Warwick

Real name: Vander Alias(es): The Uncaged Wrath of Zaun, The Howler, The Shadowed Fang, The Beast, The Hound of the Underground Species: Human (Chemically Altered; Cyborg) Age: 40-45 years old Place of origin: Zaun Current residence: Zaun

Warwick is a monstrous hunter stalking the depths of Zaun, but he was once a man with blood already on his hands. Hoping to leave his violent past behind, he tried to become something better before Singed captured him and used him as the subject of an extended series of experiments. The alchemist cut into his body, replaced and augmented organs, pumped him full of chemicals, and deliberately subjected him to extreme pain in an attempt to expose the beast he believed was hidden inside. Warwick’s body was eventually fused with an elaborate network of pumps and chambers that continually drives alchemical fury through his veins.

What emerged from Singed’s laboratory was no longer entirely human. Warwick escaped into Zaun and became a predator of its gray alleys, drawn irresistibly toward the scent of blood. Rather than hunting indiscriminately, he most often tears into killers and other violent criminals, as though fragments of the man he once was still influence his choice of prey. His past survives only in broken impressions and sensations that surface through the rage, leaving him haunted by memories he can no longer completely understand.

The machinery embedded throughout Warwick’s body constantly feeds and regulates the chemicals sustaining his transformation. Blood sends those systems into overdrive, intensifying his speed and aggression until pursuit becomes almost impossible to escape. He continues prowling Zaun as both one of its worst nightmares and a brutal predator of the people who prey upon its vulnerable inhabitants.

Appearance: Warwick has deep blue-gray fur covering his body, with lighter gray-blue fur across the muzzle, cheeks, throat, chest, and portions of the abdomen. He has an enormous, heavily muscular build with a broad chest, massive shoulders, thick arms, digitigrade legs, and a long bushy tail. His eyes are bright yellow. His head is wolf-like with an elongated muzzle, a dark nose, sharply pointed ears with reddish inner coloring, and a heavy mane of coarse fur around the sides of the face and neck. His mouth contains long yellowed canine fangs and numerous smaller sharp teeth, while a pointed tuft of pale fur extends beneath the jaw.

His upper body is largely uncovered apart from thick fur, with several reddish scars and claw-like marks visible across the shoulders and upper back. Large bronze mechanical bracers encase both forearms, built from angular plates with raised edges, riveted sections, and inset green components. One bracer incorporates long hooked metal claws extending beyond the hand. Bright green tubes run from the arm mechanisms toward a bulky apparatus mounted across his upper back. This machinery consists of aged bronze housings, cylindrical reservoirs filled with luminous green fluid, thick pipes, valves, and pointed metal fittings rising above his shoulders.

His waist is wrapped with worn olive-green trousers and layered brown leather sections secured by a broad belt. Torn pale fabric hangs from the waistband in irregular strips. His legs remain heavily furred below the shorts, ending in large clawed feet with dark hooked nails. His hands are oversized with long fingers and black curved claws. A massive blue-gray tail extends from the base of his spine, covered in dense shaggy fur that becomes especially thick toward the tip.

Personality: Warwick is driven by instinct, rage, and an almost uncontrollable response to blood, yet pieces of his former humanity remain beneath the monster Singed created. He is capable of recognizing cruelty and seems drawn toward people who have spilled blood themselves, making his hunts resemble distorted punishment rather than random feeding. Memories can momentarily interrupt his frenzy, but they arrive fractured and without enough context for him to fully recover the person he used to be. His greatest struggle is therefore not simply controlling hunger, but separating his own thoughts from the violence chemically forced through his body.

Singed is the person most directly responsible for Warwick’s existence in his present form. Warwick carries the physical consequences of the alchemist’s experiments everywhere he goes, from the machinery embedded in his body to the chemical rage circulating through him. His relationship with the people of Zaun is more complicated: most know him as a monster to fear, while Warwick disproportionately hunts the violent criminals lurking within the city’s depths. The scattered people and voices from his earlier life remain buried within his damaged memories, surfacing as emotional reactions he cannot yet fully explain.

Warwick possesses extraordinary strength, speed, durability, and regenerative ability created by Singed’s alterations. Severe injuries can rapidly mend as he tears into living prey, allowing him to continue fighting through wounds that should stop an ordinary creature. His enormous claws and jaws can rip through flesh and armor at close range, while his enhanced senses make hiding from him extremely difficult.

His most dangerous hunting ability is his supernatural Blood Hunt. Warwick can detect the scent of wounded prey across tremendous distances and follow it through Zaun with relentless accuracy. The stronger the scent of blood becomes, the more violently his implanted chemical systems react, driving him into greater speed and frenzy until he closes the distance. His Primal Howl turns that predatory fury outward in a terrifying roar capable of overwhelming the nerve of those caught near him.

The machinery grafted permanently into Warwick’s body functions as part of him rather than equipment he removes or carries. Its pumps and chemical chambers continuously circulate the substances responsible for his rage and transformed physiology, while the large apparatus mounted along his back helps maintain that unstable state. In combat he needs little beyond his altered body, using sudden leaps, claws, jaws, and sheer momentum to overwhelm prey before they can escape.