Kishin Aldencross
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Carnivore | Starset
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name:
Kishin Aldencross
Age:
130
Gender:
Male
Race:
Dhampir (Part Elf, Part Vampire)
Nicknames/Aliases:
Known to go by Dusk on occasion
APPEARANCE
Height:
6"0
Weight:
160lbs
Build:
Athletic and a bit stocky
Hair Colour:
Snow White
Eye Colour:
Red-Orange Gradient Iris's, and Black "Whites" (Sclera)
Skin Colour:
Ashen Grey
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings:
A large cut scar rings his neck and his forearms, and similar rings circle some of his fingers and one of his knees. His ears are pierced with black studs and diamond-shaped loops and his chest is scarred by a sweeping gash horizontal across his upper abdomen that leads 2/3rds of the way to his back and trails off, a scar only possible through near bifurcation or constant assault. Beyond this his toes are each scarred at the joint and his upper left chest bears the a burn scar imprinted by a brand, a multi-pointed crown surrounded by thorns.
Description:
Kishin stands at a ready 6ft tall and has a stocky build earned through combat, his hair is long enough to reach mid-way down his back and is snow-white. Coupled with a short grizzled beard that hangs from his jowls and remains well-groomed, he gives off an air of cold regality and despite his long hair his beard makes him look like the epitome of war veterans. His body is covered in scars and he harbors a burn-scar brand upon his chest known to be for religious reasons in particular, he generally keeps them hidden but is known train shirtless with the other guards despite the customs that should otherwise be observed. His ears are pierced which is strange for someone of his age and looks but he refuses to remove them and simply hides the piercings under his hair if he has to, otherwise he stubbornly keeps them exposed and remains proud.
His outfit consist of a green leathery armour piece (Much like a mix of an overcoat and leather armour) fringed by brown fur with an open V-neck chest area, a large leather strap runs across it's middle and is held together by a silver belt-piece, attached to the strap is his eternally present greatsword. The green piece leads to a large leather belt with a symbol similar to his brand at it's piece and follows down past his legs behind him and forms a small tabard-piece in front, he wears black cloth pants, with the left leg featuring another belt covered in studs just before his knee which holds a small dagger, at the end of all this lie too well-worn leather boots. He tends to not wear gloves and instead has a tattered set of leather bracers around his wrists, generally a useless sentiment to most, but for a man who has too often almost lost his hands they remain a staple of his life.
MENTALITY
Oddities
Twitches: Kishin is subject to various twitches, clicking of his fingers, splaying of his hands, humming and conscious muscle spasms are common, as well as cracking of his knuckles by placing his thumb over the top of them.
Likes
Music, Wolves, Sleeping, Snow, Monsters
Dislikes
Slavers, Show offs, Drunkards, The Cruel
Hobbies
Music Writing, Training, Speaking to Animals over elongated periods of time.
Phobia(s)
Fear of Insanity, Fear of Being Alone, Fear of Blindness, Fear of succumbing to the Dark
Sexuality
Straight
Personality:
Kishin is a calm and regal individual, he oozes a spoiled childhood even in chains with his flowing white hair and flawless gray skin, although the truth is far from it he carries the scars of his abuse under a boiling ocean of calm. Although he is prone to cracking his facade in the face of cruelty and fly into rage, the truth of the matter is he has trained himself to be stone-faced but in fact has a very short fuse coupled with a passionate warriors heart, although it does not pump blood as readily as others it gives him a streak of kindness and a facade of cruelty himself. Kishin through out his life has sacrificed himself over and over for others, even those that would have previously seen him dead, always to retreat into the darkness with a trail of blood mistaken for attempted murder. He is slow to warm up to people and prefers to work alone, being an outcast his entire life has taught him not to rely on others, although his recent life has taught him to fight alongside those he trusts and to open his heart more he is still hard to get too and often goes off by himself when his duties do not call for him.
Although he will never complain as such, or whine of his condition or previous status as a slave. Instead he adapts readily to new environments, used to moving from point to point to survive and allude his fathers claws, he will step out into any arena with stoic resilience and will prove his worth as a warrior of character and fight with ferocity and his mercy both in war and peace. To Kishin there is no future but the one he fights for, and he will sacrifice himself and follow his code to detriment of himself, to the grave he will follow his morals and until he's counted finally amongst the dead he won't stop fighting as he has always done.
Kishin is bordering on ancient compared to the races of his new nation, and carries himself as a battle-wizened warrior, he has experienced nobility, slavery, torture, war, peace and everything in between. As such he is prone to imparting wisdom and mysterious tid-bits of information and considers himself an advisor worth listening to, even if his race denies him the respect his station would normally garner, he takes it all in stride and stands amongst the rest until he can earn his place. Despite his short fuse when it comes to annoyances, Kishin has learnt to be patient and to simply absorb the trials that come at him, although beneath might boil a fury unmatched on the surface he stays stone-faced and regal as he can manage.
BACKGROUND
Relationship Status:
Single
Family:
Dead Mother and Vampire Father, no siblings.
Personal History:
Kishin was born from a loving mother and a murderous Vampire father, the union was not voluntary and although his mother stayed for his sake she died decades before he reached adulthood for his kind. He was raised in a dark luxurious mansion hidden deep within black forests and a known coven of the dead, allowed out only to "feed" or in Kishin's case, to purchase blood from an unlikely friend in the nearby village. He was raised to be a hunter of the night by his father, submitted to cruel experiments and constant training not uncommon to a noble expected to reach knighthood, Kishin was constantly brought to the brink of death and then brought back only to fight again, he was trained in the greatsword and in his natural advantage, he was educated on the vital points of the nearby humanoids and on how to blend in and amass a fortune. Each lesson pointed in the blood-soaked trail that would leave him there, his rebellion and disgust earning him an inescapable near-death experience and learned from his doting mother who loved him no matter what his unfortunate bloodline. Her constant rebellion against his father even in the face of death itself is what inspired him and brought him closer to humanity than your average monster and what truly filled his childhood learning.
Although it was near his adulthood that she was taken, not by illness or even the age that had slowly taken her form, but by his friend in the village. The young boy whom had found him crying and hungry in the woods by an injured woman, unable to bring himself to eat, he had seen his fangs and instead of running for the nearest mob had cut his wrist and offered him blood. It was from this boy that he had survived, grown, trained and obtained his sword, and become accepted slowly by the village unbeknownst to his father, and it was this orphaned and poor boy that had grown to become its leader. It was this boy that had under Kishin's request slain his mother as his father transformed her into his kind, as the silver greatsword that had so long waited to taste vampire flesh could not be brought to harm her.
The fallout from the attack on the village by his once beautiful mother had left him isolated again, facing a mob brought for the sole purpose to kill him. So with the secret help of his friend, he fled, from place to place he slipped in during the night to feed on what he could and left all his victims alive, until one day he set upon a noble house, hatred boiling in his heart at the reminder of his father who had appeared in the shadow of his life on the run every turn he took with words of hatred and a fresh corpse to tempt him into vampirehood. He made a mistake, he was brash and attacked the guards, fighting to take the nobleman's life, and instead of being killed as he had long since started to dream, he was sold for a high price to the gladiator pit, the carnage of a true monster in their eyes worth every gold spent to acquire him as a rare specimen. He was outfitted and thrown into combat, and that had been his life ever since, he fought for the other monsters, the poor beasts and the outcasts left there with him, and for the right to one day be in position to change this world, kill his father, and end the life of the outcast and to repay his old friend, to live again for the first time.
Since then he has fled his home country and arrived at Ufaria, forged himself into the nobility ironically his father had always wanted. Despite his skin and demeanour, his honour and story had inspired him to join the warring faction of Felia, and so he fought for on it's behalf for as long as they would have him, although he would always be treated as an outcast once more, he was used to the role, and instead he would work once more to proof himself worthy of his station, he would work his way through the Royal Guard which had been coaxed over a much elongated process to accept him and would protect the princess with his life. The disdain of others would fuel him, and he would continue with his mission to create a better world as he had done at home, although that portion of his life is seldom discussed and a further mystery, much like his constant resistance to peace in this nation despite his dream, he eternally states "The war's not done yet." and refuses to explain what he means further.
COMBAT
Racial or Special Abilities:
As an unfortunate creature of Vampire descent, Kishin possesses unnatural strength and speed, offset by an almost drug-like addiction to blood and flesh that causes him to ravage his opponents in combat both in confused hopes to shower himself in blood and to leave nothing left for himself to devour. Kishin himself has ties to the underworld and worships the Lady in Shadow Nocticula as a demi-goddess of outcasts and midnight, which manifests itself in the form of runic tattoo's that circle his body and ebb wispy teal smoke when uncovered, although she is rather unknown in his new home, he continues his worship. This smoke is in fact a conglomerate of wisps that tie him to the ethereal, they are as Kishin states "To repair the broken and carve a home for the discarded" and function as an assistant to Kishin in combat and a constant companion. In combat their uses range from coating portions of his flesh to harden it against assault, temporarily repairing weaponry to their original forms and forming into ethereal chains among other things, although the latter is rare experience, use of the wisps themselves however has been so ingraved into him they can be used as not just a buff but a true magical weapon. In addition to the annoyance of the stamina drain these wisps cause however, as a quasi-undead Kishin's wounds do not heal without fresh corpse or magic designed to heal that which walks from the grave, although fresh enough corpse provides a mild-regenerative quality to Kishin in itself and enough may yet bring him back to full strength, although the significant time between battles and without time to devour fresh corpse Kishin is significantly weaker, luckily traditional methods of sealing wounds and repairing damage will eventually succeed in healing him albeit at a much lesser rate. In summary he is an exceptionally physically conditioned being with some magical capabilities, however he heals slowly, hungers for flesh and his magic eats at his stamina like a wildfire.
Weapon Specialties:
Kishin is an expert in utilizing the greatsword, a favoured weapon of his mistreated childhood and a common enough weapon to be made spectacularly regal and impressively deadly in the hands of a true specialist. Although he has not yet reached this level he is close, he has trained since he was a child to master it's simplicity and balanced blade in hopes of skewering his fathers heart upon his personal swords silver edge, a long since passed goal. Similarly Kishin is used to being disarmed and alone in combat, and so has taught himself to fight unarmed, strike swiftly and move swifter to crack bones and disembowel the weak, Kishin's unarmed fighting boils down to a cruel father and hateful villagers and he aims more to disarm and remove dangerous elements than simply brawl, although his thirst for flesh sometimes leads him to a rage on par with a monster.
Carnivore | Starset
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name:
Kishin Aldencross
Age:
130
Gender:
Male
Race:
Dhampir (Part Elf, Part Vampire)
Nicknames/Aliases:
Known to go by Dusk on occasion
APPEARANCE
Height:
6"0
Weight:
160lbs
Build:
Athletic and a bit stocky
Hair Colour:
Snow White
Eye Colour:
Red-Orange Gradient Iris's, and Black "Whites" (Sclera)
Skin Colour:
Ashen Grey
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings:
A large cut scar rings his neck and his forearms, and similar rings circle some of his fingers and one of his knees. His ears are pierced with black studs and diamond-shaped loops and his chest is scarred by a sweeping gash horizontal across his upper abdomen that leads 2/3rds of the way to his back and trails off, a scar only possible through near bifurcation or constant assault. Beyond this his toes are each scarred at the joint and his upper left chest bears the a burn scar imprinted by a brand, a multi-pointed crown surrounded by thorns.
Description:
Kishin stands at a ready 6ft tall and has a stocky build earned through combat, his hair is long enough to reach mid-way down his back and is snow-white. Coupled with a short grizzled beard that hangs from his jowls and remains well-groomed, he gives off an air of cold regality and despite his long hair his beard makes him look like the epitome of war veterans. His body is covered in scars and he harbors a burn-scar brand upon his chest known to be for religious reasons in particular, he generally keeps them hidden but is known train shirtless with the other guards despite the customs that should otherwise be observed. His ears are pierced which is strange for someone of his age and looks but he refuses to remove them and simply hides the piercings under his hair if he has to, otherwise he stubbornly keeps them exposed and remains proud.
His outfit consist of a green leathery armour piece (Much like a mix of an overcoat and leather armour) fringed by brown fur with an open V-neck chest area, a large leather strap runs across it's middle and is held together by a silver belt-piece, attached to the strap is his eternally present greatsword. The green piece leads to a large leather belt with a symbol similar to his brand at it's piece and follows down past his legs behind him and forms a small tabard-piece in front, he wears black cloth pants, with the left leg featuring another belt covered in studs just before his knee which holds a small dagger, at the end of all this lie too well-worn leather boots. He tends to not wear gloves and instead has a tattered set of leather bracers around his wrists, generally a useless sentiment to most, but for a man who has too often almost lost his hands they remain a staple of his life.
MENTALITY
Oddities
Twitches: Kishin is subject to various twitches, clicking of his fingers, splaying of his hands, humming and conscious muscle spasms are common, as well as cracking of his knuckles by placing his thumb over the top of them.
Likes
Music, Wolves, Sleeping, Snow, Monsters
Dislikes
Slavers, Show offs, Drunkards, The Cruel
Hobbies
Music Writing, Training, Speaking to Animals over elongated periods of time.
Phobia(s)
Fear of Insanity, Fear of Being Alone, Fear of Blindness, Fear of succumbing to the Dark
Sexuality
Straight
Personality:
Kishin is a calm and regal individual, he oozes a spoiled childhood even in chains with his flowing white hair and flawless gray skin, although the truth is far from it he carries the scars of his abuse under a boiling ocean of calm. Although he is prone to cracking his facade in the face of cruelty and fly into rage, the truth of the matter is he has trained himself to be stone-faced but in fact has a very short fuse coupled with a passionate warriors heart, although it does not pump blood as readily as others it gives him a streak of kindness and a facade of cruelty himself. Kishin through out his life has sacrificed himself over and over for others, even those that would have previously seen him dead, always to retreat into the darkness with a trail of blood mistaken for attempted murder. He is slow to warm up to people and prefers to work alone, being an outcast his entire life has taught him not to rely on others, although his recent life has taught him to fight alongside those he trusts and to open his heart more he is still hard to get too and often goes off by himself when his duties do not call for him.
Although he will never complain as such, or whine of his condition or previous status as a slave. Instead he adapts readily to new environments, used to moving from point to point to survive and allude his fathers claws, he will step out into any arena with stoic resilience and will prove his worth as a warrior of character and fight with ferocity and his mercy both in war and peace. To Kishin there is no future but the one he fights for, and he will sacrifice himself and follow his code to detriment of himself, to the grave he will follow his morals and until he's counted finally amongst the dead he won't stop fighting as he has always done.
Kishin is bordering on ancient compared to the races of his new nation, and carries himself as a battle-wizened warrior, he has experienced nobility, slavery, torture, war, peace and everything in between. As such he is prone to imparting wisdom and mysterious tid-bits of information and considers himself an advisor worth listening to, even if his race denies him the respect his station would normally garner, he takes it all in stride and stands amongst the rest until he can earn his place. Despite his short fuse when it comes to annoyances, Kishin has learnt to be patient and to simply absorb the trials that come at him, although beneath might boil a fury unmatched on the surface he stays stone-faced and regal as he can manage.
BACKGROUND
Relationship Status:
Single
Family:
Dead Mother and Vampire Father, no siblings.
Personal History:
Kishin was born from a loving mother and a murderous Vampire father, the union was not voluntary and although his mother stayed for his sake she died decades before he reached adulthood for his kind. He was raised in a dark luxurious mansion hidden deep within black forests and a known coven of the dead, allowed out only to "feed" or in Kishin's case, to purchase blood from an unlikely friend in the nearby village. He was raised to be a hunter of the night by his father, submitted to cruel experiments and constant training not uncommon to a noble expected to reach knighthood, Kishin was constantly brought to the brink of death and then brought back only to fight again, he was trained in the greatsword and in his natural advantage, he was educated on the vital points of the nearby humanoids and on how to blend in and amass a fortune. Each lesson pointed in the blood-soaked trail that would leave him there, his rebellion and disgust earning him an inescapable near-death experience and learned from his doting mother who loved him no matter what his unfortunate bloodline. Her constant rebellion against his father even in the face of death itself is what inspired him and brought him closer to humanity than your average monster and what truly filled his childhood learning.
Although it was near his adulthood that she was taken, not by illness or even the age that had slowly taken her form, but by his friend in the village. The young boy whom had found him crying and hungry in the woods by an injured woman, unable to bring himself to eat, he had seen his fangs and instead of running for the nearest mob had cut his wrist and offered him blood. It was from this boy that he had survived, grown, trained and obtained his sword, and become accepted slowly by the village unbeknownst to his father, and it was this orphaned and poor boy that had grown to become its leader. It was this boy that had under Kishin's request slain his mother as his father transformed her into his kind, as the silver greatsword that had so long waited to taste vampire flesh could not be brought to harm her.
The fallout from the attack on the village by his once beautiful mother had left him isolated again, facing a mob brought for the sole purpose to kill him. So with the secret help of his friend, he fled, from place to place he slipped in during the night to feed on what he could and left all his victims alive, until one day he set upon a noble house, hatred boiling in his heart at the reminder of his father who had appeared in the shadow of his life on the run every turn he took with words of hatred and a fresh corpse to tempt him into vampirehood. He made a mistake, he was brash and attacked the guards, fighting to take the nobleman's life, and instead of being killed as he had long since started to dream, he was sold for a high price to the gladiator pit, the carnage of a true monster in their eyes worth every gold spent to acquire him as a rare specimen. He was outfitted and thrown into combat, and that had been his life ever since, he fought for the other monsters, the poor beasts and the outcasts left there with him, and for the right to one day be in position to change this world, kill his father, and end the life of the outcast and to repay his old friend, to live again for the first time.
Since then he has fled his home country and arrived at Ufaria, forged himself into the nobility ironically his father had always wanted. Despite his skin and demeanour, his honour and story had inspired him to join the warring faction of Felia, and so he fought for on it's behalf for as long as they would have him, although he would always be treated as an outcast once more, he was used to the role, and instead he would work once more to proof himself worthy of his station, he would work his way through the Royal Guard which had been coaxed over a much elongated process to accept him and would protect the princess with his life. The disdain of others would fuel him, and he would continue with his mission to create a better world as he had done at home, although that portion of his life is seldom discussed and a further mystery, much like his constant resistance to peace in this nation despite his dream, he eternally states "The war's not done yet." and refuses to explain what he means further.
COMBAT
Racial or Special Abilities:
As an unfortunate creature of Vampire descent, Kishin possesses unnatural strength and speed, offset by an almost drug-like addiction to blood and flesh that causes him to ravage his opponents in combat both in confused hopes to shower himself in blood and to leave nothing left for himself to devour. Kishin himself has ties to the underworld and worships the Lady in Shadow Nocticula as a demi-goddess of outcasts and midnight, which manifests itself in the form of runic tattoo's that circle his body and ebb wispy teal smoke when uncovered, although she is rather unknown in his new home, he continues his worship. This smoke is in fact a conglomerate of wisps that tie him to the ethereal, they are as Kishin states "To repair the broken and carve a home for the discarded" and function as an assistant to Kishin in combat and a constant companion. In combat their uses range from coating portions of his flesh to harden it against assault, temporarily repairing weaponry to their original forms and forming into ethereal chains among other things, although the latter is rare experience, use of the wisps themselves however has been so ingraved into him they can be used as not just a buff but a true magical weapon. In addition to the annoyance of the stamina drain these wisps cause however, as a quasi-undead Kishin's wounds do not heal without fresh corpse or magic designed to heal that which walks from the grave, although fresh enough corpse provides a mild-regenerative quality to Kishin in itself and enough may yet bring him back to full strength, although the significant time between battles and without time to devour fresh corpse Kishin is significantly weaker, luckily traditional methods of sealing wounds and repairing damage will eventually succeed in healing him albeit at a much lesser rate. In summary he is an exceptionally physically conditioned being with some magical capabilities, however he heals slowly, hungers for flesh and his magic eats at his stamina like a wildfire.
Weapon Specialties:
Kishin is an expert in utilizing the greatsword, a favoured weapon of his mistreated childhood and a common enough weapon to be made spectacularly regal and impressively deadly in the hands of a true specialist. Although he has not yet reached this level he is close, he has trained since he was a child to master it's simplicity and balanced blade in hopes of skewering his fathers heart upon his personal swords silver edge, a long since passed goal. Similarly Kishin is used to being disarmed and alone in combat, and so has taught himself to fight unarmed, strike swiftly and move swifter to crack bones and disembowel the weak, Kishin's unarmed fighting boils down to a cruel father and hateful villagers and he aims more to disarm and remove dangerous elements than simply brawl, although his thirst for flesh sometimes leads him to a rage on par with a monster.
