Xander

"When peace turns to war, right and wrong are replaced by success and failure as morality steps aside for survival"

## Physical Information

### **History**

Born to a Tiefling tribe living within a system of caves at the midway point of the savage peaks in Tian Xia, Xander showed incredible promise as a warrior from a young age, his fighting prowess easily surpassing his peers, this lead to him receiving privileged treatment within his tribe, even being allowed to stray far from the borders of his home for days at a time, which he did frequently to satiate his intense curiosity in regards to the wider world.

As he grew older, Xander began to stray even further, going as far as to visit a number of nearby towns and cities in disguise, this taught him the true scale of the world, something that none of the other members of his xenophobic tribe understood, it was this difference in perspective that caused the young man to clash with his tribe as their raiding bands became more aggressive, beginning to catch the attention of the larger cities.

With war looming on the horizon, both figuratively and literally, Xander attempted to convince his kinsmen to back down from further provoking the surrounding cities, citing the extreme complexity and size of their fighting forces, to the tribe who had only experienced the scale of other tribes, bandit camps, merchant caravans, and small villages, the words of the young Oni-Spawn were little more than fanciful tales, which were promptly ignored.

Frustrated with his elders, Xander turned to the gods, both the tribes, and those her learned of from his time in the cities, pleading with them to make his elders see reason between attempts to convince them, but his tribe did not budge, believing that they could overcome any obstacle in their path.

With his prayers seemingly ignored, Xander took it upon himself to resolve the issue the only way he could, intercepting the most recent raiding band at the tribes' border, when a search party was sent out to find them, Xander destroyed them as well, resting his wounds before moving on the the rest of his tribe, his blood boiling, the anger directed not just at the elders who refused to listen, but also at himself, for having to take such drastic measures.

It took two days, and in the end, Xander wiped out his entire tribe down to the last man, woman, and child, bringing himself to the brink of death in the process, the reason he gave to his former friends and family was simple. "If you continue down this path, you will not be killed, you will simply be decimated and enslaved, our culture torn apart and trampled on, so I do this to save you from that fate, so that our culture shall remain intact, this is a mercy killing."

A few years passed, and Xander was now a member of a moderately strong crew of pirates operating in The Shackles, through his strength and measured approach to engagements, he quickly garnered a fearsome reputation, a reputation backed by a number of feats including, but not limited to, Throwing people so hard that their bodies damage their ship as much as a shot from a cannon, being struck down the throat by lightning, only to compliment the taste and demand seconds, and swimming up a waterfall with four barrels of explosives strapped to his back.

Over time and battle, a fair few crew members lost their lives, including his original captain, leading to the crew electing him to fill the position, from that point on, he would build the crew into what would be known as 'The Crimson Fingers', catching the eye of the pirate lords of the shackles, whom eventually contacted Xander, negotiating the terms for him and his crew to serve as one of the vanguards of the pirate forces of The Shackles.

This was not to last however, as one day, his crew conducted a failed raid on a ship that harbored a coven of necromancers who sent him to a strange demiplane designed to draw out the dormant potential of various Tieflings and their bloodlines.

Xander spent 15 years within that nightmarish demiplane, buffeted by constant acid rain at frigid temperatures and spending his days fighting and eating the other Tieflings there, as they were the only food source available.

Being reborn from one of the many walls within the city inside the demiplane each time he died, his mind slowly warped, all other emotions giving way to an unending rage as he was killed and remade numerous times, after this process, he was released back into the material plane, where only 6 months had passed, his unending rage since tempered and refined, allowing him enough lucidity to function within society at a reasonable enough level.

At this point, Xander had one goal as he made his way to Absalom, to free the Tieflings from that demiplane, bring them under his command, and thus rebuild his tribe, however, he would first need to rebuild his pirate crew.

### **Personality**

Xander is an incredibly proud and confident individual, but he is also reserved and patient, while many would assume that a man of his size and strength would fight first and ask questions later, he is somewhat the opposite to this, preferring to use great shows of force only when it is needed, such as enticing others to his side, crushing his oppositions' will to resist, or crushing the opposition that does resist.

Due to his past experience, Xander is prone to gaining the service of others through mutually beneficial arrangements, rather than with more heavy-handed methods, and while he does show consideration for the values and well-being of those who work for him, practicality takes priority, and he is not above completely disregarding the values of others if they prove to be a hindrance to him or his goals, for his outlook is as unyielding as his determination to rebuild his lost tribe.

His history before becoming a pirate is unknown for a reason, as Xanders' actions left him with a deep sense of regret, to the point where no matter how much alcohol he has consumed, not a word of it can be pried from him, any attempts to force this information out of him has resulted in episodes of blind rage that have taken three days to clean, and such events are the only exception to his preference to use violence sparingly.

This history, despite being something that Xander regrets, is something that has taught him some valuable lessons that have shaped his personality, primarily, the end of his tribe has made him the type of man who is capable of trusting others, but cannot fully rely on anyone but himself, he still harbors resentment towards the gods, and views their followers with a condescending type of pity, as he believes strongly in the idea that each individual should accomplish their goals by their own merit, and looks down upon those who do so via divine intervention or by having others do it for them.

### **Theme Song:**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuO\_r6Qre9Q