Subject: My Agent Ideas: Azoralth
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Posted on: 2018-08-03 22:40:00 UTC
Name: Azoralth, once known to his comrades as the "Soul-Tracker"
Age: Uncertain
Species: Stormcast Eternal, formerly human.
Department: DoMS? Haven't decided yet.
Description:
One of Sigmar's own Stormcast Eternals, hailing from the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar setting. Like all Stormcast, he was once a faithful mortal warrior, plucked from the jaws of death by the God-King Sigmar and reforged via lightning and arcane magic into an immortal warrior. In his past life, he was a youth named Azoralth, a child of two reclusive mages of the Amethyst lore--the lore of Death Magic. (Not to be confused with the Lore of Undeath, which is necromancy.) His parents were also refugees; two of the few survivors of the Age of Chaos wherein the forces of the Chaos Gods ravaged the realms..
Before he was born, they had fled to Ghur, the Realm of Beasts, from the underworlds of Shyish, the Realm of Death. He was raised in almost total isolation, hidden away in a foreboding mountain range, and they taught him the basics of harnessing his latent magical talent for benevolent purposes and self-defense.
At sixteen summers of age, however, his world changed forever with the loss of his parents to a marauding warband of Orruks. His parents had predicted their attack on a nearby village, and presumably gave their lives protecting the village with their sorcery. When he realized they weren't coming back (they had left him alone with a black-bladed dagger and some supplies) he set out to follow their last instructions to him, left in the form of a note: "Find a Realmgate to Azyr [The Celestial Realm.] The Gates are open; seek out the God-King Sigmar for asylum in his halls."
Thus, he set off across the realms, on an adventure that would see him eventually becoming the leader of a rag-tag band of young refugees and strays of various Realms and species, on a quest to find a gate to Azyr. ALong the way, however, they were pursued by various forces of the Undead, sent by the necromantic followers of the jealous Lord of Undeath, Nagash. This culminated in an act of desperate self-sacrifice in which Azoralth fully unlocked his magical potential and challenged one of Nagash's vampire lords to a duel. The vampire, by nature unable to back down from a fight, even one so one-sided as this, accepted his challenge. Soon after, Azoralth gave up his life, buying his friends and companions time to flee to Azyr. Azoralth lay there dying as the vampire loomed over him, his friends' names upon his breath. However, before the vampire could inflict the curse of vampirism upon him, lightning struck down from the heavens, obliterating the creature. When the blinding light had faded, Azoralth was nowhere to be found...
An unspecified amount of time later, he had been reforged by the God-King, who had seen his valor and saved him from a fate worse than death. Now he was able to once again turn his magical prowess to a righteous cause, combined with the holy power of Sigmar's lightning as he took up the mantle of a Lord-Relictor--a warrior-priest charged with the protection of the very souls of his fellow Stormcast. Eventually, as his former companions died, one by one, they, too, were reforged to fight at his side as warriors of a Stormhost known as the Knights Revenant--a host of Stormcast tasked with seeking out, recovering, and maintaining knowledge and artifacts thought lost to history. He was no exception, and to this day he carries the same journal that he kept on his original journey to Azyr.
In the PPC-verse:
Once again taken up into a realm he had hardly dreamed of, he chooses to remain here due to the mission of his Stormhost in his home verse--the mission to preserve knowledge, and uncover hidden truths, the only difference being that it is now done on a multiversal scale, and instead of only fighting the foes of his home canon, in the name of Sigmar, he fights enemies of all sorts, in the name of upholding the balance of the multiverse. A part of him misses his comrades, but he has mostly accepted the burden of losing them as being for the greater good of existence as a whole.
Abilities and Weapons:
--His favored weapon, is, naturally, a relic hammer forged of the same metal as his armor--holy star-forged sigmarite, his other weapon being the black-bladed dagger his parents had left for him in his mortal life.
--He retains control over the Amethyst wind of magic, including the ability to literally see other beings' souls and interact with the deceased via physical contact with their remains. The holy powers bequeathed to him by his Reforging also remain usable, channeled through the reliquary staff he bears and manifesting in the form of holy lightning.