Tozen
Appearance
Tozen is a creature of the Cast race. Sometimes he dresses in concealing robes to hide his appearance, but his skin is rough and thick, similar to a rhino's. His arms and legs are shod with thick bone armor plating and spines protrude from nearly every joint.
He is able to stand upright on clawed digitigrade feet. His paws are like hands and have retracting claws and posable thumbs. His bone structure is very strong and pronounced and his muscles are like steel. His upper back and spine are covered and lined by hard plating all the way from the base of his skull to the end of his tailbone. His teeth are sharp and carnivorous, like that of a lion.
He is able to stand upright on clawed digitigrade feet. His paws are like hands and have retracting claws and posable thumbs. His bone structure is very strong and pronounced and his muscles are like steel. His upper back and spine are covered and lined by hard plating all the way from the base of his skull to the end of his tailbone. His teeth are sharp and carnivorous, like that of a lion.
Abilities, Traits & Weaknesses
{Abilities}
Natural Predator: As an animal Tozen possesses keen instincts for survival, killing, and hunting. This, coupled with sharp wit and intelligence made him well suited for survival in any condition.Brawler: His skills with fighting are primal and animalistic, but effective, making use of claw, fist, bite, kick, or whatever means are needed to kill his opponent quickly.
Arboreal Combat: He is very skilled and adapted to fighting aerially and through the trees of forests. His retractable claws are especially adapted for climbing through the trees.
{Traits}
Passive Adaptation: He is a very biologically adaptive creature, when placed in hostile environments such as fire or ice his body automatically begins adapting defenses against them, such as flame retardant secretions or heat shielding chitin, or quickly growing thicker fur coats or adapting his body to naturally create more heat. Regeneration: This ability is crucial to his ability to adapt. If he can survive the initial attack, then his body is able to adapt a defense for the second attack. He is able to heal to a certain degree to help him recover and survive in whatever situation he finds himself in.
Sound Structure: His bones without any manipulation are incredibly strong and can withstand incredible amounts of force.
Mental Fortitude: Having escaped from the influence of the hivemind, his mind is especially attuned to defense against mental attacks, illusions, or control.
{Weaknesses}
The Chink In The Scales: His front torso is not naturally covered by bone plates or protection beyond his naturally hardened bone structure. His muscles are hard and his skin is tough but he is still vulnerable wherever he is uncovered.Regeneration: While his natural healing aids in his survivability, it can be overwhelmed and does not prevent death when a fatal wound is delivered. If he is starved then he will not be able to heal at all.
Primal Rage: If he begins to lose a fight he has a tendency to start to panic, losing any sense of tact or strategy leaving him open and vulnerable.
Personality
Tozen is a creature of nature and instinct. When intelligence isn't called for he will revert to his animalistic side and simply do what his instincts dictate. He will hunt when he is hungry, drink when he is thirsty, kill when he is threatened, and find shelter when he is tired.
But when the time has come his mind will awaken and rational thought will enter his behavior. He is a cunning and calculating predator and will use his intelligence to figure out the best way to bring down his prey or enemy. His attitude to intelligent creatures such as humans is one that a teacher would have for a student, but with an attitude of superiority over inferior creatures.
He will speak to intelligent creatures if the opportunity arises, and depending on what transpires may choose to not kill one who is willing to speak.
But when the time has come his mind will awaken and rational thought will enter his behavior. He is a cunning and calculating predator and will use his intelligence to figure out the best way to bring down his prey or enemy. His attitude to intelligent creatures such as humans is one that a teacher would have for a student, but with an attitude of superiority over inferior creatures.
He will speak to intelligent creatures if the opportunity arises, and depending on what transpires may choose to not kill one who is willing to speak.
Biography & Lore
Wark Sethean was a scout and blade for hire. He specialized in thrown weapons and tracking in service to those who needed help finding lost things. He was a fairly successful man, though he never enjoyed his success. He cared for nothing, hardly even himself. He was good at what he did and that is what he continued to do, otherwise he simply drifted, keeping himself alive with his well earned gold for no apparent reason.
Wark seemed to have no purpose in life but what he found himself doing, and Wark didn't care much to think too deeply about it. He remained within his own thoughts, detached from others and never seeking or keeping any attachments for anybody.
One day he was commissioned to hunt some creatures. Apparently a hive of some new kind of monster had taken up residence nearby and was terrorizing a little village in the Allirian Reach.
He took the job of course, there was gold in it so he really didn't care how dangerous it was to hunt a whole hive of creatures alone.
But hunt them he did, until he found where they had set up their hive and attempted to make his way inside to find the queen of these weird creatures.
He found the queen, but what he found was a creature so strange and mysterious. This nearly caused him to pause, but remembering his job he attempted to kill the creature, however, he underestimated the intelligence of this alluring monster and found himself captured and wrapped in a chrysalis.
From within the chrysalis he met the hivemind. His body and mind was changing, being overwhelmed and replaced with the entropic DNA of the Weird. But for some reason, unlike so many other creatures and humans before him, his mind refused to bend to the will of the hivemind, refused to be bound, He retained his freewill and became an Apex Weird. When his transformation was complete he clawed and cut his way out of the chrysalis. On the command of the queen, the hive he found himself in with his new mind and body was ready to destroy him as a failure, but he was stronger now, better. He killed the queen of the hive and slew any creature that got in his way. He escaped into the wilderness and let the wild take him as he became something new. He forgot his old name and simply called himself Tozen.
Since then he's hunted through the wilderness, killing any creature that dared to challenge him and taking their strength for his own, growing in strength and size. He covered his monstrous appearance whenever traveling near civilized communities. He keeps the black robes he often used to disguise himself in crowds, but now he does so to hide the beast, and somehow retain just a bit of his humanity.
Wark seemed to have no purpose in life but what he found himself doing, and Wark didn't care much to think too deeply about it. He remained within his own thoughts, detached from others and never seeking or keeping any attachments for anybody.
One day he was commissioned to hunt some creatures. Apparently a hive of some new kind of monster had taken up residence nearby and was terrorizing a little village in the Allirian Reach.
He took the job of course, there was gold in it so he really didn't care how dangerous it was to hunt a whole hive of creatures alone.
But hunt them he did, until he found where they had set up their hive and attempted to make his way inside to find the queen of these weird creatures.
He found the queen, but what he found was a creature so strange and mysterious. This nearly caused him to pause, but remembering his job he attempted to kill the creature, however, he underestimated the intelligence of this alluring monster and found himself captured and wrapped in a chrysalis.
From within the chrysalis he met the hivemind. His body and mind was changing, being overwhelmed and replaced with the entropic DNA of the Weird. But for some reason, unlike so many other creatures and humans before him, his mind refused to bend to the will of the hivemind, refused to be bound, He retained his freewill and became an Apex Weird. When his transformation was complete he clawed and cut his way out of the chrysalis. On the command of the queen, the hive he found himself in with his new mind and body was ready to destroy him as a failure, but he was stronger now, better. He killed the queen of the hive and slew any creature that got in his way. He escaped into the wilderness and let the wild take him as he became something new. He forgot his old name and simply called himself Tozen.
Since then he's hunted through the wilderness, killing any creature that dared to challenge him and taking their strength for his own, growing in strength and size. He covered his monstrous appearance whenever traveling near civilized communities. He keeps the black robes he often used to disguise himself in crowds, but now he does so to hide the beast, and somehow retain just a bit of his humanity.