Character Concepts: The Ravenous

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Kagra’Fam, The Ravenous:

*Fae. Indeterminate Gender. Indeterminate age.

*Black humanoid skeleton, taller and hunched over. Long arms and back bending knee joints.

*Strong. Detachable jaw and serrated teeth that regrow. Tongue can stretch and grab. Longer it goes without eating, the faster it gets. Capable of running on all fours or standing on two legs. Doesn’t feel pain. Tongue regenerates almost instantly. Cunning. Primal instincts. Consuming victims strengthens form but slows it down.

*Not overly strong (can dent but not break steel bars). Form fragile relative to speed (faster it gets, the more fragile). Ignores damage it should respect. Not very intelligent, animalistic nature. Consuming victims slows it down.

*No equipment.

*Satiation of it’s eternal hunger, or to be killed and eaten by something stronger than itself.

*Cunning. Violent. Persistent. Animalistic and primal.

[Backstory: Not much is known of the Ravenous; it is not even clear if it is just a single entity or a kind of fae. What is clear, however, is that it is not just any kind of demon or malicious fairy. It has turned up in many different worlds at many different times, usually at crucial points in time and near to the crucial places.

According to the Arak Library, it seems that the Ravenous is some kind of equivalent to the Holy Grail of the human Christian faith, an entity enchanted with immense power that it does not use, and it is assumed that some or all of this power is bestowed upon anything that defeats the creature and consumes the tongue.

Unfortunately, there is no known record of this happening as the only recorded instance of the Ravenous being defeated was by an unprecedented number of Arak’Fay who set up a trap for it (the trap involved 23 Arak’Fay representatives, the highest recorded number of their kind in one place not their home world. The next closest was a gathering of six Fairy Spiders, who worked together to destroy an alternate reality infected with a deadly virus).

Even with the preparations and intelligence of that powerful race, almost all of them were killed in the execution of the trap, one surviving long enough to dissect and study the remains and pass on the information and the tongue to be taken back to the Library before succumbing to its wounds.

None of them dare touch the tongue with anything more than the scythe-like appendages of their torsos, which are subsequently discarded and their bodies cleansed in every known magical and non-magical disinfectant and nullifier.

The Ravenous does, however, appear to have attached itself to the Fae Huntsman Illis Manory, randomly appearing nearby, fighting him and then  disappearing before any conclusion is reached. This creature has been dubbed Kagra’Fam].

Author's Note

I have tied some of the sample backstories of my other character concepts with that of this one in order to demonstrate his potential as a 'link factor' in a plot line, original or formulaic, as that is how I can imagine this type being best utilised.
The backstories of ALL character concepts are fully revisable or replaceable. They are simply examples.