Ramzi

Deathwalk Ramzi
Race	Saran
Gender	Male
Height	6'1
Weight	170 lbs
Hair	Black
Eyes	Yellow
Likes	Murder, Chaos, Destruction
Dislikes	Cain
Family	None Known

Ramzi was one of the Deathwalks, famous for his sadistic cruelty. Born from good stock, Ramzi had the pedigree of a powerful warrior, but he was also insane. By the time he reached maturity, he possessed S-Class power with remarkably high level skills. He was a fearsome opponent who took pleasure in causing pain and spreading fear. He became rather infamous for being indifferent to the lives of members of his team, and any group he was with tended to have a high mortality rate. Far from being punished, the Holy Ghost was impressed with Ramzi's natural ability and loyalty to the Holy Order. He became one of the candidates to become a Deathwalk, and easily survived his bonding with a Shroud to gain its Dark powers.

The promotion made him very arrogant, but he was humbled when he met Prince Cain, who regarded the lunatic with annoyance. He immediately began to hate Cain, jealous of his incredible power. Despite the fact that they profoundly disliked eachother, he would often team with Brevara in trying to undermine Cain's authority, something which often brought them both severe beatings at the Dark Prince's hands. Cain eventually recruited his old training partner Mako to be one of the Deathwalks, in an effort to offset Ramzi and Brevara. The quick witted Mako proved more than a match for the wiley Ramzi, and he successfully managed to head off his future power plays.

As the years went on, the Deathwalks became the most feared force in the Known Universe. On their own any one of them could wipe out the population of an entire planet before anyone knew what had happened, and together they were completely unstoppable. Ramzi in particular relished his mission of mass murder. One thing that never left him was his outright hatred of Cain. For a long time he could not figure out what to do to truly hurt Cain, since the Dark Prince was a closely guarded person. Over time, he discovered the Prince had a fondness for a short slave girl called Kara, and he began to accost her. Cain managed to save her every time, reminding Ramzi of the danger of drawing his wrath. When Kara later managed to escape from the Holy Order with Dashora and Johnny Duke, Ramzi saw it as the perfect excuse to pursue her so he could rape and kill her. However, he never got the chance.

Later when Mako discovered the truth about his father's death, Ramzi was given the task of hunting and killing him. His murder of Mako ended up setting into motion the events that brought about the fall of the Holy Ghost, as it forced Cain to join the Rebellion which lead to the final battle with the Ghost over the Bloodstone. In the final battle Ramzi and Brevara were tasked with stopping Cain from making his way to the Holy Ghost, but both were easily defeated by the enraged Dark Prince. Later they encountered Johnny, Kara, and Thuro. Kara and Thuro challenged Ramzi and Brevara urging Johnny onward. Thrilled that he could finally indulge his fantasies on Kara, Ramzi was shocked to discover himself completely outclassed by the little slave girl, who defeated him after an incredible battle. Ramzi managed to barely survive the battle by escaping at the last second, and upon learning of the Holy Ghost's deaths at the hands of Johnny Duke, he went to the stasis prisons and freed the God King's son, Gaia, who had long been a prisoner there. With Gaia, he went to Drago to report what had happened to the God King Rao and reap final vengeance on the Sarada. In return, Rao made Ramzi the new Holy Ghost, and gave him a power boost.

Techniques

Dark Flames

The Deathwalks use a powerful fire based ability known as Dark Flame, which is the fusion of the Burning Flame of the sarans and the power of Darkness granted by their Shrouds. Because of this, the Deathwalks' Dark Flames are several times stronger than the usual Burning Flames. Like normal Burning Flames, the Dark Flames become stronger depending on the user's emotional state.

Dark Bolt: The most basic Dark Flame attack, the user gathers Dark Flames into their hand and releases it as a beam of black energy.

Dark Fist: Melee attacks which engulf the hands and/or feet in flames to increase damage

Dark Illusion: This ability destroys the light in a given area and traps people within its field in total darkness.

Dark Walk: An ability that allows Ramzi to move through shadows, sometimes allowing him to teleport great distances.

Dark Buster: An attack similar to the Dark Bolt but significantly stronger.  It takes more time to charge, but creates a large beam which eradicates everything it hits.

Dark Venom: A technique developed by Ramzi himself (or perhaps an earlier host of his Shroud, he was known to lie often) where he would place a curse mark on an individual, infecting them with Darkness and making them subject to his will. Infected targets can pass the curse mark on to others themselves, though the Curse becomes weaker with each successive person. People so possessed can be pushed past their usual limits, but will burn out and die rather quickly. He was able to use this on 100 rank and file sarans to use as fodder in his fight with Mako, but a sufficiently strong Aura user can resist, as shown when Kara was able to burn off the curse mark and regain her senses.

Ultimate

Dark Serpent: Ramzi is able to shape his Dark Power into a powerful attack in the shape of a giant snake. He is able to remotely control the direction of the snake's movement and have it change direction at will. Once it makes contact with its intended target it obliterates it.

Foot Techniques

Cutting: Cutting is technique common to many martial arts used by Aura users which permits movement so fast it’s likened to teleporting, wherein the technique user moves so fast everything looks like a statue to them. When Cutting, a fighter uses their Aura to "cut" themselves out of space/time and reinsert themselves somewhere else at the same instant, effectively making them in two place at once. The technique has different levels, with some users able to appear in multiple places at once. Ramzi had mastered the technique to the extent that when Cutting he could attack dozens of opponents at the same time.

Trivia

- Among the Deathwalks, Ramzi's monicker was Terror. He was also called the Black Death, a name attributed to his Dark Venom skill which he would use to infect entire populations and use them to tear eachother apart. He was also known as the Ripper or the Bloody Handed, and enjoyed making his victims suffer before he killed them.

- Ramzi's overriding drive was greed.  He wanted everything and enjoyed taking things from others, be it their possessions or their lives.  He would commonly find out what was important to a person and take it from them, often destroying it in front of their eyes.

- Ramzi demanded that Rao grant him more power as a term of his service.  When the Magnificent 7 raided Ultima, the God King obliged him.  Ramzi then faced Cain convinced that he had been made into a God, but quickly discovered that his power was damaging his body.  Rao had actually used the Overblow technique on Ramzi to overload his Aura Network, hoping that he'd take Cain with him into Death.

- Ramzi was a branch member of the Visra Clan. Intrigued by his power even as a child, the Visra Lord killed his younger brother and adopted Ramzi as his own son. He was groomed to take over the Clan but abdicated in favor of becoming a Deathwalk. Still, he would maintain friendly relations with his uncle and take part in his debaucherous activities. it was during Kara's time as a pleasure slave used by the Visra that she first met Ramzi and developed a fear of him, though he wouldn't remember her.