Daryll/History

This page chronicles the complete story of Daryll the Bandit.
== Story ==
=== Background ===
According to Roman Illarion, Daryll was born on 18 February.https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1014715072028868708 Around the time of "Wither Heart", he was thirty-four years old.https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/536138707535659018 
Notorious for robbing unsuspecting victims, Daryll was a bandit with a massive bounty on his head throughout the Overworld. Ser Patrick was a knight who sought this bounty. Daryll attempted to rob him but was defeated in combat. Patrick was nevertheless impressed by Daryll's skills and offered him a choice: to die now, or pledge his life in service to the Frostbourne.Adapted from a potential concept for a special episode featuring the bandits.Rainimator Lorebook, "The Humans" Since then, Daryll has accompanied Ser Patrick on expeditions—during the zombie apocalypse, the pair searched for survivors.https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/884110738338242580https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/633312990430625802The Rainimator Lorebook (2018) describes Daryll as Ser Patrick's apprentice in the chapter "The Humans". More recently, Rainimator wrote on Discord that "Daryll is not an apprentice. He's well capable of fighting in [sic] his own. Ser Patrick just likes tagging him along on expeditions." (5 September 2021) Other bandits, including Flint, have likewise been captured and recruited by the Frostbourne.https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/936813294956711977/1135080341930000455
== Fractures ==
=== Undead War ===
Daryll had a supporting role in "Herobrine's Revenge", the first season of Fractures, wherein Herobrine raised an undead army and attempted to conquer the Overworld. The season opened with "The Struggle". In this episode, the people of a Frostbourne village named GlacierfordSee map in "Be Afraid". are either slaughtered or infected by the undead.Daryll first appeared in the second episode, "Cold as Ice". On a scouting mission in search of survivors from Glacierford, they clear a fallen campsite of zombies. Ser Patrick comes across a zombie named Rain, who was only recently infected. He carries a paralyzed Rain back to the Dreadfort on his dapple grey steed. As Lady Azura subjects Rain to a machine designed for zombies' resurrection, Ser Theo, Ser Patrick and Daryll watch in amazement.thumb|Daryll walking past Ser Patrick within a retaken Glacierford in his cameo in We Are the Danger.
Sometime later, in "We Are the Danger", Daryll participates in the Frostbourne and Ender Watchers' siege against the Undead-claimed Glacierford, fighting against Herobrine's onslaught. Guns in hand, Daryll walks past Ser Patrick before Herobrine's counterattack in the form of the Nether Horde, forcing him to retreat alongside Patrick and the surviving troops.
Days pass until Daryll makes a reappearance in "Goodbye", employed with two other Bandits by Ser Patrick - now the Grandmaster - in a siege on the Wither Camp, operating alongside Lady Azura and Stella. Bearing Azura's new Beacon Guns, they approach the base on foot, Daryll leading the Bandits in the effort to kill Blackbone's band of Wither Skeletons.
thumb|left|Daryll leading the Bandits into the Wither Camp in Goodbye.After the Grandmaster sends Stella and Lady Azura to the End to request the Watchers' assistance, he and the Bandits stands against Herobrine's reinforcements, Daryll manning a firing tower. Battling an onslaught of Vexes, Daryll is saved by the Ender Watchers' arrival, the Undead Reign ended by Herobrine's decapitation.
=== Wings of Salvation ===
"Wings of Salvation" opens with a meeting wherein Azura announces her intentions to go to the Floating Isles alone and kill the Wither Angels camped there. Despite the objections of Ser Patrick and Daryll, who fear for her safety, they cannot dissuade her. Azura eventually returns from the successful mission.
=== Cold as Ice: The Remake ===
"Cold as Ice: The Remake" opens with a speech addressed to the Frostbourne army by Patrick and Azura. When Azura announces the Grandmaster's plan to stall the Horde at the Far Plains, Daryll objects, believing that such "insanity" would lead to many pointless deaths. Azura retorts that they are the last defense between the Horde and the Overworld. Patrick rebukes Daryll's words as motivated by fear, believing that this is their duty as the Overworld's vanguards. Daryll reluctantly leads the gunner calvary in the battle.
Firing their Beacon Guns at the enemy from afar, all while riding of their Steeds, Daryll and his men charge into battle ferociously. Leaving the advantage of his horse mid-battle, Daryll uses a crossbow and axe to attack an incoming Horde of Pigmen, although is overwhelmed and collapses after dispatching the enemy.
Later in the battle, Daryll regains consciousness, sighting Naeus summoning lightning to kill the other soldiers using Herobrine's powers. Wanting to do one last brave deed, and remembering Ser Patrick's words, he grabs hold of the Nether King's wounded arm, immobilizing him enough for an incoming airship to crash into the pair, sacrificing himself to kill Naeus; however, he sadly was only able to severely injure him, still leaving Naeus alive. His sacrifice was not in vain, however, as he was able to secure the survival and future of the remaining Frostbourne and mankind as a whole.
===Legacy===
His grave was soon visited by Patrick and Flint who mourned his death alongside many who also died to the Nether Horde.
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