Avery
Grim Hero
Avery Mudrost
„Why the heck did you that, Grand Abolisher?
Challenging me head-on knowing very well you would never survive that encounter.
Very well, then I will welcome you then in my Senate earlier than expected I guess.
Fine by me.
But tell me, soon to be undead successor of my former throne…why?"
"Look at...my partner...my dear Avery...
You just made...yourself...enemy...unstoppable.
. . .
No!...Hail...never!...Hail the...Supreme,...hail...Tarr..."Supreme Abolisher Rex Tarr speaking with Xerrc (4376 AS)
Physical Description
Special abilities
Cyber Automatons possess a quite unique set of skills. Some say it is a power made to defy the laws of reality.
Avery can change herself into anything her mind is capable of thinking of. Turning into a giant rocket shooting bullets with her face laughing loudly on each of the bullets' tips?
Possible.
Partly melting down into magma, with shocking qualities rendering the affected living through their worst fears?
Sure, why not?
But Avery prefers residing in her given true form over anything. Only partly altering her body growing tentacles or turning into fire is her jam. She sees herself as a multitool of possibilities supporting her grim mission of being a vigilante. Depending on her mood her ways of fighting back the undead reach from torturous to full-on goof, from efficient to slow and bendy.
Avery can change herself into anything her mind is capable of thinking of. Turning into a giant rocket shooting bullets with her face laughing loudly on each of the bullets' tips?
Possible.
Partly melting down into magma, with shocking qualities rendering the affected living through their worst fears?
Sure, why not?
But Avery prefers residing in her given true form over anything. Only partly altering her body growing tentacles or turning into fire is her jam. She sees herself as a multitool of possibilities supporting her grim mission of being a vigilante. Depending on her mood her ways of fighting back the undead reach from torturous to full-on goof, from efficient to slow and bendy.
"I am not serious enough for you, deathknight?
You want serious A. M.?
I give you serious A.M.!"
Avery dissolves into gas, wanders over to the undead and ignites herself around them. A loud explosion later the dust settles and Avery sits reformed on the ground holding the deathknight's skull watching it slowly turning into bone dust.
"Serious enough for you now, you party-pooper?"
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Avery got born out of the Veil as a result of a big event taking place in Rubeus in 4266 AS.
The continuous war of the High Elves against their undead ancestors, the Erubeans, came to a peak, when Etherian backup arrived granting victory in the defence of the ivory wall dividing the living and the dead of Rubeus.
Bringing their futuristic armoury with them they enriched the Veil with some high-quality matter arcana, which precipitated in a nearby crater, until enough resided on one place allowing the Veil to compress it into something else, into a Cyber Automaton.
The nameless Automaton got found wandering aimlessly over the battlefield, looking at the corpses of brave warriors briefly attempting to shapeshift into grotesque variants of them. One of Grand Abolisher Xerrc Mudrost's army saw her by chance and reported the creation of an Arcadian to his superior.
Feeling guilty about being responsible for the creation of such a rare innocent specimen into a Warfield, seeing death and despair as the first things in her life, Xerrc decided to confront the young Automaton personally. The encounter of the third kind with this unstable mass of a shapeshifter in making proved successful, as Xerrc was able to reason with her deciding to give the Automaton the necessary Link to evolve herself into a complete Arcadian.
Giving her access to his mind and soul, she scoured his to create blueprints for her true form, a form Cybers will always treasure as their one and only correct form.
Xerrc's love for his people and his brave soldier heart inspired the nameless Automaton to form her body from the inspiration gotten from the decorated armour of her new partner. Seeing her like this Xerrc unconsciously already knew how to dub his new friend. Avery!
Xerrc and Avery were a dream team from that moment onwards. In the following 110 years, Avery supported as an equal the grand Abolisher's duties to lead a secluded country under constant pressure to fall to the undead horde.
Avery acted as general in the army supporting and the people defending against the undead. Holding ground while the Ivory Wall got repaired and reclaiming settlements taken by the Erubean forces. Under general Avery, the Ivory wall got redundant as Rubeus was able to build the Iron Wall in 4340 expanding their territory by a few kilometres of cleansed ground. Avery was considered a hero of the people, even a newly founded city in the reclaimed area got named after her; Averice. But eventually, all good things came to an end when Xerrc felt the 'curse' finally weakening his health to an unignorable degree forcing his mind to feel an urge to visit the Supreme Abolisher once more. Avery wouldn't let her friend go alone and so both ventured deep into the Deadlands in search for Rex Tarr.
Fighting against the curse Xerrc told Avery all his hatred for the undead lord and that he wants to see him six feet under once more to free his people, living and dead alike.
But Avery knew already and assured him her support on the inevitable. The plan was simple: Xerrc distracted the ancient evil and Avery used her shapeshifting powers to somehow imprison Tarr within herself. She would then find a way to end him for good by changing the prisons inners into various liquids and gases in search of a weakness. But the plan quickly went south when Avery got surprised by Tarr's pet, the bone dragon Corpse Churner.
These valuable seconds she got held back by the dragon were enough for the Supreme Abolisher to overpower and impale her friend with an ornated rapier.
Seeing her friend die the Link between them caused her life goals to narrow down as Xerrc drew his last breath. To banish the Supreme from existence and save her now turned undead lifelong partner. She swore, still stuck between the dragon's teeth, to fulfil the last wish of Xerrc no matter how long it would take...
4340 - 4904 AS:
After Avery returned without Xerrc having barely escaped the military superiority of her adversaries she quickly realized something life-changing.
Without her best friend the land, she learned to love felt suddenly so empty of all joy.
She retreated from the public eye and started living a life outside of the Iron Wall supporting her people in a different way. Centuries went by and the legend of the Automaton general faded, people had forgotten Avery but she hadn't forgotten them.
Myths got created across the centuries all talking about mysterious individuals saving soldiers and civilians of Rubeus from certain death. Nobody remembered the same face, some even talked of animals or even living thunder saving them.
The only thing that seemed to connect all these unexplainable events was the following: A coin made out of bone, a coin with the following initials:
4904 AS - present:
Despite being once more reunited with her family and moreso have gotten offered by Prokleti to renew and replace the nearly impossible to fulfill Link of Xerrc binding her on Prius for now nearly 700 years, Avery still felt responsible and guilty for Xerrc's death.
Her not wanting to abandon the wish of her friend to liberate the country of its undead oppression inspired the Grand Abolisher to feel the exact same reigniting the passion once more. When the group passed the ruins of what was once called the Iron Wall and stepped into a formerly shining city called Averice.
Avery slowed down shapeshifting gradually into dozens of citizens of the city named after her. With every new form taken an idle skeleton or mummy from around them looked over to the passing group. Proklety was wary expecting the undead to charge at them, but only singular ones stepped forth. Fifty forms taken, and fifty Erubeans were now standing silently near them.
Avery continued her rescue missions on the other side of the Ivory Wall being now always in contact with Prokleti to take part in her counties diplomacy whenever necessary.
The continuous war of the High Elves against their undead ancestors, the Erubeans, came to a peak, when Etherian backup arrived granting victory in the defence of the ivory wall dividing the living and the dead of Rubeus.
Bringing their futuristic armoury with them they enriched the Veil with some high-quality matter arcana, which precipitated in a nearby crater, until enough resided on one place allowing the Veil to compress it into something else, into a Cyber Automaton.
The nameless Automaton got found wandering aimlessly over the battlefield, looking at the corpses of brave warriors briefly attempting to shapeshift into grotesque variants of them. One of Grand Abolisher Xerrc Mudrost's army saw her by chance and reported the creation of an Arcadian to his superior.
Feeling guilty about being responsible for the creation of such a rare innocent specimen into a Warfield, seeing death and despair as the first things in her life, Xerrc decided to confront the young Automaton personally. The encounter of the third kind with this unstable mass of a shapeshifter in making proved successful, as Xerrc was able to reason with her deciding to give the Automaton the necessary Link to evolve herself into a complete Arcadian.
Giving her access to his mind and soul, she scoured his to create blueprints for her true form, a form Cybers will always treasure as their one and only correct form.
Xerrc's love for his people and his brave soldier heart inspired the nameless Automaton to form her body from the inspiration gotten from the decorated armour of her new partner. Seeing her like this Xerrc unconsciously already knew how to dub his new friend. Avery!
Xerrc and Avery were a dream team from that moment onwards. In the following 110 years, Avery supported as an equal the grand Abolisher's duties to lead a secluded country under constant pressure to fall to the undead horde.
Avery acted as general in the army supporting and the people defending against the undead. Holding ground while the Ivory Wall got repaired and reclaiming settlements taken by the Erubean forces. Under general Avery, the Ivory wall got redundant as Rubeus was able to build the Iron Wall in 4340 expanding their territory by a few kilometres of cleansed ground. Avery was considered a hero of the people, even a newly founded city in the reclaimed area got named after her; Averice. But eventually, all good things came to an end when Xerrc felt the 'curse' finally weakening his health to an unignorable degree forcing his mind to feel an urge to visit the Supreme Abolisher once more. Avery wouldn't let her friend go alone and so both ventured deep into the Deadlands in search for Rex Tarr.
Fighting against the curse Xerrc told Avery all his hatred for the undead lord and that he wants to see him six feet under once more to free his people, living and dead alike.
But Avery knew already and assured him her support on the inevitable. The plan was simple: Xerrc distracted the ancient evil and Avery used her shapeshifting powers to somehow imprison Tarr within herself. She would then find a way to end him for good by changing the prisons inners into various liquids and gases in search of a weakness. But the plan quickly went south when Avery got surprised by Tarr's pet, the bone dragon Corpse Churner.
These valuable seconds she got held back by the dragon were enough for the Supreme Abolisher to overpower and impale her friend with an ornated rapier.
Seeing her friend die the Link between them caused her life goals to narrow down as Xerrc drew his last breath. To banish the Supreme from existence and save her now turned undead lifelong partner. She swore, still stuck between the dragon's teeth, to fulfil the last wish of Xerrc no matter how long it would take...
4340 - 4904 AS:
After Avery returned without Xerrc having barely escaped the military superiority of her adversaries she quickly realized something life-changing.
Without her best friend the land, she learned to love felt suddenly so empty of all joy.
She retreated from the public eye and started living a life outside of the Iron Wall supporting her people in a different way. Centuries went by and the legend of the Automaton general faded, people had forgotten Avery but she hadn't forgotten them.
Myths got created across the centuries all talking about mysterious individuals saving soldiers and civilians of Rubeus from certain death. Nobody remembered the same face, some even talked of animals or even living thunder saving them.
The only thing that seemed to connect all these unexplainable events was the following: A coin made out of bone, a coin with the following initials:
People started assuming many things about the mysterious A. M., thoughts were even there that they were a rogue undead working against its master. It was not until a certain individual travelled all alone through the Deadlands encountering the mysterious A. M. face to face:A. M.
"...
I do recognize these cheek bones everywhere.
M...Mudrost?"Who!? Why do you know my name?
Show yourself, fiend!""You really look exactly like him...minus that nasty face scar. Moved upwards from the throat it seems.
Stranger, do you know a man called Xerrc?""My great-grandfather?
...
Wait...don't tell me!?
Avery, Xerrc's Automaton partner?""Avery Mudrost please.
So my family has brought forth another Grand Abolisher?
I am at your service my great grandnephew."Avery meeting Prokleti Mudrost
4904 AS - present:
Despite being once more reunited with her family and moreso have gotten offered by Prokleti to renew and replace the nearly impossible to fulfill Link of Xerrc binding her on Prius for now nearly 700 years, Avery still felt responsible and guilty for Xerrc's death.
Her not wanting to abandon the wish of her friend to liberate the country of its undead oppression inspired the Grand Abolisher to feel the exact same reigniting the passion once more. When the group passed the ruins of what was once called the Iron Wall and stepped into a formerly shining city called Averice.
Avery slowed down shapeshifting gradually into dozens of citizens of the city named after her. With every new form taken an idle skeleton or mummy from around them looked over to the passing group. Proklety was wary expecting the undead to charge at them, but only singular ones stepped forth. Fifty forms taken, and fifty Erubeans were now standing silently near them.
With that sworn a century of preparation and diplomacy awaited the duo with the goal to finally close the chapter directing their country, directing Avery's life."Fallen friends. I called you and you heard my calling.
I remember each and every one of you and I hold your legacy alive within my ever changing heart.
I swear with the descendant of my partner...my lover...on my side as a witness the following.
I speak to all of you living in the city named after me and everybody else, who fell prey to Tarr's undying grasp:
I will soom finally break the shackles of your suffering.
You and me, we will all be able to soon embrace the end of our way too long journey. Just be a bit more patient, my friends, and...have faith in me...in us."
Avery continued her rescue missions on the other side of the Ivory Wall being now always in contact with Prokleti to take part in her counties diplomacy whenever necessary.
"My duties might come soon to a closure after all these years.
Oh Veil, my etherial mother...my essence will finally return into your cycle.
I do like my life...but every cell of my fluctuating body desires to get back to you.
. . .
Xerrc...give me the faith and the determination to fulfill your dream...our dream.
For that we both will be finally reunited in a finite death."Evening prayer
Current Location
Species
Date of Birth
08.01.
Year of Birth
4266 AS
732 Years old
Birthplace
Avery got created in The Valley of Despair as a result of a brilliantly tactical executed turmoil. There were enough loose matter arcana present to allow her ‚birth‘
Family
Children
Pronouns
She/Her
Gender
neutral (female)
Eyes
Any color or no color, might not even be present.
Usually appearing as virtual reddish eyes on her screen face.
Usually appearing as virtual reddish eyes on her screen face.
Hair
Varies greatly in color length and/or viscosity
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Feathers, fur, scales, skin, everything is possible.
Avery‘s true form consists of polished silvery metal.
Avery‘s true form consists of polished silvery metal.
Height
1.1 m (varies)
Weight
12 kg (varies)
Aligned Organization
Xerrc Mudrost
The first being on Prius who talked with her, who gave her a solid body to call her own, who gave her a name she values over everything. That man, who loved her, who she loved more than anything else, that elf...Was a difficult friend to have. Suffering from the 'curse of truth' scarring Xerrc's throat was utterly unable to lie.
Due to that their love was proven to be of genuine nature, as every word Xerrc said was meant as such, Avery enjoyed every moment with her soulmate. And supporting her truth-speaking mate was her highest desire.
Soon she had taken over to be his county's leading voice whenever lies would be necessary, imposing him perfectly with her shapeshifting on the public stage.
After Xerrc's death, Avery was conflicted.
Conflicted about what to do, how to manage to live without her partner.
Should she return to Rubeus permanently impersonating her love until Rubeus further fate was assured and then eventually vanish?
Should she act a coward and act out of the shadow from now on?
...
In the end she returned to announce Xerrc's demise, wished her country good luck and promptly returned to the Deadlands to figure out in the following centuries how to fulfil her goals while bashing some undead skulls in to protect her people.
Prokleti Mudrost
Grand Abolisher Prokleti Mudrost by Soulwing
Whenever they were on diplomatic missions, the elf tried to make a few happy memories for her.
They went fine dining, in spas, made sightseeing tours, and while Avery really enjoyed the time, she felt unable to relax for even one minute around Prokleti...
"He is so sweet and considerate; such a young gentleman.
And I wish I could appreciate his gentle attitude accordingly.
But existence is pain at my age...my time is long overdue.
...
But I don't feel the strength to tell him that, he seems so happy.
And it makes me so happy to see my partner's descendant happy."Avery
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