Tom

"While there's blood in my veins..." - Tom's Catchphrase

Tom is the main protagonist of the Beast Quest series, and the current Master of the Beasts. He is the son of the late Taladon the Swift and Gwildor's Mistress of the Beasts, Freya, as well as the descendant of the first Master of the Beasts, Tanner. He lives in the village of Errinel. Tom is 12 years old, and travels alongside his best friend and faithful companion Elenna, and his trusted horse Storm.

## Appearance

Tom is a young boy with short brown hair, with a blue top with light brown sleeves and dark brown trousers, accompanied with blue boots. As of Series 3, Tom also wears a brown belt with six magical jewels attached to them, which give him special powers. Tom also wears a brown wooden shield on his back, with six tokens embedded onto the surface, given to him by the six Good Beasts of Avantia. He is also equipped with a typical sword, with a brown handle and silver blade.

## History

### The Beast Quests

Tom started off a young boy living with his aunt and uncle in the village of Errinel, acting out fake battles with a fake sword and dreaming of becoming a knight of Avantia, like his father Taladon. Luck seemed to be on Tom's side that day when Avantia's king Hugo, and wizard Aduro, enlisted Tom to embark on a Beast Quest and free the fire dragon, Ferno, from a curse placed on him by evil wizard Malvel. Along the way, Tom saves a young girl named Elenna, and her pet wolf Silver, from some of King Hugo's knights, and he befriends her, a friendship that would endure for a long time.

Tom would go on to complete the Quest he was given, and freed not only Ferno, but the other Good Beasts of Avantia as well. He also did battle with Malvel within Stonewin Volcano and temporarily put an end to his evil.

Throughout the Beast Quest series, Tom would go on to embark on various Beast Quests, alongside Elenna, taking the duo across many lands. He would go to Malvel's kingdom of Gorgonia, Avantia's twin kingdom of Gwildor, the distant lands of Kayonia, Seraph and Tangala, the pirate kingdom of Makai, and even the parallel universe of Tavania.

Along these Beast Quests, Tom finds himself key allies that help him out on certain quests. His most common allies are his friend Elenna, his steed Storm, and Elenna's wolf Silver, as well as Avantia's King Hugo and wizard Aduro. Other allies range from Aduro's apprentices Marc and Daltec, Malvel's former apprentice and Tom's former enemy Petra, Gorgonian rebel Odora and Tom's father Taladon, to name a few. He is also able to count on Avantia's Good Beasts for support, those being Ferno the Fire Dragon, Sepron the Sea Serpent, Arcta the Mountain Giant, Tagus the Horse Man, Nanook the Snow Monster, Epos the Flame Bird, and twin dragons Vedra and Krimon.

However, with a multitude of allies comes a multitude of enemies as well. His first enemy was the dark wizard Malvel, former protege to Aduro. Soon, however, more threats became known to Tom. These ranged from Velmal, another evil wizard, Sanpao, Makai's Pirate King, the sorceress Kensa, the corrupt Circle of Wizards led by Jezrin, Jezrin's apprentice Berric, and Sanpao and Kensa's daughter Ria.

### Training New Heroes

Sometime after finally bringing an end to Malvel's evil in Avantia, Tom decided to start up the Knight's Academy in order to train young people to become heroes of Avantia, teaching them important skills such as sword-fighting and fishing. However, during a training session, a student named Maximus stole the gauntlets of the Golden Armour, and revealed to Tom that he was the son of Malvel, and that he sought revenge for his father's death. He placed an enchantment on one of the Gauntlets, preventing Tom from being able to use it.

On three different occasions, the gauntlet would select one of Tom's students to be its wearer, and that wearer would be sent on a Quest by Tom, to tame one of the Good Beasts of Avantia and stop whatever Beast that Maximus had taken control of through the power of his gauntlet.

Sam, Evan and Will are the three students selected by the gauntlet to save Avantia from Maximus' evil.

### Becoming a Beast

During Tom's most recent Beast Quest, his enemy Ria placed a curse on Tom's Golden Armor, making him forget who he was and placing him under her control. This left Elenna and Daltec to try and bring him back to good. While under Ria's control, Tom was tasked with defeating three Beasts and bringing their collected tokens to his new mistress. These Beasts were Electro, Fluger, and Morax.

Ria revealed to Tom that these three Beasts were, in fact, the separated embodiments of a mighty Beast named Krokol, who had been split into the three smaller Beasts by Tom's ancestor and first Master of the Beasts, Tanner. Ria's plan was to resurrect Krokol and use him to destroy Avantia as revenge for her previous defeat. Using Tom as a vessel, Ria was able to bring back Krokol.

When Elenna and Daltec finally found Tom, he was under the process of transforming into Krokol, and began to engage his former friends once his transformation was complete. Ria struck up an uneasy alliance with Krokol, who secretly planned to kill her once he had taken his long-overdue revenge against Tanner by destroying the kingdom he sought to protect.

After an intense battle, Elenna and Daltec were able to bring down Krokol, though were fearful that they had also killed Tom. As a disembodied spirit, Tom fought his own battle with Krokol, with the assistance of Tanner's spirit as well. Tom was able to overcome Krokol and return to his own body, and also gained the ability to call upon the spirits of his ancestors for help, just as he can call the Good Beasts of Avantia.

## Powers and Abilities

Super human physical strength able to lift human sized boulders and able to easily toss multiple fully grown men around. An even able to tackle and wrestle with Beasts.

Super human durability able to get thrown through brick and metal walls and have multiple bones broken and keep fighting.

Also Tom heals faster than a normal Avantian.

Can also call upon the good Beasts of Avantia for aid in battle.

Super Enhanced senses.

Tom has many tokens that grant various abilities,some of the main notable tokens grant strength,durability and speed increase as well as tokens that enhance all Tom's senes and other tokes that heal wounds,broken bones,tokens that cast explosive attacks and tokens that grant Tom resistance to fire,water,ice,electricity and poison.

Tom is the strongest Master of the Beasts and the most skilled sword fighter in Beast Quest.

Tom Carrie's his sword given to him from Aduro and is likely one of the strongest and sharpest weapons ever crafted in Beast Quest.Tom also carries his shield,also given by Aduro which is made from the Tree of Being,its wood is most likely stronger than any alloy. [which explains a lot]