Hawnloughe Khorn Van Astraya

The great flame guides the hand of its children. I am merely the house with which the light shines both in and through me.

-- Hawnlough Khorn van Astraya

A cursed ex-cultist for a demon patron and a journey blade for the Church of the Holy Flame.

Backstory

Born within the city of Langhouse. Hawnlough was birthed by the Priestess' love child of the Demon of Sword's Bane's high choir of the damned Ghoul: Grashun Fuller. The child was cursed by the high demon's lover's bane as an upcoming apostle of the blade to keep him faithful to the cause. Mangling the child's hand with burning claws which sunder the very soul of matter to be sure that the man could take no lover in his life.

Hawnlough was raised in the church faithfully as an upcoming apostle who would lead the church to war with the Central region of Apotheca: a small country to the world's outermost Western lands on the mainland. The boy fought fearlessly on the battlefield as a demonic apostle of death which laid waste to its enemies. 

The growing elf, facing a life-threatening wound caused by a great paladin of Apotheca, meditated in his injuries contemplating his goal with the church.

Hawnlough grew weary of the idea of dying for the sake of a church which used him like a disposable being and questioned his own strength. With his strength of body and blade techniques he could kill at least two paladins safely but his own comrades were different. It would take far too long to kill a fellow demonic practitioner with their own techniques and escape. The church would not hesitate to end his life to quell any discourse in the church due to his betrayal. He needed to change his tactics to better face demonic practitioners and so he sought religion in higher angels.

In his search the man found the Lady of the Holy Flame through a holy relic dropped by an assassinated paladin. The man struck a deal with the angelic being to seek revenge on the demonic practitioner with the price of gaining holy power to face his own church. Thus he began to learn in secret the methods of the church. Singeing his very own eyes to protect himself from the visage of a holy being which opposed his cursed flesh. He further tempered his blade in the techniques of the paladins which he faced and suffered retribution in his attacks against the very church he was now learning to mimic.

Hawnloughe's skin began to flake from the very presence of the lady as the light seared his flesh. His strengthening power in demonic power conflicting with his holy until the pain became too much to continue playing both sides. Hawnloughe murdered his partner in a joint attack assassination against a small paladin force who were camping nearby but knew he had no chance in survival against the church nor the paladins should they both see him as an enemy.

Thus Hawnloughe turned himself in to the paladins he was commanded to slay and betrayed the secrets of the church in exchange for refuge. Soon Hawnloughe's loyalty was tested by the paladins who began to send him out on missions of his own. This shattered the man's plans as he learned that their would never be true freedom for him in this world. He had no choice but to help end the church with his own hands.

Now Hawnloughe exists as a traitor to the Demon of Sword's Bane and higher demons while being a blemish on the image of the paladin's blade forces. However with his abilities they could do nothing but make use of him. Marking him as an apostle of their lady forcefully. Now Hawnloughe is an unwilling worshipper of the Lady of Holy Flame. Burning with the holy flame that leaves his demonic-cursed flesh seared and painful.

• Strong Swordsmanship
• Self-sufficient
• Trained assassin
• Touch Attack magic

• No ranged option
• Holy magic
• Mundane strength