Slayer of the Rot
03-25-06, 01:51 AM
((I know I was at level five, so just gimme 20,000 exp, doesn't matter. Don't worry about giving me any gp either, because that doesn't matter anymore. This is more or less out of courtesy for anyone that has quests saved with Dan that would like to finish them out, like Letho. Then I kill 'im.))
Name: Dan Lagh'ratham.
Age: 28.
Race: Hybrid of Saraelian demon and human.
Hair Color: Very dark brown, bordering on black.
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 234 lbs.
Occupation: Mass Murderer.
Fighting Style (Discipline): (Unarmed)Matras Eres A mixture of self taught and an amalgamation of things taught to him by Godhand, Dan has focused his former, chaotic discipline into something more organized. Close quarters combat commonly consists of disabling throws and quick, snapping punches, and even includes several simple moves relying heavily on the combat knife to disarm an opponent and strike a quick, killing blow. At long range, it goes on the defensive and relies on the swordsman's quick reflexes to avoid projectiles and magic. While it isn't fully developed yet, and thus has a few weaknesses, Matras Eres is a much more effecient and stronger style than before.
(Armed)Overall Weapons Profeciency (OWP) While Dan is more than proficient in the area of guns and knives, he is able to pick up most hand-held weapons and weild them with a certain degree of ability. After using a weapon for a sufficient amount of time, larger weapons taking a little longer and smaller weapons easier, Dan's ability to weild them will be increased.
Favorite Drink: Black coffee.
Favorite Cigarette Brand: The brand doesn't matter, as long as he can smoke them.
Appearance: A tall, muscular man, with choppily, close cut, very dark brown hair, as well as a sort of permanent beard stubble on his face, Dan is rarely seen without a cigarette between his lips and his black tinted Oakley sunglasses covering tired looking hazel eyes. His wardrobe varies little from a pair of heavy mythril plated boots, dark blue denim pants, and a color-shifting vlince shortsleeve shirt.
That was the slayer beforehand. Nowadays, he seems to take some pride in his appearance. Always neatly shaved, he leaves his sideburns to grow normally, and consistently combs his hair, which is now neat and trim. He's ditched the clothes that made him look like some kind of hired knee breaking thug in favor of a neat and well tailored business suit, sans tie, the shirt's collar pulled up over the jacket's own, the top undone to reveal his broad chest. A tiny bronze crucifix hangs from a bronze chain around his neck. The change makes him nigh unrecognizable to his friends, as he almost appears to be a different man.
Personality: Dan's quite literally snapped. He's accepted the fact that he's nothing but a killer, and if so, he's going to kill as many people as he can before he's tied blindfolded to a pole with a cigarette in his mouth in front of a firing squad. Still, there seems to be some semblance of the old Dan inside; when not urged by the titan that lives inside of him, the slayer has a soft spot foir women and children, but still maintains his foul mouth. However, when in the middle of a killing frenzy, he recognizes no one. Faces don't register, pokes and prods neither, cries of help and pleads of mercy do not touch his soul. Finally, Dan refuses to speak of his past to anyone, so very few know exactly where he comes from. As far as anyone new is concerned, he's from a far off part of Althanas they've never heard.
Weapons:
+The Rotslayer (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/i_heart_roisin_dubh/Rotslayer1.jpg) A six foot long sword, five hundred pounds heavy, single edged. Custom made originally from dehlar, it was later upgraded to titanium and is a symbol of the swordsman, the weapon he is best known for.
+Mythril Bladed Boot Toe Knives Two spring-loaded knives nestled in the toe of the boot. Razor sharp, they've been rammed into the belly of more than one person.
+Bloodstained Iron Revolver A simple revolver that has been stained with blood, more accurately Dan's. It has 532 lead bullets and 12 silver bullets.
+Delyn Combat Knife Sixteen and a quarter inches long, this well balanced blade is double edged, half serrated. While many repeat the phrase "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight", he knows well enough that a gun will run out of ammo eventually. Kept in a sheath on his thigh.
+Iron Throwing Daggers Some plain throwing daggers, that most likely won't survive a single throw. However, they're quite dispensable, considering how cheap they are.
+Shotgun A common twelve gauge shotgun that Dan picked up in the Collector's Colliseum. While he's no expert at fixing things, he's estimated the damage at about one thousand to one thousand, five hundred gold. Anymore, and Dan will know the merchant is trying to fleece him. The make of the gun is the "Samaritan 870", and has a belt with twelve shells. Since then, Dan has visited the Bazaar and has had the gun fixed.
Armor:
+Color Shifting Vlince Shirt Dan's only form of armor, it's usually kept in the color black.
+Titanium Prosthetic After Jaken torched off his left arm, the gadgeteer Carilean fashioned this arm out of titanium for him. It has fine motor control, and mimicks his strength and reflexes fully. The only drawback is he is no longer able to feel through it of course, and he suffers from PLS, or Phantom Limb Syndrome.
Skills And Abilities:
+Slayer's Bond Dan has acquired a strong connection with his trademark sword, the Rotslayer. He can summon it from thin air, and have it vanish in the same manner. It's preceeded by an eerie, high pitched whistle, and the pounding of drums, fast and hard, the sound of a warrior's beat. 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 sword under situations of extreme duress or intense pain.
+Regeneration Dan's demon blood allows the activation of a thus dormant ability to regenerate damaged tissue. Wounds heal under the slayer's discretion, unless it is damage that hinders his ability to think to activate it (Such as a strong blow to the head). Thus, smaller wounds often go unnoticed or simply shrugged off.
((Smaller wounds, stabbing, surface cuts, light burns, and slight lacerations and the like, can be healed in a few minutes (1-2 posts). Larger wounds, such as severe burning, strong poisons, deep cuts, bulletwounds and the like can be healed within seven to eight minutes (3-4 posts).))
+Sword Proficiency - Rotslayer Since Dan came to Althanas, he's done nothing more than cut and break the life out of other people, guilty of crimes or not. The Rotslayer has seen innumerable battles, and has faint scratches and nicks to show it's veteran years. On top of an undeniable bond with the sword, Dan has reached a new height with his skill with the sword, to the point that it is considered a mastery. Unlike most weilding heavy weapons, Dan has the power to use it to it's true extent, giving an unforeseen finesse to his strokes, instead of the common horizontal/vertical swings he started with.
+Titan's Endurance Dan's body has been strained to the breaking point so many times that it has actually adapted to his dangerous life. He can lose twice as much blood as the normal man before passing out, and greatly increases his pain tolerance.
+Titan's Body Dan is able to lift approximately three tons, is two times faster and agile than the normal human being, and is able to bend/break/rip/destroy materials equal to or beneath delyn. Furthermore, Dan's five senses are more attuned to his surroundings than a normal human beings, equating to the level of an elves.
History:
It should have been another stupid, simple day. He should have gotten up, showered, dressed, ate breakfast, and went to school like any normal fifteen-year old. Instead, he woke up to a dead family, dead friends, zombies, demons, vampires, overturned cars, fires, and a gloomy, blood-rust colored sky. Though frightened out of his wits, one of the last surviving members of the human race, then known as Dan Wilson Gosnell III, decided it would be best to stay on the move, and threw his shoes on, grabbed his keys, and ran out the door.
He had taken no more than two steps when something fell upon his back, knocking him to the ground. Hitting the ground hard, the soon-to-be slayer was stunned, numbingly feeling the rotting fingers clutch at his neck. As the putrid breath washed over his face, he cried out, wanting to live, and pushed, slamming his elbow into it's jaw. He was rewarded with a grunt, and a wet snap, and the thing tumbled off his back. Scrambling to his feet, Dan ran towards a police car, abondoned in the middle of the road, only looking back once. He wished he hadn't.
Scrabbling at the concrete walk was something that was impossible, a dead man, somehow animated. His skin was spongy, and fell off in places, colliding with a wet slap on the concrete. His filmy eyes rolled aimlessly in moldy sockets, trying to find it's prey. It's broken jaw still moved, trying to snap chunks of something out of the air. He shuddered, and yanked open the cruiser's door.
In the seat sat a bloodsoaked body, the badge pinned to his shirt breast was the only thing that allowed Dan to identify him as an officer of the law. After hesitating, wary of the body, Dan snatched the dead man's .45, two extra clips, and slammed the door, running around the side of the house. He quickly started his car, and left his house forever.
Doubting that the gun would work on....zombies, the only word that came to mind, he set his destination as a nearby weapons shop, knowing they had good swords, daggers, and knives. The store was quiet, and during his search he remained unpreturbed. Carrying arms and pocket fulls of weapons, Dan began to head to the door, but dropped them all when he noticed a glint of well tempered steel and lacquered cherry wood in the shadows of the storeroom.
It was a katana. A very well designed, sturdy katana. Ignoring the other weapons, he took it and quickly left. Later, listening to an old, automated rock station on the radio, with the car stopped, Dan unsheathed the blade and looked it over. He was unaware that the blade was of the Wilmhearst Family Slayers, and was also unaware that he himself was Wilmhearst. He decided at that moment, as he sheathed the sword, that he would survive. And to do so, he would kill.
So, over the next eleven years, he gained expertise, scars, and muscle mass, burning away his child's fat. At twenty-five years old, he was a strong warrior, though ignorant socially, and was ready for greater opponents than what earth was offering him. It was then that news of the portal and the monks of Ai'brone reached his ears.
The monks had heard news finally of the tragedy of earth and had come to the devastated planet to offer refuge to the strongest. They boasted that their land, Althanas held some of the strongest that time could name, and intrigue, powerful weapons. Of course, this drew Dan like a moth to a candle flame, and before he knew it, he was on the green grass and under the blue sky of Althanas.
Over the next year, Dan learned he was of the Wilmhearst family, and their twenty-seventh generation. He crossed swords with many of Althanas' warriors, participated in both the Serenti and The Cell, aided the Alliance in the Bazaar War, coming out on the winning side, and enjoyed a brief stint as the second in command of the Order Within Chaos. During the course of The Cell, however, two of Althanas' most powerful killers came to his attention as a mercenary, bounty hunter, and slayer; Max Dirks, a man good with his gun, and Valentina Snow, a viscious cannibal who Dan discovered to be the Weendigo. Through way of a cheap shot, and a well placed shadow portal(:P), both thrust him from the tournament and bought them his constant, vigilant, vengeance.
After the Cell, Dan began to train in the Citadel, felling a few powerful opponents, including Luc Kraus, an arrogant geomancer who strives to gain the slayer's respect. After he had his fill of battle, Dan joined the Black Hand, combat sign of the Red Hand and a clan of elite warriors. A few months later, he caught a messenger trying to sneak out of Keller Hall, hoping to avoid the man with the huge sword's attention. Dan learned from him that Lord Ithermoss was dying, and was at the half-drake's side in only a few moments. The Red Hand's founder gave him one of his first weapons, a broad-bladed iron katar, one of the many gifts given to others who had assembled. Inspired by Ithermoss rough life, the slayer set out again, even more determined to return the Earth to what it had been at one time.
After a money making scheme at a prize fighting ring whose name he forgets, Dan met the impossibly strong Godhand Striker, as well as Claire and Sonya, who were even stronger, to the point of ridiculousness. They're all currently living in his apartment at Radasanth. His strange feelings for Claire, and the trustworthy camaraderie of Godhand have made the slayer begin to rethink his outlook on life. Could an individual's life be precious? Something not to be taken away? Can he trust the three? If it came down to it, would he lay his life down for them? His heart says yes, but his instincts scream no. And his instincts have gotten him very far up to now.
However, this wasn't discovered yet as soon after, his workload began to make him buckle beneath it's weight. Gild vanished and Damon Kaosi took the title and position of Aegis, giving the slayer the position of The Captain of the Sword. Also, with the Shards of Valori suddenly coming to light, his free time was occupied by Theatre of War battles to acquire the shards. Soon after he registered for the Althanas Adventurer's Crown alongside Seth Dahlios and Oberon Detruire. The three, under the name of The Black Hand, were charged with finding the legendary Lightbringer, the Calan Silaer. It was no more than they set foot into Hrenta Nodos that several explosions rocked the city, and the Demon Army flooded it. They arrested the slayer and took him to Telas Bauhaus, the public execution grounds, and forced him to fight The Raven King, quite a bit more powerful, who he had beleived to have killed years ago. When it was apparent Dan was on a fast track to a brutal death, he went through a bloody metamorphosis that showed his half demon characteristics all too well. After killing the monstrosity, Dan was set free due to ancient laws, and caught up to Seth. He passed out, and during this time, a mysterious Demon who was of a high rank in the Demon Army spirited the Lightbringer away to Salvar. After awakening, he had an urge to enter the crypt, were the reanimated corpse of the demon prince Prellatar told him of his past, and his Saraelian demon descendents, and gave light to the the lies the Wilmhearst family had been telling him. After sealing the crypt to give Prellatar rest, Dan and Seth made way to Salvar and met up with Oberon, who had went ahead to follow the army. The three made a daring raid on the camp of the six thousand strong force, and just when it seemed they had recovered the legendary weapon, the mysterious demon appeared and broke it, revealing it to be fake. He froze time around the three, and locked them away to deal with them later. With a promise to recover the Lightbringer, and having been beaten so easily, a hellish fury is soon to be dropped onto Belial's head...
After being rescued by the Tel Quissir, Dan and the other two members of the Black Hand succeeded in spiriting away the Calan Silaer. However, during a council of all the teams and the monks in Radasanth, the demons came again, seeking the other Calans, and though fighting bravely, they were all incapacitated. Afterwards, they were liberated again, and the Black Hand broke away from the tournament, sick of the constant attack, and their position as the tournament's whipping boy. When Dan split off from Seth and Oberon, he went back to his apartment, and in the following weeks found himself tied up in an assassination attempt to kill him by the Phoenix Syndicate, who wanted him out of the way so they could use his genetically altered clones to take over the world. They also kidnapped the girl he was keeping an eye on, Linda, and despite his best efforts, she was killed by the Syndicate's head, Jaken, moments before his escape. In a rage, Dan killed Jaken with the Rotslayer and was nearly destroyed in a humungous blast that leveled the Syndicate's headquarters, the Tsukioke Bulding in the upper east end of Radasanth.
Calamity followed fast, and weeks later, Dan discovered that the King's Idea Laboratory, a weapons manufacturing company, was actually responsible fopr the virus that destroyed Earth. Dan nearly instantly reverted back to his old ways, focusing himself on bloody, hell bent revenge against the corporation. He also realized how bad downtown Radasanth was, and has thus established himself as a superpowered vigilante in that area, stopping as many crimes as he can with his own brutal and unsavory methods, becoming The Enforcer.
((Before the Crash))
Still, bad luck continued to shine down on him. A lackey for King's Idea Laboratories, Gearheart, confronted the slayer at the ruins of the Tsukioke Building. During the following battle, Dan learned of the titan Adrammalech, the original Dan Wilmhearst, and his former family's treachery. This, along with an intense amount of hatred and rage, woke the titan sleeping inside of him, and aided him in killing the android.
After that, with the titan's constant urgings, and inserting numerous visions of destruction gruesome deaths into his mind, Dan slowly slid down a spiral of insanity. Eventually, he simply accepted the fact that Addramalech wouldn't leave him be until he began killing, and so he eagerly set out to spill as much blood as possible.
Name: Dan Lagh'ratham.
Age: 28.
Race: Hybrid of Saraelian demon and human.
Hair Color: Very dark brown, bordering on black.
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 234 lbs.
Occupation: Mass Murderer.
Fighting Style (Discipline): (Unarmed)Matras Eres A mixture of self taught and an amalgamation of things taught to him by Godhand, Dan has focused his former, chaotic discipline into something more organized. Close quarters combat commonly consists of disabling throws and quick, snapping punches, and even includes several simple moves relying heavily on the combat knife to disarm an opponent and strike a quick, killing blow. At long range, it goes on the defensive and relies on the swordsman's quick reflexes to avoid projectiles and magic. While it isn't fully developed yet, and thus has a few weaknesses, Matras Eres is a much more effecient and stronger style than before.
(Armed)Overall Weapons Profeciency (OWP) While Dan is more than proficient in the area of guns and knives, he is able to pick up most hand-held weapons and weild them with a certain degree of ability. After using a weapon for a sufficient amount of time, larger weapons taking a little longer and smaller weapons easier, Dan's ability to weild them will be increased.
Favorite Drink: Black coffee.
Favorite Cigarette Brand: The brand doesn't matter, as long as he can smoke them.
Appearance: A tall, muscular man, with choppily, close cut, very dark brown hair, as well as a sort of permanent beard stubble on his face, Dan is rarely seen without a cigarette between his lips and his black tinted Oakley sunglasses covering tired looking hazel eyes. His wardrobe varies little from a pair of heavy mythril plated boots, dark blue denim pants, and a color-shifting vlince shortsleeve shirt.
That was the slayer beforehand. Nowadays, he seems to take some pride in his appearance. Always neatly shaved, he leaves his sideburns to grow normally, and consistently combs his hair, which is now neat and trim. He's ditched the clothes that made him look like some kind of hired knee breaking thug in favor of a neat and well tailored business suit, sans tie, the shirt's collar pulled up over the jacket's own, the top undone to reveal his broad chest. A tiny bronze crucifix hangs from a bronze chain around his neck. The change makes him nigh unrecognizable to his friends, as he almost appears to be a different man.
Personality: Dan's quite literally snapped. He's accepted the fact that he's nothing but a killer, and if so, he's going to kill as many people as he can before he's tied blindfolded to a pole with a cigarette in his mouth in front of a firing squad. Still, there seems to be some semblance of the old Dan inside; when not urged by the titan that lives inside of him, the slayer has a soft spot foir women and children, but still maintains his foul mouth. However, when in the middle of a killing frenzy, he recognizes no one. Faces don't register, pokes and prods neither, cries of help and pleads of mercy do not touch his soul. Finally, Dan refuses to speak of his past to anyone, so very few know exactly where he comes from. As far as anyone new is concerned, he's from a far off part of Althanas they've never heard.
Weapons:
+The Rotslayer (http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b72/i_heart_roisin_dubh/Rotslayer1.jpg) A six foot long sword, five hundred pounds heavy, single edged. Custom made originally from dehlar, it was later upgraded to titanium and is a symbol of the swordsman, the weapon he is best known for.
+Mythril Bladed Boot Toe Knives Two spring-loaded knives nestled in the toe of the boot. Razor sharp, they've been rammed into the belly of more than one person.
+Bloodstained Iron Revolver A simple revolver that has been stained with blood, more accurately Dan's. It has 532 lead bullets and 12 silver bullets.
+Delyn Combat Knife Sixteen and a quarter inches long, this well balanced blade is double edged, half serrated. While many repeat the phrase "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight", he knows well enough that a gun will run out of ammo eventually. Kept in a sheath on his thigh.
+Iron Throwing Daggers Some plain throwing daggers, that most likely won't survive a single throw. However, they're quite dispensable, considering how cheap they are.
+Shotgun A common twelve gauge shotgun that Dan picked up in the Collector's Colliseum. While he's no expert at fixing things, he's estimated the damage at about one thousand to one thousand, five hundred gold. Anymore, and Dan will know the merchant is trying to fleece him. The make of the gun is the "Samaritan 870", and has a belt with twelve shells. Since then, Dan has visited the Bazaar and has had the gun fixed.
Armor:
+Color Shifting Vlince Shirt Dan's only form of armor, it's usually kept in the color black.
+Titanium Prosthetic After Jaken torched off his left arm, the gadgeteer Carilean fashioned this arm out of titanium for him. It has fine motor control, and mimicks his strength and reflexes fully. The only drawback is he is no longer able to feel through it of course, and he suffers from PLS, or Phantom Limb Syndrome.
Skills And Abilities:
+Slayer's Bond Dan has acquired a strong connection with his trademark sword, the Rotslayer. He can summon it from thin air, and have it vanish in the same manner. It's preceeded by an eerie, high pitched whistle, and the pounding of drums, fast and hard, the sound of a warrior's beat. 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 sword under situations of extreme duress or intense pain.
+Regeneration Dan's demon blood allows the activation of a thus dormant ability to regenerate damaged tissue. Wounds heal under the slayer's discretion, unless it is damage that hinders his ability to think to activate it (Such as a strong blow to the head). Thus, smaller wounds often go unnoticed or simply shrugged off.
((Smaller wounds, stabbing, surface cuts, light burns, and slight lacerations and the like, can be healed in a few minutes (1-2 posts). Larger wounds, such as severe burning, strong poisons, deep cuts, bulletwounds and the like can be healed within seven to eight minutes (3-4 posts).))
+Sword Proficiency - Rotslayer Since Dan came to Althanas, he's done nothing more than cut and break the life out of other people, guilty of crimes or not. The Rotslayer has seen innumerable battles, and has faint scratches and nicks to show it's veteran years. On top of an undeniable bond with the sword, Dan has reached a new height with his skill with the sword, to the point that it is considered a mastery. Unlike most weilding heavy weapons, Dan has the power to use it to it's true extent, giving an unforeseen finesse to his strokes, instead of the common horizontal/vertical swings he started with.
+Titan's Endurance Dan's body has been strained to the breaking point so many times that it has actually adapted to his dangerous life. He can lose twice as much blood as the normal man before passing out, and greatly increases his pain tolerance.
+Titan's Body Dan is able to lift approximately three tons, is two times faster and agile than the normal human being, and is able to bend/break/rip/destroy materials equal to or beneath delyn. Furthermore, Dan's five senses are more attuned to his surroundings than a normal human beings, equating to the level of an elves.
History:
It should have been another stupid, simple day. He should have gotten up, showered, dressed, ate breakfast, and went to school like any normal fifteen-year old. Instead, he woke up to a dead family, dead friends, zombies, demons, vampires, overturned cars, fires, and a gloomy, blood-rust colored sky. Though frightened out of his wits, one of the last surviving members of the human race, then known as Dan Wilson Gosnell III, decided it would be best to stay on the move, and threw his shoes on, grabbed his keys, and ran out the door.
He had taken no more than two steps when something fell upon his back, knocking him to the ground. Hitting the ground hard, the soon-to-be slayer was stunned, numbingly feeling the rotting fingers clutch at his neck. As the putrid breath washed over his face, he cried out, wanting to live, and pushed, slamming his elbow into it's jaw. He was rewarded with a grunt, and a wet snap, and the thing tumbled off his back. Scrambling to his feet, Dan ran towards a police car, abondoned in the middle of the road, only looking back once. He wished he hadn't.
Scrabbling at the concrete walk was something that was impossible, a dead man, somehow animated. His skin was spongy, and fell off in places, colliding with a wet slap on the concrete. His filmy eyes rolled aimlessly in moldy sockets, trying to find it's prey. It's broken jaw still moved, trying to snap chunks of something out of the air. He shuddered, and yanked open the cruiser's door.
In the seat sat a bloodsoaked body, the badge pinned to his shirt breast was the only thing that allowed Dan to identify him as an officer of the law. After hesitating, wary of the body, Dan snatched the dead man's .45, two extra clips, and slammed the door, running around the side of the house. He quickly started his car, and left his house forever.
Doubting that the gun would work on....zombies, the only word that came to mind, he set his destination as a nearby weapons shop, knowing they had good swords, daggers, and knives. The store was quiet, and during his search he remained unpreturbed. Carrying arms and pocket fulls of weapons, Dan began to head to the door, but dropped them all when he noticed a glint of well tempered steel and lacquered cherry wood in the shadows of the storeroom.
It was a katana. A very well designed, sturdy katana. Ignoring the other weapons, he took it and quickly left. Later, listening to an old, automated rock station on the radio, with the car stopped, Dan unsheathed the blade and looked it over. He was unaware that the blade was of the Wilmhearst Family Slayers, and was also unaware that he himself was Wilmhearst. He decided at that moment, as he sheathed the sword, that he would survive. And to do so, he would kill.
So, over the next eleven years, he gained expertise, scars, and muscle mass, burning away his child's fat. At twenty-five years old, he was a strong warrior, though ignorant socially, and was ready for greater opponents than what earth was offering him. It was then that news of the portal and the monks of Ai'brone reached his ears.
The monks had heard news finally of the tragedy of earth and had come to the devastated planet to offer refuge to the strongest. They boasted that their land, Althanas held some of the strongest that time could name, and intrigue, powerful weapons. Of course, this drew Dan like a moth to a candle flame, and before he knew it, he was on the green grass and under the blue sky of Althanas.
Over the next year, Dan learned he was of the Wilmhearst family, and their twenty-seventh generation. He crossed swords with many of Althanas' warriors, participated in both the Serenti and The Cell, aided the Alliance in the Bazaar War, coming out on the winning side, and enjoyed a brief stint as the second in command of the Order Within Chaos. During the course of The Cell, however, two of Althanas' most powerful killers came to his attention as a mercenary, bounty hunter, and slayer; Max Dirks, a man good with his gun, and Valentina Snow, a viscious cannibal who Dan discovered to be the Weendigo. Through way of a cheap shot, and a well placed shadow portal(:P), both thrust him from the tournament and bought them his constant, vigilant, vengeance.
After the Cell, Dan began to train in the Citadel, felling a few powerful opponents, including Luc Kraus, an arrogant geomancer who strives to gain the slayer's respect. After he had his fill of battle, Dan joined the Black Hand, combat sign of the Red Hand and a clan of elite warriors. A few months later, he caught a messenger trying to sneak out of Keller Hall, hoping to avoid the man with the huge sword's attention. Dan learned from him that Lord Ithermoss was dying, and was at the half-drake's side in only a few moments. The Red Hand's founder gave him one of his first weapons, a broad-bladed iron katar, one of the many gifts given to others who had assembled. Inspired by Ithermoss rough life, the slayer set out again, even more determined to return the Earth to what it had been at one time.
After a money making scheme at a prize fighting ring whose name he forgets, Dan met the impossibly strong Godhand Striker, as well as Claire and Sonya, who were even stronger, to the point of ridiculousness. They're all currently living in his apartment at Radasanth. His strange feelings for Claire, and the trustworthy camaraderie of Godhand have made the slayer begin to rethink his outlook on life. Could an individual's life be precious? Something not to be taken away? Can he trust the three? If it came down to it, would he lay his life down for them? His heart says yes, but his instincts scream no. And his instincts have gotten him very far up to now.
However, this wasn't discovered yet as soon after, his workload began to make him buckle beneath it's weight. Gild vanished and Damon Kaosi took the title and position of Aegis, giving the slayer the position of The Captain of the Sword. Also, with the Shards of Valori suddenly coming to light, his free time was occupied by Theatre of War battles to acquire the shards. Soon after he registered for the Althanas Adventurer's Crown alongside Seth Dahlios and Oberon Detruire. The three, under the name of The Black Hand, were charged with finding the legendary Lightbringer, the Calan Silaer. It was no more than they set foot into Hrenta Nodos that several explosions rocked the city, and the Demon Army flooded it. They arrested the slayer and took him to Telas Bauhaus, the public execution grounds, and forced him to fight The Raven King, quite a bit more powerful, who he had beleived to have killed years ago. When it was apparent Dan was on a fast track to a brutal death, he went through a bloody metamorphosis that showed his half demon characteristics all too well. After killing the monstrosity, Dan was set free due to ancient laws, and caught up to Seth. He passed out, and during this time, a mysterious Demon who was of a high rank in the Demon Army spirited the Lightbringer away to Salvar. After awakening, he had an urge to enter the crypt, were the reanimated corpse of the demon prince Prellatar told him of his past, and his Saraelian demon descendents, and gave light to the the lies the Wilmhearst family had been telling him. After sealing the crypt to give Prellatar rest, Dan and Seth made way to Salvar and met up with Oberon, who had went ahead to follow the army. The three made a daring raid on the camp of the six thousand strong force, and just when it seemed they had recovered the legendary weapon, the mysterious demon appeared and broke it, revealing it to be fake. He froze time around the three, and locked them away to deal with them later. With a promise to recover the Lightbringer, and having been beaten so easily, a hellish fury is soon to be dropped onto Belial's head...
After being rescued by the Tel Quissir, Dan and the other two members of the Black Hand succeeded in spiriting away the Calan Silaer. However, during a council of all the teams and the monks in Radasanth, the demons came again, seeking the other Calans, and though fighting bravely, they were all incapacitated. Afterwards, they were liberated again, and the Black Hand broke away from the tournament, sick of the constant attack, and their position as the tournament's whipping boy. When Dan split off from Seth and Oberon, he went back to his apartment, and in the following weeks found himself tied up in an assassination attempt to kill him by the Phoenix Syndicate, who wanted him out of the way so they could use his genetically altered clones to take over the world. They also kidnapped the girl he was keeping an eye on, Linda, and despite his best efforts, she was killed by the Syndicate's head, Jaken, moments before his escape. In a rage, Dan killed Jaken with the Rotslayer and was nearly destroyed in a humungous blast that leveled the Syndicate's headquarters, the Tsukioke Bulding in the upper east end of Radasanth.
Calamity followed fast, and weeks later, Dan discovered that the King's Idea Laboratory, a weapons manufacturing company, was actually responsible fopr the virus that destroyed Earth. Dan nearly instantly reverted back to his old ways, focusing himself on bloody, hell bent revenge against the corporation. He also realized how bad downtown Radasanth was, and has thus established himself as a superpowered vigilante in that area, stopping as many crimes as he can with his own brutal and unsavory methods, becoming The Enforcer.
((Before the Crash))
Still, bad luck continued to shine down on him. A lackey for King's Idea Laboratories, Gearheart, confronted the slayer at the ruins of the Tsukioke Building. During the following battle, Dan learned of the titan Adrammalech, the original Dan Wilmhearst, and his former family's treachery. This, along with an intense amount of hatred and rage, woke the titan sleeping inside of him, and aided him in killing the android.
After that, with the titan's constant urgings, and inserting numerous visions of destruction gruesome deaths into his mind, Dan slowly slid down a spiral of insanity. Eventually, he simply accepted the fact that Addramalech wouldn't leave him be until he began killing, and so he eagerly set out to spill as much blood as possible.