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[e][h]Clinkz

About

Origin/Abode:

The Hoven, Bleeding Hills

Family/Connections:

Clinkz's Grandfather

Associated With

Heroes:

Snapfire

Races:

Smeevils

Places:

Seven Hells

Characters:

Maraxiform
Sutherex

“

▶️ Better to run than curse the road. — Clinkz on his journey to immortality and suffering

”

The very embodiment of the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished", Clinkz the Bone Fletcher is the damned protector of the Hoven lands, sentenced to everlasting agony by a reward of infinite vitality that he earned by merely fulfilling his righteous duty.

Biography

Clinkz, the Bone Fletcher

At the base of the Bleeding Hills stretches a thousand-league wood, a place called the Hoven, where black pools gather the tarry blood of the uplands, and the king-mage Sutherex sits in benevolent rule. Once a sworn protector of the Hoven lands, Clinkz earned a reputation for his skill with a bow. In the three-hundredth year of the king-mage, the demon Maraxiform rose from Sixth Hell to lay claim to the forest. In response, the king-mage decreed an unbreakable spell: to any who slew the demon would be granted Life Without End. Unaware of the spell, Clinkz waded into battle, defending his lands against the demon's fiery onslaught. Clinkz drove Maraxiform back to the gates of Sixth Hell itself, where on that fiery threshold the two locked in a mortal conflict. Grievously wounded, the demon let out a blast of Hellfire as Clinkz loosed his final arrow. The arrow struck the demon true as Hellfire poured out across the land, lighting the black pools and burning Clinkz alive at the instant of the demon's death. Thus, the mage's spell took effect at the very moment of the archer's conflagration, preserving him in this unholy state, leaving him a being of bones and rage, caught in the very act of dying, carrying Hell's breath with him on his journey into eternity.

Personality and Mannerisms

Feelings towards his torment

Clinkz's feelings towards his affliction are complicated, being a mix of optimistic, indifferent and negative outlooks. Firstly, it's implied that he's optimistic when he views his bare skeletal form as his more useful plus superior form over his frail body of flesh as a consequence of his failed incineration, looking down on all flesh ever since Maraxiform's fire burnt it away and opened his eyes to its uselessness. Not only is he proud of being a skeleton but he also trusts other bony skeletal beings like himself even more. Despite this, it is implied that Clinkz still cares about his flesh when he feels concerned about it being restored to him by a Regeneration Rune.

Despite his eternal torture, Clinkz's indomitable spirit makes him indifferent towards the hellfire scorching his essence, as best expressed by him saying “Better to run than the curse the road” which signifies to undertake a challenge despite it being unpleasant, instead of complaining about it. In his own case, this challenge would be the state of his life from then on after just a mere coincidence between his supposed demise and an unbreakable spell of immortality ruined it.

However, Clinkz is painfully aware of the shame that comes with eternal torture, making him feel resentful towards his tormentor the demon Maraxiform. Some part of Clinkz longs to die so he may rest from his perpetual suffering but Clinkz may find death unsatisfactory and end up disappointed by something he endured an existence of pain for.

Dutiful

Clinkz is the sworn protector of the Hoven lands and a highly loyal servant to its long-standing ruler, the king-mage Sutherex. It's towards both his homeland and its king that he dedicates his service to with a sense of duty so strong, that he doesn't allow even his own eternal torment to incapacitate himself from service, continuing to patrol and defend the Hoven in spite of the persistent agony he feels in every waking moment in his sleepless, eternal life.

His sense of duty is apparent to the player in his responses, as shown in his eagerness towards the player's commands. Behind all this zeal to serve, Clinkz's motivation to serve the Hoven seems to be pure, as he alone rose to kill Maraxiform while unaware of his king's reward for doing so.

Rage

Clinkz is known for having a “violent and capricious temper” as a being of pure rage. Clinkz may be inclined to seek revenge on those who manage to put him down. Familiar with the nature of war, Clinkz is a fearsome opponent to his adversaries since he considers intimidation through death as a way to dominate the enemies of the Hoven.

Miscellaneous habits

Arrogance

Not even Maraxiform's hellfire could snuff out Clinkz's ego like it once did to his body, since he remains an archer who is proud of his skill with his bow, but not to the point of being obnoxious or narcissistic. Clinkz is not only confident in his marksmanship but also believes that he is a peerless archer, putting down anyone who challenges his prowess. He is also known to praise or admire his own aim and shots as well as for having some sense of entitlement.

The crazed laughter he sometimes lets out when he kills (or even thwarts) an enemy Hero expresses his self's sadistic aspects. Like most Heroes, the rush of power is intoxicating to him, causing him to let out an elated but maniacal laugh.

Relationships

The Hoven

Clinkz's relationship with his land the Hoven and its people.

King Sutherex

Interactions

The benevolent king mage Sutherex is Clinkz's liege. Some of Clinkz's services to Sutherex include collecting lives for the latter, possibly similar to how Clinkz uses this mage's spell to steal the lives of others. At times, Clinkz will call upon Sutherex's guidance during battle.

Populace

Feelings

While Clinkz is reputed for being violent and easy to anger among the Hoven's people, he's still revered and loved by them for being a hero and beacon of hope as their guardian.

Outside of the Hoven, Clinkz is feared by some in stories that describe him as a “fiery demon” who enjoys shooting “kind, innocent travelers” who find themselves near the Hoven.

Family

Clinkz's Grandfather

Feelings

Clinkz carries a bow made from the bones of his grandfather's remains. His grandfather speaks to him through it, giving Clinkz advice he doesn't appreciate.

Allies

Snapfire

Interaction

Out of her kindness, Snapfire may share her secret cookie recipe with Clinkz to trust him with keeping it secret until after she passes.

This could be her way of giving his eternal but tormented life a good purpose. Since Beatrix has quite the vast lifespan, it is fitting that she chose Clinkz for his eternal lifespan that can outlive even her to keep it secret for as long as she lives. Since she lets Clinkz tell it to others once she's passed, this ensures that her own cookies can live on without her. Plus, sharing these beloved cookies is a benevolent purpose given to the heroic bowman's painful existence.

Enemies

Maraxiform

Feelings

Resenting his endless torment, Clinkz feels vindictive against Maraxiform for condemning him to it. He spites Maraxiform for this by taking its head from its remains as a bow that always faces anything he points it at, so that Maraxiform may watch his indignified life alongside him.

Interactions

Although Clinkz has killed Maraxiform in the Hoven, this demon still waits for him from the Sixth Hell it once rose from. It still tries to drag him to said hell whenever he dies or when he suffers defeat in the Ancients' war.

Other Characteristics

Equipment

Lost Hills

Even without flesh to protect, Clinkz still finds armor useful to his current body. As a protector of the Hoven lands, he wears steel gauntlets on his bony arms, a horned helmet and a pair of pauldrons to keep his heat in his body, and a protective shield crafted from the Hoven's oldest trees to guard his bones when he sets out with a bow meant for war.

Crypt Guardian

Clinkz also wears a set of jagged stone armor and weaponry to battle. The set includes a pair of bone-hard gloves, a horned helmet to guard his skull, and razor-sharp pauldrons. With this armor, he carries a bow and a quiver (emblazoned with a menacing countenance that faces those behind him) that are of similar make to his armor.

Demonic Vandal

The iron-forged trappings of a fearsome figure known only as the Vandal are worn by Clinkz to battle. He hides his face with the Vandal's Demon Guise, an iron mask forged by a blind smeevil who hammered and honed it over a hundred years until it was done. His bony hands are fitted with the claw of the Vandal, an iron claw forged a long time ago by smeevils and feared by its victims as the iron grip of death itself. Completing this gear is an enchanted armor on his clavicle that protects the bones he wears this over during combat. Against the Hoven's enemies, Clinkz wields a spiked bow against them whose pointy ends are functionally lethal in case he runs out of arrows. However this may not be a problem as he hauls a big quiver from where he can pull out “endless arrows” to fire at his enemies, much to their fear.

Miscellaneous

Clinkz possesses a collection of fearsome bows with terrifying backgrounds from Hell and the realm of the dead, including one brought back from the former plane and one made from the vertebrae of the “fallen damned” to channel his ire. Another bow made from the dead is one made from his grandfather's bones, imbued with “spirit fire” while acting as a medium in which he can give unwanted advice to Clinkz. Among his terrifying bow is one made from bone and steel, inscribed with archaic runes that corrupts anyone who can read them.

Powers

Maraxiform's Fire

Under Sutherex's Life Without End spell, Clinkz safely—but not painlessly—wields the hellfire of Maraxiform after the demon burned him alive at the moment the immortality spell took effect on him. Like the fell fires of the myriad hells, Maraxiform's own hellfire burns without end and scorches the soul itself, while cremating foes at alarming speeds.

Life Without End

Like a poisoned chalice, Sutherex's spell—Life Without End—curses Clinkz with immortality that preserves him through being burnt forever by eternal hellfire. Sutherex—through said spell—also protects Clinkz from death, not only with an everlasting lifespan, but also by raising him from the dead should he be killed.

Another important property of this spell is that it's “unbreakable” which means that Clinkz can't rid himself of it easily. Presumably because of its ability to pull Clinkz out of death, the spell lets Clinkz escape from Maraxiform dragging his soul to Sixth Hell when he dies.

Strafe

Clinkz is renowned for his speed with the quiver, as shown in his own Strafe, in which he loads and fires multiple arrows at a quick rate. It's said that witnesses cannot tell whether the blur around Clinkz is from his flaming heart or this speed.

On the topic of witnesses, the wounded Maraxiform—in its final moments—saw Clinkz tap into this speed to shoot the final arrow which ended the demon, the closest thing that he can come to peace with in his torment-addled existence.

Tar Bomb

A flammable ichor of mysterious origin drips from the gap where Clinkz's heart once pulsed, the former of which Clinkz now throws at his foes as a useful Tar Bomb during combat.

The ichor in this could be the “tarry blood” mentioned in Clinkz's biography. According to this bio, the tarry blood falls down from the aptly named Bleeding Hills, before gathering in the black pools at the base of the Hills where the Hoven is. Seeing how it's ichor, it's not yet known what god owns this tarlike blood.

Death Pact

When he fulfilled Sutherex's own conditions of being granted the unbreakable spell of Life Without End, Clinkz gained the mage king's bond of life and death and with it, a Death Pact that he uses on lesser beings to steal their life-force and replenish himself.

Burning Army

Making the most out of his agonizing existence, Clinkz learned from his existence on the brink of life and death his necromantic power to raise a Burning Army of skeleton archers who rise from the dead to fight with temporary lives.

Burning Barrage

Clinkz's speed with his quiver becomes far more threatening when he combines them with his bone arrows that he ignites in his flaming heart in a Burning Barrage that incinerates any foe he targets it towards, the last thing they see being a rain of flaming arrows before their eyes.

Skeleton Walk

Whether he is shadowing a target or escaping a foe's sight, Clinkz can enter a sneaky Skeleton Walk in which he turns invisible after a brief flash of flame and dissipating smoke, putting his enemies on high alert.

Friendships and Rivalries

Allies meeting Clinkz

• ▶️ r You deserve peace, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r I've studied your story, Clinkz. I'm so sorry.
• ▶️ r The others may have need of your fire.
• ▶️ r You ever been to Quoidge? You'd fit right in.
• ▶️ r I heard about you Clinkz. Your story really taught me why I should never try to be a hero.
• ▶️ r Consider yourself lucky, Clinkz. Even the brightest of stars eventually burn away.
• ▶️ r God, I'd love to hear some of your stories Clinkz.
• ▶️ r Cover me when I go in.
• ▶️ r Burn them down, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r Your pain is power, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r Your tortured existence is a compelling argument against doing the right thing, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r There's gotta be an easier way to light your arrows than the whole self-immolation thing...
• ▶️ r Your bones…are on fire!
• ▶️ Clinkz! A skeleton after my own heart.
• ▶️ r Clinkz! We meet in a show of fury!
• ▶️ ▶️ r You mind if I call you Bones? Because whenever I hear Clinkz I start looking for a clockwork creature and I get really confused.
• ▶️ ▶️ r You're a hero Clinkz. Not enough people give you credit for that.
• ▶️ ▶️ r How do you put up with these fools?
• ▶️ r This is a good look for you, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r You see: that is why I rarely do the bidding of kings. Give me a rabble of commonfolk anyday.
• ▶️ r Proof of the lie that life rewards virtue.
• ▶️ r Don't get too close, Clinkz. Fire hazard.
• ▶️ r So you feel no pain, Clinkz? Or nothing but pain? Can you tell the difference at this point?
• ▶️ r Listen. I'll share my recipe with you, but don't tell anyone till after I'm gone.
• ▶️ ▶️ r Clinkz, our horns shall run them through.
• ▶️ u Clinkz, our horns shall run them through.
• ▶️ r You're new to eternity, Clinkz. It gets better.
• ▶️ ▶️ r Ready for some target practice, Clinkz?
• ▶️ r Okay, color me intrigued. How does the fire to arrow transfer work in the quick of battle?
• ▶️ r Keep your flames under control in my presence.

Enemies attacking Clinkz

• ▶️ I'll trample your bones to dust, skeleton.

Enemies casting on Clinkz

• ▶️ ▶️ Blades against bows!
• ▶️ ▶️ No more hiding!

Enemies killing Clinkz

• ▶️ Clinkz, your bones were brittle. Shoulda eaten more spinach.
• ▶️ r The dead should stay dead.
• ▶️ r Your aim failed you.
• ▶️ Bashed your bones in.
• ▶️ r Without heat, fire dies.
• ▶️ r Sorry hero.
• ▶️ r Just accept your fate and die already!
• ▶️ r You were an honorable man once. You deserved an honorable death.
• ▶️ r Now you can rest.
• ▶️ I heard your bones rattle with fear.
• ▶️ Clinkz, were you named after chattering teeth?
• ▶️ You met your match today, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r I used to pity you, Clinkz. But I got over it.
• ▶️ Ignorant of true flame.
• ▶️ Your fire lacks discipline.
• ▶️ I snub you out.
• ▶️ You smolder and die.
• ▶️ r Here burns the endless pyre of Clinkz.
• ▶️ r I take no pleasure in destroying Maraxiform's greatest work of art.
• ▶️ r I would have preferred to let your suffering continue.
• ▶️ r You're lucky we never ran into each other when you were alive. You never would have survived to be cursed!
• ▶️ r How do you even tell if this guy's dead?
• ▶️ r All you eternal-life-guys die surprisingly easy.
• ▶️ r Take that, Lich! No wait, which skeleton are you again?
• ▶️ Two legged abomination.
• ▶️ Stop complaining. You're already a skeleton for God's sake.
• ▶️ r Problem solved! You should have come to me sooner.
• ▶️ A mounted bow will always claim victory.
• ▶️ ▶️ r I'll put you in the ground where you belong!
• ▶️ ▶️ r I'll give you the final rest you've been begging for, Archer.
• ▶️ ▶️ r It would be mercy, if you stayed dead this time.
• ▶️ The lampreys will pick your bones.
• ▶️ Your life without end comes to an end.
• ▶️ Your fire is out.
• ▶️ Your demon takes you.
• ▶️ r Where's the meat? This one's overdone.
• ▶️ r Believe me. This was mercy.
• ▶️ r To be honest, I thought he was dead already…
• ▶️ r Interesting. He's motionless...but the fire keeps burning.
• ▶️ ▶️ r Spare ribs? Not what I had in mind.
• ▶️ ▶️ r Hm hm hm hm. You need some meat on them bones, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r Go away, go away!
• ▶️ Bones and no flesh? Where's the pleasure in that?
• ▶️ I like them with a little more meat on their bones.
• ▶️ r Even I had to get creative with that one.
• ▶️ Bones and no flesh? Where's the pleasure in that?
• ▶️ I like them with a little more meat on their bones.
• ▶️ r Like a puppet on a string. Well, a noose.
• ▶️ r The heartburn was going to kill him anyway.
• ▶️ The demon that made Clinkz botched the job if you ask me.
• ▶️ r You're a real hard case, but maybe this is just what you need.
• ▶️ r Surprised my bullets even found purchase.
• ▶️ Heh, crummiest gun I've ever seen.
• ▶️ ▶️ r We release you.
• ▶️ Why fire your arrows at me when Kunkka's sails need burning?
• ▶️ ▶️ Snuff life and flame.
• ▶️ r I would've thought a skeleton that was on fire was as dead as one could get, but you've proven me wrong.
• ▶️ Your death comes at last, Clinkz.
• ▶️ r Your curse is nothing to the void.
• ▶️ ▶️ I guess we know who's the better archer now.
• ▶️ ▶️ Sorry, Clinkz, I can offer archery lessons if you'd like.
• ▶️ r Neat trick with the flames, but what do tricks get you in the end?
• ▶️ Clinkz, still playing at bows and arrows I see.
• ▶️ r Here lies a mortal who truly knew the meaning of duty.
• ▶️ r Let's test this immortality of yours a bit further.
• ▶️ ▶️ Clinkz, you cannot hide from the eye in the sky.

Oracle's Prophecy

• ▶️ r Guard yourself against burning shafts, and make no pact with death.