Nathaniel Arkham

Nathaniel Arkham

Full Name: Nathaniel Arkham

Age: 19

Race: Human

Birthplace: D'hennex

Status: Active

Appearance

Nathaniel stands at 5'11", and is of slender build. He regularly keeps in shape, but since his power is psionic he's not built with muscles on top of more muscles. His eyes are of a strange crimson color, and he sports blond hair. Other than that he looks pretty much like a regular dude. But his accent's definitely not Cardinalian zomg.

Powers

Nathan is primarily a weapon master, particularly of the melee kind. No matter the armament, he is proficient and deadly when wielding it. Aside from this, he is known for wielding an infinite number of weapons, drawing them out from his personal vault which he can access at any time through his psionic abilities. On top of this he also smiths custom weapons, further cementing his area of expertise.

Biography

Before the Emerald Dragon united the human lands into one cohesive country named An-Yneaith, humanity in D'hennex was mostly nomadic and barbaric in nature. One such tribe managed to settle down after finding a particularly bountiful land, naming their little swatch of D'hennex Babylon. Their leader was called Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh was a powerful leader, but he was also chauvinistic, overly proud, and very selfish. His people followed him loyally, but at the same time feared that their king might be their downfall. They prayed for a solution and it came, though instead of divine intervention, it simply arrived in the form of one man: Enkidu. Enkidu was a wanderer, a nomadic warrior who went around seeking new challenges and besting them with his superior strength. He had heard of the warrior king Gilgamesh, and travelled to Babylon to make battle with him. The two were locked in furious combat, and in the end ended up knocking each other out of commision. No clear victor was declared after that battle, and it was never told who was the strongest of the two. After that battle, Gilgamesh and Enkidu became friends.

Together, Gilgamesh and Enkidu went on a few adventures. The warrior king and his friend, through their exploits, expanded Babylon's borders somewhat. They overtook a neighboring tribe on their own, for example; they also destroyed a fell beast that was rampaging dangerously close to Gilgamesh's. In the end, Enkidu served to quell Gilgamesh's slightly barbaric rulings so that his people actually prospered under his rule.

As it came to pass, the warrior king was one day approached by a sorceress named Ishtar. Her beauty was legendary, and she was known throughout a sizable portion of the human lands. Not only for her beauty, but her black widow tendencies. Ishtar offers Gilgamesh the opportunity to become her consort, but he refuses, knowing all too well what she was about. The enchantress, enraged, summoned an even more powerful fell beast, sending it after Babylon. Gilgamesh and Enkidu intercepted the beast during the peak of its rampage, and after a long and arduous battle, the monster was slain. Unfortunately for the two comrades, Enkidu had suffered a mortal wound. Soon after he died.

Grieving, Gilgamesh realized that sooner or later he would be met with the same fate. His friend's death had pained him greatly, and so he didn't want to go through a similar fate himself. He set out to find some way with which to halt his own death somehow. To attain immortality. And so the warrior king sought and followed rumors, climbing a chain of mountains in pursuit of a supposed holy woman who lived at the top. Upon arriving at her home, Gilgamesh realized that it was none other than Ishtar herself, who had set a trap for him and succeeded. Rather than killing him, however, the sorceress cursed him and sealed him up on the mountains, assuring Gilgamesh that his foolishness had cost him his friend, his kingdom, and his very life. She'd make certain that Babylon would fall.

Generations pass, bringing us to the present. The curse of Ishtar finally wore off, and the warrior king awoke after many a year of deep slumber. After climbing down from the mountains, Gilgamesh realized that the lands that he knew were gone. An entire kingdom rose and fell, and there weren't even mentions of his beloved and long-lost Babylon. The warrior king learned all he could from this new land, and soon surmised that he could become a great king yet. He need only unite D'hennex's human regions into a unified force to completely stamp out the undead filth that toiled in the southern marshlands. He could do it, as he had been a king once. But first he needed the strength that he had once possessed. With great power Gilgamesh could free his lands from all the strife they found themselves on. Knowing that he would be killed for such notions from the would-be petty rulers of the lands in D'hennex at the moment, he took on a fake name and set out from the continent to seek power elsewhere. He managed to go to Cardinal.