Jonathan Mondragon Character in Ta Mando ~~ The World Of Kanda | World Anvil

Jonathan Mondragon

Dr. Jonathan Mondragon, The Maiden Of Health (a.k.a. Hispanic Superman, The Kandia Kryptonian, The New Founding's Herald)

Not all of the Founders Of Kanda are similar to their original incarnations!
Where once the Founders were similar and arrived together... the Return Of The Founders has brought them far apart... and they are about as different from each other as they could possibly be!
Perhaps more jarring still for the Kandia, some are not even remotely as they once were!   Dr. Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health is one such Founder!
World Renowned Surgeon and aspiring politician, Jon has fallen into Ta Mando as a veritable Superman who seeks, fittingly, to save the world!

Divine Domains

In Conflict With His Predecessor's Reputation, Jonathan Mondragon Is An ENTIRELY Different Maiden Of Health Than Dr. Jenevive Green!
While Maintaining The Old Domains, Jon Is Also Involved With Others; Some New Which Conflict With The Old!
  Life
Health And Medicine
Kanda
Order, Discipline And Skill
Compassion, Love And Hospitality

Artifacts

Jon is seldom seen without The Prince's Tusk, an eight feet long, thirty pound wootz sword of utilitarian profile that houses the spirit of The Savannah Prince; The Largest Elephant to live on the sands of Soterri in the last hundred years and grandson of the Grand Matriarch Of Soterri: The Queen Of Beasts.
So Large And Obvious Is the weapon that no scabbard can hold them and instead Jon tends to casually lean the blade over his shoulder as one might with a bindle.   As they hold the very soul of the great elephant bull, the sword also retains all of his advantages, memories, thoughts, personality, love and hatred.
Understanding that they are not the true, living form of The Prince, the mind of the sword acknowledges that this is the price for VENGEANCE!
Already Has Their Request Been Granted... So They Are Content Having Paid Their Price.   Forged by the ten best smiths in Soterri out of native Kandia materials from the core, The Prince's Tusk is a completely indestructible powerhouse of an artifact that bears an eternally sharp blade, a spearlike reach and many magical qualities folded into them during their construction.
Literally using the power of a living human soul, sacrificed to the forging process itself, (Though this was not intentional) to bind the Savannah Prince's Spirit to the blade; The Prince's Tusk has the power to speak aloud in Kandia, Modern English, Modern Spanish Or Any Pachyderm Tongue.
They may call out as loud as any elephant and may communicate through infrasound; projecting noise through the ground over great distances if they so desire.   Through incredibly advanced telepathy The Prince's Tusk may project all five senses into the mind of their interlocutor; displaying fully detailed memories and ideas into the mind of their partner when needed.
Though not particularly talkative, "The Tusk" is a fully thinking being; wise and contemplative and surprisingly independent for a sword.
Able to formulate complex plans on the fly while being swung around and even thrown into and out of combat, they have been known to be just as much a thinking team member at times as a tool of slaughter.   Knowing that Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health, had no practical combat experience before The Battle Of Matriarch, The Prince's Tusk was forged with certain qualities in mind!
Most importantly, it needed to remain loyal...
SO loyal, in fact, that it would comfortably return to Jon's hand whenever it was forcibly removed... and from any distance, no matter how far!
Suitably, The Prince's Tusk always returns to Jon no matter where the two of them are in relation to each other whenever Jon and The Sword are involuntarily more than a single yard apart, even when Jonathan is unconscious.
Traveling at just under 25 mph, (39.5 km/h) The Prince's Tusk fly terribly fast and does not go through obstacles or people on the way back to their wielder but they DO explicitly avoid obstacles, go around people, use doorways, fly through windows, slip through cracks if possible or otherwise find any way they can to return to Jon's Hand in a reasonable fashion.
Anyone who suddenly gets in the way and ends up impaled is not intentional and usually undesired by all parties.
Perhaps more importantly, Jonathan Mondragon can THROW The Prince's Tusk with exquisite accuracy up to fifty yards away with half the force of a bull elephant before it returns to his grip after a few short seconds traveling to and from its target!   The Prince's Tusk doesn't just fly well, however!
Possessing of an indestructible supernatural edge, The Tusk usually cuts through metal as though it were linen; perpetually sharp enough to plunge deep into heavily armored targets with practiced ease!
Having magically inherited The Savannah Prince's thirst for retribution, The Blade causes wounds FAR more grievous than their sleek, utilitarian profile would otherwise indicate; leaving gigantic gashes in those few who survive their assault that refuse to cease bleeding and cut far deeper than the sword actually seems to reach.
The entire weapon appears to have been made with the sole purpose in mind of being as gruesomely destructive as possible; a potent tool made for the ultimate warrior to survive the most brutal of conflicts!   The Tusk is so hyper destructive that even TOUCHING their blade in motion causes a repulsive effect with the strength of the once living Savannah Prince himself in full charge; sending foes flying and scattering the pieces of Jon's enemies in all directions as he carves them asunder!
One In Ten of these such strikes not only repels the enemy but deafens everyone within several yards of the blade tip with a thunderclap of noise that intimidates enemies and damages the concentration of his Kanda's Foes!
As if that weren't enough, however, once a day The Prince's Tusk may produce a localized Earthquake that can unsteady ground, throw people off their feet, destroy buildings, cause cave-ins and collapse entire canyons!
Though the area of these tremendous tremors is only about a square mile, it shows JUST how powerful The Prince's Tusk is hot off the anvil!   The Prince's Tusk, however, is not a weighty, unbalanced blade!
Remembering that Jonathan Mondragon had never once used a spear or sword before arriving in Soterri, the smiths of The Tusk made sure that it was nothing if not a strict tool of combat.
Possessing of no special embellishments other than Clubbed Quillons and an array of magical engravings along the blade; The Prince's Tusk is an elegant sword that, in the hand of a sixteen foot tall deity, would look quite regal if perhaps a bit basic.
Those with the strength to wield them with any proficiency and the magical power to briefly nullify their overt loyalty to Jonathan would find them extremely well balanced, reactive and easy to handle once they got over the absurd length of the thing!   Finally, Returning To The Prince's Tusk's Loyalty...
The Prince's Tusk Is A Living, Sapient Entity!
Had They Hands, They Would Be Able To Also Use Tools!
And The Prince's Tusk CHOOSES Who Wields Them!
Those Who The Prince's Tusk Accepts May Swing Them With Ease And Skill...
Those Who The Prince's Tusk Disapproves Of Will Struggle To Lift Them At All!
While this certainly falls short of Marvel's Mjolnir wherein one cannot lift the sword AT ALL without being "Worthy" it certainly presents The Tusk as far heavier than the mere 30 pounds it maintains while leaning against the wall next to Jon while he tends to his weekly Parchmentwork.   Perhaps most interesting about The Prince's Tusk is that they hold deeper secrets yet to be unlocked... and they KNOW it!
The Tusk has goals and desires that have yet to be realized and Jonathan Mondragon: The Maiden Of Health, is expected to deliver upon them if he wants to see the pinnacle of the sword's potential.
While Jon has already killed a thousand Kobori with the blade alone, the sword insists that there are many more goals to fulfill!   As Jon Grows Stronger And Heightens His Abilities, So Too Does The Tusk!

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Jon's Symbol is the traditional sunburst, Co-opting the presently existing symbol of the Unconquered Sun and pairing it with local tribal depictions of the Sun as defined by the Soterri Natives; The Kobori.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Standing at exactly 7 feet, Jon is the perfect example of the term "All That Is Man!"
Possessing a Mediterranean complexion that has been toned in the Caribbean sun his entirely life, Jon's possesses a typical "Clark Kent" style build with pronounced shoulders, strong core and clearly powerful legs pervading an overall dominating body style.
Bulging musculature and glowing health are also constantly accompanied by a sense of grace and ease of movement; never tense but always ready, clearly aware and perceptive of all that goes around him.

Mental characteristics

Education

While perhaps wanting to seek out a career in politics, Jon was given a basic education growing up and proceeded to move into the field of medicine very quickly after his formative years, giving into the family's wishes that he be an trauma specialist and practice emergency medicine.

Employment

While he was a doctor and aspiring politician before the Shift, Jon has become a considerably more diverse and intense relationship with the concept of work.   Now freed from the need for sleep, Jon is able to dedicate his days to training as a soldier, working as a farmer and teaching students university style as a sort of professor.
Able to see perfectly at night he is able to hunt, fish, build and experiment in the safety of his personal laboratory into the morning's first light before repeating the process!   Being able to leverage all 24 hours of the day at the speed of sound also allows Jon's functional range of activity to be far grander in scale than any standard human. Because of this, he is able to survey, scout and lay down potential routes of construction and travel perhaps days, weeks or even months in advance according to his overarching plans for the province.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Pre-Shift, Jon was a world acclaimed expert in the field of wilderness and trauma medicine, having personally pioneered several field methods to assist in times of emergency and featured in dozens if not hundreds of popular serials, even considered for several noteworthy academic and medical awards in recognition to his service to science and humankind.
He has released several books to date, all of which are present in his personal libraries, and was working on his latest before The Shift took him.   As for Post-Shift accomplishments, Jon is nearly as famous and quickly rising the ranks of society as he was before he was abducted to Soterri.   While perhaps not an exhaustive list, the examples below are what he is most well known for both among the Kandia and others who are aware of his shenanigans:
Personally restructured
the Soterri Military Traditions and Reformed The Leconis System
Allied with Wild Elephants to incorporate them into a military structure to turn back a hundreds of thousands strong assault on The last bastion of Kandia Culture in Soterri.
Recruited The First Deity Of Soterri into the Kandia Pantheonic System, expanding the divine mandate and justification of The Kandia Faith!
Personally Led the charge against the enemy in The Battle Of The Matriarch while they were at their strongest and, fought alongside a goddess (a rare treat!) in a "War of extinction."
Performed Brain Surgery on that SAME Goddess two days later to repair extreme traumatic brain damage
Pacified The Mountain God Intubakhalu Alongside Unamakhalu
Performed The First Ever Deity To Human Blood Transfusion Between The Two Aforementioned Individuals
Discovered The Fate Of The Lost Expedition Alongside Meningitis Soterrion: Longar Of Soterri
Discovered "The Lost Kensar" Alongside Meningitis Soterrion
Set Foot Upon The Place Of Peace With Meningitis Soterrion, Expanding The Map Of Kanda And Ensuring Guaranteed Cartographic Progress
Alongside Meningitis Soterrion, Made Peace With The The Exile Army Of Former General Shu Hui Of The Western Kingdom, Avoiding Certain Destruction On All Sides. For This He Was Awarded The Title Of "Master Of Peace."
Aided In Meningitis' Establishment Of The Southern Passage To The West
First Kandia Man To Take A Kobori Apprentice To Train For Military Service To The Empire
First Kandia Man To Publicly Announce A Kobori Concubine
Openly Supported The Freedom Of All Slaves Who Were In Soterri For The Battle Of Matriarch
Made First Contact With The First Pro Simian Diplomatic Mission To Soterri
In A Burst Of Light, Healed Thousands Of Injured At The Climax Of The Battle Of Gulf Disaster, Revealing To The World That The Maiden Of Health Has Truly Returned!
Performed The First Successful Bone Marrow Transplant In Kanda History
Performed The First Successful Deity To Human Bone Marrow Transplant In Ta Mando History

Failures & Embarrassments

Jon is not merely considered a hero in the capital. He is a figure of considerable controversy and, by some, considered a serious war criminal standing against a law that has been established for over a thousand years!
According to Kandia Law, Elephants are banned from all use on the field of battle. They are considered atrocious war crimes akin to burning people alive or (to use a more modern reference) using poison gas. Simply put, a War Crime. A man who has been trampled to death is pushed into the soil and turned to dust, leaving his body unable to have anything of him to be remembered by or to properly bury.
Perhaps worse, it deprives a responsible Kensar of proper battle statistics by ensuring that bodies cannot be retrieved and counted. Moreover, elephant charges and trunks can sometimes throw bodies very far, ensuring that proper recordkeeping becomes a more time intensive and physically exhausting affair than it otherwise would be.
SURELY This is only to the detriment of BOTH sides and therefor Elephants are to be considered the most inhumane of animals to employ upon the field of combat!   Not only did The Battle Of The Matriarch use elephants but rather a never before seen number of elephants; over 100 thousand elephants in combat, at least 300 of which fought at the head of the Kandia Vanguard alongside The Maiden Of Health himself!
This flies in the face of all traditional laws of war and that have been held for a millennium and, even in a "War Of Extinction," cannot be tolerated by an esteemed general of Kandia, wherein Jon had officially taken command.   As it stands, the core is split on whether or not to consider him the greatest of war heroes or the vilest of war criminals and most are presently standing in the middle, as of yet uncertain of Jon's nature even after an entire week of festivities at his arrival.

Relationships

Lerato

Mistress-Concubine / "First Wife" (Vital)

Towards Jonathan Mondragon

5
1

Honest


Jonathan Mondragon

"Husband" (Vital)

Towards Lerato

5
5

Frank


Shared Acquaintances

Lerato is NOT Recognized as a legal companion to Jonathan Mondragon, though she is recognized as a Concubine and is afforded such Legal Protections.
Presuming she stays with Jon after any more legal marriage in the future, she might still be legally recognized as his Mistress, thus the name "Mistress-Concubine."   It is apparent to all that Jon is very fond of her and nobody has any illusions that he will discard her once married to a more official bride.

Legal Status

Mistress-Concubine

Meningitis

Best Friend (Vital)

Towards Jonathan Mondragon

5
5

Frank


Jonathan Mondragon

Best Friend (Vital)

Towards Meningitis

5
5

Frank


Unamakhalu

Friend (Vital)

Towards Jonathan Mondragon

3
1

Honest


Jonathan Mondragon

Friend (Vital)

Towards Unamakhalu

4
3

Frank


M'Tufakhalu

Ward / Patient (Vital)

Towards Jonathan Mondragon

5
5

Frank


Jonathan Mondragon

Caretaker / Doctor (Important)

Towards M'Tufakhalu

5
5

Honest


Roxanne Flagrare

Acquaintance (Trivial)

Towards Jonathan Mondragon

1
1

Jonathan Mondragon

Acquaintance (Trivial)

Towards Roxanne Flagrare

1
1

History

The two of them met at a Charity Gala. Jon had a speech at the beginning of the event on the future of trauma medicine and Roxanne had a speech toward the end on the present brain mapping projects throughout the world. Long story short, this necessitated some passing conversations but the two don't actually know each other.

Divine Classification
Reincarnated Founder / Prime / Sun God
Religions
Current Location
Honorary & Occupational Titles
The Maiden Of Health
Founder Of Kanda Returned
Hero Of Longo Soterri
Letanar Do Ta Puaria Castos (Letanar Of The Maiden Guard)
Master Of Peace
Ape Greeter
The Embodiment Of The Sun
Ta Mandia Unsia Salusar (The World's First Salusar)
Age
30
Birthplace
Puerto Rico, USA
Spouses
Lerato (Mistress-Concubine / "First Wife")
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Jonathan's Bastion, Castan Mondragon
Pronouns
He / They
Gender
Male
Height
7' 0" / 213.36 cm
Weight
632 lbs (286.67 kg)
Belief/Deity
Divine Obsessed
Aligned Organization

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