[center][color=ed1c24][h1][b][u]Zealthranus "The Dread Lord"[/u][/b][/h1][/color][/center] [center][img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/085/6/5/wraith_king_by_Geistig.jpg[/img][/center] [color=ed1c24][b][u]Race:[/u][/b][/color] Corrupted Human [color=ed1c24][b][u]Age:[/u][/b][/color] 2,491 [color=ed1c24][b][u]Gender:[/u][/b][/color] Male [color=ed1c24][b][u]Powers:[/u][/b][/color] [list] [*]Necromancy [*]Telekinesis [*]Teleportation by way of traveling black smoke/fog. [*]Reincarnation-if killed it resurrected by way of taking control of the nearest dead human and changing its appearance to match his original form. The distance has no limit, the only way to counteract this is to destroy the source of that power.(It will be hinted at throughout the RP) [/list] [color=ed1c24][b][u]Weaknesses:[/u][/b][/color] [list] [*]The destruction of his power source removes his ability to self resurrect. [*]Certain necromantic spells require time to cast, during whoch he is vulnerable to attack but if his source of power had not been destroyed he will simply resurrect. [*]Forms of magic crafted to combat the undead can do some serious damage, even kill. [/list] [color=ed1c24][b][u]Personality:[/u][/b][/color] Prideful, determined to see his will made reality to the point of insanity. Practically devoid of empathy and sadistic. [color=ed1c24][b][u]Skills:[/u][/b][/color] [list] [*]One-Handed Sword Fighting [*]Spear/Staff Combat [/list] [color=ed1c24][b][u]Background:[/u][/b][/color] Long ago, around the time of the Fall of Rome, there was a man. Whatever he was called has been forgotten but who he was has not. During his among the living he was a criminal, a menace to society serving only himself and thriving off the suffering of others. He was unlike most criminals in the sense that he was not of low status in society. Instead he quite wealthy and powerful despite his name being removed from the history books. One night as he was returning from an event the man was kidnapped, taken by the very people he stole from and sold toen whose agenda would not be revealed to the man until it was too late. They were cultists, members of a group known as The Tributaries of Tartarus, who were known for practicing human sacrifice in the hopes of attaining power from the afterlife. The man was put through horrors others could not endure, by the time of the sacrifice the man was no longer who he was. A broken husk of his former self that longed for death and the peaceful slumber which would follow. To his misfortune the afterlife was anything but peaceful. It is believed by most that those souls condemned to hell are made to suffer in agony until the end of time. What was done at the sacrificial ritual made it so decades in hell were mere moments in the mortal world. Upon being killed the man was again put through horrible torture for what seemed to be centuries but were in truth minutes. At some point during his time in hell he was approached by a demon. It's name was Zealthranus and it saw a way to get what it desired through the man. The two struck an accord; The demon would be able to live within the man and enter the mortal world, the man would be free from hell and given the power to exact revenge on all who wronged him as well as receive anything he desired. The man that died remained so, what came back with his body was an abomination. A combination of man and demon with powers from hell itself, Zealthranus. The cultists were originally to be executed but the abomination saw them as a usefull tool. They worshipped him and The Tributaries of Tartarus became The Scions of The Dread Lord. For the next century The Dread Lord word from the shadows. His followers planting the seeds of evil in the hearts and minds of the people while their Lord himself used his new powers to forge subtle evils whose effects would shake the world. It was only till after those forty years did his reign of evil end when a group known as The Sentinels of Light laid seige to his fortress and defeated The Dread Lord. The Sentinels knew of his ability to resurrect but not his power source. Instead of slaying him they imprisoned him in a hidden chamber guarded by wards and seals, far from the civilized world. It is there he has laid for milennia...until now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [color=ed1c24][b][u]Optionals:[/u][/b][/color] [list] [*][hider=His Dragon][img]http://static.wixstatic.com/media/123f54_eb1456164e3947efb7ba9899c2543d4f.jpg_srz_980_429_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz[/img][/hider] [*][hider=The Original Zealthranus][img]http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121112215443/left4dead/images/thumb/0/01/Hooded_Dude.jpg/500px-Hooded_Dude.jpg[/img][/hider] [/list] [color=ed1c24][b][u]Theme song:[/u][/b][/color] [url=https://youtu.be/B6aGx9iOVDA]The Dread Lord's Theme[/url]