[Hider=Skraal][center] 
[h3][b]Skraal, The Eternal Paladin [/b][/h3]
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/73/97/57/73975718b56d537b01f11cee714e9158.jpg[/img]

[b]Race:[/b] Dragonkin

[u][b]Strengths[/b][/u]

Skraal is basically immortal in the long run as his patron god brings him back if he ever dies for he is the first paladin of Death, a relation that has been there longer than the human race and that no one knows why it is still there. 
Skraal is also a great strategist and economist due to the constant trial and error he has experienced during his extensive lifespan. He has learned from and taught the greatest minds of the world. He knows and has employed every strategy that exists (even inventing several of them) 
In his countless amount of time alive he has also learned to master most weapons and come to know all types of magic. However when it comes to the arcane the Dragonkin has preferred to evade it and knows only the basic of every field. 
As most Dragonkin (or at least his eternal clan) he can breathe fire if necessary and grow wings on his back that enable him to fly short distances.

[u][b]Weaknesses[/b][/u]

Weaknesses are a very hard thing to find in the eternal paladin but it is evident that outliving gods can make a being insensible and condescending with most. But his biggest personality flaw is one he developed rather recently (recent for his standards) which is attaining wealth, for Skraal believes that if there is one thing in his lifespan that has always being there it is the undeniable power of wealth. Skraal now is obsessed with amassing a vast fortune.

Another and his biggest flaw as life has proven is his vulnerability to assassinations and magic (magical weapons count) Skraal is so confident he never takes care of watching his back to stealth and always underestimates magicians.

[b][u]Opinions[/u][/b]

 “Bastian is very decent with a blade for being so young and I find his presence actually tolerable for being in the company of a great warrior is always welcome but sadly his defeat was pathetic, he disgraced the tittle gifted to us by the Overlord and the expectations I had”

“The descendant of Melkor Hellhammer is just as fierce as the orc who once struck me down, and with the same weapon too. I would never underestimate the brute, especially after the pain the hammer produced when crushing my head so many years ago. Sharing a drink like the one I shared when congratulating his ancestor for killing me with such a notable warrior and leader would be an honor and if orc traditions keep being what they used to be, a very placid experience too,”
 
“The Spider Queen? Hate comes short when talking about daggers and spiders. The Drow used to employ both for combat, the Drow are now extinct. Related? Well yes as I made sure all of them were dead after the stealthy bastards assassinated me with both things, twice. Besides, she is obviously a rouge, being assassinated by rogues has gotten tiresome” 

 “An infant playing with powers he believes are his and a false concept of knowledge, those are the only words I can offer about the demon worshipping cultist.”  

"He believes he is invincible. The lich truly believes his power is the greatest of all the lieutants but he doesn't realize he is just a foolish ghoul. It may be useful for me that he understimates my power, even putting me in the same category as my esteemed Ukdur. Also unknown to the mage is that [b]I[/b] am the first of the bunch and on my armie's back was that the Overlord managed to reach his first conquests. The man that was Jundal the White still puked in his mother's arms when I waged conflicts against empires,"

"What can I say about the child of the sky? Some say he is a bigger and more impotent version of myself but they forget the years of experience that separate us. I respect him despite his foolish belief my years are not as I say. The Overlord is the only proof I need but I prefer not asking for such a mundane favor. Besides that the Dragon is a force to be reckoned with, especially when it comes to talking about finance. He is the only economic rival I have between the lieutenants, who knows how much money he holds? Luckily what he holds in gold I hold in important assets and inversions,”


[b][u]Backstory[/u][/b]

Skraal was born in ancient times when the world was mostly tropical and inhabited by giant lizards (Dinosaurs) His kind coexisted with most of these creatures and lived in harmony at a tribal stage while their numbers ruled the earth.  

He was born in the golden age for his kind, a time when medicine, society and technology were exponentially growing and the sky was the limit. It was then when disaster struck, the countless volcanoes dotting this tropical earth began exploding all at once as Demons; one of the oldest races after angels woke up. The sky turned to ash and the land slowly started dying as lava and death spread throughout this pre historic world. The timeless demon armies massacred Skraal’s kind in the greatest genocide ever seen. The one sided war was brutal as the ancient evil cleansed the earth in the first apocalypse. 

It seemed only the largest flying creatures (what later became known as dragons) would survive thanks to heaven’s protection (both figuratively and literally). Skraal was desperate, his kind had to survive somehow. He renounced his dying pantheon and tried to barter a deal with the lord of heaven but he refused as he had already bowed to protect one race, he then tried to barter with the lord of the demons but was rejected as well. 

[hider=Prehistoric Dragonkin][img] http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammerfb/images/0/05/Lizardmen_Art_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140710151036 [/img][/hider]

With no options left he was prepared to die in the last great city on earth. The nameless city had resisted wave after wave of demons thanks to his brilliance as a leader but its fall was near. Skraal gathered the last forces he could muster while leaving the breeders, young, and best warriors behind and charged into the enemy in a last ditch suicide run. It failed. His pathetic force was brutally torn to pieces by the demons and as he lay with an arm cut off from his torso and that same torso separated from his legs that he realized the only true god was Death. 

It was death, the lord of the purgatory to whom he pledged alliance in his final words and it was Death who brought him back like new and gave him an eternal lifespan. Death also sent his city and survivors underground fooling the Demons into believing their apocalypse was over. The brightly colored scales of his people (and his) grew brown and their forms evolved as time passed. When they resurfaced after thousands of years the lush green tropical land he had left burning and filled with demons was now a rocky desert.

[hider= Dragonkin at the resurfacing][img] http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/endless-legend/images/4/48/500px-DrakkenCardArt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141202025238 [/img][/hider]

Up there through their vast and ancient knowledge the now dubbed Dragonkin by the new dominant races (A name they reluctantly accepted as they were still learning the language) began growing and making a vast kingdom. Skraal served as the king of this kingdom for a hundred years until his own kind got tired of his religion and greedy way of life and he was assassinated. 

To his surprise Death still remembered his first paladin and brought him back once more. Skraal and his loyalists started a civil war which decimated his kin’s numbers and sent the kingdom into chaos which the elves took advantage of and took over. The Dragonkin scattered through the globe and Skraal had no choice but with his remaining supporters to become an elite mercenary army. 

Because of this line of work he died 5 more times. The last of these was tragic as all his company got slaughtered by [someone related to someone’s past] It was then when a young Overlord approached him and offered to bring them back and make them invulnerable to disease and age if he joined him in the first stages of his master plan, Skraal gladly accepted and became his first lieutenant helping the great overlord accomplish his early goals with ease for the Scaled Deathguard is the smallest but most elite fighting force one could get.

[hider=Dragonkin now][img] http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pikes-parchment/images/8/80/Dragonborn.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150125002827 [/img][/hider]

Skraal was the last to fall, the small kingdom bestowed upon him was the last one the opposition could physically reach and so the Scaled Deathguard fearing for their now longtime leader hurried to intercept them on the outskirts of their master’s land. The guard held the “heroes” back for a whole month but after a Dwarf lord tricked them into battle on a series of underground tunnels the creature sacrificed himself and brought the network crashing down on all of them. Skraal died but was brought back while his forces were unable to die and so remained buried. After some time the Scaled Deathguard slowly managed to stabilize most of the subterranean complex and easily survived down there due to Skraal’s countless years in a similar situation. They trained and became even better, patiently awaiting the right time for the second resurfacing, this time however it didn’t take long… [/center][/hider]

[hider=A quick explanation on how old he is]
We invent the fluff as we go so I decided it was best if we changed the distance between the prehistoric era and our own because heck this is a world of magic, so for logic's sake earth suffered its first apocalypse 50,000 years ago and it took it 25,000 years to change geographicaly so in that time underground Skraal and his people were in stasis. They then woke up and lived for 7,000 years down there warring against Drider and other sub-terrenean races before surfacing and living in harmony for another 8,000 years in a great empire. Civil War happened, the empire fell as elves rose and took dominance and the Deathguard was formed as a mercenary group 10,000 years prior to the start of the story. Then the first human cities were built 4,000 years later and a sensible amount of time after that (In the 6,000 years remaining) the overlord contacted Skraal for help in the first steps of building his empire. So to sum up he is 50,000 years old.     
[/hider]