User:Cornell

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Character Sheet Information

Name: Cornell Juste                                                                                                        
Eyes: Piercing, dark red
Hair: White and outgrown
Height: 6'2
Weight: 186 lbs.
Age: Immortal and doesn't age. However his body is centuries old, his appearance that of a man turned in his prime. 
Race: Vampire reaching for lord status.
Class: Dread Knight
Marital status: Is a vampire so things like this are meaningless to him. 
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Allies and friends: Feir the Alexandrian Conscript, Anatolia the Shadow Illusionist.
Enemies: No one important.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Knight of Dread*

Magical Ability: Above average.

Protection: Decent.

Melee Ability: Strong.

Speed and Agility: Sluggish.

Dark Lord*

Magical Ability: Better.

Protection: Scant.

Melee: Average.

Speed and Agility: Normal.

• Note: Refers to whether the Vampire is wearing his Carrion heavy armor or more commonly his lord's clothing. More protection is offered with armor and as much a deadlier melee adversary. Without the weight of the armor he is quicker and his magical abilities are further unhindered allowing the vampire a greater pull of the arcana around him at the obvious disadvantage of being unprotected and vulnerable to melee weapons.

Facts

• Thrives on destruction.

• Detests Lycans.

• Will go to any length to realize his dreams.

• Is an anti-paladin.

• Profane standard bearer of Vakmatharas.

• Has a thin scar above left eye and partially across the eye-lid.

• Is dark-skinned due to a battle with a holy mage who amplified the power of the sun against him.

• Can shape-shift into a wolf with dark blue fur and a black aura. Known as the spirit of Fenrir.

• Wields a big sword.

• Rarely shows emotion.

The Sword, and the Sickle Moon

It is an insignia that the Dread Knight wears upon the crest of his shoulders blades and shield. It is completed with black clouds not in the foreground but behind the sword and the moon. Each symbol carries a different meaning intended to be relevant for Cornell and others of his kind. It represents his union of the meanings they've formed. It is the vampire's one and only banner in which others have followed.

• The Sword- A representation of war, conflict, and strife.

• The Sickle Moon- A representation of night and vampirism.

• Dark Clouds- A representation of darkness, of the unknown, and of death.

Weapons, Armor, and Artifacts

Cornell is a collector of ancient and magical items to further his quest for power.

Weapons

• A long bladed sword named Breather. Has a single sharp edge used for cutting.

• An axe with it's blade forged of dragon bone and spelled for durability. The shaft is forged out of dark steel, dragon bone and steel fuse together by magic and bolts where blade meets handle.

• A scythe inlaid with silver and gold decorations. It's razor sharp edge is notched with jagged teeth, giving the scythe a vicious appearance.
• A warhammer born out of dwarven forges.

• Twin-blades strapped to lower back sheathes, used primarily as last resort weapons with twin demons devouring the beginning of the blades.

• Daggers used for execution.

Armors

• Black-plated, spiked set of gauntlets, leggings, boots, and shoulder pads. Sometimes referred to as the Armor of Carrion.

• Chest-plate of bones fitted with a tormented skull in the centre.

• The leathers, robes, and cloak one might expect from a particularly malignant being. Frayed at the edges and dark like the night.

• A helmet bearing a daemonic appearance and horns complete with a malicious steel visor.

• A protective shield named usurper, used in conjunction with breather.

Casual attire

• Long black golden trimmed surcoat over a white cotton noble's shirt and under a dark blue leather vest.

• Black leather gauntlet-gloves with spiked wrist cuffs.

• Dark slacks.

• Clean and flowing nobility cloak clipped to either side of the vampire's shoulders and held with a chained clasp.

• Dark leather boots reaching to knee-height, top length folded over as cuffs.

Down the broken path

Cornell was a young vampire when he heard the calling of the death god. He was a wanderer then with no purpose. Vakmatharas filled him with visions of blood and death and more importantly true power. He sated himself engorging on the blood of victims from town to town, each conquest filled with gruesome murders each worse than the last. The vampire left Vakmatharas' message for the God to see, as well as the fearful humans. In one night he murdered an entire family line and strung up their bodies in the great hall of their mansion, each corpse covered in wounds, ripped clothing, and red fluid staining the ground with specks and droplets of blood amid the more gorier puddles.

"They hung like mannequins, steel bolts shooting through their bodies and into the ceiling. He cut their throats in their beds,slashed open their stomachs and let the steaming hunk of intestines fall out onto the floor against the balustrades as they must have fought to get away. Others were impaled alive in grim crucifixes watching in horror akin to nightmares as the murderer mutilated dead relatives and hooked them against the walls with impaling spikes and steel cables, leaving them to die of blood loss. We discovered them at dawn before the constables even came.It shook the faith of everyone, even the priests, we all feared the unknown as they said their spiritual rites and wished the dead a safe journey into the hands of Sven but that didn't make anyone feel better at all. Whoever did it, he killed enough people so brutally that this small town won't be able to forget for a long time. Hard to believe anything human could have done this one.... " -Quote from Richard Brian, part of the group of servants that discovered the massacre.

Cornell visited 17 towns and cities in this gruesome fashion. He reveled in the painstaking death and misery and fear he wrought. It wasn't long before the elder dark mage, Malkazar, visited the vampire in his sleep. He brought him more visions, but this time of a home. He painted the way in blood. When Cornell woke he chased after the images and was brought before the stone slabs of Vakmatharas' hidden temple on tired limbs. The journey took him months without feeding, without stopping until he met the higher calling. After all Malkazar was bade in visions himself to find the vampire.

He was nearing a century old now and was taken in to the order. He was made an acolyte, a dark initiate with a penchant for blood and death. He trained under several masters. Malkazar, the twisted and elder death mage; Olof, the savage and wanton blood-berserker; and finally, Seirvum, the relentless harrow, Lord of Dread.

Years of training passed. Cornell prided himself on being ambitious, at wanting more. By the end of the sixth year he was promoted to warrior. Then as the years progressed he became doubtless and proficient promoting to dark blade, chaos fiend, bane champion, and finally dread knight, Seirvum's chosen squire. He was presented with a set of armor that included gauntlets, shoulder plating, armored boots, leggings, and a helmet. The jutting spikes on the armor and specifically the shoulder pads reminded Cornell of a carcass with bones inside of a chest that were yanked out of their cavity and sharpened. It was called the carrion armor.

The only thing missing was a chest-plate. Cornell was to earn it by slaying a beast dragon and claiming it's bones as a prize. The Dragon he sought out and killed was a white dragon inhabiting the frost maw region. It slept inside a glacial peak with a blizzard beating down on the area restlessly. When it was disturbed it came at him with rending claws tearing his chest open and leaving the beginning of a nasty scar on the vampire's chest. It also used it's magical breath, freezing the ground between monster and vampire with shards of deadly ice. Though he almost died more than once in trying to claim his prize the vampire finally rested his burning fire brand between the dragon's large rib cage. It pierced the animal's heart sending a sheath of flame inside it, burning out the organs. When Cornell stumbled out of the ice cavern back down the mountain path, he held in his hand a hefty bag of dragon bones.

The bones were used to make the chest-plate carapace the vampire wears in present times and a weapon. An axe made of dragon-bone. These items were blessed by the priests of perversion, dark mages who would ensure the rare bones would be preserved throughout use.

Seirvum was pleased and Malkazar had another quest for the vampire to undertake. In the heart of the vampire city was a traitor to Vakarash and Vakmatharas. A vampire claiming himself above the god of death, crowning himself one and only king vampire. The orders were simple. Cleanse the heretic. When Cornell came to his estate the vampire's guards were ready. Ghouls, heretic vampires, servants and even a chained cerberus beast let free in a desperate whim. It shot flames out of the mouths of three heads. He wore it down being careful. It was a beast and powerful, but it did not think like him. Even with a growing number of injuries, the vampire cast a final spell; the creature wobbled on pained limbs, shifts seen under thick calloused skin. Beneath the hard layer the creature's muscles were stripped clean from bone as it died by the Dread Knight's hands. It laid in the courtyard in immense pain, eventually succumbing to shock and Vakmatharas' grasp as Cornell entered the villa.

Gripped in rage and insanity the heretic lord challenged Cornell in the foyer. He held an ancient weapon in his hand but ultimately was defeated by the war-bred vampire. Cornell crushed his skull between two gauntleted palms, his head and brain matter exploding between his fingers before his body went limp yet the vampire twisted on his heel anyway and ripped the infamous vampire king's head from his shoulders in one wrenching movement. The body and building were cast to flame, the Dread Knight leaving with a head in his grasp and an ancient relic. A vampire sword.

Current Events

Vailkrin Conquest

• Attempting an overthrow of Vailkrin with his companion Anatolia.

• Has named himself ruler of the undead kingdom in Ginger's absence and failure to parley in anything other than board posts.

• Deems Ginger to be a criminal and those involved with her equally as charged. The vampire has begun to make it clear that Ginger has no place in Vailkrin until she proves her worth.

• Is seeking out a meeting with the heads of other nations, making his threat widespread and known. The ultimatum is simple, humor Ginger as the ruler or retainer of Vailkrin and suffer. This is in Cornell's hopes to draw her out into a meeting and truly remove her from the picture.

• Recruiting mercenaries to be paid in gold and all those who want to be part of the glorious reform of the vampire city.

• Threw a fight with Jozie, forfeiting to withdraw from Vailkrin as per the stakes. The battle was merely a false pretense for the vampire who has plans to return to Vailkrin in due time.

The Vampire Castle

• Surveying the land for a suitable place to build a castle so that the vampire has a home within Hollow.
• The location was decided to be none other than Vailkrin, on a high mountain top overlooking the city.
• Importing his servants so that construction may begin post-haste.
• Construction has begun on the vailkrin castle.

Training

• Accepting duels but will not stake anything on them but a win or a lose.

Duels

1. Cornell vs Lucia- Spar