Slayer of the Rot
12-21-08, 07:08 PM
Name:Dan Lagh'ratham, The Red Beast
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 215 lbs.
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Gray
Occupation: Slayer
Personality: Greedy and intensely violent, Dan Lagh'ratham is motivated only by power, money, and the search for his daughter.
Appearance: Dan Lagh'ratham is a tall, bulky man with hard plates of muscle across his form, and brutal facial features that take well to an expression of absolute fury. The man dresses simply with little regard to modern fashion; usually in war torn clothes or mixes of military uniforms stolen from felled corpses.
Weapons: Primarily, Dan enjoys the use of a large, mythril bladed great axe with a delyn core and haft. The weapon has a thick, cleaver like blade, which is forged of a heavier mythril ore than most weapons made with the metal, and thus has a duller, grayer shine to it.
While less used, the slayer also owns a prevalida kodachi, which is usually bound to his belt in the small of his back, an iron revolver worn at the right side of his hip with approximately ninety lead bullets, and a long, steel knife.
Armour: He uses nothing but the Shield of Vanguard, a living shield of indeterminate material with the strength of mythril and unknown properties. The soul of a daemon was sealed into it several years ago, and its mouth is centered on the front of the shield. It’s fickle, and picks its owners of its volition, depending on strength. It has the power to chew up weak spells (lvl. 0-1), as well as projectiles such as arrows or bolts, and spit them back at the casters.
Skills and Abilities:
Biology of a Madman
Dan is able to lift approximately three and a half tons, is twice as fast and agile than the normal human being, and is able to bend/break/rip/destroy materials equal to or beneath damascus. His sight and hearing is on par with an elf's, and his sense of smell is only slightly more inferior than the common canine's. Since his body has been strained to the breaking point so many times, it has grown to simply except the enormous amounts of punishment he heaps on it. The slayer is capable of losing twice the blood of a normal man before passing out, and has an incredibly high threshold for pain. In fact, it has adapted to the point that his bones are far harder to break than usual (though when they do break, they tend to be far worse than the common fracture), and his musculature has become dense enough that it equates to steel plate. It has been proven in the past, in Citadel matches, that the only real way to kill the slayer is immolation, decapitation, or crushing his skull. While, say, piercing his heart with an arrow would slow him down and bleed him out, he would only enter a deep coma until the wound is healed.
Dan is capable of recovering from wounds twice as fast as a human being; this has no use during combat (as the only thing that would heal during the short time a fight would take place would be superficial scratches). Additionally, his body produces very little fatigue toxins, which allows the slayer to operate at peak capacity for two days before needing rest, food, or water.
Due to his simplistic nature, however, it is an easy matter to mentally manipulate the slayer. Unlike physical attacks, mental offenses always take their full toll on Dan if not more so, and he tends to fall for illusions more often not.
Slayer's Bond
Dan has acquired a strong connection with all of his weapons, even the most recent. He can summon them from thin air, and have it vanish in the same manner. Also, he can summon it to his hand if it is at most, thirty feet away. This skill has a chance to fail if Dan is attempting to summon the weapon(s) under situations of extreme duress or intense pain.
Blood Frenzy
Most likely a side affect of consuming the flesh of blessed animals, or Thayne favored beings, once Dan has smelled and eaten a fair amount of meat and blood from another living being, he will convert into a mental and physical state that he refers to as a "blood frenzy". The true form of the berserker; Dan's body floods with toxic levels of adrenaline which cause a very unpleasant burning sensation - which lessens with the more meat he eats. of being lit on fire, the shock on the body shuts his eyes down, inducing blindness. In this state, Dan feels no pain whatsoever, and his skin turns a dull red from the flow of hyper-oxygenated blood pouring into his muscles. His strength is doubled it's base amount. Not only does the conversion drive him temporarily insane, and strikes him blind, but it also mutates him. The jawbone lengthens and widens as the teeth inside grow longer, and a second row sprouts behind it. The teeth then angle back into his mouth, so anything caught within the spiky maw will be torn to shreds, even if it is managed to be pulled free. His arms grow longer, so his knuckles nearly drag on the ground, the hands grow wider, the fingers lengthen, and spout claws.
This state lasts for five posts, though if he consumes at least sixty pounds of gore, he will instantly revert. Otherwise, he is exhausted once returning to his normal form.
War Machine
Dan has spent almost more than half his life in combat, his experiences intensifying in more recent years. It has shaped him to fit into a dangerous mold; he no longer flinches, or hesitates to spill blood, and revels in it; to the point of zealousness. Dan has become an expert with a heavy blades, such as claymores, axes, and other cleaving-type weapons. He's very well versed in the use of a knife, as well. While he has no discernable, specific discipline, Dan's mixture of savagery and massive brute strength makes him deadly in both unarmed and close combat.
History:
Most of Dan Lagh'ratham's past is hazy; he seemed to simply arrive upon Althanas a decade ago, and was first hailed as something of a hero, despite his questionably violent methods. It's been said that he is the by product of a rogue Wilmhearst slayer, and a Saraelian Demon in the upper echelon of the Four Pillars. Despite whatever praise he received, the slayer found himself drifting into darker, and more brutal paths, as he began to enjoy killing people. His views on the people around him began to warp, and his increasingly disgusting displays in the Pagoda and Citadel earned him the title of 'The Red Beast'. It soon enough became deadly evident that the name fit him better than one would expect when he was sighted eating the hearts and livers of his kills during the minor wars that popped up around the countryside. Despite the fact that his lover, Claire, moved herself and their daughter to a distant country, Dan found them and killed her in a blind rage, though later discovered his daughter had escaped. The slayer has devoted much of his time to his search for her, though he's recently vanished; rumor has it that he was decapitated in Eluriand by a contingent of Bladesingers.
((I just kind of...retconned his stuff for the tournament, because he became a big jumbled mess.))
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 215 lbs.
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Gray
Occupation: Slayer
Personality: Greedy and intensely violent, Dan Lagh'ratham is motivated only by power, money, and the search for his daughter.
Appearance: Dan Lagh'ratham is a tall, bulky man with hard plates of muscle across his form, and brutal facial features that take well to an expression of absolute fury. The man dresses simply with little regard to modern fashion; usually in war torn clothes or mixes of military uniforms stolen from felled corpses.
Weapons: Primarily, Dan enjoys the use of a large, mythril bladed great axe with a delyn core and haft. The weapon has a thick, cleaver like blade, which is forged of a heavier mythril ore than most weapons made with the metal, and thus has a duller, grayer shine to it.
While less used, the slayer also owns a prevalida kodachi, which is usually bound to his belt in the small of his back, an iron revolver worn at the right side of his hip with approximately ninety lead bullets, and a long, steel knife.
Armour: He uses nothing but the Shield of Vanguard, a living shield of indeterminate material with the strength of mythril and unknown properties. The soul of a daemon was sealed into it several years ago, and its mouth is centered on the front of the shield. It’s fickle, and picks its owners of its volition, depending on strength. It has the power to chew up weak spells (lvl. 0-1), as well as projectiles such as arrows or bolts, and spit them back at the casters.
Skills and Abilities:
Biology of a Madman
Dan is able to lift approximately three and a half tons, is twice as fast and agile than the normal human being, and is able to bend/break/rip/destroy materials equal to or beneath damascus. His sight and hearing is on par with an elf's, and his sense of smell is only slightly more inferior than the common canine's. Since his body has been strained to the breaking point so many times, it has grown to simply except the enormous amounts of punishment he heaps on it. The slayer is capable of losing twice the blood of a normal man before passing out, and has an incredibly high threshold for pain. In fact, it has adapted to the point that his bones are far harder to break than usual (though when they do break, they tend to be far worse than the common fracture), and his musculature has become dense enough that it equates to steel plate. It has been proven in the past, in Citadel matches, that the only real way to kill the slayer is immolation, decapitation, or crushing his skull. While, say, piercing his heart with an arrow would slow him down and bleed him out, he would only enter a deep coma until the wound is healed.
Dan is capable of recovering from wounds twice as fast as a human being; this has no use during combat (as the only thing that would heal during the short time a fight would take place would be superficial scratches). Additionally, his body produces very little fatigue toxins, which allows the slayer to operate at peak capacity for two days before needing rest, food, or water.
Due to his simplistic nature, however, it is an easy matter to mentally manipulate the slayer. Unlike physical attacks, mental offenses always take their full toll on Dan if not more so, and he tends to fall for illusions more often not.
Slayer's Bond
Dan has acquired a strong connection with all of his weapons, even the most recent. He can summon them from thin air, and have it vanish in the same manner. Also, he can summon it to his hand if it is at most, thirty feet away. This skill has a chance to fail if Dan is attempting to summon the weapon(s) under situations of extreme duress or intense pain.
Blood Frenzy
Most likely a side affect of consuming the flesh of blessed animals, or Thayne favored beings, once Dan has smelled and eaten a fair amount of meat and blood from another living being, he will convert into a mental and physical state that he refers to as a "blood frenzy". The true form of the berserker; Dan's body floods with toxic levels of adrenaline which cause a very unpleasant burning sensation - which lessens with the more meat he eats. of being lit on fire, the shock on the body shuts his eyes down, inducing blindness. In this state, Dan feels no pain whatsoever, and his skin turns a dull red from the flow of hyper-oxygenated blood pouring into his muscles. His strength is doubled it's base amount. Not only does the conversion drive him temporarily insane, and strikes him blind, but it also mutates him. The jawbone lengthens and widens as the teeth inside grow longer, and a second row sprouts behind it. The teeth then angle back into his mouth, so anything caught within the spiky maw will be torn to shreds, even if it is managed to be pulled free. His arms grow longer, so his knuckles nearly drag on the ground, the hands grow wider, the fingers lengthen, and spout claws.
This state lasts for five posts, though if he consumes at least sixty pounds of gore, he will instantly revert. Otherwise, he is exhausted once returning to his normal form.
War Machine
Dan has spent almost more than half his life in combat, his experiences intensifying in more recent years. It has shaped him to fit into a dangerous mold; he no longer flinches, or hesitates to spill blood, and revels in it; to the point of zealousness. Dan has become an expert with a heavy blades, such as claymores, axes, and other cleaving-type weapons. He's very well versed in the use of a knife, as well. While he has no discernable, specific discipline, Dan's mixture of savagery and massive brute strength makes him deadly in both unarmed and close combat.
History:
Most of Dan Lagh'ratham's past is hazy; he seemed to simply arrive upon Althanas a decade ago, and was first hailed as something of a hero, despite his questionably violent methods. It's been said that he is the by product of a rogue Wilmhearst slayer, and a Saraelian Demon in the upper echelon of the Four Pillars. Despite whatever praise he received, the slayer found himself drifting into darker, and more brutal paths, as he began to enjoy killing people. His views on the people around him began to warp, and his increasingly disgusting displays in the Pagoda and Citadel earned him the title of 'The Red Beast'. It soon enough became deadly evident that the name fit him better than one would expect when he was sighted eating the hearts and livers of his kills during the minor wars that popped up around the countryside. Despite the fact that his lover, Claire, moved herself and their daughter to a distant country, Dan found them and killed her in a blind rage, though later discovered his daughter had escaped. The slayer has devoted much of his time to his search for her, though he's recently vanished; rumor has it that he was decapitated in Eluriand by a contingent of Bladesingers.
((I just kind of...retconned his stuff for the tournament, because he became a big jumbled mess.))