King Claw and Righteous Fire

Thomas Eze was a deserter from the Nigerian military who found ruins of the ancient Nok people of West Africa. Looking for a place to hide out, he crawled behind a shattered obelisk and found a skeleton entombed within. On the skeleton’s hand was strange, clawed gauntlet crafted of what looked like iron. Thinking he’d perhaps found a valuable artifact, Eze removed the gauntlet and, on a whim, put it on. In a flash of blinding light and with a burst of searing pain, the gauntlet bonded to his flesh. Eze passed out, and when he awoke he found himself forever changed. Possessed of great power and an inner fire that could only be quenched by violence and carnage, he became the flamboyantly titled King Claw and founded the terrorist militant cult, Righteous Fire.
Through the gauntlet King Claw possesses potent superhuman powers, including the ability to drain a target’s life force and transfer it to himself and others. Furthermore, this power the gauntlet grants seems to bring out the worst in him. His minor prejudices, political preferences, and views on social issues have been amplified to fanatical levels. He is unstable, erratic, and utterly terrifying. He rules Righteous Fire with a mix of raw power and mad charisma. Eze’s extreme nature means that only the crazy and the desperate join him, but it also means that everyone in the group is willing to kill or die by his command. In fact, it seems that the longer one spends with him, the more fanatical and blindly loyal one becomes to him.