RE: TVC - Sign-Up Thread
hey all! first post in the forum so be kind OR I`LL EAT YOUR BRAIN (or maggots in some cases)
. i´ve been working on this char for a day or two now so CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is really welcome so he fits in-story
(pardon my long background :tongue: )
Name: Hiratu Nuppin Heinom
Origin: Cathay
Age: 2895
Sire: Xen Huong
Skin: White
Hair: none, if he had some it´d be black
Body: 6´2 high, 140 pounds
Clothes: Dark, often a tightfitting robe, he also uses a facemask to hide his pale and hideous facial appearance when in crowded areas.
Eye: Brown, lost left eye when tortured
Equipment: The dragons cloak. A slightly shimmering dark cloak and hood that was made of skin from the last chameleon dragon in southeastern Cathay, it changes color depending on environment and the hard scales from the beast also offers good protection against arrows and bolts.
Daggers of madness. The talons of the same dragon as the one used for the cloak has been sharpened and covered with unholy symbols of death, the magic imbued in these daggers combined with the inherit magic of the dragon will poison the mind with a curse powerful enough to make even the toughest mortal go insane or even die.
Mental state: I´ve been hardened by years of mental training and meditation in my tree, so I can do things that normally vampires wouldn´t dare or dislike to do. I also don´t have to satisfy my red thirst as often as other vampires. But after my torturing in Cathay I fear all who has a high position of power over me or my allies (unless they have proven their loyalty), I therefore tend to let those people get into “lethal situations†to give myself a higher position or make someone more appropriate get the recently dead leaders position. I´m not very open to people I don´t know.
Background:
Chapter one, the guy in the tree: Born in the great land of Caythan in a farmer’s home I lived with my grandfather, mother, father, and an older brother. I used to work on the fields to earn me and my family a living. One day as I was carrying a bag of rice the warriors of a nearby county came riding toward us. They wore shiny armor with a symbol of the imperial dragon on the chest and their banners had symbol of the imperial army.
As my father and brother went towards them the knights spurred their horses into a charge and drew their swords, my father and brother started running back towards the rice fields and shouted at me to run towards the woods. I ran, for hours it seemed towards the forest and further into it until the light settled and the night came. The next week I wandered around in the forest until I found a small glade, there I built a small hut from sticks. One day a week later I heard a sound in the surrounding forest, I hid in the hut hoping he didn´t hear me. A head came in the hut, it was a man about 40 years old and he had long black beard and hair.
- Hello! He said. What are you doing in the middle of a dark forest like this?
- Who… who are you?
- I am a man whose name is not interesting, a more interesting question is why you are out here, he replied.
- The knights of the emperor came and burned my home down… I ran to the forest so I could escape the same destiny as my family. But now that you know how I got here, why are you here?
- I live here.
- But… I've been here for a week and haven’t seen any house or you.
- Then you haven´t looked good enough, that´s my home. He said and pointed towards a tree in a thicket further into the forest.
- Do you live in a thicket?!
- Of course not! He said and laughed. Look 20 feet higher.
At first I couldn´t see anything but leaves in the majestic tree, but there it was, a wall!
- So you live out here in the woods?
- Yes, I've lived here for ten years now, but let´s stop talking and get you something to eat instead, you must be starving.
I followed him to the tree but stopped when I realized that I met this guy for ten minutes ago. But then again, I am hungry and this guy lives alone in the middle of a forest what´s the worst that can happen.
- Is something wrong? He asked from a platform in the tree crown.
- No, my thoughts just wandered. I said and started climbing the rope ladder.
Chapter 2, the shadows of pain: The man in the tree had become like a father of me and he let me stay there. Why, I don´t know, but he treated me as his own son and taught me to hunt deer and move as silent as a tiger in the bush. He also gave me the skills of appropriate behavior in many different society classes, from the nobility of the far western countries to beggars in the large cities. For many years he thought me the power of silence and surprise, after five year I had the skills to use all the weapons of stealth and assassination as well as a great self-control.
When I turned 23 the now very old man turned sick, I did what I could to make him get better but nothing I did helped. After a month and 3 days he laid at his deathbed
- I've taught you everything I know and my life is soon at an end, follow the crane southeast and you´ll find yourself on a large road, from there the choice is yours, east or west. But take these on your journey to protect yourself from bandits and predators. He said and gave me a black cloak that shimmered in dark red and a pair of daggers made of bone, inscribed with runes.
- But, isn´t there anything that I can do to help?
- No, go now… we´ll meet in the sacred realm of Morr.
I left towards the road and after an hour of walking I saw the end of the forest and a pile of rubble. As I moved closer and examined the pile I saw a metal sign, I brushed the ash of the signpost and read “Hunom´sâ€Â. I felt my anger rising in me when I remembered the slaughter of my family and I decided that I would go to the capital and avenge my family.
As I got into the city I asked a guard where the imperial palace was and in my blind rage I scaled the walls and ran towards the emperor’s throne. As I stood outside one of the windows and looked in I saw the emperor sitting on his throne and ten guards standing at each side of him. I crushed the window and threw a throwing knife from the old man’s storage. What I saw I couldn´t believe, the emperor threw himself towards me when the knife left my hand caught the knife and a battle began.
The emperor fought with an inhuman speed and strength and it didn´t take long until he had me under his knife showing a bestial face and long talon-like teeth. I wondered what inhuman creature this could be. He called for his guards who came immediately and carried me down to the prison. Later that week the inhuman beast came down to me and said.
- Why is it that you come here, to the heart of this very country and decide to assassin the emperor?
I didn´t say anything to him and spit on the floor in front of him.
- Well if that’s how you want it, he said and called for two heavily armored guards further down the prison-path. Take him to the torture chamber and make him talk.
They carried me down a couple of stairs to a small chamber with a bench and a chest. When I was there they started with their foul works, but not a word slipped through my lips about neither my family nor the man in the tree. After one day and one night had gone I felt my life would soon be at an end, and then I heard the foul daemon-emperor come down the stairs.
- I admire your courage, mortal. He said. And since nothing I do seems to make you´re mentality break down I´ll make sure that everyone that you´ll ever love and everything you desire will crumble to dust before your eyes. I am hard, but I am also fair you´ll notice. He then said and exposed his bare wrist, the torturers held my mouth open and the emperor cut himself and I felt his blood run through my veins and something happened inside me.
He then put me on the next boat to Tilea with a bag and told me that he´d meet me one day, and then it´ll be a fight on equal conditions. I opened the bag and saw my daggers and cloak, but the runes of the daggers weren´t the same these felt evil and the runes glow with a pale green flame. As I put on my clothes the boat went further from the lands I know and further towards a destiny of death and war.
Chapter 3, what am I?! : As I wandered of the ship I felt a thirst that I didn´t know what to do with, I felt like I needed to kill and feast on the blood, but I pushed my thirst down until one day when I had come out into a forest and saw a young women, I couldn´t control myself and I slain her with my bare hands, I then drank her corpse empty of blood and ran away in despair after what I had done. I built a small hut under a large pine in a county called Sylvania, for some reason I feel comfortable in this forsaken lands.
So here I have lived since then, practicing my newly found magical and my martial skills on zombies and other creatures that come across my lands, living or dead they enter, but they won´t get out. But whatever happens I won’t forget my past and the emperor of Cathay shall not get away with his treacherous behavior.
Skills: silent and almost impossible to notice due to his skills and his magic cloak. He can use just about any Cathayan martial weapon and uses them in deadly combination with acrobatic skills to make hard-hitting attack chains. He can control himself very good and has capability to behave correct in most situations. Instead of his lost eye he has implanted a magically enhanced porcelain-eye that can see the life force of the living through anything (about 30 feet range).
Cons: hates things that abuse their control over other. Is sensitive about family-questions and those questions that are about the man in the tree. Doesn´t like people that hasn´t proven their loyalty. Has a small degree of paranoia.
there he is! hopefully some ok reading :lol:
, you play GW?
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