Leonides

**Leonides** (レオニデス) is the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Floor Guardian of the Shadow Sanctum Archeon.

## Appearance

Leonides is a giant 2 meter tall giant lion with golden brown fur and two large feathered wings sprouting out of his back.
He wears pretty skimpy armor that mostly only cover his shoulders, head and parts of his back. His headwear has a beautiful green emerald embedded in the forehead area.

## Personality

Leonides is often interpreted as a ferocious blood thirsty beast that will kill anyone, and for Archeon enemies that may be true, but he is in fact pretty lazy. Outside of combat Leonides behaves like a normal domesticated cat, when not working he will spend most of his free time sleeping and occasionally eating. He may be lazy but he shows proper respect to the 55 supreme beings of Archeon and will follow their commands to the best of his abilities.

He possesses the least amount of intelligence of the floor guardians, only being able to execute the most simple of commands.

## Background

Leonides is an NPC created by one of the 55 Supreme Beings of *God Eaters*. In his setting, he was programmed by his creator to behave like a normal domesticated cat, or at least the image his creator had of cats.

In the New World some beastmen sees him as their god, worshiping him as such and showing him the upmost respect.

## Abilities and Powers

Leonides is a level 100 NPC that posses tremendous power. Thanks to him being a beast type monster Leonides posses immense physical might and an extremely durable body. Because of his thick and tough hide Leonides is capable of almost completely nullify all attacks that deals bludgeoning damage and has an innate resistance against against fire and frost type attacks.

Because of his classes as well as his lack of intelligence Leonides affinity for magic is extremely low, with him only possessing a miniscule amount of offensive spells.

He has the most actual combat experience of all the Floor Guardians as his position means he is the first to meet any player that invades Archeon.

### Racial Traits

* **Beast King's Aura**: Any beast type monster, or demi-human, in Leonides vicinity that are weaker then him will become submissive.
* **Beastial Roar**:
* **Natural Weaponry**: Leonides possesses sharp claws and teeth that he uses to attack his enemies.
* **Flight**: With the help of his wings on his back he has the ability to fly.

### Skills

* **Intimidation**: Strikes fear into the hearts of the enemy.
* **Iron Skin**: Hardens the user's skin.
* **Natural Steel Weapon**: The user hardens certain body parts— such as claws and fangs to make them as strong as metal.
* **Steel Skin**: The superior version of Iron Skin.

## Relationships

### The Three Beast Lords

Leonides direct subordinates. Leonides may be the floor guardian but he do not posses the necessary intelligence to properly handle the floor, the members of *God Eaters* created three high levelled beastmen type NPCs that would act as Leonides caretakers.

## Trivia

* Leonides creator made his personality similar to a domesticated cat.
	+ Leonides creator has in fact never interacted with a cat before because of their rarity in the real world, so she programmed Leonides to behave like she imagined cats would.
	+ In the new world Valserion treats him like his pet, often feeding him as well as petting him whenever they meet.
		- This fact infuriates all the other guardians, making them all burn with envy.
* Leonides is extremely lazy and will always be found sleeping in the Coliseum whenever he is off duty.
* Leonides is looked upon as a god by beastmen of different types.