Salin Van Dossel
Age: 500
Race: Human (Vampire)
Hair: white
Skin: pale white
Side: Dark Hand
Rank: General
Commands: no current army
Status: Dead
Fighting Skill: Below Average
Intelligence: Genius
Charm: Incredible
Class: Spell Singer
Weapons: Long Sword
Armor: Full black plate armor
Property: None
Bio: A warrior in the ancient times Salin Van Dossel fought in many battles for a lord he no longer remembers the face nor name of. The nameless land was covered in war and Salin often saw violence. Despite having no real talent in combat Salin rose in the ranks through his masterful comphrehension of strategy and warfare. One day on the battle field Salin was stabbed in the stomach, having past out before the battle was over the men thought he was dead and left his dead body in a retreat.
When Salin awoke he was near death and was only able to crawl away from the battle field. Two vampiresses found him in the woods as they went to scavage the dead bodies for blood. Both were captivated by his beauty and wanted him for her own. The two vampire got into a disagreement and one, Kesea, ended up killing the other for Salin.
Kesea turned Salin as he neared death an the two quickly fell in love. They went from town to town preying on the people, no mercy for men, women, or even children. All who were caught alone where slaughtered in their sick bloodthristy games. They felt no remorse, no regret, no sadness over the atrocities they commitet not even happyness or rage, just pure lust and apathy. Close to 300 years after becoming a vampire Salin and Kesea where cornered by a mob.
Trapped in a forrest they ran to get away from the mob before dawn when they would fry in the sun. No escpae could be found so they turned to their last resort, violence. The two started to slaughter the weak humans left and right; atleast two dozen had died before they broke free of the mob. Covered in blood Salin took off with Kesea in the trail. Salin was just clear of the mob when he heard a scream that froze him where he stood. The bloodcurring scream came from Kesea as a wooden stake from a crossbow pireced through her heart. She slowly fell to the ground and started to disapate into dust. Salin raced back to her and killed another dozen men while she died at his feet.
Enraged for the first time since turning Salin slaughtered every human in the woods, a toatl of 50 more deaths. Everywhere around Kesea's death site was pools of blood and torn limbs. Salin saw the day breaking and left to a nearby cave where he slept as his rage cooled, with it his lust and all the other faint traces of emotions within him.
For 200 years Salin wandered Aeonce feeding only when he was almost dead of dehyrdation. Eventually Salin found his way to a camp of mystics who forsaw his coming and saw a great potential in him. In preparation they had recovered an ancient artifact called the Amulet of Hylak Goy, which translated to the Amulet of Eternal Sun, this amulet casted a protection from the suns deadly rays for Salin; allowing him to walk in the sun for the first time in 400 years. Along with the amulet they taught him the ancient form of dream singing, the ability to enter ones dream, as well as many magical songs and chants.
Salin stayed with the mystics left Salin knowing that his true story was about to begin. Only a mere 50 years later a messenger bearing summons for Salin tracked him down in the great dungeon city. At this time Aeonce was in the greatest Civil war in history. The Omega Alliance, who fought for the creator gods, where battling the Dark Hand, men and women and monster who wanted to tear the gods' heveans down and remake the world. Salin had cared little for the conflict and took no side until the messenger came.
Inside the letter was an offer that Salin could not refuse. Lord Joa Boo, leader of the Dark Hand, offered Salin Kesea back if he only fought for the Dark Hand and lead them to victory. Egear to find his love again Salin rode to lost Epocalypse's castle where he was inducted into the Dark Hand as an interrgator Lt.
His first couple of jobs where easy interragations that a fool could have easily done, however it was enough to gain Salin enough perstige to get a hold of more important and challenging tasks. Salin received his first task to abstract the location of a secret Omega base from three prisoners. He found out that the base was on the Fey Islands and then killed all the prisoners.
A giant party was thrown for the soldiers who were about to launch an full scale attack of the base. During the party Joa Boo shows up and rewards Salin for his efforts with a vial of liquid containing the prye fly for Kesea. Salin pours the liquid out onto the floor and Kesea body soon spawns from the small puddle. Back to life Salin egearly shows Kesea the new world that has risen. Their reunion is cut short after one short night as Salin leaves with the army to go lead them to victory over the Omega.
Once they reach the Fey Island the lies that the prisoner told were revealed as nothing stood on the island. Outraged Salin returned to the castle without victory or honor. Joa Boo was very disappointed at Salin's foolishness, and arrested him on his return.
Joa Boo was not foolish and saw that Salin still had potential to do well in the Dark Hand and sparred his life. Instead a demotion to private front line soldier was sentenced to Salin and he was ferried out to a ship leaving for a new invasion that night.
The ship sailed to Jercan where the Dark Hand was supprosing an uprising of Collective, man-size ant warriors, that were under the direct control of a young queen named Claire. On the front lines Salin was introduced to many of the men that would go onto become his friends and trusted allies in later battles.
The weapon master dark elf, Zaught, was the first one Salin met on the lines. They made the hike to the Collective fortress together where they then met the others who would form a assassination strike team to infiltrate the hive and kill or capture Claire. The team included; a young reckless werewolf mage named Atias, a wise old Naga summere named Splitjaw, and a silent gambler called Gailton. With the team came a negoiator demon who they where protecting.
The team made it into the heart of the hive, only at the cost of Gailton, and found Claire. In the climaxitc battle Salin's team was assisted by a dark rider, whos named was later revealed to be Ichabob Crane. The two strike teams fought into the throne room and it was Salin, not the negotiator, who was able to talk Claire into stopping her uprising and join the Dark Hand. Little known to Salin or Claire mysterious feelings between the two started to form.
Now back at Epocalypse's castle Salin is restored some of his honor and rank. Upon his return Kesea, still sore about the foolness and loss of honor from the Fye Islands, greeted him rather coldly leaving Claire to comfert him.
The next orders bestowed upon Salin was to siege a mountain fortress in Roderick. A force twice as big as one Salin had ever commanded before was summoned. The Dark Hand forces reached into the 300,000s. Creatures of all races and backgrounds where assembled, including the newly inducted Collective.
The initial battles took place on the fields in front of the fortress and it was here that Salin started to see the Dark Hand's meaning. The opression of the Omega and darwinistic philophysies of the Dark Hand. It took two days of constent blood shed for Salin to take the fields and start the actual assults into the castle.
The four floors of the Fortress amounted out to mass loss of life and despair on both sides. The bloody carnage came to an end when Salin unleashed a very complicated plan that crushed the final defenses of the Omega.
The plan sucecced in the end but not without great cost. A ramp had been consturcted for the Collective to tunnel up through the floor into the top level, but a new type of ammunition that broke the synpasis of Claire over the Collective turned them into an army of mindless fiends that killed everything in sight. Claire herself almost died from the physic shock. Salin went to reclaim the lost ramp himself as a unit lead by three Omega Knights marched down into the base camp of the Dark Hand.
Salin was too late as one of the knights placed a bullet in Claire permantely breaking her connection to the Collective and as far as Salin knew killing her. Enraged at the thought of Claire dieing Salin slaughtered the knight and reclaimed the ramp almost single handedly. The sight of Salin's slaughter inspired the Dark Hand into action, but it also brought force an all powerful force, the judge Anger. Brought on by Salin's rage Anger started to slaughter everything he could find. Nothing was free from his judgment, even the Dark Hand Lord Impetus fell before the judge.
During the retreat another judge, Lust, showed up and killed the fleeing Dark Hand. Feeling an odd urge to press on Salin took a knew Knight by the name of Jeb and snuck past Anger into the palace halls of Roderick.
There he found that Jeb was not a random knight but his Lord Joa Boo in disguise to fight in the battle unnoticed. Joa Boo started to fight Anger while Salin went after Talim, the Omega commander and daughter of Mitus the ruler of the Omega.
Talim and Salin engaged in combat, Salin's skill was nowhere near that of the warriro princess Talim. Talim easily started to beat Salin when Anger forced his way past Joa Boo to pass judgment on the two beings of hate that had summoned him fourth. Talim is killed in one swipe but Joa Boo is able to grab hold of Salin and escape through a portal away from the burning fortress.
In the end the Dark Hand had only 300 men left, only 1 in a 1000 that went, and no fortress. Joa Boo temperoary dispursed the remaining soldiers on leave to recover from the gruesome battle. Free of the anger from the battle Salin searched among the Hive (where they had teleported) and found that Claire was not there. During the battle Kesea, outraged by Salin's love for her, stole her away and ran off into the grand dungeon city.
