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Blood-Hound

The Nighthunger / Kexar

Kexar Voraxn was exiled as the clan's runt, trained by Bruteforce Brawnipo, and chosen by Nighthunger, a life-drinking blade that turned weakness into a different kind of hunt.

Real Name
Kexar Voraxn
Power Category
Voraxn Outcast / Nighthunger Bond
Canon Layer
Tier 2

Character Summary

Kexar Voraxn was exiled as the clan's runt, trained by Bruteforce Brawnipo, and chosen by Nighthunger, a life-drinking blade that turned weakness into a different kind of hunt.

Biography

Blood-Hound tracks monsters, cursed prey, and members of the clan that discarded him. He survives between Voraxn hunger, Brawnipo discipline, and a weapon whose appetite is never entirely separate from his own.

Canon history

Backstory

Kexar was born smaller than the other Voraxn and could not perform the clan's rites with the same visible force. Jakar treated the difference as weakness that threatened a culture built on uniform predatory strength.
Exile should have ended him because the Butterfly Curse weakens a Voraxn without a clan-supported hunt. Bruteforce Brawnipo found Kexar before hunger completed the sentence and trained him to use timing, leverage, observation, and restraint.
Nighthunger answered the same wound. The ancient blade drinks vitality and carries a malevolent intelligence drawn to Kexar's anger. In his hands it can wound beings beyond ordinary Voraxn claws and return enough life force to sustain him outside the clan.
Blood-Hound now hunts dangerous prey on his own terms and refuses to let Jakar define the shape of his species. Every use of Nighthunger proves the outcast can survive; every use also risks replacing the clan's curse with a more intimate master.

Origin

After failing the Voraxn rite of strength, Kexar was cast out. Bruteforce Brawnipo taught him to fight through leverage and discipline, and Kexar later claimed the prophesied Nighthunger blade.

UMED Classification

UMED-SKY-G,V-2-0027

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    G — Non-human Species
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    V — Vampire / Undead

United Metro Enforcement Division

UMED Field Profile

Provisional field telemetry

Response index2Operational protocol 1-6

UMED-SKY-G,V-2-0027

7/ 7
PWRForce Output
6/ 7
RESResilience
6/ 7
MOBMobility
7/ 7
TACTactical Skill
5/ 7
COGCognition
5/ 7
CTLSystem Control

Seven marks the highest currently measurable operational expression. Verified values come from Judd Metrology field measurements; provisional values are UMED estimates derived from documented abilities and encounters. Ratings describe capability, not moral alignment. Empty channels mean no defensible estimate has been published, never a zero rating.

Powers

  1. 01Cursed Voraxn physiology

    The Butterfly Curse reinforces a Voraxn hunter's strength, speed, reflexes, senses, and resilience. The same curse also makes those advantages dependent on a continuing cycle of pursuit and life-force absorption.

  2. 02Life-force absorption

    A successful hunt restores stamina and intensifies the hunter's physical capabilities. This is not ordinary feeding: the curse converts the vitality of prey into the energy that keeps a Voraxn from deteriorating.

  3. 03Predator senses

    Voraxn can track heat, scent, movement, and faint sound through darkness and difficult terrain. A coordinated clan can follow one target across environments that would defeat conventional surveillance.

  4. 04Brawnipo combat discipline

    Training under Bruteforce taught Kexar to defeat stronger opponents through balance, leverage, timing, and controlled force.

  5. 05Nighthunger bond

    The blade channels absorbed vitality into its wielder and can injure mystical or regenerative targets that resist ordinary weapons.

Equipment

  1. 01Nighthunger

    A sentient, life-drinking blade whose bond strengthens Kexar while continually testing the boundary between partnership and possession.

System reference

Technical and Equipment Systems

Weaknesses

  1. 01The hunger

    Without a hunt or a source of absorbed life force, a Voraxn weakens physically and psychologically. Prolonged deprivation produces pain, loss of focus, and eventual bodily collapse.

  2. 02Curse-driven instinct

    Powerful prey can pull a hunter away from sound strategy. The curse rewards pursuit so aggressively that restraint becomes a continuous act of discipline.

  3. 03Myst witchcraft

    The clan's condition began with Minka Myst's Butterfly Curse. Myst-lineage rites can identify, aggravate, redirect, or potentially unmake parts of the bond.

  4. 04Nighthunger's appetite

    The blade intensifies anger and encourages a killing strike when restraint would better serve Kexar.

  5. 05Exile

    Without clan rites, every failure to secure life force carries immediate physical consequences.

Affiliations

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    Independent
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    Former Voraxn
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    Brawnipo ally

Family

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Allies

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Enemies

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    Nighthunger's former claimants

Appearances

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    Voraxn clan chronicle

Story Arcs

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Gallery

Trivia

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    The definitive spelling in the current archive is Kexar Voraxn.

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