Kethos

"C'mon, Pattern-Boy... Impress me."

--Kethos, Another Meeting

Description: The man before you stands a powerful six feet plus in height. His dark features are aquiline and angular in appearance, marred only by a heavy scar that descends from his hairline, through his right eye (obviously blinded as a result), to the cheekbone. His hair, unbound, falls straight and black to mid-back, but for one lock of fine, dead-white hair that starts from the scar. Broad shoulders taper to a narrow waist, and the man moves like a predator, regarding his surroundings with one keen eye and one dull white orb. His cloak covers a loose white shirt and dark leather vest which appears to be a match for the leggings he wears tucked into heavy black boots. A fine sword rides on his left hip, and somehow the man always seems to have a gloved hand near or resting on it.

His voice, when he speaks, is dull and rasping.

Clothing colors/style: Black leather pants and vest over a white shirt. Slightly curved sabre/rapier with a mother-of-pearl hilt. Hair is long, staight, fine, and black.

• Psyche: -- Kethos does not concern himself with the more esoteric means of enemy disposal. His mind, while sharp, is more often focused on tactics and planning. For all that, he doesn't seem to worry a great deal about manipulation from some phychic giants as his uncle, Osric.
• Strength: Ranked -- Though not bulky, Kethos' build is quite leonine and powerful. The most frightening thing about this strength is that it is backed with great skill.
• Endurance: Ranked -- Kethos travels in rough places, in rough times.
• Warfare: Ranked -- Kethos has not yet met anyone other than his own father who can defeat him in a physical battle, and when he hears of any individual who might possibly present him a challenge, he goes out of his way to single that individual out in order to test himself and his opponent. As a tactician, he is superb, and has outmatched virtually any competitor or so-called peer in the Shadow Realms or the Chaos Courts. Kethos considers Amber a boon, in that there is then a higher likelihood of locating someone who can challenge him.

Powers, Artifacts, and Tools


• Pattern Imprint -- Kethos has recently assayed the Pattern in both the Tir and in Amber.
• Sword -- Kethos posseses a sword of unknown (if any) power, but obvious quality. (His father is 'The Smith', after all.)
• Bad Stuff -- Go figure.

Written Stuff

Kethos' Pre-Campaign Questionaire

Note: Kethos is, in his most primal state, a sort of uber-Michael Wincott. He was originally inspired by Mr. Wincott's very dry and non-plussed Top Dollar in the first Crow movie, and has since incorporated elements of several of his other charcters, most notably Rochefort from the latest Three Musketeers: between the two, he's got alot more Top Dollar in him. However, this all came about several years ago, and Kethos, in his many incarnations, has developed many traits and idiosyncracies independant of anything that inspired him. I still see Michael Wincott when I think of Kethos, but I see Kethos as a character apart from any role that might have first sparked his creation.

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