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Nameless Ghoul Identity profile

(Graciously provided by the Archives of the Ministry)

Code name: Saltlick

Gender: cospsjdjc828, (error info unavailable)

Age: First summoned in the year 1499.

Element: Earth

Instrument played: Drums

Organizations: The Ministry, The Devils Misfits

Notable traits: Quiet, observant, slow to anger, plain, vengeful.

Height: 5’9

Weight: kaiviowkdmqlx.&93 ( Error none of your business)

Abilities: Very little is actually known about Saltlick’s overall abilities since their primary talent is to not stand out. They appear so ordinary that people and ghouls forget what they looked like.

What is known is that they were a powerful combatant in the past and that they’ve grown weaker since their injury (see bio). As such they’d be weaker in a fight against the average ghoul but years of experience allow them to do well in combat.

Highly durable against attacks of all varieties, they sometimes over rely on it and get knocked out or stunned trying to take a hit they were better off dodging.

No earth element related abilities have been documented from Saltlick.

Past assignments: Fighting the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian wars, records keeper and compiler for the Ministry.

Current assignment: Classified (Classification override) Handling and managing “The Devils Misfits” group, insuring they don’t cause to much trouble or bring negative attention to the Ministry. Delivering packages and messages covertly to whoever the Ministry assigns to them.

Appearance: While their appearance is hard to remember, some common themes exist among the few documented cases.

In most cases Saltlick is seen wearing dress clothes, a black dress shirt, black bow tie, black dress pants, and dull black dress shoes.

In older documents they are seen wearing an old set of Hellish brigandine armor. Dark red leather covered with bronze plates would cover Saltlick’s torso but that was the extent of their armor. Black pants, black long sleeved shirt and black boots completed that outfit.

No records exist of what Saltlick’s face looks like as they are always seen wearing their mask atleast in those records available.

The mask is a relatively simple looking design with no attempt to make it look demonic or ghoulish in any sense. It resembles an old war helmet that completely covers their face and head. An opening for their horn is at the top and some modifications are suspected since they have no issues speaking when they want or hearing things with it on. Light grey in color, it does however twinkle slightly in bright lights like a crystal.

No tail or description of one has been reported, and they do possess only one horn. The horn is grey in color and juts out of the left side of the top of their skull. The horn strongly resembles a chunk of rock salt crystals.

Older documents report them having two horns before first arriving to Earth but the other was driven into their skull in the battle that crippled them (see bio) (also not crippled -_- )

Bio: Detailed records of Saltlick have proven difficult to locate and even harder to verify. The following is what has been verified of the accounts that Saltlick provided themselves as well as some graciously given by “The Prince of Lies” themselves (Praise him).

Saltlick was born countless years ago to two unknown ghouls. Despite a rough upbringing, they proved themselves competent and quickly rose through the ranks due to their combat prowess, loyalty, and determination to see justice served on those who needed to be punished.

Little is known other than that they graduated number 6 in the city of Dis’s most grueling military training program and is the last survivor of that years class (The crusades and conflicts with angels and overwhelming tides of humans took a toll on them)

In 1499, a French commander struck a deal with an old cell of satanists with similar abilities to those the Ministry have, like summoning ghouls. (This information on who they are, how they got said power, or even what they were called is unknown and would be considered unverified if Saltlick had not been summoned. Investigation is still ongoing) (You won’t find anything on them, they were wiped out to the last person and their records purged... I saw to it personally).

Saltlick was summoned to Italy and participated in multiple conflicts and actions as England, France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the independent nations in Italy as well as all the mercenaries like the Swiss fought.

Several different wars went on over the years that they participated in, at one point even fighting alongside the Holy Roman Empire. Although they were a monster on the battlefield, their ability to be forgotten so easily kept their profile low enough that no church officials pondered an agent of the “Prince of Lies” to play any part in it.

This ended sometime in July/August of 1525 when Saltlick played a major role insuring the city of Marseille held off the Imperial siege until the main forces of the French king arrived. Thus allowing the French to not only boot the Imperial forces out of France but to counter invade Italy, even going so far as spreading the plague to Imperial soldiers stationed in Milan.

These actions promptly alerted the Holy Roman Empire that something more was a foot and decided to call on the aid of the church and God’s aid. Much to the detriment of Saltlick, God answered these prayers.

Saltlick spent much of the remainder of 1524 and start of 1525, with the main French forces who were besieging the garrison that had been left in the city of Pavia. The garrison had hung on stubbornly through the winter into February when a relief army arrived.

Tensions, defenses, and planning came to a head on the night of the 23-24 of February when Imperial forces began bombarding the French camp and moving their forces under the cover of night. Unfortunately due to the complexity of the defenses, the Imperial engineers were unable to get all of the forces moved before dawn.

It quickly descended into a vast melee as French and Imperial forces engaged each other north and south of the city. Saltlick however stayed in reserve near the French camp which was located near the Castello Mirabello hunting lodge which itself was located in the center of a massive hunting park.

It was here shortly after dawn that Saltlick was confronted by the Archangel Raguel, the angel of justice and his unnamed angel standard bearer.

Raguel was similar to Saltlick in that they both believed in justice being served, but obviously through very different methods. They discussed this for a short time before engaging in a fierce melee fight (No transcript of this conversation exists nor any verifiable witnesses that Raguel was there) (I’d think the missing horn, and the fact he hasn’t done his job throwing demons and ghouls back in Hell since is verifiable proof but ok).

The fight was especially intense and taxing on Saltlick, forcing them to use every trick, talent, and weapon they had just to keep up with Raguel. Despite all of their efforts, Raguel easily stomped their resistance to dust.

At the end, driven to their knees, armor rent, weapons destroyed, and bleeding heavily internally... Saltlick performed the unthinkable.

Held up by their neck, and just as Raguel was reaching back to bring his mace down upon Saltlick’s head was when they struck.

With a broken spearhead that they palmed in their left hand when they fell to their knees, they drove the spear head up under the chin of Raguel into his brain.

The victory was short lived however for as soon as Raguel and Saltlick’s bodies hit the ground, the standard bearer took up the Archangel’s mace and swung it down upon the right horn of Saltlick, driving it completely into their skull.

While the French lost the battle, the wars would continue on for several decades. Saltlick’s part in them ended after their fight with Raguel.

It’s unknown what happened to them after their horn was driven in or who the angel that struck them was, or what happened in the years in between.

The next verified appearance of Saltlick was in 1936, when they casually approached the court of the “Prince of Lies” requesting an audience. Surprisingly the audience was granted and they met in private for nearly an hour.

As soon as the meeting was ended, the “Prince of Lies” sent them back to Earth immediately to serve the Ministry and that they were indeed the real Saltlick.

Nothing worthy of note occurred in their history working for the Ministry until early 2019 when they were reassigned to a project the “Prince of Lies” called “The Defects”.

Since then Saltlick has been almost completely off the radar and it’s unknown what their next actions are.

Addendum: Due to holes in the information, comments made on reports, and attempts to censor information, the ghoul know as Saltlick is having all access and moderating privileges revoked permanently. (That’s fair)

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