Koray dreamed of some day making his own team an becoming a even better thief than his father.

During the first couple of years as a thief he had

He then created team Krom Upon a terrorist attack trying to use his family name and upon that and besting the baddies him and the rest team Krom went on hiests but eventually two of members wanted out Rasuk and his now wife Margrit due to their three childern and them not wanting to live a life of crime nor have them live the life of a circus performer. To which Koray gave them their cut of the profit and told Margrit that she and the kids are always welcome to visit. An from there he focused more on the circus and even married;

One Atlas Police Captain Lucy. An they had a kid one Allen Nightingale and they raised him and Koray eventually became a grandpa to one Flint Hawke Nightingale. An from there he spent most of his days telling Flint stories of about his family's life as a thieves and training him along side his nephew Nickelae Kojote.