ASCUAltered Skies Comics Universe

Antihero under pressure

Blood-Hound

The Nighthunger / Kexar

Kexar Voraxn was exiled as the clan's runt, trained by Bruteforce Brawnipo, and chosen by Nighthunger, a life-drinking blade that turned weakness into a different kind of hunt.

Real Name
Kexar Voraxn
Power Category
Voraxn Outcast / Nighthunger Bond
Story Layer
Tier 2

Why They Matter

Kexar Voraxn was exiled as the clan's runt, trained by Bruteforce Brawnipo, and chosen by Nighthunger, a life-drinking blade that turned weakness into a different kind of hunt.

Who They Were

Blood-Hound tracks monsters, cursed prey, and members of the clan that discarded him. He survives between Voraxn hunger, Brawnipo discipline, and a weapon whose appetite is never entirely separate from his own.

The choices that still follow them

The Story That Made Them

Kexar was born smaller than the other Voraxn and could not perform the clan's rites with the same visible force. Jakar treated the difference as weakness that threatened a culture built on uniform predatory strength.
Exile should have ended him because the Butterfly Curse weakens a Voraxn without a clan-supported hunt. Bruteforce Brawnipo found Kexar before hunger completed the sentence and trained him to use timing, leverage, observation, and restraint.
Nighthunger answered the same wound. The ancient blade drinks vitality and carries a malevolent intelligence drawn to Kexar's anger. In his hands it can wound beings beyond ordinary Voraxn claws and return enough life force to sustain him outside the clan.
Blood-Hound now hunts dangerous prey on his own terms and refuses to let Jakar define the shape of his species. Every use of Nighthunger proves the outcast can survive; every use also risks replacing the clan's curse with a more intimate master.

The Moment Everything Changed

After failing the Voraxn rite of strength, Kexar was cast out. Bruteforce Brawnipo taught him to fight through leverage and discipline, and Kexar later claimed the prophesied Nighthunger blade.

What UMED Can Measure

UMED-SKY-G,V-2-0027

  1. 01
    G — Non-human Species
  2. 02
    V — Vampire / Undead

United Metro Enforcement Division

UMED Field Profile

Provisional capability estimates

Response level2Operational protocol 1-6

UMED-SKY-G,V-2-0027

7/ 7
PWRForce Output
6/ 7
RESResilience
6/ 7
MOBMobility
7/ 7
TACTactical Skill
5/ 7
COGCognition
5/ 7
CTLSystem Control

Capability ratings use a separate 1-7 scale, with higher numbers indicating greater capability in each category. They apply to biological, technological, mystical, and other abilities. Provisional values are estimates awaiting verification. These ratings are distinct from response levels and Judd Metrology's scientific findings. Empty channels indicate an assessment is pending, never a zero rating.

What They Can Do

  1. 01Cursed Voraxn physiology

    The Butterfly Curse reinforces a Voraxn hunter's strength, speed, reflexes, senses, and resilience. The same curse also makes those advantages dependent on a continuing cycle of pursuit and life-force absorption.

  2. 02Life-force absorption

    A successful hunt restores stamina and intensifies the hunter's physical capabilities. This is not ordinary feeding: the curse converts the vitality of prey into the energy that keeps a Voraxn from deteriorating.

  3. 03Predator senses

    Voraxn can track heat, scent, movement, and faint sound through darkness and difficult terrain. A coordinated clan can follow one target across environments that would defeat conventional surveillance.

  4. 04Brawnipo combat discipline

    Training under Bruteforce taught Kexar to defeat stronger opponents through balance, leverage, timing, and controlled force.

  5. 05Nighthunger bond

    The blade channels absorbed vitality into its wielder and can injure mystical or regenerative targets that resist ordinary weapons.

What They Carry

  1. 01Nighthunger

    A sentient, life-drinking blade whose bond strengthens Kexar while continually testing the boundary between partnership and possession.

How the advantage is built

How Their Technology Works

Where They Can Break

  1. 01The hunger

    Without a hunt or a source of absorbed life force, a Voraxn weakens physically and psychologically. Prolonged deprivation produces pain, loss of focus, and eventual bodily collapse.

  2. 02Curse-driven instinct

    Powerful prey can pull a hunter away from sound strategy. The curse rewards pursuit so aggressively that restraint becomes a continuous act of discipline.

  3. 03Myst witchcraft

    The clan's condition began with Minka Myst's Butterfly Curse. Myst-lineage rites can identify, aggravate, redirect, or potentially unmake parts of the bond.

  4. 04Nighthunger's appetite

    The blade intensifies anger and encourages a killing strike when restraint would better serve Kexar.

  5. 05Exile

    Without clan rites, every failure to secure life force carries immediate physical consequences.

Who Claims Their Loyalty

  1. 01
    Independent
  2. 02
    Former Voraxn
  3. 03
    Brawnipo ally

What They Inherited

  1. 01
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05

Who Stands With Them

  1. 01

Who Wants Them Stopped

  1. 01
  2. 02
    Nighthunger's former claimants

Where to Meet Them

  1. 01
    Voraxn clan chronicle

Stories That Change Them

  1. 01

See Them in Action

Details Worth Knowing

  1. 01
    The definitive spelling in the current archive is Kexar Voraxn.

Whose Story Connects

  1. 01
  2. 02
  3. 03