Athalon Klamath

Biography

Athalon Klamath is a Gar’Thian soldier, former SoCon special operative, and member of the intergalactic black-ops organization T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N. Sarcastic, fearless, and stubbornly independent, Athalon relies on military training, tactical instinct, and an irreverent sense of humor to survive opponents far more powerful than himself.

After a mission leaves him trapped within the underworld with portions of his memory missing, Athalon frees the ancient Grigori Azazel and becomes entangled in a conflict involving Malfiens, vampires, Celestials, and the release of Typhon. His journey reveals that he is no ordinary human. Athalon is the first male born into Athena’s divine bloodline, a descendant of the Dimisgura Edoicuna, and the mortal whose blood opens the Khaliq-Mudmira.

Chosen by forces he neither trusts nor fully understands, Athalon must learn to wield the power of creation while resisting those who would decide his fate for him. His bloodline places him at the center of an ancient prophecy, but whether he fulfills it will depend not on destiny alone, but on the choices he makes along the way.

General Information

Full Name: Athalon Klamath

Common Name: Ath

Date of Birth: 99 ED

Birthplace: Yulan, SoCon

Homeworld: Gar’Th

Species: Gar’Thian human with divine ancestry

Nationality: SoCon

Occupation: Soldier and special operative

Status: Alive

Known Immediate Relatives: Unknown

Known Ancestry: Edoicuna and the bloodline of Athena

Affiliations

• SoCon military

• SoCon special forces

• T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N.

• Athalon’s underworld alliance

• Azazel

• Syn Darkmatter

• Temporary alliance with Zayne

Physical Appearance

Athalon is a human male with a lean, combat-conditioned build. By the end of his journey through the underworld, his hair has grown considerably longer and he has developed a full beard. His body bears the visible effects of prolonged captivity, deprivation, and repeated combat.

He is strongly associated with a weathered leather jacket that he wears so consistently that Timberwolf jokes about him sleeping in it. During the latter part of his journey, Athalon wears a custom suit of Olympian armor created for him by Hephaestus.

Identity

Athalon is a Gar’Thian soldier born in Yulan, SoCon. Although Gar’Th was originally colonized by people from Earth, its culture and language have developed independently over centuries. Athalon nevertheless speaks a dated form of English fluently due to his fascination with Earth’s history and popular culture.

He served in the SoCon military before joining T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N., an intergalactic black-ops organization founded and led by Timberwolf. His experience in both organizations made him a capable operative accustomed to confronting military, criminal, and extraterrestrial threats.

Athalon initially believes himself to be an ordinary human. His experiences in the underworld gradually reveal that his bloodline connects him to both Athena and Edoicuna, placing him at the center of a prophecy concerning the restoration of a divided trinity and the beginning of a new age.

Early Life

Athalon was born and raised on Gar’Th in the nation of SoCon. Little is known about his immediate family, though his father was present during at least part of his childhood.

Athalon and his father built a one-of-a-kind ionic hover trike known as the DPS while Athalon was still young. The vehicle became one of his most prized possessions.

Growing up on a world scarred by prolonged political conflict and warfare shaped Athalon into a practical and highly capable fighter. He eventually entered the SoCon military and served with its special forces.

Military Career

Athalon completed at least one tour with the SoCon special forces. His service provided him with training in:

• Hand-to-hand combat

• Firearms

• Tactical movement

• Threat assessment

• Military operations

• Battlefield coordination

• Survival

• Improvised combat

• Reading an opponent’s movements

• Rapidly adapting to unfamiliar situations

Athalon’s effectiveness in combat does not come from overwhelming physical power. His strongest natural advantage is his ability to study an opponent, recognize patterns, and determine the most practical response under pressure.

This aptitude is eventually connected to his descent from Athena, a warrior goddess renowned for intelligence, strategy, and combat skill.

T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N.

Following his service with the SoCon special forces, Athalon took an extended hiatus and traveled to Earth. While visiting a sports bar, he commented on a news report involving a criminal. His observation drew the attention of Timberwolf, founder and team leader of T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N.

Timberwolf recognized Athalon’s potential and offered him the opportunity to use his abilities beyond the service of a single nation.

Athalon accepted and became an operative of The Intergalactic Response Team for Enemy Engagement and Neutralization. He worked alongside Timberwolf for several years, developing a close friendship with him. After successful missions, the two routinely celebrated over rounds of Cold-Brew.

Athalon knew Timberwolf only by his operational handle. He had no knowledge of Timberwolf’s true nature, his other identities, or their ancestral connection.

Connection to Earth

Athalon developed a deep fascination with Earth, particularly its culture during the late twentieth century. He was especially drawn to the resurgence of 1990s culture during the twenty-third century.

He spent many sleepless nights consuming Earth entertainment, including:

• Television

• Movies

• Pop music

• Rock music

• Historical media

• Late twentieth-century popular culture

This interest heavily influenced his English vocabulary and manner of speaking.

Athalon also developed an affection for several Earth foods, especially:

• Pizza

• Ballpark franks

• Pernil

Speech Pattern

Athalon speaks with a mixture of Gar’Thian language, dated Earth slang, military terminology, and late twentieth-century expressions.

He frequently uses malaphors, combining two familiar expressions into one incorrect phrase. Examples of his speech pattern include confusing “cross that bridge when we get to it” with “burn that bridge when we get to it” and changing “bigger fish to fry” into “bigger cats to fry.”

Syn regularly corrects these mistakes.

Athalon’s language is informal, sarcastic, profane, and often deliberately humorous. He uses jokes and verbal deflection during tense situations, including confrontations with beings capable of killing him effortlessly.

Personality

Athalon is sarcastic, fearless, stubborn, irreverent, observant, and highly adaptable. He openly challenges authority and refuses to be intimidated by titles, supernatural status, physical size, or displays of power.

His humor serves several purposes. It allows him to maintain control under pressure, irritate his enemies, conceal fear, and resist being psychologically overwhelmed by situations far beyond ordinary human experience.

Athalon has a strong objection to captivity and the removal of personal choice. His experiences with imprisonment, memory loss, manipulation, and hidden information make him intensely sensitive to betrayal and deception.

He rejects the idea that destiny should determine his choices. Even when confronted with prophecy and divine intervention, he insists that he has the right to decide the direction of his own life.

Beneath his confrontational personality, Athalon possesses a powerful sense of compassion. He repeatedly risks his life for allies and strangers, even when he has little chance of defeating the threat before him.

Core Personality Traits

• Sarcastic

• Defiant

• Courageous

• Stubborn

• Compassionate

• Adaptable

• Suspicious of authority

• Loyal once trust is earned

• Protective of his allies

• Quick-thinking

• Irreverent toward divine beings

• Resistant to fatalistic thinking

• Prone to masking distress with humor

Natural Abilities

Before receiving any divine power, Athalon possesses:

• Advanced hand-to-hand combat skill

• Military firearms training

• Tactical awareness

• Strong survival instincts

• Rapid threat assessment

• Ability to read opponents

• Improvisational combat skill

• Strong situational awareness

• High tolerance for pain and hardship

• Above-average adaptability

• Natural aptitude for combat strategy

• Willingness to confront physically superior opponents

His abilities are impressive for a mortal but do not initially place him on the same physical level as vampires, Malfiens, Celestials, or gods.

Divine Ancestry

Athalon descends from the bloodline of Athena. Until Athalon’s birth, Athena’s lineage had produced only daughters. He is the first male born into that bloodline.

His connection to Athena helps explain his natural intelligence in combat, his ability to read opponents, and his instinctive understanding of battlefield strategy.

Athalon is also a descendant of Edoicuna, the Dimisgura known to him as Timberwolf. Edoicuna is identified as one of Athalon’s forefathers, though the complete genealogical line between them remains unknown.

These two divine connections place Athalon within a much larger celestial history than he initially understands.

Connection to the Prophecy

The Fates foretold that when the hands of creation are divided, the first son of a warrior deity will emerge from across time and space. Through blood and fire, he will unite them and bring forth a new age.

Athalon’s position as the first male born into Athena’s bloodline identifies him with this prophecy.

His role is connected to:

• The divided hands of creation

• The restoration of the trinity

• Edoicuna’s succession

• The Khaliq-Mudmira

• The defeat of the Darkness

• The beginning of a new age

Athalon does not readily embrace this role. He remains deeply skeptical of destiny and resents being treated as though his life has already been decided by outside forces.

The Khaliq-Mudmira

Athalon’s blood opens the Khaliq-Mudmira, an ancient book containing sacred creative power. This occurs before Edoicuna has selected a successor, disrupting the intended order of succession.

The opened book releases a signal visible across the stars. The event draws the attention of Edoicuna, Guar, Samyaza, and others seeking control of the power contained within it.

Several pages from the book become connected to Athalon. The Adma-Sujin within those pages enters him, providing enough divine energy to restore his life and oppose Samyaza.

Athalon does not immediately understand or control this power. His early attempts to use it are inconsistent and often shaped by instinct rather than conscious knowledge.

Divine and Acquired Abilities

After being restored by the power connected to the Khaliq-Mudmira, Athalon demonstrates:

• Adma-Sujin coursing through his body

• Rapid physical restoration

• Healing of otherwise fatal injuries

• Renewed strength and vitality

• Ability to interact with and injure ethereal beings

• Energy projection

• Protective energy barriers

• Destruction or unmaking of physical matter

• Early-stage object creation

• Resistance to supernatural forces

• Increased ability to damage Celestial armor

• Potential to wield the power of a creator

Athalon’s abilities remain largely untrained. The power responds more reliably to urgent instinct and emotional necessity than deliberate command.

Matter Destruction

Athalon instinctively destroys a shower of meteorites before they can strike Azazel and Zayne. He does not physically block or redirect them. The stones disintegrate before reaching their targets.

The act appears to be an early manifestation of creative power used in reverse: the ability to unmake existing matter.

Athalon performs this without understanding how he accomplished it. When he attempts to repeat the effect intentionally against Samyaza, nothing happens.

Object Creation

Athalon inherits the potential to create useful objects, an ability associated with Athena. His first deliberate attempt is to create a sword.

He concentrates on forming the weapon, producing strands of light between his fingertips. However, his lack of control causes him to create a femur resembling the bone he previously used as a weapon against Dius.

Although the result is not what he intended, the created bone possesses enough force to damage Samyaza’s armor.

Protection

Athalon’s first successful use of divine power is driven by the desire to protect his allies. When meteors rain toward Azazel and Zayne, his instinctive reaction produces a protective effect that destroys the incoming threat.

This suggests that his abilities respond strongly to protective intent, even before he consciously understands how to access them.

Death and Restoration

Athalon is beaten, burned, and mortally wounded during the battle against Samyaza. His breathing slows, his pain fades, and he dies from his injuries.

While suspended between life and death, he is shown visions concerning his ancestry, Athena’s bloodline, Edoicuna, the divided trinity, and the prophecy surrounding his future.

The Fates intervene on his behalf. An orb of light enters his forehead, and the Adma-Sujin connected to the Khaliq-Mudmira restores his body.

Athalon awakens beneath the waters of the underworld with his wounds healed, his flesh restored, and divine energy flowing through him.

Equipment

Leather Jacket:Athalon’s signature article of clothing. He wears it so consistently that Timberwolf associates it directly with him.

Charging Rhino:A modified energy revolver based on a firearm originally manufactured by the Earth company Chiappa. Unlike a conventional revolver, the Charging Rhino fires energized rounds rather than physical ammunition.

Each energy round contains sixteen charge cells. The weapon includes several firing settings:

• Charge

• Max

• Double-tap

• Tri-burst

• Full-auto

In Charge mode, holding the trigger increases the strength of the released blast. Max mode expends the entire charge cell in one shot.

The weapon uses liquid helium to cool itself when repeated firing causes the barrel to overheat.

Olympian Armor:A custom set of armor created for Athalon by Hephaestus. The armor fits his body perfectly and provides protection against supernatural attacks and opponents capable of destroying an unarmored human.

Olympian Shield:A highly durable shield capable of withstanding attacks that would destroy ordinary weapons and armor. Athalon uses it to defend himself against explosive ice arrows and Samyaza’s enormous Celestial blade.

Polearm:Athalon uses a double-ended polearm while traveling through Asphodelos. One end contains a blade, while the opposite end functions as a blunt striking weapon.

Bone Weapon:Athalon initially uses an ordinary femur as an improvised club. After receiving the power of the Khaliq-Mudmira, he accidentally creates another femur while attempting to manifest a sword. The magically created bone is strong enough to break Samyaza’s armor.

The DPS

The DPS is a unique ionic hover trike constructed by Athalon and his father during Athalon’s childhood. It is one of his most valuable possessions.

Its systems include:

• Voice-recognition security

• Lockdown capability

• Active cloaking

• Auto-stabilizing gyroscope

• GPS

• Wireless cloud access

• Onboard computer

• Autopilot

• Remote travel to Athalon’s location

The cloaking system allows its pearlescent exterior to display the surrounding environment, rendering the vehicle nearly invisible from a distance.

Known Connections

Edoicuna / Timberwolf / Gabe:Athalon’s former commander, longtime friend, recruiter, and distant forefather.

Athalon trusted Timberwolf for years and believed him to be human. Discovering that Timberwolf had concealed his identity, divine nature, and history leaves Athalon feeling deeply betrayed.

Their friendship was genuine, but Athalon struggles to reconcile that friendship with the scale of Edoicuna’s deception. He also blames Timberwolf for sending him on the mission that led to his suffering in the underworld.

Azazel:Athalon’s closest companion throughout his journey in the underworld. Athalon frees Azazel from thousands of years of imprisonment, despite the danger posed by releasing an unknown Celestial.

Their alliance grows into a strong friendship built on shared suffering, loyalty, and mutual protection. Athalon repeatedly defends Azazel, while Azazel provides Athalon with knowledge, strength, and guidance.

Athalon commonly shortens Azazel’s name to “Az.”

Syn Darkmatter:Syn initially detains Athalon as an unidentified threat. Their early interactions are confrontational, with Athalon mocking Syn’s mechanical nature and Syn correcting Athalon’s language.

They eventually become trusted allies. Syn protects Athalon during several battles and accompanies him through Zurrkalla and the final confrontation with Samyaza. Athalon comes to respect Syn as a warrior and is visibly distressed when Syn is critically damaged.

Zayne Dubois D’Entremonte:Athalon and Zayne begin as enemies. Zayne is connected to Athalon’s imprisonment and repeatedly attempts to control or detain him.

Their relationship remains combative, sarcastic, and distrustful. Athalon nicknames him “Dark Fabio” and frequently challenges his authority.

Despite their hostility, the two cooperate against larger threats. Athalon recognizes Zayne’s importance in defeating Samyaza and intends to give him a proper farewell after believing him killed.

Samyaza:Athalon’s principal Celestial enemy. Samyaza seeks the power of the Khaliq-Mudmira and kills Athalon during their confrontation.

After being restored, Athalon returns to the battle with enough Adma-Sujin to damage Samyaza and assist Azazel in bringing him down.

Athena:Athalon’s divine foremother and source of his warrior bloodline. His strategic intelligence, ability to read opponents, and emerging creative power are connected to her lineage.

The Fates:The Fates intervene to prevent Athalon’s death from becoming permanent. Their prophecy identifies him as a necessary figure in the restoration of the trinity and the conflict against the Darkness.

Role in Blood, Fire, and Fate

Athalon enters the story as a T.H.I.R.T.E.E.N. operative investigating a killer connected to the AoD murders. The mission leads to his disappearance and imprisonment within the underworld.

He awakens without a clear understanding of how he arrived there and with portions of his memory missing. Forced to survive among Malfiens, vampires, condemned souls, and ancient supernatural powers, he eventually discovers Azazel imprisoned in the pit of eternal darkness.

Athalon frees Azazel, beginning an alliance that carries them across Hades. Their journey brings them into conflict with Zayne, Zummabbi, Dius, the Vampire Council, and the forces seeking to release Typhon.

Along the way, Athalon:

• Frees Azazel

• Survives the pits

• Helps defend Asphodelos

• Forms an alliance with Syn

• Confronts Zayne

• Participates in the invasion of Zurrkalla

• Discovers Timberwolf’s divine identity

• Opens the Khaliq-Mudmira with his blood

• Learns of his connection to Athena and Edoicuna

• Dies at Samyaza’s hands

• Is restored through the intervention of the Fates

• Awakens the Adma-Sujin within himself

• Helps defeat Samyaza

• Accepts the need to find Edoicuna and recover the remainder of the book

By the end of the conflict, Athalon understands that the battle against Samyaza was only the beginning. He must find Edoicuna, recover the missing power of the Khaliq-Mudmira, and prepare for the coming threat of the Darkness.