Cacto

Cacto is one of the ORQ members and part of Azzar's Acolytes. He lives in Campus Ordo and is known for his humor and gambling addiction. Cacto has also been known for designing some structures across ORQ lands and outside of it at Zhufortt. 
His body is completely black with one glowing eye. He always wears black and red robes.
==Personality==
Cacto is a pretty talkative person with a sense of humor, sometimes cracking jokes even at serious situations. He's often overfocused on various unlucky factors that might happen to him. This is sometimes mistaken for cowardness, but is simply the result of his past experiences.
He's quite friendly to people of all associations, though when he puts a goal or a target to achieve, he can be quite stubborn.
Catco is quite obsessed with gambling and any game of chance.
==Abilities==
Cacto is known for the ability to destroy luck around him, causing all kinds of unfortunate scenarios in his close proximity. That is tied to his classpect of Prince of Light that he discovered during the lectures given by Azzar.
Additionally, Cacto is able to destroy light literally, enveloping the surrounding area in darkness, even if it's well lit. This ability is rumored to be the cause of his impenetrable, dark appearance of his body, not allowing any light to reflect off it. When he later succumbs further to his classpect, he's capable of reshaping his body and turning into shadow to avoid damage
Due to being under the influence of Azzar, he does not age.
==Biography==
The origins of Cacto are unknown, as his species is not encountered natively on Rathnir. He was adopted by Afioso "Brave" Stringstone and lived in a city of Lunos for a while. Unfortunately, due to city leader's attempt on breaking away from Greater Plagos, the city was burned and Cacto barely made it out alive, though separating from his adoptive father in the process. It's known that he participated in several minor acts of terrorism, including attempted regicide, geneocide as well as infrastructure destruction, spreading an infectious disease, and vandalism of the parlament building, targetted towards Lunari Empire, Plagatea and Kartek. He moved from town to town quite frequently. It is known he inhabited the town of Aufei and finally the town of Zhufortt where he honed his first skills at architecture. During that time he developed a gambling addiction that put him in a dire financial state.
Somewhere around 141 AB he encountered Azzar and followed him back to Najer, after his house at Zhufortt was sold due to perturbations on the real estate market. He joined Red Mage's group and could be seen during the coronation of Jakkev Alsham-faj niv Talvos. He also reconnected with Brave. During that time he developed a gambling addiction Cacto attended lectures about classpects and Theatrum Mundi and learned about the source of his misfortune. He learned how to use it to his advantage. He assisted Najer during the Sheshtri attack at O'Kris funeral at 151 AB. During the Grand Najer Race he can be seen watching over the crystal pit near Asri Vodon. His influence of misfortune in both cases caused the ground to crumble, causing people to fall down below.
At some point after 152 AB, he becomes the guardian of Toxic, residing in Campus Ordo's catacombs and conducting a desacration of tombstones across Najer, in order to provide new heads for Toxic to feed on. When Shadow Stensar begins to investigate it, he conducts a plan with Brave to eliminate or at least discourage the Stensar from further search, by sending him to the labirynth where Neo Coolen resided.
When Shadow continued his investigation, Cacto reluctantly guided him through catacombs, eventually forced to have him attacked and cornered by Toxic. Assisting his fellow ORQ member, Cacto causes Shadow to get lost in the narrow corridors and eventually to fall down into the lower level, seemingly to his death. The entire operation was conducted as a distraction for Brave and other ORQ members to steal various recipes and research from Flaeheld Avalor. Unknowingly, this move sparked the chain of events leading to the infection breaking out in Pomjad. Despite being so close to the epicenter, he managed to survive.
Later on he's seen fighting the infection alongs his colleagues, conducting many raids against the infected areas and trying to protect Sah'rora and Nahrayn.
File:Azzar's Acolytes.png|Cacto appears at the palace along with Azzar and his Acolytes
File:Cacto, 07 and Raven discuss.png|Cacto discusses argues the usefulness of his classpect during the lecture.
File:Cacto at Asri Vodon.png|Cacto observes Grand Najer Race from the platform above crystal pit.
File:Shadow and Cacto in catacombs.png|Shadow and Cacto investigate Campus Ordo's catacombs
File:Cacto shifting.png|Cacto changes his shape while fighting Shadow Stensar
File:Brave's party after succesfull heist.png|Brave, Cacto, Jiggly and Raven succesfull heist
File:Fighting infection Sah'rora.png|Cacto, Brave and Jeremy fighting infected at Sah'rora
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