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Samuel Nevin, Manhunter

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Name: Samuel Nevin
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Species: Human/Demon-host
Ethnicity: Adelan
Height: 6 ft
Occupation: Assassin
Residence: Zantaric

Physical Description
Samuel is quite tall, with a lanky, almost skeletal build in spite of a normally ravenous appetite.  His features are hawkish and predatory with a hard, straight nose and deep set eyes.  His skin is mostly flawless, naturally tanned with a red hue.  His strait black hair is usual cut close and he has thin, angular eyebrows.  His left eye is dark brown, almost black.

Having bent a mindless demonic parasite to his will, Samuel now bares the mark of his curse in the form of a grotesque right arm that can twist and reshape with unnatural geometry.  It can be disguised as a shoulder length glove or sleeve but it never quite matches other articles of clothing he is wearing.  When Sam eases his hold though, its real nature is obvious, sprouting grinning fangs and mad eyes that seem to leer into one's very soul.  The arms form begins to fray where it merges with the host: a web of black veins reach across his chest and up his neck and cheek.  One has touched the corner of his right eye, which is now black instead of white, with a yellow iris and a pupil that seems to always reflect green light.

Personality
Contrary to assumption, Samuel is not a monster.  Despite his profession and his magical school, he is not a wanton killer.  Profesionally, he is precise and clinical.  He avoids excess casualties and kills his targets quickly, minimizing their suffering.  Personally, he refuses to kill those he has deemed rightous.

Off the job, he tends toward intellectual pursuits, such as strategy games and reading.  He can be a bit competetive but likes to be personable when he can be.

Magic/Abilities
  • Right Arm: Samuel's right arm is actually a form of shapeshifting demon.  It can take the form of a number of weapons and useful tools.  It lacks real sentience but does have a weak will of its own.  As a form of immortal magic, it is not vulnerable to Mordacaism...
  • Demoncraft: Samuel has complete control over his demonic right-arm.  Mordacaism can weaken this control, allowing the demon to worm its way into its host mind, distorting the host personality.
  • Summoning: He carries a number of wooden talismans carved with sigils for the purposes of summoning daemons.  These activated by burning, causing a given hellspawn to take form around it.
  • Acrobatics: Combining his own agility with some unique features of his monstrous arm, Samuel is able to achieve otherwise impossible feats, maneuvering in the most unnatural of ways.
  • Alchemy: A skill he mostly only dabbles in, his appetite for learning and experimenting with reagents has given him some experience in potion making.  Though rare, he sometimes uses his products in his professional life...

Relationships
  • Balick the Vulgar (father) [deceased]
  • Cassandra Nevin (mother) [deceased]

History
Samuel did not have a happy childhood.  The product of rape, he lived his early years knowing he was nothing more than a reminder of the worst moment of his mother's life.  Though she never acted unkindly, the young man could tell he he brought her nothing but pain.  This became most clear when Samuel was fifteen and his mother took her own life.

After this, the young man made it his life's mission to hunt down his father, a member of a bandit group that had attacked his village years prior and kill him.  To do that, the young peasant boy knew he needed an edge.  It was at this time; Samuel discovered his affinity for demoncraft.  He was able to summon a formless lesser demon, sacrificing his right arm to subjugate the creature.  And so, he set out, hunting down bandits in western Adela in his quest.

It took him two years to find Balick, the man who had sired him, and his confederates.  In that time, experience had honed the young Demonlord into a gifted killer.  When he reached his father's camp, killing then all was simple.  Most he killed quickly, but for the man who he blamed for killing his mother, he took his time.  The mutilated corpse was left unrecognizable, broken and discarded.  It was the last time the manhunter allowed himself such a grotesque indulgence...

Knowing he would be reviled for what he had become, Samuel would travel to Zantaric, a haven for criminals.  Considering killing was his only true skill, he became a professional assassin, though he can be a bit selective with his work.

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