Name: Apollyon
Gender: Female
Class: Warden
Rank: Warlord of the Blackstone Legion (formerly)
Birthplace: Scrublands, Ashfeld
Relations:
• Holden Cross (second-in-command)
• Focalor/Argen Lorderius (former subordinate, friend - Chapter 25: Volume III)
• Elara (retainer)
• Faryd (retainer)
• Brutus/Sir Rochambeau (partner)
Affiliation:
• The Blackstone Legion
Status: Alive (Chapter 25, Volume III)
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Dirty blonde
Eye Color: Reddish brown
Personality: Ruthless, Fearless, Psychopathic(?), Ambitious
First Appeared: Chapter 10 (Part II): The Blackstone Legion, Volume I
Biography:
The undisputed Warchief of the Blackstone Legion, through her the Blackstones have come to rule Ashfeld. She admires the warriors of all three factions but is disgusted that they have begun setting aside their warring ways in favor of peace. She intends to start a new age of war by turning the three factions and leaders within each faction against each other. She wishes to usher in, as she calls it, "an age of wolves", viewing the groups that are willing to go to war as wolves who will fight for survival and the ones who favor peace are sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
Her past life:
The young Apollyon grew up in the wilds. One year, a great Viking horde from Valkenheim descended on her village. There were not enough Iron Legionaries to defend everywhere at once--and so it was that a Lawbringer visited the village of the young warlord-to-be. He judged her people unworthy of defending, and rode away to safer lands. When the Vikings came, few of her people survived.
It proved to be just one of many horrors she would witness. And each one demonstrated to her clearly what the world demands of those who would live in it. There are predators, and there are prey. Humans are unique in that they decided which they are.
She spent her youth training to fight: as a criminal, as a soldier, and later as a Warden.
When she was sixteen, she finally found the Lawbringer who had doomed her people. She ambushed him, dragged him into the street, and then brutally executed him. Afterwards, she brought his armor to a blacksmith, and had it re-fashioned to fit her. She wears it still. It is a warning against anyone who would dare to use the law against the strong.
When the Knights of Ashfeld grew tired of the Iron Legion's disinterested rule, Apollyon was among the fifteen founding Warmasters of the violent and ambitious Blackstone Legion. Eight of those Warmasters tried to become the Blackstone Warlord. All save Apollyon died in the attempt. Now, she and the other seven have taken demon names--as a reminder of what you must become to change the world.
She no longer speaks of her real name. Few still living have heard it.