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Kartok; Kulshedra Outcast Gladiator

Started by Zero, April 05, 2017, 11:01:08 AM

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BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Kartok
Title: Teal
Gender: Male
Age: 71
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 289 lbs
Race: Kulshedra
Residence: Essyrn



PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Kartok is a large Kulshedra male; tall, muscular, with long, powerful limbs. His scales are a somewhat unique and uncommon color. Darker teal fades in a somewhat gradient pattern to a lighter teal blue. Like all Kulshedra these scales cover his throat to his chest, arch over his cheeks and lightly frame his eyes, which are a beautiful violet color. The pattern extends to all the patches of scales that extend down his body, all the way to his clawed fingers and toes.

Choppy black hair is streaked through with the same variations of teal. What skin isn't covered by scales is a rich, golden bronze. As typical of males, his cheeks have splits that allow him to open his mouth very widely, his jaw appearing to almost unhinge to allow him to bite large chunks out of big prey.

In the jungle he wore no clothing, nor did any of the other members of his tribe. Now that he has been outcast and lives among humans a sarong is usually secured around his waist.



PERSONALITY
Nothing if not dedicated. Before his exile the sharp focus of his dedication was on tracking, acquiring, and protecting females in the name of his tribe and the Fire. Now he's turned that energy onto winning fights in the Coliseum and earning money so that he can purchase females he tracks down through the Essyrni slave trade. Protecting and caring for them will give him his purpose back!

The only upside to leaving the tribe for him is that should he come across his Mine there will be no Elder to tell him he can't have them.



SKILLS
Kartok is an exceptionally good tracker. His nose was always one of the keenest in the tribe, able to sift through a plethora of different scents and pick out individual ones of interest. This was used to find any number of things, but the most important, and the thing he was best at tracking, was females.

Like many Kulshedra, Kartok is very large and powerful, his claws are like daggers, and his jaw is powerful enough to crush bone – not to mention the razor sharp teeth. A swipe of that powerful tail will easily break and crack and rupture your insides.



BACKSTORY
Kartok comes from a very violent and war-like tribe of Kulshedra that makes their home within the Kishahn Jungle. Many tribes are very peaceful, but not his. They are particularly ruthless about hunting down other tribes, dousing their fires, killing their males, and stealing their resources, territory, and most importantly their females. For that reason the gender ratio is actually skewed slightly in favor of females, because they have stolen so many from other tribes.

From the beginning life was promising for Kartok. At birth he was assigned the title of Teal, and was the young of one of the tribe's best trackers. His two-tone teal scales were uncommon and therefore drew him a small amount of special attention, as did his violet eyes. As he grew his size got him more attention, for he became a large and powerful male.

As a still young adult, he led his tribe's warriors through the jungle to another tribe, helping them to conquer it. Many females were acquired, and he was given his name by the Elder as reward for his contribution.

Kartok made many, many contributions to the tribe through the acquiring of fresh females to bring new blood and more young into their tribe. The females honored him frequently by choosing him during their seasons. Not always, of course, but often. Like many times, no young would be produced, or when they were it was not his, but he was proud to be chosen regardless.

Eventually he did produce young –twice. Both were strong and healthy girls. The tribe praised him and honored him greatly – as well as the two females that bore them.

Life as a prime male within the tribe treated him very well, even if his reputation for being quite viciously protective of the females did make some wary of him. More than one male felt the sting of his claws and bore scars for daring to even accidentally injure a female. Kartok considered every tribe female to be "his" in a way, to protect. Not selfishly to breed, but just to keep safe.

This zealous protectiveness was what leads to his downfall. He caught an overly eager male trying to force himself on one of the females and lost it. Kartok didn't mean to kill him, he really didn't, but the damage was done. For the murder he was cast out, regardless of the circumstances.

As per tradition, he was forced to leave the jungle upon pain of death should he not comply or ever return. Being outcast from his tribe caused almost unbearable stress and heartbreak. All he had ever lived for was to find and protect his females. Without females to keep safe he had no purpose or reason. The exile almost killed him as he wandered the desert until finding Essyrn.

He had no idea that Kulshedra females were sometimes captured by humans and kept as slaves. It was a disturbing revelation. Kartok quickly found an answer to his problems. Gladiators made a lot of money fighting, and they were not so tough. No human warrior could stand against him! So as a free and voluntary gladiator, he's been earning the gold with the intention of using it to purchase females so that he can protect and care for them.

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