Warlock

Vortex

Order Aeternum

> "*I will be assuming command of this campaign, General*"
> ― Warlock, 36 P.T.
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**Warlock** was a German Metahuman and Military Officer. He was known for being the Grand Enforcer of the Vortex's Order Aeternum and the orchestrator of the Contingency Plan.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

#### **Childhood**

Warlock was born in Dresden, Blümelreich (then part of the Prussian Empire) on the 17th of June 1885 to high class parents.

He spent his childhood studying in a prestigious school and his free time reading about military strategy and history.

#### **Early Military Career**

Warlock joined the Blümelreich Army in 1919 and was a field officer stationed in the Dresden Garrison. Later in 1922 he joined the General's Academy of Drachensburg but was drafted onto the TDO shortly thereafter.

#### **Midnight Incident**

In 1923, after the failure of Project Daedalus, the Kaiser of Blümelreich sent six military operatives to undergo a test so they could become Metahumans using a mix of Reed's DNA and modified raxian spores from the Aura incident. Warlock was selected due to his high mastery of hand-to-hand combat and intelligence. Besides Jäger and the Midnight Soldier, he also became a metahuman successfully but because the future version of Fox interrupted the experiment he was thrown across dimensions and stumbled upon a the Vortex capital.

### **Working with the Vortex**

#### **Order Aeternum**

Soon after his recovery from his multiversal incident, Warlock was brainwashed and renamed to his new callsign. Under the tutelage of the Vortex Leader himself, Warlock was able to master many Metahuman abilities and became a top enforcer for the leader. He was then ascended to the title of Captain and given the task to create a new subdivision of the Vortex to prove his worth.

A few years later he created (with the help of allied generals and admirals) the Order Aeternum, the bodyguard corps of the empire that would produce highly skilled elite guards as well as extremely dangerous hunters known as Enforcers. He oversaw the construction of the Black Citadel in Kotollon and presented his final project to the leader.

#### **Promotion to Commander**

Shortly after he concluded his project, the Vortex Leader ascended Warlock to the rank of Commander (that way he didn't have to be away from the frontlines as a General, but still had ample control over military forces and could participate in direct combat using his combat abilities and military strategy knowledge) and made him his second in the line of leadership succession (a decision which many Generals, Admirals and Viceroys disliked).

For the following years he grew his authority and respect amongst the Vortex and even defeated the highly respected Illyrian High General in the Battle of the Broken Straits. During this time, he acquired the VSS Adjudicator and obtained his notorious paintjob for his personal battleship.

#### **Occupation of AI-26**

In 135 P.T., Warlock was assigned to keep an eye on Colonel Schmidt's campaign to take over the frontline dimension of AI-26. He became more involved when the notorious Colonel failed at defeating a small human remnant with limited forces. With just his flagship, he bombarded the Operation Smokescreen base and later reprimended the Colonel and his second in command Captain Pegasus for their failures.

In 1 P.T., The Vortex Leader finally decided to intervene into the Vortex Occupation of Earth bringing with him Commander Warlock and Ambassador Visitor to help him with the swift invasion. He was stationed in Grand City while the leader brought his forces to Earth and helped with keeping the Winter Legion's high command allegiant to the Vortex. He clashed multiple times with Admiral Holland and eventually participated in the Decimation of Earth where he engaged in combat with Wolf, Fox and Jäger.

After their loss, Warlock began planning his contingency in case of perishing in combat, also planning on the creation of the Imperial Sins as his personal guard unknown to the Vortex High Command and even the leader himself.

#### **Working With Hades**

In 3 P.T., Warlock was ordered to work with Cult of Death leader Hades in his galactic wide genocide of AI-26. He provided key military aid during the battle in X's Fortress and the First Battle of the Gate but was decapitated by Wing Commander Eclipse of the TDO aboard the Adjudicator after he killed Commander Blackout in combat.

### **The Grand Contingency**

#### **Initial Stages**

Shortly after his death, a fellow Admiral collaborator of his plan called off the aid for Hades and an Enforcer with soul stealing abilties captured Warlock's soul before it transported to the Realm of Life, being stored in an esoteric containment crate.

Experts within the Black Citadel managed to connect his soul to a machine within the base and thus the persona of the Grand Enforcer was born. While the leader thought Warlock was dead, he was inside a machine controlling the Order Aeternum and the contingency from the shadows.

#### **Hunt for General Dryvenn**

In 5 P.T., after the Vigilant was killed in the Third Battle of The Gate he took control of the Order and led his own warlord state as the Grand Enforcer. A few months into the chaos of fragmentation, the Order managed to establish its own territory and Warlock ordered his Enforcers to begin various assasination missions to destroy any oppositors to an eventual revival of the Vortex under his command.

As the opposition diminished, only one last person stood, General Dryvenn who had his own warlord state close to the Order leading his own attempt to revive the Empire from the war academy world of Admenrium with the support of some high ranking officers. After many failed attempts Warlock was forced to concoct a new plan to destroy his enemy.

#### **Sabotage of Steadfast Station**

In 8 P.T., the Order captured a Vortex cruiser that transported one of Dryvenn's collaborators and brainwashed him to work for the Grand Enforcer. The ship was fitted with many hidden Quonium and E-99 barrels and the brainwashed Admiral was given the orders to call for a meeting of Dryvenn's remnant aboard Steadfast Station in the orbit of Admenrium.

When the meeting was convened, the wired ship was docked into the base and while the meeting was held, Warlock revealed his grand plan to his long time enemy and his henchmen. He then immediately remotely triggered an explosion in the engines of the docked ship which in turn created a massive quonium and e-99 explosion that decimated the base, killing his final enemy in the process.

#### **Allegiance to Pegasus**

By 10 P.T., Warlock realized that alone he could not defeat the combined forces of Warlords Darhon and Pegasus and so pledged allegiance to them once the larger remnant recaptured the vortex capital of The Praetorium. While the two worked to establish order in the new empire, Warlock prepared for his final phase of his plan.

#### **Assassination of Commander Voltiman**

In 30 P.T., Vortex deserter Voltiman (who was the sole survivor of General Dryvenn's assassination) bargained with the TDO so he was put under their protection program, having learned this from Chimaera agents, the Grand Enforcer tasked his scientists on the Citadel to construct a temporary robotic body for usage. While on the first test run, Warlock and the Imperial Sins travelled to the world in which the meeting with Colonel Ward and Wing Commander Eclipse of the TDO was happening.

While the TDO emissaries gathered their new intel provider, their gunship was shot down by the Sins and surrounded. While Enforcer Acheon took out Voltiman and Colonel Ward, Warlock himself used his temporary vessel to finally kill Commander Eclipse and get his revenge after being killed by him on 3 P.T..

#### **The Final Phase**

In 35 P.T., Warlock activated the final phase of his grand plan after the experts in the Black Citadel created a clone for his soul to be stored into. He came out of the shadows and visited Point Blackstorm in the Far North of AI-26 where General Darhon was stationed in. He assasinated the General and began deploying the Imperial Sins all across the galaxy to prevent any of Pegasus' forces from retaliating.

He began a path of destruction through the major Vortex bases of the Far North Campaign, recruiting more men as he continued his final phase. He managed to dispatch many of the Illyrian, MUQ and Vortex teams sent to kill him but was ultimately caught up to by a TDO-MUQ force led by Admiral Jäger.

During this time, Pegasus himself had arrived to Conqueror Base to face his old ally turned enemy. Jäger and Pegasus teamed up against him and eventually due to Pegasus using his everchosen powers, he was killed.