Player Name: Nero Kunivas
Character Name: Kallias Drakos
Faction: Mercantile
Job: Hired Mercenary and Apothecary, often taking odd jobs, urgent tasks and hits in the former and the latter wherein Kallias makes use of his Blood Magic to heal ailments medicine cannot. Often Kallias will not scruple as to the nature of his jobs, as most people who have hits/bounty's put on them or the beasts he is paid to slay have brought it upon themselves or are just too much of a problem to ignore. Even his healing powers are not used out of altruism.
Source: Cursed. Kallias's father was a vindictive and devious man who had somehow won the affections of a beautiful maiden and conceived a son together. But during her pregnancy, Kallias's mother found herself as the subject of many experiments by the father who sought to create "the perfect son" and as a result, Kallias is for all intents and purposes: An abomination of alchemy and dark magics.
Body: 3
Mind: 4
Magic: 5
Health: 11
Character Appearance: Kallias Drakos is 6'3, underweight and as such rather skinny, with deathly pale skin, faded lips and lengthy white hair that goes below the shoulders. By contrast, his eyes are a brilliant red and only serve as another marker of his altered self. His facial features are sharp, he is clean shaven and the absence of dark circles around his eyes and generally energetic demeanor give lie to the appearance of a weak and sickly man.
Kallias wears a predominantly red ensemble, with a long coat deliberately coloured the same as blood with a wide and high collar along with an exaggerated lapel, a darker red button up shirt hidden under the ludicrous coat, slacks and boots. His entire fashion sense carries the air of a pompous aristocrat with a sinister edge coupled with an extra flair for the dramatic.
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Aliases/Titles: Lord Drakos, The Bloody Handyman, Sanguine Claw, Master, Kali (Close friends only)
Abilities: Cursed since birth, Kallias has become a strong practitioner of Hemomancy, able to use it to mend as well as maim whomever he pleases, as well as other dark magics.
Before his powers manifested, Kallias has always been plagued by one particular side effect: The Thirst. Manifesting as a constantly feeling of being parched and unable to quench it through water, soon developing into a deep desire to feed upon blood and if left unchecked, will gradually cause Kallias's instincts to take over and turn him feral. To Kallias, blood is as nourishing as a refreshing drink or hot bowl of soup, depending on his mood, but either way was deliberately ordained by his father to keep him feeding.
To mend, Kallias's Hemomancy can be used to soothe pain, clear blood of what ails it, i.e: Poison, and even restore youth and strength.
To maim, Kallias's Hemomancy lets him drain the life from foes to heal himself, blast them with blood bolts individually or in a charged up nova and infect his targets with a virulent blood-plague, which temporarily weakens targets before it bursts, harming them further and healing Kallias. If he is able to drain a target multiple times in quick succession, Kallias will enter a "Blood Rush" where he will become faster and hit harder for a very short time.
More advanced techniques include sinking into a pool of blood to avoid harm, duplicating himself via clones of blood, harming himself to amplify his powers, using blood to extend his weapon's reach or apply a blood-based poison to it. Along with the creation of blood weapons, these powers seem to have roots in the darker magics his father provided.
Equipment: Clawed gloves of which he is titled after, the Sanguine Claws are one of his main ways to injure his enemies to get blood out of them quickly. He possesses a spellbook of his own making that allows him to use very advanced blood magic and teach others his ways, along with a pocket watch that holds sentimental value to him.
- Kallias is
not a Vampire, he is a Human, cursed by a father who's true desires still remain a mystery. Did he want a Vampire son, to artificially make himself one? No one will ever know, as he was Kallias's first and likely most vengeful kill.
- Kallias is much older than he looks, exactly how long he will not say, but he has lived for at least longer than a century or two if any of this occasional trivia is anything to go by.
- Kallias is the head of a cult called the "Sanguine Ring", where like-minded individuals, or just those enamored by his personality, can learn the ways of Hemomancy in a far more safe and less detrimental fashion than he himself did, but are otherwise free to do what they want with their power.
- Being an affluent man, Kallias has connections and influence in the right places to keep him out of trouble and get him the latest intelligence on which scoundrel he can feed upon next.
- Due to magical backfire, Kallias's blood vessels in his hands and arms are greatly pronounced and scarred, thus he hides them under his long sleeves and gloves.
- Kallias's blood is a blackish red, functions as an igniting element and is poisonous to actual Vampires. When his own blood is exposed to air, it seems to emanate dark energy.
- His pronouns are He/Him and he is Pansexual.
Backstory: Not too much is known about his past life, only what Kallias has told his cult: Even before he was born, Kallias was the subject of his father's deplorable experimentation that transformed him into the man he is today. Frequently during his childhood, Kallias's father would lock him in a room with whatever homeless wretch he could find at the time and just wait until the poor boy went feral and devoured the victim, just so he could observe how quickly a blood-deprived hemomancer could drain someone dry. The very last time this occurred was when Kallias's own mother was thrown into his cage.
Growing up into a anger filled and resentful teenager, Kallias learned how to use his Hemomancy, both according to his father's demands and his own desire to get strong enough to kill him. It was only after he finally did the deed did he discover that his father was a wealthy aristocrat that had always delighted in causing suffering without anyone ever stopping him. A spoiled brat turned sadist, essentially. What's more, he was grooming Kallias to be his heir and intended to leave him everything in his Last Will, which he had already written up in preparation for his son's ascension. He just didn't quite imagine the boy would kill him himself.
Covering up the murder, he would claim his father's money, titles and position, as was his written right and live a very comfortable life, burying his issues and pain under the persona he projects to this day. Throughout his long life, he has felt a wanderlust and desire to just, do things, no matter what they were, which quickly evolved into joining the Mercantile and taking whatever jobs were on offer, executing many of the ones that required killing, and healing, with ruthless efficiency.
No matter what he did though, he could not stop his Thirst. It was genetic and had nothing to do with his Hemomancy at all, just a lingering act of spite from his father. He could only adapt his technique, teach it to others who were interested and spare them the horrors he himself had to suffer to become the Hemomancer he is today. Though this noble desire was quickly twisted when he realized just how much influence he could command and soon transformed his teaching ways into a cult of personality around himself, bathing in his adoring fans attention and the blood of his victims, typically that of criminals, scumbags or anyone who attempts to swindle him out of his life at the top.
Personality: Kallias is incredibly eccentric, arrogant and most definitely narcissistic, being the head of a cult, frequently commissioning artists to create works in his image, addressing himself as Lord and Master to his Cultists and having an extremely hedonistic lifestyle. This is but a shroud, all in the name of burying his latent pain and mental trauma while ensuring he can indulge in everything life can offer him, to make up for his former imprisonment.
When working with others in the Mercantile, he is noticeably more affable and down to earth if still a little bit haughty (With a posh accent) and creepy (Dark tone of voice and a penchant for morbid curiosity), but he tries to be friendly and courteous to those in his line of work.
Those he heals he treats with a decent bedside manner and while it's primarily in the name of promoting his Hemomancy to those who might be interested, he does derive a degree of joy from healing what ails them. Kallias occasionally demonstrates genuine sympathy when working on those who have suffered to a similar degree as he, such as victims of captivity, experimentation and torture.
Having been forced to feed on the innocent in the past, Kallias only feeds upon criminals and those in his cult who are willing to part with a pint of blood to serve their master. The latter he will never kill, but the former shall be drained dry for their crimes. In general, Kallias is an enigma to those around him, but most of all, to himself.