Tongueless
MinorA pale-skinned Obsidian man past fifty stands six and a half feet tall with a gaunt and thin build, his spine protruding like a fossil beneath sun-starved skin. Greasy white hair spills from a deeply receding hairline distorted by a half-completed scalping that indents the front of his head like the bottom of an egg, while a filthy beard covers his chin. His face is saturated with tattoo ink including spirit eyes on the eyelids that stare when he blinks over deep sunken black intelligent eyes that watch with sinister mathematical curiosity rather than a warrior's posture. The backs of his knotted hands are embedded with solid black Obsidian caste crescents, and runic blue tattoos mark his lower legs as he moves with the presence of an Ice shaman.
Tongueless debuts in Iron Gold as an enigmatic, aged Obsidian figure whose gaunt frame, spirit-eye tattoos, and shamanic presence mark him as a survivor steeped in ice-world mysticism and quiet menace. Across the series his role shifts from atmospheric background presence to active, if fleeting, participant in the brutal hierarchies of the rising war. In Dark Age this veteran ally meets a savage end when Ajax dismembers him to demonstrate dominance, transforming Tongueless into a stark symbol of how even seasoned Obsidian warriors are discarded in the saga’s escalating tyranny.
Physical Description
A pale-skinned Obsidian man past fifty stands six and a half feet tall with a gaunt and thin build, his spine protruding like a fossil beneath sun-starved skin. Greasy white hair spills from a deeply receding hairline distorted by a half-completed scalping that indents the front of his head like the bottom of an egg, while a filthy beard covers his chin. His face is saturated with tattoo ink including spirit eyes on the eyelids that stare when he blinks over deep sunken black intelligent eyes that watch with sinister mathematical curiosity rather than a warrior's posture. The backs of his knotted hands are embedded with solid black Obsidian caste crescents, and runic blue tattoos mark his lower legs as he moves with the presence of an Ice shaman. Towering even while seated cross-legged, his old Obsidian frame is a hulking mass of pale, frost-bitten skin stretched over corded muscles and ancient scars. Deep-set eyes peer from beneath bushy white brows, his face a craggy landscape of deep wrinkles, a wild tangle of long white hair and beard framing a lipless mouth that gives him his name. He wears a patchwork homemade exoskeleton of dented metal plates and reinforced joints, a prominent hole gashing through the chest armor, with a heavy ripWing cannon strapped to his shoulder via thick cables. His presence looms like an unyielding monolith, gnarled hands folded patiently, evoking the silent menace of deep-space ice.
Gallery
Book 5: Dark Age
Evolution
Iron Gold
A pale-skinned Obsidian man past fifty stands six and a half feet tall with a gaunt and thin build, his spine protruding like a fossil beneath sun-starved skin. Greasy white hair spills from a deeply receding hairline distorted by a half-completed scalping that indents the front of his head like the bottom of an egg, while a filthy beard covers his chin. His face is saturated with tattoo ink including spirit eyes on the eyelids that stare when he blinks over deep sunken black intelligent eyes that watch with sinister mathematical curiosity rather than a warrior's posture. The backs of his knotted hands are embedded with solid black Obsidian caste crescents, and runic blue tattoos mark his lower legs as he moves with the presence of an Ice shaman.
- Introduced as a six-and-a-half-foot pale Obsidian with a gaunt build and half-scalped receding hairline
- Revealed to bear spirit-eye tattoos on his eyelids and Obsidian caste crescents on his hands
- Moves with the deliberate presence of an Ice shaman while observing events through sunken, mathematically curious eyes
Dark Age
Tongueless enters as an old Obsidian ally, cross-legged and armed with a ripWing cannon on his makeshift exoskeleton, a fleeting Pup One in the brutal hierarchy of Ajax's world. His loyalty meets a savage end when Ajax kills him, dismembering the veteran into four pieces in a display of raw dominance. In his brief moment, he embodies the disposable ferocity of the ice warriors, crushed under the heel of a tyrant's rage.
- Appears as an old Obsidian ally seated cross-legged with a ripWing cannon mounted on a makeshift exoskeleton
- Occupies the low rank of Pup One within Ajax’s savage command structure
- Killed by Ajax and deliberately dismembered into four pieces as a display of raw dominance
Book Appearances
Iron Gold
First appears Ch 27
Dark Age
First appears Ch 1