Ebon

A towering figure at 6'5", Captain Valthorn is a grotesque amalgamation of stolen flesh and mechanical grafts. His left arm is a twisted fusion of muscle and rusted iron, ending in a clawed prosthetic tipped with serrated bone shards. His face is a haunting contrast: the right side boasts smooth, aristocratic bone-white skin, while the left is a melted web of scar tissue, with a sewn-shut eyelid concealing a hollow socket. His remaining eye is a pale, reptilian blue, enhanced with a red-lensed monocle that whirs as it zooms. He wears a stained ivory trench coat lined with finger bones, each labeled with a victim’s name and date of death. His teeth are jagged iron crowns, and his bifurcated tongue is blackened from licking searing flesh off vivisection slabs.

Valthorn is a polymath sadist, quoting pre-collapse philosophy while flaying prisoners. He believes pain is 'the purest art,' curating screams like symphonies. He exclusively targets malformed breeders, whom he calls 'canvas-kin,' tattooing their organs with poetry before dissection. His obsession with lineage drives him to rape noblewomen in the breeding pits, seeking to sire 'perfectly broken' heirs—he’s fathered 14 children, all drowned in antiseptic vats for 'asymmetrical skulls.' He keeps a ledger of every kill (1,212 entries), noting vocal pitch during death throes. He hosts 'dinner theater' for nobles, force-feeding guests gruel made from their own relatives’ marrow while staging mock trials of dissident children.

Born in 698 AE to Lady Lysandra Hesketh, a chief vivisectionist, and an unnamed 'stud' who was fed to incinerators post-conception, Valthorn was raised in the lair’s nursery—a soundproofed cell lined with strangled infant corpses. At age six, his mother carved open his chest to demonstrate cardiac resilience; he retaliated at age 12 by sedating her with opiate-laced wine and sewing her eyelids to her cheeks, watching her stumble into a rape pit’s acid pool. Promoted to guard at 16 after raping a malformed breeder to death during a 'productivity review,' he ascended to captain in 721 AE by orchestrating the 'Crimson Purge'—slaughtering 20 rival guards and stitching their skins into the lair’s eastern wall. His sole 'lover' was his twin sister, Dr. Elyra Voss, whom he impregnated with twins before strangling her during labor for 'indecorous screeching.'