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REAL NAME: Charles Malden. CITIZENSHIP: Texan. PLACE OF BIRTH: San Antonio, TX. RELATIVES: Parents deceased. FRIENDS: Tartarin (a.k.a. Coucourdin), Brenda Galloway, Kee-Oh-Kuk (deceased), Stormshadow. ENEMIES: The Black Duke, El Chulo. BASES OF OPERATIONS: Texas-New Mexico Border, 1845. VITAL STATS: Male, 5'9", 180 lbs. Blue eyes, black hair (as Drago), blonde hair (as Charles Malden). POWERS: Peak athletic abilities. Superb sharpshooter. Highly-skilled rider. Has the power to create limited illusions (summoning the images of butterflies, changing his appearance) and "clouding men's minds". Has been taught Indian magic and has access to Oxian's Arches. BIOGRAPHY: Charles Malden, a.k.a. Drago, is a descendent of Dragut and an ancestor of Sibilla. In 1587, a Drago fought the Croatoan alongside Viking at Roanoke. In 1750, another ancestor fought in the Franco-Indian wars and later took part in the American Revolution. A Drago daughter married a Malden whose son was killed by the Klan in Louisiana after the Civil War. His grand-son, Joseph, Drago's uncle, died at the Alamo. After his death, like him, Charles Malden was initiated by Indian shaman Kee-Oh-Kuk, one of the Immortal Twelve. Kee-Oh-Kuk lived inside the Cursed Mesa, near one of Oxian's Arches. The shaman taught Charles Malden to become a crime-fighter. While Charles posed as a harmless, effeminate man, Drago, with the help of exiled French sailor Tartarin, fought the Mexicans of the Black Duke and his henchman El Chulo. Eventually the Duke managed to trap Drago and killed Kee-oh-Kuk, but Drago escaped thanks to Stormshadow's intervention. |
