User blog:JellyBeanBazooka/Hush: Crimson Blade Assassin



Name: Hush

Race: Venom-Tongue Clan Saurian, Fledgling Vampire

Gender: Male

Job: Assassin

Age: 42

Personality: Impatient, Irritable, Cunning, Devious, Cold-blooded, Vengeful, Heartless

Equipment: Blightstone Shortsword, Crimson Blade Daggers, 120lb draw bow, 45 Blighstone-headed arrows, Various potions, poisons, poultices, and magic scrolls

Powers: Highly acidic blood, Venomous bite, Vampiric strength, speed, and regeneration (limited only to wounds inflicted after becoming a vampire or outside of direct sunlight), Reptilian Sense of smell, Wall climbing

Home: Hidden hideout in the swamps, Crimson Blades Sanctuaries

Likes: Killing, Bloodshed, Suffering of others, Revenge, Blades, Money, Kittens

Dislikes: Sunlight, Garlic, Silver, Religious Artifacts, Guards, Being Cheated, The Seven Knights, Anything causing HIM pain

Family: Unknown Mother and Father(Presumed Dead), Twelve nestmates(All dead), The Crimson Blades

Affiliations: The Crimson Blades

Allies: The Crimson Blades

Enemies: The Seven Knights of the Golden Kingdom

Weaknesses:


 * Sunlight: Direct Exposure can be fatal, especially if he hasn't consumed fresh blood recently. Injuries sustained while in sunlight take time to heal, being permanent if done in bright sunlight on an empty stomach.


 * Garlic, Silver and Religious Artifacts: Wards off or causes pain and scarring for vampires, though he is more likely to try to kill whoever uses these.

Equipment details:


 * Blightstone Shortsword/Arrowheads: A unique ore from his race's homeland that is extremely toxic upon coming into contact with the bloodstream of most living creatures was used to make the metal of this blade. Does not affect undead. The toxicity of the metal is high enough for a single arrowhead of the stuff to kill an Elephant in fifteen minutes of continuous exposure. Reptilian and Bug-like creatures have a strong resistance to it depending on the species.


 * Crimson Blade Dagger :


 * Various potions, poisons, poultices, and magic scrolls:

Power details:


 * Acid Blood: Has a ph level of 1


 * Venomous Bite: Anticoagulant Neurotoxin, Causes tightening and seizing of the muscles and the inability for the blood to clot. Takes about two weeks to be able to have enough venom to use for one bite on the average humanoid.

Backstory

From the moment he hatched, he was a coldblooded killer. Decades ago, a clutch of twelve eggs from different parents in a Saurian tribe known as the Venom-Tongue Clan were given as tribute to a secretive assassin group, known as the Crimson Blades, to be raised as future recruits. The eggs were watched under close guard and intense scrutiny, for only one of these eggs would grow up to join their ranks.

After the first seven hatched, one of the nest watchers witnessed something that never happened before. One of the hatchlings would be hiding from, stalking and hunting its siblings, sometimes as food, other times for sport it would seem. Even the unhatched eggs would be cannibalized by the rogue newborn. It seemed they wouldn't have to weed out the ill-fitting candidates after all.

They decided to name the new member of the guild, "Hush", for his silent and deadly assault on his competition. Growing up, he would prove to be a promising and capable assassin for them to use, as he outmatched, outsmarted, and brutalized his peers and mentors in all of the fatal training regimens. He soon climbed the ranks to be one of their most reliable and efficient killers.

But, Hush's long-running streak of success would be soon cut short, when one night, he demanded a greater challenge for an assassin of his caliber. The leaders of The Crimson Blades would begrudgingly grant his request, but on a suicide mission even they would not dare to go on. He was sent to The Golden City, hidden in a box of trading supplies and made unconscious via a knockout drug to prevent the field from denying him access because of his malicious intent. He then wakes to find his instructions for what to do upon entering the hidden city and the identity of his target. The king.

During a royal banquet, Hush took vantage up high in the shadows of the rafters, knocking an arrow aimed for the king's heart. His weapon was suddenly disarmed along with two of the fingers of his right hand being blown off when a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky at him. His attempts to kill the king were foiled by The Lightning Knight Levi of the Seven Knights, the protectors of the Golden Kingdom. He fled, but never left the city. He later came up with a plan to both make eliminating his target easier and get even with Levi.

Several weeks later, Hush kidnapped an apothecary girl he learned Levi had a thing for and left a note for him to find and read, telling them to face the assassin in a duel over the girls' life, alone.​​​​​​ The knight, living by their code of honor and love for the poor girl, went off to face the Saurian alone. The two combatants met, discussed the terms of the duel, and fought to the death. While the knight was talented, Hush was more experienced, voracious, bloodthirsty, and cunning. Finally, the battle seemed to be over, Hush had the upper hand. But before he could land the killing blow, a bolt of darkest black struck him in the face, scarring it and sending him reeling. Hush did not see who it was but knew it was another member of the Seven and ran once again. Not before critically wounding the captive girl, who would then barely be saved in time by the knights, but would suffer nightmares about the Saurian for weeks afterward.

Hush would be furious, planning to get revenge on the knights for their constant meddling. However, the fall of the kingdom made it look like he would never get his chance now. While the destruction of the kingdom and the possible death of the king meant he succeeded and could return to the Crimson Blades, he could not accept that as a victory. It was stolen from him. Even fate itself seemed to cheat him at every turn. Things seemed to get worse for him for a while, as upon his travels back to the Blades to report his "success", he was taken in the night by a coven of vampires, the not mamono kind.

For years, he was drained and used as a supply of sustenance by the bloodsucker clan, and as their plaything for their cruel and sadistic games. He would endure it all, seeing it as punishment for failing to do his duty to the Crimson Blades. Until one day, he heard a rumor being spread among the vampires:

''Levi of The Seven Knights was seen at one of the towns bordering the Wood, and was searching for the others! ''

Hush finally had a new purpose, find Levi, find the other knights, KILL THEM ALL!

That knight, he planned his escape. The vampires were hiding out in a recently abandoned silver mine, believing they could cut off a source of their fatal weakness from their enemies by controlling the area. Unfortunately for them, Hush found enough ore and was kept in the kitchens. In secret, he melted down the silver, shaved it down until it was but dust and laced their goblets of bloodied wine with enough to make them weak as mere men. That night, their celebration over their latest hunt was cut down along with them as they choked on their poisoned drink and felt the cold burn of a crudely forged silver dagger across their throats. The matriarch of the coven was sleeping during the festivities, however, and awoke to her kin being slaughtered by their escaped livestock.

Their battle was fierce, nothing like finishing off the slowly dying ones who took the silvered blood, both Hush's and her rage and ferocity being equal. Hush, seeing an opportunity, leaped at her and swung at her head with his ragged, silver blade. She dodged with inhuman speed and bit him in the neck from behind, intending to drain all the life from him. Hush, refusing to die before his vengeance against the knights and Levi could be achieved, threw the bloodsucker off him and ran for the exit, knocking down a support beam on the way out to trap the monster inside.

He soon would wander the earth, driven by his hatred and newfound hunger, till he would return to the sanctuary he was hatched from. For his admitted failure, he was banished, but for his tenacity and newfound power, he would be offered redemption for completing but one task:

''Find the Seven Knights. Finish what you started. By any means. At any cost!''