Karadin - The Blackguard {WIP}

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Name: Tariq.
Name meaning: "That Which Comes in the Night"
Alias: Karadin, The Butcher of Kowari.
Race: Berber Lion.
Gender: Male.
Age: Older Adolescent, Esti: 17-19.

Powers:

- Fell Touch; Has the ability to cause organic matter to decay, rot and disintegrate with terrifying speed and with some effort and prolonged touch cause inorganic matter to decay as well. He’s in full control of this ability and can stop the process on a whim; however he cannot reverse the decay by any means. It typically inflicts agonizing pain onto the victim, depending on the speed Karadin allows the infection to spread it can kill from anywhere within mintues, to several weeks.

- Aura of Despair: Radiates an invisible malicious and malign aura that effects everyone around him, made visible in the subtle changes to the organic environment such as the grass he steps on or nearby trees having their leaves slowly losing their colour and decaying. Though how people are affected by the aura vary greatly, and depending on factors isn’t always negative. Ex: The members of Karadin’s own gang might find their powers are slightly bolstered around him, or work more effectively. Whereas an enemy can find their strength weakened or even find that their will to fight is drained away as they’re overcome with emotional torment or crippling fright.

- Immortality: For all intents and purposes, Karadin is immortal and borderline impervious to harm. Scars however from wounds, no matter how grievous remain but will heal up almost instantaneously. Loss of major extremities, such as limbs however remains permanent. And only either extreme trauma to the head or intervention by his Master guarantees his death. This power is not so much innate to Karadin as it is directly linked to and controlled by his Master, who can easily whisk it away should Karadin horribly fail him, out-live his usefulness, or rebel.

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Alignment: Lawfully Evil
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Champion of Azetoth, Lord of Pestilence, gang leader of the Fiends.

Height: 3.5 ft.
Weight: 115 kg

Personality:

{To be developed through RP}

Strength/Weakness:

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History: Born into a life that should’ve entailed wealth and privilege but despite being the son of a king, Tariq saw none of it, his mother died giving birth to him, and ever since Tariq’s father blamed the child for killing her; his chosen consort and queen. His father eventually elected a new queen to serve as his official consort, even then lion’s opinions and if not attitude towards his first born son never changed and thus presisted with the same berating and sometimes physically beating the boy for the smallest misdemeanors. Eventually his father and his new queen had another child; a boy designated as the legitimate heir to the Kowari Riverlands even if Tariq was the elder. But the treatment of the cubs were severely different; the younger son was allowed every privilege that came with coming from a royal family of means and respect, he would often harass Tariq whom was unable to counter his brother's often cruel pranks without risking severe repercussions from his parents.

Three siblings soon followed but they all treated Tariq with spite, often goaded by Aderin the Crown-Prince to pull increasingly cruel schemes against their older brother; from physical beatings to outright psychological torture. Tariq was forced on behest of the Queen who saw the b*stard cub as a threat to her own offspring’s’ legitimacy to sleep outside of the royal den, on the outskirts of the pridal kopje in a closed off pit who the boy came to dub the ‘prison’. It was a dark, damp crevice in the rocks that would collect water when it rained forcing the young cub to sleep in a puddle of muck and debris, sometimes feces or scraps from week old carcasses would flow into the cave.

While Tariq was forced to take whatever punches and jabs his malicious siblings threw at him, and was only allowed to eat when all the other pride members had eaten their fill. The cub was treated worse than a slave, to make matters worse even if he could see the look of pity in the eyes of the other pridal lionesses none of them dared do anything; fearful of the repercussions they could face from the King but more than anything the Queen, who fortified her position through use of fear and blackmail.

This treatment which would’ve broken most of any cub succeeded only to fester a seething hatred within Tariq. This all came to a head when Tariq was entering his teenage years, all those cold lonely nights in the ‘prison’ crevice and his days spent trying to avoid his siblings came with plotting, and he would get his revenge. Indeed so strong and deep was his hatred that he caught the attention of an entity; one that promised him the powers to take his just revenge, if only he would under paying of death act as this entity's champion and envoy throughout the lands.

Tariq confused and a little frightened at first of this whispering voice in his mind, eventually agreed to the entity’s terms, which later turned out of be a rather powerful demon. The powers he was granted by the demons were fearsome indeed; he killed his youngest siblings first, though none were clean kills. Then turned his attention to his parents as he left the main den his parent’s bodies splayed across the stone floor in a grotesque visage of entrails and blood, he calmly approached the sleeping den of the Crown Prince paws caked in his parents and younger siblings’ blood and mucus.

He stood proud over his brother when the boy awoke, in one fell paw swipe he crushed the prince’s voice box preventing him from screaming for help. Tariq reveled in the prolonged and drawn out torture he subjected his brother to, he could sense that his Master too was pleased with how thorough his new champion was; despite the relative young age of the lion. Tariq left the kopje at the crack of dawn, leaving is entire family butchered.

That day he shed his old name Tariq and choose the name Karadin, in neighboring pridelands the stories spread about his exploits earning him the moniker The Butcher of Kowari, due to his reputation Karadin had soon amassed a small group of likeminded young lions, most of them ostracized and driven from their homes due to their destructive or just downright unnerving powers, calling themselves the Fiends. Despite the unnerving name and their penchance for ruthless violence Karadin ran a thight ship on his gang and even harshly punished his men for any detrimental brutality and violence. The Fiends were better than the monsters other prides and lions pinned them as; and as long as their demands were met, dealings would always be fair and cordial.

Other: Karadin is sometimes found to converse seemingly with himself, though during these moments he remains in communication with his master Azetoth.

The Fiends;

- Zyrian; Karadin's second-in-command. Looks like semi-hybrid between a lion and bat-like dragon. He's adorned with an impressive set bat-wings sprouting from his shoulders more than powerful enough to carry his weight and thanks to powerful talon like claws on his fore-paws, he can easily lift a fully grown tiger. His light frame allows him reach speeds of over 100 km/h during flights. He is an hematophage, meaning can only sustain himself on the blood of mammals. Has the same echolocation abilities like bats, allowing him to navigate by air or land even in total darkness.

Alignment: Neutrally Evil.

- Teleria: The only female of the group. Teleria's powers are subtle her psionic powers often have detrimental effects on the emotional psyche of those around her. Teleria is extremely sensitive to emotions and emotional states. She can control this ability allowing her to subtly influence the mood of a person, to if given enough time she can completely alter an opponents personality. Her mere presence have been noted to drive indivuduals insane to prompting suicides and psychotic incidents. The latter is the reason behind her exile, when she as merely a cub accidentally drove her father to kill her mother and later to committ suicide.

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral.

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Alignment: Chaotic Evil.

Theme Song(s):

Hurricane by 30 Seconds to Mars.
Night of the Hunter by 30 Seconds to Mars.
Vengeance by Zack Hemsey.
The Banks of the Sansretour by Marcin Przybyłowicz, Mikolai Stroinski & Piotr Musiał (The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine OST).

Voice Actor: Jared Leto