Lincoln Franks

Lincoln Franks
Book(s)	SLAY
Introduced	Slay Book I
Gender	M
Age	35
Occupation	Bounty hunter
Species	Human
Fan Name
Height	6-3
Weight	235
Hair	Black
Eyes	steel-gray

Magical Abilities
Class	Rixator
Loom	none
Affinitas	no
Naturalis	no

Lincoln Emanuel Franks is a Rixator who used to work for The Bastion with the rest of his famous monster-hunting family, has turned his back on being a company man. Although his brother and sister continue to work for the Bastion, Lincoln has gone freelance and now only fights supernatural creatures when he is paid to.

Appearance

Linc is 6-foot-3 and weighs about 220 pounds (he needs to lose a few, target weight, 190). He has slate-gray eyes. Black hair. He has a scar on his cheek he deliberately had sutured, rather than magically healed, so he would remember the wound he received at the sword of Teddy Two-Fingers

Descriptions

From SLAY:

• The Man in Gray flipped his cloak aside. In an instant, Anastasia saw hints of dark-gray armor, a holstered pistol, a sheathed knife as long as her arm, but he didn’t grab those — his right hand came out holding a little axe. A hatchet, she remembered.

• Whatever it was that covered his face receded, a spent wave sliding back across the sand and into the sea. What lay beneath was both comforting and terrifying in its own right. Comforting because he was human, something she’d taken for granted but not anymore. He was an old man, maybe thirty or forty, Anastasia wasn’t good at guessing ages. He had high cheekbones and a heavy jaw. Terrifying because of his bright, steel-gray eyes, or rather, what was in them — an analytical coldness that made her shiver.

• The cloak-wearing psycho from the warehouse — Joe’s murderer. He looked real. Solid. Normal, if you didn’t count the gray cloak and that bizarre black-cloud mask that hid his eyes, wavering and curling as if driven by an invisible breeze.

• He smiled ruefully, his gray-peppered stubble making the deep laugh lines at the corners of his mouth seem deeper, darker, only Anastasia had a feeling those lines weren’t from laughing.

From SLAY II: Hatchet Man:

• A tall man slid into view on Mortimer’s right. A man wearing gray armor mostly covered by a gray hood and a ragged cloak. Slowly roiling mist hid his eyes, extending outward like gossamer demon horns.

• Linc stood there, Bastard Maker in his hand, the Haze of Simurel that hid his eyes curling up like demon horns crafted from solid smoke. His ragged, dark gray cloak hung to the ground, seemed to merge with it, and with the night’s darkness, making him blend into the shadows so thoroughly he was damn near invisible even though he stood right there, on the muddy shore, completely in the open.

Parents

• Jacoby Franks, father.
• (Add mother's name later)

Spouse

Amanda Brodie-Franks, deceased.

Children

Samuel Franks, age 10.

Siblings

• Sophia Franks, older sister.
• Lukas Franks, younger brother.

Gear

Between Cloak

Lincoln's cloak was custom-made for him when he became a rixator. It is made from the tanned skin of a Fold Dragon, a creature that can travel between planes of reality. The leather of Lincoln's cloak is 3,000 years old.

• The cloak has a small amount of space that simultaneously exists both in our plane and in the Fold.
• Solid items stored in the cloak temporarily become pure filmament, with no rigidity. A shotgun, for example, becomes a flexible as a ribbon, and stays in that form until the cloak's owner removes it. At that point, the items returns to its solid state.
• The cloak's "Haze of Simurel" provides several functions:
  • For the person wearing the cloak, it can turn day to night and night to day. In effect, this gives the wearer excellent night vision and significant protection against bright flashes or blinding attacks.
  • It hides the wearer's eyes, mitigating many fear-based attacks.
• Cloak's other magical abilities
  • The "sursum" command makes the cloak push off a surface, greatly adding to the wearer's ability to leap.

Combat Loadout

• "Bastard Maker," a 9th-century skeggeøx (pronounced SKEG-ex), bearded hatchet.
  • 69cm (27.1") long, steel handled (non-magical), steel bladed (magical).
  • The blade has the ability to cleave through some magical shields and armor.
  • Once bonded with its wielder, the blade can be thrown and recalled.
  • The weapon is named ᛒᚨᛋᛏᚨᚱᛞ ᛗᚨᚴᛖᚱ, assumed translation is "Bastard Maker"
• Tizona
  • The sword once wielded by Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid.
  • Sword's power depends on the worthiness of its wielder
    • With unworthy wielders, it has some small power of flame and can make enemies nervous
    • With worthy wielders, the sword can blaze with flam and strike terror into the hearts of weak foes.
• Custom Lancehead F1 crossbow
  • Fires bolts at 420fps
  • Magda made a magical winder that draw the Lancehead in one second.
    • This was listed in the wiki but isn't present in the text, so marking it obsolete. -SS
• Kel-Tec PMR-30 handgun
  • 3x 30-round box magazine, one mag loaded with silver rounds (when money allows)
• VEPR-12 shotgun (Book I)
  • 12 guage
  • 867cm long (34in) with stock folded out
  • 705cm long (27") with stock folded
  • 3x 12-round box magazines, one loaded with steel slugs, one loaded with silver slugs (when money allows)
• M&P 12 (Book II)
• Warded shield wand in his right greave
• Vial of holy water in his left greave

Non-Combat Loadout

As listed in S01E03:

• Ruger LCR 38 Special in a back holster
• Damascus steel karambit knife in a front sheath, hidden inside his jeans
• Warded shield wand in his right sock
• Vial of holy water in his left sock

"In The Crate"

Stuff he has carried in the past but isn't part of his usual loadout.

• Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife. The knife was made for Aleister Crowley, who sold it to the Clearinghaus to get money to by Nurple.
• Barrett M82

Transportation

SLAY 1

Lincoln rides a blacked-out Verge TS electric motorcycle.

• When he's not wearing his cloak, he stores it in the bike's storage compartment beneath the seat. He will put his armor in the cloak, creating significant space savings.
• The Verge is a nearly silent vehicle, and in any city scape with any amount of traffic noise, it is completely silent.
• The Verge TS has some meshwork enhancements, including auto-steering and intelligent speed control, and a meshwork ramp, which is activated by Lincoln speaking the word "aggerem."

SLAY 2

Delilah Droman gifts Lincoln a slate gray Volt Lacama Biposto.

Details

•  143 MPH, 20 MPH faster than Verge.
•  All dark gray
•  Two-seater

Description

• Thick and squat, like an elegant bulldog with wheels.

Magical Phrases

• Ad normalem: A simple spell that returns meshwork to the state it was in before Lincoln distrusted it.
• Aperi mihi: Lincoln's meshwork belt buckle can open some things at a distance, like car trunks.
• Apertum vulnis: A command that activates the no-heal option on his crossbow bolts.
• Descendat: Allows him to fall slowly.
• Enodare: Translates to untangle. This command wil undo some meshwork knots, but only if Lincoln is very familiar with the.
• Ignis: A command that activates the green-fire explosive option on his crossbow bolts.
• Integumento/Detego: Activates/deactivates the Haze of Sirumel.
• Gildi: makes Bastard Maker return to him.
• Scutum aeris: Activates the shield of his warded shield wand.
• Sursum: A power of his Between Cloak that gives his leaps a magical boost, allowing him to jump up two, even three stories high.
• Tactus paralysi: Activates the meshwork security system on his motorcycle.

Taglines

• Lincoln often says "blazing hells" when he's amazed by something.