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Name: Bryan "Scalphunter" Hudson
Sex: Male
Age: 53, although he considers himself 51
Nationality: Wastelander

Appearance:

Hudson stands at five foot eleven, a fairly lean fellow with a body is pitted with scars and bullet wounds - some ritual, some consequential. He wears a necklace of shark-teeth and animal bones with a single totem to Snake-Eyes underneath his scarf. He wears sun-baked leather boots that should probably have fallen apart by now, but simply refuse to do so. He normally wears the apparel seen in the picture, with a big leather rucksack and a coat of sewn together furs. He also keeps his scalps in there. It does not smell great, that rucksack.

Personality:
Bryan is, above all, a cautious man. He has little-to-no patience for those who go in gung-ho, guns blazing and not much respect for codes of honour or ideals of heroism that promote such behaviour. The more cunning a person, the more likely he is to like or respect them. Trust is something he neither holds nor expects from others, and considers it a quaint notion. He is a hard man without compassion, having had it worn out of him by his path in life. The honour code he holds himself to is unorthodox at the least - once he has taken his due to his god, he touches the corpse no more; he always completes the job, unless given a better price; and he gives mercy to the dying.
He has also had something of a crisis of conscience as of late. As a man gets older, he looks back upon his deeds, and his retrospection has troubled him deeply.

Background:
"Take from the body that which is your signature, your right. Leave the rest for our Father, it is his due."

-To dismiss the Scions of Carcaras as a run-of-the-mill death-cult or group of contract killers would probably be a gross simplification. They are devoted to the lesser god Carcaras, the Shark of the Cards, who is the god of murder, of mercy and of killers, a subordinate of Snake-Eyes and is often depicted as a psychopomp. Wanderers of the wastes, the Scions take in foundlings, strays and other unwanted children to raise them into the cult in safehouses scattered around. Each child is taught how to act, how to read the stars, how to free-run, how to survive in the wastes and how to kill. At the 13th anniversary of their induction into the cult, they are sent out to kill the first adult they meet. The first of their victim's body parts that the cultist damages must be ritually removed from the corpse, and from all of their other kills. One year later, they must travel to a body of water and kill themselves a shark, to show that they are a true child of the Shark of the Cards. The Scions of Carcaras intentionally inflate the rumours about them: that they can track a man by the smell of his blood, that they do not need to eat, that they can swim through the sand. These aren't true, of course, but a scared target is an easy target, and it also allows them to charge outrageous bills for individual hits.

-Bryan Hudson was a whore-child, taken at age two from a brothel. His first kill was a trader wandering the wastes; he tricked the man into believing he was a lost child and as the trader took him on [camel or other domestic animal of similar nature]back towards civilisation, he jumped on the man and stabbed him to death. The first wound he inflicted was on the man's scalp, and thus he became Scalphunter. The teeth he wears on his neck were torn from the mouth of a young bull shark he managed to trick into lunging onto a riverbank. His necklace used to have a scrap of sharkskin on it from a failed attempt to scalp the shark, but it eventually rotted and fell off.

-That was 38 years ago, and Bryan has since become one of the more prolific members of the cult. He is somewhat looked down upon by other Scions as he refuses to perform in a more traditional manner by retiring in his old age to pass on his wisdom to trainees. He also is known for being comparatively cheap, another factor that has driven a wedge between him and his fellows. He has killed many men and women, some monstrous, some virtuous, some rolling neither high nor low in terms of morality. This didn't used to bother him, but recent changes have driven him to try to repent for some of the things he has done - and now he has committed the second greatest sin of all in the eyes of the Scions: He has taken on a job with both an indefinite ending and no deposit.

Gear:
-Three tomahawks: One Akarian make, all alloys and mechanical designed, two standard wood and steel.
-One scalping knife, not used for anything else as that would be heretical.
-One regular buck-knife, not used for scalping unless really necessary.
-One lever-action rifle and ammunition, mostly used for hunting game
-Survival gear such as canteen, salt, sleeping roll, tinderbox.
-A set of heavy rings on his right hand that serve to add some extra punch to his right hook.
-Sharktooth and Snake-Eye symbol necklace that identifies him as a Scion.

Skills:
-Skilled tracker and star-reader.
-Passable actor
-Good survivalist, more than willing to perform more unseemly actions in name of living another day.
-Good shot with the lever-action, though less so in the heat of battle
-Exceptionally good at sneaking around and freerunning - though the latter is more 'in theory' nowadays than in practice.
-Damn good close combatant and a dab hand at throwing tomahawks.

Well, that's Bryan. Is the whole Scions of Carcaras okay? They're kind of somewhere between Sorrowful Men and Anton Chigurh sort-of-thing. Might make for a good tertiary antagonist.

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