Talk:Requeium for a Starblazing Witch

Aquilo Andromeda

Player: SirLagginton

Archetype: Her Twin

Class: Knight

Signature Technique: Judgement Cut

Having gone by the aliases of the Empyrean Skyflame, End of Stories, and the Dragonslayer, Aquilo Andromeda mirrors his younger twin sister in both looks and legend. However that is where their similarities end, as Aquilo's differences with his estranged twin is nearly as long as their respective legends. Though born of the same mother, their paths would diverge harshly in the midst of the Starblaze Revolt, using himself as bait to draw away a Thulian hunter-killer squadron in a desperate bid to protect his compatriots. Enduring a months-long running battle with the Tower of the Scourge on his lonesome, an exhausted Aquilo was ambushed and enslaved by a opportunistic Hyperborean raider fleet.

But his legend would not end there, as years later shock would resound throughout the domain of High Hyperborea as news came of the death of Paragon-Champion Teleklus, slain in the duel with a helot gladiator. Claiming both his freedom and the Armoured Knight Nikador from the fallen Hyperborean hero, Aquilo disappeared into the frontier.

He would reappear once more as war threatened to erupt in the aftermath of the Bismark Incident, working as a mercenary under the employ of the Summer Court. He would reunite with his sister at their homeworld of Argenth, working together for its liberation.

But Aquilo had not emerged unscarred from his enslavement by the Hyperboreans, having internalised their Might Makes Right philosophy during his desperate struggle for survival as a gladiator. Though playing an instrumental role during the destruction of Skyhaven by leading a decapitation strike against the garrison leadership, his differences with his sister led him to refuse joining the Wyld Hunt afterwards.

His greatest achievement would come during the Dragonstar Conflict, joining Medieas in anticipation of facing off against the legendary Dragon Conraught. In a duel that would become legend in the centuries to come, Aquilo and the Nikador would be pushed to their absolute limit against the celestial beast, even forcing Aquilo to temporarily unseal the magic he chose to discard in the gladiator pits. From the pitiless depths of the void to scarring a continent in apocalyptic flame, in the end he emerged as the Dragonslayer, renowned as one of the greatest warriors in generations.

In the years to follow Aquilo would maintain something of a frenemy relationship with his sister and her cohorts, appearing as both enemy and ally to Astrea’s ambitions. As rumor would have it, Aquilo is the last person to see the Witch of the Thousand Suns before her disappearance. What happened there he doesn’t care to say.

Vedec Codes

Player: BM

Concept: Necromancer Mechanic

Archetype: Rival

Pilot Class: Sorcerer

Personal Class: Wizard

Magic

Alteration 5

Mentalism 4

Creation 3

Destruction 3

Movement 1

Signature Spells

Enforced Regenerative Property - applies accelerated regeneration to a living target to heal it, or applies an organic healing effect to inorganic matter.

Familiar Machines - Creates and animates several small machines to defend or aid the caster

Knight Puppet - control and operate Knight systems directly despite remoteness (useful with funnel systems)

Animamachina (Starblaze) - Supercharge a machine or person with vital power to allow them to ignore damage and even fatal injuries and come back from near-death

A moderate pilot, a mechanic and a necromancer, Vedec began their life as a technician in a necromantic factory in Medieas, maintaining animated undead and the machines they used, and eventually was drawn to the study of Armoured Knights due to the rise of mercenary companies rising from the Thulian Ascendancy's invasions. Designing and tinkering with the suits belonging to the Red Chimera company.

Then the Wyld Hunt, taking the same job in the fight, outshone the Chimera Knights, and resulted in the latter's destruction of their suits when they turned on the Witch. Losing their employers was annoying, but seeing the suits they had put tremendous effort and work was truly angering – especially with that they determined, based on the data, inferior Knights.

Retreating to the Medieas underworld, Vedec designed undead monstrosities and Knights to stymie the Wyld Hunt. Designing their own Ban Sith suit, they took jobs, using a combination of undead and their suit to prove its superiority over the Hunt. This led them to fighting alongside a Thulian spy ring, directed to get the Wyld Hunt's attention.

At first, Astrea saw the mysterious undead and odd amount of magically Knights opposing her as a suspicious nuisance, but quickly investigated, and the Wyld Hunt hunted down and infiltrated the underworld ring, where Vedec devised cybernetic undead. Astrea broke into the lab, and on a lark, spoke with the necromancer, asking about their hatred for the Wyld Hunt. Vedec was eager to explain the pride in their Knights, in their magic and their technology, and that it's skill could make 'even the simplest pilot greater than the so-called legends'. Vedec believed that even the Starblazer was the product of her suit. Astrea simply said that it was better to have both, and revealed herself, before fleeing as Vedec activated several drones to try and capture their enemy.

The result lead to a great battle that destroyed a city block and resulted in the Wyld Hunt blasting undead soldiers, and the Ban Sith suit blasting. Astrea and Vedec fought, with Vedec favouring a support role and the aid of their allies defenses; their Thulian and criminal allies, outmatched, abandoned them. Vedec fled, but was lost in the tumbling building, saved by Astrea, who pulled their suit from the collapsing structures.

Vedec was suprised as Astrea hid the necromancer's involvement. She only asked that Vedec take a look at her Knight, and her allies.

Vedec is tired, annoyed, but enjoys being about to see their work being used well. Over time, their irritation at the Witch's cavalier attitude and lack of care in Vedec's work. As a mechanic for Wyld Hunt, they worked on various different suits, and even piloted themselves at times, though they were better at design than at direct piloting.