Warpath

Warpath is a cyborg super-villain and member of the Temeraire Club.

## Biography

Patricia Mosley was once the heroine known as Moonbow, the chosen herald of the goddess Artemis. Wielding an artifact called the Moonstone, she took on the duty of standing guard over her home city of Chicago. In addition to combating crime, Artemis also charged her to watch for signs of the other gods' meddling in the mortal realm. In this capacity she tracked the movements of the Bloodstone, the artifact of Ares' herald, as it moved from host to host. She finally managed to corner the Bloodstone's wielder, but she quickly realized that she was no match for the other herald in open combat. In order to tilt the scales in her favor, she made contact with the Contenders through Cort, quickly recruiting the other heroes to lead a strike on the Bloodstone and end its murder-spree.

In the ensuing battle, Ares' minion was defeated and the Bloodstone recovered, but Moonbow herself was badly injured. With both her arms broken in multiple places, she could no longer draw a bow, and so from her hospital bed she charged Cort to hide and guard the Bloodstone. Unfortunately, it was not long until Perfidy stole the Bloodstone from Cort, thus confirming Moonbow's failure in the eyes of Artemis. The goddess, furious with the Patrica's inadequacy, stripped her of the Moonstone and left her broken and powerless, without offering even a single word of thanks for her years of service.

Patricia was left feeling abandoned not only by her former patron, but her heroic allies as well. With her arms in traction, she had time to think and grow bitter, convinced that she had been treated unfairly and unceremoniously dropped when she was no longer useful as a fighter. When she was at her worst emotional state, she received an unexpected hospital visitor: John Wolf, who wasted no time in recruiting the former hero with promises of swift recovery, the return of her powers, and the ability to decide her own destiny rather than be left to the whims of a temperamental divinity. Patricia accepted, and was immediately whisked away to a private Temeraire Club clinic.

There, Patricia's ruined arms were repaired and enhanced with advanced cybernetics, and she was outfitted with a cutting-edge powered armor suit, built specifically to interface with her new mechanical elements. She was armed with a new bow and, after a period of painful physical therapy and acclimation to her enhancements, she emerged once again as Warpath, the Club's newest super-mercenary.

Since then, Warpath has been working non-stop, already having repaid the Club's investment beyond Wolf's wildest expectations. Other than joining Hegemony in attempting to seal the fate of all the Gods, she hasn't undergone a "personal" mission since her transformation; her bow is available to anyone who can pay, and both heroes and villains have felt her arrows' deadly sting.

## Personality

Warpath was once an austere hero with lofty goals and a desire to purge the world of injustice, but her idealistic nature was warped by feelings of betrayal and abandonment. What she really needed in the hospital was a therapist and a support group, but John Wolf deliberately fed her growing resentment and he succeeded in twisting her into a selfish, bitter soldier of fortune. She now bears little resemblance to the wise and merciful Moonbow.

Warpath doesn't speak often, adopting an aloof attitude and ignoring anything that doesn't directly concern her missions. She fights in deliberately brutal fashion, taking grim satisfaction in the pain she now feels justified in inflicting on others. Even so, she is not a cold-blooded murderess; she prefers to humiliate and cripple an opponent rather than kill them.

## Powers

Warpath is a cybernetically-enhanced archer who augments uncanny skill with high-tech gadgetry. The artificial musculature and titanium ligaments of her arms and back give her the necessary strength to use her new compound bow, which is designed with a staggering 1,000 lbs draw weight (roughly ten times the force of the strongest commercially available bows). Her robotic arms never tire or shake, and she is capable of firing with a speed that rivals an automatic firearm, but she generally prefers accuracy over quantity and her eyes have been outfitted with powerful targeting lenses capable of magnification, night vision, and range-finding that allow her to make the most of each shot.

She wields a variety of arrows. These include blunt tipped arrows (painful but nonlethal), arrows that fragment into clouds of razor-sharp slivers in flight, arrows tipped with flares, adhesives, and even fragmentation grenades. She also has a number of broad-head arrows fitted with Saturnite tips and crafted with tungsten shafts that are capable of piercing even thick armor plating.

Warpath's power armor enables her to leap great distances and cling to walls, allowing her to find elevated positions to snipe at her foes. It also has adaptive camouflage capabilities to render her invisible, and a sonar package that makes her extremely difficult to surprise or outflank.

### Moonbow

As Moonbow, Patricia's powers were quite different in nature as they stemmed from the grace of Artemis, goddess of the Moon and the Hunt. She wielded a bow made of condensed moonlight, and fired beams of light that she could use for effects even more varied than those offered by her current tech. She had the mystical ability to see anything occurring anywhere, provided it occurred under open moonlight, making her adept at spying on super-villains' nocturnal movements.

## Weaknesses

Warpath's primary weakness is her suit's relatively poor armor. Built for agility, her power armor is durable but offers less protection than the bulkier models favored by most supers. She typically relies on extreme range or stealth ambushes to allow her to defeat a target before close-quarters combat becomes an issue.

Although Warpath carries a large quantity of arrows, her ammunition is still limited, and in particular she only has a few "specialty" arrows on her person at any time.