Vrakheil

> Your fear is delectable, flightless thing... I know it does not rot you often. Hope you don't mind teeth.
>
> - Vrakheil, to Siegyth

**The Subjugator** is the main antagonist in the world of Alcaeus. He is thought to be the only person to take permanent residence within the **Abyssal Flats**.

## Appearance

Vrakheil Nezhera Bedric appears to be in his late 30's and has red eyes and snow-white hair and skin that happens to be transparent in some spots. He is relatively tall, even for beast-kin, and towers over many others his age. He has a muscular, bodybuilder-type physique, and slight breast tissue; he is intersex, and was born female then matured male. He does not identify any certain way but would typically be considered bigender. He has a square jawline and a soft brow, mostly androgynous but leaning a little angular.

He is covered in discolored scars, and while he is a perfect humanoid, his muscles reformed incorrectly after his second time through the portal, leaving many of his abdominal, arm, and leg muscles slightly misshapen. He believes it to be unsightly but not many people notice at all. He does not look into mirrors when he passes them.

Vrakheil often wears white clothes and armor to compliment his natural appearance, and can usually be seen wearing his draconic helmet. It puts pressure on his skull and allows him to think without his judgment being clouded by mind-rot. Most of his wardrobe is loose-fitting clothes that allow him to move freely, but sometimes he dons his Titanwatch armor just to feel something.

## Personality

Vrakheil, being an Alcaean native, knows the kingdom like the back of his hand; humans and demons don't often get along in fear of the latter's natural inclination to pyromancy, and everyone who's been around long enough could see it. Following his forced exile to the Old World, Vrakheil had to learn everything all over again. On Titan, the colony he ended up on, he found out that the two species could live in total harmony, but his time in the alternate realm changed him for the worse. He realized he could not just abandon his beloved Alcaeus and the poor, the sick, and the helpless that lived in its gutters. So he committed first-degree murder. For his prison sentence, Vrakheil was sent back to the New World, where he just about immediately assassinated Dione's parents, **Primordial Void Rhull** and **Radiant Light Khaida**. After the tragic murder of the old god-king and god-queen, Dione exiled Vrakheil once again to the Abyssal Flats where he was supposed to live out the rest of his days, insane and alone.

The Subjugator is a cunning mess of a beast-man who knows not who he is but knows intimately what he is capable of, and this often makes him seem disorganized and less of a threat than he really is. However, beneath the layers of rot and unrest lies an incredibly smart man with a penchant for war tactics and political prowess with the brawn to match. It is deceptive, his weakness, and despite the fact that it would give him a massive advantage over his adversaries, it drives him mad to know that there are some out there who view him as weak, even though he "commands" the abandoned stone megacity beneath the Flats.

Vrakheil has a love-hate relationship with Dione. His hatred lies in their very being, as their parents were the ones that technically ruined his life and then they followed in the footsteps of said predecessors without much forethought, but their tenacity excites him in a weird, perverse way; he believes that together they could conquer the world, if only they'd "stop hiding behind that stupid little maternal act". He is jealous of Osmar's proximity to Dione's softness and views him as another bug to be crushed beneath his heel. Siegyth gives him a similar feeling that Dio does, but she actively engages and therefore enables him despite her friends telling her not to. He has few thoughts about Venewrynd as she is little to no threat but enjoys making fun of her because he knows he can always get a reaction from it.

## History

Vrakheil was abandoned on the front porch of a widow named **Gallivera Atwood**. His real parents are unknown, but he suspects they were Alcaean royalty. Gallivera did her very best to raise Vrakheil, but other children his age did not understand why he looked the way he did and would frequently bully him, once to the point of permanently blinding one of his eyes. His mother feared for his life and moved closer to the **Cathedral** in hopes that **Khaida**’s radiance would reach (and potentially heal) them both and cleanse their suffering.

In his adolescence, Vrakheil met **Dione** at the local market and would secretly congregate with them in the middle of the night to talk about just about everything. Dio was sheltered, and Vrakheil made it a point to open their eyes to the vastness of the world outside the Cathedral of Dusk. They made plans to elope and leave the kingdom behind after many months of fraternizing. One fateful night, **Rhull** walked in on one of these meetings and sentenced him to prison for lechery and conspiracy to overtake the throne. Dio pleaded to let Vrakheil go, but this only angered their father more, and he tossed the soon-to-be Subjugator into the portal beneath the Cathedral.

He was not the first extraterrestrial that **Titanwatch** ever spared, but he was the only living being from **the New World** on the planet; the rest had died of old age and were already about four generations downstream. Hardly an adult, they took a chance on him (albeit with a close eye) and allowed him to grow and flourish on their colony station. Seeing all of the races live together relatively peacefully gave Vrakheil hope for his own world. Joining Titanwatch as he grew into a confident adult exacerbated it. Still, he couldn’t help but feel that something was wrong.

With every passing moment he felt as if his dreams were quickly racing farther and farther out of his grip despite the fact that nothing had changed. He was losing it, quite literally, and one day when a human had made a passing remark that he misinterpreted, he killed her where she stood. Titanwatch sent him back to the New World without a formal criminal trial, where he once again came face to face with the king and queen of Alcaeus. He learned nothing from his time in the Old World. He killed them on sight, and was promptly bested in battle by Dione and their rage. In this battle, Dione nearly unmade him, showing him the countless universes where he dies a nobody, but he caught a glimpse of a universe where he ruled Alcaeus with Dio at his side instead. The whole endeavor cursed him with mind-rot.

Vrakheil is currently 2800 years old. His hobbies include walking around the empty underground streets of the Abyssal Flats, making maps in the sand, honing his blade on the native fauna (few they may be), and plotting world domination.