Amortis VasDrakken

=Description=

Appearance
Dead even at six foot, runners build with upper body strength from constant work with a sword. Very dense bones causing him to look lighter than his 220 lbs. Hair cropped short, 2 inches or less because when it goes long it curls into ringlets and makes him look like he is missing his band. Scruff on his face that transition from full beard to nothing because he hates shaving but some meeting demand it. Designer jeans and T-Shirts, or shirts from the last metal band he saw. No jewelry. Latest smart phone. Pocket full of sim cards for different countries. Black boots or sketcher loafers.

Demeanor
Loud boisterous, Sarcastic in the extreme. Moves with innate grace due to years of sword training. Walks up to perfect strangers and says hello. Tends to stand out in a crowd due to his charisma and clothes.

Very get the job down how or whatever it takes.

Fields of Interest
Martial Arts, Ancient History, Computers, Girls

Occupation
Consultant to DHS

=Background=

Childhood
Benjamin "Amortis" Vas'Drakken, was born in a military hospital at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbrige. His Father David Vas'Drakken was a pilot for the RAF testing out the USAF A-10s. He met Fiona Murray, a tactics officer for the USAF. They were from two different world but they found time in all the craziness to find love.

Up until 1983, everything worked out fine but Fiona got orders back to the states. David chose to resign his active commission and take up a reserve commission. He then applied to join the USAF as a A-10 pilot. This was not an easy thing and as such things were rough in the household. David desire that Benjamin practice swordsmanship from an early age and keep at did not help.

Teenage Years
Then came the next assignment Misawa Japan. For Fiona it meant making major, for David it meant learning to fly F-16 Fighting Falcons. To Ben it meant getting to ride in a second fighter jet, first an A-10 and now a F-16. The rude surprise was in that he had to learn Japanese, as the girls all laughed at him when ever he opened his mouth. For a 14 year old going on 30 this was a mortal offense. During his time there he was given his first pistol a Glock 19, he had been shooting since he was ten but this was his.

Returning to the states to Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ. Benjamin learned about American girls, Renaissance Faires, and underage drinking. Somehow in this short time before his 18th birthday he managed to make eagle scout and open doors to the United States Air Force Academy. At his graduation party his father gave him a rapier made of M42, and leather sheath, both inlaid in silver runes and a cool looking dragon, said this is for making it into the Academy. Then he pulled out a second wooden box with two Glock 22s inlaid in platinum with more runes and dragons. This is for making eagle scout or was it the other way around?... laughing it off. Everyone joined in as it was clear the gifts were one gift that was split into two to justify the cost. The Vas'Drakken were well off but Ben's mom did not like expensive gifts to be given lightly. Emily gave him a shield with the arms he had made for himself and an avid Rennie. Of course Rachel said the dragons were making out out it. This lead to a weird conversation about snakes and reptiles...

United States Air Force Academy
Shaking off the dust of Tucson, for the mountains of Colorado, Benjamin heads off for the United States Air Force Academy, and life without parents looking over his shoulder. He made plans to see Emily but his time in the Academy was rough. He was dual citizen and world traveler, he spoke six languages American, English, Latin, Japanese, French and German. His view of the world did not help listening to NPR did not help. He muscled through it focusing on small scale tactics and combating terrorist cells. He excelled in physics did abysmally in math, and generally did well enough to be in the top ten percent of his class. He lost some muscle mass at the Academy, due to working out less with his upper body than he was used to from working the pells at home. He got the nickname Amortis because he spoke Latin fluently and never gave up especially in the ring with combat instructors. Amortis meant undying or unyielding.

Desert Storm
Graduating of United States Air Force Academy, he was deployed as a battle field analysis into the mess that was desert storm. This led to many hours aboard AWACS and hours upon hours staring at charts. Colors would run together, he would drink too much coffee that he grew to hate it. Still he was able to find several cells that had been bothering US & UN troops. This lead to AWACS having to fly higher as it was leaked to insurrectionist with AA trying to shoot them down. The long hours put a strain on his physical fitness, so he was being forced to run laps back in the tent cities instead of going out for beers. This lead to him losing several friends to IEDs, while he stayed safe. This pushed him to work harder to find the cells so they could all go home.

Megan was technically his supervisor but they worked so close on things that well things happened as they do in life. No one ever found out because in 2005 the AWACS he was on crashed into the desert due to unknown causes. Megan was laying there with a spar through her chest and Benjamin was laying there face down in a blood of his blood. He did not know it at the time but he have snapped the peg between C2 and C3. He was shipped back to the states, where he recovered at the new McGuire AF hospital until he had his neck fused. He was told by one doctor that he was fit and able to go back to want he did before but he was so messed up about Megan, and he could not tell anyone about it. He took the med boards decisions to medically retire.

He spent a year recovering, he did not need physical therapy because he simply walked around and did not let the injury slow him down. The head trauma did mess with his memories which was probably for the better to get over Megan. He would fine some days he simply could not get his mind to work through languages he knew, and other days he would be talking to someone and not realize he was talking in a foreign language.

Life after the accident
A friend of his who got out two years before him called him for advise for some home grown problems. He spent six months profiling and building data sets, which lead to major drug and weapon bust. None of the terrorist were arrested on charges of terrorism but on whatever DHS could make stick.

After the trial he got to meet the Director of Homeland Security and that lead to being offered a job consulting for DHS. He told the Director he had to think about it, as it would make him a target for retribution. After a week spent looking into what he could do for a living and talking to a couple staffing agencies, he came to conclusion that he would most likely end up doing this and not getting paid as well as the offer he had. So he set up an appointment with the director and told him that he would get DHS access but he would have flexibility to setup his own resources and would work out of whatever city they needed but he wanted his own office there, with his own people. The director being afraid that he was going to ask for more money agree quickly before realizing that in essence Benjamin was getting more money or at least assets.

Active Agent for DHS
This lead to several cases were being a consultant was not enough to get assess to the data he needed so he was officially brought unto the roles but working directly for the director and being on flex time if he got shit down he could work when ever he needed, if stuff started sliding then he was going to have to work 8am to 5pm like everyone else. He dated several girls worked for him and several other girls the DHS checked out for him to avoid conflicts with what they could know about his work. Due to his work there was too attempts on his life, the first he went off the grid for a week and killed the person who put the money on his head. There were rumors but DHS did not do anything about it because they did not want to lose his expertise. This put a serious strain on Benjamin as he did not feel safe having girlfriends in the line of fire.

The second time three agents were killed and only Benjamin's training that saved his life. He came down the stairs carrying a Estoc, which he through ten feet into the killer who was busy making the joke about bringing a knife to a gun fight. Benjamin shrugged and dived over the sofa to grab the gun the hired gun had been about to kill him with and shot the other killer. The other two hired guns were dead where they fell to the agents guarding Benjamin's high rise. This one had to be investigated due to three DHS agents dieing. So Benjamin was put on leave for three months while the cops did their thing. Seeing the time as a good time not to be where he normally lived, he took a vacation in Hawaii.

Vacation in Maui
One day on vacation in Maui, he wakes up coking on a bee he swallowed while sleeping. Shrugging it off as weird he gets up to shut whatever window it flew in through, he wanders around the beach cottage, and all the windows have screens in them. Thinking it did not kill me, sleep is calling. The next few days were strange in the extreme. Then he gets a strange visit from one of his dad's old friends daughter. She talks with him for while and ends up telling him he needs to go see his father's old friends. She gives his a one way ticket in his name to London, a small package, and a new British diplomatic passport. Benjamin looks at her like she is nuts and asks, "Do I really want to know?" She shrugs and says it is real it just might not have gone through the normal channels. Figuring he has nothing better to do for two more months he agrees to go.

London and the Order
His background with the DHS get him through customs with his go bag. He is met at the airport by Sir Ralph Lothian Meriwether, an old man but firm of body and mind. He takes Benjamin to the High Street gentleman's club. There they go up the back stair to the forth floor. Walking into a room full of antiques and old furniture, as all the men there are well past their prime and some of the decoration look like they have not been changed in decades. He is introduced to an older gentleman who is smoking a rather nasty smelling pipe. Benjamin waves his hands in the air to keep some of the smoke out of his face. This does little to endear him to Sir Albrecht Covington, grandmaster of his father mysterious order.

Albrecht draws his rapier and attacks Benjamin. Benjamin drawling on years of training deftly moves to the side, and ponders how to safely disarm this elderly gentleman without breaking anything. Figuring go crazy or go home is the best tacit, he kicks the sword up into the air, only bruising the older gentleman's hand, and grabbing the sword as it comes down. Presenting the sword hilt first to Albrecht, the older gentleman nearly has a stroke. Benjamin apologizes for the smoke but states that he has acid reflux sometimes from smoke. Albrecht still shaking his head at the moves Benjamin made finally takes the sword back and sheaths it. He tend says, "I wanted to meet some of the younger crowd Yggdrasil has decided we need now, and not when they have been properly trained." He then talks about Benjamin's father for a while then tells him to come back tomorrow after you see to that package.

Meeting Richard
Not knowing what to make of it, Benjamin wears his dapper azure silk suit, with a soft black t-shirt instead of dress shirt and tie, figuring he can always lose the suit coat if too formal. He get lost in London trying to find the address when he comes across the third cordon. So he pulls out the letter and walks up to ask the cops how to get to the address, when DI Shelly comes up behind him and tells him to put that away and "that he's with me." She leads him through the barricades. She turns to him and says you have no idea about which you have walked into...

=Skills/Traits=

Overview
Trained in martial arts and swords by his father, and tactics and modern warfare by the military, he is very good and breaking things down to their basic natures. He is very good codes even though, it was not specialization he trained but picked up in the field from being impatient for the data from the over heard transmissions. He is loyal to a fault, but has a tendency to do things his way that the military was not able to break him of. He has no noticeably accent as he tends to loss them quickly due to having spent so much time other cultures.

Weapons/Manner of Attack: Natural enemies go down to his pistols, supernatural go down to his sword and power he calls from inside himself.

Training
He was trained by his father is medieval sword fighting, which is not like what you see at a fair but the martial skill handed down from father to son and trained by the Fraternal Order of the Dragon. This lead to getting to visit Renaissance Faires as a child in the states as the order was not around to make him a heavier sword. He trains with heavier swords like the Estoc and Bastard swords he keeps in his apartment collection in Crystal City, VA to keep in shape and hunt things that go bump in the night.

He picked up Kenjutsu and it's derivative Kendo and Aikido in japan and continued to practice them after he returned to the states. In the military several combat instructors took him under their wing once they saw he was willing to listen to their stories and crazy enough to keep trying the attacks and methods.

He was trained by his father to shoot handguns and long guns, but spent little time with shotguns. In the military they honed his ability with hand guns and rifles while having used shotguns for breaching doors in training he is familiar with them but not much practical use. Plus it is primarily enlisted personal on the door during a breach so there was never any reason for him to use them. So his skill with hand guns is something to watch and he can snipe a towel at 1000 yards, he has no idea what spreads and chokes are for. He tends to use automatic rifles in semiautomatic mode as he hates the lack of control full auto presents. The full extent of rifles he used in the military being attached to spec ops command were numerous but the ones he really got time with were the M14 - in 7.62, M24A2 7.62, M16 Piece of crap training weapon, Barret 50 cal M82, Barrett M468 a great way to make a M16 useful, Beretta M9 basically a military version of the 92fs, Glock 19, Glock 22s and FN 57s. His time with DHS he tended to carry his FN 57s, and Glock 22s when the sound needed to be the same as DHS weapons to avoid blue on blue.

He was trained in data analysis and problem solving by the military at the Academy and later in the field. This lead to many counter intelligence skills and field craft.

He speaks seven languages American, English, Latin, Japanese, French, German and Arabic. He was working on an eight at the time of his accident but he doesn't remember any of the Hebrew he was learning.

After his trip to holy volcano, he respects mother nature more and has begun training in his innate power. The Order is training him in it use but it is a slow process. He finds that more often than it is easier to draw it out through his sword and strike with the strength of ten men. So far throwing around fireballs seems like a cool thing but where could one safely do it with out being chased by a mob with pitchforks? It is great for losing weight throwing fire balls around for a couple hours and he lost ten pounds.

=Gear=

Apartment
His high rise in crystal city overlooking the Potomac is a split floor design with the bedroom in the front having it's own set of windows. On the first floor is a walk-in armory, containing his collection of swords, guns and several hundred pounds of ammo.

Guns
Long Guns
 * One Barret M82 50 Cal
 * One M25 sniper rifle (Modified M14) 7.62x51 FFL paperwork
 * Two Remington 7400 with Wenig thumbhole stock 20 round eagle mags 308 NATO
 * One Rec7 6.8 SPC
 * One M1C Garand .30-06 Springfield

Handguns
 * One Beretta M9 / SF 9x19mm Parabellum
 * Three Glock 19s 9x19mm Parabellum
 * Six Glock 22s .40 S&W (10x22mm Smith & Wesson)
 * Two engraved Glock 22s .40 S&W (10x22mm Smith & Wesson)
 * Four FN Five-seven 5.7x28mm
 * One nickle plates Desert Eagle system .357 Magnum / .44 Magnum / .50 AE

swords
Handcrafted by Daniel Watson
 * One M42 Avatar Rapier inlaid in silver with a fire pattern (Angel sword)
 * One M42 Avatar Falchion inlaid in platinum with with a dragon pattern (Angel sword)
 * One M42 Avatar Bastard Sword inlaid in silver with Norse dragonwork pattern (Angel sword)
 * One M42 Avatar Saber with Old Glory inlaid in silver (Angel sword)
 * One M42 Avatar Katana inlaid in titanium with Asian dragon pattern (Angel sword)

Collectable
 * One Norse Sword found in a grave near the site of the Battle of Hjörungavágr

Outside the armory on displays around the apartment
 * Three stainless steel Katanas with wooden sheaths.
 * The Lord of the Rings Narsil Sword with leather sheath.
 * Highlander Duncan MacLeod Forged Katana Sword
 * Kit Rae Vorthelok Sword Autographed Edition
 * Kit Rae Morthoseth Sword Autographed Edition
 * Cheap claymore

Go Bag
A duffel bag always ready to go with passports, cash, Two FN 57, Ammo, list of contacts who can get him weapons in various parts of the world. Three changes of clothes; two street, one classy upscale. One M42 Katana, One M42 rapier with dress hanger and scabbard. One smart phone with library of books. music and games on sdcard and more movies and music on third and forth card. Two extra batteries for said smart phone. Spare boots and dress shoes. Spare phone, extra sim cards. Extra Sim cards left over from time in dessert storm. Leather duster for rain.

=Soundtrack= Airship Pirate - Abney Park

Dream Yourself Awake - The Cruxshadows

Fates Warning - Sign of the Southern Cross