<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Methuseld</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name: Methuseld von Ellegarde<br/>Race: Human<br/>Class Archetype: Warrior/berzerker<br/>Age:</strong> 35<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> Roughly 5'10", long graceful yet powerful physique. (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/218/f/f/blood_and_steel_by_wraithdt-d5a3htl.jpg)<br/><strong> Notable Strengths:</strong> Excellent with one-handed, two-handed, and polearm weapons. Adept equestrian. Great physical conditioning and mental fortitude. Excellent strategist and a (formerly) great tactician. <br/><strong>Notable Weaknesses: </strong>Excessively proud, overly serious, emotionally distant but harbors deeply suppressed pain. Favors the left leg and left arm after getting crushed by a horse on the battlefield. Frequently has a devil-may-care attitude regarding her own safety. Thoroughly uninterested in the other gender.<br/><strong>Special Skills and Abiliies: </strong> Cursed: The Vizier's Djinn placed a curse on Methuseld. Due to this curse, any command from the Vizier must be obeyed. However, as Djinns are rather crafty beings, there are other unexpected side effects to the curse. Any time Methuseld kills or sees blood, she enters sort of trance that deepens the more she kills, strengthening her but making it more difficult to distinguish friend from foe. There is only one way to end the bloodlust - somehow prevent Methuseld from killing for roughly an hour. This would necessitate knocking her unconscious, tying or chaining her up, or otherwise inhibiting her powerful martial talents. The other, <em>slightly</em> more problematic aspect of the curse is that the more berserk she is, the more her body (especially, ehem, a certain nether area) begins to smell or feel enticing to men. The curse's sweet, flower-honey smell is so enticing that it can actually get extremely addicting if a man is "exposed" to it more directly. Or, more simply put, if someone has sex with Methuseld while she is in a state of severe bloodlust, that person might become extremely addicted to the feeling of making love to her. Even mild states of bloodlust engender feelings of substantial attraction to the person of Methuseld that far outweigh any distaste at the woman's habitual discomfort with such things.<br/><br/>Other skills: Command Voice - After years of being in a position of authority, Methuseld carries herself like someone in charge. She has mastered the right way to shout orders at those under her command - it makes her that much easier to obey.<br/><br/><strong>Basic Background Info: </strong>Methuseld von Ellegarde was the Lady of house Ellegarde, married to the famous Count Ellegarde. The two ruled their house together, both loyal vassals of the king of the distant merchant kingdom of Ardore. When Vizier Zazim burned the great merchant fleet of Ardore to the ground, the King sent Ardore's finest two generals to pillage Kulratha and bring Zazim to justice. Marching forth with a great host of 20,000 men, the two generals, Count Ellegarde and his fair wife, lay siege to the city. For a time it looked like Zazim's reign would end. But when the assault finally came, none could have expected the brutality Zazim would resort to. His Djinn set his eyes on Methuseld, the first to break through to the Vizier's Spire, and placed a wicked curse on her.<br/><br/>It is said she killed more of her own men that day than the substantial number of enemy warriors she'd slain prior to the curse. After finally succumbing to fatigue, her wounds, and the men around her, Methuseld awoke caged like a common slave. The Vizier offered her a chance to serve as his general, and when she rejected his offer, he commanded it of her and she had no choice but to obey. The Countess soon found that she was beholden to his every whim, made to pleasure or kill anyone he desired by some twisted magic. <br/><br/>Soon, her reputation as Countess Methuseld von Ellegarde, the Golden General of Ardore, was forgotten. There was only Methuseld von Ellegarde, the Vizier's General. Or Methuseld, Zazim's Bitch Hound. Or else simply his pet. <br/></div></div>