Post by Thanatos on Jun 17, 2015 16:53:54 GMT -6
Name: Thanatos
Alter-Ego: N/A
Age: Immortal
Gender: Male
Alignment: Villain
Date of Birth: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Physical Appearance: Towering at precisely seven feet tall, Thanatos manifests in the modern day with ashen gray skin; flowing obsidian hair; gauntlets and greaves of angular, layered metal plates; and an utterly featureless visage of shadow that stares out from beneath an unmoving crimson hood, framed by a pair of ridged horns. Around his neck hangs a pendant, a violet gemstone with metal filigree coiling around it, whose significance is known only to him.
Special Abilities:
History: For as long as tales have been told of the deities of Greek myth, Thanatos has lurked, the very personification of death. Though subservient to the gods, his work in the mortal world as the bringer of silent, peaceful death is a constant reminder of their immutable presence… or was. Millennia have passed, and as worship of the gods waned, so did their power until they had altogether faded into legend.
Thanatos, however, remained. All mortal life must end, and so the avatar of death has kept watch, waiting for a time his masters would rediscover ways to impose their will on the mortal world. In recent years, sure enough, they have found their strength returning in the wake of some growing disturbance; the herald, Thanatos has mused, of an unprecedented change in the lives of mortals. His musings proved correct when the first records of the metahuman reached him.
While his own powers have weakened, Thanatos yet serves as a fearsome messenger of the gods, and was cast into the world with a mission: travel the world in search of whatever might remain of the great beasts of myth, before ignorant modern mortals might unearth them and commit some folly out of misunderstanding of what they had discovered. Until now, the avatar of death has been successful in keeping his activities silent, but the heavily publicised discovery of the head of the terrible Medusa in Kansas City has greatly complicated matters. For the first time, he will have to step onto an open stage in pursuit of his goal…
Alter-Ego: N/A
Age: Immortal
Gender: Male
Alignment: Villain
Date of Birth: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Physical Appearance: Towering at precisely seven feet tall, Thanatos manifests in the modern day with ashen gray skin; flowing obsidian hair; gauntlets and greaves of angular, layered metal plates; and an utterly featureless visage of shadow that stares out from beneath an unmoving crimson hood, framed by a pair of ridged horns. Around his neck hangs a pendant, a violet gemstone with metal filigree coiling around it, whose significance is known only to him.
Special Abilities:
- Superhuman physicality
- Transformation
- Necromancy
History: For as long as tales have been told of the deities of Greek myth, Thanatos has lurked, the very personification of death. Though subservient to the gods, his work in the mortal world as the bringer of silent, peaceful death is a constant reminder of their immutable presence… or was. Millennia have passed, and as worship of the gods waned, so did their power until they had altogether faded into legend.
Thanatos, however, remained. All mortal life must end, and so the avatar of death has kept watch, waiting for a time his masters would rediscover ways to impose their will on the mortal world. In recent years, sure enough, they have found their strength returning in the wake of some growing disturbance; the herald, Thanatos has mused, of an unprecedented change in the lives of mortals. His musings proved correct when the first records of the metahuman reached him.
While his own powers have weakened, Thanatos yet serves as a fearsome messenger of the gods, and was cast into the world with a mission: travel the world in search of whatever might remain of the great beasts of myth, before ignorant modern mortals might unearth them and commit some folly out of misunderstanding of what they had discovered. Until now, the avatar of death has been successful in keeping his activities silent, but the heavily publicised discovery of the head of the terrible Medusa in Kansas City has greatly complicated matters. For the first time, he will have to step onto an open stage in pursuit of his goal…