• Age: Approximately 35
• Height/Build: Lean and muscular.
• Hair: Black and coiled, turns white during exertions of his conquest.
• Eyes: Black
• Other Traits: Wears a snow leopard pelt.
• Changes: N/A

Clayven is defined by an unshakable devotion to his son, Raven, a priority that eclipses all other loyalties. His choices reflect a father who weighs morality against survival, almost always choosing the latter when protection is at stake. Even in moments of peace, he carries the quiet weight of past traumas and the decisions. Though often composed, when pushed, his fury is as relentless as the ice he commands.

Clayven was born in the United States around 19XX and became a skilled mountaineer, conquering many of the world’s highest peaks before attempting K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen). While climbing with four friends, a sudden blizzard forced them to take shelter in a cave. Sadly, an avalanche swept away Kevin and Yang before reaching safety.

Trapped inside, Clayven and John searched separately for another exit. When John’s screams echoed through the tunnels, Clayven followed his tracks and found him being mauled by two adult snow leopards. He killed the predators, sustaining minor wounds, and put his friend out of his misery through a knife to the heart. Clayven spared the three snow leopard cubs, but with no food or supplies, he weakened, starved, and eventually froze to death.

In Afterworld, his conquest granted him the ability to control and form ice. He also trained in sword and dagger combat under Dobrynya Nikitich, ruler of the Cobalt Mountains. During this time, Clayven met Riza, a witch descended from Merlin’s earthly clan. They married and had a son, Raven.

When humanity fell in the war against Servian, the Dark Creator, Clayven lost Riza and—threatened with Raven’s death—abandoned the fight. He wandered with his son, gathering followers, and seized the deserted Cobalt Mountains as his own. After saving a man named Dane from the Blooming Apostates, Clayven had his memories of Riza erased to harden himself and suppress his Delta-level abilities so as not to be culled by the Dark Gods. He ruled with ruthless pragmatism under the title of the Frozen King, doing everything for his son's sake, even trafficking humans to other kingdoms and the Dark Gods.

His reign ended when a hunter of his, Vance, captured Leon, who was pursued by Ragnarr and Dobrynya on the goddess Fate’s orders. The pursuit culminated in a battle against the demigod Remmy, during which Dane restored his memories, and then Clayven and the survivors were taken to Salutis, the Resistance’s stronghold, to stand trial. He remains there under Dobrynya’s watch.

• Snow leopard pelt
• When not using ice alone, prefers to create or use swords/daggers in combat.

• Cryokinesis – Generates and manipulates ice from ambient moisture or bodies of water.

• Cold Immunity – Natural body temperature is cold; breathes frost; unaffected by hypothermia or freezing.

• Weapon Creation – Crafts ice daggers, spears, and melee/ranged weapons.

• Icewalls & Fortifications – Creates defensive barriers for cover, choke points, or battlefield control.

• Explosive Ice Weapons – Can detonate crafted weapons to create instant large-radius freeze effects.

• Razor Hail Storm – Condenses and rains high-velocity razor ice shards over a wide area or targeted area.

• Contact Damage – Disintegrates clothing and armor on contact when in fight mode; leaving frost burn marks in their place.

• Self-Puppeteering – Can internally freeze and manipulate his own body to function when normal motor control is disabled.

Clayven combines rapid mobility on ice sheets and long-ranged attacks with precision melee strikes and battlefield control. He pressures opponents with AoE freezes and environmental hazards while creating openings for decisive close-range contact attacks. His ice-based damage penetrates supernatural defenses and can bypass normal armor. His powers make him equally dangerous in single combat or against multiple opponents.

• Froze a tsunami with little effort.

• Creates and detonates ice weapons for instant AoE freezes.

• Condensed air moisture into razor hail.

• Killed Godly Guardian's immune to standard weapons by touch alone.

• Survived and moved under the metaphysical presence of a Primary God by freezing his inner body and commanding it forward.

• Father's Devoution  – Will do anything to protect his son, even turning against friends and his humanity.
• Cave Claustrophobia – remains fearful of being in caves after his death experience on Earth.