Alaestor (Triumph)
Alaestor is a level 50 Warshade on the Triumph Server, played by @Obsidius. He is a member of the Paragon Regulators and their liaison to Vanguard.
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Bio
- "Mask" Name: Alaestor
- Host / Real Name: Edward Livingston
- Allegiance: Hero
- Origin: Science
- Archetype: Warshade
- Primary: Umbral Blast
- Secondary: Umbral Aura
- Other Powers: Speed
- Security Level: 50
- Species: Kheldian / Human
- Age: Unknown (over 1500 years old on Earth alone) / 28 Years
- Height: 5' 10" (Host)
- Weight: 160 lbs (Host)
- Eyes: Blue
- Hair: Black
- Physical Appearance: Strong, lean Caucasian with very fair complexion
- Group Affiliation: Paragon Regulators
- Place of Birth: Khelda / Leeds, England
- Education: Unknown / Bachelor of Physics, University Oxford, England; Doctorate of Physics, Paragon University, Rhode Island, United States
- Off-duty Occupation: Dimensional First Alert Specialist for Vanguard
Overview
Alaestor is an ancient Warshade who sought to escape from underneath the Nictus leaders who instigated the Kheldian War. One of his first acts upon reaching Earth in the mid 1st century was to defect from the Nictus, and has been fighting them ever since. Current affairs have brought Alaestor to Paragon City, in an effort to counter the Nictus plan to take over Earth. He also uses his expertise in science to aid Vanguard in defending against Rikti interdimensional threats.
In-Game Description
(To be added soon)
Pre Paragon City History
((Alaestor is based upon my character with a similar name from Dark Age of Camelot. This origin, combined with the information in the A Path Into Darkness arc and the happenings of the Imperious Task Force, form the basis of Alaestor's back story.))
The Kheldian War
Eons before the 5th Column came into power, Alaestor was transformed into a Nictus during the great rendering. Many Kheldians were promised by the Science Lords that the transformation would allow them to be unbound forever; instead, it turned them into energy-consuming aberrations of their former selves. The Nictus that would later be known as Alaestor was one of these unfortunate victims of science.
After the Peacebringer faction of the Kheldians declared war on the Nictus for using a super-weapon to steal their life energy from afar, the Nictus fled their adopted home planet through the Shadow Seeds. Alaestor saw this as his perfect chance to escape. Under the guise of solidarity, Alaestor and several other hopeful defectors traveled with some Nictus leaders to a backwater planet called by its locals as Terra, or Earth.
The Defection & The End of an Empire
When they arrived on earth, the Science Lord and his allies wasted no time setting up their new positions among the primitive populace of Earth. One Leader overtook an emperor by the name of Romulus Augustus. Alaestor himself was begrudgingly forced to take over a host or soon die; he in turn assumed the identity of a praetor, Alaestor Aurelianus. It was this first host from which the Nictus received the name which he uses to present day.
It did not take long for Alaestor and other defectors to quietly plan their escape. Soon after arriving on Earth, Alaestor and his "warshade" allies conscripted for duty in the far-off northern island of Britannia, under guise of renewing "Roman" interests there. Although they feared retribution from Romulus when he realized they had no real intention of serving him, his wrath would be slow to reach them so far away.
As fortune would have it, Romulus was soon after deposed. In overreaching his authority, usurping Imperious, and gaining favor from time travelers, he brought too much attention upon his Nictus insurrection. Supper-powered beings from the future (including Alaestor's future self) helped overthrow Romulus' tyranny and return rule to Imperious, ensuring that the Nictus plot was set back indeterminably.
