Storious

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 was one of the main antagonists of Kamen Rider Saber. He was the de-facto leader of the Megid who later became .
==History==
===Background===
Two thousand years ago, Storious was a poet who wrote many stories and enjoyed reading them to others. He explored with Viktor, Legeiel, Zooous, and the first Master Logos to search for Wonder World in hopes of benefitting humanity. After meeting a mysterious priestess, the five venture into Wonder World and become the first humans to witness the Almighty Book. While reading its pages, Storious learned that all of his poetry was written in the texts. He realized the ideas that he thought were his actually originated in Wonder World.
The revelation drove Storious completely mad, realizing neither he nor humanity could create anything original. Storious began using the Almighty Book for his own diabolical purposes. After manipulating Legeiel and Zooous, the three attempted to steal the tome by tearing out the pages, embedding it into themselves and becoming the Megid. Over the last two thousand years, the Megid used the pages to create the Alter Ride Books and build a vast army to fight the Sword of Logos. Rather than recreating the world, Storious sought to use the Almighty Book to end the world.
===A Chance Rises Again===
Fifteen years after the tragedy of the Sword of Logos, Storious brought in Kamen Rider Calibur to his inner circle, sharing the common pursuit to awaken the Almighty Book. Storious created both the Ari and Kirigirisu Megid to entrap a portion of a city. However, the two monsters were soon met by Kamen Riders Saber and Blades, who arrived to stop them. As the swordsmen fought, Storious and the other Megid observed them from their base as the heroes triumphantly returning the city to normal.
After Kamen Rider Calibur expressed his goal to reach Avalon, Storious decided to help. Posing as a victim of a Megid attack, Storious got close to Touma Kamiyama and sealed Kaenken Rekka's powers. After returning to the hideout, Storious gave Calibur a large, blank Ride Book. He also provided the Dark Swordsman the Alter Ride Books and the powers taken from Touma to open a portal to Avalon.
Eventually, Storious and the other Megid put their plan into motion, with help from Calibur. They created giant books at six points in the city that formed a ring and created a portal connecting Earth to Wonder World, which also contained the Almighty Book. While Calibur flew inside the portal, the triumvirate assumed their Megid forms to hold off the Kamen Riders from the Sword of Logos' Northern Base. However, they were unable to stop Saber from entering the portal after Calibur.
===Turning Humans into Megid===
Despite failing to obtain the Almighty Book, the Megid hatched a new plan to turn the humans connected to Wonder World into their kin. Storious would then plan to finalize his fusion Megid project, resulting in the creation of Charybdis Megid. Even though these human-turned-Megid were later defeated by Touma Kamiyama, Storious succeeded in carrying out this plan anyways using alternative means.
During a break-in at the Southern Base, Storious came face to face with the current Master Logos. Storious was permitted to enter the forbidden book chamber to take the book containing the Primitive Dragon. He ran into Touma Kamiyama and fought him outside with Legeiel. However, Touma reacts to the book Storious had stolen and becomes Saber Primitive Dragon, turning him completely feral.
Storious would later help Legeiel in defeating Saber by enhancing his Alter Ride Book using a forbidden technique, which gives it a new page and allowed him to evolve into Legeiel Forbidden. However, he warned Legeiel that he wouldn't be able to return to normal after using the form. Upon witnessing Legeiel's destruction by Saber Elemental Primitive Dragon from afar, Storious declared Legeiel's story has already ended.
He would continue to meet with Master Logos in the throne room to discuss their next move. Storious pointed out that Sophia has returned to the Northern Base, but Master Logos was unconcerned as she might help gather the Seiken and Wonder Ride books needed to recreate the Almighty Book. Master Logos declared his next move would be to regain power in the Northern Base, while Storious informs that their enemy's base has a portion of the Almighty Book as well.
===Alliance with Master Logos===
Once Master Logos disabled the Northern Base defenses, Storious led the Megid to raid the base with Zooous Predator. While the Northern Base swordsmen fended off the Shindai siblings and vanquished Zooous, Storious was able to get away with the objective of his attack, a special book that would allow him to create artificial humans. Returning to his hideout, Storious was later seen using the book to create a new human resembling Sophia.
Storious watched from afar as Master Logos assembled all the Wonder Ride Books and Seikens to recreate the Almighty Book. However, Touma managed to foil Master Logos' ritual, causing all the Seikens to be returned to their rightful owners. Master Logos was able to obtain a portion of the Almighty Book and transform into Kamen Rider Solomon, who prove to be a formidable adversary.
Having returned to the Southern Base, Master Logos discussed the Omni Force Wonder Ride Book with Storious. He questioned him if the book he has in his hands was really the Almighty Book itself, to which Master Logos denied as it was still incomplete. Storious then offered his assistance in gathering the remaining Wonder Ride Books so the Almighty Book could be genuinely completed, to which Master Logos accepted.
After witnessing the creation of Haouken Xross Saber and the arrival of Kamen Rider Xross Saber, Storious continued to assist on what he can with Master Logos. However, when Kamen Rider Solomon attempted to reach Wonder World and capture Luna, the swordsmen manage to overcome his omnipotent power and vanquish Solomon in battle. While Master Logos tries to grasp the remains of his powers, Storious declared Master Logos' story to be over, then he disintegrated him. Taking the repaired Omni Force Wonder Ride Book, Storious' appearance changed to sport green robes and began to launch his ultimate agenda.
===True Plans Revealed===
Storious began enacting his plan to destroy the world after collecting the Alter Ride Books from his fallen allies and the Omni Force Wonder Ride Book. He then dueled Desast and used the Charybdis Megid to further harm his creation. When Tassel went to retrieve Luna, Storious arrived to take his Almighty Book fragment and killing his former friend. Tassel's death resulted in Wonder World to destabilize and simultaneously affecting Earth. He faces with Touma Kamiyama and begins to refer him as his 'hero' for allowing him to witness several beautiful endings of his former allies.
Though the swordsmen were able to stop the intrusion, Touma and the Shindai siblings confront Storious and all the people that the Charybdis Megid ate. Storious merges with Charybdis and the remnants of his five former allies, completing the Grimoire Alter Ride Book, while marveled that the story's conclusion is now his to make. Storious is able to transform into Kamen Rider Storious, resurrecting the Four Sages in the process as his loyal followers. Storious summoned a massive tower and instructed Touma that he would be waiting for him. He created a magical barrier all over the Earth and began building up a massive Shimi army for the final stage of his plan.
During the final battle, the ten swordsmen arrived and fought their way through his Shimi army. Storious was visited by spirits of Legeiel and Zooous, who questioned how they became monsters. Though Storious replied their hopes were twisted into a bottomless lust for power, then realized the spirits were conjured by Luna. Storious, knowing the true nature of the Almighty Book, believed the world's conclusion was inevitable and had already been written in the Almighty Book. Luna called Storious a pitiful man and proclaims how Touma was capable of creating new things that neither of them knew, prompting the irritated Storious to cast Luna away.
When Touma finally reached the top of the tower to confront Storious, he fired a blast to disorient him. Storious revealed to Touma that everything that had ever been created was predetermined in the Almighty Book, including all of the stories they both had written. While explaining his own past to Touma, how the Almighty Book had everything he had ever written, his words did not sway Touma into giving up. Storious fought Xross Saber in a heated battle. Despite Touma giving his all, Storious knocked him out of his transformation before kicking him down a large hole to his doom.
===Final Battle and Death===
While Storious rejoiced in his victory, Touma was lifted out of the hole by the Primitive Dragon. While Storious was able to continue fighting Saber, he was still powerful than his adversary. Luna reaches to the exhausted Touma and asks him to write a new story, resulting in the creation of Wonder Almighty. Touma transforms into Kamen Rider Almighty Saber and with the help of Blades and Espada, they defeat Storious. As the world began to disintegrate, Storious realizes that something new has been created but laments that the world's destruction was imminent before he disintegrated into nothing. However, the destruction of the world would be undone once Touma became Wonder World's new Guardian and restored everything back to what it once was.
===Post-Mortem===
After Storious' plan was averted, all of his victims reappeared perfectly normal. Storious' spirit later appeared in the Wonder World alongside the spirits of Luna, Tassel, the first Master Logos and his former Megid allies, having made peace with his former friends, to greet Touma after he became the Wonder World's guardian. While his friends wished Touma good luck as the Wonder World's guardian, Storious realized that the world was made of stories and thanked Touma as the "hero" he needed.
==Personality==
In the distant past, Storious appeared to have been a good-hearted individual who was friends with Tassel, then known as "Victor", having committed to searching for a better standard of living for humanity. After setting foot on the Wonder World, Storious lost his desire to help others upon witnessing the Almighty Book and learning that it was the source of not just the world itself, but all of human invention, and that everything humans created was a manifestation of what was in the Almighty Book. He became disillusioned with his own creativity and the authenticity of the world, coming to the conclusion that everything in human life had been predestined. Instead of striving for creating new art, he sought for the beauty in the dooming of all things.
Unlike Legeiel or Zooous, Storious was corrupted immediately upon experiencing this revelation, where as they only turned evil after witnessing the power of the Almighty Book. Storious began to express a much more outwardly cold and calculating personality after becoming a Megid. While still allied with Legeiel and Zooous, Storious no longer views them as his friends, but now as tools and pawns for him to use and then dispose of. At the same time, it is hinted that traces of Storious' old friendship with Victor still lingers, as he briefly showed sadness upon killing him, though it was ultimately not enough to stop the Megid general from going forward with his plans.
While all three of them are normally the same rank, it is typically Storious who concocts the strategies that the Megid follow, though occasionally Legeiel takes the lead instead. As he possesses an agenda that runs counter to the goals of his fellow Megid, Storious is a very secretive individual who always keeps his true intentions hidden from those around him. Compared to Legeiel and Zooous, Storious is much more of a long-term planner, often doing things that seem insignificant, but are really in service of a much more long-term goal. He prefers to reside in the shadows pulling the strings from afar, allowing others to take the lead for a time while he remains unsuspecting in the background, able to carry out his schemes without anyone noticing. Despite this, Storious is willing to take to the field when needed and proves himself as a skilled combatant whenever he faces off against the Riders. He also seems to possess much more knowledge than the other Megid does about the history of the Wonder Ride Books and other tomes connected to them, such as the forbidden book containing the Primitive Dragon being held in the Southern Base. Storious is also willing to form deals with certain individuals outside of the Megid, such as partnering up with the current Master Logos.
However, after getting the powers he wanted and finally moving forward with his true plan, Storious's insanity begins to show; his insanity manifests itself in a histrionic way, as it makes Storious more melodramatic and vain. This is exemplified by his fluctuating emotions as well as his bigoted ideology; he has a sadistic and dogmatic belief that stories are only wonderful because they have endings, and that things are at their most beautiful once they end. This, mixed with his "either with me or against me" disposition, emphasizes Storious's bigoted ideology. Storious has shown to be a manipulative trickster, as he feigned friendship as a foundation to form a morbid partnership with Legeiel, Zooous, Isaac, and Tassel, to set them up for their deaths. Not only was it a way for him to justify his ambitious and macabre desires due to Storious gaining their powers, in conjunction with allowing him to watch his pawns during their respective final moments, but it was also a grandiose and lurid way for the Megid poet to showcase his devilishly insane prowess.
Storious's attitude towards regular humans, who were what he used to be in the past, is not much different than his attitude towards his allies, as he views them as inferior to himself and does not care about them at all. He views the incident that happened more than a decade ago, and all the events that transpired out of it, as a story that he had set up, in which he ultimately seeks to end, but in his very own image. He is particularly obsessed with endings, viewing them as the sole meaning of a story or thing, and sees the "endings" concerning all of his so-called "friends", as beautiful on account of that. In spite of his appreciation for endings, Storious is not fond of happy endings, possibly due to his nihilistic view of the world; therefore, he desires to give the world a conclusion filled with such despair and hopelessness that would be remembered throughout all of history.
Storious also has his own catchphrase in which he uses towards the series' finale, which is a more soft-spoken version of Touma's: 
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Superhuman Strength: To be added
*Teleportation: To be added
*Longevity: Due to becoming a Megid after taking a fraction of the Almighty Book's power, Storious was able to live for more than 2,000 years.
*Illusion: To be added
*Necromancy: After obtaining the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book, Storious has now the ability to resurrect a dead person and is able to control it due to his likings.
*Size Manipulation: As seen in the Hyper Battle DVD, Storious can enlarge himself at the cost of his agility. However, if he is defeated, he will shrink to the size of an ant.
===Abilities===
*Expert Combatant: Storious is experienced in hand-to-hand combat, capable of taking down the Southern Base soldiers without using any of his Megid powers. 
*Expert Manipulator: To be added
*Expert Tactician: To be added
 
==Forms==
==Equipment==
===Devices===
*Dooms Driver Buckle: Transformation device.
*Wonder Ride Books: Transformation trinkets.
===Weapons===
*Bilgamed: Primary weapon.
*Caladbolg: Secondary weapon after taking Omni Force Wonder Ride Book.
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*Legeiel: One of his companions.
*Zooous: One of his companions.
===Enemies===
*Touma Kamiyama/Kamen Rider Saber (II): Storious first meet Touma as a random civilian who feigns injuries to get close enough to Touma to not only steal some of his powers but seal his powers as Saber. As he witnessing Touma growth in power, he become obsessed with creating the 'Ending' of a story, even referring him as his Hero, much to Touma's disgust.
*Yuri/Kamen Rider Saikou: TBA
*Daichi Kamijo/Kamen Rider Saber (I)/Kamen Rider Calibur (II): He stated that he just used Daichi in order to succeed in their plans.
*Kento Fukamiya/Kamen Rider Espada (II)/Kamen Rider Calibur (III):TBA
*Ryo Ogami/Kamen Rider Buster (II):TBA
*Tetsuo Daishinji/Kamen Rider Slash:TBA
*Rintaro Shindo/Kamen Rider Blades (II):TBA
*Ren Akamichi/Kamen Rider Kenzan (II): TBA
*Reika Shindai/Kamen Rider Sabela:TBA
*Ryoga Shindai/Kamen Rider Durendal: TBA
*Sophia/Kamen Rider Calibur (IV):TBA
*Desast/Kamen Rider Falchion (II): Desast was created by Storious on a whim, who expected him to be a tool. Desast later fought him as Falchion after obtaining Mumeiken Kyomu.
*Isaac/Current Master Logos/Kamen Rider Solomon: Storious first met Master Logos when he infiltrated Southern Base to retrieve the book that eventually becomes Primitive Dragon. He recognized that the man he encountered is not the same man he traveled with years ago, but is amused nonetheless. Both of them would later formed an alliance in secrecy due to their goals aligning. However, after Isaac was defeated multiple times by Touma and his team while arrogantly ordered Storious to kneel before him even after many failures he went through. Storious gleefully betrayed Isaac as he killed his once ally with the Omni Force Wonder Ride Book taken by the former.
*Luna:to be added
===Others===
*Tassel: Tassel/Victor was initially Storious' comrade, until the latter became a Megid. Storious would later kill Tassel as part of his plans, although the Megid was hesitant in doing so to his old friend.
*Master Logos (original): The first Master Logos was initially Storious comrade, until the latter became a Megid.
*Priestess: Storious used a book to create New Sophia based on her image, in order to complete his Grimoire Wonder Ride Book.
==Megid Created==
*Ari Megid (Episode 2)
*Kirigirisu Megid (Episode 2)
*Ahiru Megid (Episode 9-10)
*Ousama Megid (Episode 19-20)
*Charybdis Megid (Episodes 21-22, 28, 39, 41, 43)
==Behind the Scenes==
===Portrayal===
*Storious is portrayed by . As a Megid, his suit actor is , who is also the suit actor for his Rider form.
===Etymology===
*Storious' name is a combination of the words , referencing his specialty being stories & fairy tales, and , the Latin word for "god" or "deity".
**This can be in relation to the naming scheme of the Sword of Logos members, where their surnames would contain the kanji (or homophones of the kanji) for .
==Notes==
*Unlike Zooous and Legeiel who had their memories and true selves repressed, Storious still remembers his past as a human. This, along with later flashbacks, implies that he manipulated his friends into becoming Megid and tampered with their memories.
*Kamen Rider Storious is a recolor of Kamen Rider Solomon's suit with the exception of the helmet, which is modified from Storious's Megid form. He also gains additional robing akin to the Seiken Swordriver Riders.
*Kamen Rider Storious' name is alternatively spelt as "Kamen Rider Strius" on the Eyecatch Wonder World text and Premium Bandai page for the Omni Force/Grimoire and Dooms Driver Buckle set.
*Storious's transformation into his Kamen Rider form summons six wings around him before he transforms, a possible allusion to the Devil and the Number of the Beast. Not only that, but Storious' Megid form has a demonic appearance, and his Rider form resembles a fallen angel. His backstory depicted him being once a follower of a holy figure, until he betrayed his own original goal for his own selfishness and nihilism; he is also a manipulator who makes alliances with people, only to inevitably betray them once they are no longer useful. This makes Storious the closest to the fallen angel archetype of Satan in the entire show.
==Appearances==
==External links==
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Storious.
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Storious (Megid).
*Kamen Rider Zukan page on Kamen Rider Storious.
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