Inferno
"PURGATORY! They will BURN!"
Whenever there's the need for nothing but scorched earth remaining, Inferno is summoned.
His name suggests it already - he loves burning things, the sound and sight of fire and explosions. His passion also shows in his combat strategy - all of his units are equipped with a number of flamethrower tanks, additionally to regular ones. They make sure that every battlefield turns into a burning pandemonium. He is particularly partial to them, usually treating them better than the others in an everyday context. Not that he would use them with any more regard than the rest of his forces. To him, every soldier is expendable. Joining the Legion gave him virtually infinite replacements for the lives he sacrifices carelessly. He does not care about the power or fame that come with being a high-ranking general. All that matters to him is being able to live out his need for thoughtless destruction. Armageddon isn't always pleased with Inferno's wasteful use of resources, but has been condoning it so far because the general's strategy of just throwing hordes of tanks into battle (effectively employing machine wave tactics), and caring little who returns as long as they kill enough enemies is evidently successful.
His name suggests it already - he loves burning things, the sound and sight of fire and explosions. His passion also shows in his combat strategy - all of his units are equipped with a number of flamethrower tanks, additionally to regular ones. They make sure that every battlefield turns into a burning pandemonium. He is particularly partial to them, usually treating them better than the others in an everyday context. Not that he would use them with any more regard than the rest of his forces. To him, every soldier is expendable. Joining the Legion gave him virtually infinite replacements for the lives he sacrifices carelessly. He does not care about the power or fame that come with being a high-ranking general. All that matters to him is being able to live out his need for thoughtless destruction. Armageddon isn't always pleased with Inferno's wasteful use of resources, but has been condoning it so far because the general's strategy of just throwing hordes of tanks into battle (effectively employing machine wave tactics), and caring little who returns as long as they kill enough enemies is evidently successful.
Commanding and abrasive tone. Very demanding, authoritarian. Questioning his orders or failure to carry them out the way he intended are a direct way to cruel punishment. Patience is a foreign word to him; Inferno is prone to outbursts of anger when things don't go his way. Will make seemingly arbitrary decisions, which however make perfect sense in his own mind. Anyone who had to deal with him would describe him as unstable, but the people he most closely surrounds himself with do not mind it all that much - or at least pretend they don't. Despite his capricious temper, he follows orders given to him by people he sees as his superiors; which are few.
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
He wears special paint - Sulfur's grimace glares from his bow. Inferno feels a strong connection to the deity and shows this off unabashedly, something that is generally considered a taboo or at least poor taste. He doesn't care about any supposed bad luck that people tell him it will bring, believing that his devotion will have the opposite effect.
Specialized Equipment
Additionally to his cannon, he has equipped himself with a coaxial flamethrower.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
He has been a general of Armaggeddon's army for a while now. It's not a secret how he joined, although the exact circumstances are not widely known. According to his own - admittedly disjointed - accounts, he was the leader of a team before his time with the Legion. As they came to take his territory, he was furious; he proceeded to defeat more than one of their units, and Armageddon took notice of him.
Inferno was approached by a messenger who was supposed to warn him about interfering with the Legion's business any further - whom Inferno promptly killed. Sending back the messenger's burnt turret as a sign of his disregard, he let them know that he had no intentions of desisting.
Instead of being enraged, Armageddon was impressed by the ferocious response. As a test of Inferno's ability and potential, Armageddon sent a task force that managed to defeat his team, if with great difficulty. The task force's orders were to make him an offer to join them if he did sufficiently well in the battle - he begrudgingly accepted it.
Since he wasn't just a regular member, however, he was assigned the leader of a specialized unit right away. Despite the following victories, he wasn't satisfied with this and did something that others wouldn't dream about - he demanded to see Armageddon and have a talk.
No one but him had expected that Armageddon would actually allow this, but not only did he invite Inferno to his headquarters, he also had news for him: The pyromaniac was promoted to a general ... that is, after Armageddon kicked his rear first.
Inferno acknowledged this and set out to assemble the force he leads today.
Gender Identity
Male
Species
Ethnicity
Currently Held Titles
Children
Aligned Organization
This area was marked for extermination by our great Lord Armageddon. For the ones joining us for the first time today, let me explain what it means: No prisoners. No survivors. No remains. For every enemy that gets away, one of you will be terminated - I don't care who. Now get to your positions. Fire on my command. I want to see their burning hulls light up this night!
Arson is legal and it's the only way to get into heaven.
notes
Thank you for the detailed feedback!! This also showed me that I forgot to apply some of my CSS to the comment section haha. Now that you point it out, you're right that my intro sentence is clunky, I'll try to figure something out. Your suggestion sounds a bit too "fancy" for the tone of the rest of the article I think. The similarity with scorched earth tactics is actually coincidental. I think that led to a misunderstanding - Inferno is sent on offensive missions. He's the guy you send when you really want to make sure that nothing is left of the enemy and their fortifications after his visit. I'll remove the "though" and make the change on the forces sentence. Machine wave tactics sounds fun, though I feel it might need an explanatory note for those not familiar with the real world equivalent. I will think about it. The dossier thing is a cool idea. I think I should definitely transform that paragraph into a quote or note of sorts. Thanks for pointing out the typo in response, will fix. I wasn't sure if the "being" was necessary here, so I left it out, but I guess I can add it.
I'm very glad you like him! Inferno is one of my faves, I really enjoy coming up with ideas for him and I hope I'll get to actually writing him into my stories soon. He is planned to show up in the sequel of my current story, so it will still take a while. I drew this header myself, I'm very proud of it. :D You're right that the sidebar is pretty boring ... It's basically the "standard" sidebar I do on my character articles, but I could definitely make it a bit more interesting by implementing your suggestions. I'll also include a song that I associate with him. I like your quote, especially the last sentence. Though I feel it could use a bit more Chaotic energy. Is it okay if I modify it a bit and include it? c:
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Of course, cannibalize it if you want :D I'm glad I could be of help ^-^ I think he could make an absolutely excellent recurring villain. You know, appearing from time to time with his unit of death and forcing the group to high-tail it. Of course his reputation would have to precede him... As for the machine wave tactics, you could just use the tooltip function to clear it up in style :3 When you say "the last sentence", do you mean the "Fire away" or the casual threat? xD Because I am proud of that threat; it emblemizes the general feel your article gave me for your character ^-^
Feel free to use/modify that one as you please as well <3I plan on him being a very serious threat for the protagonists. :D Not constant, but he does show up and cause mayhem a couple of times. I already have his introduction written (which the drawing in the article body is a parody of). Tooltip is a good idea! Oops my bad, I meant the threat part, yep. It totally sounded like something he'd say. The new quote is also a very interesting one - something that I would probably put in the personality traits section of his D&D character sheet if he had one.
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Yeah, definitely has a FATE aspect kind-of feel to it :D