- Name: KURT DARKHOLME
- Age: 34
- Race: MUTANT
- Affiliation: EMPIRE (ROYAL GUARD)
TELEPORTATION. SUPERHUMAN PHYSIOLOGY (AGILITY/FLEXIBILITY). WALL CRAWLING. NIGHT VISION. CAMOUFLAGE. PREHENSILE TAIL. DEMON CONTROL (BAMFS).
You're a hideous thing inside
If ever there were a lucky kind
It's you, you, you, you
KURT, ABANDONED SON OF RAVEN DARKHOLME AND IRENE ADLER, FOUND HIS PLACE IN A TRAVELING CARAVAN AT AN EARLY AGE. IT WAS HERE THAT HE LEARNED TO BEST UTILIZE HIS UNIQUE PHYSIOLOGY, TRAINING AS PART OF A SIDESHOW ATTRACTION. HE MASTERED VARIOUS DISCIPLINES SUCH AS SWORD FIGHTING, MARTIAL ARTS, AND ACROBATICS, AS WELL AS THE ART OF SUBTERFUGE. WITHOUT A TRUE HOME AND WITH NO POLITICAL CREED TO ADHERE TO, A FATEFUL MEETING WITH MAGNUS MAXIMOFF CHANGED THE COURSE OF KURT’S LIFE. THE RECENT VICTOR IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN HUMANS AND MUTANTS, THE OLDER MAN TOOK AN INSTANT LIKING TO THE TEENAGE KURT THAT HE DIDN’T QUITE UNDERSTAND. NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE MAN OFFERED HIM PASSAGE TO THE WUNDAGORE MOUNTAINS HE ACCEPTED. HERE, HE WAS INSTALLED AS COMPANION TO MAGNUS’ YOUNG CHILDREN, THE TWINS WANDA AND JEAN-PAUL. AS KURT GREW OLDER, HE CONTINUED TO TRAIN IN THE SKILLS THAT HE HAD ESTABLISHED IN HIS YOUTH, TURNING THEM FROM PERFORMANCE ART TO MARTIAL PROFICIENCY. HE ALSO CAME TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICS OF COURT, IMMERSING HIMSELF IN THE SHADOW GAMES AS MUCH FOR THE SPORT OF IT AS MUCH AS ANYTHING ELSE.
IN TIME HE WAS RECOGNIZED AS HEAD OF THE MAXIMOFF ROYAL GUARD, TRUSTED ADVISOR TO THE TWINS AND BROKER IN INFORMATION OF ALL SORTS. USING HIS POSITION AMONG THE ROYAL FAMILY, HE HAS LONG TRADED IN HUMAN ARTIFACTS IN SECRET, AND HAS BUILT HIMSELF A SIZABLE COLLECTION.
