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[Colonel Mustard]

Word!

This is the thread for planning out the Sutch-based RP we (myself, Acadian, Uleni Athram and Darkness Eternal) have started for general discussion of the RP itself.

Also, the title is totally a placeholder one and is up for change. Whether it will be changed or not, well, we'll see.


NOTE: As of 21/01/12, with the beginning of the RP proper, we are no longer recruiting.


This post has been edited by Colonel Mustard: Jan 21 2013, 11:23 AM

[Darkness Eternal]

Name: "Lycus".

Race: Imperial and Redguard mix.

Gender: Male.

Theme: Song.

Age: In his thirties. Appears in his mid twenties due to a Daedric Pact.

Sign: The Warrior.

Home Country: Cyrodiil.

Religion:Living in Cyrodiil, Lycus worshipped Hircine when he was a simple farmer hunting the wilderness of the Great Forest with his pet wolf, Tiber. In exchange of honoring Hircine, he was able to feed his family and save coin so that he could possibly search for a better life before he was sold into slavery. His devotion for the Daedric Prince grew even more personal and close-knit after certain events in his life.

Class: Hound of Hircine and Warrior/Barbarian.

Class Description: "Barbarians are the proud, savage warrior elite of the plains nomads, mountain tribes, and sea reavers. They tend to be brutal and direct, lacking civilized graces, but they glory in heroic feats, and excel in fierce, frenzied single combat." & "Warriors are the professional men-at-arms, soldiers, mercenaries, and adventurers of the Empire, trained with various weapons and armor styles, conditioned by long marches, and hardened by ambush, skirmish, and battle." & "Werewolves are Lycanthropes than can turn both voluntarily and involuntarily into the powerful form of a great wolf. Being Hircine's creation, during the times of the Great Hunt they were referred to Hircine's Hounds and are given rewards should they prove themselves loyal to the Prince of the Hunt."


Skills and talents:

"When I am transform into the wolf, I am treachery incarnate. After that happens, there is none who can stand between the hunter and his prey."

Despite his savage looks, Lycus uses his brains just as he does his brawn. He is a talented warrior, but his travels and life has given him vast experience in other trades; he is also a gifted hunter and a born leader, as well as a good cook and a farmer, and a great musician, able to play lute and drum with skill.

Lycus, upon his years as a barbarian, has built incredible stamina, allowing him to go without sleep days. Being mixed with Imperial and Redguard, he's also was a quick learner and rose to the gladiator ranks with dedication in a short amount of time and took to using his sword and shield with ease. He was able to fight armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and tortured. He can go night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to fight for a long period of time before passing out.

Physical Appearance:

"Do not underestimate me. You see the man, brutish and hulking and savage and barbaric. But I am wolf as well. Deliberate. Cunning."

Lycus is a strong, muscular man with skin that shows the scars of past battles. When he was younger in his adolescent years, he had with long, black hair and an untrimmed beard. His skin is bronze from exposure to the sun, and also his mixed heritage of Redguard and Imperial. His appearance changed once he became a slave, and he was properly groomed by his master. He was often described by people who encounter him as "sullen" and “savage,“. His appearance was severely altered after his return from a certain realm of Oblivion. He was stronger, more feral looking, and almost bestial and his time in the foreign plane has shaped him into a different man altogether.

His werewolf form, granted to him in the most honorable way that could bestowed, is large and muscular. His fur is grey and light.

Eyes: Yellow/amber.

Build: Lycus had a muscular build that came from his time as a farmer and a hunter and a wood-cutter. He became physically imposing after working in the mines as a slave, and then as a gladiator during his years in servitude.

Weapons of preference: A spear and Dwarven sword. Additionally, he also uses a bow and arrow from time to time, a weapon he learned to use when he was an adolescent boy hunting for deer in the woods of the Great Forest in Cyrodiil. He also has in his possession an intricate scimitar: a curved sword. Lycus is a true warrior, and knows the weaknesses and advantages of using a spear, a scimitar, a broad-sword and a bow and arrow. He is well-taught in the ways of combat that rivals most, as he himself once became the Grand Champion of the Imperial City arena.

Clothing: Lycus took to wearing minimalist clothing such as tattered shirts and leather pants. Though when on quests or perilous tasks, he wears whatever armor is typical for the environment he finds himself in. Though most often times, he wakes up in the morning without any.

Miscellaneous: Lycus carries with him few things he gathers from his travels. Ingredients, trophies of the hunt, and anything he can salvage to make new armor or to decorate his home. He sometimes can be seen playing the drums or the lute.

Magic abilities or powers: Due to his Lycanthropy, Lycus is granted a number of abilities including preternatural strength, stamina, speed and efficiency agility. Due to training his body is also more durable and can endure more forms of injury than the body of a normal person. Due to a pact with Hircine and his service as a Beast, his Lycanthropy has dramatically altered his aging to the point that he hasn't aged at all over several decades. Despite the possibility of being over 70 years of age, he will maintain the physical appearance of a 30-year-old man.

Lycanthropy enhances Lycus' sight, hearing, and smell to supernatural proportions, adding to his already impressive tracking and hunting talents. He can see farther, and with greater detail, than a normal mortal. His hearing is likewise improved, enabling him hear from great distances. Lycus can use his sense of smell to track prey by scent, much as some creatures do, even if that smelll has been eroded and changed by natural factors.

Even before his Lycanthropy, Lycus was an Olympic-level athlete, a gifted leader, hunter, and spear-thrower and combatant and sword master.

Mental Profile/Personality:

As a young boy, Lycus was mindful and smart. He was friendly and easily got along with others despite his low-class life as a farmer. He also had a special spot in his heart for his mother, whom he took care of by buying her groceries, hunting for food and fishing. He was both helpful and generously kind; doing everything in his power so that he could to help her. Every coin he came across or earned, he gave to her in hopes of finding a better life. Though lovable, he had a darker side. He carried grudges and was vengeful of those who did him wrong. Lycus also hated being treated unfairly or being wrongly accused. He was fiercely loyal, doing his best to keep those he cared about from harm. His only price for such thing was loyalty in their part.

Lycus, despite his good nature, had a negative side to his personality. He learned hatred and anger at a young age, as he grew up with a father who abused him. Lycus, in turn, despised his father, who frequently insulted and berated him, calling him a “Burden Beast of my life.”

After being sold into slavery, Lycus' separation from his mother was the hardest thing he'd ever done, and it still hurt him for years. Because of his fear of losing even more friends, he kept to himself. During his growing years he grew especially close to a woman and a Redguard Blademaster, considering them a beloved friend and a role model. Due to his sudden ascension from being a servant boy to being known as the "Slayer of Beasts. Champion of Warriors,” and the rising star of the gladiator stock, his pride and arrogance sunk in. He grew cocky, self-appreciating, and he began to despite being tended to, lectured or even reprimanded.

He was a naturally honest man and hated lying and deception, and detested politics, rightly considering most of the men and women in the Empire’s upper circle to be greedy and power-hungry. His father’s continual abuse against him hurt Lycus, who at times wasn't sure he even deserved to be loved, something his heart craved. Therefore, he was easily swayed by the promise of praise and glory in the arena and the promising loins of a Telvanni mistress.

His yearning to be loved, as well as cherished and appreciated, came out in his devotion to combat and secret relationship with a manipulative woman, one of the few people he ever thought cared for him. As his fame spread, he became more and more arrogant, and he knew that he was one of the best gladiators in Vvardenfell, believing that he could easily best any warrior or mage blindfolded with a spear tied to his back.

Despite having an arrogant personality, Lycus suffered from an overwhelming sense of fear. He struggles daily against a "wolf" in his heart. The wolf stands as everything that negatively defines his emotions; fear and self-doubts. His childhood trauma of being attacked and watching his sheep get killed by a wolf was so great that in his mind, he would compare his greatest fear to his own personal issues. His fears becomes a catalyst for his journey and growth into someone different and the very thing he feared the most.

As a warrior and a combatant, Lycus is a loyal friend to those true to him, with a savage and barbaric code of conduct that often marks him as beyond honorable than the most sophisticated of people he comes across in his travels. He had a strict code of honor, and refrained from stealing or cowardly acts of killing.

Aside from his warrior life, Lycus has a hobby of hunting big-game creatures such as lions or Sabretooth cats, and even mammoths. Before and after his slave life, he would spend time hunting creatures, taking their heads as trophies as well as their meat for sustenance. When he wasn't satisfied with hunting beasts, Lycus began working with the authorities to hunt down prisoners and escaped convicts into the wilderness, in which he would hunt them down. He even owned a private trophy room to display the skulls of animals and dangerous people he killed.

This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: Jan 19 2013, 12:21 AM