Name: Arauka Taur'ohtar The Hunter
Titles: The Dream Stalker, Lord of Predators
Age: Unknown
Alignment: Lawful evil
Race: Astral stalker
Class: Hunter
Description: The creature looks like a muscular humanoid with thick black-sickly green skin. Arauka possess a frightening demonic visage that is reminiscent of a skeletal human with a prominent jaw. His hands end in large, wickedly sharp claws. With a toothed grin, long, razor-sharp claws, and glowing eyes, Arauka like all astral stalkers looks appropriately predatory for a race with such a function as theirs. Each of the Arauka’s claws, of which there are five on each hand in an arrangement similar to a human’s fingers, is easily the length of a human’s forearm, and are deadly when in use, capable of immobilizing a creature struck with them with a deadly paralyzing magic similar to being struck with electricity.
Personality: Arauka Taur'ohtar, swift hunter in the ancient elvish tongue, roams the multiverse looking for the ultimate quarry. He regards all other creatures as potential prey. Although he seeks to test himself against stronger and stronger prey, Arauka is neither stupid nor foolhardy, and rarely engages in combat without first preparing the hunting ground and sizing up his foes. As a beast fashioned by the titans of old for the hunt, he favor ambushes designed to weaken the prey before bringing it down.
Abilities:
Elusive Prey- Arauka is very difficult to track, as he leaves no discernible markings unless he chooses to. He can move swiftly without out anything more then a whisper of wind rushing past his form.
Evasion- Arauka can avoid even magical and unusual attacks with greater agility then his large bulk might reveal. Arauka possess extraordinary reflexes, four times faster then the average humans reaction time. He can jump as high is 30 feet straight up into the air and land with uncanny grace.
Alertness- Arauka senses of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. He can see with perfect clarity at greater distances than an mere ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to both hear sounds ordinary humans cannot and also hear to greater distances. Arauka is able to use his sense of smell to track targets by scent, even if the scent has been eroded somewhat overtime by natural factors. This sense also allows him to identify shapeshifting creatures despite other forms they may take.
Biology- Arauka's body is extremely unlike that of any normal creature of other universes. Its cardiovascular system is artificially improved to give it mobility unthinkable in a natural organism. An astral stalkers seeming lack of skin-constraint and the overdevelopment of muscular tissue makes Arauka very agile, capable of performing surprising jumps to incredible heights and distances and moves much more rapidly then one of his bulk should, to human eyes he seems to move with a blur of motion. Arauka also uses his talon like claws to scale vertical structures and ceilings with ease. This allows Arauka to use predatory tactics to surprise his prey. Arauka also possess an elongated tongue known to be enormously powerful, capable of piercing human flesh and often being used to decapitate his prey. Although naturally quiet and a master of ambushes, Arauka has been known to make sounds on purpose in order to intimidate his enemy, or merely gloat over a prized prey. Arauka possess a multitude of organs each capable of continuing to function even when heavily damaged. These organs are made of an resilient jelly-like fungus substance. Thus making all but the most devastating blunt trauma minimally effective. Astral stalkers also possess an interesting ability known as blind-sense, which should one lose the use of their eyes entirely and cannot track prey by sight. Their super developed hearing, will take over, and can more than compensates for the loss.
Astral stalker physiology being a symbiotic combination of beast and fungus, is integrated such that each augments the operation of the other and both work in perfect harmony. This jelly fungus mutation makes individual Astral stalker's incredibly resilient, replacing several vital organs as well as adding padding around those which remain. Such as the brain, which remains as the creatures most vital organ, due to the nature of the fungus however most poisons are all but useless. Finally, Arauka skeletal structure is unlike a normal animals in that it is neither solid or liquid. Throughout the skeletal structure are powerful series of nerves. When the bone is broken and the skin is intact, the bones momentarily becomes liquid-like, flowing back together much in the same way water reforms inside of a water balloon. Their skin is incredibly elastic like, allowing it to stretch greatly while broken bones reform. The bones themselves are extremely light weight, while retaining a very slight degree more resilience then the average humans bones. Astral stalker's is also capable of holding it's breath for up to 10 minutes.
Swift Tracker- Astral stalkers have an uncanny ability to pinpoint the location of their prey, even if they are unable to see them with their eyes. This ability even extends into other universes once the target has become the stalkers quarry. Usually Arauka will need a strong dose of the targets strength, or preferably a sample of their blood. Once done Arauka will always be able to continue tracking the target until he chooses a new quarry.
Fungus swarm- Arauka inhales sharply before exhaling a cloud of toxic parasitic spores. If inhaled they quickly grow into deadly tumors inside the subject while the victims suffers from massive organ failure. When they achieve contact on the skin they quickly cause several cyst to grow on the persons skin. While painful they do no further harm to the person, but if they are damaged and burst, release even more fungus spores into the air. These can strengthen Arauka if he manages to inhale them, which causes his wounds to heal at a rapid pace.
Steel Hide- Arauka possess extremely dense skin and muscle tissue which render him highly resistant to physical injury. The cellular structure of it's skin has fortified the various tissues of Arauka's body, granting him a high degree of resistance to injury via skin that is as strong as titanium and can resist high caliber bullets (up to.40 caliber none armor piercing variety) , puncture wounds, corrosives, and extreme temperatures and pressures without sustaining damage.
Invisibility- Astral stalkers possess a number of other supernatural abilities that aid them in their hunts, including the ability to turn invisible. While so hidden, astral stalkers often use venomous darts of bone hidden within their throat to poison their prey or even knock them unconscious. Arauka can remain invisible for extended periods of time, however any hostile act or injury causes him to be come visible again.
Reaching Claws- A astral stalkers can make long ranged melee attacks with its boneclaws, instantly extending them as part of an attack to a distance of up to 20 feet (thereby allowing the astral stalker to threaten creatures normally out of reach). Arauka has also learned to fire his claws off with the force of 2000 and 3000 ibs kinetic energy. More then enough to impale a fully armored knight or rip body parts from a humanoid.
Equipment:
Throat dart- Arauka Taur'ohtar’s throat dart has a range of 150 feet, and travels as fast as a throwing knife. These darts hold the same poison coating his claws. He normally carries six of these.
Poison- Alchemically fashioned and very potent poison is coated upon the astral stalker deadly claws. When a target is cut and these poison seeps into their body, it quickly saps them of their strength, making them move much more sluggishly. The poison effects the subjects nerve system, a single hit deceases the targets speed to roughly half their normal reaction speed. A second blow half of that, and a third normally results in complete paralysis for 30 seconds.
Character Flaws: Arauka Taur'ohtar skin can easily be pierced by silver weapons or bullets. Gold dust renders him visible and unable to become unseen until the dust is removed. A major drawback, however, to his extreme durability is that when he does sustain serious injury beyond his ability to heal on his own, medical care is difficult, given doctors' inability to get past his hardened elastic skin. Arauka while resilient to ice and acid, is extremely weak toward fire, as it causes his skin to peel away and burns his fungus organs.
Character History:
Arauka has always lived for the thrill of the hunt, and lime many of his kind measures his personal worth by the number of creatures he has hunted and killed. Arauka was one of many such abominations who came into being during the Dawn War, first created by the gods as weapon, an assassin and hunter. Arauka served his divine patrons well during the cosmic struggle. When the Dawn War ended Arauka found that the gods had no further use for the astral stalkers. Many left to form their own tribes across the muiltiverse, seeking new worthy creatures in which to hunt. Arauka followed suit, seeking a new meaning to his existence with the end of the divine wars. Arauka for his part has served many other powerful masters, from demon lords, archdevils to even powerful archmages.
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