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"Tonight, the sands remember my name -and forget yours!"
Born in the ashes of war, Adam was found wailing among the charred remnants of a remote village, a lone flame of life flickering in ruin. A deserter from the opposing army, guilt-ridden and weary, stumbled across the newborn. Moved by the cub’s unyielding cry and uncanny vigor, the captain took him in, naming him Adamus, honoring his will to live.
The old soldier raised him as best as he could. Adam was full of energy, and to say that he was a handful at such a tender age would have been an understatement. To sustain them both, he ended up becoming a gladiator. A dangerous profession but given his knowledge of combat and how he had a young Adam depending on him, he became a ruthless champion of the arena.
By the time he was seven, Adam asked to learn how to fight just like his foster father since he wanted to grow and become a brave gladiator on his own one day. Titus, or at least the name he had picked for him after he abandoned his old life, was not ecstatic about the idea, but they still lived in turbulent times and war could catch up to them one day and Adam needed a way to defend himself, so he relented and decided to teach him the art of combat.
Adam grew into a force of nature. Raised on survival and forged in conflict, his youth unfolded in the brutal sands of the coliseum. Lacking academic finesse but never short on bravado, he became a jock-like spectacle. Brash, loud, and unrelentingly cocky. The now retired Titus was both disappointed and proud. He was proud of Adam and how he became such an expert at combat, no one could stand a chance against him if they happened to be his opponent. The disappointment came from the fact that he ended up becoming a gladiator like he had been. Yes, he ended up attaining a title and becoming a teacher for a younger generation of gladiators, but at the cost of staining his hands with more blood that he would have wanted. Still, he knew that beneath the manticore’s fanfaronade lived a fiercely honest soul, guided by an innate romanticism and an unshakable hatred for tyranny.
As years passed. Adam grew into a hulking warrior, one of the biggest anyone had seen. Known to many as Adamus Valerius Abundantius, The Roar of the Colosseum. His flair in combat was legendary, just as his entrances were theatrical. The crowd always looked forward to hearing his electrifying speeches. Fans adored him. Rivals feared him. But the cheers eventually lost their meaning. Victory felt hollow, predictable. Adam craved not applause but purpose.
Tired of staged battles and scripted glory, Adam revealed to Titus that he wanted to be more than what he was. He actually longed to change things for the better, in his own way and outside the gilded cage the colosseum life had become.
With all the gold they had both made Titus was able to build a well-known Ludus for promising fighters that wanted to attain an equal status of fame and glory just like their hero Adamus. The public adored Adam, and he was even the emperor's favorite. In other words, he was bound by his own fame to this place. But then again, if Titus had managed to rebuild himself from the ground up, his own son deserved the same.
With his father's blessing, and after easily surviving the gauntlet issued by the emperor as a way to be free from the colosseum, he carved a new path as an adventurer going simply by the name of Adam. He now storms taverns and guildhalls, taking missions that others ignore. Not for gold, but for justice. Whether it’s retrieving a stolen heirloom or freeing a village from bandits, if someone needs help, he answers the call.
Though trained in countless weapons, Adam favors the sword by how it's clean, honest, personal. He does not just fight, he roars into battle with unfiltered intensity, turning skirmishes into symphonies of motion and emotion. He never backs down from a challenge and never walks away from the vulnerable in need of protection.
Adamus Valerius Abundantius is many things: a war orphan, a gladiator, a rebel, a hopeless romantic. But above all, he is proof that purpose can be forged in pain. And that even the loudest souls can carry the quiet burden of protecting the forgotten.
⚔️🦁🛡💪Hello again I just wanted to introduce you all to Adam's new design. He's a manticore now - I realized I owned too many dragon OCs and I had to fix that 😆. His redesign is the first step to try to unite various storylines within my worlds.
The design was done once more by the lovely
Vintagart . Thank you so much again for another banger. 💖
Category All / Fantasy
Species Manticore
Size 2820 x 1307px
File Size 1.21 MB
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