Calydons

Origins
Two thousand years ago, twin brothers Ezekiel and Caleb and their followers drank from a river tainted with demon magic. They gained immense powers but also became cursed with the potential to go rogue. To be rogue is to become irreversibly consumed with a madness that drives the male to destroy the innocent people he otherwise feels compelled to protect.

Abilities

 * Speed
 * Strength
 * Telepathy
 * All Calydons can communicate telepathically with each other over short distances
 * Calydons who have exchanged blood with each other ("blood brothers") can use telepathy no matter how far apart they are
 * The only non-Calydon a male can connect to telepathically is his sheva

Dream
At age eighteen, every Calydon has a dream that transports him to another plane of existence, where he must fight a vicious battle. If he dies in the dream, he also dies in real life. If he survives the dream, his weapons appear on his forearms.

Weapons
Every Calydon warrior has two weapons, one branded into each forearm. He can summon the weapons with a thought and they appear in his hands with a cracking sound and a flash of black light. If he allows the weapon to leave his hand and no one else touches it, it will disintegrate within a few seconds and cannot be recalled for a few minutes. That prevents anyone else from using the weapon, but there are two cases where one person can use another's weapon: Only a Calydon weapon can cause a permanent scar on another Calydon.
 * A sheva can call her mate's weapons.
 * They can be harvested from the warrior's body at the exact moment of death.

Death
Calydons are very difficult to kill because they can heal from seemingly mortal wounds and even come back to life. When a Calydon dies, the body is absorbed into the earth, giving the semblance of disappearance, and the only part of the person that remains is the mjui. The older the Calydon, the faster the body will disintegrate.

Known Calydons

 * Ajax Drachman &dagger;
 * Augustus Fitzgerald &dagger;
 * Axel Knight
 * Cade &dagger;
 * Caleb
 * Dante Sinclair &dagger;
 * Drew Cartland
 * Elijah Ross
 * Ethan Lagat
 * Ezekiel
 * Faulk Crowley
 * Felix &dagger;
 * Gabe Watson
 * Gideon Roarke
 * Ian Fitzgerald
 * Jacob
 * James Wolfe
 * Kane Santiago
 * Levi Hart
 * Louis &dagger;
 * Maddox Crowley
 * Nate Tipton &dagger;
 * Quinn Masters
 * Roger Filcox &dagger;
 * Ryland Samuels
 * Thano Savakis
 * Trevor Swan
 * Trig &dagger;
 * Walter Parker &dagger;
 * Zach Roderick
 * Zane Hart