Legion
The Wrath of Many
Legion (no other name known) is an Anaetherial entity of fury and destruction, bent on awakening Naminus, Primordial Deity of chaos and entropy, in order to bring about the end of the world. It rampaged through the world until Valen sacrificed himself in order to seal it in the Abyss.
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Dogma
We are Legion. We do not relent. We do not show mercy. Reality, fall before us.
This world is a lie, a dry parchment over a burning fire that somehow refuses to burn. We must bring an end to it, to all the suffering, the greed, the death and the disillusionment in the name of a false world. No choices matter, for in the end, all of reality will burn, and our achievements and consequences with it. Why not, then, make the only choice that matters? We decide the time of our end. We will bring it instead, sparing everyone from the lies and futility of choice. May the fires down below awaken and roar, may this world be shattered and scorched, and this veil of falsehoods and dead ends become ashen and forgotten.
History
Origins
A man with nothing to lose will take on the world. A man who lost everything will take the world and burn it.
The Legion was a grand mercenary band of great renown in the 42nd century B.X. Their exploits and martial prowess was famous amongst the rich and powerful, who would frequently hire their services. The band was comprised of mostly grizzled veterans, disenchanted heroes, and a few starry-eyed children who hadn't yet tasted the reality of the world. All had lost something; honor, family, home, pride, morals. They believed they were some of mortality's most unjustly treated by fate.
This bitterness against fate would soon turn into bitterness for creation itself, as some their members one day arrived from a mission talking about a solution for the injustice of the world. They claimed to have spoken with the Primordial Deity of entropy, Naminus itself. They said that the only way to fix it all, was to end it all. They posed that no matter what acts of good will or justice one does, evil will trump them the next day, or the other, or the other, and that to top it all off, Naminus' slumber under Namyria was meant to end and destroy all of creation. So why wait? Why prolong the suffering of life?
The idea spread like wildfire through the soldiers, who began proselytizing and convincing others to join. Their ranks nearly doubled and their zeal united them like never before, now turned raging madmen seeking only destruction and death, pillaging, burning, ravaging and murderous. Thus began Legion's bloody crusade to awaken Naminus and hasten the end of time.
Road to Divinity
Proficient warriors one and all, Legion's ranks raged through the continent of Gedfiel, razing hundreds of cities and towns, and taking what is calculated to be tens of thousands of lives. Obviously, they were met with resistance, and part of their force would fall. However, they managed to bolster their ranks in every town they razed, as some of their victims were willing to join them to keep their lives, or had been left so scarred by the horrors of the acts they had just witnessed that they could not accept a world so cruel and unjust. Thus, they had become part of Legion; a contagious madness and thirst for destruction.
If it had ended at just that, some or another greater force of the world would have eventually proven to much for the Legion. However, they held a hidden power never seen before or after. Using strange chants in a lost tongue, and marking their bodies with the blood of their fallen comrades–normally with a bloody hand in their own chest or face–, they created a foul ritual that bound all of their souls together. A most obscure and, so far, forgotten ritual, that allowed them to be one in mind and soul. This bond, in death, allowed their knowledge, their will and their rage to not be lost, and instead, to be spread amongst the other minds of the Legion, that it may serve the cause better. With this, once one member fell, all the others would receive a part of the fallen one's knowledge and martial prowess.
The Legion became an unstoppable force. The more damage and losses they endured, the stronger they became. When one of their members fell, the others would pick up their weapon and continue the fight, stronger, faster and filled with more rage. This newfound power allowed them to train their new recruits in instants, by binding them, then immediately slaying one of their oldest veterans and splitting the experience between the novices. Contagious, resilient and stronger with every loss, their advance seemed unstoppable by any force on Namyria.
Transcendence
In the year 4210 B.X., after years of rampage and accumulated power, The Legion decided it was time. All of their remaining members took their weapons, and stood in a circle. The accumulated knowledge of dozens of highly trained warriors and hundreds of novices, centuries worth of martial experience, and several lifetimes worth of bitterness and rage, all would coalesce into a single person: the survivor. They brutally murdered each other in a bloody free for all. It is not known who was the last survivor. All that remained was an entity of pure destruction and rage, unstoppable and merciless.
Legion, as they were right now, threatened the balance of Namyria, and Naminus's slumber by extension. Such concentration of power within one single individual called the attention of Aetherius, who kept watch in case such creatures ever appeared, and who decided to cast Legion out of the universe, into the Anaetherial Expanse and a private prison-plane for their act of unbalancing the world. To everyone's surprise, he couldn't banish Legion. The great fires of rage and destruction burned too bright to be taken down by the Void itself.
Desperate, and unable to interfere too directly on Namyria, the divines searched for a champion amongst the mortals, one who could stop Legion, or at least weaken them enough to be banished. Valen, master swordsman and former member of the Legion–prior to the zealotry and murder–, accepted their request to weaken Legion, and imprison them in Abyss.
Legion fought a divines-blessed Valen in a days-long match that was slowly turning in Legion's favor. When they were both tired, and Valen nearly dead, he impaled both the entity of fury and himself with his blade, and asked the divines to cast them both out of the universe. Weakened and restrained, Legion's impenetrable wall of rage showed a single crack, more than enough for Aetherius to banish both of them. Using what last bit of strength was left in him, Valen pushed the entity to the endless pit of Abyss. The Martyr now stands guard at the top of the great chasm, at the Eternal Bastion, awaiting for the day Legion climbs back from the endless pit.
Relationships
Valen
Valen is many things to Legion: a traitor who abandoned their troupe, a fool who fought them, and the jailer keeping them imprisoned in Abyss. It might take them an eternity, but Legion will climb out of the pit, and feast on Valen's beating heart, no matter the cost.
The Protector
As a deity of protection of the weak and justice, The Protector stands in the way of Legion's crusade of destruction.
Appearance
It is unknown what Legion's appearance was before being locked away in Abyss. Historical records of some alleged survivors give different and conflicting testimonies, as they are only assumptions based on the last two score or so members seen, before they joined into a single individual. Anything beyond that is pure speculation and cannot be confirmed, as the only living witness of this form was Valen, who became stands guard at the Eternal Bastion until this day.
Ever since being trapped in Abyss, and once they got a hold of the attention of a few mortals, Legion has appeared as a mostly humanoid figure with no defined characteristics that help identify gender or race, veiled in a cloak of raw fury, bending even the image of itself. The mere vision of an entity like this would freeze the breath of any mortal, as their lungs are crushed in the face of such an overwhelming hatred and rage. More tame sightings of the deity include glowing red eyes in the shadows, and a gurgling and deep voice calling for the destruction of everything.
Divine Intervention
As Legion finds themselves too busy climbing out of Abyss, their acts of intervention are few and far between. However, if there are those who call their aid in order to bring destruction and rage, they might find it in the form of sudden power flowing through them, as part of the fury and strength of Legion takes over their body.
Church
There is no formal cult for Legion, but some deranged maniacs and barbarians might find their righteous fury to be welcome in their worship.
Divine Domains
Strength, destruction, rage, violence
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Illustrations of Legion usually show an imprint of a hand, usually using blood as the ink. Sometimes, it is depicted surrounded by the Timewheel, Naminus' symbol.
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