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GENERAL INFO Character Name Elliot Maynard St. Deth Nickname The Warden, St. Deth, Hellwalker Gender Male Age 54 Race Human Sexuality Hetero-Romantic Bi-Sexual ------------ Occupation Wandering Gun For Hire Affiliation The Confederate 33rd Battallion Hellwalker - Formerly ABILITIES POSESSIONS Abilities MARK OF THE HELL HOUND Burned into the left side of his neck Elliot St. Deth bears the ever burning red mark of the Hell Hound. Shaped like a howling wolf or wild dog it always seethes with pain and heat that the Warden has become accustom to. With it he becomes a force of tragedy and mayhem where ever he walks. Seen as a legend of unholy battles past where many still consider him a hero, but steer clear of him knowing what those battles cost him. Elliot is marked for the end of his time. He is ownership of the Master of Murder and Lord of Homicide, Glasya-Labolas. Incite Conflict As the attendant of Glasya-Labolas, Elliot, can mantle all the emotions and desires for murder from men. Those who are even the slightest bit susceptible to sin can feel in a moment a surge of anger and rage that compels bloodshed from them. Those most comfortable with their demons or truly pure can suppress these feelings. For others around the Warden it is impossible to resist his commands for aggression. Even when he is not intentionally expressing this ability, the mark exudes a constant low level aura of tension and frustration causing small arguments and the like in a crowd. Infernal Conditioning No longer a lone soldier on the battlefield he holds the gifts of a demon within his blood granting him enhanced strength approximately 1 ton, speed, stamina, durability, reflexes and health. Measures quicker than most men he can fire and load a revolver in a matter of seconds repetitively going through bandoliers of ammunition in minutes. Naturally heals and is immune to disease as the Mark repels mortal ailments from felling him. To truly stop him either land a shot to the heart or dismember him and scatter the remains. Infernal Transmutation Glasya-Labolas is the Lord of Homicide and has given Elliot St. Deth the means to shape whatever he holds into a deathly tool. Hellfire encases any object he holds augmenting it in any way the Warden can conceive. Soul Burn While many collectors can feed off sin and collect souls for power, a Warden, possesses the ability to instantaneously reap a souls power immediately without ritual. The process however damns the souls to their Demon Lords domain. The power surge from this is so immense it can amplify any existing abilities to unknown degrees, only limited by the amount of souls present. A Warden can even rip the soul from the living extinguishing it upon touch. Aura of Unseeming In the shadows, in the night, amongst crowd you will never know the Warden is there. The Mark of the Hound pushes the attention of mortals away from noticing him unless pointed out or the aura is dropped. Only otherworldly beings or individuals and creatures touched by another world can see past his Aura of Unseeming. Timeless Sight When approaching areas of great conflict or significant events that have happened or are to come the Warden is stricken with vivid and lucid visions that turn his eyes white. Like a psychometric vision objects, scenery, people, and locations can all trigger these visions. Because time often changes many visions are of possible futures. Rarely he will receive visions that are not bound by location, but greater events like war and battle expand his focus. SHAMANISM All Collectors and special agents of the Grand Confederate Army were trained in the way of the natives and Priests of the Church. Mixing elements of theology, animism, and nature spirituality they gave themselves an edge against monstrous and undead. Their power comes from invoking spirits and using their transition to the afterlife as fuel to perform amazing psychic feats. Summoning Spirits and otherworldly beings alike, should the Warden seek them he can perform rituals of summoning and bring them past the mortal threshold. These circles are sealing gates when performed correctly, foul doorways when not. Ghostspeak Mediumship Understanding the language of the ethereal Elliot can speak to and command spirits how he wishes. His shamanism is such that he can strip a spirit of freewill and bind them to compulsion. Sin Eater In irony of a Collector and Wardens purpose, they thrive off of sin and taint that latch to a mortal coil. Consuming sin feeds their power and can be purged from their body by ritual. Those effected by sin eating can have tremendous effects turning homicidal monsters into remorseful pacifists in moment. The more wicked the person, the greater a scar is left on their personality. Sin can consume so much of a person that all that is left is the husk. A sin eater can also sense sin in any direction and to a range dependent on how great it is. Soul Collection A Collector channels their abilities through the possession of souls they reap from the battlefield. When utilizing an ability they must release a soul into the afterlife and use that energy to perform spells, abilities, and other tricks. Telekinesis As a Collector, Elliot, was not a diverse practitioner of his shamanistic gifts. Instead on a basic level he can empower himself to move objects and people in his surroundings with his mind. When he took Glasya-Labolas as his Patron, and become the Warden St. Deth, this ability magnified with it allowing him to grasp, choke, crush, and rend with focus of his hellish mark . WEAKNESSES LIMITATIONS Haunted The Warden doesnt sleep all that well. Because of his Hell-mark Elliot St. Deth has become a hot target for the supernatural who almost all synonymously know who he is. There is no mistaking a Warden. Dead souls seek him out for aid, whilst demons and other beings seek him out to either torture or challenge. Few genuinely seek his help as well. Holy Objects Crosses burn or melt in his hands and brandish him with burn marks. Any object empowered by a positive faith wards and protects as long as one among them possesses a true faith in it. Prayers Equally a nuisance prayers burn his ears and make him sick with discomfort. The belief of the person performing prayer determines the severity of the pain. Given most are not true believers and only use religion as a means to blind their despair, those prayers are only mildly uncomfortable. True Faith One with True Faith has put themselves under the complete trust of a higher power. Rarely shaken with doubt they know for certain that the positive force they have come to worship exists. Beyond that it is unshakeable conviction that their God or gods walk with them in their hardships. This is difficult for a Warden to shake or affect, and are left vulnerable to certain mortals. Notable Skills Languages English, French, Spanish Literacy English, Spanish Skill Gunplay Skill Marksmanship Skill Knife Fighting Skill Hand-to-Hand Combat Skill Ritual Spellwork Skill TortureInterrogation Skill Investigation Knowledge Demonology Knowledge History of the Grand Confederacy Knowledge The Occult Knowledge The Supernatural Knowledge Strategy Tactics of Warfare Survival Hunting Tracking Possessions The Forlorn Heart The faithful six-shooter of Elliot St. Deth, once a traditional Colt Single Action Army, now it is a gold plated and pearl gripped revolver with various occult sigils. A magical revolver tied to the Warden it has endured war and tragedy with him. Possessing the ability to wound both man and supernatural due to the inside and outside of the barrel being etched with small enchanting wards. It is as well one of the quickest firing revolvers to exist. True Shot The arch and nature of the bullets fired from this gun move according to the one firing, something that Elliot St. Deth has mastered. Because of his deep connection with the gun his shots rarely miss because his mind rarely misses the target. Hellbane Forged in the furnace of his hellbound heart the sigils and enchanting wards that mark this beautiful revolver give its ammunition the ability to harm otherworldly creatures and those gifted by them. APPEARANCES Description With brown hair almost dark as pitch Elliot St. Deth has the face of a once handsome and youthful man weathered by stress and conflict. Though physically fit he tends to be lither with a moderate bicep and calves bulge. Standing 511 ft. tall he is a nice average height leaning on the taller side. Eyes are steely grey surrounded by a pool of defined line and crow feet. While his body is wracked with battle scars, suture marks, various tattoos denoting his kill count in service of the Grand Confederate Army wrapped in checked black strokes around his forearms. On his neck is a bright red brand in the shape of a howling wolf or hound. Dressed like a roaming cowboy or gunslinger Elliot appears self-sufficient in his jeans, leathers, short jacket, and hat. Constantly chewing the butt of a cigar or straw of wheat he leaves his revolver openly displayed on his left hip. It is obvious that he has no religious idols or paraphernalia upon his person. Distinctively well put together and distant, St. Deths body language alone usually keeps strangers away and from asking questions. PERSONALITY Description Once a man of dreams and aspiration that illusion was crushed the moment he took to the frontlines of the Northern Wastes at the age of sixteen. Having experienced extreme bloodshed, death, and violent for a large consistent span of time Elliots mind is far from stable. Though quiet and contained his rage is a silent one that burns far beneath the surface. At all times he looks for potential threats and prioritizes his interactions with others in the most direct fashion. He cares little about another persons feelings and often will speak his mind regardless of your opinion. When it comes down to it if you know any of the legends of the Hellwalker you know he embodies violence. He was single-handedly one man who led a battalion through the wastes with a body count that closely eclipsed the primary army. He is a man that does not enjoy a lack of discipline or a sense of common respect. Reinforcing common decency where he sees it lacking, Elliot, is a man who even in the most desperate or depraved moments will fall back upon his civil nature. He is large believer in the enforcement of Order rather than bargaining with it. And even though it is difficult to see it the man holds a sentimental heart. Rarely taking a moment to feed his emotions, he has hard time thinking upon the loves and joys in his life. The memory of his family, friends, and lovers leave festering wounds in his personality. This is one of the few things that shake his wall of apathy. In order to avoid the pain he lets go of all of his hopes and desires, and accept that horrible things will happen without reason. He is weak to the plights of children and damsels but often tries to ignore their pains. In the end excuse his crudeness, impatience, and rough edges. Elliot St. Deth is a damaged man once known as a hero just looking for a reason to go another day. Past his prime he chooses to live until the option no longer presents itself. HISTORY Elliot Deth was second son born to Atticus and Charlotte Deth, and brother Calvin Deth in 1858. We was only a child when the South chose to succeed union. His father was an active Captain in the confederate Army under the service of Robert E. Lee, while his brother was a member of the Cavalry, but by the wars end both Father and Brother held distinguished service. The moment that the Confederacy was to believe to be disbanded a black monolith rose out of the Union Capital of Washington D.C., the army bound together to protect the Southern Borders. The North was quickly overrun by horrors and the undead. Drawing a line at the Tennessee border the military regrouped under General Lees successor General David Buckhannon. Taking in fleeing Union Soldiers, Runaway Slaves, and Union Citizens the General motivated a new Grand Confederate Army to fight back against the dark. Many considered him a crazed man and a maverick for implementing strange experiments in his war with Hell itself. While half of his family were at war young Elliot was married off with the daughter of another homestead, Emily Strange. Only eight both were married letting the families to join their lands and expand their plantations. Unlike many unions this way Elliot and Emily found themselves to be fast friends. But in time that they were both sixteen, Elliot would sign up with the Grand Confederate Army Infantry. Leaving his wife pregnant the youngest son of Atticus Deth went off to war in the northern hell to join his father and brother. And the war was brutally violent unlike anything man had known until that point in history. The slaughter was high with hundreds of men being laid dead by the horrid hellscape and its terrors. But Elliot persevered driven by his desire to reach the frontline to Virginia where his father was leading the siege on the Monolith. But the further North the young Deth moved the darker and more violent the world became. Men would go crazy almost regularly on the frontlines. And Elliot watched many men fall apart and become catatonic, but he saw most of his friends and units perish causing him in the course of two years to move all across the battle front surviving the impossible. In that time he found himself in the company of Malcolm Van Dredd, Liam Gallows, and Jacob Freeman. These four men would survive most of the war becoming half of a seven man group that would completely change the sway of war against the horrors of the Monolith. It was after General Buckhannon met with the last shaman of a native tribe named Wild Moon who taught him the way of the spirits. The General would then train a select group of a hundred and twenty men on the frontlines these methods, forming the first Collector Company this is where the group would be paired with Curtis Hart, William Silver, and Jeremiah Hurts. Their squad would excel at the techniques they learned from the General and his Shaman Native. Using the spirits of the dead they empowered themselves to destroy the Monoliths Horrors. It was magic and the occult, everything the church preached against, but for the men on the frontline who saw death in a thousand forms each with an empty prayer on its breath it was a new world. To fight monsters they became something a little more terrifying. In a single year with these seven men made it to the siege front, now under the command of General Atticus Deth. Elliot saw his father again but as a man changed by war. Emotionally emptied from the death of Calvin during the first siege attempt, he was a steely and remorseless being who threw soldier after soldier at the Monolith to overwhelm and crush it. The Collectors had power that he needed, but it would prove to not be enough. Holding the trench line around the Union Capital, Elliot Deth and his six other companions would break their holy vows as well Wild Moons warnings against the promise of Otherworldly Patrons. Each man summoned a demon in order to mantle its power and enhance their abilities. They found success to come quicker than expected, as each man encountered his opposite To Van Dredd, he was given to Murmur a great Duke and the Soul Bearer. To Silver, he sought after Dantalion a great Duke and the Proselytizer. To Hurts, he was afflicted by Sabnock a Marquis and the Leper. To Gallows, he served Malphas a President and the Raven, To Freeman, he was embraced by Vassago a Prince and the Seeker. To Hart, he welcomed Belial a mighty King and the Chariot. For Elliot Deth he was cursed with a demon so foul. A President of hoards and Lord of Homicide, Glasya-Labolas, the winged hound of hell and the Dragon of Lucifers treasures the Collector, mantled a force of murder and war becoming the Hellwalker. All men swore to keep the truth of their newfound power secret they became revered as the Seven Saints of the Grand Confederacy, but to those on the frontline they were the Wardens and Colonels of their own Batallions under General Atticus Deths command. By the summer of 1880 they would lead the final charge on the Monolith. Facing down an otherworldly patron spilling out of the door way of the Black Monolith they slaughter this would be god. The gigantic corpse of the being remain wedged in the celestial doorway of the Monolith. With the death of the being the army of undead went inert and began to roam purposeless and harmless until absolutely decayed. Creatures and horrors dispersed into the wild no longer bound to fight for the godlike creature. And the Grand Confederate Army was able to pull back and begin the process of rebuilding. Still a large portion of the Northern United States leading into Canada remained infested wastelands. But the military seemed capable of bringing order back by holding ritual monster hunts. However members of the Saints chose to remain in the wastelands fighting an endless war against the horrors Van Dredd, Silver, Hurts, and Hart. The others looked forward to leaving their guns behind. For Elliot Deth, he had a wife and son he has never met to return to with his father. Returning with Atticus in arm the once zealous man had finally been broken down by the war. Elliot as well was not well, being silent and hesitant to react or speak to others. His son was named Isaac and was the most important part of bringing the Warden back from the war. Though he held the mark of a demon and stained his hands in blood and murder, Elliot, could bear this curse and lay his revolver down. For his family he could let it be. But the Warden would only receive four years of peace before the ghosts of war would return to haunt him. During his first winter Atticus went mad in a fever claiming to have sent Calvin to his death, having armed himself and holding his mother, Charlotte, captive under threat, Elliot, put a bullet between his fathers eyes. During the second summer came a famine and with it the winter brought sickness. What started out as strep throat turned into a scarring cough that rendered Isaac a mute and an asthmatic. When spring came in the third year Jacob Freeman came to the Deth Homestead seeking Elliot. Claiming that he was riding with Gallows into the Northern wastes to find the others claiming that Hart sent letter hed found something out there. Refusing his fellow Warden, Elliot St. Deth, was content in leaving the war behind. The summer of 1884 was a blood bath marking the return of the Hellwalker. Next time that Elliot saw Jacob again, he wasnt alive as Hurts tossed the black mans dismembered head upon his porch several months after his visit. He never saw Gallows so did not know his fate, but he also saw the face of Malcolm Van Dredd mounted on a staff. This shook Elliot as he and Malcolm were as brothers, and it saddened him to see the man follow Hart into the waste. Yet it was what great Chariot let his Proselytizer do to his Wife and Son. Silver toyed with boy while Elliot was out of town, putting the images of horrors and put a gun in his hand. Emily, Charlotte, and several servants had died by the time the illusion was let loose. Isaac was only ten years old and broken by the violence he was tricked into committing with his fathers revolver. They held him out in the back of the homestead tied to a noose. Hanging the child the three men and their collectors stood on his lands prepared to wage war. Hart wanted St. Deth, he wanted the Hellwalker, to join him in the wastes where he found the truth and found the power to change the world. But knowing how sentimental Elliot was he needed to test the Wardens willpower to know he could stand among his comrades again. Seemingly Freeman and Van Dredd had failed initiation by refusing it, but what Hart had underestimated was how much his family was responsible for keeping him strong against the curse. Driven to the edge a thirst of vengeance slaked the Wardens throat and his heart twisted shards of spit at Hart and his men. The murderous demon in his ear took a keen notice to this, and gave Elliot all he needed to make his desires a reality. Once the Hellwalker took up pitchfork and lanced it into a hellish javelin through one of their minions a battle was waged. Fifty seven men died that day as the Wardens only drew Elliot to a standstill drunk on bloodshed and demonic power. Each party left wounded fleeing into the wilds. Since that day Elliot St. Deth has been a wandering gun for hire trying to make his way in life. Living to kill he is a roaming dealer of random justice, but what is known is that wherever St. Deth walks trouble follows. Up until 1912 Hart and his men had been running wild in the Northern Wastes at war with General Buckhannon and his men. Looking for a purpose in a desperate world, this is where the story of the Hellwalker truly begins. BEHIND THE SCENES GenreFandom Dark Western Fantasy Eras Alternate post-Civil War History Other Info Notes On The Hellwalker Universe The horrors of the Black Monolith was so devastating it pretty much eclipsed the American Civil War in days. Before the Confederates could disband they became the sole militarized force that could quickly respond to the threat of a supernatural menace. Slavery still exists in this world but at least among the low-class or common folk being Black isnt as despised. At the same time while Freemen from the North and Confederate Army exist there is a casual segregation. The Industrial Revolution is taking a strange turn as well with reliance on Steam and Coal, but Electricity has become common in most large cities. Telegrams and Morse code receivers are still the height of communications. Zeppelins, Blimps, and Air Balloons exist. Magic and the Supernatural are varied and can be tied back to the emergence of the Black Monolith, but has always been a part of this world in some way. Myths and Legends tend to have more truth here than not. Wardens and their Demons St. Elliot Deth - Glasya-Labolas St. Malcolm Van Dredd - Murmur St. William Silver - Dantalion St. Jeremiah Hurts - Sabnock St. Liam Gallows - Malphas St. Jacob Freeman - Vassago St. Curtis Hart - Belial Last edited Dec 4, 2018