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Duke of the Void
Name: Asphodel Garneth
Origin of Name:
- Asphodel - a flower symbolizing death. It means "my regrets follow you to the grave"
- Garneth - from the stone Garnet. It means being passionate on doing anything.
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Rank: Former Member of the Black Cross
Role: Huntsman
Weapons: All are affectionately named except for the needles
- - named after a deity of death. It is a retractable whip made from the spine of a powerful demon they have slayed before. It still possess the ability of the said demon which is neutralization. Once hit by this weapon, the target could not use their abilities for a given amount of time.
- -Asphodel has learned over the years that the bones of certain species could used as a poison to others.He uses these needles like tranquilizer darts; weakening the target.
- - Hand-held pendulum blade created by an elite weaponsmith. Its purpose is to cleanly dismember the target. Blessed by the holiest of water and splashed by the blood of the damned, the blade is now poisonous. It also has a protective aura [Gareth does not know what creature he killed to have it] in which the first strike will never hit Asphodel. After that, he is on his own.
- Demon Eye - has the ability to see things through a bird's eye view and could also see 320 degrees around him [much like a goat's]. To use the bird's eye ability, he has to close both his eyes and concentrate. The eye then leaves his socket and appears above. He could zoom in on a target like an eagle's. Limits are that he does not have X-ray vision. Could also be used for spying but then the eye teleports to a certain location, it creates a noise.
- Collecting bones to sharpen as needles
- Collecting herbs to create concoctions to knock out different kind of species
- Exploration
- Crafting [Leathercraft, Woodcraft, Papercraft]
Dislikes:
- Weapons used by the Ash Wolves. He acknowledges them as superior to their hand-made weapons but still hates the modern weapons.
- Teamwork. Years of being a recluse have him hating on depending on others.
- Open spaces. He'd rather march through the marsh than on the rolling hills.
- Anyone who acts all high and mighty.
Resting-bitch-face expression. The go-to facade of Gareth. Looking at him, one would feel as if he is silently judging you if his visible eye landed on your being. He is also bi-polar, going from cold and calculating to hot and passionate in a snap of a finger. This is triggered when someone comments on something offensive or that his views do not align with the other.
He is usually apathetic. There would be lapses on his facade if he witnessed a "touching" scene. Ie when the partner of his victim tries to negotiate that they be the one to be killed instead of his target.
Bio:
Gareth, as was his baptismal name, was born and raised to become a server of the Church. His parents have given him to the local church to ‘fulfill’ his duties. What that small town did not expect was the bishop, the head, was more sinister.
Being an innocent boy back then, Gareth did not know right from wrong, of what the Church considered a sin. He blindly obeyed the old bishop, taking in various requests and executing it to the best of his abilities. In return to these requests, he was given a warm home and the basic elements of living. He was taught how to read and write, hunt and harvest, scavenge the woods for useful herbs, beg for forgiveness by kneeling and doing whatever the bishop requested…
He was at age 10 when Black Cross came to the village. The local church was unveiled to be a cover-up of a cult worshiping one of the princes of Hell itself and the bishop was its head. Gareth was confused. They were under the same religion and yet they are fighting one another. Gareth watched in horror as the bishop and those who he knew from the village was slaughtered. Why he was spared, he never knew the answer.
After the incident, Gareth woke up somewhere he never stepped foot upon. He was strapped into a surgical bed and an exorcism was conducted. This took a month as the pastors tried to remove the demon inside him. The excruciating pain led him to ask for mercy.
Another month of torture and he was deemed cured. Gareth’s mind was slipping after the ordeal. He would growl and scream at those who entered his room, thinking that they were going to bring pain to him again. When he would be left to his own devices, he would draw and write.
Those who were taking care of Gareth grew concerned when the drawings turned into floor plans and routes of his own town. Not only did he draw the building in such fine details but he also wrote the functions of each rooms. One the Black Cross operative took interest in his talent.
The said elite operative requested that Gareth’s memories be changed. It took her a while to convince the Ash Wolves to do her request but it was done.
With fresh memories having normal childhood and that the Church was the most sacred thing, Gareth joined in the Black Cross. The operative who took him in was named Asphodel and was one of the best. Gareth was a fast learner, getting the plans memorized in seconds and making routes for escape.
Gareth and his mentor was known in Black Cross as a Maneuver Unit. They are known to back-up other units in cases when the proverbial shit hits the imaginary fan. They are to assist in the shadows and disappear as if they were never there.
This was Gareth’s life for eight years up until the organization disbanded [he was twenty at that time]. When they did, most of the operatives hanged their weapons and disappeared. Gareth was not one to actually do that. This was his life. Blaming the disbandment to the supernatural, he continued his hunting. With him not being bound by morality and rules, his ways of killing was brutal and left a trail of entrails around the area.
A year through his killing spree, he was finally captured by the creatures he so despised. With his 'humans are supreme' speech, what the demons did to him was, for him, a fate worse than death. They removed one of his eyes and replaced it with one of their own. It was surprising that his blood quickly linked with the demon eye.
With his 'honor' as a human tarnished, he tried to remove the installed body part was failed so many times. Succumbing to the fact that he has to live with the eye, he used that to his advantage.
Ten years of being a recluse and actually studying under different Demonologists had Asphodel understand a bit of the demons. At one point during his hunting, he was contacted by one of the operatives of Ash Wolves. How they found him, he will never know. They have demanded him to actually head over to Bastion at a particular date and talk to the heads at a particular time. They also requested that he uses his mentor’s name from then on. Thus, the name Asphodel Gareth was born.
Extra:
- During his ten-year self-exile, his anger towards the supernatural dwindled down to curiosity. He still feels no remorse in killing them, though.
- "May you be purified with the fires of Hell," is his favorite saying when killing his targets.
- Could handle modern weapons but would use it as a last resort. Best to give him a mortar. Or anything that uses precision and mastery over the layout of the battle ground.
- Does actually follow rules but if said rules were to imperil his life, he will not hesitate to yeet out of there.
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