The Temporal Hounds were genetically engineered for the sole and dedicated purpose of hunting down Time Siphons. This Temporal Hound is known as One Five Three, but locals on Earth have taken to calling him Zhuul. Like all Temporal Hounds Zhuul is exceedingly brilliant, intelligent beyond reason and capable of fully focusing on dozens of tasks at the same time including separating his senses into different compartments of his brain to task each one to a different purpose. Also like all Temporal Hounds, Zhuul rarely speaks. Speech is not difficult and he knows thousands of languages, but Temporal Hounds believe that to speak without purpose is to waste air. When Zhuul does speak it is wise to listen.
Temporal Hounds are excellent trackers and exceedingly patient, willing to stalk a target for thousands of years without pause. This particular Hound has been on the trail of the Time Siphon Raeyn for at least six thousand years, perhaps longer. He considers Raeyn the ultimate prey and will not suffer requests or even orders to track other targets.
Zhuul's camouflage abilities more than make up for his immense size. His breathing makes no noise, nor do his footsteps or wing beats. His stealth capability goes even beyond that though, Zhuul can phase so that he exists between seconds, utterly shifting out of the vision of all but the most perceptive of creatures. Even a Time Siphon is hard pressed to notice a Temporal Hound in this state, since their Temporal Line becomes a shifting, chaotic nightmare. Ordinary individuals perceive a stealthed Temporal Hound as flashes of movement or ghosts in the corner of the eye. If you have ever seen a strange shift in the dark or a trick of the mind, it may very well have been a Temporal Hound.
Temporal Hound
Using Honor Avenger's system:
Int: 10 Temporal Hounds are genetically engineered super predators with the singular purpose of tracking Time Siphons. Their intellect is vast.
Str: 10 Granted immeasurable strength to fight off the myriad minions of a Time Siphon, Temporal Hounds rarely use it unless engaged in combat.
Durability: 10 Wounding a Temporal Hound by normal means is completely impossible, only the most power of attacks will penetrate its armored hide.
Speed: 1 It's really not that Temporal Hounds are slow as much as they just don't care to go fast. If they do care to go fast they have only moderate speed, no greater than a Cheetah on an open plain.
Fighting Ability: 2 Temporal Hounds typically rely on their impressive size and terrifying strength in combat.
Energy Projection: 0
Agility: 3 A bit more agile than one might expect, do not expect a Temporal Hound to win any dancing contests.
Stealth: 8 If there is one thing a Temporal Hound excels at more than tracking it is stealth. The stealth of a Temporal Hound comes from its absolutely silent movement, its feet make no sound and leave no tracks, its breath is noiseless and it rarely speaks. Even its wings make no sound as they pass through the air. Finally, a Temporal Hound can mask its presence from vision, smell, sensor equipment and even the Temporal vision of a Time Siphon by slipping between planes of existence. When on the prowl a Temporal Hound will slip between time streams and exist nearly outside of time, occupying the time between seconds so that it is neither in the past, the present or the future but between all three. This has the unfortunate side effect of being absolutely terrifying to most people as the beast exists at the corner of their eyes and in the dreamscape of their mind.
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