Player: Paul
Character Name: Zabel D'Arkannon
Alias/Nickname: N/A
Race: Misbegotten
Age/Date of Birth: 22 /
Apparent Age: N/A
Sex: Male
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 190lbs
Hair Color/Style: Black hair, shoulder-length and straight usually tied back in a pony tail. There is a golden yellow streak through his bangs.
Eyes: Yellow with a reddish tinge around the iris. The orbit is also dark and sunken, as if he was sickly in appearance.
Marks/Scars/Tattoos: Zabel has a long, jagged scar extending from his lower jaw to just under his left eye. He also has some fresher signifcant scars on his forearms and shoulders.
Physical Appearance: Zabel is tall and fairly lean, with a well muscled body revealing years of physical training. His skin has a sickly yellow cast to it He has a serious look, with his lips turned to a nearly perpetual frown. His finger and toenails are darkened as well to the point of looking heavily bruised. His eyes tend to be focused and appear as if he is suspicious of everyone. He would be fairly good-looking, however his discoloration leaves him somewhat less than the standard for attractiveness.
Occupation/Class: Monk - Demon Hunter
Magic/Magite: Dark
Carried Possessions: Zabel doesn't really own anything, but does have a leather belt from the monastery he trained at that has a dark magite stone fastened to the belt buckle. He also has a leather pouch that carries coins attached to the side of the belt.
Clothing and Armor: Zabel wears a loose fitting sleeveless black wool tunic, his belt, and brown soft leather pants. His boots are also leather, but black and lightweight. He wears leather braces with a steel overlay on the top of the bracer that extends to cover his knuckles with steel studs. He usually wears a dark brown wool cloak with a hood over everything during the day as his sickly appearance generally makes others nervous or suspicious of him.
Weapons: Generally doesn't use weapons, but carries an oak bo staff with him.
Likes: Night time, quiet places, being alone, meditating, a good old fashioned sparring match, being intimidating, training, milk, he doesn't completely dislike children, and has great affection for Tindle (though he feels this is a lost cause).
Dislikes: Other demon hunters, talkative people, day time, Forsaken (especially his father), necromancers, elsyven, drunk humans, unfaithful husbands, deep water (Zabel cannot swim), sheep (he doesn't really know why), spicy food, men/women/ambiguous with green and/or pink hair, bells, paintings, jesters (more of a clown fear really), noblemen, noblewomen, commoners, bandits, orcs, and demons in general.
Merits: Strong and agile, able combatant, skilled in martial arts, capable dark magic user, quick learner, observant, limited dark vision.
Flaws: Unfriendly to most people, suspicious, suprisingly emotional for a monk, tends to be unfriendly, prone to rash action, tactless, lack of knowledge of normal social etiquette and interactions, anti-social, has poor faith in his own belief system.
Worst Fear: His father and anything involving his father. Particularly becoming like his father Having already faced that fear once, it didn't go over well and Zabel isn't keen on it happening again.
Personality: Zabel is not the most friendly individual in the world. He is a very serious and somewhat bitter person who is easily annoyed at joviality and mirth, as he has a pessimistic approach to life. He is fully capable of restraint and adopted zen-like behavior, but can be unpredictable in the way he suddenly switches into an emotional, rage-fueled state. He prefers combat to talking, and takes pleasure in giving somebody a sound thrashing though he would never admit it. He enjoys bullying his opponents and frightening them with combat techniques laced with dark magic, and believes that fear is an excellent way to disarm and defeat your opponent. While he prefers to be a loner, he does somewhat have a fear of being completely alone as he is concerned of facing his father alone and will tend to keep company around people for the sole reason of personal safety.
History: Zabel's father was a powerful Forsaken necromancer named Khahadi who was intending to perform a dark ritual in order to gain power from the Dark Lord. His father raided a human village and kidnapped three recently married women in order to sacrifice them, but the ritual required that they be pregnant. Two of the women were already pregnant as Khahadi had hoped, but the third named Jamanya was not. Khahadi raped her repeatedly in order to impregnate her, but before he could confirm it and begin the ritual a small band of crusaders attacked in order to defeat Khahadi and rescue the women. They succeeded in driving him away, and rescued the women.
After Zabel was born, his mother's husband left her because she refused to abandoned what he referred to as "a demonspawn", and Jamanya was left to raise Zabel alone. While growing up she constantly had to hide him and protect him from villagers since Zabel's skin tone and features left little doubt in people's mind that he was the child of the evil necromancer who had attacked them years ago. At the age of eleven, three drunk humans raided his home and his mother was struck in the temple with a thrown stone that killed her. The dark heritage in Zabel rose, and he killed all three humans with a pitchfork before running away never to return.
He eventually came to a monastery where he begged for asylum from his crime. The master monk took pity on him, and trained him for over a decade in the ways of a warrior monk. Zabel quickly learned and became one of the fiercest fighters the monastery had ever produced, but upon turning 22 the master monk told him that due to Zabel's dark side and violent nature he would never achieve inner peace. They parted in good company as the master gave him his blessing to fight evil along the countryside as a warrior monk. The day Zabel left, his master presented him with a quarterstaff partially made from the bloody pitchfork he had still been holding when he first arrived at the monastery.
After leaving, Zabel met up with an adventurer party that included Tindle Van'Mora. After aiding them in a fight against some townspeople, Zabel decided to accompany the group on their journey to Estessavale, with a strange desire for Tindle being a primary reason. The group was targeted by Palenom Xirran, the chancellor of Estessavale, and they soon found themselves fleeing the city.
When they finally came to a halt at an orphanage, Tindle was abducted by mercenaries working for Khahadi. This lead Zabel and the rest of the group (including Darie, Yadira, and Barell) to attempt a rescue at a nearby necropolis built into a mountainside. Zabel nearly had his mind possessed by Khahadi during the rescue which led him to nearly rape and murder Tindle, but he resisted enough to allow Tindle a chance to escape. Khahadi was far too powerful for either of them to defeat, but the timely arrival of Xeno and Rhyn saved them both from falling to the magically mutated Forsaken.
The event played hard on Zabel's conscience, and he had difficulty coming to grips with the events that had occured. The traumatic experience also left a wedge between himself and Tindle. Though considering training to improve his abilities with Rhyn, Zabel left the group when a messenger came saying his home monastery was in trouble.