Name: Ajanok'Tez, but refers to himself as 'Claw' when addressing others.
Age: 120
Sex: Male
Appearance: Bipedal with a robust build, and stands nearly twice the height of a tall human man, though prefers to run on all fours when giving chase or when rapid movement is demanded. A sizable portion of Ajanok's mane is braided, with each knot, twist and accompanying ornament representing the customary del-korm pattern of hair 'saga' pattern; Claw's life story, deeds, accomplishments, likes, dislikes, enemies, and friends are described by his intricate mane weavings. With an onyx-colored pelt, Ajanok blends in well with night-time enviroments, while his left and right eyes are yellow and blue respectively.
Talents and Skills
Tracker: With an enhanced sense of smell and hearing—and with an accompanying level of insight in hunting and trapping techniques—Ajanok possesses useful path-finding and tracking capabilities and an augmented level of situational awareness, affording him excellent perception and, consequently, making it exceptionally difficult to surprise him or hide from him.
The Darkness is a Shield: Despite their fearsome appearance, the del-korm people rely on their inherent aptitude for ambush-orientated hunting; silently stalking their prey from well-hidden positions under the cover of darkness has made them a very successful apex predator in their homeland. Naturally, Ajanok is no exception, his years spent in Malkor’Kurz having gifted him with a particularly-notable grace in the art of concealment and ensnarement, his movements and actions sowing discord and fear into the hearts and minds of those that he opts to prey upon.
Echoer’s Gift: Echoers, also known as Users of the Rawr, are unique del-korm children that were born with the unusual capacity to control sound. As these children advance towards maturity, their unearthly power grows with them, eventually becoming refined and strong enough to be used both as a useful tool and as a destructive weapon.
Ajanok’s frequent bouts with his mother and twin-sister, Aeon and Weadoo, have given him a respectable degree of experience with the Echo’s more malicious and violent applications, enabling him to direct painful, high-frequency sound waves at enemies or inanimate objects. But in a strange twist of irony, Claw is most proficient with his power’s more ‘utilitarian’ functions, such as silencing his own footsteps, generating distracting noises within the ears of the unwary and perfectly mimicking any sound that he wishes to utilize, such as voices or the noises of various beasts.
Claw's Echoer talents are improved through practice, but they are also fueled by consuming the life forces of other living creatures. Of course, this kills the victim in the process, but Claw has little regard for the lives of those that he dislikes anyway. To prevent the more 'intolerant' members of the land's population from lashing out at him, Claw conducts this dastardly deed in secret.
Tooth and Claw: In Malkor’Kurz, fighting is a way of life—a way to live. But Ajanok has grown relatively tired of the ‘ultra violence’ in his homeland, and therefore has taken it upon himself to be of cooler temperament, though he still has not let his proficiency in the art of bloodshed slip away from him. In melee combat, Ajanok can be exceedingly lethal.
Belongings and Equipment
Weadoo’s Boon: Ajanok has few friends and even fewer family, but his biological twin sister, Weadoo’Uranek (Grin of Teeth) is one of the few del-korm in Malkor’Kurz that he can honestly name as a friend.
Weadoo absolutely adored laughter and joy—but she also had an insatiable hunger for seemingly-unnecessary violence. When both were young, Weadoo’s murderous, happy-go-lucky demeanor often annoyed Ajanok to no end, leading to periodic episodes of brutal hostilities being exchanged between the two.
But, ironically enough, their shared, close relationship—one solidified through constant bickering and frequent skirmishes—gradually saw them enter into a brief yet fruitful Companionship. Throughout the land, brother and sister became legendary for their fighting prowess; they were especially deadly when together. Unfortunately, Ajanok’s infamy eventually forced him to notify his sibling that he was departing Malkor’Kurz for his own personal reasons.
Rather than mock him, Weadoo embraced her brother tightly, wishing him well and, taking his rightmost ear close to her mouth, she whispered: I will hold mother at bay until your return, so that you may claim her life as your own.
She then presented him with a heavy hand-made brassard and gauntlet combination wrought from meteoric iron and a strange, contradictory matrix of hate and love, with sections of its outermost form decorated and armored with the bones of their slain foes, while ancient runes of glory and power were engraved within its outer shell.
Ajanok would later learn that the symbols vividly told the story of war and conquest he and his sister wove mutually.
