Echopryme (Protector)
The Unknowable echopryme (Player Character)
echopryme is a player character on the Protector Server. He is a Magic Controller with the Mind Control and Kinetics set and also carries the Flight, Fitness, and Psychic Mastery powers. He is a member of the Super Group Silent Asylum and is usually seen logging out in the Midnight Club in front of the Pillar of Fire and Ice.
The Legend
He was born in Cap Au Diable in the Rogues Isles and quickly fell into the general tenor of his surroundings by mugging his first senior citizen at age 13. A bad kid who grew up to be a bad adult, the man who would be known as echopryme only avoided major time in the Zig by making sure that he was the one that always talked others into doing his dirty work for him (a sign of his early powers, perhaps). When, at some point, his criminal career started to take a downturn and his family's finances began to suffer, he decided that the only chance he'd have to help them survive would be to join the ranks of Arachnos.
When he was first brought before the Arbiters to decide what branch he would join in the organization, the Arbiters informed him of what was at the time a strange decision. He was to be a Widow, the first male to be offered the position. As he stood before the white-armored figure and asked why, he was told that this was by the mandate of the Ghost Widow herself who had seen some destined role in him and that she would be the one to guide him. Obviously, this was a controversial choice among many, but he took to it and excelled in his training. It was only a matter of a few years until he had reached the rank of Fortunata. And this is when the story takes a strange turn...
It began as an experiment in co-operation inside the leadership of Arachnos. Ghost Widow and Scirocco decided to try to create the kind of soldier tht would be a true threat to the growing power of Black Scorpion inside Arachnos, and together they conspired to mix the Fortunata training program with the mystical arcana of the Mu to create what would effectively be a magically enhanced Fortunata. The subject would be a true carrier of the the destiny of the organization, an Ghost Widow looked first to her odd pupil, the man who would be named echopryme by the Mu, meaning "the first sound to return from The Unknown." It was obvious that he was to be a part of their great plans against the Circle of Thorns and beyond. The destined pupil was subjected to the rituals of the MU and was forever changed, but not as either Ghost Widow or Scirocco had imagined.
He had changed. His mind had been opened to the tru possibilities of the fundamental universe and now his petty yearnings for powr and glory seemed to be poitless. All of his pride in his position within the Arachnos organization felt as if it was just a scar on his greater being. He was not happy with his villainy and began to think the unthinkable... betray Arachnos. It was only a matter of time before he would do so.
