Plutarch

"All the innocent who have suffered!" - Plutarch to Lumina.
Plutarch the Dreamholder is a major antagonist within Darkspore and is the final holder of the Wither King's Map. Plutarch, uniquely, reveled and worshipped Paroxya, remaining by his body after all of these years within Cataclysmia.
==Origins==
Born on Conduit, the same place of Oryx, Plutarch is a Glaivenean scholar and mage who trained for a long time within several galactic schools to become a philosopher, or in Glaivenean a "Mindwarden".
After long amounts of time, Plutarch in a million years became also a fierce fighter, sporting the armor that he stole from anyone he killed. This would mostly include random Humans and Starbeings, as they were the races least likely to conform to Plutarch's ideology nicknamed Plutism, an ideology that revolved around criticality in constantly questioning your surroundings and instead of wielding Light or Darkness, you would wield thoughts and dreams, or even nightmares. This power would be called by others as "Dreamholding" or "Dreambending". Plutarch, as of Darkspore Vol VI, is the only one capable of Dreambending. 
In his expansive search around the galaxy around E2 Y49658, Plutarch discovered Cataclysmia, a shatter in space near the core of the galaxy which led to Eden. This specific spot in Eden was the burial site of Paroxya, whom was killed by Sakrys several tens of thousands of years earlier. Plutarch, marveled by the power and size of Paroxya, began to worship his corpse and even infused himself with bits and pieces. Plutarch was able to harvest the remaining thoughts that lingered around Paroxya and piece together who he was. From his view, Paroxya was misunderstood, tormented, and abused. Plutarch understood that mortals, specifically those of exceptional power, were the true cardinal evil in all of reality. In contrast, Plutarch also understood that monopoly gods who could harness reality were also true evil and did not deserve to be.
From this point onwards, Plutarch would spend his time in Cataclysmia, the deep bowels of Eden, and form a hidden covenant of Dreamlike under Nezerath's main world. In this time, he would converse with his Dreamlike and his deep inner thoughts to find out the true meaning and way to exterminate evil. While Plutarch was meditating, Rolonin invaded. Immediately disturbed, Plutarch asked the origin of Rolonin. Rolonin was wise enough to inject minimal info to reinforce his anonymity. However, Plutarch captured Rolonin for some time, harvesting his thoughts. The result of which led to Plutarch's knowledge of pretty much everything, including Lumina. Plutarch went on to let Rolonin leave, unknowingly sapping his knowledge. In this time, Plutarch was dormant for several thousand years, being cut off from the rest of the world. Rolonin would go on to spread the word to the other dark disciples, noting that there was "another like them" hidden within Eden.
Rolonin would not be the one to visit Plutarch. Later would come Apocrypha, the god of Sin. Apocrypha was deeply envious of Plutarch's capability to manifest the Dreamlike, which were servants which were created by splitting off Plutarch's own life force. Plutarch, being thoughtful, bargained with Apocrypha. If he were able to teach Apocrypha, then Apocrypha would give him his knowledge. Agreeing, Apocrypha was taught to create the Sintaken, and Plutarch gained knowledge of the Tungsten Warrior. Plutarch began to piece together his new ideology. In his mind, TW was just and in the right, while Apocrypha was only out to hurt. An unknown entity of darkness also visited Plutarch, of which granted him the Third Map Piece. The map piece allowed Plutarch to triangulate where the Wither King (God) was. However, he knew that no other could be trusted with this info, and rather than saving it within his mind, he implanted the Map Piece into his psyche. The only way for it to be removed is for someone to kill him, collect his thoughts, and travel into them and pull the map out. Rolonin would come back later to elaborate on the unknown entity, being Pyrrho, an Ascendant Starbeing of immense power. Not too much later, Plutarch would be visited by Apophis. declaring that if Plutarch were to meet a Volt Angler, he would be to kill her. Knowing who this volt angler was, Plutarch already made plans to prepare for their arrival. His new ideology involved the extinction of strong mortals and strong gods. No one should lead, rather a collection of gods of equal power. He would go on to call this Reformation of Paroxya.
==Appearance==
Plutarch resembles a black and gold knight with gray/white accents. The armor is quite polygonal and simplistic, most of the shapes comprising hexagons. There is a small spike that sticks out of the top of the helmet, which has a T shaped visor. There is a loincloth that is connected white hexagons. His leggings before reaching the knees flare out like a flower, and then the black armor under continues the leg. He has a massive greatsword with a black hilt and cyan veins running through it. He also wears a cyan cape.
Usually, when accessing Dreambending, cyan pulses will eminate from his body and thoughts in the form of shattered panes will manifest around him. Wispy energy will come out of his visor and armor cracks, symbolizing that he may be related to The Omen as they share similar structure. Under his armor, however, Plutarch resembles a regular Glaivenean with blue eyes.
==Stories==
Darkspore
Volume	Events 	Changes 	Deaths
vi 	Plutarch is introduced by Vitrifix. A team assembles of Vitrifix. Strtsclk, Lumina, Rowan, and Orion. They go to Cataclysmia and find Plutarch. From there they battle, leaving Azeroth awoken from Rowan, and Lumina's death and rebirth into Ilumina. After some caretaking, they visit the Broken Aether to find Stasia. After doing so, they create a portal to the Mirror Realm and find Rowan's body. There, Plutarch is ambushed by Kepler and Tempors. Kepler, telling Tempors that what he did was wrong, eventually gets Tempors to forgive and forget. Plutarch seems to sacrifice his physical body and gives the group the Third Map Piece. After doing so, they meet again while Plutarch helps them in their struggle to defeat Oryx. After doing so, Genogyas infects Plutarch and has him fight his friends. Plutarch's physical body is annihilated by Nezerath, a black tree sprouting from his body.	Introduced	???
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
==Reformation of Paroxya==
As stated before, Plutarch believes in the resurrection of Paroxya, rather a Dreamlike form of himself. However, Plutarch himself is not mighty enough to cast Paroxya, so he relies on his Dreamlike to scourge Cataclysmia for any signs of energy or of Paroxya's Heart, a fundamental item.
Luckily, Plutarch has had no luck in resurrecting Paroxya yet, but has gotten fairly close.
==Intelligence and Personality==
One of the most intelligent characters in Darkspore, Plutarch is naturally inquisitive and curious. His vast knowledge from usurping memories and thoughts from others gives him an incredible advantage, as he may have two sides of a story and form his own logical opinion off of that. Most of what Plutarch believes in is fundamentally simple logic that anyone can get behind- no singular super powered ruler, no overpowered mortals, however the way of achieving that vision, much like the people he has stolen thoughts from, are dark and corrupted. 
While not intentionally persuading himself to a bias, his pool of info has come from rather dark entities and does not help his situation. However, his selflessness with the Third Map Piece shows that Plutarch is willing to sacrifice his own knowledge for the safety of everyone. Plutarch also takes exceptional care of Paroxya's body, showing some sort of father/son bondage with it, which is symbolic for Paroxya's bondage with the Wither King.
Plutarch may have an IQ in the high 170s.
==Dreambending==
While a complicated power and an alternate variant of abilities that does not hinge off of Darkness or Light, Dreambending in its own right can do anything the Light or Dark can do.
As mentioned earlier, Dreambending is Plutarch's ability to harness and manipulate thoughts, dreams, nightmares, and the emotions along with those thoughts. Someone who can dreambend is able to visibly see someone's thoughts loom over their head and read their minds. Experts at it are able to leech memories and thoughts, stealing them for oneself. Enough thought energy allows the user to create Dreamlike, of whom are apparitions from select memories that resemble people who may have existed, however they are usually depicted through the paradigm of the user. For example, a citizen of Iopia may depict TW as TW, however his enemies may depict him as a ruthless demon.
Dreambending also allows for the instigation of certain thoughts and shifting of emotional behavior within people. Psychic harmonizers are an example of this, however they are a technical version of Dreambending's ability. Dreambending also relies on the user to keep their brain cool, otherwise they may overheat and become disoriented or faint. Plutarch is so exceptional at this that his brain never seems to overheat.
While particularly a summoning ability and psychic ability, Dreambending has great amount of defensive maneuvers, such as Dreamscreaming, which causes the target to go insane temporarily with rampant unintelligble thought and disorient them greatly. You can also form Thoughtwalls, which are literal physical walls of emotion, designed to either hurt, push away, or pull in.
==Attacks==
Basic Abilities
Name 	Type 	Description 	Strength
Blade Slash 	Melee 	A simple blade slash. 	Low
Whirlwind 	AOE 	Spin around to create a vortex with your blade that deals continuous damage to people inside the vortex. 	Moderate
Reality Blast 	Paracausal 	Reshuffles anything it hits. 	High
Fractium 	Melee 	On touch, Plutarch can cause anything he touches to shatter via Fractium. 	Extreme
Dreambending Abilities	Dreambending Abilities	Dreambending Abilities 	Dreambending Abilities
Dreamlike Summoning 	Paracausal 	Plutarch can use a thought to summon a Dreamlike, an apparition of thought. 	Moderate
Thoughtwall 	Paracausal 	Plutarch can use thought energy to form a physical barrier. The barrier has the consistency of fire and will either hurt, pull in, or push away the target. 	Moderate
Dreamscream 	Paracausal 	Plutarch will sent a violent psychic burst that causes the target to go insane temporarily with rampant unintellgible thought. 	High
Concept Projection 	Paracausal 	Using immense thought energy, Plutarch can disguise an area as an area present within a thought. 	High
Unfettered Nightmares 	Paracausal 	Using several shards of Nightmares, combined with Thought Energy, Plutarch is able to fire a highly concentrated plasma red beam of nightmares. Hands and lost souls reach out of the beam. Upon being hit, the target will experience the nightmares in a quick succession and scream in agony and fear.	Extreme
Nightmare Form 	Paracausal 	With extreme hate and anger, Plutarch is able to mask himself into a Nightmare Form, giving him all of his physical powers on top of being slightly paracausal. 	Extreme
Warp 	Paracausal 	Plutarch is able to think of a new location and use his energy to manipulate his position incredibly fast. 	Low
Static 	Paracausal Ultimate 	Plutarch is able to overload the neurons and thoughts of a brain and cause it to momentarily lose function. This causes incredible damage to the cells of the brain or whatever "powers" the intelligence of a creature. 	Insane
Overwhelming Emotion 	Paracausal 	Plutarch on contact with a victim is able to make them experience an overwhelming emotion of fear, disgust, sadness, happiness, giddiness, or sleepiness. This is through physical transferring of thought energy. 	Extreme
Thoughtblitz 	Paracausal 	Turning memories and thoughts into massive glass petals, Plutarch can fire these petals and infest someone's mind with thoughts. 	High
Nightmare Abilities 	Nightmare Abilities 	Nightmare Abilities 	Nightmare Abilities
Fear Strikes 	Paracausal 	Using Nightmare energy, Plutarch invades the mind and blasts the most fearful apparitions into their brain. 	High
Hallucinogen 	Paracausal 	Using Nightmare energy, Plutarch is able to make the victim see things that aren't real, or feel things that aren't happening. 	High
My World 	Paracausal 	Plutarch is able to bring you into his mind or a thought similar, where he has nearly unlimited control but is unable to harm you in any way. 	Moderate
==Other Notes==
===Quotes===
*"What you are doing is wrong. Can't you see this?"
*"I don't want to hurt you more than I need to! Is this goal of yours so necessary?"
*"What are YOU fighting for?"
*"Light and Dark are using you as their puppet. Let your strings drop."
*"You need rest. Your thoughts are weak and softspoken."
*"The weak will survive, and the strong will be punished. Not for submission, but for order."
==Trivia==
*Plutarch, like Diogenes, Euclid, and Pyrrho, is named after the Greek Philosopher.
*Plutarch is considered the "last antagonist of Darkspore"
*Plutarch is one of the only Glaiveneans to wear human armor.
*Plutarch has slain over fourty seven hundred Starbeings.
*Plutarch has been in Calaclysmia for over several hundred thousand years.