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Name: Garreth Blietstresky Balthasar
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Element: Darkness
Race: Fiend of Babel. (The Fiend of Babel is a species that is human to the undiscerning eye, with the distinction of being partially shadows, and the base desires. Where humans desire food and survival, the Fiend is focused on undermining civilisation, razing important buildings and mixing tongues to the point where a single word can have many meanings, and just generally reveling in the misery of other species.)
Appearance: Garreth has ceased growing and now stands at 5 foot 2, which is fairly short for his people, who stand at around 5 foot 6 on average. His skin is fairly pale by nature, though a lot of the time his skin appears reddish, as he gets sunburnt very easily. He wears his hair in two distinct fashions. The hair on the right-hand side of his head is worn relatively short, and spiky, while the hair on the left side of his head is worn relatively long, and straight, and covers his left eye at all times. His hair is rainbow-coloured by nature, as is the hair of all Fiends. However, Garreth has a mixture that he applies to his hair in the mornings, which turns his hair jet-black for the rest of the day, and wears off during the night. Garreth's right eye, which is the same in appearance as a human's, has an ordinary set of colours, with black pupil, white sclera, and baby-blue iris. The left eye, however, is an entirely different story (See section below). For his clothing, he tends to wear all-black clothing, which is worn, and torn, even shredded in places, and adorned with chains. For the duration of the ECs, he is also wearing an eye patch over his left eye.
The Left Eye: The left eye of a Fiend of Babel is a most peculiar thing. The most immediately obvious irregularity with the eye is its appearance. The iris and pupils of the eye make a six-pointed pentacle in appearance, with the seven pupils making up the inner hexagon and the six outer triangles, and the iris making up the lines that separate the pupils, and the outer partial circles. The pupils are all different colours, with the central pupil being black, as one would expect, but the six outer pupils are (from the top, going clockwise) red, yellow, cyan, orange, green, violet. The iris is a pure white, while the sclera is magenta. However, the absurd appearance is one of the least-weird features of the eye. The eye actually acts as memory storage. While the memories do still accumulate in the brain, they also accumulate inside the eye, as it 'records' everything it sees, as well as all its bearer has heard. The eye is capable of piercing through one layer of any material, which is part of the reason Garreth wears his hair over his, as once his eye has seen through his hair, it cannot pierce any other materials. He also wears his hair over his eye so as not to freak people out.
Another odd feature, is that the eyeball is actually removable, and doing so does not cause any damage, either to the eye, or to the Fiend it belongs to. Probably the most unusual feature of the eye, is that if a Fiend places another Fiend's left eyeball into their own left eye socket, they will gain knowledge of what the other Fiend's left eye has seen. Most curiously, this is actually how the King/Queen of the Fiends is chosen: The left eye of the King/Queen is actually unique among the race: the colours of the eye are inverted: The middle pupil is white and the other pupils are (from the top, clockwise) cyan, violet, red, blue, magenta, yellow, the iris is pure black, and the sclera is green. To become King/Queen, a Fiend must first be eligible, either by being related to the current King/Queen via blood, or by otherwise being 'notable', which usually means they have wreaked havoc on a large populace. Then, they must beat the current King/Queen in combat, and then place the King's left eye in their own eye socket, which gives them not only the title, but the knowledge of everything the previous Kings have seen.
Abilities: Born of Shadow: Fiends originally came into being from shadows, and still maintain some aspects of this origin, being that they are more agile, more flexible, but also of less substance: A Fiend's most powerful attacks utilise the momentum of a full-pelt run to compensate for the fact that they are not naturally inclined to being physically strong.
Hand-to-hand expert: Fiends all train in mastery of hand-to-hand combat, specifically for the use of clawed gauntlets, and Garreth is no exception.
Agile: Fiends are naturally more agile than most other races due to their shadow origin, being about 1.6 times faster than a particularly agile human. (Let me know if I need to lower this. It's already been significantly nerfed, but I'm not sure if this is acceptable or not)
Flesible: Fiends are naturally able to contort themselves to levels that other races would have to train to accomplish.
Equipment: Garreth has only his two clawed hand gauntlets, which are ornate, and made of a metal that resembles gold in appearance and colour, but which can meet steel without giving, or being scratched any more than steel would against steel. On the back of the hand of each gauntlet is a gem, a ruby for the left hand, a sapphire for the right. The fingers are segmented, with the undersides sharpened, slightly more sharper than steel on a regular hit, but on a fuill-pelt, swinging momentum strike, the gauntlets are capable of cutting THROUGH steel. The fingers also end in vicious points that no man would like to get stabbed with.
Personality: Garreth is the opposite of normal Fiends of Babel. He is kind towards people and acts as an interpreter whenever the need arises, his knowledge of the many confused tongues coming in handy. He hates killing, but he is willing to use violence readily if it's needed. Due to his dislike of killing, Garreth only fights using his clawed arm gauntlets, and doesn't even wear his feet gauntlets, and would only resort to using his feet if it came down to his life or the life of his opponent. Garreth is extremely loyal towards his friends, and an honourable fighter.
History: Garreth was born into a very minor family, they held no status, and hadn't had a single member be notable for well over six generations. Garreth's older brother, Isaac Dewford Balthasar, sought to change this. When Garreth was five years old, and Isaac 25, Isaac left the family, and headed across the sea. He travelled quite far, and found a large island that was in dire straits, overpopulated and economically struggling. Over the course of 5 years, Isaac took this struggling nation, and drove it into ruin. Over the first year he was there, he managed to separate the population into eight distinct groups. After the second year of his time there was done, each group spoke a different language, a simple greeting in each, translating to the most vulgar insult of another. On the eve of the third year, he re-introduced the groups to each other, and throughout that third year he manipulated diplomatic relations, which were constantly frayed even without his input. Isaac then sat back as civil war destroyed the island and its inhabitants over the next two years.
Satisfied with what he had accomplished, Isaac returned to his family and sought audience with the then-King of the Fiends, to tell of his exploits across the sea. The King was dubious of Isaac's tale, however, and was set to banish Isaac for wasting his time, when Isaac suggested the ultimate lie-detecting technique: As a Fiend can learn of all another has seen by placing the other's eye in his own eye socket, this was all the King had to do to know if Isaac was telling the truth. The King agreed, but not before warning Isaac he would be killed if he was lying, and gave him the chance to opt out. Isaac, knowing he spoke the truth, agreed to go ahead. The then-King plucked Isaac's eye, and set it in his own eye socket. It was not long before a slow smile came upon the King's face, and giving Isaac his eye back, bestowed notable status upon the man. Isaac, grateful, bowed, and in his next breath, challenged the King for his own title. The King, having not been challenged in the 20 years he had held the title, was amused by Isaac's arrogance, and agreed to the battle.
After one week, the two engaged in battle. Isaac, who had trained hard, and had kept his battle skills in peak condition, and the then-King, who had not fought since he gained his title, twenty years previous. Despite the difference in the upkeep of their skills, the two were quite evenly matched. After a long battle, taking around an hour, Isaac triumphed, and plucked the King's eye. As was the custom, he placed the Eye of The King in his eye socket, and placed his own left eye into the now-ex-King's eye socket, so that he would still have an Eye. With this act done, all that every King and Queen previous to him had seen and heard was transferred into Isaac's mind. With this act done, Isaac returned to his family, and informed them of their new status among the Fiends.
Garreth was very uneasy of this news. From a young age, Garreth had found he didn't agree with much of the Fiends' way of life. In fact, one time, at a Gathering, he had voiced his thoughts among his family, which led to him being introduced to the 'educational chair', aimed at brainwashing Fiends who thought differently. First, you were strapped down, then the backrest reclined. From the ceiling would descend several blades, each of them swinging. Slowly they would cut away at your arms and legs, while what was expected of a Fiend was slowly and methodically spoken. You would be pushed to the brink of death, then healed. Then, the swinging blades were swapped for stabbing blades, and the process repeated. Since that time, Garreth had learned to keep his thoughts to himself.
After that incident with the 'educational chair', Garreth found himself thinking more and more that he was what was known as The Saviour of Babel. The Saviour is something of a mythical figure among the Fiends, and said to appear only once every 20 generations. The Saviour is said to be the opposite of normal Fiends. For this reason, The Saviour is hated by all, and even occasionally feared by some. Whenever a Saviour is discovered, the Fiends engage in what can only be compared to a witch-hunt: A small, carefully selected group of Fiends systematically and methodically go through every family, looking for the Saviour. There is no chance of the Saviour being among the group, however, as it is a prerequisite that Fiends be of notable rank in order to join the group, though they themselves ARE still tested. No Fiend is safe from this process, not even the King.
So Garreth, thinking himself to be the Saviour, was very uneasy at the news of his family's new status. They would now be a lot more high-profile among the other families, which meant that not only were they far more admired, but far more SCRUTINISED. It was expected of the King's family that every member was as ruthless as the King, and Garreth had not only not shown that in any way, but he had voiced to his family his thoughts on the Fiends' way of life. This was something that would be remembered, and Garreth would be far more highly scrutinised than most, because of this fact. However, being still only ten, he knew he still had eight years before he came of age, and it was expected of him that he participated in the activities of the Fiends.
For the next six years, Garreth managed to stay below the radar, but eventually, he was found out for what he was. It was the eve of his sixteenth birthday, and his family was on the move again. Garreth managed to sneak away, and back to the settlement they were now leaving, having thrown it into a full state of discord. Garreth tried to help the people there, having himself been a part of causing the current situation. He tried his best to help them back into all at the very least speaking a single language. Unfortunately for Garreth, some of his family came back, looking to see if he'd been left behind somehow. When they found him trying to HELP the people there, they realised what he must be. Rather, they jumped to the conclusion, as it was the right time for the Saviour to appear.
At that point, Garreth felt that he was done for, but to his surprise, the people he had been vigorously trying to help sprang to his aid, and drove the members of his family off, but not before they swore they would hunt Garreth down. Once Garreth got the settlement back into speaking a single language, they told him about Vanguard Academy, where he enrolled. Garreth has since graduated from the Academy and found himself in Bren, to fight in the ECs to test himself, and see if he can go out into the world, and fight his own kind.
Fiends of Babel Culture: The Fiends of Babel are somewhat nomadic in nature. They travel around a fair bit, staying in one location only to sow discord. They travel in small families, and are spread throughout many different lands. Every three years, the whole race comes together in an event they unoriginally call a Gathering. At these events they share tales of communities they have ruined since the previous Gathering, and some of the Fiends that are of age- 18 years plus- engage in a fighting tournament, sheerly for fun, as they are somewhat of a violent race, when amongst only their own kind. The Fiends' weapon of choice are clawed gauntlets for both hands and feet, which are usually ornate, and they are gifted their own set when they come of age. However, gifting another Fiend a pair is actually a challenge, to fight. So when a Fiend comes of age, they must fight whomever gifted them the gauntlets. A Fiend's fight style utilises all four limbs, with different roles for the different sets, A fiend's arms are used to wound, maim and disable, while his legs are used to kill.
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