Iulius

Iulius was a senatorial enforcer working in Mano before he was sold out to Division S.

## Biography

Iulius was born in Mano into a poor family. He ran away from home in his early teens and got a job working as an enforcer for one of the senators. While doing his enforcer work, he developed his glaive technique into what he considered an artform, and eventually decided that if he was able to produce such art, he himself should also become a work of art. He started spending his wages on lessons to become a physician, and once he got his qualification, started altering his own appearance using pieces of those he killed, much to the disgust of his employer.

When the Kolshet Empire's Ministry of Occult Investigations was formed, they learned about Iulius from one of their agents in Mano, and offered to buy him from his employer. The senator agreed, but when Iulius found out, he snapped and killed those who were to deliver him to the Kolshet Ambassador. He then started hunting down all the senator's other employees, eventually killing the senator himself in his home. The uproar this caused was making it hard to cover up the Kolshet Empire's involvement, and so they dispatched Jahegso'n to capture him. In their fight, Iulius fought hard and lost one of his arms and ruptured some internal organs. Managing to escape from Jahegso'n for a time, he killed some foreign gladiators and started grafting their body parts to himself. Jahegso'n found him min-surgery, but was puzzled by what he saw, and allowed him to continue. When Iulius was ready to continue their duel, he had the internal organs of a minotaur, the right arm of a tabaxi, and lots of skin grafts from a lizardman. They continued fighting, but eventually Iulius was overwhelmed and killed.

His corpse was magically preserved until it was brought to Division S. They decided to experiment with it to see if they could bring him back to life while activating the alchemy that had presumably affected at least a few of his cells. Argent was brought in to consult this particular experiment. Hasterhewsos placed the corpse in a lead-lined room which he flooded with both positive and negative energies. The result was that the alchemical alterations were activated, kickstarting his healing capabilities and restoring him to life. It also had the side effect of binding what was left of his soul to Hasterhewsos' will, effectively turning him into the archfiend's slave and robbing him of much of his free will.

## Powers and Abilities

Iulius has the ability to graft body parts of his victims onto his own body, granting himself their capabilities. He already has the natural armour of a lizardman and one hand has a set of tabaxi claws. This is in addition to Akh'gi's alchemy making him nigh immortal. He has lost most of his basic hobgoblin traits though. The alchemical alterations seem to have interacted with his unusual biology in unusual ways, allowing him to count as all known species for the purposes of meeting requirements to use things like magic items, though it also means he is affected by anything that is species dependant.

## Personality

Iulius considers himself an artist, and both his act of killing and his own body the art he creates. He has always had violent tendencies, and these were only made worse when he was sold out to the Kolshet Empire. This act of selling him like property also caused him to develop a hatred of all forms of authority and, as he puts it, oppression. Unlike most in Division S, he is not there willingly, but only because he is forced to obey Hasterhewsos. If he was somehow freed of the archfiend's control, he would likely try to kill all those in the Division he could. His soul being bound to Hasterhewsos' will has the effect of reduced free will, and he often ends up acting more like a golem than a person, especially when Hasterhewsos is directly commanding him.

Iulius has the unusual habit of speaking in broken sentences, despite being smart enough to have achieved a medical qualification in Mano. This habit seems to have been made worse when he was forcibly brought back to life.