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Message: <blockquote data-quote="am181d" data-source="post: 1932311" data-attributes="member: 3576">A lean, hairless, yellow-skinned, cannibalistic elven merc... who sings?(Apologies for link. The, um, song took up a lot of space.)Tasc is a lean, hairless, yellow-skinned elf, with blood red cat's eyes and a snarl full of razor sharp teeth. Tasc bares a red slash tattoo over his left eye and a jagged hook piercing each earlobe. He walks with a crouch--coiled--always ready to strike.Tasc wears a ratty brown coat over a sparkling mithril shirt. His belt is thick leather, loaded with compartments, both visible and concealed. He wears a pair of bulky, blood-stained spiked gauntlets. His boots are enchanted to augment Tasc's natural speed and agility, but more importantly, they allow him to walk along walls and on ceilings, where he often hangs in wait for his enemies.Tasc only carries one weapon, a double-bladed sword that contains the aspects of two legendary, anarchic weapons of antiquity, "Hellscorcher" and "Deathchill." Hellscorcher burns with a dark fire. Deathchill eminates a spectral cold. The hilt between them is wrapped in black leather and follows a subtle s-curve.***Tasc's earliest memories are of murder and destruction. Nomadic Giant marauders tore through his town of birth, Aerallia-in-the-Shadow-of-Sardith, and razed it to the ground. His parents, his family, his past, were all burnt to ash and scattered to the winds.Tasc, the only survivor of the carnage, was taken as a slave by the Giants. For decades, they raised him as an animal and fed him the flesh of their enemies. When the Giants' clan was finally defeated by a cavalry of Men at the Battle of Erden Og, none of the soldiers knew what to do with their feral elf child, so they brought him to the caretakers of the nearby Witchwood Asylum. The Mad Doctors of Witchwood had no interest in curing Tasc. To them, he was nothing more than an oddity to be studied. Between tortures, they encouraged his wild impulses, letting him free to hunt, kill, and devour the other inmates.Eventually, Tasc turned against his captors, killing and eating half the staff before he was finally locked back into his cell. The Doctors decided that Tasc had become too dangerous, so they sold him to the Slavers of Astia.In Astia, Tasc was branded with the mark of the Fighter-Slave and forced to fight in the gladiator games. He fought viciously, but lost frequently. The Slavers kept Tasc alive, because the crowd enjoyed watching him fight. And Tasc enjoyed fighting.Tasc survived long enough to find a patron, a soldier named Caleb, who bought Tasc out of slavery and taught him how to speak and to act among humans. Caleb trained Tasc to be his bodyguard, and the two became close. One night, Caleb finally admitted to Tasc why he took such an interest in him: He was the commanding officer at Erden Og. He was responsible for sending Tasc to the asylum and then to slavery. Tasc smiled and nodded at the news and said "past is past" and when Caleb went to sleep that night, Tasc crept into his room, killed him, and ate him.From that day on, Tasc was his own man. He traveled to Venture, the so-called "City of Heroes." He sought jobs as a mercenary and worked hard to control his bestial impulses. Eventually, he was recruited by a renowned party of adventurers, who had just lost their swordsman.As Tasc's reputation grew, he found himself embraced by the Elves, who were still fighting a bloody territorial war against the Giants. The Humans had just signed a treaty with the Giants, and the Elves were cut off and vulnerable. In his time away from the party, Tasc became a freedom fighter (some would say "terrorist") against Giant oppression. As he was slowly becoming a figurehead for the Elves, he was also learning more and more of the world's true history, and his disdain for the Humans and their god, Mithras the Forger, grew.All this led up to what I'd have to say is my proudest gaming moment: On the night of Mid-Winter's Eve, a holy day for the worshippers of Mithras, Tasc explains his hatred for the Humans' god to a barroom full of drunken Elf freedom fighters... in song!I HATE MITHRAS, by TascFor years and years we've all been stranded,On this worthless humans' planet!And as we die and suffer greatly,I've been forced to question late-ly...Who turned to us when they were slaves,But now tells us we should behave?When Giants came and took our land,Who took their side and lent a hand?Who cares about who's right or wrong,If you're not singing their For-ger's song?Well, I HATE Mithras!Who can I blame for this life I live?Who can I hate in this time to give?Not the men that I called brother!Not the women I've called lovers!Just the God to whom they pray,And their accursed HOLY day!I. HATE. MITH-RAS!They gather in Mid-Winter for their holy festival,And thank the Forger for the freedom for which we're responsible!While homeless Elven children shiver, displaced by their de-cree,And Giant warlords toast to their un-deserv-ed victory,Unwrap your presents, drink, be merry, but NEVER pretend,Their Mithras is God of ANY-thing but hypocrites and Men!AND I HATE MITHRAS!Familes gather to eat pheasant.Giggling tots unwrap their presents.Don't feel merry? Just be pleasant!Save. Me. From. These. Human. PEASANTS!I HATE MITHRAS!Let's go for a sleigh ride,Then warm by the fireside.Let's take a break.Let's eat a cake.Let's decorate.Let's celebrate.Let's dance. Let's sing. Let's GIVE!A cold winter's night is all this is.I. HATE. MITHRAS!(And, might I add, humbug.)(Don't worry folks, this was during a holiday themed episode in our last campaign, so YES, later on, Tasc learned the true meaning of Mithras.)</blockquote>

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