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Primary

Klaus is capable of pulling water from the air or draining it from plants, as well as manipulating it regularly. He has always been exceptionally skilled at pulling water from air vapor in spite of his generally low affinity for his soul powers. He is able to create whips of water to use offensively and is also skilled at using water as a shield. He can breathe underwater by manipulating air pockets, though this requires high concentration.

Secondary

He can produce an corrosive acidic poison with the color and consistency of tar, as well as a suffocating gas that is bright green and lights up in the back of his throat, both of which can be deadly if exposure is high enough. Despite his long experience, he still struggles to produce poison in a pinch from time to time.

Alignments

Klaus is capable of aligning with Red and Green souls. He can combine his acidic poison with a red soul's fire to create a sticky firebomb that will cling to a surface and burn for a long time and cannot be extinguished through normal means. A green soul can alter the properties of his poison to create a healing antidote that will cure any ailment.

Height 11 in.

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Weight 10 lbs.

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Eyes Blue-green

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Fur Color Dark gray

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Markings Charcoal Bengal

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Fur Type Thick and silky

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Build Lithe and angular

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Klaus is a charcoal Bengal with smoky dark gray fur and pale rosettes visible only on his stomach, though his face shows the distinctive zorro mask of his breed. He has medium length fur that is longest on his neck, chest, and tail, and he has tufted ears. His sharp eyes are earthy green with a distinctive blue tinge around his pupils.

Though Klaus was looking to inherit his father's stocky fighters build, childhood malnourishment led to stunted growth which ultimately sent him down a different physical path. Though physically strong, Klaus has a lithe and limber build that shows all his angles and makes him swift and dexterous. Time, training, and a more stable environment have allowed him to become even stronger, and despite his obvious age he still displays tremendous feats of strength and speed.

A deep scar cuts through the fur beneath Klaus’ left eye, inflicted by an angry Gylf during the second Trial. In addition to this, his left ankle shows some signs of a traumatic sprain he suffered in the fourth Trial, healed somewhat hastily by the green soul Rook, leaving Klaus with a permanent limp which appears to worsen with age. From this same Trial, he has a burn scar on the back of his right ear, and the unmissable signs of two deep, disfiguring gashes on his face, inflicted by Jace. Klaus' limp hinders his movements, though over the years he has developed many techniques to circumvent the stiffness and pain, allowing him to still carry out work at his former skill level, or at least somewhere close to it. The more time passes, however, the harder it becomes for him to manage. Though many rooted Legendaries have seemed to stop physically ageing entirely, Klaus seems to be getting older and older with every passing year.

Though some of Klaus' previous accessories have been long discarded, he keeps a single memento from his time in the Trials - the bag of wind he received from Oordeel in Trial One. The bag has since been emptied of its power (though no one knows how, as it went unused during the Trials), but he kept it tied around his waist over the years as a means of collecting and carrying trinkets on his travels beyond Paradise Valley. On his visits to the Valley, he would often distribute these trinkets to the young cats that lived there.

Adaptable • Proud • Individualistic • Impulsive • Cynical • Blunt • Aloof

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DETAILED HISTORY PENDING...

Klaus is an Endling, part of the first truly successful participants of the Paradise Trials. Hailing from a dilapidated human city far south of Highpeak known only as "The Ruined City", Klaus grew up hardened and bitter in a dying world, working only to survive in the cruel and cutthroat environment the city fostered. Orphaned at a young age when his family was caught in the crossfire of a gang war, Klaus was taken in by an impressed mob boss named Bashka after the young cat killed his parents' murderer. Under Bashka's watch, Klaus became one of the most effective mercenaries the city had ever seen.

Over his years in the city, many cats entered and left his life, and yet regardless of their impact on him Klaus' path seemed set in stone: no matter what, he would keep on living. It was this survivalist's philosophy, however, that ultimately took him away from home, as some credulous part of him sought out this fabled Paradise as a means to continue his existence in a new world. It would come as a shock, however, when he realised that not every cat in the outside world was as cold as him. It was not easy to adjust to this new reality, and throughout the Trials, he was forced to continually confront what he had left behind in his old life.

Ultimately, Klaus was able to survive until the Trials ended for good, reconciling with his ex-mate Scorryce, moving on from his old life, and even finding his soul partner - the fellow Torrent soul named Beast. Klaus did not play a heavy part in resettling Paradise Valley, instead opting to travel with Scorryce and the tom's new mate Visenya, as well as their companion Orian. Along his travels with his new family, however, he always found himself coming back to the Valley to gift treats and trinkets to the younger cats. He helped revitalise the Ruined City, allowing it to become one of the first fully-fledged colonies out in the Wastelands.

When discussions of a new set of Trials first began, Klaus came straight back to the Valley, determined to have his say in their creation. In these discussions, he continuously urged a set of Trials as brutal as their own - determining hardship as a necessity to truly unlocking the potential of any new cohort. His opinions were shared by no one, and the Trials continued without much significant implementation of his suggestions. With the new developments, he continues to feel more and more justified in his reservations, and has clashed harshly with many of his former Trialmates.

He was spending time in the Forest Colony with Scorryce to escape the ire of his Trialmates when the disappearance happened. He helped to guide the stragglers to the caverns in the Valley and waited out the storm with everyone else, seething with his prolonged powerlessness and mostly self-imposed ostracisation. He was guarding the Plagued with Benvolio when they attacked, and his insistence on fighting back got him significantly injured. Caught in Helena's strings and forced to watch his estranged daughter murdered by one of the very cats he had accepted into the Trials, he is exhausted and sapped of all resistance, slowly awaiting his death in a Paradise that never was.

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