AppearanceName: Athzas
Gender: identifies as male.
Age: ~A few dozen millennia. (pretty damn old)
Alignment: Good
Race: Athzian; Partial Thestus
Personality: Calm, slow to make a decision; but when the decision is made, he is dead set by it. A very independent fellow but sticks by his allies. He always as a sad look when his past is mentioned; much of it has not been good. He is open to most species and willing to align with a party that meets with his own goals.
Powers: Being the first of his kind, who are collectively known as “Athzians” on his homeworld, he has the additional strength, heavily armored body and near agelessness exhibited by most of his race. However, his age does have an effect on how agile he is and his raw power. Over time, his energies have begun to expire, proving that age catches up to all; even those who are almost demigods.
Despite this aging, he is still stronger than average representatives of his race. His strength can match a high level bodybuilder in the human world, his body can take a large amount of physical (but not so much magical) punishment and he does have agility, even if he is more prone to mistakes in that regard.
His weapon comes in the form of a shining white energy blade which he can summon at will. It is not physical; it could pass through objects completely. However, it does extreme amounts of internal damage, melting the innards of what it comes in contact with.
He knows many entities from his travels; therefore, he is familiar with the weaknesses of many opponents and how to take some of them out.
History Athzas was one of the first beings on his homeworld Kallathan, along with a limited set of other species and the guardians of the world itself. He was raised with the guardians, the Thestus, until the first Dimensional Breach.
The Dimensional Breach was considered to be the largest tear in the fabric of reality in the history of Kallathan, a world where realmswalkers travelled to other places with ease and demigod-like entities fought in clan wars using weapons taken from other realms. It was a forced entry by what could only have been described as a god.
From this breach, the hordes of a dimension known as the Battlefields spilled through and overwhelmed the first lines of Kallathan. Eventually, the world’s guardians were able to link up with other powerful entities, including the still young Athzas and his newly-formed Athzian Order, to push back the armies until they met the leader of them all; an extremely powerful entity called by his own “Dracuil”.
After almost a month of no-pause fighting, the loss of many powerful beings and the destruction of millions of fighters, Dracuil was not slain. Instead, he was tricked by a Guardian (who later died to his injuries) to miss a forming portal around him; the portal encased him and sucked him into himself, condensing Dracuil’s energies and forming almost a Black Hole, without the absolute chaos that one would cause.
This “black hole” was placed in a special fortress, deep in the recesses of space. It was tied to the core of the planet so that it would be eternally bound to the world, and entrusted into the safekeeping of three influential beings from Kallathan and the war - Elderthrass, Darkglow and Athzas.
After some four thousand years passed, an earthquake - suspected to have been caused by Dracuil himself - rocked the planet to its core, causing a flaw in the prison. The flaw sucked in the energies of its guardians until they and the prison became far too weak to hold him.
As a final attempt to keep him from returning, Athzas and Elderthrass bound him to a form of a large monster in the hopes that it would contain his energies shortly before Dracuil obliterated the fortress and almost completely destroyed the guardians.
Athzas was near death until he was recovered by a realmswalker sent to explore the then burning planet that was about as habitable as Venus (it started off as being a frozen rock). Almost everyone on Kallathan had forgotten his existence, and so did his order; which expanded to cover the planet almost like humanity on earth and develop spaceship technologies. When he once again walked his homeworld, he was treated like an Elder and a Hero; yet nobody mentioned his charge that he had protected for thousands of years.
Now, he maintains a planet archive along with an associate. He does not know what came of the other prison guardians, nor of the very being he had been sworn to protect. Everything was different; the Guardians no longer walked the realm and the chaotic Demigods of old had almost ceased to exist. Once in a rare while he helps a few friends he has made, but he hasn’t aged well - the effects of Dracuil and age alike have been a heavy burden.