Kel'sab Melnath | Imperium | Unsanctioned Psyker

[Kel'sab Melnath]

KEL'SAB MELNATH OVERVIEW » NAME: Kel'sab Melnath » ALIAS: Mutant » AGE: Roughly mid 30s » GENDER: Male » AFFILIATION: Imperial Civilian » OCCUPATION: Unsanctioned Psyker » FACE CLAIM: See left » PLAYED BY: kojiarala PROFILE THEIR ASPECT Kel'sab is a foul, twisted mutant on top of the "aesthetic challenges" of being raised in an underhive. The most horrible of his features are covered by a green and black hooded long coat which has been cobbled together from refuse plastic and leathers for water proofing, and bulked with bits and pieces of useful scrap. Even with the coat, his lowly birth is obvious: His skin has the pallor of a corpse and is perpetually moist, sticky and greasy, all at the same time. The right side of his face is warped and torn by mutation, leaving a perpetual half-grin which gives the observer a clear view his randomly shaped black and yellow teeth. His fingers were already gnarled by birth, but have been broken and reset by countless chirgeons of debatable skill. Any given fingernail is either jagged and broken, or torn off completely and replaced with an "augmentic;" scrap metal painfully welded to the end of a finger. When denied his coat, his spine is hunched and ridged and his body is emaciated save for a smattering of cancerous boils and unnatural muscle knots. He is almost completely hairless, save for a small collection of thin, greasy strands at random spots on his scalp. Among polite society, Kel'sab's presence is first detected by a gurgling and moist cough, and an undertone of acrid chemical stench (no matter how much he may have bathed). Noteworthy Features » Mouth torn into permanent half-grin » Moist, hacking cough » Smells like bleach & rubber that's gone bad » Homemade leather/plastic/metal long coat » Always hunched over THEIR PERSONA Kel'sab Melnath is insane. He views his psychic powers as a direct gift from the Emperor, and believes they are proof that he was chosen to destroy those who would defy the Emperor's will. Unfortunately, Kel'sab was raised in somewhat disused underhive chemical runoff pipe and thus is very poorly educated; the "will of the Emperor," is usually just his gut instinct and a smattering of things he's picked up from propaganda, myths and the odd sermon. Like any good religious zealot, he doesn't let a little thing like having no knowledge of his religion get in the way of being violent and judgemental. He prowls underhives, dens of sin and other filthy, forgotten places that authorities either don't know exist, or don't consider worth their time. Depending on the "heretic" there's an equal chance he'll shout a mad sermon at them, or murder them with his "divine gifts." Up to now, the main reasons he's been left alone have been the remote nature of where he stalks and frequently being mistaken for a crazed preacher, sanctioned psyker, or inquisitorial adept by the equally uneducated masses. » POSITIVE TRAITS ✔ Faithful ✔ Loyal ✔ Self-sacrificing ✔ Brave » NEGATIVE TRAITS ✘ Delusional ✘ Smells awful ✘ Sickly ✘ Uneducated » LIKES ✔ The Ecclisiarchy and Inquisition ✔ Insane zealotry ✔ Respect and obedience ✔ Inflicting justice » DISLIKES ✘ Heresy! ✘ Intolerance to mutants ✘ Abuse of power ✘ Bureaucracy THEIR CONNECTIONS Allies » Momma Kontos A food vendor and "community leader" in the darkness of Grevena Hive's underhive. She doesn't know how dangerous a psyker like Kel'sab is, but gives him hand outs of grilled rat as thanks for his protection of the community. The light of her little food cart creates a mobile community center where Kel'sab gathers information. » Arbitrator Stamatios An enforcer of the Adeptus Arbites who moves between the blackest pits of Corinthe's hives who acts as Kel'sab's source on where the most suspicious activity is ramping up. Kel'sab considers him a trusted ally who understands how important the mutant's mission is. In reality, Stamatios is hopelessly depressed and a drunkard; he cannot muster the strength of will to do his job, and relies on Kel'sab's insane crusades to keep his numbers up. » "The Confessor" A street preacher wandering the lower and underhives that Kel'sab considers a beacon of faith in the Emperor and a mentor to the teachings of the Imperial Cult. In reality, the Confessor is a failed ecclisiarchal servitor who never had his identity properly wiped, but has had most of his brain replaced with a damaged cogitator loaded with a copy of the Lectitio Divinitatus. Enemies » Jackie the Knife A hive gang leader, and wanna be cold trader that Kel'sab is always running into. Jackie is always at or near the head of some new gang of the week and busies herself with stabbing rivals and trying to traffic in "genuine xenos artifacts." Nobody involved on either side of this cold-trade knows that 99% of the so-called artifacts are just weird looking junk. » The Eclipse     It's unclear if this is an individual, or an organization; either way, they are a heretical voice of the Ruinous Powers. They prey on the ignorant and downtrodden of Corinthe, promising them a future in which the "faithful" can safely live in the toxic wastelands beyond the Hives. » Farseer Llywelyn This Aeldari Farseer has never physically met Kel'sab, but the two are quite aware of one another. Kel'sab's unique psychic energies have been causing interference with the Farseer's psychic communications and prophecies. While Llywelyn has a hard time contacting anyone else due to Kel'sab's presence in the system, they have no problem contacting Kel'sab; their relationship thus far has been the Farseer alternating between yelling at Kel'sab, or trying to manipulate him into revealing who, what or where he is. THEIR APTITUDES Kel'sab is a mutant and a psyker; his very existence is repulsive to the average citizen of the Imperium. He is constantly coughing, drooling and on the verge of vomiting from his many ailments and poorly formed organs. None the less, his unnatural anatomy, and a life of hardship and beatings have made him tough as a cockroach. Aside from physical abnormalities, Kel'sab is one of the rare unsanctioned Psykers to carve out a niche in the Imperium without succumbing to Chaos. While unaccustomed to dealing with other Psykers of his strength, his mind has become armored against the predations of the Archenemy with faith, necessity and the nature of his mutations. » STRENGTHS ✔ Strong willpower ✔ Indifferent to pain ✔ Toxin resistant ✔ Hard to kill » WEAKNESSES ✘ Bad lungs ✘ Clumsy limbs ✘ Repulsive ✘ Social skills Abnormal Traits » Psyker Kel'sab was born with the mutation of channeling warp energy, in addition to many others. » Twisted Limbs Kel'sab's arms and legs are clumsy with joints pointing just slightly off from how you'd expect. » Warped Face Half of Kel'sab's mouth never developed properly and is pulled into a permenant half-grin. He must periodically 'slurp' to avoid constant drooling. ACCOUTREMENTS THEIR WEAPONS » Psychic Channeling Staff Made to resemble a Sanctioned Psyker's staff, but being homemade from janky scrap, it has more in common with an Ork Weirdboy'z. » Battered Old Laspistol One of the most reliable laspistols in the system. Dredged from a trash pile, but still in working order. Weak damage, but never breaks and easy to recharge. » Shiv A jagged knife of crudely sharped from plasteel. THEIR ARMOR Mixed Heavy Clothing Hardly meant to be proper armor, Kel'sab's coat and undersuit still provide some protection. Most of his clothing is made from scavenged plastic and leather, with a chest plate and pauldrons made from scrap metal. A network of stitched-in cables help to ground Kel'sab's chaotic psychic powers THEIR EQUIPMENT » Dirty bedroll Kel'sab needs to carry his "home" around with him. He can't afford to stay in one place for long, nor does his "duty' to root out heresy allow it. » Old guard issue mess kit While not in the best condition, it's a basic kit of food prep tools for those rare occasions that Kel'sab has to prepare something on his own. » Canteen Made from discarded fuel canister parts, Kel'sab's canteen is filled with foul rot-gut. THEIR VEHICLES » Public Transportation Kel'sab cannot drive or fly anything to save his life. He will take a taxi, a bus, a tram or an interstellar pilgrim transport to get where he needs to go. Psyker Profile » PSYKER GRADE: Delta (lower end) » SANCTIONED: No » SPECIALTY: Rogue Psyker » DISCIPLINE: Biomancy, Telepathy THEIR POWERS » Smite Like many Psykers, Kel'sab can shoot lightning from his fingertips to maim and burn his enemies. wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Biomancy » Mend Flesh If only to put himself back together, Kel'sab has become adept at warping human flesh to repair injuries; be they his own, or his few allies. wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Biomancy » Telepathy  Kel'sab is able to telepathically communicate with those nearby, and those he knows; sometimes he can do so as far as orbit or a nearby world though he's has little reason to try doing so. His lack of control over this ability has been causing sporadic interference with Astropathic communications, and seems especially disruptive to the abilities to one particular Aeldari Farseer. wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Telepathy » Mind Probe             With brutal effort, Kel'sab can dig into the thoughts of another to rip             out their secrets and learn their true intentions.             warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Librarian » Puppet             While Kel'sab cannot control the thoughts and wants of another,             he can, with great effort, control the limbs of his enemies. Typically             such victims move very stiffly as they resist his control.             wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Telepathy BIOGRAPHY Kel'sab Melnath was born in a rarely used chemical outlet pipe near a manufactorum. The facility produced, among other things, an illicit Spook-like drug for distribution to the underworld that infused the gestating Kel'sab along with countless other chemicals. When the first hints of his power manifested, his parents abandoned him; the life of a mutant is hard enough without having to protect a baby psyker. From the moment he heard the whispers of the warp, Kel'sab heard the voice the Emperor calling him to service. Without an education on the nature of psykers, he grew up believing that his powers were a gift from the Emperor himself that allowed him to spy on the enemy and directly hear the God-Emperor's word. While anything is possible, the "Emperor's Light" is just a mixture of Kel'sab dimly perceiving the Astronomicon, fuzzy bits and pieces of astropathic communications and the mutant's own deranged voice in his head. Kel'sab's broad empyrean sense could have made him a skilled astropath if he'd been sanctioned and his corrupted genes may even distantly trace back to some bastard line of a Navigator house. Unfortunately, he was born to scum and wretches, and had no choice but to grow into a bitter survivalist.  In a mockery of the Emperor's own origins, Kel'sab was filled with a strong sense of "right" from his psychic awakening. Since he could first hear the thoughts of others, he began inflicting his own brand of justice on criminals in the filthy underhives. While he has no formal education about the nature of Chaos, he can feel it as a sickness in the world and has hunted down blossoming heretics and even weak fellow psykers. Easily impressed by a voice of authority that carries the propaganda of the Emperor, he's done his best to listen to and learn from stray missionaries that find their way into the blackest corners of the hive cities. What little he has heard of the inquisition has not filled him with fear, but awe, he knows the Astartes as literal angels made manifest, and  In this day and age, he lopes and hobbles from neighborhood to neighborhood, from hive to hive and sometimes from world to world. Sometimes, he has some long term investigation working on, trying to work with Arbites that don't instantly try killing him, and other times he is just wandering and waiting to see something he doesn't like.

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