Griffin

Griffin is a character who appears in: Rugal Will Cry, and Radiance of Visvara.
A mysterious and outright evil scientist working for Farkensaw Rugal.
==Synopsis==
=== History ===
As Farkensaw Rugal became instated as the pope, Griffin quickly became devoted to him and his teachings. He began to research the Old One, Bela, for him, particularly how to summon him and how to use his power to heal his daughter, Mavis Rugal. This involved something known as Bela's brand, which would allow most people with it to transmogrify into a monster (some subjects simply being burned to death in excruciating pain from the brand). Usually this would result in people being turned into wolves, evident from this happening to the entire population of child chimney sweeps being experimented on, however with enough tweaking to the body and casting, the transmogrification could be turned into something more powerful and controllable, shown through experiments on Mavis' body. Griffin was later encouraged to do this to himself by Rugal, causing him to gain the ability to turn invisible at will, alongside having a new monstrous form.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 14: Trisagion===
Eventually, Griffin had discovered that summoning Bela required the sacrifices of a large population, so he came to Cathedral City and began activating the brand on a large number of chimney sweeps, resulting in the deaths of many inhabitants. He found one two-year-old chimney sweep talking to an old man within the chimney, so he called out from atop the roof, "why are you talking to that man #204?" The baby whimpered in fear and tried to tell him that he was trying to get the man to get out, but he failed to convince his superior. The baby's chest began to burn and the man walked away, as the old man watched a brand on the child burning violently through him. Griffin continued to activate the transmogrification in all of the chimney sweeps of Cathedral City from the rooftops, until he noticed the old man from earlier clocking him from the distance. He was then immediately pursued by the oddly agile old man, so he fled to his lab within the cathedral to trap him, where he successfully lured him into a massive iron chamber with a massive glass plane suspended about 15 feet in the air. On the other side was a laboratory and a well lit room, that projected Griffin's silhouette towards Geron that was nothing but shadow, save for the shine off of his lenses. Geron yelled at him for answers with an array of insults, but the figure chuckled and said, "you truly don't have any class, do you? Where are you from?" Geron answered, "Visvara!" Griffin replied, "I've heard of that place. It's barbaric." Andur snapped back, "it's home." He walked away within the safety of his lab, shocking Geron, because all the villainous people he'd met before had a funny little quirk about them, but this guy was just a genuinely evil man who didn't reveal anything about his plans - he began to believe that he was out of his league.
===Radiance of Visvara - Chapter 16: Adagio for Strings===
In their secret underground chamber within the castle they were all staying in, Griffin and Farkensaw Rugal had met up for a conversation:
*P:	"It seems rather evident that you’ve perfected the execution of Bela’s brand. Well done."
*G: 	"Thank you, my holiness. Although there is something I’d like to ask you about. This Tara woman…"
*P:	"The nun, what of her?"
*G:	"Is she to be trusted?"
*P:	"She delivered to us, my… assailant and her magic has proved quite useful to us."
*G:	"Yet she remains a stranger to us all."
*P:	"Are you questioning my judgment?"
*G:	"M- my apologies, my holiness. I’m just distrusting of her for both of our sakes."
*P:	"Should a situation arise, you’re free to turn her into one of your little she-viper experiments. Does that appease you? Very well. Now I’m returning to the ports, now that my wounds have healed. Preparations for Bela’s summoning are complete, yes?"
*G:	"Indeed, my holiness. Should I tell your daughter to go too?"
*P:	"No, Griffin, the less Mavis knows the better about this, the better."
*G:	"Of course, my holiness. May fortune be with you."
Rugal then left through one of the two doors within the room, but, as it shut, the Moss Boiz burst in without a moment's hesitation with their war cries and battle faces ready, so Griffin instantly turned invisible. They looked around the around the room confused, until they noticed a pair of glasses had been placed on the table in the middle of this meeting room seemingly out of nowhere. They then began to hear convulsing, retching, and cracking bones echoing throughout the room, as the table suddenly flipped over and a monstrous caw burst out. Suddenly, they felt the air in the room approach them suddenly. They moved into random spaces, in an attempt to dodge this unknown attack, resulting in Geron and Ember being thrown against the wall. Frantically, they began trying to fight an invisible enemy, but they were little to no clues to its whereabouts, especially since it was moving around the room with incredible speed, but, through a fluke, April was able to hit it by randomly firing eldritch blasts, allowing Ember to discern its position and throw the rest of the yellow paint at the enemy. The creature's form was similar to a more humanoid griffin, allowing Heart to use hold person on it for them all to start pummelling it to death. After several hits, the enemy fell to the ground and began to return into its normal form, Griffin, but he went into a hysteria about not allowing his face to be seen or his identity, so he grabbed Roger's wrist and jammed his fingers into it, forcing him to cast fire bolt on his face, killing and burning his face off. In shock and horror, the Moss Boiz just stared blankly at the villain's corpse.
==Trivia==
*Griffin's character and role in Radiance of Visvara is based off of Agnus' from Devil May Cry 4.
*Griffin was originally intended to be featured in Rugal Will Cry, but was replaced by Blobby.
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