Agents of Darkness [Interest Check/Recruitment] - Started 11-1-16

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Blue Nova

Quote from: Pink Professional on November 04, 2016, 02:20:36 AM
If you're willing to have me, I'd be glad to join your motley crew...
With this fella.
Artorias, the Abysswalker
MASTER: Shao Khan, The Konquerer

HOMEWORLD: Dark Souls – Artorias was one of the first to fall to the infernal abyss. It was an all-consuming Blight that led once-heroes down a path of destruction and mind-altering rampage. Soon enough, the Abyss was all that remained of the world. Abyss and Darkness. Every so often, the curse of Undeath would fall upon the world, and some poor soul would rekindle the light to restart the Abyss’ attempts to smother it endlessly. Every time the Abyss rallied, Artorias was called to fight and kill and die again. It was an ever-repeating, ever-mindless cycle.

APPEARANCE: Artorias, as he is seen by most, is a tall individual with a warrior’s form. His height is exaggerated by the Gift of the Lord Soul Shard, making him stand at an astounding Eight foot tall. His face and body are more often than not covered in the wispy blue cloak and the eroded steel armour, and when he enters into a rage; black smog seems to emanate from his body.

Underneath his armour, Artorias is a strange sight to behold. His skin is a pale white, reminiscent of porcelain. In all other regards, though; he is human. He has black hair, and sick-looking, almost translucent purple eyes, and the physique of a Greek Demigod.

SEXUALITY: Hetrosexual
     
PERSONALITY: Artorias is a cold individual, quite in contrast to the majority of those who serve under Shao Khan. He is rational to a fault, and as honourable as a once-great Knight could hope to be. Sadly, for his enemies at least, he has been changed by his time as the Abyssal champion. He now relishes in combat and violence, satiated only by the raw rush of death and, occasionally, the caress of a lover; the last lingering memory of an all-but-forgotten lover’s face. Artorias is fiercely loyal to Shao Khan, and serves the man with duty and honour. Artorias rarely rises to insults, and rarely shows emotion beyond mild interest or disinterest. Truth be told, some think that Artorias is all but dead, until they see the glint of hunger in his eyes before a Konquest.

HISTORY: Once upon a time, Artorias was one of the Four Knights of Gwyn. He was the first of his order, and the first to fall to the curse of the abyss, an all-consuming blight which stripped bodies of humanity, rationality, and life. To die at the hands of the Abyss was a fate worse than death, for your body would constantly be shattered against heroes, only to be reformed in different time lines and forced to break again. It was a repeated agony for the once noble knight that drove him to insanity.

It was impossible to tell what happened after he fell to the Abyss. He remembered a great many things: dying the first time, against a noble undead warrior, being resurrected, and dying countless times more. It was a brutal cycle he thought he’d never escape; a microcosm of the world he lived in.

But then, the Dark Council took his world.

It was Shao Khan who fittingly found the berserker Artorias, and it seems that the warrior had struck the Konquerer’s fancy. He made a tournament of battling the rampaging Abysswalker, which saw hundreds die to Artorias’ blade in one-on-one Kombat. Eventually, it was Shao Khan himself that stepped up to Artorias, and it was Shao Khan who bested him. Shao Khan then ordered his mages to strip away enough of the raging Abyss that clung to his soul, and offered Artorias the first taste of freedom he’d had in years. Upon the offer of service, Artorias accepted. He had always served Gwyn faithfully, and yet Gwyn had not saved him. Shao Khan, on the other hand, had. He would make a fine lord.


POWERS:



  • The Abysswalker – Artorias is, even before his time under Shao Khan an absolute monster of Martial Combat. Having mastered several styles of weapon-play, and already bearing the strength to wield a Greatsword the size of a human with one hand, he can crush creatures with his sword, or daze them with his grace and speed. (Huge buffs to Weapon-based combat.)

  • Soul Eater – Artorias’ world thrives upon the currency of the Soul. Souls are used to fuel a person’s strength, as well as to empower their being, preserve their sanity, and trade to others for goods. While most would revile this trait, Shao Khan and his forces celebrate it. Shao Khan himself is a creature who devours souls, after all; so how could he do anything but encourage his newest champion to better himself by devouring the souls of the conquered? (A heightened increase of strength based on defeating and slaying enemies. Souls would require moderation by the GM.)

  • Supernatural Martial Arts – Of the few things Artorias celebrates, it is Martial Combat that most excites him in his second life. Shao Khan offered him training in a form of combat that both further heighted his already powerful swordplay and added a new, dynamic element of hand-to-hand combat to his repertoire.  (Further buffs to Weapon-based combat and a buff to Hand-to-Hand combat.)
SKILLS:

  • Coldly Charismatic – Artorias was once the leader of the greatest order of knights in his Kingdom. It takes an incredible amount of Charisma to unite four powerful knights under a single cause, and while his once legendary Charisma has been diminished by his time as the Abyssal Champion, it still persists.

  • Weapon Master – While Artorias is perhaps most famous for his use of a Greatsword, he has shown to be talented with all forms of martial weapon. Be it his Sword and Shield combination, or the arms of his once-fellows, Artorias can both use any martial weapon, and teach others to do so.

  • Wolfheart – Artorias once held the loyalty of the Great Wolf Sif, a noble and intelligent hound that bonded with the man for his simple, honourable nature. Even tainted as his soul is, Artorias remains a strangely appealing creature to the more feral beasts of the realm, attracting their attention and sparking a kind of kinship with relative ease


FLAWS:
  • Berserker – Artorias is a strange creature, contrasting cold, knightly honour with savage brutality. He struggles to end any altercation without thorough, violently bloodshed; making him of limited use on diplomatic missions, or ones were tactical retreats are required. It would take a staunch ally or a convincing threat to sway him otherwise.
  • Weakened against Magic – Once upon a time, Artorias bore a magical Shield that helped him to wade off magics. Now, without it and with the Abyssal taint on his soul, Artorias is not only vulnerable to magic, he is actively weak against it.
  • Tainted Soul - Artorias' soul has been forever tainted by his time as the Abyssal champion. While this no longer dominates his day-to-day life, it has left him unable to hide from any who can sense souls, and gives him a chilling aura to those who can sense magic.
INVENTORY:
The Greatsword of the Abysswalker – A simple, if not powerful, Greatsword; the Abysswalker’s Blade does not have any special properties other than its sheer quality and strength of craftsmanship.

The Wolf Ring – A ring that was given to him by his once-lord Gwyn, it denotes his Iron Will, and offers no real bonuses to him other than a source of renewed vigour in the face of adversity. It also serves as a memento to his lost companion, Sif.

Holy shit, if it isn't the professional himself.

We would love to have you man!

Also that character sheet is perfect, though i am surprised didn't chose Sylvanas's power (being Dark Souls and all), the story with Shao Kahn is wonderful.

This sheet is approved --> Character Sheet Thread

Pink Professional

I was considering Sylvanas, but thought I'd go with a different angle instead. Try something a little different, y'know?

Blue Nova

Quote from: Pink Professional on November 04, 2016, 04:28:05 AM
I was considering Sylvanas, but thought I'd go with a different angle instead. Try something a little different, y'know?

Understandable, glad to have you aboard!

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