Eduard

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## Eduard

### Age

Late 30's *('Actions and Words')*Early 40's *('Order and Chaos')*

### Occupation

High School Student *((Pre-apocalypse)*Former scribe of the People *(Post-apocalypse)*

Former second-in-command of the Frontiersmen *(Post-apocalypse)*

Former worker of the 'Deepwater' Oil Field *(Post-apocalypse)*

Former soldier of the New Graystone Military *(Post-apocalypse)*

### Family

Unnamed - mother *(zombified)*Unnamed - father *(zombified)*

Samantha – ex-‘wife’ *(deceased)*

### Series Lifespan

'Actions and Words' -- 'Last Chance To Die'

> *"My **respect** for you is the only thing staying my hand,"*
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> -- Eduard to Drew following their brutual fight
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**Joshua Eduard Graves**, known simply as **Eduard**, **and** known to the People as **The Burned Man** and to the New Graystone Military as **The Ghost**, is a main character and a former antagonist, as well as a survivor of the outbreak in *The Walking Dead by EDStudios.* He is also the protagonist of the *Eduard* series, which details his own story and origins.

After he was nearly reduced to ashes by his former group, Graves came across a tribe called the People and fell under a scholar named Hector Granger. Graves, an anarchist who wished to see a true end to the ways of the Old World, joined Granger in massacring the People and creating the Frontiersmen; he became the Disciple of Granger, now calling himself Ajax, and was named the Lord of the Castes of the Frontiersmen. Eduard - as he now called himself - was revealed to be loyal only to the Frontiersmen's cause of destroying the traces of the Old World, not to Ajax himself. He serves as the secondary antagonist of both '*Call to Arms*' and '*All Out War*'.

After the defeat of the Frontiersmen at the Battle of Archangel, Eduard was sentenced to life working at the 'Deepwater' Oil Field, but he earned his freedom by fighting alongside the State of New Graystone against The Fear. After the death of the Lady and being set free, Eduard left the New North behind. Many years later, it is revealed that he started a new life and a new journey.

## Overview

### Personality

Eduard is a tight-lipped, philosophical and brutal man. He is revealed to be a severely burned man, covered head to toe in bandages.

Throughout the series, Eduard is shown to be heavily conflicted between his personal agenda and his own morals. He constantly debates within himself about his actions, but usually comes to the conclusion that the ends justify the means.

Unlike many Frontiersmen, Eduard was not obsessed with prophesies or fables. He did, as his duty demanded, enforce all
of the Frontiersmen’s ideologies on the initiates, and delivered cruel and brutal punishments. His most common punishment was summerly execution, often acting on his own – often correct – suspicions.

A heavy critic of the Old World, Eduard nonetheless used Old World quotes and symbols in his philosophies. This was the reason, he claimed, why he aided Ajax in the first place: the aim to decimate all remnants of the Old World, including the NGR, which, to Eduard, was a pathetic attempt to reconstruct the old society and its ideologies.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Colorado

Eduard was born and raised in the state of Colorado; his parents were both anarchists who refused to pay taxes, refused to vote and often carried out anti-government protests. Eduard grew up despising forms of government.

## Post-Apocalypse

### New North

At some point after the outbreak, Eduard became part of a group occupying an abandoned airstrip. He stole a few cans from the food storage and, as punishment, was set on fire and thrown into a river. He was in a coma as he floated downstream until he was found by a tribe called the People. He was healed, wrapped in bandages and decided to become a scribe for them. At this point, he met Hector Granger and sided with him during the decimation of the People. He became Granger's disciple and his loyal second. However, Eduard in truth despised Granger - now known as Ajax - and only followed him as he believed he was the best path to obliterating the ways of the Old World.

## Killed Victims

* Sholto
* Garret Feingold *(caused)*
* 2 unnamed People scribes
* 4 unnamed NGA paramilitary soldiers
* Numerous counts of zombies

## Relationships

### Hector Granger

> *"Find the False Prophet! Make him kneel at your feet. And remove his head from his shoulders. Do this, or I shall do the same to you!"*
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> -- Ajax strangles Eduard, ordering him to find and kill Edwards once and for all
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Initially, it appears Eduard and Ajax have a stable relationship; Eduard displays strong loyalty to Ajax, obeying his every order. There is both past and present evidence of Eduard being Ajax's chief enforcer, attacking and destroying other tribes and assimilating them into the Frontiersmen. As Ajax's second, Eduard possessed authority second only to Ajax himself.

However, as the series progresses, it is slowly revealed that Eduard holds very little personal loyalty to Ajax, privately disregarding him on several occasions. This culminated at the end of the Battle of Archangel, when Eduard denounced Ajax, fought him and abandoned him to the NGR paramilitary.

### Samantha

> *"You want to be free? March up to the Prophet and call him a liar. That is the only way you will ever be free,"*
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Samantha and Eduard have a neutral relationship; she was chosen by Eduard himself to be his first wife of three. Unlike other high-ranking Frontiersmen, however, Eduard treated his 'wife' with a degree of respect and only took her on as a bride to save her from a worse fate at Ajax's hands.

### Harry Edwards

> *"You wanted to change the world. But the world you wanted to change is already dead,"*
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> -- Edwards tries to convince Eduard to assassinate Ajax
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Although the two are bitter enemies, Edwards never truly held any animosity towards Eduard, despite him being Ajax's closest lieutenant; Eduard, on the other hand, deeply respects Edwards but believes his quest to rebuild the world is futile, whether the NGA wins the war or not.

## Trivia

* Eduard's full name is Joshua Eduard Graves, which was revealed in the novel series. He took on his middle name as his monomer after his parent's deaths.
* Eduard's horrific burns were revealed in the novels to be the result of being covered in oil and set alight by the group he was part of before encountering the People.
	+ After being set on fire, Eduard sustained burns to over 70% of his body, causing him to lose most of his skin, including his nose, his ears and one eyelid, and exposing the bones of his ring and pinkie fingers on his right hand and parts of his left shoulder blade.
* He is the first major antagonist to become an ally of the protagonist.
* Eduard is the only main character whose face has never been seen during his series lifespan.
* Through his father, Eduard is of Mexican descent.