About

TITLE: The Silent City Hunter

HALO: Syringes and viscera

Citadel is... certainly an interesting character. It seems as if though he puts form over function, what with using a stylized walking cane as a weapon over an actual blade and the insistence that his appearance remain immaculate. He has a particular aesthetic style that he likes to adhere to at all costs. Beneath all the pomp and circumstance, nobody really knows what's going on with Citadel. He sure puts on a show, but there's something... off about him. He has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, specifically of the mortal form, and will often conduct very involved, rather morally questionable experiments to test whatever theories he comes up with, often using his own body as the test subject. He is a hunter, yes, but not in the sense that one would think. He's in it largely due to curiosity; he wants to see the beasts that he fights up close and personal, and often collects their corpses for study when the hunt is over. Once Citadel has set his mind to something, he'll see it through to the bitter end. He's not one to give up easy, and is legitimately insulted whenever people try to dissuade him from persisting. He tends to split his life into three parts: the role of the hunter, the role of the doctor, and the role of the researcher. Combining these roles results in a lot of wild shit. The researcher is the one who performs the post hunt autopsies, injects mutagens into his bloodstream to test their effects on himself, just generally tends to put scholarly pursuits on the top of his priority list. He has been described in the past as a mad scientist. This is only partially true. 30% true. The hunter works in tandem with the researcher; as without subjects to test his work on, where would he be? The doctor is, well, a healer. While his medicine is on the more questionable side, people tend to leave his service healthier than they were walking in. His motives are unclear and his vibes are rancid, but he gets the job done. 

BIO

Very little is known about Citadel. He showed up in Odonrith one day, claiming to be a doctor from The Silent City to the west and demonstrating a skill set more akin to that of a hunter than a healer. It's a miracle that nobody immediately questioned him. He, like a decent few other hunters, tends to keep the details of his past close to his chest; there's no need for these people to know anything more about him than is strictly necessary. All they need to know is that he's handy with a threaded cane and has a legitimate medical degree. He is one of the more scholarly aligned hunters. Part of the tiny order of hunters that embraced the ability to alter their physiology, Citadel uses a combination of blood magic and a corrupted form of alchemy to change and enhance his body. Most of his research, when not concerning anatomy, revolves around the creation of new alchemical formulas that will further bolster himself against the horrors he faces on a daily basis. He has also displayed interest in toying with the lines between life and death in his work. If he can enhance his body with the elixirs that he makes, what is there to stop him from creating one that stops death in its tracks? Or bring him back from the dead? He doesn't tend to share this with anybody else, not even other hunters. This will eventually progress into more... morbid pursuits, but for now, he is content with mutation.