Stefan Sommer - the Chronicler - Heroes and Villains of the First Age
Races are not capatalised. Written in mostly past tense, although present is used for some entries (e.g. c33)
C14 - Earth… or not. We landed on Idroa, an untamed planet more perilous in nature than homely, yet it was to be our home. It wasn't all bad, however, as with the danger came opportunity, and with opportunity came heroes and villains.
C16 - Vivienne Durant, the Beastmaster, was originally a veterinarian from France. She awoke to her beast-taming talents in the extreme tutorial when she released her mana at monsters. As her mana spread through their bodies, she found she could control them to a simple extent. Her control grew with practice, and by the end of the tutorial, she took down the final boss using its own kin.
Although she couldn't bring her tamed monsters from the tutorial to Idroa, it didn't put a hamper on her progress as the new world was full of targets. Two of her notable early captures were a sanguine elephant and an infant creeling. Using her tamed monsters, she cut out territory for herself and founded Léonois, becoming a local powerhouse. From here, she…
C17 - Harper Wilcher, the Cyclops, was an early prominent figure originally from Australia. She came out of the extreme tutorial with incredible strength and yet lagged behind her peers because of an encounter with Kuraim Jaffer, the Necromancer. While she survived the ordeal, it took a toll on her such that she vowed to chase down the Necromancer to the ends of Idroa.
She was willing to risk everything to this end and thus found herself surrounded by death, day and night. Eventually, she became one with death itself as Kuraim ambushed her and raised her body for his own army.
C18 - Rahman Zillur, the Warlord, was originally a local gangster from Bangladesh. Coming out of the hard tutorial, he showed his talent in violence early on by triumphing over a dominant ratkin force. The news of his victory spread and many flocked to his village as a result, only to realise while the rumours of his powers were true, it was equally true that he was a lecherous tyrant. The ratkin struggled against him, and the ordinary man and woman struggled under him.
Approximately a month after the Apocalypse, another prominent figure, Zia Kaleda, challenged him on the Crow's Foot. Although he came out victorious, the ratkin razed his village in the meantime and left him destitute. Following this, he went on the run, eventually turning up in Vipin Maharaj's town, Jhargram. He failed in his attempt to take over the settlement and was publicly hung two days later.
C19 - Kasim Taylan, the Jester, was originally a magician from Turkey. High at the time of the Apocalypse, he chose the extreme tutorial by accident. Fortunately, the setting quickly sobered him up; unfortunately, what he saw horrified and broke him. Eventually, Vivienne Durant, the Beastmaster, cycled into his group, and by his own account, carried his ass to safety. The two went on to develop a close relationship even as Kasim descended into insanity.
However, despite his disarming facade, Kasim has fearsome combat ability, particularly with knives. Despite this, he is rarely hostile to any that encounter him and seemingly more interested in travelling Idroa and entertaining its inhabitants. He only visits places once with a few exceptions, the foremost being Léonois because of his friendship with Vivienne.
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C20 - Dolkar Letho, the Aeromancer, was originally a monk from Tibet. Following the Apocalypse, he realised a large portion of a neighbouring monastery, the Palyul Monastery, had been transported to Idroa, so he moved there. Although initially dismissive of the path of violence, he found himself forced onto it in order to protect his less able brothers. Situated on a mountainside, the monastery worked well with his powers as flinging a foe off the mountain was akin to a death sentence.
As his powers grew, so too did his acceptance of his new role to the point he began to take pride in it. The Palyul Monastery became a safe haven for humans while at the same time attracting more foes than ever, putting Dolkar's powers to the test. Although he held on for as long as he could, he eventually sent out a request for help to the global community.
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C22 - Despite the ratkin, despite the hordes, despite the multitude of other races and monsters, it turned out our greatest enemies were the men and women beside us.
C22 - Zhang Bao, the Barbarian, was originally a mixed martial artist from China. He completed the extreme tutorial with flying colours and went onto to form Jinzhou on Idroa. Although he describes himself as a drunken reveller, others have described him with all the qualities of a cruel tyrant. Fortunately for Jinzhou, he appears to lack an interest in power and has instead religiously applied himself to alcohol and slaughter.
He is one of the notable persons who have waged war against the Drakkar instead of the Ratkin. This is made more catching by the fact Jinzhou is holding its own against the dragonmen, primarily due to the efforts of Zhang Bao and Hou Yu, the Artificer. Due to an incident in a nightclub, the two titans have had a frosty relationship from before the Apocalypse, but it has only further soured following another incident where Zhang set fire to Hou's dwelling in a drunken stupor.
This led to…
C23 - Grace Volta, the Valkyrie, was originally a fitness influencer from Italy. Her teammates from the extreme tutorial described her as a natural leader and someone who quickly took to combat. Fierce and beautiful, many believed her class was tailored personally for her.
After her arrival on Idroa, she joined Riverside in its early days and rapidly built up a following. Then, after an argument over public spending, she started a coup against Lazzaro Toscani, the Fire Mage and the founder of Riverside. Although she succeeded, her actions attracted the attention of Silas Wycliffe, the Duellist, and led to them fighting it out. She died to him, and her death is rumoured to have had a profound effect on Silas by those who know him.
C24 - The early top rankers were near-equal in power despite their drastic differences; Lucian was the first true leader of humanity, a guiding beacon in the otherwise dark world; Kuraim was an indiscriminate killer, as large a danger to the other races as he was to humanity; Dahlia was hardly human.
C24 - Hou Yu, the Artificer, was originally an electrical engineer from China. He discovered his talent for magical tinkering during the normal tutorial and allowed his group an easy victory with buffed weapons and armour. After the tutorial, he set up in Zhang Bao's settlement, Jinzhou. Although their relationship is frosty with Zhang having burnt Hou's house down on one occasion, and Hou having responded by shooting missiles into Zhang's compound on another, they maintain an unsteady peace most (some) of the time.
Due to Hou Yu's talents and Jinzhou's strong manufacturing sector, it has allowed the city to heavily arm its army with novel equipment unseen on the rest of Idroa. Because of this, when Jinzhou launched attacks on…
C25 - Waseem Bukhari, the Giant, was originally a thug from Pakistan. Soon after emerging from the hard tutorial, he fought Foltrus's Avatar from the Order of Tyr and was promptly crushed. Regardless, he survived and on recovery sought out the nearest Order settlement and joined them, becoming the first ranker to do so. He was fervent in his beliefs and spent the following weeks proselytising a large number of humans, climbing through the Order's ranks.
He was particularly noted for his leadership against a neighbouring human settlement. Having declined an invitation to join the Order of Tyr, the village (whose name is lost to us) was torn down by Waseem and his band of cultists. They drained blood from the corpses into a circular bathtub, placing it in the centre of the village to act as Tyr. Around it, they arranged the corpses in different poses, some on their knees in prayer, others on the ground reaching out for the bathtub of blood, and even a few strung up the telephone lines like they were ascending.
Although Waseem was initially punished for this act by his higher ups, this punishment was reversed a few weeks later as…
C27 - Michael Eze, the Gladiator, was originally an MMA champion from the United States of America. Passing the hard tutorial, he arrived on Idroa and immediately set up Big Mike's Den. The village was firmly under his rule, with potential opposition targetted and quickly thrown out by his faction. However, two weeks after its formation, the Ratkin attacked Big Mike's Den in force and razed it to the ground, enslaving those who remained.
Fortunately, Michael had fled beforehand to the neighbouring village, Riverside, which had just come under Silas Wycliffe's rule. Many people have stated how Michael had no interest in playing second fiddle to the Duellist, instead aiming to take from the start. But, he put off this plan not long after his arrival for reasons unknown to us.
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C28 - Raven Cox, the Voidcaller, was originally a university student from England, noted by her peers for an obsessive interest in the occult. This interest bore fruit in the hard tutorial as she murdered a teammate in his sleep and sacrificed him to summon her first voidling. Her new companion saved her from the rest of her team's wrath as it promptly killed them and feasted on their bodies, sparing only the one subservient to her.
Being cycled from group to group, she took her time in completing the tutorial and came to Idroa later than others. She wandered the new planet for a while, coming upon people and either killing them off or making them docile to her whims, only to eventually kill them anyway when she grew bored of them. After a while of repeating this pattern, she came upon Riverside and took an immediate interest in its leader, Silas Wycliffe, the Duellist…
C31- Emmanuel Baasch, the Alchemist, was originally a chemist from Germany. He passed the normal tutorial without any notable accomplishments and joined Dresden on his arrival on Idroa. Ruled by Wolfram Baumann, Dresden was in combat on several fronts from its very origin. Emmanuel kept low-key for a time until he gained his class, at which point he began practising alchemy using local ingredients.
He developed several extraordinary items in quick succession, most notably performance-enhancing drugs which are said to have played a large role in Wolfram's class upgrade from Slayer to Mad Dog. Either way, Emmanuel's status exploded in Dresden because of his inventions, and the settlement, which had originally been struggling, quickly razed down two nearby villages, one belonging to the Order of Tyr and the other to the Mycelia.
Soon after, Dresden built its teleporter, and Emmanuel's goods flooded the global market, in particular his K-9 pellets. These pellets induce terrible bloodlust within its users whilst also temporarily gifting them with incredible strength and agility. Although it has the side-effect of melting their muscles into goop after repeated use, this can be largely remedied by Ambrosia, another of Emmanuel's best-selling goods.
C32- While the early top rankers were definitely greats, most of the heroes and villains of the first age wouldn't unearth themselves from their surrounding muck for some time. This included, among others, those who needed time to build up their strength, those who weren't combat-focused, and those who had yet to come upon their fortuitous encounters.
C32 - Solomon Kebede, the Revenant, was originally a carpenter from Ethiopia. He passed the normal tutorial without significant issues and set up in Faama, Babah Bangura's village, on his arrival on Idroa. Although at first, Solomon got by through carpentry, helping in the construction of fences and traps, he eventually got tangled up in a plot to oust Babah and was caught with his co-conspirators before the plan reached fruition.
To punish them, Babah ordered them to be thrown down a nearby chasm as a public spectacle. They were chucked in one by one, and spectators recall the way you could hear their screams all the way down until they softened to little more than whistles. Solomon was dropped in just the same, and all thought he had splattered on some rock-face on his way down and died. While we are not certain of what happened in the chasm, what we do know is that Solomon climbed out of his grand grave that very night and murdered Babah in his sleep.
When the morning came, the villagers walked out to see Babah's head skewered on a pike in the central square, Solomon dozing off beside it. The ex-carpenter had changed, his ebony skin marked with bulging purple veins, his eyes streaked with red, and his once thick hair now thin and clinging to his head. Waking up to the commotion, the Revenant regarded the crowd around him with a crooked grin…
C34 - Katerina Ivanova, the Hidden Blade, was originally a street rat from Bulgaria. There are no records of her tutorial run, although it can be assumed she either completed the hard or extreme variants. Described as having dark hair, a hollow face, and a slim figure, her appearance belies her strength as she is widely regarded as an assassin of similar calibre to Dimas, one of the Order's leaders.
She is rarely seen in civilised society as she is usually hunting monsters. However, there are notable exceptions to this rule, one being when a pencil-thin woman with sallow skin was spotted snooping about Dresden. The following day, Dresden's mayor, Wolfram Baumann, the Mad Dog, was found dead in his room. There had been no struggle as he had been killed in his sleep, his heart punctured four times. While most of my associates agree on Katerina's link to this event, they disagree on her reasoning for the murder: was it due to a personal grudge between them, or did this assassination have anything to do with Emmanuel Baasch's following rise to power?
C37 - Although overshadowed at first, many non-fighters proved their skill in critical areas in which their counterparts struggled. Occasionally, one such area was strategy, and history has proven time and time again that a skilled strategist is pivotal in winning hopeless battles.
C37 - Bijou Louis, the Puppeteer, was originally a seamstress from Haiti. Passing the easy tutorial, she lagged behind her peers on her arrival to Idroa. She joined Port Liberte and kept to low-skill labour jobs to get by until a freak troll attack on the village, where a magma troll ripped her arm off and left her body scorched and scarred. Although she miraculously survived, she was promptly thrown out by her housemates who figured she would shortly succumb to her injuries.
Through an unknown event, possibly an encounter with a powerful classer, the worst of her injuries were healed, and although she remained a limb down, she was no longer in immediate risk of death. After some time on the streets, she eventually reached level 10 and picked Puppeteer as her class. Replacing her missing limb with an automatonic creation, she slowly began to build her strength up. However, this tactic took a drastic shift when she gained her class's second ability.
While the details are unknown to us, we do know that it allowed her to make marionettes of people, causing her status in Port Liberte to explode as select powerful figures came under her control, retaining their strength and abilities. However, Bijou's plot to take over Port Liberte was eventually discovered, and she was forced to flee with her marionettes to…
C39 - Sabine Gantzmann, the Blood Fist, was originally a professional boxer from Germany. She was noted in the hard tutorial for her shaved head, tall stature, and overwhelming lust for battle. On Idroa, she was a founding member of Riverside, and despite supporting Silas Wycliffe's, the Duellist's, opposition at every turn, she herself kept out of his reach.
This low-key approach shifted as she grew in power and finally undertook a drastic change when she upgraded her class from Pugilist to Blood Fist after fighting off a ratkin army. At this time, Silas had chosen to leave Riverside in the hands of others, and this prompted Michael Eze, the Gladiator, to make a bid for mayorship.
Incidentally, this provided…
C41- Uehara Azumi, the Spectre, was originally a convenience store assistant from Japan. Although she passed the hard tutorial, her teammates had very little to say about her other than that she was quiet and easily overlooked. On arrival to Idroa, she set up Nakano, seemingly by herself, before other people came and populated it. This is a significant point as the majority of Nakano's inhabitants claimed to have not seen Azumi during their stay.
Instead, the four lords of Nakano ruled the village in her stead while simultaneously searching for her. It is known she made use of her mayoral powers during the nights to spawn building materials, leaving them with notes, and that she helped out with the hordes using her supernatural abilities. However, Azumi remained unspotted for several weeks until…
C42 - Alice Reid, the Pyromancer, was originally a showgirl from Ireland. Passing the normal tutorial, she came to Idroa classless and joined Big Mike's Den, a settlement under Michael Eze's rule. Michael immediately took notice of her, and she relished in the attention of a celebrity. Swiftly entering a relationship, she gained her class soon after and helped him solidify his position in Big Mike's Den in an attempt to keep his eyes on her even as they roved to other women.
Almost two weeks after its founding, the Ratkin tore down Big Mike's Den, and Alice fled to Riverside along with Michael. Although she wanted to oust its mayor, Silas Wycliffe, the Duellist, at once, Michael urged her to wait for reasons unknown to us. While she listened to him, she grew increasingly frustrated with time as he began seeing several women in addition to her, including Sabine Gantzmann, the Blood Fist.
However, before her frustration could boil over to rage, Michael made his bid for mayorship, and she gladly aided him in this endeavour.
C43- Michael Eze, the Gladiator, was originally an MMA champion from the United States. Passing the hard tutorial, he arrived on Idroa, and immediately set up Big Mike's Den. The village was firmly under his rule, with potential opposition targeted and quickly taken down by his faction. However, two weeks after its formation, the Ratkin attacked Big Mike's Den in force and razed it to the ground, enslaving those who remained.
Fortunately, Michael had fled beforehand to the neighbouring village, Riverside, which had just come under Silas Wycliffe's rule. Many people have stated how Michael had no interest in playing second fiddle to the Duellist, instead aiming to take over from the start. But he put off this plan not long after his arrival for reasons unknown to us.
This temporary hiccup did not lessen his interest in mayorship, however, as he would strike two weeks later when an opportunity arose as Silas left Riverside. Having researched his enemies thoroughly, Michael's coup was bound to be successful, especially as his enemies freely allowed him the first strike. However, he did not account for Sabine Gantzmann, the Blood Fist, to turn on him and to steal his faction from under his feet.
These events ultimately led to the death of Michael Eze as Sabine became the next mayor of Riverside.
C46- Freddie Littlewood, the Dreadnought, was originally a college student from the United States. Completing the extreme tutorial, he set up Newford and tended to it as it grew into a hub. He first came to the world's notice when he shot up the leaderboards by solo killing an F-1 monster, a shambler, at a time when it had only been achieved by Lucian Grimes, Kuraim Jaffer, and Dahlia Howe. This event catapulted his status, and by extension, the status of Newford.
He used this explosion in reputation to travel to nearby settlements and form a coalition with him at its helm. Using the coalition, he annihilated the local Ratkin settlements and then declared war on the Stingtail clans…
C50 - Laila Samra, the Mirage, was originally a secret agent from Saudi Arabia. Recorded as passing the extreme tutorial at a blazing pace, she joined Brightmoor on her arrival to Idroa. This is famously the home of Lucian Grimes, the Warlord, and she soon came to serve as one of his nine captains. Proficient at espionage and possessing an ability to create copies of herself, she has infiltrated many other major settlements and collected information for Brightmoor's use.
One such instance was when she eliminated a servant of a Drakkar Magi and took his place, allowing Lucian an advance notice on all the Magi's activities. This was significant in the Battle of the Crying Wyvern where Laila warned of imminent betrayal, which led to Matteo Rivera, the Terramancer and another of Lucian's captains, to break off a colossal chunk of cliff face and hurl it down onto the coming Drakkar party. This led to…
C51 - Reynard Holden, the Runesmith, was originally a tattoo artist from England. Awakening to his engraving ability early on, his buffs allowed his team to storm through the normal tutorial. Coming to Idroa, he joined New Derby when it was under Masie Snyder's, the Ranger's, rule and set up an engraving parlour. Because of how powerful his runes were, his influence over New Derby grew rapidly and gave him an extremely stable position for when Floyd Godson, the Champion, arrived.
Old friends with the Champion, Reynard aided Floyd in his quest to become mayor as he used his influence to draw over more and more people, allowing Floyd to take the position in a bloody and well-attended duel. From here, Reynard continued practising his engraving until he managed tier-two runes, after which he began arming New Derby's elites with focused powers.
C52-Lin Baya, the Wraith, was originally a successful businesswoman from China. Passing the normal tutorial, she joined Wenzhou and set up a business organising the labour required for the construction projects. Although she performed her work brilliantly, she was cast down from her position when the leadership of the town went to Mok Jum, the Unbroken.
The circumstances allowed her to switch her class from Manager to Wraith. Furious with her treatment, Lin began her quest to murder all who had crossed her. Her class provided her with fitting skills for assassination and as the number of her kills grew, the remainder of the old leadership began to band around her.
Their defiance to Mok's rule grew into active warfare as Wenzhou was thrown into open conflict, Lin against Mok. Although Lin performed admirably, her vengeance was drawn to an end when Mok enticed some of her party to betray her for positions in his government. They led her into a trap, and although Lin killed both them and Mok, she ultimately fell to her injuries and perished.
C53 - Tribulations change us, sometimes for the better, othertimes for the worse. Aside from the System's scheduled tribulations, we make our own to battle and, more often than not, come out from them unrecognisable. This is where heroes and villains are made.
C53-Sabine Gantzmann, the Blood Fist, was originally a professional boxer from Germany. She was noted in the hard tutorial for her shaved head, tall stature, and overwhelming lust for battle. On Idroa, she was a founding member of Riverside, and despite supporting Silas Wycliffe's, the Duellist's, opposition at every turn, she herself kept out of his reach.
This low-key approach shifted as she grew in power and finally undertook a drastic change when she upgraded her class from Pugilist to Blood Fist after fighting off a Ratkin army. At this time, Silas had chosen to leave Riverside in the hands of others, and this prompted Michael Eze, the Gladiator, to make a bid for mayorship.
Incidentally, this provided Sabine the perfect opportunity to stab him in the back and snatch the grand prize from him. Having already convinced the rest of his faction to do the same, her betrayal went smoothly and she ended the day as the Mayor of Riverside. However, in a befuddling move, she did not punish or restrict her opposition at all after this and instead let them heal and grow stronger as if waiting for them to strike.
This came during an expedition out of the village as her opposition ambushed her and mercilessly killed her. The rest of her faction was purged alongside her that day, and Riverside returned to the hands of Elise, the Minister.
C56-Volkan Burch, the Pyromancer, was originally a street vendor from Switzerland. He passed the extreme tutorial with ease due to his grouping with Vivienne Durant, the Beastmaster, and Kasim Taylan, the Jester. Positioned near a volcano on his initial placement on Idroa, he travelled to it with the mind to test how far his class had increased his fire resistance. However, a band of magma trolls had come before him and claimed it as their new base.
He was caught snooping, and they punished him for his crime by dousing him with lava, expecting the man to be scorched alive like their usual victims. Instead, they discovered, to their amusement, that he underwent a moment of euphoria and came out healthier than before. From here, they accepted him into their family and Volkan proceeded to live with these magma trolls until almost a month later when a group of humans came upon the volcano.
Many had come before and died under the magma trolls hands, supposedly unbeknownst to Volkan, but this group was different in the fact that they were led by Kuraim Jaffer, the Necromancer. The trolls were mercilessly slaughtered and raised again while Volkan barely escaped with his life. He wandered aimlessly for some time before hearing Vivienne had set up a settlement, after which he headed for Léonois…
C58- Taika Ngata, the Bulwark, was originally a professional rugby player from New Zealand. Grouped with Dahlia Howe, the Abomination, he barely passed the extreme tutorial as she slaughtered the final boss, rent their other teammate into ragged strips, and mauled Taika inches from death. Arriving on Idroa, he wandered to and from a number of villages before settling on Brightmoor, Lucian Grimes's, the Warlord's, city. There, he ascended the ranks and quickly came to be one of Lucian's nine captains.
Known for his gargantuan defence, Taika is all for charging into armies and dealing devastating damage by himself. He employed said tactic in the Battle of the Crying Wyvern when he stopped a Drakkar Titan by himself and kept it stationed there until his allies won the battle and came over. Although he was said to be torn into shreds and burnt to a crisp by then, he recovered wholly the next day and returned to…
C64- Sandip Mand, the Windwalker, was originally an internet scammer from India. He passed the extreme tutorial with Dolkar Letho, the Aeromancer, and Dewi Alatas, the Broken Shard. It is known that Dolkar had a profound effect on both Sandip and Dewi, causing them to give up on their past lives in order to strive for better futures. On Idroa, Sandip initially took to Jhargram and grew his influence there, particularly when he played an instrumental role in preventing Rahman Zillur's, the Warlord's, takeover bid. Rahman was hung, and Sandip was promoted to Jhargram's council, however he left the town soon after.
This was because Dolkar sent out a global request for aid at his Palyul Monastery, and Sandip felt obliged to help the old monk as he had once helped him in the tutorial. Sandip arrived at the monastery amid a Ratkin attack and fought his way in, eventually finding Dolkar. The two joined forces and their powers synergised to dramatic effect, allowing them to turn the tide of battle and drive the Ratkin off the mountainside. After this, Sandip stayed in the monastery and helped rebuild the surrounding village…
C65 - Zafeera Bazzi, the Blood Ripper, was originally a prisoner from Lebanon. Passing the extreme tutorial, she came to Idroa and quickly gained a reputation as an indiscriminate mass murderer, leaving drained husks in her wake. Accumulating great power and garnering attention, she was soon sought after by Kuraim Jaffer, the Necromancer. She had just snuffed all life from a village when his entourage drifted into the area and positioned themselves around her. Although she initially resisted, a large host of Kuraim's bloodless corpses rushed and incapacitated her.
While it is unknown what was said between them, what is known is that Zafeera joined Kuraim's party right after, seemingly willingly as well as she quickly became one of his staunchest supporters. Theirs was an alliance to be feared by all who attracted their attention, especially as their party only grew as the two of them sought out further individuals of great power but questionable morality.
C66- Brigette Wagner, the Bladesinger, was originally a construction worker from Austria. Entering the hard tutorial, her habit of humming during combat earned her a powerful class with which she descended to Idroa. She quickly gathered a group around herself and came upon Valrun's Keep, a settlement already occupied by Shaerd with Princess Amara D'Aegor as its mayor. Through peaceful discussion, Brigette earned her group entry to the village, and although they originally only meant to stock up on supplies, they ended up staying in Valrun's Keep despite the emergence of other human settlements nearby. This decision was likely influenced by Nicon, the Tempter, who cast a charm over the village to keep all of its citizens there.
Despite this, he refused to have his personal luxuries affected and so left the humans and other Shaerd outside his fort's walls to their own devices. Brigette took the initiative and commanded the abandoned during successive Ratkin assaults, but less so during the horde attacks which largely ignored the village and went straight for the fort. However, her wounds only grew with each fight until the Reaper himself began to loom over her, waiting for the moment he could take the chop. It was at this time Silas Wycliffe, the Duellist, arrived in Valrun's Keep searching for his brother.
Finding him but realising he too was affected by Nicon's charms, Silas immediately spearheaded a plot to assassinate the Tempter, aided by resident Shaerd suspicious of Nicon's abrupt rise to power. However, just as they aimed to throw Valrun's Keep into turmoil, the settlement was besieged by Ratkin once more, only this time it was more devastating than before.
C69 - Given the right circumstances, a single overpowering figure can sometimes be enough to deal with a legion of foes. I've certainly got a list of heroes and villains who have done just that.
C72- Although I have penned a book listing heroes and villains, please take attention that the line between them isn't nearly as clear-cut as many would like to believe. Gone are the days of paragons of good and manifestations of evil. The hero cleaves just as the villain cleaves: the only difference is who stands on the other end and how loved they are. It is also for this reason that I have not explicitly categorised the entrants in my book as that is for you to do with your own judgement.
C72 - Sophie Chandler, the Demolitionist, was originally a bomb disposal technician from Wales. After scouring the extreme tutorial thoroughly, she found ingredients with properties she was familiar with. Fusing them together, trialling extensively for the right combinations, she created explosive bombs which she used to clear the tutorial with. Coming to Idroa, although she no longer had access to the ingredients she had experimented on, her chosen class allowed her to form powerful bombs out of mana. After wandering and slaughtering for a lengthy period, she settled down in Brightmoor, Lucian Grimes's, the Warlord's, city. There, he recognised her talent almost immediately and quickly raised her as one of his five captains.
Out of them, she is best known for the devastating damage she can dish out on their foes. Because of the resources afforded to her position, she eventually started research on explosives and not long after began the production of wholesale bombs for Brightmoor's army. This massively expanded their destructive potential and allowed for greater conquests.