Nero
(#19633414)
"Fear and pain are there to guide us to our better selves."
Tatchi
Salve Kamaitachi
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Energy: 44/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Plague.
Male Mirror
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
6.96 m
Wingspan
4.88 m
Weight
499.67 kg
Genetics
Raspberry
Basic
Basic
Fuchsia
Basic
Basic
Orchid
Basic
Basic
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Mirror
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
7
AGI
6
DEF
7
QCK
6
INT
6
VIT
6
MND
7
Biography
NERO
NL-563455
LEGION - GREAT KHAN
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STR
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GENDER:
MALE AGE: 55 SEXUALITY: HETEROSEXUAL COMBAT STATUS: INACTIVE RELATIONSHIP STATUS: UNBOUND ALIGNMENT: LAWFUL NEUTRAL 
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RELATIONSHIPS:
KHAN AYAAN AIUTRAIODHDHRER BRENNUS CADMUS HOKUAI JEANNE ARTORIA GNAEUS SULLA
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PERSONAL FILE:
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Nero was born into a time of great strife, and that stress has had a long lasting effect on him. Back then, the relationship between the Legion and the Vanguard was not as stable as it is now. When he was a child, a war could have broken out at any moment, and Nero had to grow up with that. His clan lived near the center of the Legion, but its size and power would have demanded its involvement in the conflicts between the two superpowers. The only dragon that stood in the way of bloody waves of death was Nero's great uncle, the Great Khan, and Nero revered the man. Under his Great Uncle, Nero trained in the arts of war, the very tactics of both combat and diplomacy that he would need in the decades to come. Martial warfare, magic, strategy, and words of all intentions were Nero's subjects. He learned to write and read, then he would learn to pillage and burn, all in the course of a day. Nero was eighteen when that fateful day came, the time of bloodshed had arrived. Nero's father, and Nero's Great Uncle left for the front, to end the coming war before it could wind up. Nero waited in Karak, hoping for the best. He dreamed then of something less noble then peace, however. Nero wanted what was coming. He craved glory and he desired war. There was blood crying out for Nero out there somewhere, and he wanted to find it. Nero got his chance a month later, when his father and Great Uncle Returned, cremated and with full military honors. A set of skirmishes, Nero had come to learn, led to both their deaths, and the deaths of hundreds of others. Such brawls were par to the course, but rarely did they end with the deaths of such figures. Nero seized his opportunity when the moot was convened to find a new Great Khan. He stepped forward at the assembly and staked claim to his dominion over the Legion as Caesar, and over the Horde as the Great Khan. It had been expected, of course, so there was little outrage. The Vanguard recognized Nero's Great Uncle as a man seeking peace, and so believed Nero to be the same. They thought incorrectly. Only a week after his inauguration, the new Great Khan of the united Horde invaded the Enclave, a strategic holding that lay between the Legion and the Vanguard. Control of the Enclave made a gateway to the Vanguard that much easier to maintain. After displacing the local Vanguardians, Nero pointed his forces to the heart of the Vanguard, to Parthhune. That was when Nero ran face first into the young King Brennus, fresh to the throne but already well known to war. Nero and Brennus' armies met on the dusty banks of the Parth (A river south of Parthhune). Brennus held a bridge of stone, and Nero wanted that bridge of stone Outnumbered, but defensible and better armored, Brennus waited for Nero's attack. So far, Nero had had little resistance from the scattered Vanguard forces, but Brennus was a force the likes Nero had not yet faced. The two armies clashed for days, exchanging blow for blow throughout the days. Thousands gave their lives in those days. Nero had hoped for a quick end to this war, but now the Vanguard had organized and were gearing up to grind Nero's weakened forces into the river bed. But, Brennus offered Nero and alternative. Brennus' terms were that Nero would come forth and they would duel. They would fight each other rather than letting their armies destroy themselves. Nero agreed and they met at dawn on the last day of Nero's campaign. The duel was pitched, and the two warriors were equal in most respects. For nearly twenty minutes, the two warred with each other and with themselves. It was Brennus who ended the fight, jaws clenched around Nero's buckling helmet. A battle between two Mirrors typically ends as such. The jaws of a Mirror can cave a helmet or skull all the same. Nero returned home that day, beaten and both his army and ego humbled. The war was done. Nero came back to the Legion and set about a different course of actions. Brennus had knocked Nero's thirst for war out of him, but Nero wouldn't appreciate that until much later. The two would come to be quite the duo in the moots, making sure to keep the peace between them as well as they could. Their cooperation brought about a new era of prosperity for the Horde, one that Nero's Great Uncle and Father had fought years for. Nero was not done with his own war though. With his first, and only, wife, Brennus had four children. Three of them went off to be warriors, leaders, and to die. The last child, Artoria, has defied that course of events. The price of Order that Nero had used his people to pay for, Artoria decided, was too steep. She had seen the prejudices and the discrimination in the Legion, against Nature dragons, against Imperials, and the injustice that crushed the Servant class beneath the boot of their masters. Artoria urged her father to work to combat these wrongs, but he sat idly by. So, Artoria did the only thing she could, she turned away from her father, and she denounced him. Nero was her father no longer. Nero watched as Artoria carried a handful of the Legion's Centuries away from his grip, and he was furious. The war Nero wrought, if it could be called that, was a massacre. Nero's forces flooded over Artoria's protesting Centuries' clans, destroying what good will Nero had developed. Artoria and her newfound Covenant fled to the north, away from Nero's wrath. Though Artoria tried to raise her banner against her father, Nero worked hard to silence it all. Nero painted his daughter, who was born a man, as a vicious usurper. He used that image of masculinity to directly attack his daughter and to strike at her identity. That brutality severed whatever bond the two still had, and it formed a rift in the Legion. Some believed in Artoria, and some believed Nero. In the coming years, Nero ran several smear campaigns against his daughter, as well as trying to keep his own image untainted. His relationship with the other Khans was soured, despite his effort. Brennus, whom had worked with Nero to repair the Legion and Vanguard turned against him as well, renouncing his support for the Great Khan. The other Khans seemed to be following. During this time, Nero had found another daughter to mold, Khan. Nero taught Khan how to fight and how to lead. But, there was a difference in Nero. He was getting old, and all the wounds he had caused began to bleed inside of his heart. The dreams he had crushed, both his and others, and those he had killed weighed heavy on him. He dreamed for repentance and for peace in these recent years, but he could never swallow his pride deep enough to apologize for it all. The suffering he had caused, Nero felt, made him unforgiveable in his eyes. Even when Khan lost an eye for love, Nero couldn't get himself to defend her. The only thing Nero could do, he decided, was to give to Khan what he had destroyed long ago, a chance. On one fateful day, in the heated debate of a moot assembly, the Great Khan put his final plan as Great Khan into place. He abdicated the throne right there, in the middle of the four other Khans. And then he left. He went home and he waited. When Khan came to find him again, she was the new Great Khan, and Nero cried. A million tons of blood, steel, and paperwork collapsed off of his heart, but he couldn't drop all of it. He had hoisted his mistakes onto Khan now, but he wasn't going to force her to fix everything. He was going to help if he could. To this day, Nero lives in Karak, advising Khan when she comes to ask for it. Mostly though, he just sits and watches the world go by. Ruling was what had defined most of his life, and he didn't know what to do. He had expected to die on the battlefield, or stabbed in the back, long before now. He had thought about carpentry, or winemaking, or just ending it himself, but he decided that he would just help in the little ways. Talking to the people he had neglected for so long, sweeping streets, hammering nails, singing songs, and tending fowl. Any little thing that he had never thought about doing before. He even spoke to his daughter. She was the first dragon he had ever tried to apologize to, and it hurt. It hurt more though when Artoria hated him still. He had done too much damage, cut too deep, Nero knew, but he had still hoped against hope. Nero's days are numbered, and he is counting. | xx |
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