Name: Tanaka Kaito

Codename: Sage

Gender: Male

Height: 6'4"

Year of birth: 1337

Occupation: Counsellor / Vigilante Hero of Chinatown / X-Man

Citizenship: Dual citizen of Japan and the United States (acquired dual prior to January 1, 1985)

Race: Homo Superior/Mutant (rumoured to be part Homo Mermanus/Atlantean. Unconfirmed)

Hair: Black

Eyes: Black

Distinguishing features: dragon tattoo (gained before manifestation of his healing factor), webbed toes, secondary translucent eyelids, unusual height for a 14th century born Japanese man. Trim build, very flexible. Webbed toes.
His visible psionic aura glows dark green, sometimes showing various translucent creatures when using specific powers.


Family:

Jenine Bernadette Lancaster - wife
Nathantiel Lancaster-Tanaka - son
Kaida Akiko Lancaster-Tanaka - daughter


Languages:

-Japanese (native)
-Mandarin (fluent)
-English (fluent)
-Cantonese (conversational)
-French (conversational)

Education:

-Samurai training from youth
-College graduate in behavioural sciences
-Eastern medicine/acupuncture training


Combat skills:

-Kenjutsu
-Karate (Shōtōkan-ryū)
-Aikido
-Shaolinquan kung-fu
-Skilled in all weapons and used by traditional Samurai, and some Shaolin weapons


Powers:

-Healing Factor
-Telepathy
-Telekinesis
-Underwater Breathing (non-combat)



Transportation: Telekinetic leaping and gliding under his own power (currently training to use telekinesis for flight) / Portals via the mutant Portia Bennett / Sometimes the X-Men's Blackbird or X-Jets.




Weapons:

A vibranium katana, forged from a small meteor that fell somewhere outside of Kyoto, as well as an unknown alloy. The resulting blade is as strong as Captian America's shield.
During the forging, he subconsciously imparted a portion of his own psionic energy into the blade.
As a result, it glows whenever he wields it. It is possible for this to occur when other psionic beings hold it as well.
He can detect his sword and track it from a great distance if it is taken from him.

Sometimes carries a normal wakizashi sword and or pair of tanto (the latter concealed within his sleeves).

Also carries acupuncture needles that he uses to immobilise opponents, by throwing them with telekinetically guided accuracy, at key pressure points.



Skills:

-Psychologist
-Acupuncturist
-Herbal doctor
-Japanese sword-smith (master)
-Ramen chef (ultimate)



History:

Tanaka Kaito grew up during the the Ashikaga period. He was trained and lived as a samurai and married at the age of 19.
At 27 he returned home to find his wife murdered by members of a rival clan.
Kaito wasted no words and drew his blade which glowed for the first time, for this was the first conscious manifestation of his powers. In the rage that followed, he downed some of the killers but was eventually overwhelmed. The surviving opponents stabbed Kaito multiple times before dragging him and his sword (which they thought to be cursed) to a cliff side, throwing him and his weapon to the sea below.
Upon entering the waters his other powers manifested. His body healed from the wounds as he drew breath in the ocean for the first time. He swam to another village but his powers and sword would often have people branding him a demon or a cursed being.
Over the years he wandered across most of Japan and eventually left shortly before the Meiji period, to travel the world and seek answers to explain the nature of his existence.

During the emergence of mutants, Kaito--now known to most as Sage, watched the conflict as an outside, still helping people in his own way.
Only recently has he felt the need to pick a side in the mutant war. The side of the X-Men.


Weaknesses:

-Dehydrates much faster than normal beings.
-As his sword is linked to his psionic powers, they diminish in potency and control if he is not within 10 meters of it.
-His healing factor diminishes in efficiency when he overuses his telekinesis, especially at alpha level, leaving him vulnerable to mortal injury.
-His sword is easily detected by psionic mutants.