09-11-2014, 10:52 AM
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Character name: Ornstein
Character source: Dark Souls
Character history:
( Character taken from immediately after his death in the Anor Londo cathedral at the hands of the Chosen Undead. )
With much of the history of Lordran faded into lore and myth, very little is known for certain about the Dragonslayer, Ornstein. It is thought that he was among the first of Lord Gwyn’s knights, granted his power after his King claimed one of the four Lord Souls from the First Flame. With the strength of Lords, he challenged the everlasting dragons alongside the Lord of Sunlight, their mighty bolts of lightning peeling away the stone scales of the beasts and Ornstein’s lugged spear driving through their hides to strike them dead.
Ornstein lived through the Age of Fire counted among the four Knights of Gwyn, the King’s most trusted and capable warriors. Alongside his compatriots – Lord’s Blade Ciaran, Hawkeye Gough and the legendary Abysswalker Artorias – Ornstein served Lord Gwyn from his palace at the heart of Anor Londo, protecting the realm of Lordran from any threats that might beset it. It is theorised that Ornstein was among the forces Gwyn mustered against the Occult Rebellion, an ill-fated plot conceived by enemies of the gods to destroy them with the stolen power of the Gravelord, Nito.
One such threat would prove beyond Ornstein’s capability to defeat, however – the approaching end of Gwyn’s Age of Fire. The Dark closed in upon Lordran and the surrounding realms, and brought with it the inexplicable and dreaded Darksign. Those branded with this curse were rendered undead; death could not hold them, but each time they died, their grip on their humanity would slip a little further until they inevitably lost their minds and turned Hollow. The curse ravaged the land, steeping it in darkness and tragedy that nobody knew how to overcome.
Gwyn’s last resort to stave off the Dark was a dire one; with a company of his knights in tow, he would journey to the Kiln of the First Flame and offer his very soul to kindle it and keep it burning a little longer. By this time, Ornstein stood as the last remaining of the Four Knights, while grim circumstance had claimed the others. Alongside the royal executioner Smough, Ornstein was charged with the protection of his Lord’s daughter, Gwynevere. Resplendent in golden armour, the two sentinels held their vigil, true to their King’s final command.
So they might have remained until the very end of the Age of Fire, until one mighty intruder came to stand before them. The nameless Chosen Undead, the subject of a long-standing prophecy that a single warrior would make pilgrimage from the Undead Asylum and discover the fate of his kind, had come to Anor Londo in search of the Lordvessel, an artifact which sealed the only entrance to the Kiln of the First Flame. Accounts of the battle that took place here vary; some say the Chosen Undead stood alone against Ornstein and Smough, while others claim he exploited the convoluted flow of time in Lordran to call forth phantoms from other worlds that fought beside him. Whatever the case, the Dragonslayer and the Executioner met their ends at the hands of this prophesied warrior.
Here, Ornstein’s tale in Lordran came to a close, but fate was not finished with him. Whether Omni had liberated Ornstein’s soul from the void or whether it had been preserved by the grim power of the Darksign is not known, but the Knight of Gwyn awoke from darkness facing the enigmatic deity, his once proud golden armour and spear faded to a scorched grey and his former towering stature shrunk to more human proportions.
So the new saga of the Dragonslayer began.
Stats:
ATK: 3
DEF: 2
SPD: 2
TEC: 3
Starting Proficiencies:
- Physical Strength (1000 OM)
- Area Attack Proficiency (600 OM)
Starting Powers:
- Burst Movement (800 OM)
- Basic Super Jumping (300 OM)
Starting Moves:
- Dragonslayer Spear (300 OM): Ornstein’s famed weapon of choice, approximately seven feet long when shrunk with him to a more human size, this gleaming spear could pierce dragon hide with ease in his skilled hands and is even said to have split a boulder in two with a single strike. While its huge reach makes it ideal for wide swings as well as powerful thrusts, its blade is pointed rather than edged, and slashing attacks are more likely to bludgeon than cut. Skilled and quick opponents may also exploit the weapon’s size to slip past its minimum range and strike at Ornstein from up close, where it’s more difficult for him to wield such a long weapon with particular strength and speed.
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