Khaizon Lacunar, Hierophant of Anubis

**Khaizon Lacunar, Hierophant of Anubis**

When the Gate of Tartarus was opened by the hubris of the Circle Trinity it released a wave of negative, necrotic energies that poisoned the ley line of power running through the area, creating the Deadway. But among the strange effects, this power seeped into an ancient coffin held in the Haffington Estate Museum, awakening a long dead warrior from ancient Egypt, one dedicated to the cult of Anubis.

**Appearance**

Khaizon is indeed a skeleton, but he hides that fact beneath salvaged clothing and his golden, Anubis death mask. When travelling beyond the Deadway he will replace this ostentatious mask with something more subdued. Most recently he has been seen wearing a black visor bike helmet, leather jacket with gloves, over heavy jeans and boots. When fulfilling his role as guide to the dead within the Deadway, however, he appears in his gold and turquois blue collar, copper plate armor with golden runes, Anubis death mask, and wielding his duel khopesh.

**Powers**

* Close Combat Specialist: Khaizon is a master of combat with his khopesh, spear and shield, as well as unarmed combat. His ancient style enhanced by the superior speed and strength granted by his animation. The lack of flesh on his bones also makes him dexterous in surprising ways.
* Undead Traits: Due to his animation as a skeleton, Khaizon is able to see in complete darkness, has strength comparable to above peak human levels, and never tires. Nor does he need for sleep, food, water, or even air. He is immune to poisons and diseases of all manners. Mundane weapons cannot destroy Khaizon, or kill him permanently unless his canopic jars are destroyed first.
* Enchanted Equipment:
	1. Dual Khopesh: Bronze weapons enchanted by Anubis, they are particularly disruptive to the undead, able to leach their energy. The weapons are unbreakable by normal means, and can cut through steel. Easily enough to wound a platemailed knight, but carving a bank door or tank would take significant time.
	2. Flying Spear: As sharp and unbreakable as the khopesh, this spear was meant to be used with a shield, or thrown. When Khaizon hurtles his spear it travels with increased speed and accuracy, capable of penetrating into walls to form a solid anchor. With a motion the spear will return to Khaizon.
	3. Hoplite Shield: Made of bronze and ancient, mummified wood, blessed with the mark of Anubis. The shield can deflect most small calibers of civilian and police weapons, though it's true purpose is to protect the user from harmful, direct damage magic.
	4. Armor of Eternity: Khaizons' ornate, bronze armor is made to protect his remains. It has special enchantments against magic and attacks from the undead as well as being as effective as mundane body armor. More importantly, it can contain and protect him from explosions, keeping his bones together.
	5. Helm of Anubis: The Deathmask Khaizon wears protects him from mental influences, as well as protecting the skull that bares the magical incantations of his animation. It also can project an aura of fear. Unfortunately, to blend in outside the Deadway, Khaizon is usually without this piece of his panoply.
* Magic: As a priest of Anubis Khaizon is able to utilize some magical abilities.
	1. Command Undead. Khaizon is able to use the blessing of his god to take control of mindless undead and lesser ghosts. With an effort of will he may be able to influence more intelligent undead, but it becomes a contest of wills, and Khaizon was not trained to command such undead.
	2. Animate Dead: If needed, Khaizon can reanimate a corpse or skeleton to command in a fight. These are temporary animations from Anubis, and cannot spawn more undead.
	3. Bodily Enhancements: Khaizon is able to enhance himself or another, though it takes different spells for each. Increasing strength, speed, or agility. However, prolonged use of this magic on a living person can cause detrimental effects, such a withering of the muscle tissue.
	4. Resurrection: This power can only happen as a true miracle at the very moment of a persons death. Even if successful, this form of divine intervention may come at a cost to Khaizon himself for asking such a thing of his god (DM descretion). This power cannot be used on anyone who has already been dead longer than hour.
* Immortality: As long as Khaizons canopic jars remain in tact and within his sanctuary the warrior will reform in his sarcophagus near them. If they are removed from his sanctuary, however, the destruction of his body will cause his soul to pass forever to Anubis.

**Weaknesses**

* Holy Power: Khaizon is susceptible to the holy powers of others. Even a strong enough belief in a folklore charm against the undead can keep him at bay. For example, he cannot cross a threshold of salt if the one inside is a true believer in that power. Similarly, he cannot enter places that have been consecrated to another god with two exceptions. He can enter any graveyard, cemetery, or other resting place of the dead; and he can be invited into places such as a church by a priest. He cannot enact any form of violence under such an invitation unless it is to protect the life of the one who invited him.
* Canopic Jars: These items form the ritual that maintains Khaizons' existence. If the jars are removed from his sanctuary he becomes weakened and loses his powers, including the enchantments on his panoply. If his head is destroyed in such a state he will be killed permanently. If these jars are broken, Khaizon cannot regenerate his body.
* Necromancy: Despite his particular resurrection, Khaizon is still an undead creature. He is not immune to the powers of Necromancers, or other mind influencing magics, without his Deathmask being worn.
* Runed Ahnk: Attatched to Khaizons' sternum is an ahnk etched with spells of the Anubian cult, and connects him to his canopic jars. If this ahnk is removed or damage, Khaizon's current body will fall lifeless to the ground. As long as his body is not destroyed further, his spirit will continue to inhabit the region, and be forced to wait for the return of the ahnk, or the destruction of the body so he can regenerate a new one.
* Ignorance: Khaizon is a man displaced nearly 5000 years out of time. He understands modern language only through a blessing of Anubis. He can speak it, but he can't read or write it. He has no idea how to use modern fire arms, computers, phones, or drive any form of vehicle. He has also been transported miles and miles from his resting place, having expected to wake in a tomb in the Nile delta, not a far away land he has never heard of.