BACKGROUND: Sand was once human.  He had a nice normal life in California until he was eight.  His gifts appeared, magic.  Sand's parents the LaBrant's wanted a life for him that did not involve magic.  So they moved to rural Montana, near Big Fork and began to farm.
    `Sand's mother was a nurse at a local hospital and his father was an engineer, turned farmer.  The LaBrant's kept Sand sheltered but did bring in teachers to keep him up on the world.  Years passed and Sand was a normal, bright kid.
    Sand was a naturally powerful mage but his parents tried to get him to love a mundane life. At Eighteen Sand was traveling with his family to Bozeman to look at the college when a Big rig crossed the center line and ran head on into the family car.
    Sand came too in a ditch, crushed and on fire.  His skin charred, his mind reached out and felt Mother Earth, who was looking for a champion. Mother Earth had been feeling the touches of a magical invasion starting. Sand's will was sent out of his body, crying out, "Heal Me!!!"
    The young lad was sucked into the earth and healed.  As medics worked on his dying parents Sand was healed.  His skin was too damaged by fire to be healed so it was replaced with a thick layer of sand.  His natural magic was altered and linked to his Earth Mother.
    Mother Earth gifted Sand with a saber of True Earth so he would always be linked to her and her power.  The black sword looked like obsidian, though much stronger.
    Sand in his now twisted form tried to return to a normal life.  He ran the farm for two ears, as he learned about his powers.  He took martial arts and studied up on heroes.  Sand was not a good farmer and was well into the red.   He needed money to save the farm and moved to the Big city to find work.  He worked with construction to lay pipe underground making tunnels and was making enough money to keep the farm.
    The shy virginal Sand was fascinated with Starlet, a local hero.  And she was in town trying out for a new Team Maximum Justice.  Sand tunneled into the arena just to see her.  Sand was spotted by The Morrigan, and told to join the test or leave.  Creepy Crow head!
    Sand had a lot of potential and powers to help stave off the invasion. Someone picking MJ saw this and picked him.  Sadly Sand was too much a neophyte and the whole team did not do well.
    MJ was butchered to get them out of the way.  Sand died, and the people responsible forged documents to that it looked like Sand wanted his body cremated and ashes scattered.  All of that to keep him from coming back.
    Somehow his sword survived and trapped his soul where he watched the world in a ghost like afterlife.  The Druid managed to gain his sword and use it.  But with each use of his earth powers more and more of his body was drawn toward the sword, until she called forth an earth elemental to aid her and he was reformed.

PERSONALITY: No longer a neophyte, Sand will is a rough, slightly bitter strong personality.  Being dead will do that to you.
    Sand still has a weakness for the ladies and is loath to harm them.  He would like to find a relationship but as he is a...  Well dead pile of sand,
he has little hopes.  He should be watched around the ladies as he is able to lead astray.

POWERS/SKILLS: Sand is a touch different.  He was still a natural earth mage. But he is now a pile of reformed, reanimated non-living sand with a soul. Sand is now very hard to kill,  if hit hard enough he will scatter like, but will be drawn back together over time.
    Sand does not have "normal sight" he uses dark vision and mage vision to see the world in an odd way.  He can sometime see and feel ghosts as he was one for so long.
    Sand can turn into a sand storm and fly, then reform.  It is a little disorienting to do it though.  Sand is now more of a sprit mage then he once was seeing the power lines of the world and understanding magic as a whole better even though his magic is earth based.
    The earth responds to his will, allowing him to shape and move many tons of it at once.
    Sand is a mage and can see, feel and understand and lines of magic.
    Sand can feel the earth and if magical powers of portals open up and it hurts Mother Earth he can kind of feel it.
    As a natural earth mage he can heal some wounds in others, it is slow and unpleasant.
 
 

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