Name: Asterion Kanas
Age: 120 Young for his age, as his race can reach up in the 500’s
Race: Tauraan (Earthlings called them Minotaurs)
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Height: 7’10” (average height)
Abilities: The Tauraan have many different abilities, mainly because they share many of the qualities of a Human, as well as that of a bull. Asterion possesses a Bovine Physiology, which means he has almost extreme durability, endurance, strength, and animalistic senses such as enhanced hearing, a strong bite, and enhanced smell. Because of his powerful hind legs, he is able to jump higher than most species. He also has an exceptional memory.
Skills: Asterion is excellent in hand to hand combat, and at handling weapons, especially large weaponry such as battle axes and giant hammers. Most of the Tauraan race are born to be warriors, so a fighting spirit is basically programmed inside of him, meaning that he lives for combat situations. Now, Asterion is no scholar, but he is mildly intelligent, and is able to remember names, faces, dialects, corridors, maps, you name it, which comes in handy in a few of the games. He survives by picking the strongest, brightest, and best people to make alliances with to advance.
Rank: Class A (If available)
Brief Bio/History (of both your character and race): The Tauraans have lived and thrived on their home planet of Toro for eons, being one of the oldest races in existence. They Tauraans are forged in flames and battle at an early age, for many of the different clans are always in conflict. However, when there is a threat, they know to put aside their petty rivalries for the good of the Tauraan race. Interplanetary travel was conceived later on in their lives, and the first Tauraan to make it into space was a distant relative to Asterion. He crashed landed into a planet called Earth, and was captured and thrown into a labyrinth in Crete, later to be killed by a Human male by the name of Theseus, or so the story goes. No one Tauraan or Human knows what really happened after that Tauraan crash landed. Through further trials and advances, the Tauraan were able to expand their territory and influences into other planets, bashing down all that opposed, and making peace with those who didn’t.
It is safe to say that the phrase “what goes around comes around” applies to the Tauraan perfectly. The first sightings of Ebolorians were on a planet, distant from Toro. The small force that attacked them was eradicated with only slight difficulty, but then, more and more came. It was like a plague, spreading from planet to planet, consuming everything for their own and leaving no prisoners, except for those that were sent to the games.
Once they arrived at Toro, the Tauraan were ready for war. Led by the Great General Kanas, and his son Asterion, the Tauraan held off the swarm for as long as they good. Days turned into weeks; weeks turned to months; months turned to years. For 30 years the Tuaraan successfully fought off the Ebolorian swarm, until one day, they were overrun. The king of Toro surrendered, making a treaty with the victor; the Ebolorians would leave the Tauraan in peace, so long as they gave up the best fighters; Asterion was one of those.
The games weren’t too difficult for Asterion, seeing as how most of the contenders weren’t even true warriors. Those were the ones he was able to cut down the easiest. He knew the consequences of losing, and wasn’t planning on doing so. He was promised riches and freedom if he remained victorious for a period of time, but as the years passed, it was clear to him that he wasn’t going anywhere.
Affiliation (if any): Being a fighter for years, the people watching the games have come to see Asterion as one of the major start of the competition, others see him as sort of a hero figure, one to look up to. The Tauraan root and rally behind him fully, seeing as how he is the only surviving Tuaraan left in the games. He has had many chances to become Cass S, but is too vocal and outspoken to be kept quiet.