The Ancient One

**The Ancient One**

Fame: 18,454 - *While the Ancient One is well known to the galaxy's leaders and the daemons of Chaos, outside of that few know of him.*

Prestige: 99,999 - *The Ancient One is known to be the greatest warrior since the War In Heaven, and is one of the leading causes of deaths for Exalted Greater Daemons.*

Standing (Peoples of Avernus): 999 - *The Ancient One has been one of the pillars holding Avernus up for longer than any of the Peoples of Avernus have existed.*

Standing (Krork): 98 -*The Ancient One is a highly respected ally of the Krork, and what few words he offers them are followed.*

Standing (Ynnari): 112 - *The Ancient One is the greatest enemy of Chaos, and as such the Ynnari will follow him to hell and back.*

Age: approximately 140,000,000 years

**Martial**: low 50s - *The Ancient One is a Saurus Oldblood and as such has an instinctive mastery of tactics, a mastery that has been refined with eras of war. While he can command armies, he is at his best in reading exactly how to change the course of the battle with the precise deployment of himself.*

**Intrigue**: 50 - *The Ancient One tends not to bother with stealth most of the time and has practiced stealth skills little over his lifetime. This little is still an amount of experience that few can dream of.*

**Administration**: 10s - *The Ancient One has always relied on others for organisational matters,*

**Learning**: 50 - *While by no means an academic, the Ancient One is one of the greatest living experts on unusual warp effects and how to deal with them thanks to his work in the Abyss.*

**Will**: 70 - *The Ancient One was there at the birth of Chaos, and witnessed the breaching of the Primordial Sea into reality. Compared to that, all other tests and temptations are meaningless.*

**Diplomacy**:10 - *The Ancient One is a being of few words, and has never bothered with social fripperies.*

**Combat:** 70 - *The Ancient One has more combat experience then some species, and is probably the greatest spearman that the galaxy has ever seen. In all aspects of combat the Ancient Ones skill is unparalleled.*

**High Divine Artifact: The Ancient One's Spear** (+ true kill, ++ pen, ++ plus vs deamons, + warp resist, + damage, +5 Combat, ??) - *Sixty million years ago this was a Spear of the Old Ones, a masterwork spear that the Old Ones gave to their champions of moderate renown. Now it is one of the greatest artifacts in history, a weapon that has seen the end of hundreds of the Greatest Daemons of Chaos.*

**High Artifact: The Ancient Ones Armour** (+ armour, + speed, + HP) - *Crafted by Vulkan with materials of mythic quality and enchanted by the greatest enchanters that Avernus has to offer, this is the first armour in eons that has been tough enough to suvive being used by the Ancient One.*

**Will Transcendent Trait: Immovable Object (**reduce the power of all psychic effects affecting self by 20,000,000, then reduce the power of all psychic effects affecting self by 99%, then +1000 to resisting Warp effects) - *The Ancient One is an immovable object which all but the greatest forces of the Warp fail to affect.*

**Will Paragon Trait: Eternal Foe of Chaos** (immune to all forms of Chaos corruption, +100 to all rolls against the forces of Chaos, +100 to all rolls against gods and daemons of Chaos, +100 to all bearing the Original Sin of Chaos) - *The Ancient One was there when Chaos was born from the Primordial Sea, and maintained his sanity. Since then he has spent eons fighting the greatest servants of Chaos, and became their greatest foe.*

**Combat Transcendent Trait: The Skill of the Ages** (+++ rolls, + trick resistance, + damage, ??) - *The Ancient One is the most experienced combatant that the galaxy has ever seen, and has refined his skill to the utter pinnacle that can exist.*

**Will Paragon Trait: Bane of Exalted** (true kill, +200 vs daemons, + 200 vs Exalted daemons) - *The Ancient One is one of the leading causes of death for Exalted Daemons, and has inflicted a final end on hundreds of them over the last sixty million years.*

Many unknown Paragons including Will, Combat, Spear, Intrigue, Martial, Learning, anti-Chaos, anti-Bel'akor

The Ancient One is the oldest living Lizardman, and most likely the oldest living being. His exact age is unknown, but according to the Krork, he was a mid-tier hero in the War In Heaven known as the Firstborn, and even then he was considered old. In fact, the Ancient One predates Avernus considerably. Theories range on his exact age, but the upper bound is being amongst the first Saurus spawning 250 million years ago.

The Ancient One was there for the birth of Chaos, and has been one of its greatest foes ever since, earning the title of 'The Eternal Enemy of Chaos'. Over a hundred Exalted Greater Daemons have met their true and final end on his spear, and it is rumoured that he was the first to truly end the life of an Exalted Greater Daemon of each of the Five Great Gods of Chaos. Furthermore, he is the only rival of Be'lakor, the First Prince of Chaos and arguably the most potent asset Chaos possesses aside from the Gods themselves.

Saurus grow faster, stronger and tougher as they age, and the Ancient One is well over sixty million years old. As such, it should not be surprising that his sheer physical capabilities are on par with the Primarchs, if not greater. However, far more impressive is the transcendental level of skill and willpower that the Ancient One has developed. With his spear in hand you have seen the Ancient One slay a pair of Exalted Archangyls within two hours, most of which was spent chasing the second one. Just as impressive as this skill is the Ancient One's ability to ignore all psychic powers wielded by anything short of an Apex Psyker, and to greatly resist even those powers.

In battle, the Ancient One wields his spear, a war-spear of the Old Ones gifted to one of their elite soldiers in the War In Heaven. While during that legendary war it was nothing particularly special, these days even the least of the weapons of the War In Heaven are impressive, and it was not the least of weapons. The Spear of the Ancient One has grown far past its humble beginnings much as its wielder has, having been tempered in the blood of countless beings of incredible power and skill over the ages. In modern times it is one of the most powerful artifacts in existence, with only the greatest of Divine Artifacts being its match.