Champion

Voiced by | Andrew Hulshult

***Champion*** is the main protagonist of Amid Evil. Once a wandering hero, he was chosen to become the saviour of the Sacred Lands.

## Appearance

Champion is a muscular humanoid alien with long gray hair and four eyes. His armor consists of an ionic helmet with splits acting as eyeholes, a platinum cuirass with spiral detailing, a pair of spiked gauntlets, knee-high greaves, and a fur lioncloth.

### Abilities

Due to his unearthly nature, Champion is immune to fall damage, able to breathe underwater and withstand any form of damage that would be fatal to a normal human (such as flying into a wall at high speed, being shot with flaming spears, arrows, lasers, getting hit by big maces, giant swords, **eclipses**, and etc.). He is strong enough to punch out heavy objects (concrete blocks, large walls, you name it) and his mind can resist corruption and mind-blowing environments.

While Champion has a voice, and can be heard screaming "No!" before dying, he rarely speaks. Instead, he grunts, laughs or roars like a barbarian when injured or picking up items, his laugh can be heard when activating Soul Power.

## Lore

### At the Hinterlands

Wanderer appears near the temple where the Labyrinth Portal lies. The Watcher, caretaker of the Labyrinth, greets the protagonist at the other side of the structure, asks if thy wishes to take the eternal challenge and creates a portal leading to Dread Swamp, thus starting the trial of The Black Labyrinth...

### The Challenge

Upon completing the challenge our hero earns the Axe of the Black Labyrinth and gets proclaimed as the Champion. Soon after a portal appears and mysterious voice asks to step into it. So he does.

### Main campaign

While being transferred to the Gateway of the Ancients, Champion goes through a briefing on how the Evil Forces came out of nowhere, conquered the Sacred Lands and, as he steps inside the long hall, is asked to free them. Without hesitation, the legendary warrior jumps in the portal to Astral Equinox and begins his mission to cleanse realms off corruption.

As soon as Champion steps out of the sixth world he just visited a portal to the the Void opens, allowing him to venture into the realm of chaos and destroy the evil at its source.

### Epilogue

After defeating The Evil itself Champion gets teleported to the Haven of the Ancients, where Ancients themselves are being grateful for saving their lands and ask whether he wants to stay or continue on his journeys.

## Facts & trivia

* Champion is voiced by Andrew Hulshult, official composer and SFX artist of Amid Evil. He is known for creating soundtrack for other games like Bombshell, Quake Champions, Nightmare Reaper and many more.
* Champion is one of the few entities that have actually recognizable voice lines, the others being Voice of the Ancients, ?????, The Watcher and *Guardian of the Axe*.
* The one time Champion actually says something is when he picks up the secret treasure of the ancients: "Ooh, shiny!"
	+ Sometimes, after his soul-powered Gauntlets' attack wears off, he says: "Excuse me."
* The reason Champion can see fine through the helmet despite it having only two eyeholes is because one pair of his eyes is normal and the other pair is magical.
	+ This also explains his ability to see mana and health pickups.
* Champion's hair can change color.
* Champion's appearance was inspired by the protagonist of *Gods* videogame made by The Bitmap Brothers.

## Gallery

* Amid Evil's key art by Chris Pollitt
* Endgame art revealing Champion's face by Chris Pollitt
* The Black Labyrinth key art by Halil Ural
* The Black Labyrinth DLC intro by Francis Xie (first image)
* The Black Labyrinth DLC intro by Francis Xie (second image)
* Champion's helmet concept art by Chris Pollitt
* Champion's endgame concept art by Chris Pollitt

## References

1. ↑ You can't see it but the Wanderer nods in answer, confirming that he, indeed, wants to take the challenge. Source: *trust me.*
2. ↑ https://imgur.com/muVnTMT
3. ↑ https://imgur.com/dlcUmMo