Claw

Claw

Killer
Cleaver of Flesh from Flesh and Man from Life
Sirrug's Broken Toy Soldier
Herald of Kālasūtra
Discord	Sleevey
Reddit	Iamwalrustastic
Wiki User	WikiUserName
Metatype	Human (Metavariant)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
Folder	[Drive URL Link]
Priority	Metatype - E Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - B Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	1
# Optional Drake powers available	Major Powers:0 or Minor Powers:0

Character Information

Summary

A drake of Sirrug the Destroyer. A killer and a weapon from birth. Despite prodigal magical might, she has been nothing but a failure. The speed and prowess of an adept and the ability to bind spirits into flesh and bone are meaningless before draconic strength. Ragged and scarred, Claw carries on.

Goals

Face Guillotine once more. Win.

Grow strong enough to cast off the shackles of her draconic fate. Perfect the killing art. Climb by cutting.

Turn the great wheel. By any means necessary.

Background

CW: Child Abuse, Child Soldiers, Violence, Death, Psychological Manipulation

The sniveling little thing that would one day become the sniveling large thing known as Claw had no past and has no future. Both were taken from her by fate. By her very nature.

While some of those drakes that inherit the sleeping power of their ancestors are able to live many long years, undetected and unknown to their masters, the thing that would be known as Claw was not so lucky. Her ancestor was Sirrug the Destroyer and he intended to go to war.

The child was pulled from whatever home she has since forgotten, away from the faces of her mother and father and siblings which have also been forgotten, and thrown in a cave with others. She remembers the cave. There were others. Ragged children, thrown into a pit where they would forget their homes and the faces of their mothers and fathers and siblings. Where they would emerge as soldiers for the coming war. That sniveling thing that would become known as Claw did not know the stories of the other children. Whether they, like her, bore draconic lineage or whether this was simply how the destroyer made his soldiers. How he wiped them clean so that they might become filled with death. She did not care. She could not care. Bread was hurled into the dirty crowd twice a day and she had to rip and maim and strike and hurt if she was to become fed. That was where she was grown, how she spent her childhood. Her fingernails grew filthy with dirt and skin. They drank of the cave condesation. They numbers thinned and the stone walls did not allow for burial. That was where she was grown.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Broken Prodigy (Exceptional Attribute: Magic, Focused Concentation): Claw is overflowing with magical strength. Her power is a hurricane with winds fast enough to cut. However, she falls behind initiated mages and the truly exceptional because of this. Because of her talent, she never learned technique, never truly honed it. It is only after she was burned and cut and broken, after losing her sword arm, that she becomes humble enough to learn.

Hell Scream (Mentor Spirit, Mentor's Mask): Claw's totem is the realm of Kālasūtra, the 'hell of black thread'. She sees these black lines drawn across all living beings that cross her path, for we are all sinners and Yama misses nothing. When her mentor's mask takes form, these black lines become visible to others too, originating from within Claw's shadow. They feel the sensation of being cut along these lines, of a blade passing through skin and muscle and bone ... as well as notice a terrible, killing intent from Claw herself. Blood wets the wheel.

Sword Law (Shoot First Don't Ask): "Existence and the act of combat are absolutely no different, and the essence of both, the purity of both, is a singular action, which is Cutting Down Your Opponent. You must resolve to train this action. You must become this action. Truly, there is very little else that will serve you as well in this entire cursed world." - Meti

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