Kapak
Kapak was a former Phovezilan weaponsmith who travelled down the path of Somatomancy with the ultimate goal of becoming a weapon himself. He was infamous for kidnapping criminals or other evildoers before mutating and twisting their bodies with Sculptoris into living, sentient weaponry.
Origin #
Kapak was trained as a Fire Iron weaponsmith in Northeast Walwhite. While other fire iron weaponsmiths focused on mass-produced equipment for the Phovezilan Elementalists, Kapak's skills were employed to create one-of-a-kind articles that would be wielded by higher ranking members of the Elementum Order. While he was a solid craftsman, Kapak possessed an obsessive compulsion over the weapons that he made. As the years passed and his skills led him down a path of creating more and more intricate, masterwork weapons, Kapak found himself being drawn to the beauty of his own creations and longed to literally become them.
Eventually, Kapak would come in contact with a chapter of Priests of the Shifting Flesh, and through discussion with them he theorized the possibility of molding flesh into weapons using Sculptoris. Kapak joined the Priests only to learn Biomancy and then Somatomancy, quickly leaving the chapter after gaining the knowledge that he needed. This brought on the ire of the Priests, who branded him a blasphemer after he left the faith to pursue his own goals with the misuse of "the Cyclops' power".
Kapak began his pilgrimage across Legere at this point, travelling the land of Hohm in search of individuals who he could practice on in the hopes that one day, his skills will be refined enough to transform himself into the ultimate masterwork weapon in all the world. Kapak doesn't see himself as evil, despite the wretched experiments he performs--he makes it a point to enact his horrifying weaponsmithing against Legere's scum.
The Prisoner of Kapak #
The Prisoner was one of Kapak's favourite creations--a sentient maul forged from the being of a Corgathian murderer who had fled to the Land Beneath the Snowy Mountain to escape the law. While the relationship between Kapak and The Prisoner was originally abrasive, The Prisoner soon accepted his new form and began to aid Kapak in his journeys, albeit in a capricious and mischievous manner.
The shift in The Prisoner's attitude towards Kapak could have been a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Interactions with the Archangel's Heroes #
Kapak had a strained relationship with the second generation of Archangel's Heroes, running into them on various occasions as either an ally or enemy. Kapak's loyalties were to himself, and his incessant need to do the best thing for himself led him to gathering an extensive list of enemies. This extended to both the Archangel's Heroes and the Dark Heroes, preventing him from taking a definitive side during the Legerian War.