Marko Marachkii "Spike" Whiksi

Marko Marachkii Whiksi (c. 1880s GHC - 31 December 2001 GHC), often dubbed "Spike" by the Kalubians, was a Jalfxian leader of a mercenary guild and Brigadier General of the BBA. He was a central figure in the BBA's rise to military power in Kalubio and continued efforts throughout the Kalubian Civil War.

Whiksi was initlally a Bor'faach loyalist in Jalfxia leading up to the Liberty War. Though he pledged unyielding devotion to Empress Anolea, upon her death at the hands of KFAF forces and the dissolution of the Bor'faach monarchy, Whiksi would go into hiding with several other allies. Initially aimless and without purpose following the death of their empress, they swore collective revenge against the Kalubians. Specifically, the Kalu warriors who had vanquished most of their force, including Anolea herself.

Whiksi's original plan was to supply the southeast with weapons to form a private militia to take on Kalubio. A large faction of them separated to join the Skarred, a rising radical anarchist movement forming in Skabb. Rather than fight the Skarred, Whiksi instead began to back them, and insisted that taking out Kalubio was essential to their goals before RUAC intervened. In the events leading up to the crisis in 1986 GHC, he met an exiled Ballaiy Luvvar. Whiksi initially nearly killed him, but after learning of Kalubio's planned involvement in Skabb and Ballaiy revealing his plans to return and reclaim power, he spared the Goldblut. When Ballaiy offered to help Whiksi reinstate the Dragonia monarchy in Jalfxia as reparation for Kalubio's initial involvement, Whiksi began supporting him instead. Whiksi helped smuggle Ballaiy out of Skabb and into Kalubio. While initially planning a coup, when the Provisional Council announced it would be disbanding and holding an election to determine the new head of state, Ballaiy changed tactics and revealed himself as a candidate. Whiksi would be the head of the EDP's armed guard, eventually becoming the BBA militia after the former's dissolution. Whiksi would secretly organize and carry out the assassination of Reformist Vycanc Aiza'ak Katzjung, leading to the Kalubian Civil War.

Whiksi narrowly survived the civil war and fled to Kikikoa to once again, plot revenge. He was hunted down by the Kikikan syndicate La Bã'd-ãferr and KFAF Alfa, and was ultimately killed by Joseph Rodenski.

## Life

### Early Life (c. 1880 - 1949)

Marko Marachkii Whiksi was born in west Jalfxia in the late 19th century. He went on to become a loyal fighter for the once-mighty Bor'faach empire against Gacawy colonization efforts (which were actually in remission at this point, but the empire still desired to regain its lost influence on the island). He fought in the Liberty War, and while defeated, narrowly escaped with his life and fled to Yanugo.

### Revenge Planning Against Kalubio (1949 - 1986)

Whiksi would regroup with his other retreated allies in Yanugo, where they would begin to plot revenge against the regions who had destroyed their imperial ambitions. While identifying several targets, their main one was Kalubio, who had played a major role in the conflict. Whiksi would eventually continue on to the southeast continent, where he began amassing an army.

Whiksi met a runaway Ballaiy Luvvar in the mid-1980s, who was living in exile following the Kalubian Revolution. While Whiski initially almost killed him, Ballaiy revealed at knifepoint that he had no attachment to his family and wanted to fix their past wrongs, which including restoring Jalfxia to Dragonia control. Whiksi spared him, and eventually the two formed an alliance. Unbeknownst to Ballaiy, Whiksi had been supplying armaments and bodies to the Skarred, a Kalu-blood terrorist sect focused on Skabb secularism and ending colonial influnece in the region. Whiksi would sneak the exiled Ballaiy back into Kalubio, where he would prep his bid for power.

### Campaign and War in Kalubio (1986 - 1998)

When war broke out between the Equalwi Royal Throne and the Reformist Alliance, Whiksi was a major asset to the Equalwi war effort via the BBA. Several attempts would be made on his life by KFAF, though none were ultimately successful. He was severely wounded in Jericho, but survived and escaped to a BBA safehouse in Kikikoa.

### Refuge in Kikikoa and Death (1998 - 2001)

On the seventh day of Dvitma'ad, KFAF Alfa hunted Whiksi down to his hideout in north Kikikoa. He was beaten and strangled to death by Joseph Rodenski, moments before being betrayed by UKM vice commander Stefano Belinski, who had been awaiting Whiksi's death in order to seize control of the BBA in a power struggle.

## Appearance

Whiksi is a purple wyvern Dragonia with green spikes running down his neck, back and tail. He has large yellow eyes and green wings attached to his muscular upper limbs. Following Jericho, he appears with cybernetic legs and an artifical torso, replacing his lower body mutilated by Reinder Stuhy.

## Personality

Marko Whiksi is a dedicated servant to whoever he chooses to follow. While socially and politically dull, he is a brilliant tactician, able to manipulate and change sides in order to best suit his ultimate loyalties. He despises the Kalubians, to the point of being one of the head organizers of the Wamskawy genocide campaign during the Kalubian Civil War. This is especially visible in his sadistic tormenting of captured Connor Felidow, where Whiksi psychologically tortures him through a brainwashed California Reikovra.