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King Aragorn - Omni - 08-05-2013 [float=right][/float]Location/Role:  Aragorn is the monarch of the Kingdom, the medieval civilization located in Camelot.  He is one of the strongest primes in the Omniverse.  In his role, Aragorn holds many titles, as he is the lord of Minas Tirith, the verse’s central city.  He is also the de jure lord of the various ‘cultural enclaves’ throughout Camelot, who exist as almost entirely independent areas save for a fief they pay to Minas Tirith.  He is also the de jure ruler of Dalaran, given the fact that the city’s chief political figure (Albus Dumbledore) is an advisor for Aragorn. Due to the many responsibilities (and dangers) that are associated with his rule, King Aragorn is often too busy to meet with everyone.  He will occasionally make exceptions to talk with primes willing to pledge themselves to the cause of the Kingdom.  As a whole, he is more visible than Emperor Palpatine, as most threats on Aragorn are external rather than internal.  Outside the walls of Minas Tirith, Aragorn is usually represented by experts who are also his close allies and friends.  For instance, Thrall serves as Aragorn’s representative with non-human settlements and tribes.  Refugees fall under the attention of Charles Xavier, and Baron Victor von Magnus tends to handle issues with the human fiefdoms. Even so, for those who can be properly ‘vetted,’ King Aragorn can be found in the castle of Minas Tirith.   Story:  Aragorn, unlike his peer in Coruscant, is not secretive about his life before the Omniverse.  He was born the son of a regional chieftain who was himself descended from the ruling family of a long-dead kingdom.  At the death of his father, Aragorn was raised by his world’s version of elves.  Aragorn himself was a descendent of the elven ruler’s dead brother.  When he came of age, Aragorn left the stewardship of the elves and assumed his birthright and became chieftain of his ancestral tribe of wandering rangers and nomads. For six and a half decades (Aragorn’s people lived twice as long as most humans), Aragorn balanced being a leader with his thirst for adventure.  He befriended one of his world’s greatest wizards, served as a guardian for halfings, became a soldier in the army of a large kingdom, and helped to fight the rising stem of evil forces on many small levels.  At some point, he fell in love with the daughter of his foster father, the elven king.  The king forbade their marriage until Aragorn became a king—a lofty feat given the status of the world. Around this time, Aragorn’s world was rocked by the revival of an old evil.  Under the guidance of his old wizard friend, Aragorn joined a fellowship of mercenaries, royalty, and Halflings that set out to destroy a ring linked to great evil.  Over the course of the adventure, they lost friends and acquaintances alike as hordes of orcs and ogres threatened the world of man.  The fellowship was soon broken, with the halfings traveling to destroy the ring while Aragorn and the others focused on distracting the enemy through military operations.  Aragorn became one of the chief figures in fighting back the onslaught, and he slowly gained the respect of strangers and enemies alike. In the process of defeating the enemy armies that threatened his world, Aragorn slowly took on his birthright and destiny to rule a revived human kingdom.  Over the course of the fighting, he reforged the sword of his ancestor, naming it Anduril, to reflect his human and elven upbringing.  Aragorn and his allies freed an old kingdom from a corrupted steward, and at the war’s end, Aragorn was crowned king of that kingdom. It is not certain how many decades Aragorn ruled as king before he arrived in the Omniverse, as the stories he tells are often of his youth and the great war that ended in the triumphant ‘age of man.’  Furthermore, his tribe’s longevity also makes it hard to pinpoint the age of the king.  Nevertheless, when Aragorn arrived in the Omniverse, he came with passion and dedication to make the best of a strange and bizarre situation. Upon waking up in the Nexus, Aragorn was alone save for one other - a man who styled himself as one Ethril Palpatine.  Although he had a scholarly and bureaucratic look, Palpatine had quick wits and a startling skill with both blade and alien magicks.  The two men joined forces and ventured out together into the unknown world.  They traveled together for some time before an unknown event sent them their separate ways.  Aragorn claims that Palpatine betrayed him, but speaks little otherwise of the event. Following this, Aragorn headed East from the Nexus, through the gate to the land which would come to be known as Camelot. Here he founded what would become the Kingdom. His new followers crowned Aragorn their king, and they called their new home ‘Minas Tirith.’  A hardy group of dedicated workers, this nucleus quickly grew over the next year and a half into a thriving metropolis. Nearly two years after arriving in Camelot, Aragorn’s peaceful kingdom was shattered with the arrival of a hellish vanguard into the Omniverse.  Under orders from someone named Diablo, demons started raiding Minas Tirith and the collection of villages that had begun to sprout up around it.  King Aragorn traced the attacks back to a strange new verse, the Underverse. For a few years, groups of demons erupted from the Underverse to raid and pillage, dragging back people, animals, and goods to their master.  Through spies, Aragorn learned that Palpatine was also suffering the same guerilla attacks.  Over this time, other primes started to arrive at the Fountain of Infinity in the Nexus.  When Aragorn learned that Palpatine was actively recruiting the disoriented and confused primes, the king had no choice but to do the same.   With fresh primes working beneath them, the rival societies started to grow exponentially.  As Coruscant expanded downward, Camelot expanded upward—founding a city in the sky called Dalaran.  Under Albus Dumbledore, the wizards who studied and trained in Dalaran became key figures in stemming the increasing demonic tide.  Outside of Camelot, Aragorn was even able to found colonies.  The most famous of these was Darkshire in the Pale Moors, a verdant and luscious verse that provided the Kingdom with a wealth of food and raw materials.  Darkshire was so successful and so attractive to settlers that dozens of villages grew up around it in a manner of weeks.   [float=right][/float]All of these developments, along with the arrival of dwarves, elves, orcs, trolls, and other ‘non-humam’ settlers seemed to be an omen that the Kingdom’s losses would stop.  For a period, this was the reality, and the Kingdom experienced a small golden age as primes arrived and aided her quick development.  Multiculturalism seemed to be on the rise as the economy flourished. But after two years of simply raiding settlements and stealing goods like bandits, Diablo’s tactics changed.  A fortnight passed without any reports of raids or attacks by fel monsters. Then one cold morning, an army of three thousand devils, monsters, and undead erupted from an enormous gate in the Pale Moors (thereafter dubbed ‘the Black Gate’), slaughtering half a dozen villages before Aragorn and his advisors managed to mobilize an army to defend Darkshire from total destruction. Although they protected the ‘Jewel of the Pale Moors’ from being overrun by Diablo’s forces, the Pale Moors would never be the same.  Within a year, the entire verse would be a desolate shell of its former self, with perpetually cloudy skies and roving bands of undead monsters.  All of the once thriving farming and cattle towns vanished, either because their citizens fled or because they were butchered or turned into the undead.  Darkshire became the frontline of a full-scale war against Diablo.  The once beautiful city withered slowly—cannibalizing its resources to stem back the attacks. Pinned down during this initial defense of Darkshire, Aragorn was unable to stop the demons from entering the Nexus and traveling to Coruscant.  The massive city-verse, lacking any geographic defenses, was ravaged and decimated by the first demon attack.   The next two years were the blackest in the Omniverse.  Camelot and the Pale Moors suffered horrendously as Diablo consolidated his control in the outer Moors.  Even parts of the Vasty Deep were sacked and burned by the Lord of Terror’s armies.  Rather than offer any aid to his rival, Emperor Palpatine made military service compulsory in the Empire, suspended many laws, and garrisoned the gates with hundreds of disposable soldiers and mechanized war machines. Almost two years to the day after the Battle of Coruscant, the Kingdom managed to assemble a grand army of knights mounted on gryphons, wizards, and elementals.  Although the army was ‘multi-national,’ fracture lines had appeared in the former unity of Camelot.   Many non-humans had chosen to leave (dwarves, elves) or been driven out (orcs, trolls).  The decision by many of these non-human groups to ‘abandon’ Camelot during its darkest time deeply offended the human core of the Kingdom, which had always pride itself on its work ethic and resolve.  While there were politics at play, the everyday citizen of the Kingdom took these flights as ‘betrayals,’ and a racial hatred set into the community that has showed no signs of healing in the years since. The Grand Army marched across the Pale Moors to the Black Gate, the connection between the Omniverse and the Underverse.  A warrior calling himself Tyrael claimed to have a way to sever the connection between the two verses, but to do so, he needed to be inside the Underverse.  Sensing the valor and kindness of Tyrael’s soul, Aragorn agreed, preparing to wager everything on the man’s claim. The march across the Pale Moors was uneventful, with the two armies easily rolling over any opposition.  It wasn’t until they were nearly at the Black Gate that Aragorn and his inner circle realized how purposeful the lack of resistance had been.  As their army arrived at the Gate, they found themselves attacked from three directions by a host of fel creatures.  Outnumbered nearly 25-to-1, they fought valiantly—pushing toward the Black Gate even though that meant being further encircled by the foe. The grand army made it to the base of the Black Gate, and a detachment pressed onward into the Underverse, consisting of Tyrael, Aragorn, Thrall, Dumbledore, Victor von Magnus, and a squadron of the Kingdom's most elite warriors and mages.  What follows next is largely unknown. Of the 27 who stepped through the gate, only the King and his three advisers escaped before the portal imploded.  The four are silent on their experience, only sharing that Tyrael had sacrificed himself to close the gate. The grand army, on its last legs the moment before the Black Gate’s destruction, found itself saved from destruction.  The moment the gate’s energies violently collapsed, the demons lost their will to fight.  Those who didn’t flee were savagely cut down by what remained of the army.  In the aftermath of the battle, the Grand Army quickly disintegrated as the various groups returned to their home verses. While defeat may be too strong a word given the cost of the war, the defeat of Diablo signaled a new beginning for the Kingdom.  Although still very much at war with the Empire, Aragorn and his people no longer had to worry about hordes of demons murdering them in their sleep.  Even so, the problems persisted as the Kingdom tried to repair its wounds and moved forward.  Darkshire became increasingly independent of Camelot, and many of the diplomatic ties between the Kingdom and factions in other verses fell apart.  Even inside of Camelot, many settlements successfully pushed for greater autonomy from Minas Tirith, establishing an assortment of regional dukes and leaders around Camelot.  Racial bigotry led to violence among settlements as once multi-racial communities fractured in the aftermath of the war. In spite of the hardships, the Kingdom continues to grow and develop.  The events of the Scramble, potentially disastrous for Aragorn, proved harmless in the long run, as many of the Primes went on to agitate Coruscant or vanished into outlying verses.  Even a rampaging dragon was quelled after several weeks of attacking villages.  Oddly enough, many of the primes who slew the dragon were associated more with Coruscant than Camelot. These days, Aragorn isn’t quite as visible as he used to be.  With full-scale war behind them, the Empire usually relies on assassins and spies to harm him or destabilizing his authority.  Fortunately, Charles Xavier has made it nearly impossible for anyone to worm their way into the Kingdom’s inner circles who wish to do it harm. As one of the original primes, it is said that Aragorn has seen several lifetimes’ worth of sadness and despair, and despite his youthful appearance, his eyes betray just how long he has lived.  The soldiers who fought in the combined army share stories of how their king returned from the Underverse missing that youthful glint in his eyes.  With the state of the Omniverse in increasing flux, many wonder how long it will be until the Kingdom is faced with another large-scale catastrophe.