Server:Moon Guard US/Centimanus

Centimanus is the screen name of Centus MacManus, a fictional, non-canonical player character in the World of Warcraft. He is the founder of the Couriers of Compassion, a guild of the Horde on the American server Moon Guard. In spite of overwhelming physical hideousness brought about by undeath, he is an incorrigible philanderer and womanizer, and by most accounts both in and out of character, one of the most controversial figures on the server.

Early Life
Centus MacManus was born the youngest of three brothers on a farmstead near the trading town Corin's Crossing to Hundred MacManus Sr. a veteran of the First War. In the years following the Alliance victory in the Second War, the conscription to serve in the King's army came to the MacManus farmstead. Centus was fourteen years old—legally of age—thus beginning his tutelage under the masterful Marksman and Hunter of the Ironforge Clan of Dwarves named Thompson. Despite Centus' complete absence of any real skill in using firearms, the hunter took a begrudged liking to the young man and instilled in him the unique sense of morality that would go on to define the course of his life.

After completing a basic military training under Thompson, Centus MacManus joined the military as a foot soldier, a sure indication of how little was ultimately taught to him by the Hunter. Without any campaigns to serve in, Centus was stationed in a regiment that circulated throughout the kingdom of Lordaeron, maintaining the Internment Camps holding the remaining orcs, and acting as a military police presence in cities more prone to civil unrest. The propensity toward constant travel and quartering in the homesteads of citizens presented Centus with a multitude of opportunities to engage in acts of philandery, which the young man took with reckless abandon.

“The Hundred Hands” of Lordaeron
Nearly half-way through this career of promiscuous sex, the regiment Centus belonged to began to gain notoriety among the rest of the military, while the man, himself, was given the nickname “The Hundred Hands.” While there were many more than one-hundred women that Centus would ultimately bed, the nickname was given at the point at which everyone stopped bothering to count.

The lifestyle of Centimanus has fallen under a great deal of criticism, in spite of his own assertion that such actions were entirely appropriate and justified given the temporary and fleeting nature of his alloted life. He further attests that he shared “an entire lifetime of love and dedication with each of [the women] in the night [they] spent together.” This latter claim is almost universally disbelieved by those who have heard it, however.

Undeath
After the betrayal and assassination of King Terenas by his deranged son, Centus' company was recalled the defend the Kirin Tor and their city of Dalaran from the ravages of the Scourge. Among the Kirin Tor was Ciend MacManus, the oldest of the three brothers. Due in part to a lack of any combat experience, the regiment was among the first to fall before the army of the undead. Centus MacManus was declared killed in action at sixteen years of age, a casualty of the Third War along with his oldest brother.

Centus rose as a Ghoul of the Scourge almost immediately after his death, beginning a new campaign as another faceless foot soldier in the army of another king. His entire body was slowly repurposed to the tasks of a savage, cannibalistic killer through multiple campaigns of conquest under the iron will of the Lich King. Years of the absolute dominion whittled away at Centus' will and by the time of the cataclysm that lessened the grip of Ner'zhul on the Scourge, he had forgotten how to command his own body as an individual. Centus fell into unconsciousness, wandering blindly alongside many other members of the mindless undead; Liberated from slavery, but unable to claim their freedom.

Wandering came to an end when Centus fell into a mass grave dug as a trap for the mindless by early human resistance in the region long since driven out by the true Scourge. He remained there, unable to muster the presence of mind to claw himself out. Time passed at a sporadic rate to Centus' awareness until finally the ennui of drifting in and out of consciousness was ended by the presence of Sylvanas Windrunner, who awoke him to full control of his body, holding his inert form close and singing a dirge for fallen soldiers while on the path to reclaim the Ruins of Lordaeron for the newly formed faction of free-willed Undead known as the Forsaken.

Unswerving loyalty to the Banshee Queen followed alongside adoration and affection for the woman Centus saw as his surrogate mother in undeath.

Couriers of Compassion
The coming of the Blood Elves into the Horde was a catalyst for a division of loyalties among the Forsaken in spite of the position of Queen Sylvanas as unswervingly supportive of her former people. In the formative days of the new alliance between the two factions that would eventually comprise the entirety of the Horde in the east, the three MacManus brothers, then Deathstalkers, distinguished themselves as exceedingly loyal to the interests of their Queen by foiling a small plot to assassinate an elven dignitary. The brothers were rewarded with the task of overseeing a new order of the Forsaken military known as the Couriers of Compassion built for the purpose of representing the interests of the Forsaken on a worldwide scale in the name of the Queen.

The Gallant of Grace
After dutifully leading the Couriers of Compassion in and out of character since the server's creation, Centimanus stood down as the leader proper in order to accommodate the player's schedule out of character, and to take a new position as an even more specialized agent of the Queen, free of the responsibility to directly lead the Couriers. This new, exclusive title is "The Gallant of Grace." Centimanus wears the original purple tabard of the Couriers of Compassion along with the title.

Appearance
One of Centimanus' most noteworthy physical features is his lack of a mandible, leaving his prehensile tongue and strips of muscle tissue to hang freely. Though his skin was pulled taut over his bones over the course of his undead existence, it has bunched up into thick wrinkles with the jaw not present for it to stretch over, making Centus all the more hideous to behold. The condition of the skin on Centus' face has led to speculation that the jaw was lost after his rebirth into the Forsaken, but the exact circumstances of the event remain shrouded in mystery.

Recently Centus has begun wearing a wide-brimmed purple hat accented with Zhevra leather which he has eagerly named as distinctively his in spite of a few other characters wearing ones like it. In addition to matching the first tabard of the Couriers, the hat is often said to bring out Centus' true personality.

Name
“Centimanus” is an interpretation of the Latin “Centimani,” which refers collectively to three figures in Classical mythology known more commonly by the Greek “Hecatonchires,” while “Centus MacManus” is an extended interpretation built to fit into traditional Western naming schemes; “Centus” is the given name and “MacManus” is the surname. The homage is revisited as the common theme for the entire MacManus family. A notable example is in the middle brother, Hecaton Chires MacManus, whose screen name is “Hecatonchire.” The S was omitted due to the character limit.