The Ancient

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## Overview

**The Ancient** (aka Arsalan) was the first mayor of Diamond City, and had a diamond pyramid used to perform sacrifices so he could live forever.

## Appearance

The Ancient appeared as an old man in white robes. He had white robes, a thick grey beard and light blue eyes. He used to have a Diamond Dragon before Herobrine took it.

## History

Arsalan grew up in a family that specialized in leatherworking. All of his ancestors were also leatherworkers, and he would be a leatherworker too. However, Arsalan always had a longing for adventure and wanted to be like Steve when he grew up. When he was in his late teen years, he ran away from home on search of adventure. The first few days of his adventure was hard, but eventually he taught himself how to survive and live.

Arsalan soon met Jennifer, who had similar dreams of adventure to his. They soon fell in love and married. They set off to Villagertropolis and hired Steve to accompany him. While on the way, Arsalan came across a strange man named Dave. He spoke of a city of diamond blocks, and the town of Villagertropolis being a grand city. He said the very ground beneath them used to be filled with diamond ore. Out of curiosity, Arsalan dug down and saw found more diamond ore than he could have ever imagined.

Later on, he and his wife went to hire people to help mine the diamonds, but then they were captured by illagers. Dave and Steve rescued them, but Steve was killed in the process. Dave said that Steve respawns, which made Arsalan think that Dave was just in shock and trying to convince himself the Steve was still alive. Dave later disappeared during the night.

Not long after Dave left, Arsalan and his wife began a huge mining operation for the diamonds. The first thing they built was a statue of Steve to commemorate his sacrifice. Shortly after, Steve showed up, proving that Dave was right. Looking back on it, Arsalan guessed that Dave was some sort of oracle, meaning that he could tell the future. Then, Steve left, and Arsalan began the construction of Diamond City. After the city was built, Arsalan became the mayor there for many years. However, Arsalan realized he would eventually die. He wanted to be immortal so he could be remembered, so he decided to find a way to find a cure for death.

Arsalan offered huge sums of money to anyone who could find the cure. Many lied to him, but telling if someone was lying was something that he'd learned very well from his father.

Finally, he found a cure that worked from a group of witches, but they had to sacrifice hundreds of villager souls for the method to work. Arsalan reluctantly agreed, and had a huge pyramid made of solid diamond created because it was the only material capable of harnessing the power of the souls. Every one-hundred years, hundreds of villages were sacrificed during a ceremony, restoring Arsalan and Jennifer's youth. This process was called the Harvest. After four hundred years, Jennifer felt too guilty to participate in the Harvest again, and passed away a few years later. Arsalan considered destroying the pyramid, but his witches convinced him to not do it.

Then, the pyramid was attacked by a group of villagers led by Steve. The Ancient's forces defeated them, and Steve was slain. However, Arsalan knew that he would respawn next to his bed.

Then in Dave the Villager 14, Dave, Carl, and the Ninja Squad invaded his pyramid. They successfully destroyed it, killed his minions, and forced him to flee. Eventually, after Dave and his friends left, the Ancient returned to Last Hope and threatened Mayor Tes into telling him the direction Dave was heading.

The Ancient finally found Dave, Carl, Spidroth, and Little Billy in Normalton, unknowingly saving them from their execution. A battle broke out until the Ancient cornered Dave and forced him to tell about how he lived for so long. Dave told him that he had traveled back in time. After hearing this, the Ancient attacked Dave angrily. After failing to kill Dave, he fled not knowing what to do next.

After failing to find the secret to immortality, the Ancient wandered aimlessly, until hearing about how Herobrine was being kept in a vat of slowness potion in New Diamond City. He was enraged after finding out that his city was destroyed, but that was soon replaced with hope when he found out he would finally know the secret to immortality from Herobrine. The Ancient attacked New Diamond City and successfully managed to free Herobrine, but Herobrine killed the Ancient instead of telling him how to be immortal.

The Ancient returned in Dave the Villager 25 in the Phantom Realm, along with Trotter, Gammon, Curly, Pogo, Dotty, Captain Blackbeard, the Ninjanos Clan, Entity 303, Entity 404, Doris, Captain Blackbeard and The Skeleton King. Dave successfully defeated them after his old allies arrived, and The Ancient said "No! I am the Ancient. I am-" before Robo-Steve and Dave killed him.

## Trivia

* The Ancient had a obsidian sword with a quartz handle, but it was taken away when he was killed by Herobrine.
* The Ancient possessed a diamond dragon built by one of the witches that also helped find the cure to immortality. The dragon was also taken when Herobrine killed the Ancient.
* The Ancient is 700 years old.

## Gallery

The Ancient's diamond dragonThe Ancient's obsidian and quartz swordDave unsuccessfully attempts to kill the Ancient atop his dragonHerobrine, who stole The Ancient's dragon