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On the more conventional side of things, Rurik is a near-masterful combatant even without his psionic powers. He is proficient with shotguns and pistols, and well trained in melee combat. However he is not without weaknesses in this department - he often overestimates his own capabilities, which has gotten him overpowered and captured by enemy forces several times in the past. While he doesn't necessarily need these skills now, Rurik pursues them anyway - primarily because he just likes the feel of a weapon in his hand.

On the more conventional side of things, Rurik is a near-masterful combatant even without his psionic powers. He is proficient with shotguns and pistols, and well trained in melee combat. However he is not without weaknesses in this department - he often overestimates his own capabilities, which has gotten him overpowered and captured by enemy forces several times in the past. While he doesn't necessarily need these skills now, Rurik pursues them anyway - primarily because he just likes the feel of a weapon in his hand.

It was alleged that Rurik had access to shapeshifting capabilities, and there were many sightings through the Turbulent Years of him in some avian form. These have been widely dismissed as rumours and mass hallucinatory incidents.

It was alleged that Rurik had access to shapeshifting capabilities, and there were many sightings through the Turbulent Years of him in some avian form. There isn't much evidence of this - though what evidence there is seems almost too real to be true. Rurik himself claims these were simply mass hallucinatory incidents, imagined by someone who thought it'd be cool.