Rob Zombie's Beard

"*Yeah, Rob Zombie's Beard. What can I say, I'm a fan. What do you mean who's Rob Zombie? Nevermind, I don't want to know you anymore...*"

— Rob and his musical taste

**Rob Zombie's Beard**, or more simply just Beard, is a player from YGGDRASIL who was Isekied into the new world after the game server's shut down. He currently operates out of his guild Church of Metal alongside it's floor guardians, acting to maintain piece in the surrounding area, albeit with somewhat brutal means. He prefers to act behind the scenes rather than draw attention to himself and his guild, favoring clandestine operations and scouting rather than open confrontation. Despite this he is still a very powerful being, owing to his in-game character build focusing on nullifying incoming damage while putting out hard hitting attacks himself. He does posses a good number of magic abilities, but prefers not to rely on them as, in his words, they feel weird as hell to use.

## Appearance

Being essentially a shadow monster, Rob can take on a multitude of forms. His most common one is of a muscled human with ash black skin and clawed hands. He wears a pair of black army boots with the legs of his dark brown army pants tucked inside, held up by a steal chain around his waist. His keeps his chest bare, and wears a pair of black metal bangles around each wrist, as well as more chain loops. In this form, Beards face is entirely concealed beneath a tattered burlap hood. All that can be seen are a set of silver teeth set into a perpetual grin and a pair of glowing, fiery orange eyes.

In his wraith form, he sinks into a simple black spot on a surface. To those keen enough, the same pair of orange eyes can be seen looking back at them from the shadows. Using his animation ability, Rob is able to possess objects and mold them into his image. These range widely in appliance, depending on what he has possessed, but the one constant as a vague effigy of a hooded figure with a wide grin and glowing orange eyes.

   After he and his guild had been Isekied, Rob instantly recognized his appearance would make it next to imposable to approach denizens of the new world. As such, he had one of guild's floor guardians Synth Timeless craft him an appropriate disguise. This consists of a rather complex design, evoking the image of a frontiersmen, trader, and mercenary all at once. It is made up of a pair of black pants and brown leather boots, and an layered overcoat of eastern design. He adorns this with armored waistband, tied off with a read sash and golden buckle, and a red cloak beneath. He wears an animal pelt as a lopsided cape, barely reaching the elbow of his right arm but hanging almost down to his mid thigh on the left. He wears a studded leathers shoulder pad on his left arm, with metal braces protecting his neck, and carries a pair of swords on his back just in case he should need to fight and not reveal his true appearance. In that vain, the hood he wears is enchanted to conceal his face from any angle, no matter the lighting. To all onlookers, he will appear as a man in his late twenties with a thin beard, pale skin, and a perpetual shadow hiding his eyes.

## Personality

Despite his frightening appearance, many consider Beard to be a fairly easygoing guy. He prefers to play the silent observer when in a group, absorbing as much information as he can before giving his input. Likewise, he rarely if ever takes the lead in raids, instead preferring to operate as a scout or as a free agent. Given his abilities allow him to fulfil either roll extremely well, and he enjoyed it so Rob never felt the kneed to break from the norm.

Since being transported to the new world, he has been largely flying by the seat of his pants. Not knowing what a majority of the new world holds for him, he is very cautious to explore, only making small ventures with himself and one other NCP at a time and rarely making contacts. Largely though, he has acted as a peacekeeper in the area around his guild, knowing that a conflict could very easily rope him and his companions into a battle on a moment's notice. He prefers to do this from behind the scenes though, doing everything he can to actively avoid drawing attention to himself. As such he takes on the role of a simple traveling merchant on his ventures, going simply by Rob.