[b]Name:[/b] Lord Chatterteeth [b]Age:[/b] Ancient [b]Gender:[/b] Once Male [b]Race:[/b] Revived Skeleton [b]Appearance:[/b] He's a silver colored skeleton with golden teeth. He wears a red Dracula-like cape with golden embroidery and jewels of multiple brilliant colors all over it. [b]Personality:[/b] Chatterteeth is one of the Seven High Kings of the Undead, and as such he has a lot of pride, preferring "death" over dishonor and will personally take his place on the battlefield rather then just order his minions around. He's stern but fair; a charismatic leader clearly noticeable as being worthy of his position after being around him for a while and feeling the regal aura that he gives off. All things considered he's quite unlike what most people would picture of someone leading a skeleton army. He's not ruthless, not bent on destroying the living, not truly evil. He does what is best for his people, and if possible he's open for negotiations with those who stand against him. Unfortunately, some of his subjects give him a bad name by slaughtering innocents (as undead are prone to doing if left to their own devices), but he does his best to have an iron grip over them specifically to stop such massacres from happening. He's not completely selfless and does think himself better then the common man, but for the most part he's a decent enough fellow as long as you don't become his enemy and do something to deserve his wrath. In that case he may dispose of them ruthlessly. [b][u]Abilities[/u][/b] [b]Physical Abilities-[/b] His physical abilities are that of a human in peak form with unlimited physical endurance. With his high level of skill perfected over the years he seems a lot quicker and stronger then what he actually is. His eyesight is 360 degrees but only at 20/30 vision. He cannot smell, taste, or feel (which includes pain). His hearing and reaction times are at normal human levels, but things sound echo-like and hollow to him. [b]Silver Bones-[/b] The marrow of his bones are virtually indestructible, able to withstand nuclear weapons without difficulty. It's unlikely that anything not specifically designed to destroy his bone marrow could do so. However, the outside of his bones "only" have durability 10 times stronger than steel. If this outer layer is destroyed then he won't be killed but will still be out of commission until they can grow back. [b]Ancient Knowledge-[/b] He has many thousands of years of experience and observation of the world around him. He's naturally only average iq, but with all of this practice he's developed into what many would consider a genius. [b]Charisma-[/b] Able to smooth talk people to get his way. This isn't magical, but his level of persuasion is hard to resist. [b]Control of Undead-[/b] Undead who are not already being controlled by someone else cannot resist his will without severe effort. They must hear his orders for this to be in effect, but once heard they will continue to carry out the order until it's fulfilled or they somehow manage to break free. [b]Weapon Training-[/b] Master of sword fighting both single and double handed, shields, spears/lances, single handed/double handed/throwing axes, and using his own bones as a weapon. He can use either right or left hand at a master level with all of his practice, but is naturally left handed. [b][u]Powers[/u][/b] He has gotten his powers through death; for every death he has experienced he has gained a power related to it. He can only use a single power at one time and to switch requires 5 seconds, during which time he cannot use any powers. Although he has unlimited endurance by using only physical abilities, use his powers for too long and it will begin to exhaust his resources and make him start acting worn out. This can be seen more easily in his tougher techniques and as battles draw on. His powers are listed from least energy cost to most energy cost. [b]Crush-[/b] The force of his physical attacks feel like that of an elephant stomping on his opponent with a standard punch. [b]Burn-[b] His bones catch on fire. (insert Ghost Rider joke here) [b]Slash-[/b] The tips of his finger bones extend outwards by up to 5 feet, but can grow or shrink within a second. These bones, as well as any other bones, act as if they were the edge of a sword. Even a large, rounded bone such as his skull can cut through things with a head butt rather then blunt force trauma. However, the smaller and more pointed the more easily it shows this effect, so to cut through objects four times stronger then steel he would need to use his extended finger bones, which can cut things up to six times stronger then steel. [b]Freeze-[/b] The surrounding area slowly freezes over. A human being standing within 5 feet will be frozen solid in around a minute while up to 20 feet away will experience lesser and lesser effects. [b]Asphyxiation-[/b] The area around him becomes harder and harder to breath as it feels like there's a massive weight on their chests that will eventually stop them from breathing if they don't escape. If they're within 5 feet then they can only last however long they could normally hold their breath. Up to 20 feet away they would still feel some effect but could last around 5 times longer. [b]Plague-[/b] Those who contact his bones will begin to rot from the point of contact. This rot can spread through ought the entire body and turn them into a skeleton within 10 minutes if left untreated. This power only works on living tissue [b][u]Weaknesses[/u][/b] *Banging against his bones with enough force to cause them to vibrate causes him to loose his control over his power, negating any power currently in effect. *Cracking the outer layer of his bones severely enough will lead to a complete loss of power until the bones can repair, which is the speed of normal bone repair. In other words he'll be out of commission for a long while. Not only will he loose his powers, but if it was his leg bone then he can't walk good, his arm bone he can no longer punch, etc. Cracking his skull will cause him to loose consciousness until it repairs itself. *Inside his nearly indestructible bone marrow flows the source of his energy to the outside of his bones that slowly depletes as he uses his powers. Deplete this energy too much and the outer layer of his bones will start to grow more frail. At no energy and he can fall and break his hip as easily as an old lady. *The points where bones magically attach to each other (now that he doesn't have any tissue around them to do so) can be knocked around with enough force to literally dislodge the bones from one another and send them flying off of the rest of his skeleton. It would take enough force to bend a thick metal bar with your bare hands to do so, but with the proper leverage it becomes easier. His bones can reattach back to his skeleton if placed in close proximity. He cannot use any bones separated from his skull until then. [b][u]Equipment[/u][/b] [b]Head:[/b] A very fancy and expensive golden crown filled with jewels, but this often falls off of his skull during battle. Even if it shatters it's of no real consequence to him, as if he dropped a penny on the side of the road. [b]Body:[/b] A fancy red/golden cape with jewels. No more useful in battle then a normal cape, which is to say it can be more of a hindrance if anything and is often removed beforehand. [b]Weapons:[/b] His standard choice of weaponry is his black double edged hand and a half sword that has a 40 inch blade and weighs 4 pounds, as well as a matching black jagged looking shield. They each have a durability to match his outer bones, 10x that of steel, and were in fact carved out of his bones and magically melded together over many years, having since lost their silver shine. He has nothing to carry any other weapons or equipment, but he does have within his private vault numerous treasures and weapons of a wide variety. [b][u]Bio[/u][/b] Chatterteeth, his real name being Marthius Endlewood, was but a simple human knight thousands of years ago. He had high aspirations and a lust for power that drove him to take on many odd and challenging adventures over the years when he wasn't busy serving his king, although sometimes he could do both at once, being the go to guy for the insane mission that few others had the same zest for. One such adventure lead him to meet a High King of the Undead, one of seven, who he had the intention of slaying by order of his king to protect his kingdom. This skeleton undead offered him a challenge; cut off his skull and Marthius would gain tremendous new power. He took on the challenge and engaged in a long, brutal struggle that pushed his limits more then ever before. However, he somehow managed to prevail in the end and cleaved the skeleton's skull from it's body before collapsing on the verge of death and loosing consciousness. Or, as he later found out, he actually did die from his wounds and his foe had this outcome planned all along. The previous High King of the Undead retired from his position and was never seen again, so now Marthius had unwittingly taken his place. Although traumatized at first, he learned to use his new position to his advantage to take down the undead threat from the inside, establishing a more peaceful regime, although he was only one of seven and was not a miracle worker. He still had much work to do even if his armies had stand down in their attack on the humans. He was vastly underpowered compared to any of them and still had his flesh body over his silver skeleton that could be killed, a major weakpoint. The previous king had solution to this problem planned out as well. He sent assassins after him, those who could kill him "safely", destroying his body repeatedly to add on to his powers and eventually obliterate his body itself but leave his skeleton intact. It was a traumatic process but the plan worked. All of his flesh was stripped from bone and he had acquired many new powers that would help aid in his battle against the other High Undead Kings. He was now an undead in full, never to come back to life, not able to die. After hundreds of years of training he was a match for any of the other High Undead Kings. There was a great war that reduced society back to the dark ages and resulted in the undead loosing most of their vast influence, retreating into the darkest recesses of the world. Chatterteeth personally took out two of the kings, the humans took out one, two were killed fighting amongst themselves, and one went into hiding. New kings that came and went, but none of them wished to challenge Chatterteeth or the humans any time soon, at least without paying the price. Unfortunately the humans betrayed Chatterteeth to use this as their chance to eliminate all undead in one fell swoop, saving themselves from future difficulties, as they put it. This war is still ongoing, seemingly never-ending. He simply cannot retain large enough numbers to have any sort of advantage over them to end the war in his favor and he certainly won't surrender. He has grown attachment to the undead he has ruled over as they fought together over the years, so seeing them all eliminated in this betrayal was simply too much to ask. Peace treaties have worked out on some human countries, but as of yet his most dangerous foes still exist.