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Firebrand

Family / Type:

Bestiarii / Man

Habitat:

Wastelands, Volcanic Regions, Extreme Inhospitable Landscape

Disposition:

Domineering, Unbending, Ferocious, Protective, Honorable

Diet:

Omnivorous, mostly wild game

Some humans are born who carry the untamable fire of the gods in their hearts. They are known as Firebrands. Ruthless, fearless, designed by Adamkin for open surface warfare, Firebrands by Intelligent Design are better described not as a race of soldiers or warriors, but human area-denial weapons. Their physiques are towering, heavy masses hued with a powerful musculoskeletal system, metal rending sinews, and dermal protections. Roaming the volcanic regions, a Firebrand takes a certain glee in dominating designated prey and is often found hunting mamono to attempt to bring to heel. Otherwise, they can be found warring against each other, seemingly senselessly, due to their unwavering compulsion to exert control over others and a relative disassociation with self-preservation.

The Firebrand’s resolve knows no end, in conflict they are ruthless and brutal. Utilizing their massive musculature and size, they will seek to overwhelm their foes through brawn or outpace them through their reflexive power and endurance. Using their hands to bend steel or crush stone, often they in themselves can be considered ‘natural weapons’ of their own right. Their aptitude to exert shock and intimidation upon the enemy has often led them to be vanguards in mass engagements, and a quasi-containment measure to target, hunt, and assert control over ‘vicious’ types of mamono among the volcanic regions. But the principle of the Firebrand lies not in its physical prowess, but its mental fortitude. Unflinching in the face of superior odds, hopeless circumstances, or a stronger foe, they carry out their refusal to accept defeat happily. To a Firebrand, the moment of his destruction is chosen at birth, so there is no reason to hesitate on following their destiny. Often, this adherence in the face of danger has led to heroic victories and triumphs, and often as well wasteful destruction of lives. It has been said that Firebrands have a disassociation with their own self-preservation, bordering on the counterintuitive.

Having a perceived indifference to fear and imperious behavior, Firebrands rarely cooperate even on the individual level. Often the very presence of more than one Firebrand elicits violent brawls, at times without even a straight reason. This disassociation often leads to antisocial behavior as they cannot discern the ability to be tactful, outside of their ability to have empathy. A common rumor is that a Firebrand struggles with the concept of a lie and will always tell someone the truth, no matter what.

When not living in solitary lifestyles, Firebrand civilizations does exist. However to outsiders a Firebrand society looks as if it were in a constant state of civil war, with a very low population density given the rate of Firebrand cohesion. Solitary Firebrands can often be found as escorts, vigilantes, fanatic pilgrims, and warrior-peasant mountain men scouring an environment and living in the wilderness. Peculiarly, Firebrands are rarely found as mercenaries or bounty hunters. Despite all the savage barbarism innate to the Firebrand’s blood, a Firebrand is a highly empathetic man. The concept of submission is unfathomable to the Firebrand him or herself but is often held sacrosanct to foes that do so. To yield to the Firebrand begets him to disengage, as the fighting of a submitting foe shames the Firebrand. The meek and helpless often compels the Firebrand to act near chivalrously in their protection. Many Firebrands have met their demise by attempting to save the helpless. It is through this special empathy that Firebrands have seen some limited incorporation into other races and societies of men and mamono, frequently in posthumous honor.

Romantic relationships between Firebrands are roughly as violent as regular relationships between Firebrands are, in fact to the untrained eye it can quite possibly look the same. Firebrands however, do happen to change their behaviors more akin to a non-Firebrand or mamono mate. But their indomitable willpower remains like a spark. The aspiring mamono that wants to mate a Firebrand would do well to remember that attempting to force submission is virtually non-viable, but to utilize his lack of self-preservation against him, or by submitting to him, can earn the love of one rapidly.

A Firebrand husband carries about the empathy and conviction of a paranoid lover, often they will seek to become overbearing in their protection and may require assurance over one’s own safety. Firebrand mothers when bring children into their lives, are especially notorious of this. Firebrand fathers can seem, at times, cruel and brutal when rearing their Firebrand children. Realize that, usually, this is no brutality to a Firebrand youth who healthily learns from it. Firebrand youths require large amounts of corporeal punishment at times for effective raising of Firebrands to avoid becoming menaces to society, and strictly keeping their violent confrontations ‘in the race.

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rough draft for the first Adam created Uplifted Humans, Firebrand. Sort of a hellhound salamander hybrid. Comparing them up I'd say that a Firebrand is probably a little bigger and stronger than either a hellhound or a salamander, but doesn't have claws(moreso powerful hands but still not claws) and probably a little slower on the speed.

In terms of behavior, Firebrand has the big ol' weakness for those in need. Which means that Kobolds are probably the number 1 nemesis to Firebrand, ironically.

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