Sauron

Hero Name: Dr. Karl Lykos
Given Name: Sauron

Fighting: Excellent (20)
Agility: Excellent (20)
Strength: Excellent (20)
Endurance: Remarkable (30)
Reason: Excellent (20)
Intuition: Good (10)
Psyche: Remarkable (30)

Health: 90
Karma: 60
Resources: Typical (6)
Popularity: Feeble (0)

Age: 
Gender: Male
Height: 7'
Weight: 200lbs
Skin Color: Green
Hair Color: none
Eye Color: Red

POWERS:
psychic vampire 
Shapeshift-Sauron Form 

TALENTS:
Psychology
Medicine*
Aerial Combat

CONTACTS:
Dr. Karl Lykos has no Contacts.

DESCRIPTION:
Lykos's Sauron form resembles a large crested pterodactyl extinct except in the Savage Land.
 Unlike true pterodactyls, Sauron has a toothed beak and a basically humanoid build, with 
legs as long as a human being's. Sauron has a wingspread of twelve feet, and razor-sharp 
claws. 

(Dr. Karl Lykos) F: TY(06) A: TY(06) S: GD(10) E: GD(10) R: EX(20) I: GD(10) 
P: RM(30) HEALTH: 32

POWERS DESCRIPTION:
PSYCHIC VAMPIRE: Lycos has the Amazing (50) ability to drain life energy from a prey. Once 
touched, the victim must suceed at a Psyche FEAT or suffer -1CS on all abilities for 1-10
days. Feeding is on touch, and Lycos can make five such attacks before being sated. 
However, trying to drain Remarkable (30) Endurance or higher can trigger the transformation 
from Lycos into Sauron. Lycos gets a Psyche FEAT to prevent the change. 
PTERANODON FORM: If Lycos fails the FEAT, he transforms into Sauron, a bipedal flying saurian.
 The Sauron form lasts for 1-10 days before Lycos returns to human form. Damage taken by 
Lycos carries over to Sauron, but damage to Sauron does not carry over to Lycos. 
In this pteranodon form, Lycos has the following abilities: * Flight: Good (10) Airspeed. * 
Claws: Inflict Typical (06) Edged damage. * Foot talons that do Excellent (20) Edged damage. * 
Hypnosis: Amazing (50) rank hypnosis to paralyze his prey or induce halucinations about the 
prey's surroundings. The victim must suceed at a psyche FEAT to avoid the effect. * 
Limitations: Sauron suffers a -2CS penalty to all FEATs involving Cold or performed 
in Cold weather. 

History: As a young boy Karl Lykos went with his father on an expedition to Tierra del 
Fuego near the Antarctic Circle. Along with them on the journey were a physician, Dr. 
Andersson, and his daughter Tanya, who was about the same age as Karl. 

At one point during the trip Tanya became lost, and Karl found her in a cave being attacked 
by gigantic pteranodons, a form of flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs. (In actuality, 
these pteranodons were from the Savage Land, the tropical region in Antarctica where 
prehistoric creatures still live. Apparently, the pteranodons had traveled to Tierra del 
Fuego through natural subterranean tunnels.) Karl drove the pteranodons off with his 
walking stick, but not before he was severely bitten. Traumatized by their experience, 
neither Karl nor Tanya remembered the pteranodons, and Dr. Andersson used his medical 
skills to save Karl's life. 

Grateful to Karl for saving Tanya's life, Dr. Andersson allowed Karl to live with him 
and Tanya after Karl's father died. 

In a way that has never been explained, the pteranodon bites somehow changed Karl, 
apparently altering his genetic structure. Karl discovered that he needed to drain life 
energy from other living beings to survive. His first unintentional victim was his dog 
Jager, whom he drained of energy simply by touching him. Karl kept his condition a secret,
 even after he found himself forced to drain energy from other human beings. However, 
he killed none of them, merely leaving them temporarily weakened. 

As Karl grew older he fell in love with Tanya, but the stern Dr. Andersson refused 
to let her marry Karl because of his lack of financial means. So Karl Lykos set off for 
medical school, vowing to become wealthy so he could marry Tanya. 

Lykos became a hypnotherapist, but his need for life energy increased as he became an 
adult. Hence, he constructed devices through which he could drain his patients' life 
energies into himself. 

Lykos met the geneticist Professor Charles Xavier under circumstances that have yet to 
be revealed (see Professor X). Together they worked on the secret "Project Mutant." It has 
yet to be explained exactly what this project was, why it was secret, what results it might
 have had, and who, if anyone, had commissioned it if not Xavier himself. Xavier knew about
 Lykos' need and ability to siphon the life energy of others into himself, but he never 
told his students, the X-Men, about it (see X-Men). 

Following a battle between the X-Men and the robotic Sentinels, the mutant Havok, at that 
time unable to control his superhuman abilities, tried to kill himself by releasing his full
 power (see Havok). The resulting explosion buried him in rubble, nearly killing him. Aware 
of the connection between Xavier and Lykos, the X-Men rushed Havok to Dr. Lykos' Manhattan
 office, believing he was the only physician they could trust with the knowledge that Havok
 was a mutant. 

After treating Havok's wounds, Lykos began using his equipment to drain life energy from 
him. However, this was the first time that Lykos had ever siphoned energy from a superhuman
 mutant, with a result that he had never experienced before. The energy triggered his
 metamorphosis into a creature that resembled a half-humanoid pteranodon, who retained his 
human intelligence and ability to speak. However, the transformation distorted Lykos' 
personality, turning him evil. Hence, Lykos took the name Sauron, after the archvillain of 
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.  Sauron soon battled the X-Men, but fled when Havok
 awoke, causing him to begin to change back to human form. Soon afterwards, Lykos had an 
argument with Dr. Andersson, who still refused to permit him to marry Tanya. Then Lykos 
drained energy from the mutant Lorna Dane, the future Polaris, causing him to transform
 into Sauron again (see Polaris). After siphoning more energy from the Angel and Havok, Sauron
 flew to the Anderssons' home to kill them (see Angel). The Anderssons recognized Sauron's voice 
as that of Lykos just before the X-Men arrived and Sauron fled.  Sauron flew all the way to 
his father's cabin in Tierra del Fuego, and then reverted to human form, having expended 
the mutant energies he had absorbed. Horrified at having tried to kill Tanya, Lykos decided 
to starve himself to death. But several days later, Tanya arrived, followed closely behind 
by the X-Men. Feeling the urge to drain Tanya's life energies, Lykos instead fled, only 
to fall over a precipice. Tanya and the X-Men assumed he had been killed.  However, Lykos 
somehow survived and made his way, presumably through underground passages, to the Savage Land. 
There he managed to remain in human form, draining energy from animals, until many months 
later the X-Men arrived. Compelled to siphon energy from the X-Man Storm, Lykos briefly 
reverted to Sauron once more (see Storm). But when the stolen energies faded, he returned 
to human form and proved to be an ally to both the X-Men and the jungle lord Ka-Zar.  
Lykos reverted to Sauron once more sometime later and teamed up with the Savage Land Mutates
 against Ka-Zar, the Angel, and Spider-Man. But Sauron again returned to human form and this
 time was reunited with Tanya Andersson.  Years later, however, the mutant known as the 
Toad captured Lykos and Tanya Andersson and used her life energies to transform him back 
into Sauron. (It is unclear whether or not Tanya was killed in the process.) Sauron then 
joined the Toad's new version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (see Brotherhood of Evil
 Mutants).  Since then Sauron has battled the X-Men and other mutant teams on several 
occasions, either in the United States or in the Savage Land. In his current condition 
Sauron appears to be incapable of reverting to human form, even when his energies are 
depleted.

EQUIPMENT:
(This equipment was shown on Sauron in Wolverine #69-71. 
CLAW ATACHMENTS: Sauron was shown to posess a pair of claw attatchments on wrists that 
covered his hand claws, and a pair of claw attachments on his ankles that covered his 
feet talons. These claw attachments are made of Remarkable (30) Material Strength. Damage 
done by his claws and talons are at +1CS (Claws: Good (10) Edged damage 
Talons: Remarkable (30) Edged damage). HELMET: Sauron was shown to be wearing a helmet 
with two long horns and a large ruby over the nose. This helmet is made of Remarkable 
(30) Material Strength and the horns do Remarkable (30) Edged damage on a Charging attack. 

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