A humanoid hound wears a tribal attire with red and black accents, and sacred markings. His paw feet stay bare, lower legs are covered with leg bracers, wrists and four-fingered hands are wrapped with strips of cloth. He wears a loincloth, a vest, a shredded cloak, and a necklace made of fangs. He wears a headdress with crow feathers sewed behind it. The mask also covers his ears, nose and eyes, only his crooked canine teeth are bare. And at the middle of the mask where his forehead is, is a droplet shape colored in red. With him he brings twin side-handle, crescent blades with sacred markings. The weapons are held like a tonfa in each hand, weapons he has mastered to manipulate when he's on the hunt.
He came to the Temple of the Flayed Twins by the summons of the High Priests. The Flayed Twins or Flayed Ones are gods who demand oceanic amounts of blood. To keep them sated and placated, or else they'll drain the empire of its populace when unappeased, the people continues to hunt down sacrifices and bring it to the temple. Seeing that this method is too slow, the High Priests chose him to wear an enchanted armor and use the enchanted weapons. His mission: to seek blood for the Flayed Ones. Any blood he lets immediately flows to the Twins through the sacred markings on his armor and blades.
His mission made him stronger and relentless, to become a veteran in hunting for blood. His reputation grew, earning him the name 'Hound of the Twins'. But he's also known for another that made every tribe fear him.
"To what purpose you have summoned me?" asked Strygwyr when he met the High Priests inside the temple.
"We summoned you here to relay interesting news." said the speaker of the high priests. "A report about a female human warrior causes fear to other tribes because of her savagery in slaying her opponents."
"Hrmm. I know one female human warrior who matches the description. You're talking about the Moonrider. After all, she has a reputation for bloodlust. So she left Nightsilver Woods?" Strgwyr grinned. "To soak my blades with her blood will be an honor."
The high priest shakes his head. "No. This female we speak is... Somewhat very interesting. Though, little is known about her."
Strygwyr frowned. "What's so special about her?"
"Rumor has it, her wounds heal when she bathes in blood."
This piece of information piqued Strygwyr's interest. "A human absorbing blood like the enchanted blades and armor I have? How quaint. Go on."
"All we know is she's mostly found in a battlefield. She's called the 'Lady in Red' because of her red attire and penchant for blood... Now you know the reason for being summoned here. The Flayed Ones demand you to seek out this 'Lady in Red'."
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Strygwyr, the Hound of the Flayed Twins, spies a group of humanoid warriors gathered around a camp fire. By his count, their numbers are fifteen. Fifteen sacrifices for the Flayed Ones. The whisper of the Twins demand him more blood. The obedient Strygwyr readies his weapons, letting the blades' long arms rest along the bottom of his forearms, then runs out of the bushes.
Srygwyr ambushes the nearby victim by leaping and buries the front heads of the blades in the neck. Then he used his blades in another surprised victim by slicing off the head. He also killed another by swinging his blades in an upward slash to cut off the arms.
The other humanoid warriors are now armed and comes to Strygwyr. Strygwyr enchants a ritual circle made of blood, the Blood Rite, on the ground first. The warriors who stood inside the ritual circle are silenced and takes damage. Strygwyr casts Bloodrage upon himself before he unflinchingly meets them.
"For the raw twins!" Strygwyr yells.
His steps faster than normal, Strygwyr tucks the blades to his side and dives in. Two warriors try to block him. Strygwyr spreads his blades sideways as he charges on. He ducks down to avoid their blades and moving his arms forward, slashes their stomachs open. He retracts his arms so he could slash their stomachs again. Before the two warriors fall to their knees, Strygwyr is charging to his next victims.
Strygwyr did a raising block with his left when a warrior swings his axe in a downward arc. With a quick manipulation of his right weapon, he stabbed the warrior with the weapon's back head at the gut and passes through the back. Retracting his blade, Strygwyr spots a warrior coming to his left side. He quickly twists his hips as he used an inner forearm block to stop the warrior's horizontal strike. He turns the right handle to let the blade's long arm rest along the bottom of his forearm as he twists, and did a side-ward slash on the warrior's throat. After killing his seventh victim, Strygwyr stopped his turn so he could face his other opponents and jumps back to cast another Bloodrage on himself.
Keeping a safe distance, Strygwyr casts another Blood Rite on the ground in front of him as his opponents comes running to him. Five warriors backs away from the ritual circle, never wanting to get damaged like a while ago. Their three companions ignores the damage and keeps on charging at Strygwyr. Strygwyr anticipates their simultaneous downward arc attacks. He meets their blades with his own with an upper cross block. The locked weapons lasted for a few seconds when the three warriors' combined strength is too much for the more agile Strygwyr, forcing him to back away. But he quickly moves his foot forward and stabs two warriors in the chest with the back head of his blades. He pulls out his blades from his eighth and ninth victims, crossed his blades, and sliced off the tenth victim's head. As the three warriors fall, Strygwyr looks at the five remaining warriors and gives them a chilling grin. He casts Bloodrage upon himself again, then he runs towards them.
One warrior throws his axe at Strygwyr but it was thrown away with an outer forearm block. When another warrior sees Strygwyr coming to him, he used his spear and tries to stab him. The nimble Strygwyr sidesteps the stab, ducks, and slices the warrior's side with a backward slash. He sees the warrior who threw an axe at him coming with an axe ready to swing. Instead of a downward arc like most axe-wielders do, the warrior did a low vertical slash with the intent of slashing Strygwyr's legs. Strygwyr quickly performs a lower section block successfully. After that, he stabs the warrior's chest with the back head of his blade. When another warrior comes upon him with a blade, Strygwyr swatted the blade away with the back head of his left weapon and stabs the warrior's throat with his right front head blade.
With Strygwyr's Thirst ability, he senses that a warrior is still alive. He quickly runs back to finish off the still-breathing warrior. When that was done, Strygwyr faces the last warrior. The last warrior never fights, rather, he chose to flee. Strygwyr grins as the fleeing warrior is still within his casting range. He used Rupture on the warrior, a spell that causes his victim's skin to spurt blood. Whenever a victim moves, more blood gushes out. That's what the warrior finds out when he tries to continue running.
"Go ahead... run." taunted Strygwyr as he slowly walks towards the warrior.
The warrior watches in horror at the approaching Strygwyr. He did choose to run and spill his blood to the ground rather be killed by the Hound. He didn't get too far though. Strygwyr is upon him within seconds and gets back stabbed.
Strygwyr never removed his blade until he knows that the blood is fully drained from his last victim. After that, he approaches the other corpses to drain whatever blood is left. The blood splatters in his enchanted armor and blades slowly fades, flowing back to the gods he served.
"The Flayed Ones are sated... for now." said Strygwyr after his task is done and looks at the carnage he wrought. The ground is covered with the corpses of his victims. Then he looks around, trying to see through the foliage with hopes that something, or someone, will appear.
"But my quarry never appears." Strygwyr said, then grins in anticipation. "But it matters not. My search for blood will lead me to her... And when I find her, I'll drain her dry!" he cackles as he continues his quest.
After all, he's also called the Bloodseeker.
Bloodseeker's fighting style is in this link. www. sickindividual dot com / tiptonfa / html... it's the only friendly, understandable, and helpful site I've searched.
I know most of his skills only affect heroes. In this story, he can use it on anyone.