Bastille

***This article is rated H for HERESY. Garfield is just a simple housecat. Do not worry. Relax, sit in your chair and enjoy your pipe. All is well. Ignore this madman. There is nothing to fear.***

## Bastille

### Aliases

The Archtraitor (to his former colleagues and in the North and Dongxi Lu), The Father of the Empire (in the Empire), The One Lost in the Fire, The Pious Man, The General, Brassidas Plyiades

### Affiliation

The Ancient Heroes (betrayed), The Orestian Empire (precursor), The Underdark (unwilling servant)

## Biographical information

### Date of death

He begs for the sweet release of death but is doomed to life

## Physical description

### Eye color

Grey

*Don't listen to your friends, see the despair behind their eyes. Don't listen to your friends, they only care and want to know why. I can feel the draw, and it keeps on pulling me back.*

- Journal Entry of Bastille the day before his fall.

*Starkey....I am the demon now....*

- Bastille in his last moments of sanity before fully falling to the Guardians as one of their agents of despair.

The last of the great heroes and the most notorious, as he was the one who betrayed them and doomed them to their fate. Arguably the most important and spoilerific character in the Contested Legacy. While he is believed to have committed suicide after this betrayal, in actual fact he survived and has been carrying out the will of the Guardians of the Underdark on earth for the past 10,000 years and ensuring that the Empire is as brutal as possible along with his compatriot Euthane the Mighty. Currently he has assumed the name of Brassidas Plyiades.

During his time as a hero, he was renowned for his piety and kindness albeit he could be quite overbearing at times due to his rigid code of honour. This put him at odds with his free spirited comrades but he still loved and cherished them. He once famously single-handedly held off a whole Underdark army from destroying a small and unimportant town solely because he refused to let innocents perish. It is said during this battle he fought like both a demon and a god, ignoring grievous injuries to just keep fighting no matter what. In the band of the Heroes, he served the role of Lancer to Oasis, though admittedly he was closest friends with the kind-hearted and humble Starkey whom he was most privy to.

As a Paladin of Justice, he was a legendary warrior with exceptional magic powers as well. In his arsenal of weapons was a host of brilliant magic artifacts. These included Belos tou Elio, the Spear of the Sun, whose power was said to be able to break through any barrier and if fully activated could have the power to kill a god and level a country. He also wielded Gnaeus Kosmos, a mighty shield said to be able to block any blow and decorated with moving images and scenes of life, courtesy of Hephaestus. Then there was the Toxofeng, a mighty bow that could fire over 60,000 arrows at once. And finally was the Spathitisgis, the Sword of the Earth, the greatest sword ever forged and possessing magnificent powers blessed by Gaia herself. With the exception of the Belos tou Elio, all these weapons were lost during his betrayal, likely hidden by him in his last act of sanity and goodness to prevent himself from using them for ill.