"A towering figure clad in blacked steel plate and chain of plain make. Abnormally tall in fact, around 7'2" and of lean build, or as is rumored. The gorget and visored full helm are chained and locked to the breastplate, making it impossible to be separated without tools or key. This man favors a spiked long mace. Keeping a heavy war-axe as a sidearm.

Pompous, sardonic, and grim. Marmot exudes an intriguing yet simultaneously repulsive soul. The imbittered and wizened outlook of a seasoned vagrant in combination with the grace and arrogance of a true blue noble. He is an entity of paradoxes if nothing else. Outwardly furtive and disdainful in nature. He easily shifts between uncouth and refined words. Spontaneous with his wealth the man drifts aloof from violent trade to violent trade, flushing his funds and then spending them just as quickly as he was payed. Yet regardless of his semi-misanthropic attitude, his reputation as a man hunter, mercenary, or killer for hire border on mythology."



Background:
To many, Marmot is a man with no past, no future, and no salvation. Yet all men have an origin. Doubtless once he was of some chivalric order or moreover militant and of inflamed ego. However, such things have faded from his far to ancient and far to deteriorated mind. An effect of advanced aging, living unnaturally beyond his years as well as the inevitable brain damage an existence filled with combat has wrought. Accounts vary as to who exactly the man was, if he has any decedents, or even what his actual name is. Surprise-surprise, people aren't usually named after a large rodent. Likewise his title, "the vigilant" is of recent acquisition. Of what can be definitively trace are loose connections to various mercenary bands or the odd paperwork for bounty hunting contractors.

Afflictions/Mutations:
This biologically immortal creature is a sufferer of a heavily mutated form of vampirism lux-flagellatus. Specifically, the mutant strain fallows the manner of infection and biological alteration but fails in one important manner. Cellular mitosis, or even more specifically the infected host lacks the ability to produce the unique hormone crimosaquinegine (typically produced by those afflicted with vampirism lux-flagellatus when they ingest glucose from a non infected humans' blood.) which is necessary for the infecteds' cellular mitosis. The only solution for the infected is to devour crimosaquinegine from the other infected with a stable strain. This produces a cannibal: a vampire that devours vampires.

Symptoms include:
-Albinism (the loss of pigment in the skin and hair)
-Ocular Albinism (light sensitivity)
-Hypersensitive musculature (acute reflexes and a constant tense state)
-Homeostasis temperature drops to 63.2`F (typical human homeostasis temperature is 98.6`F)
-Increased skeletal density (the marrow becomes more calcified increasing the bones density)
-Engorgement of the amygdala (the portion of the brain responsible for aggression and disagreeableness)
-Increased testosterone production (the chemical that causes muscle growth and affects aggression)
-The separation of mandibles, and the transformation of the tongue into a flexible proboscis (the human jaw, usually consisting of the left and right mandibles, split vertically at the center. Inward jagged barbs that will serve as teeth form from the separated mandibles.)

((Author's note: a *bane* sort of architype I've been dying to try to no avail, as well as a bit of a "I condemn you..." to the mountain of vampiric Mary Sue-likes everyone and their grandmother seem to have.))