Slayer

Name: Peaten al’Kar
Age: born 954
Nationality: Malkier 
WS: 15
Hair: black
Eyes: ice blue
Skin: light
Height: 6′7″
Voice: low and deep
Talent related: Ability to walk the dream
Other: In life, Peaten was forced to wear a black mask
to cover a burnt face, which he still chose to don
even in Tel’aran’rhoid. Peaten is tall and extremely
strong.
Skills: As a mortal assassin, Peaten was skilled in
all manner of weaponry, but his choice weapon was the
ashanderei, a rare weapon which caught many foes off
guard. He was trained for survival in all
environments, and has basic understanding of the
common languages of the world, including the Trolloc
dialects. He also knew how to travel the ways. Upon
his rebirth as Slayer, he was able to travel the World
of Dreams, both in the dream and in the flesh.
Physical Weakness: for his rebirth, he is ever under
the will of the Great Lord of the Dark.
Personality
Peaten al’Kar is a ruthless and efficient killer. In
his youth, he was ever ambitious and very dominant. He
had his way with women, whether they wished it or not.
As a young assassin he would at times go off of his
mission and kill out of spite, and sometimes for
pleasure. As he got older, his bloodlust grew, and
there was no longer spite, only pleasure. In
Tel’aran’rhoid, he is feared by both wolves and
humans, either of which he will kill on site. Even Aes
Sedai are not immune to his terror, though they are
approached with much more caution. He is so confident
in his abilities, even the Chosen view him as being
arrogant, seeing his fearlessness of them as an insult
to the mighty. He is, however completely obedient to
the Great Lord of the Dark, and so his Chosen as well.
History
Peaten was born in 954 into the royal house of
Malkier, to the King’s brother. After the fall of
Malkier in 955, his mother fled with her five children
into Andor. They settled on a farm in the Braem Wood,
where Peaten first learned to stalk and hunt. He grew
fast and grew strong, and by the time he was only 10,
he was one of the most successful pickpockets in
Caemlyn, often bullying the other urchins into giving
him some or all of there bounty.
He had long known about Malkier and his royal
heritage. When he was 14, he left his family to go
north. He didn’t know what drove him, but he wanted to
see Malkier. It was when he was starving and half dead
in the Blight that he was found by an Assassin named
Memnoch, who adopted him and took him as his
apprentice. He grew up most of the rest of his youth
in the Blight, at the Tower of the Black Dawn,
learning to become a weapon of the Shadow. Trollocs
soon began to revere him, as he spent much time in
their camps. Some men even had the notion he was half
Trolloc, due to his great size and their seeming
acceptance of him… or at least that he was raised by
them.
Myrddraal, however, grew to see him as a threat. As
part of his self training after his Master was killed,
he would wrestle with Trollocs and spar with Fades.
However strong Peaten was, it was rare he won a
wrestling match with a fully grown Trolloc. His
sparing matches were different though. He could defeat
most Myrddraal with his ashanderei, a sword, sometimes
dual blades, or any number of weapons. He was a
blademaster of the highest caliber by the end of his
days, and the Myrddraal hated him for it. What they
hated most though was the lack of effect their gaze
had on him, and the fact that in the deepest reached
of their minds, they too had a fear of Peaten, if not
the trembling fear they had for the Chosen.
His esteem became high in the eyes of his Masters, and
soon became Master of the Order of Shar Mahdi, the
Blood Seekers. His services were reserved for only the
highest ranking Friends of the Dark and Dreadlords,
and the Chosen once they were free. It was on one of
these high profile missions that his fate changed. He
was hired to kill a Warder, highly regarded as one of
(if not the) greatest swordsmen in the world, Ben
Gaidin. Fear had been washed from him long ago, and
pride took over. It was accepted widely that he was
the alpha warrior in all of the Shadow, and he
couldn’t resist the chance to prove he was the best in
the world. Instead of coming in the night, as was
normal for an assassin, armed with his ashanderei
forged in thakan’dar, Peaten challenged him to a dual
in full daylight. Though it was a dual for the ages,
with neither man easily scored upon, and both gaining
high respect for the other. As in all battles, though,
there was a winner and a loser. Peaten was the latter.
His deadly poisoned blade never scored (though he had
managed to hit the man in other ways), and Ben’s blade
scoring fully only once, stabbing Peaten through the
stomach. There Peaten died, a memory he would never
forget.
He was reborn into the World of Dreams. The Chosen
Demandred taught him what he needed to know about the
place, and how to enter and exit it. Once he was able
to again enter the Living World in the flesh, he was
summoned to Shayol Ghul itself. There, the Great Lord
of the Dark spoke to him, and told him of his true
purpose. Peaten al’Kar was transformed into Slayer, a
man of Dark Prophesy, no longer a mere Friend of the
Dark, if indeed he had ever been.
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