Post by AHAB on Mar 24, 2016 15:42:17 GMT
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[PTab=Profile] Character Details Height / Weight : 90Kg / 2.10 meters; Source : Moby Dick by Herman Melville; Home Region : The Sea; Alignment : Chaotic Neutral; Gender : Male; The King of Israel Many years ago, there was a King of Israel named Ahab. He married a Priestess of Baal named Jezebel, who introduced him to the worship of her god and bound to him a shard of a Divine Spirit she claimed to be Spirit, which gave Ahab wondrous powers. Convinced Baal was thus superior to Yahweh, Ahab began to spread his worship through Israel, what angered many prophets of Yahweh. Eventually, it attracted the attention of Elijah. Disgusted by the often cruel methods Jezebel forced Ahab to take coupled with his paganism, Elijah and Ahab fought many ideological and theological battles, in which the prophet emerged victorious every time. Upon once occasion, Elijah predicted, or more accurately cursed Ahab, a thus far successful military commander, to die in battle. What Elijah truly did was to make the World aware of Ahab's unholy pact with a piece of a Divine Spirit that'd be more akin to a demon in description, perhaps even a True One. Horrified by this abomination, the World itself turned against him, as fortune, nature and beasts alike seemed to flock against the Israeli King, and suddenly many men found impossible not to want to aim and clash against him. Ahab thus found death in battle even when he disguised himself not to be targeted, and as Elijah had said, dogs licked his blood after death. The Accursed Youth Many, many years later, in the 18th century after the birth of Christ, both the Spirit's shard and the curse had lingered on King Ahab's lineage, eventually finding its way to a British woman. The Spirit tormented her like many before her, finding her unworthy and easily terrified of the curse that plagued her as had been most it'd possessed. Driving her mad, the woman rambled during childbirth, naming her child Ahab in her insanity. She died soon after. The infant Ahab had a mostly stable childhood, growing up like any other british lad, but by the time he'd reached eighteen and joined a ship as a harpoon boy, he'd noticed something was surely wrong. Ill fortune seemed to follow him like the plague, animals despised him and storms followed all of his travels, not to mention the weird whispers on the back of his mind and the unnatural warmth his pillow emanated every morning. Surely, something was amiss. When he took upon the uncharted waves and new lands full of wonder where magic and mystery still roamed in pockets, it became impossible to have any doubt. The very world cursed him. Creatures that'd otherwise hide from man despised him, often actively hunted him and him alone. Having waited for his response for so long, the Spirit inside finally heard Ahab's conclusion - if the World was gonna hunt him, then he'd hunt down the World first. Finally, he understood there was no innocence in nature - it was a malicious, selfish thing, and it had inadvertently created its worse nightmare. Young Ahab set off now not to make a profit, but to hunt and kill all that the World nurtured as its special agents, wondrous beings, Phantasmal Beasts and even the Divine. The Spirit contacted him, yet Ahab refused to worship it - instead, he worshiped only fire, that which symbolized man's superiority over Gaia, and used the Spirit solely as a weapon. Captain Ahab In his hunt against the wonders of the World, Ahab soon rose to be a figure that inspired all types of men to accompany him in his quest. Cannibals, nobles, merchants and knaves all served under him willingly, fully convinced they'd come to destroy what was at the same time natural and unnatural, that which common man couldn't defeat alone. It took men that understood how the World itself is evil, Ahab would say, and with those words he'd lead them onwards. After many years, Ahab stood at healthy 57 years old when the ship before his last set sail, maintaining his youth and vitality through his supernatural dealings with the now nameless demon inside him. In that voyage, he met the vicious Moby Dick in combat, a whale so massive and of arcane abilities so varied, it could only call itself a Divine Beast, as those more versed in magic had told him. Vicious and enraged by his presence, it left Ahab stranded, with one leg bit off, his ship destroyed and the man himself nearing death. In that moment, he made a prayer to a God he'd never spoken to. He asked that if he was so mighty, so powerful, that he grant the power to destroy this wicked World that had been corrupted from His original seed, so that His flock could prosper. Being granted life anew, Ahab forged a contract with Alaya, now a man bound to the God and the Devil at the same time, using both as mere weapons against the World. He then set on his last voyage, aboard the Pequod. As is recorded in Melville's novel, the Captain didn't sleep as he rallied his men together against the whale, notably crafting a harpoon and bathing it in the blood of three pagans, baptizing it in the name of the Devil to take down the Great White Whale. Using a diviner that told him three prophecies that indicated his victory, including one that assured him only hemp would bring his demise, Ahab engaged the whale with no fears of his own. His fanaticism would be his end. Caught in the whaleline of this own harpoon, Ahab signaled for his men to continue the fight as he was bound to its mortal foe, his desire for revenge burning greater than ever before. Instead, the only watched the Pequod go down without its captain, as all his crew died one by one before Ahab himself was dragged to the depths by Moby Dick, drawing his last breath amidst the dark depths. Counter Guardian AHAB As per his contract, Ahab serves as a Counter Guardian after death, using his abilities to defend humanity against its foes. A role he considers similar to that of his in life, he takes special pleasure in the missions that defy the other Counter Force, Gaia. Knowingly, he knows by means of Alaya that one day, the great Divine Beast Moby Dick will threaten humanity itself. And on that day, they will face again, Ahab's desire to see it dead burning brighter than ever. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
