Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Legends

When he was still alive back in the days of the Roman Kingdom, Tarquin's face was like wet porcelain cut with a steak knife. His nose was broken and healed in an ugly zig-zag, his eyes were heavy-lidded and suspicious and his long, stringy hair looked like drizzled clay. Over time, he'd grown hunched and thick, he wore the hide of a wolf for a cloak. His robes were mottled pink, it was impossible to tell if they'd once been red then splattered with bleach or had once been white then splattered with blood. Several thousand years later, Tarquin was reduced to a blackened skeleton. His robes were described as hanging off him in moldering shreds, and patches of moss grew around his jawbone and cranium, giving the resemblance to a beard and hairdo. Tendrils of glowing purple gas were described as slithering through his rib cage and around his joints, coiling up his neck and lighting his eye sockets with a fiery violet.

Tarquin was a sadistic, masochistic, yet tactical mastermind who always sought to come out on top, no matter what.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, better known as simply Tarquin, was the seventh and final king of Rome, having reigned for 25 years before it became a republic. He survived for a millennia as a undead creature and allying himself with Triumvirate Holdings. Tarquin was finally killed by Diana (Athena's Roman counterpart), who was summoned by her twin to help defeat him.