Lionheart

**Lionheart** (ライオンハート, *Raionhāto*?) is an Skeleton Lord and formally an player from YGGDRASIL who got sent to the New World.

In the New World, he's the exalted Skeleton King of the Skeleton Kingdom and one of the most powerful indivifuals in the world. Besides leading the kingdom, he's famously known as **Izanagi** (イザナギ, *Izanagi*?) who with Uther Pendragon makes up the adamantite ranked adventurer group Guardian of the Skeleton Kingdom, in reference of him secretly going out to defend the borders.

## Biography

### Background

Lionheart, real name as **Arthur Jackson** (アーサー・ジャクソン, *Āsā Jakuson*?) was an player from his world where despite his young age of during time playing YGGDRASIL, was one of the seven Yakuza Lords of the Neo-Yakuza that operated in a unknown territory. He lead the Neo-Yakuza and obtaining resources and giving them out to the poor who can't afford food on a daily basis. As far the world is concerned, Arthur was one of the seven crime lords and considered a hero, and one of the largest threats to business conglomerates as the Neo-Yakuza was one of the wealthiest organizations that rivalled the most wealthiest of businesses.

In his position as Crime Lord, Arthur decided to take the extreme and equipped himself with cybernetics due in-part to an spinal cord injury that would've left him paralyzed without the V-C1 spinal cybernetic and went to add in additional cybernetic augmentations to protect himself in the hostile world of 2138. During his operations, he would then request to obtain other cybernetic hardware in order to protect himself, and to lead the Neo-Yaluza into prosperity for which the medical professional at hand asked what kind of hardware he's after, pointing an ballistic missile in his left arm, which in his right with an elongated blade for close quarters combat, swap his eyes for cyberoptics, defensive systems and among others to increase his stamina pain tolerance. The medical professional would further state the cost to integrate them be high, but Arthur stated he'll be able to upfront, has one of his assistants carrying a suitcase showed the professional the wealth, and agreed to the operation.

At some point, Arthur lead an contingency strategy upon one of their strongholds and was forced to take action against one of the conglomerates' private military involving leading an defensive Neo-Yakuza battalion to allow their resources to be transported elsewhere from within their hidden routes deep under ground. The operation was successfully, however it cost the life of one of the Neo-Yakuza's leaders, leading it down to only six Crime Lords.

In his life in YGGDRASIL, he was named Lionheart, who often played the game without oining a single guild or any form of organization, often leading him to develop an "lone wolf" trait and was very scarce with allies due to this. However after befriending Pendragon, his time in the game was made easier due to Pendragon's guild assisting him to gather equipment from higher-tier bosses and dungeons and made him more powerful.

In a unknown time period, Lionheart participated in a massive guild war that became widespread and became known as the War of Midgard. A war between the Knights of the Round Table against an hostile human supremacist guild simply known as the Alessian Faction attacked the Great Castle Fortress of Midgard that soon instigated the conflict. According to many players, including Lionheart, this war became infamous has it engulfed the entire world of Midgard due to Alessia's hostilities towards Pendragon and the guild. Lionheart fought against one of the Alessian Faction's strongest warriors, with one of them almost killing him before Cleatus Deletus was able to save him. The war became so bad the Developers of YGGDRASIL was even forced to intervene at some point that finally put the halt to the war itself.

Five months before the shutdown of YGGDRASIL however, Pendragon came to Lionheart and offered him her valuable *Divine*-class weapon Excalibur as she was leaving the game at that point. She wish changed the sword to match Lionheart's own racial and job classes so it'll work with him and make him more powerful then most other items he has. He graciously took the item in thanks before Pendragon departed.

### New World

During the final moments of YGGDRASIL, he spent the time simply grinding for more gold before the shutdown. However he was sent to the New World at the count of YGGDRASIL of being shut down, however he awakened in another place deep underground where he was summoned by an necromancy. Finding out the necromancy used an corpse of an hero, he quickly killed the necromancy and made his way out while killing more undead with the equipment he had right before the shutdown, though he soon realized he was deep within an dungeon similar to those of the and used his wits and clues to escape. After escaping, he found himself in a strange new land where he saved an village from necromancers, which in turned had him encounter Pendragon's creation, Uther Pendragon who and sworn fidelity due to her creator's relationship with her.

During his time as an Adventurer, he came to realize an important factor; the kingdom he is in, the kingdom of Solitude is a very hostile and tyrannically-driven society where the almost all citizens but nobles are treated as second-class citizens and is one of the reasons there is fewer Adventurer in Solitude. Feeling an sense of purpose now, he went on to create an organization of his own; the Legion. Using the corpses of Solitude's soldiers and those he systemically summoned, he was able to gather an large enough force and even alliances of other Adventurers to declare War on Solitude and taken over the kingdom. He soon took hold of Solitude and named himself as King of Solitude and began to reorganize the entire kingdom. He even revealed his true identity as an Skeleton Lord due to the questioning of undead units and he feared they will reject him. However unexpectedly the exact opposite has the citizens did not cared for his undead due to his kindness and generosity in giving them food, fresh water and resources. He was named the king by the citizens and his purpose now even more clear, to make the world a place of safety and peace where all knows no pain or hardship and was henceforth called the **Skeleton King** (死者の大戦士王, *Shisha Daisenshiō*?, Lit. "Great Warrior King of the Dead").

As Lionheart began to re-establish himself as the new king within his Skeleton Kingdom, many of the human inhabitants reported strange occurrences in the ocean. This began to cause concern if there are anything in the ocean itself. He then began to think on an naval branch of the Legion and decided to split into two military branch; the Legion Army and the Legion Navy and began to turn the Skeleton Kingdom to have multiple options for defense from all sides, and he also began to notice very few have navies. Thanks to this opportunity, he began to seek human citizens to see if they wish to have a job of adventures and began to finally organize recruitments and training in order to build up his the Legion forces.

## Appearance

Lionheart is a male Skeleton Lord, a high-tier undead skeleton and thus is devoid of any skin, flesh and organs. Like many Skeleton-based races one can choose from, he's entirely just bone. He does have two small blue glows from within his eye sockets that acts as his "visual eyes", and they can change size depending on his emotional status.

In all instances, he wears the Relics of the Crusader, a entire suit of armour classified as *Divine*-class Items from YGGDRASIL. The armour is coloured of white with intricate golden patterns across the set, large pauldrons with leg and arm guards that covers both of them in full and so is a full-body armour. Along with the armour he wears a black cape and a helmet that hides his face to conceal his identity. According to Lionheart, his helmet is able to make identification harder to perform on him, and this harder to reveal his identity with only World Items being capable of doing so.

## Personality

Lionheart is an chilled-out individual that rarely is seen angry, often seen relaxed, calmed and collected in most situations he faces. One of the reasons he was named one of the seven Crime Lords of the Neo-Yakuza was due to his calmed demeanour under stressful or unpredictable situations and acting accordingly to the situation. While in the New World, he was proven to be an reliably laxed individual. Not only is he kind to anyone he encounters, many commented he carries an aura of an "wish maker", a miracle worker or even an hero and is reliable. His kindness extends and he does not treat anyone has beneath him, including those that attacks him, showcasing his unbiased views on anyone and rarely calling them out unless he absolutely believes they deserve it. In most cases, he is seen wandering out and helping those he believes might need, doing the "small things" such as helping an elderly lady carry food, or playing with the children and even help hunters gather supplies. As the Skeleton King, he has demonstrated that the citizens is his main concern as the Forsaken can act as his kingdom's army and defence force of hostile excursions until he can organize things properly and see if the citizens wishes to become defenders of the kingdom.

However despite this, in many times Lionheart self-reflected at himself and often believed he was meant to be punished for his deeds as an Crime Lord of the Neo-Yakuza, a crime syndicate whose operations lead to deaths of others in order to gather resources. Many times did he believed he wont be able to redeem himself for being a criminal and murderer. However he does say to himself that he'll forgive himself someday, this very action lead him to not judging others based on race, appearance or any ethnic group or belief. However despite this, he has no issues in actually killing anyone who he deems as an threat to his operations regardless of their status, viewing anything that may threaten his Skeleton Kingdom or his plans as an aggressor and will hand down judgement as he sees fit, but is fair and just will punishment those with fairness unless otherwise be killed instantly.

However depsite his morale code and morality, that is the only thing keeping him from doing truly terrible acts in the public eye as he sees them lower then he used to. He only saved and liberated the people of the kingdom of Solitude and formed the Skeleton Kingdom to further his own goals in locating other players by expanding his name as Lionheart. If he truly wish it he, he can easily kill a human as if they were nothing, he suspected his undead form changed his mentality on the living to disregard life as a whole and is only using his morality and ethic guides to stop him from becoming an supremely evil individual. In further note on this is the fact he very well is pleased to see more bodies as that'll allow him to use them to create more undead to increase the Legion's forces and perform experimentations on things he wish to see. In many travels, he he has easily killed bandits and other "bad people" to be solely used to create undead or even left some alive to gain intelligence on the area or their group. In fact he has encountered one such group as they pinned a girl down, but only he killed them not because of the girl but to use the corpses of the men for his own desire, with the saving of the girl being a simple "bonus" for himself.