Nkolos/Nkolos Backgrounds
The Early Years
As a child Nkolos was an outcast, with no parents he was forced to survive on his own. Nkolos grew up as part of a nomadic tribe that traveled the south-eastern territories in pursuit of food and fertile land for the herds of sheep and cattle that provided their main source of trade. The other children in the tribe were forbidden from interacting with Nkolos because he was believed to be 'cursed'. Nkolos grew used to keeping his own company and developed many odd practices, such as the consumption of blood. To Nkolos it seemed that all of ones power was in the blood, whenever Nkolos killed an animal he drank its blood believing he would become stronger.
As Nkolos aged he separated himself from the tribe completely, but not before convincing the chief's daughter to come with him. The outraged chief sent the villages tracker to retrieve her, but when they found her she was drained of blood and her corpse had aged for days. That was the first time Nkolos had tasted human blood, from then on he would frequently enter a city at night and take a drunkard who foolishly stayed out in the streets at night. Rumors began to spread among the cities locals that a monster of great strenght who killed by night. The local Dragon Blooded began to investigate when a local banker was killed and 'drained'. The Dragon Blooded were on the search for a Wyld mutant or a tribe of beastmen but soon enough the evidence ruled these options out and a city patrol was set up to capture the monster.
At midnight the 'monster' was spotted and confronted by two mortal guards, by now Nkolos had severed all ties to humanity and was a monster internally, his hair covered his face like a midnight veil and his nails were blacked and sharpened,he walked with a hunch and wore a simple robe of the deepest black, around his neck was a necklace made of human finger-bones. After a round of unanswered questions from the guards one charged in anger. His sword was deftly sidestepped. None of his further attacks connected. Nkolos sidestepped one final swing before grasping the soldiers neck. After some thrashing the body went limp and the other guard, horrified, ran to tell the Dragon-Blooded what happened. They arrived at the scene quickly to find Nkolos standing above the body wiping his mouth. The Dragon Bloods charged without hesitation and quickly captured him. Loading him into an armored cart they sent him on a long journey to Lookshy to deliver him to Dojin, an Earth-Aspect teacher at the House of Bells who was interested in making Nkolos into an army champion.
During the long journey Nkolos refused all food and drink and soon his life began fading. One full moon night when Nkolos was on his last thread he looked into the sky, through his dark reality, and saw the moon for the first time in years. His skin began crawling and bones began rearranging noisily. His captors watched in horror as he became the monster he had harbored inside for years. With a monstrous roar and a swing of his huge,clawed, fist he burst from the carriage, within moments his captors where dead and he feasted. When Nkolos awoke again his mind was clear and his humanity had returned, saving his malice and bloodlust for the beast within. Within weeks he was located by the Silver Pact and began training as a Full Moon Lunar Exalt.
