Karcus Thorn
Scorned from a young age, he has trained his entire life for combat. Without inherent magical ability, his father raised him with dark magics, twisting and manipulating his body and soul for battle, eventually gaining some small capacity for the Magic of manipulating emotion into energy.
His body strong, his blade sharp, and his wits focused, he sets his eyes on the Throne of Vel Anir, and the Dreadlords for whom he could never join the ranks of...
Appearance
Karcus stands broad and tall, inheriting his features from his father; sharp, cold and wicked, as if a scowl has been placed there permanently. His chest is wide, but not quite barreled, his body more agile and strong than slow and brawny. His eyes are dark, unlike his father's bright blues, and more his mother's grey fixtures.
Skills and Abilities
Although Karcus was never accepted as potential for Dreadlord tutelage, he was bred for war. His father instilled in him every attribute a soldier needed, whether it be swordplay, hand-to-hand, warfare strategy, hunting or resistance against pain, he was to be his father's magnum opus; everything he could not.
Though he is an avid user of the longsword, he would much rather fight someone with his fists than with his weapons. His father sending him to pubs to start brawls awakened a love for the rough and savagery of fist against face that lay inside Karcus. His fists are easily his scariest feature; large, dark and scarred over, like tanned leather over a steel gauntlet, showing the rusted metal and wear underneath from years of use. As a combatant, he is, if not anything else, more of a fierce opponent once stripped of his gear.
Though he is an avid user of the longsword, he would much rather fight someone with his fists than with his weapons. His father sending him to pubs to start brawls awakened a love for the rough and savagery of fist against face that lay inside Karcus. His fists are easily his scariest feature; large, dark and scarred over, like tanned leather over a steel gauntlet, showing the rusted metal and wear underneath from years of use. As a combatant, he is, if not anything else, more of a fierce opponent once stripped of his gear.
Magic Ability
His poor natural ability in magic determined his legibility for the ranks of the Dreadlords. However, his father recognised within him a powerful magical conduit- someone with the capacity to store large amounts of energy. Along with his traditional military training, every day he was tutored in the conversion of innate arcane energy into physical and kinetic. Though, as he grew older, and as his might grew, his father realised his son's talent for intimidation; for generating fear.
Favours bought by his father, along with books stolen from various sources, led to him learning of converting raw emotion into usable fuel for magic.
Though Karcus cannot cast any physical spell, no fire nor lightning, he can alter the minds of his foes to feel fear. His strength, his stamina, his constitution are all focussed and enhanced by the cowering of his enemies, and the dread of his foes. The more enemies he faces, the more power he has the capacity for. He can go from duelling with a talented soldier to punching a hole through the man's chest given the correct amount of opponents, and the correctly administered pressure.
Through immense focus and concentration, he can cause mass hysteria and fear to run rife through the ranks of a legion of soldiers, fuelling his physical attributes, and weakening his foes. Once the fear has taken a hold of his enemies, he is unstoppable. However, if he faces a man one-on-one, his mind-altering effects will do very little, his powers hardly effective.
Favours bought by his father, along with books stolen from various sources, led to him learning of converting raw emotion into usable fuel for magic.
Though Karcus cannot cast any physical spell, no fire nor lightning, he can alter the minds of his foes to feel fear. His strength, his stamina, his constitution are all focussed and enhanced by the cowering of his enemies, and the dread of his foes. The more enemies he faces, the more power he has the capacity for. He can go from duelling with a talented soldier to punching a hole through the man's chest given the correct amount of opponents, and the correctly administered pressure.
Through immense focus and concentration, he can cause mass hysteria and fear to run rife through the ranks of a legion of soldiers, fuelling his physical attributes, and weakening his foes. Once the fear has taken a hold of his enemies, he is unstoppable. However, if he faces a man one-on-one, his mind-altering effects will do very little, his powers hardly effective.
Personality
Despite the previously stated, Karcus (when off of the battlefield) is a very laidback, kind and well-mannered individual, who shows great respect and reverence towards those same features in others. His father, though a stern and terrifying man who groomed his son for war, was not without his manners. Though, within Karcus's eyes, there is something laden in darkness, something that can never be trusted.
However, once on the field of war, he could not be anymore of a different person. All elements of humanity that once there are stripped away, as any care for the lives and loved ones of those who stand in his wake melt away, and all he see are those he must destroy, whether for himself, or for his liege-lord.
However, once on the field of war, he could not be anymore of a different person. All elements of humanity that once there are stripped away, as any care for the lives and loved ones of those who stand in his wake melt away, and all he see are those he must destroy, whether for himself, or for his liege-lord.