Real Name: Ben Dreadstar
Identity/Class: Human and Mutant amalgamated with the primal incarnation of the Warrior.
Occupation: Field Marshal, Adventurer, Revolutionary.
Group Membership: Armies of Amber, X-Men, Dreadstar & Company
Affiliations: Amber, Shadow Avalon, Earth, the Empirical Galaxy
Enemies: None for long.
Known Relatives: Royal Houses of both Amber and the Courts of Chaos, possably Mystique, Delilah (wife-deceased), Iron-Angel/Willow, Kalla Dreadstar
Aliases: The Protector, The Cold Man, The Star Slayer, Fuzzy Elf
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: "Jack of Hearts, King of Swords, Ace of Rods" serial first presented in BS Presents issues #9-#24.
Powers: Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and agility. Mild healing factor. Teleportation. Prehensile Tail and Feet. Natural Camoflage. Resistance to environmental extremes. Wields a magical sword and a variety of modern and sci-fi weaponry.
Abilities: Dreadstar's knack for parrying energy bolts and Nightcrawler's acrobatics and stealth are just the icing on the cake of Benedicts millennia of constant training, combat, and war. He is the demigod warmaster that the other demigods warmasters fear. The legendary warriors of the infinite worlds are all just Shadows of Benedict's reality.
Special Tactics: You'll see soon enough 😈
Taken from "Jack, King, Ace" Chapter Two"Benedict studied the Trump in his hand, though careful not to gaze too intently and work its magical purpose. His brother, the traitor Brand, had left it in Benedict's chambers as the Patternfall War charged twoards confrontation at the Courts of Chaos. A card and a note.
The note read, "Brother, you have always treated me honorably, should I be victorious, you shal have a place of honor in the New Order, though you shant even remember the Old. Should I fail, accept this token of my affection. It holds a delicacy of battle. You will relish its flavor. --Brand"
Benedict looked again at the Trump in his hand. It was like none he'd ever seen before, though given Brands mastery of the Art that didn't surprise him. It contained not just his own image, but two more as well. A midnight hued demon and a blond man in grey stood beside him on the card. The background changed slightly each time he looked at it, shifting between industrial-urban, futuristic , and pastoral scenes. Hughly unusual.
The late Brand's offer danced before him, enticing him. Challenges and novellty are difficult to come by for an immortal. Benedict lived for challenge.
He gathered his post-industrial raments of war, gazed intently at the card, and the world around him began to swim...
He found himself, and more than himself in a neutral room fifteen minutes before the battle to come. Bene... Ben Dreadcrawler smiled.
Originally posted by Laminator_X
Real Name: [b]Ben Dreadtar
Identity/Class: Human and Mutant amalgamated with the primal incarnation of the Warrior.Occupation: Field Marshal, Adventurer, Revolutionary.
Group Membership: Armies of Amber, X-Men, Dreadstar & CompanyAffiliations: Amber, Shadow Avalon, Earth, the Empirical Galaxy
Enemies: None for long.
Known Relatives: Royal Houses of both Amber and the Courts of Chaos, possably Mystique, Delilah (wife-deceased), Iron-Angel/Willow, Kalla Dreadstar
Aliases: The Protector, The Cold Man, The Star Slayer, Fuzzy Elf
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: "Jack of Hearts, King of Swords, Ace of Rods" serial first presented in BS Presents issues #9-#24.
Powers: Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and agility. Mild healing factor. Teleportation. Prehensile Tail and Feet. Natural Camoflage. Resistance to environmental extremes. Wields a magical sword and a variety of modern and sci-fi weaponry.
Abilities: Dreadstar's knack for parrying energy bolts and Nightcrawler's acrobatics and stealth are just the icing on the cake of Benedicts millennia of constant training, combat, and war. He is the demigod warmaster that the other demigods warmasters fear. The legendary warriors of the infinite worlds are all just Shadows of Benedict's reality.
Special Tactics: You'll see soon enough 😈 [/B]
Originally posted by golem370
Is that the one with the Catman and the Gorilla Man and the Wizard Dreadstar
Dreadstar was a gureilla fighter, not a wizard. He did have a Catman and a Wizard in his crew though. There was a gorilla-ish creature in his initial stories come to think of it. Sounds like you're sort of half-way remembering it.
Has anyone else read Dreadstar or or the Amber novels? (I figure we all know Nightcrawler)
Prince Benedict of Amber, from the Amber Novels by Roger Zelazny. That's him on the Tarot-ish image in the background. ( The hood on the amalgam is Vanth's) I highly recommend them, they're modern classics. I imagine I'll have to post some excerpts during debates to back up my claims of ownage. He's not even the protagonist of the story, he's the guy the badass-protagonist runs away from and tricks rather than face him in a duel.
Benedict would humble the Taskmaster. Yaahhh!
I'm not sure just how to handle the relative obscurity of Dreadstar and Benedict. Given that Dreadstar's run was finished before some of our fellowes here were even born, I imagine I'll have some scanning to do back up his feats rather than just rambling on with hyperbole.
In Benedict's case, there aren't even comics to draw from. There're the novels, and a cool diceless RPG from Phage Press (wherin Benedict defines the absolute limit of warfare skill that no PC or NPC can equal, let alone surpass), and that's all I could find.
I wen't with off beat picks to shake up the rut we kind of get in around here, but it's going to be a lot of work to pull off.
Originally posted by Laminator_X
I'm not sure just how to handle the relative obscurity of Dreadstar and Benedict. Given that Dreadstar's run was finished before some of our fellowes here were even born, I imagine I'll have some scanning to do back up his feats rather than just rambling on with hyperbole.