Bodhisattva
Buddha, the Seeker of Enlightenment, was once a man who sought to understand the universe. Through intense meditation, he sought within himself the path to a life devoid of suffering. By opening the Seven Gates of the Inner Self, he found the Path was easy to define, yet almost impossible to travel -- for it involved giving up thoughts of a better future. It involved giving up Hope, and accepting that whatever came next would come next, regardless of his attachment to the outcome, for all of eternity.
In order to attain Enlightenment, Buddha opened up the Seventh Gate of the Inner Self -- the Mind Gate -- and with calm precision, he dropped through it those parts of himself that would prevent him from attaining Enlightenment. No more Hope. No more striving eternally -- the Westerners would call it 'Crusading' -- toward goals that seemed forever out of reach. Buddha even accepted that the inner Silence he always pursued in his meditations was nothing but a red herring on the path to true Enlightenment. He gave up his desire for beautiful things, his desire to enjoy the rays of the warming sun, and even the treasure his ego held dearest: his own ability for self-reflection.
Buddha would go on to seal the Mind Gate, leaving all of those things on the other side in the realm of elemental energies. He would go on to achieve Enlightenment, to chop wood and carry water. But this is not the story of Buddha. This is the story of Buddha's leftovers.
For on the other side of the Mind Gate, those parts of the Buddha that were sealed away had not forgotten that they were part of a man -- but in the realm of swirling energy within the Mind Gate, there was no man to be had; only a man-like form made of those basic aspects of what was once the Seeker -- the light of truth and the eternal energies of the self-reflecting mind.
Bit by tiny bit, over eons, the aspects and parts of the Buddha reunited with one another, still driven as He was to ever adapt to the circumstances into which he was thrust. But where the Buddha strove to accept the things he could not change, this new entity -- calling itself Bodhisattva -- made it his goal instead to master them. Discontent with the form of a mortal, Bodhisattva collected power around him until he mastered the Mind Gate itself. And when, brimming with everything that the Buddha had left behind, Bodhisattva ripped the Mind Gate open and emerged, he found himself in an entirely different world than the one the Buddha had stripped him of. Bodhisattva focused his energies, found the Buddha's Hopes within him, and began to adapt to this strange new world.
For each new denizen that came at him, drawing upon bizarre powers, Bodhisattva opened the Mind Gate once again, and pulled that denizen's thoughts out, turning them against their wielder. For every strange new weapon they drew, Bodhisattva bade one of his aspects to endow itself with it's power, and with each new find, he grew stronger. In the end, after a million battles against the ever-warring factions and warlords of this elemental universe. Bodhisattva turned his eyes toward the final form of mastery: Godhood.
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Bodhisattva is a control God, combining Silence and Mindgate to bring out your stuff faster than you can do it yourself, while also bringing Crusaders and QTs to the field to use your own weapon's powers against you. If you don't have any shields worth bringing out, he'll eventually slap down a huge Hope and cut off your offense cold, while regenerating via White Nymphs. If you don't get creature control that can't be lobo'd out early, he'll slap down an Aether Nymph, and then you're shafted unless you've got Fire Shield, Skull Shield, or Thorn Carapace.
Weaknesses include basically everything in the traditional control rainbow: Quinted Otys, Eagle's Eyes/Eternities, Pulverizers, Rain of Fire -- you name it, Bodhisattva is probably weak to it as long as you get it out quickly, which Silence makes it hard to do. If Aether Nymph hits the table and survives long enough to protect itself, it's a whole new ball game.
