Nemesis
Nemesis is one of the Heart of Darkness's best generals.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Nemesis wears the sigil of Null magic around its neck.
Physical Description
Body Features
Being a wendigo, Nemesis can take on any form it chooses. However, it usually manifests in the form of a humanoid being with a fanged goat skull for a head and cloven hooves wearing a grey and black cape.
Identifying Characteristics
Nemesis is unique in that whenever it transforms, it always keeps its goat skull-like face.
Special abilities
Nemesis is much higher powered than other wendigoes, and thus has the ability to command lesser wendigoes to do its bidding. It has access to many different spells and transformations, all stolen from Altairian beings.
Apparel & Accessories
Nemesis wears a grey-and-red cape with a pendant containing the Null sigil around its neck.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Nemesis is the Heart of Darkness's best general, and the creature who is responsible for much of the destruction throughout "Jack Thunder and the Fragments of Anima." Fitting for its name, Nemesis first takes wholeheartedly to the task of defeating Jack Thunder.
Nemesis is first introduced at the beginning of the second installment, "Water." After the battle in the Turquoise Archipelago, it berates the wendigoes that Jack Thunder and Buckthorn defeated for their incompetence. It soon finds out that the two are on their way to the Dark Carnival and makes a beeline for the Nursery Rhyme District.
In the third installment, "Darkness," Nemesis takes on the role of a puppetmaster. It infiltrates the Dark Carnival, manipulating The Great Strombolio into hiring it to help. It infects all of the Dark Carnival's patrons behind the Dark Champion's back. It is only when the team meets Shadow-Paws that Strombolio learns he's been tricked. In the ultimate battle, Shadow-Paws is able to free the carnival's patrons from Wendigo Possession by launching The Dark Fragment - Lethal Joke's laughing gas grenades at the stands, causing the patrons to start laughing and the wendigoes to evacuate their bodies. This eventually raises the level of Undifferentiated Anima in the room so much that Nemesis and the wendigoes are rendered helpless before they are banished.
Nemesis appears yet again in the fourth installment, "Earth." This time, it has infiltrated the grove of Ygdrassil by infecting a certain Sour Apple and corrupting him. When the team goes to look for Sour Apple, Nemesis attacks them in the form of a dryad-wendigo. Once it is defeated, it goes back to the grove to fetch Terra, but not before draining the Heartwood, the wendigo ward that protects the grove. When it catches up with the team again, it is inside a tunnel under Ygdrassil's roots where Terra is. It tries to pick the Earth Fragment up, but the combined Anima from all four Fragments sears its hands. Angered, it instead tries to throw a bolt of Null magic at Jack Thunder, but Snotter stops it just in time, burying it under a mountain of boulders. Once it gets out, it attacks the team again outside of Ygdrassil. When The Winter Solstice Spirit appears, the entire grove gets involved in defeating it and its army. Ultimately, after being trampled by Strombolio's Uninvited Parade, Snotter casts it into a pit and seals it in with vines. Nemesis and its minions are banished in short order.
Intellectual Characteristics
Being a higher-powered wendigo, Nemesis is quite smart. It thrives in strategizing and taking command.
Morality & Philosophy
In the beginning, Nemesis is wholly focused on defeating Jack Thunder and stopping his crew from banishing the Heart of Darkness. As the series goes on, however, Nemesis starts to long for the life Jack Thunder and the other faeries in Altairus lead. It witnesses the team breaking bread with each other during the Winter Solstice at the end of Book 4, leading it to question itself. At the end of "Book 6: Light," it ultimately sacrifices itself to save Jack Thunder and company, willingly subscribing to being banished back to the Flipside while holding back an army of other wendigoes.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
At first, Nemesis is only motivated to defeat Jack Thunder and usher in the Heart of Darkness's return. However, it begins to envy the storm gremlin and the life he leads, and it sacrifices itself to protect the team.
Social
Speech
Like the Heart of Darkness, Nemesis has a very harsh and distorted voice, which tends to shift in pitch from very low to very high. If it is trying to manipulate someone, its voice is much more pleasant, usually resembling the host's voice.
Nemesis, like other wendigoes, has the ability to acquire any language that its host knows by attaching to them and reading their memories.
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