Maddox Knowstick

## Misc.

### Theme Song

Before Corruption: Marina - Primadonna After Corruption: Corruption With Rage and Melanchol

## Early Life

Maddox was born into a very wealthy and powerful lineage. His Father (Kordov) and His Grandfather (Zepher) were insanely wealthy. Nobody knows the real reason how this family got their wealth (including Maddox) since they were quite poor back in the day. However it is presumed that the Yireh blessed them with their wealth since they were so loyal to him. Maddox was born with a deficient brain, he was a slow learner and matured very slowly. He was also very spoiled by his mother. His family started dying one by one during the span of 10 years. It was rumored that the family is cursed and Maddox will meet his demise soon. His Distant Cousin (Machi Melody) was crowned as the Monarch. However she didn't want any connections with Maddox because of his shameful Brain Deficiency, so she secretly banished him away with his butler and told everyone that he went fishing by the lake one day and never came back. Maddox came back after 15 years of disappearance and investigated the disappearance of his cousin. He found out clues that lead to the current Machi at that time. He started to execute a plan to avenge his cousin, however it went horribly wrong and was imprisoned.

He was tortured in a dungeon for 20 years until he managed to escape. He found out that his family mansion was looted and destroyed, so he became broke. He lived in solidarity after that incident in his destroyed family mansion.

He had a long time to think about his past and decide on his future. He decided to bring honor to the Knowstick family name by traveling to Oracle and spreading the knowledge about the Knowstick family and being pureblooded nobility and putting the peasants in their rightful place.

### Recent Life Events

He settled in Tinkers Cove and took a hill in that place. He named that hill "The High Hills" as an homage to his High Elven roots. His plan is only to allow nobles in that place and no peasants would be allowed to reach it.

He started writing a book about brewery (you can check it out in Brewery) and it became a massive success and best seller because of the very detailed procedures and instructions and professionalism.

While he was going around Tinker's cove looking for a peasant to milk a cow for him, He heard a familiar sound calling his name from a distant.... His spine shivered a bit and he looked around to find none other than his ex-wife Mira Knowstick (Deceased) . He was mortified at first because he remembered how abusive she was and how she reminded him that he will always a failure and a not respected person. She forced herself to live with him in Tinker's cove at the High Hills. They rekindled their love (kinda) and settled down. Abusive attitude started to show from Mira. Maddox was back being depressed and mentally worn out until a blessing came to him....

Maddox knows that Children can only come if you wish for them hard enough and if you're married. He saw an elven child coming to him from the distant and that Elven child was named Ayden Knowstick. Ayden convinced Maddox that he's his child and that Maddox wished for him so hard even though Maddox doesn't remember anything about wishing for a child but he took Ayden with open arms.

Ayden was a rebel and didn't listen to Maddox. Maddox thought it was a phase and just decided to discipline him a lot by grounding him and forcing him to study the Piano. Then Ayden discovered the devil's lettuce... He became addicted and started thinking about the profit he can make with that. So he left Maddox to break bad.

Maddox saw that his child was nowhere to be seen and he became more mentally drained. but unbeknownst to Maddox, Ayden was never his child to begin with. Ayden was just some low scum elf who wanted to live the spoiled elven nobility life and leech of someone naive like Maddox. He gaslighted Maddox into thinking that he was his child and he was looking to steal all of Maddox's wealth and run away.

Then Mira started to practice heresy.. which Maddox really hates. He called her out for being a witch and that she needs to be burnt. She divorced him (again) and ran away.

Now Maddox was all alone in the High Hills. So he decided to focus his effort and mind into finishing The Knowstick Estate. He wanted to get his mind of all the shit that happens to his life and that was the only passion project he had.

And here comes the Tinkers Cove downfall. The Leader of Tinker's Cove Jack was practicing banned and very dangerous heresy. That heresy backfired so badly it unleashed tentacles from beneath Jack's house and filled all of Tinker's cove. It killed Jack the ruler of Tinker's cove and half of the population of Tinker's cove. It ruined and destroyed everything on its way. So Maddox decided to leave Tinkers cove and ditch his only passion project he had.

He was lost, homeless and broke after Mira took all of his wealth and inheritance because she said she's better at handling money. He was also hated by everyone, been verbally abused, mentally abused and physically abused by a lot of people. No kingdom leader in their right mind would accept Maddox Knowstick into their Kingdom.... right?

That was the case until he reunited with his good old accountant, Gnog. Gnog was one of the ruling council of Leafton and he invited Maddox to live in Leafton. He gave Maddox an old mansion that belonged to an old noble family that left Leafton. Maddox accepted the gift of his good friend and started working on the mansion. He hired a pair of architects to furniture the house. Victor Von Graves and Pruine offered a stray ginger cat to Maddox to keep him company during these hard times and because Maddox was trying to change into being a nice person and no more entitlement and looking down at peasants. Because Maddox discovered that Zepher Knowstick (His grandfather) wasn't a noble after all. He was born a peasant and self-proclaimed himself a noble. Therefore Kordov Nor Maddox can be nobles because they don't have the noble blood. so Peasant Maddox is trying to be a nice Maddox after being raised to be an Entitled Maddox.

That ginger cat is really strange... Is Maddox hallucinating or is the cat capable of talking? Nonetheless, Maddox rolled with it.. Until he met someone called Astaroth Grayhorn. Big guy with scary looking wings and horns. Astaroth needed to speak with Maddox. Maddox hesitated but agreed and invited Astaroth to his house.

While they were sitting in the house, the ginger cat came to Maddox and Astaroth. She looked at them and just ... magically transformed into a goddess.. Maddox was shocked and his jaw dropped. However, Astaroth just greeted the goddess with a simple "Hello, Mother".

Apparently that stray cat was indeed the goddess Zhī zi huā (Aka Ziva). The All-mother and Mistress of Pandemonia.

She sat with them and started offering Maddox irresistible offers. Maddox can have a family, power and the respect he always seeked for. In exchange of just drinking a flask. Maddox was scared but since he's super gullible, he agreed.

That day came and he drank the flask which was the blood of Ziva. He was one of the four original corrupted alongside Luce, Gwen Brightshire and Rivera. He now has to serve Ziva by corrupting the land for her.

A sudden shift has happened to Maddox's personality. No longer he was the gullible, chaotic, good-hearted and stupid Maddox. He became a lawful manipulator, extremely intelligent and extremely evil. The hatred and all of the insecurities that has been growing in him for the past centuries overcame the old Maddox and those things made him the ultimate corruption machine.

Maddox went away for approximately a year where he was learning how to master a new craft. That craft was the dark arts and torture. He became the thing he hated. He became a heretic. He wielded a staff that had a skull on it and with rattling bells around it. That staff was so powerful and so vile to the point of inflicting unimaginable pain and torture upon anyone. Their bones would twist and turn, their eyes would roll rapidly. they will hear demonic screams and see visual hallucinations.

A victim of Maddox was his closest friend, Gnog. Maddox filled Gnog's head with lies and deceit. Promising a good change to the world and promising a loving family to Gnog. Gnog trusted his friend and agreed to the corruption. Maddox said "If you wish to be become free. If you wish for salvation, you have to feel the suffering first." He unleashed the torture spell from his staff on his friend. Maddox didn't need to do that to corrupt Gnog but he did it out of sadism.

A meeting happened between Astaroth, a newly corrupted Seth, a newly corrupted Gnog, Rivera and Gwen. They discussed the thing that is going on between Ziva and Victor. Astaroth is planning to drown his mother in the Willow Tree that was created by Sharx. Maddox approved of the plan because of 2 reasons: 1- He feels that Ziva backstabbed him by corrupting him and abandoning the plan. 2- He can't say no to Astaroth because he will turn Maddox into dust.

Gwen went to the La Familia household first and snitched on everyone that was in that meeting. So when Rivera and Maddox arrived to the household, Ziva was uncorrupted and she lashed out on Rivera and Maddox. She kicked them out and threatened them with a knife. So Rivera and Maddox were tossed out of the La Familia household.

Maddox and Rivera didn't believe in Astaroth because he was too impulsive and very violent. So they wanted to take down Astaroth from being the new ruler of Pandemonia. They lured in Sharx because he's the second child of Ziva and gave him a weapon as a sign of friendship. They filled Sharx's head with lies and manipulation to fight his brother. Sharx seemed hesitant at first but the manipulation got to him eventually.

Many months have passed and Maddox kept changing places to avoid meeting Astaroth because Astaroth called for Maddox and Maddox was scared to meet him. Until one day, He saw half of his ex-wife soul in a bottle that Gwen had. The other half of Mira was in an Echo shard that Gwen had. Gwen asked Maddox if he would like to get back Mira. He refused at first because he was put on the spot.

After a long think and a very long conversation with Rivera about Mira. He decided to seek Gwen to try to resurrect Mira. Gwen told Maddox that she still has the shard but no longer has the bottle. The bottle is in La Familia's household. At that time, there was a kill-on-sight order against Maddox and Rivera. So they planned a way to get into the house and retrieve the bottle o'mira using invisibility potions.

Plan was simple. Gwen is the insider person in La Familia and would give information on where the bottle was hidden and where are the members of la familia at any moment. Rivera was gonna create a distraction so they would follow her and Maddox would sneak in with the invisibility potions to retrieve the bottle.

Time has came and they started executing the plan. Maddox was informed on the whereabout of the bottle (It was in a chest in a very hidden room in the living room that needed a lever to be placed at the right place to open it. Rivera went for the distraction and many of them followed. Maddox went through the front door with an invisibility potion and he hid on the second floor until the house was fully clear. The house became empty and Maddox went to place the lever to open the hidden room. He placed the lever in the whole vicinity that Gwen described but nothing appeared. La familia came back to the house so Maddox went into hiding in the basement. They started looking into the house until they found him and started following him. Maddox is a great escape artist from his early days, so he deceived them in the basement mazes and ran into the house while they looked for him out of the house. He went again to try to open the secret room but with no success. So he hid again and saw la familia enter the house in full panic mode and looking for the bottle. They opened the secret room in front of Maddox and retrieved the bottle from the chest. Pruine placed it in his backpack. But Maddox isn't backing down. He had multiple chances to escape the house but he didn't want to leave without his wife. The entitled people of La familia took Maddox wife away from him and they're not willing to give her back. So Maddox waited until the coast was clear and it was only Pruine in the house. Maddox tried to aim with his staff at Pruine to knock him out for a bit and retrieve Mira's bottle. But the balls on the staff rattled so much and played Maddox's infamous ambience music unintended. That alerted Pruine and he ran away as soon as he saw Maddox wielding the staff. Tha ambience music alerted a nearby Victor and he came in with his sword full swinging at Maddox. Maddox had a very quick moment of realization and he decided to not fight his former friend and just accept his destiny. Maddox was killed by Victor..

### Present Life Events

Maddox Knowstick is now buried in the Knowstick Crypt in Leafton. But his staff was not buried with him. It's still out there until this moment.

### Appearance Before Corruption

Skin Pigment: Grey-blueish

Hair Pigment: Ginger

Eye Pigment: Orange

Other Information: He's wearing luxurious red coat trimmed with gold and animal fur, a fancy purple blouse and gray trousers. He has scars hidden behind his attire

### Appearance After Corruption

Skin Pigment: Grey-blueish

Hair Pigment: Ginger

Eye Pigment: One eye is Orange and the other is Red.

Other Information: Black horns, pony tail hair with bangs. He's wearing a black open shirt trimmed with gold and red stripes. Under that is mesh gray t-shirt and wearing black trousers trimmed with gold.

### Personality Before Corruption

Personality: Childish and weird mannerism, spoiled, has a hard time understanding metaphors and comes from a wealthy lineage.

Likes: Nobles, Trends, Cooking, Food.

Dislikes: Peasants, Heresy, Dwarves, Trolls, Unfashionable people.

Strengths/Pros: very proud of his lineage, super kind hearted and master negotiator.

Weaknesses/Cons: Childish, Rude, Entitled, Whiny, Easily Manipulated, Doesn't think of the consequences before doing something, useless in combat and attention seeker.

Common Sayings:

*"You can’t do anything to me, I’m a noble."*

*"Nobility is by blood and not by wealth and power."*

*"Nobility is not a choice, nobility is a birthright."*

*"I’m here to put the peasants in check."*

### Personality After Corruption

Personality: Calculated, Has a backup plan to his backup plan, Super Manipulative, Sadistic and Very Charismatic

Strengths/Pros: Extremely cunning and absolutely lawful.

Weaknesses/Cons: Tunnel visioning, blindful narcissism.

### Skills & Abilities

- Business Making

- Gatekeeping

- Excellent Culinary Artist

- Politics

- Excellent Speaker

- Crowd Winner ... (debatable)

- Finance .... (debatable)

### Fun Facts

- Maddox would do anything to be “trendy” all the time. This has been exploited a lot and still exploited by people manipulating Maddox. They would say something like “Oh, you didn’t hear the trend news? Eating Dirt is super trendy these days”. Maddox would start eating dirt with a smile and teary eyes.

- If you’re a noble, then expect lots of praises and appreciation from Maddox. However, if you’re a peasant, expect the worst insults and entitlement from Maddox.

- The skull that Maddox used in his staff is the skull of Ayden (The con-artist that tricked Maddox into thinking that he's his child.)