GERYON*

The CHIMERA

GERYON
Second General of the Brazen Legion

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Ht: 7'9  /  Wt: 900 lbs  /  Hair: none /  Eyes: blue glow

Age: 12 ?  /  Creed: cyborg  /  Status:*DECEASED

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The entity called Geryon was cobbled together from three critically-injured Imperial soldiers found on the battlefield after the disastrous Siege of Obrau 12 years ago. These poor souls - two men and one woman - were told by Bronzanti that they would never survive on their own, but through his science, he could use what was left of them to make one functioning body through which they could retain a semblance of life...

The result is a hulking bronze monstrosity, standing almost 8ft tall, with three separate armoured torsos branching from its waist, each bearing large weapons wrought of Faerie Glass. Each torso is personalized, styled after a beast of the mythical Chimera - one with a stylized roaring lion head, another covered in molded scales with a serpent-like helm, and the third resembling a faun-like woman with curling goat-horns. Each head can think and speak individually, but they have spent so long in one body, they often speak as one. Geryion is always wary, with a panoramic view, and six glass eyes that burn with cold fury.

Despite their large size, Geryon's components work with seamless integration, with each torso canted and able to rotate independently on the larger trunk. When they move, the faint hum of a stabilizing gyroscope emanates from within. When the internal mechanisms are fully primed, Geryon's upper body can spin on all axes, becomes a whirling storm of slashing glass blades.

What can it feel like to have one's sense of individuality and bodily autonomy torn away, to have one's  flesh and bone embedded with clockworks, and fused into a single organism along with two strangers? What distortions and agonies of the body and mind result from such a fusion?

For Geryon, relief from this psychological torment was found in specially-brewed drug cocktails, containing anti-rejection agents to keep their organs from rebelling against one another, and powerful narcotics to sustain a sense of euphoric, ecstatic numbness in the face of unending suffering.