Oteros
BASICS
Name: Oteros
Gender: Male
Species: Hellwolf; Death; Empyrean
Name: Oteros
Gender: Male
Species: Hellwolf; Death; Empyrean
APPEARANCE
The hellwolf known as Oteros has the clear hallmarks of Icarath’s meddling. Unlike most death hellwolves, Oteros’s body is completely scaled - only a scant amount of fur grows between the scales. Essentially, the death hellwolf’s hardened body is accentuated due to Icarath’s attempt to create a hellwolf that had more durability than the average cannon fodder.
Spiky spines line its back, the base of each point dripping with the black oily blood of an empyrean. Additionally, its tail has been ripped out and replaced with that of a spiky club-like end - much like a ball and chain morning star. The ‘shaft’ of this morning star is flexible, and has its own set of empyrean spines.
Most notable about Oteros’s physiology is his twin skull-masked heads - each one bearing half of the original Oteros’s face. The other half is clearly an empyrean mirror of the opposite side. As if to mock the natural order of things by saying “I did it better.”
The hellwolf known as Oteros has the clear hallmarks of Icarath’s meddling. Unlike most death hellwolves, Oteros’s body is completely scaled - only a scant amount of fur grows between the scales. Essentially, the death hellwolf’s hardened body is accentuated due to Icarath’s attempt to create a hellwolf that had more durability than the average cannon fodder.
Spiky spines line its back, the base of each point dripping with the black oily blood of an empyrean. Additionally, its tail has been ripped out and replaced with that of a spiky club-like end - much like a ball and chain morning star. The ‘shaft’ of this morning star is flexible, and has its own set of empyrean spines.
Most notable about Oteros’s physiology is his twin skull-masked heads - each one bearing half of the original Oteros’s face. The other half is clearly an empyrean mirror of the opposite side. As if to mock the natural order of things by saying “I did it better.”
ABILITIES
- Dread Gaze: Oteros’s gaze communicates a slight psionic signal to the eye of whoever gazes into his skullmasks’ eyesockets. This psionic signal attempts to signal to the brain to seize their involuntary organ functions. Most notably, this attempts to stop the heart. He must maintain eye contact for at least 6 seconds for this to take effect. The effectiveness of this attack (or even whether it works or not) depends on how strong the will and reiatsu of the intended victim is, as well as things like physical constitution. If the target resists, their heart may still be sent into palpitations, or their heart rate may accelerate massively - though these effects may also depend on the above conditions (a powerful enough dragon may simply just stare back with no problems).
- Empyrean Spines: Oteros has an edge over other hellwolves in that his empyrean makeup allows him to eject his spines as projectiles - this is mostly used as a defensive mechanism for those that would attempt to approach him from the air, as the angle of the spines makes it hard to aim with precision. However, due to the spikes on the spines, removing these is not as easy as just ripping them out - au contraire, these spikes act as a hook that can cause more damage to the creature in removal.
- Enhanced Strength/Speed: As a hellwolf, Oteros has formidable amounts of strength and speed. While the Empyrean enhancements have not added much to his actual strength and speed, hellwolves are known for having both in plentiful supply.
- Two Heads Are Better than One: It is difficult to sneak up on Oteros - one head is alert at all times, and when both are on the prowl, it becomes difficult to evade his pursuit. This also means that Oteros is not left helpless when he’s trying to stop an opponent’s heart - as he has two sets of eyes to work with.
- Scaley Hide: Oteros’s scales are more numerous than normal death hellwolves, resulting in less open spots to hit. As a result, Oteros can shrug off smaller strikes, such as from daggers or your average arrow/bolt. It should be noted that if his scales were to be pierced, he is just as easy to kill as any other death hellwolf.
WEAKNESSES
- Inflexible Thinking: Icarath’s procedure has left Oteros with the inability to think creatively. Much like Icarath himself, Oteros tends to process quickly, but fail to take into certain seemingly unimportant variables. Unorthodox tactics can leave him bewildered and confused, and he is easily tricked by anything beyond what’s in the book.
- No Magic: Due to not being magically capable anyway due to being a hellwolf in addition to the empyrean procedure, Oteros must rely on physical attributes and his unique features to attain victory. He has no magical tricks up his sleeve, and the spines are inflexible in how they may be used.
- Poor Ranged Options: Oteros lacks long-ranged options in combat, which makes him helpless against opponents that can utilize distance against him. The closest to these is his empyrean spines - however, these are hard to aim with any precision, and are best utilized against opponents that swoop in/approach from above as well as extremely large and/or slow opponents.
- Light Weakness: Oteros is weak against light element reiatsu, being so well-aligned with demons.
BACKGROUND
Oteros was once one of the stronger death hellwolves, but was nothing of legendary note. While he was competitive in the pack, he was never quite alpha material. An ambitious, driven hellwolf, he worked hard endlessly towards his goal of ruling the pack, even though there were a few which were far stronger and faster.
Then Icarath chose him for his experiments with empyrean procedures. Dissection, amputation, reattachment. These procedures have scarred Oteros in more ways than one.
Now, Oteros has the tools he needs to rise to the top. But at what cost did he gain this power? For where there was once fiery ambition now lays a void of anything resembling life. In some ways, Oteros has become more of a Death hellwolf than even Lethias herself intended.
Yet, some days, Oteros can feel the twitching of his hellwolf soul - the sparks of something long forgotten. It tears at him from within. Something he lost. What was it?
Irrelevant. Death is to be the antithesis of life. Eradicate all life in the name of Lethias, in the name of Icarath. Purge life. Embrace death.
Oteros was once one of the stronger death hellwolves, but was nothing of legendary note. While he was competitive in the pack, he was never quite alpha material. An ambitious, driven hellwolf, he worked hard endlessly towards his goal of ruling the pack, even though there were a few which were far stronger and faster.
Then Icarath chose him for his experiments with empyrean procedures. Dissection, amputation, reattachment. These procedures have scarred Oteros in more ways than one.
Now, Oteros has the tools he needs to rise to the top. But at what cost did he gain this power? For where there was once fiery ambition now lays a void of anything resembling life. In some ways, Oteros has become more of a Death hellwolf than even Lethias herself intended.
Yet, some days, Oteros can feel the twitching of his hellwolf soul - the sparks of something long forgotten. It tears at him from within. Something he lost. What was it?
Irrelevant. Death is to be the antithesis of life. Eradicate all life in the name of Lethias, in the name of Icarath. Purge life. Embrace death.