Night

**Night** is the alias of the mysterious Duelist who utilizes the Ritual summoning mechanic within the organization Ittarikitari. His real name is **August Hart**, however he only uses this name when he isn't dueling preferring his alias of Night.

## Design

### Appearance

August is a strange invidual, with Heterochromic eyes, one being green and the other gold, reminiscent of another famous duelist when they tap into ancient powers and brown hair. He typically wears a garb of a forgotten time, consisting of a gray cloak that has black cuffs and with white accents. Underneath he wears a sleeveless black shirt that extends to his knees, and red shorts. On his feet he wears strange boots, and he carries a mysterious staff with a blue jewel atop it.

During duels, his eyes glow and shimmer showing he is tapping into his ancient powers.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Latent Magical Power**: As he has heritage linked to the ancient past of Duel Monsters, August has some mystical prowess and resistance to the shadow magic of shadow games. This power was drawn out by Ashly, giving August the blank card that became Noelle, Protector of Nekroz, and due to it, he was able to clearly hear the voices of his deck as well as two into some low level shadow magic such as summoning shadow games.
* **Mediumship**:

## Background

Growing up in the Western United States, August was the only child of a prominent Duel Monster creator, who designed the newest generation of classic or ancient duel monsters. During his childhood he would fall in love with the ancient histories that most people wouldn't know about lore in the famous Archetypes in the game. These have fallen out of popularity and due to this, finding the cards was hard even for August's father.

For his 8th Birthday, he was gifted with the Nekroz deck that his father managed to scour the earth for, locating the original copies of the archetype. This would greatly excite the young duelist who following this claimed to hear the faint sounds of voices from his new deck, but often dismissed them. To help his son learn how to duel, August's father Maxwell would go on to create Necromancer of Nekroz, Falco, Tour Guide of Nekroz, Nekroz of Dewloren and a few other cards which would allow August to duel at a semi-competitive level. It was a year after this, his father was murdered by a mugger as he was leaving Industrial Illusions, causing August's mother to lose herself with grief. August would hold onto the last gift from his father, his beloved Nekroz cards.

When August turned 12, he would run away, and forge a document to fake his age and join the American Dueling School known as Arcadia Academy, it would be here he would learn more about the game, as well as pieces of the history of Duel Monsters, but this differed from what he had read in his books prior, which led him to skip the "History of Duel Monsters" class as he felt they were lying to him.

A year later due to his skills, he was selected to represent his school at the "World Duel Carnival", where the three main schools of Duel Monsters in the world sent their best to compete for the title of "King of Games" which was last held by Yugi Muto. During his trip he would come across Ashly Moody, who would see a spark within the child and gift him with a special Blank Card. This card would transform with the Chaos of the Shadow Games, to become Noelle, Protector of Nekroz, and from her birth a few more cards appeared before August, being Battle Maiden of Nekroz, Battle Priest of Nekroz, Visionary of Nekroz, Nekroz of Armageddon and Nekroz of Revenge. These cards were unique Pendulum Monsters, with Noelle granting him the ability to "Pendulum Ritual Summon".

Dropping out of Arcadia, to follow Ashly's lead on reforming the world to tell the true history of duel monsters, and return the world to a world of magic and shadows.

## Deck

### Nekroz

Night utilizes the ancient and powerful Nekroz archetype, which draws its power from the ancient past of the Duel Monster Spirit World, having been connected to the "Great War". This deck focuses on the Ritual Summoning Mechanic, with the spirits of the Nekroz calling forth the sprit and powers of other powerful monsters and donning them as armor. Unique to him, Night is able to perform a "Pendulum Ritual Summon" utilizing the pendulum effect of Noelle, Protector of Nekroz to pendulum summon his otherwise restrictive monsters. After joining with a particular faction, he gained the duel monster spirit in the form of Necromancer of Nekroz.