Karekin Baghdassarian

“Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man’s.”
-Karekin Baghdassarian
== History ==
“Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?"
-Karekin Baghdassarian
Knighted towards the end of King Bolgar's reign, Karekin Baghdassarian had a reputation as a maverick with unconventional views. Nonetheless, he had the King's respect, for he was a mighty warrior who refused to knuckle under authority. For this reason, Bolgar chose to have his grandson, Vilhelms Eglītis serve as Baghdassarian's squire. 
Baghdassarian would fight with distinction in the Thunderdome War, but he would grow increasingly disillusioned with the passage of time. 
Karekin Baghdassarian would forsake his oath and become the first paladin of Ragnarok to fall.
== Personality ==
"Witness? Yes, you are witness. Even so, what I, Karekin Baghdassarian, shall shape, you cannot imagine. No one can. I see no value in modest ambitions. One day, Mark, I will make a world of villages, and the age of cities will be over. And slavery will be dead, and there shall be no chains."
-Karekin Baghdassarian
Mighty and mad, unconventional and disillusioned, no knight embraced heretical strength with as much glee as Karekin Baghdassarian. Damnation suited him. Even when he was counted amongst the ranks of the faithful, Sir Karekin, as he was called, seemed like he had slipped through the cracks. He was divisive and forced others to have strong opinions about him. 
== The Great Awakening ==
"You have come a long way, just to die here at the edge of the world. No, do not speak. I have heard thousands and thousands of empty words from those like you. Your pride, your desires, your desperation... you will take these things with you once I strike you down. Raise your weapon then, and die like those who came before you."
-Karekin Baghdassarian
During the Long War, Karekin Baghdassarain bided his time and slew everyone who came to him in order to recruit him to their side. When Mark Patenaude, who had recently faked his death and went on a journey to seek strength, came across him, Baghdassarian attacked him. In the death knight's eyes, if the Godhunter was so weak as to die to his assault, then humanity was doomed regardless. The two fought to a standstill, and the Godhunter convinced Baghdassarian to take him on as a squire and train him. Baghdassarian took the Reiterpallasch away from Patenaude in order to force greater self-reliance from him, and the two together wrought the demise of the great old one Wormwood. Only after that did Baghdassarian return the Reiterpallasch, which Patenaude went on to use to defeat his old foe Vilhelms Eglītis and turn the tide of the Long War. 
Category:Paladins
Category:Ragnarok
Category:Wild Abyss
Category:Undead
Category:Lawful Evil
Category:Fallen Paladin
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