Pernicious Larexen

Reginald Larexen - Father

Sophiare Larexen - Mother

Marcy Larexen - Adopted Daughter

The Liberating Ten - Leader

*"It is brought."*

*—*Pernicious' words to Dorman Merriweather

**"Pernicious Larexen,"** the elder sibling of Esmerelda and Euphrates Larexen, was an obliviant prince, general, and revolutionary who eventually formed a dictatorship. After finding that his brother's sacrifice into aeternum was in vain, he started a coup utilizing the people's growing distain towards the treatment of his own kind. He then overthrew his father with those sympathetic to his cause and, already having the loyalty of his subordinates in the elvairy army, slowly weeded out most elvairy in the army over the process of many years. The hatred and anger that he still carried with him, however, slowly converted him from a just liberator to a ruthless tyrant. After many years of this, Pernicious had almost made the elvairy extinct. He was eventually overthrown by Gina's Rebellion, finally ending the dark reign of his rule.

## Early Life

Pernicious' younger years consisted of ridicule from his father for his obliviance, but his highborn status and his mother had protected him for most of his early days. As such he payed little attention to the preternance that his kind had dealt with for many years. However, inside, Pernicious' utter confusion to his father's dismissal of him slowly began to turn to frustration as he began to pay more attention to the plight. He found solace in those who had dealt with his burden and as such became friends with those of his own kind, including Icari. After his adopted daughter Marcy's death to an unknown elvairy assailant, however, he was left feeling alone, and grief stricken. Pernicious had begun to become a person quick to anger. Seeing his younger brother become heir to the throne, something that Pernicious had been rejected his entire life, did not help. The revelation, making Pernicious unsettled with his brother, quickly became a movement of tension between the two. This all came full circle when as soon as they agreed to settle their differences, Euphrates gave his life in an obliviant protest. Seeing a group of arsonals fire on the protesters anyway sent Pernicious to revolution, as his brother's sacrifice had now become in vain.

## The Invasion

Days after the protest massacre had sent East Guild into political and social turmoil, the public's eyes centered on it's royalty for guidance. King Reginald turned a blind eye to this upon knowing it was a set up, seeking for the disruption to dissipate over time. With Euphrates being universally seen as a martyr, people's view of obliviants began to turn to sorrow, most viewing the deaths of the destruction as egregious. As such the divide between manset and elvairy began to grow exponentially. Pernicious and his allies had already formed a pact by this time and had begun preparations for a coup. Pernicious then told the public his knowledge of Reginald's involvement with the massacre. They turned immediately and forced their way into Bayclear, easily overpowering the king's royal guards. Pernicious henceforth told his father of his plan to imprison him. This is when Reginald revealed his ties to Dorman Merriweather, who had been secretly silencing the population of obliviants for decades. The plan was now changed as he rode to question Merriweather.

After doing just that, Pernicious' hatred grew even more upon learning that Dorman had been the unknown elvairy who murdered his daughter. He then turned his revolution to vengeance, swiftly killed the king, and used his army to wage war on the remaining elvairy army in what would become known as the War of Enchantment. His prowess and training were enough to keep him and his followers alive throughout the onslaught. Despite gaining a massive stronghold over the land, and the people's loyalty, Pernicious' feeling of loss and hatred still followed him. He became a much colder and ruthless ruler as time went on. The people started to despise him, blaming him for eradicating most of the elvairy whom he still blamed for his brother's death and the loss of his sister. As such, rebels began pushing back against his rule.

Once a proud keeper of liberating the injustice of his people, he had now become a tired shell of himself. He would hold executions publicly against those who committed petty crimes, and allowed lawlessness to overcome Elvaria. The people began to live in fear of him rather than hail him as a hero as they once did.

## Esmerelda's Return

For years Pernicious had believed Esmerelda to be dead. However, she returned to him in a reunion that was happy, but immediately uneasy when she began to find his tall tales to her were simply cover ups for violent actions. After Esmerelda confronted him about this, Pernicious could not help but witness her picture of him begin to fall apart. Angered by her mention of Euphrates, Pernicious let be known that his memory of his brother was that of a fool. Esmerelda became disgusted by this dishonor of their brother's memory, and left him once again, leaving Pernicious even more broken.

One night, as he lay sleeping, Pernicious awakened to see a woman descending into aeternum by grabbing his arm. Unknown to him at the time, this was Esmerelda, who had returned one last time to bring them both to an end. Seeing Pernicious terrified face caused her to leave, as she could not bring herself to harm him.

## Final Stand

Pernicious' final stand came when he was face to face with the army of Georgina Merriweather. He started the battle off condemning their theology of a world where the elvairy could return as foolish, still believing them to have been arrogant and ignorant. However, Icari appeared, whom he now knows he let down. Icari beckoned him to stand down, and Pernicious was just about to give up before Vesuvius betrayed him and shot Icari in the heart. The two forces then clashed.

Pernicious was nearly completely successful in taking out all the rebels, but was injured in the fight, then believing himself to have won. The malicaris then appeared with Esmerelda and Adam Arran resurrected, quickly winning the fight in a decisive victory for the rebellion. Pernicious, the lone standing remaining member of his army continued to try and fight, swinging wildly until his leg gave out. The obliviant prince then surrendered to defeat, with a somber Esmerelda asking him to come into aeternum with her. Pernicious denied her request, simply saying that she would not become one more victim of his hatred. She left him as he was last seen crawling towards Icari's body and layed down next to him as the walls around him and his followers collapsed.

## Rule

Pernicious' rule was long and tremulous. He mostly kept to himself throughout this time, as it would have been imperative to keep himself alive due to multiple assassination attempts.

Trivia

His theme is See What I've Become by Zack Hemsey