Rho

## **Backstory:**

He doesn’t remember his backstory anymore, he’s left behind everything from his previous life except his personality, which remained with him. In a way, his life actually started in the world he found himself in, building himself a reputation worthy of the greatest gods.

He has found new purpose in helping tortured and lost souls, giving them the eternal rest they so dearly wished.

## **Personality:**

He’s probably the most gentle and caring person one could have the pleasure to meet, he treats everyone equally and refuses to hurt or kill any living creatures, Shadows included. Angering him is difficult, if not an entirely impossible feat, but it happened in the past, and it could happen again in the future.

### **Likes:**

* Rho finds no bigger pleasure than helping people in need, he’s ready to spend his life for them.

* He also loves children, and likes to help orphanages with secret “donations”, more than likely trinkets or little toys. He has been doing that for so long that the childrens calls him “The Good Ghost”.

* Surprisingly enough, Rho does not dislike Shadows, he actually has a great deal of pity towards them, because after seeing the ripped and ruined soul of one that he killed in the far past, he came to the conclusion that they are not like that by choice.

### **Dislikes:**

* Even Rho has dislikes, and those are people that cause misery just because they find pleasure in it.

## **Realm assigned:**

The Dark Souls Realm. He had been there even before the birth of Fire, he just came into full consciousness of himself upon his creation, like a lot of beings together with him. There’s no way to determinate just how old Rho is, but upon the birth of Fire and the event of Dark Souls 3 (the age he’s currently in), Rho is approximately 102 eons old.

During the age of gods, Rho lived a secluded life, helping people that loses themselves into finding their way to the nearest settlement, or just saving their lives from beasts. He clashed a couple of times with the Lord of Death Nito, but apart from that he ignored the gods and did what he enjoyed the most.

Upon discovering the Undead Curse, Rho became **Furious**. Because he himself could see first hand just how tortured the poor souls of the beings -that will be later named Hollows- were. He visited Nito and asked him what could have caused that terrifying plague to be born, it was there that he discovered that it was Nito himself who created the Undead Curse, partly because of Gwyn(who just immolated himself) orders, but mostly because he wanted to enjoy himself at seeing the anguish of the mortals, suffering in eternal damnation..that was the day that one of the 3 primordials of the Dark Souls realm fell.

After that day Rho vowed himself that he would have helped the undeads whose purpose in life was no more to finally find eternal peace. It was right during of his many travels that he stumbled upon the dead body of a woman. Approaching the corpse, her soul flew towards him, and she spoke to him, implored him to take the girl that was hiding not far from here. Of course, he accepted. Not even a minute after he arrives at this big hollow tree, and inside one could see a white bundle of fur. It revealed soon enough to be a little girl, no more than 4 years old, and scared out of her life. if one looked closely one could see that she had a tail and natural fur on her body, coupled with snow white scales on her exposed face. It took a bit of coaching but in the end Rho finally managed to get Priscilla (that's how she called herself), starting his journey again, but in company this time.

Months passed, and Rho and Priscilla were continuing on their journey. Priscilla quickly became attached to Rho, going as far as to call him father, much to his happiness/embarrassment. It was right during one of their meal pauses that Rho noticed a presence, a cold, but at the same time comforting one. Turning his head towards it, Rho laid his eyes upon a gothic girl, almost a head and a half smaller than him. She named herself Death, and asked Rho if he knew about the Undead Plague that was happening. Not seeing anything wrong, Rho told her the entire story, managing to get an enraged growl out of the woman. She then told him that she could feel countless souls inside of his lantern and asked what he was doing with them, and why he didn't let them fade. He sadly told her that he didn't really had control over it, that the lantern automatically absorb wandering souls, and that he was unable to free them after, which meant that the only thing he could do for them for the inconvenience he got them into was to give them a peaceful rest. Death nodded in appreciation and made herself comfortable to the fireplace, suddenly asking if she could join them in their journey for a bit, Rho and Priscilla accepted.

The trio continued to wander for years to come, with Priscilla growing into a beautiful and powerful woman, and Rho and Death falling in love with each other. After a couple hundreds of years, Priscilla finally decided to start a life of independence, but not before waving a tearful goodbye to her father and mother. Death had to return to her duties, already backlogged enough to almost drown her, but she vowed to Rho that she would return every month for a week.

And so, his life continued like this for eons: traveling, giving poor souls rest, the occasional meeting with Death and Priscilla, and even more traveling. this, until an event that changed his life forever. one day Death told him that some people and her dear friend Arceus invited her to this Locostral place (Rho was told of the existence of the multiverse, and he believed it. Priscilla too [her story is for another time]), asking if he wanted to join her. He did, and so the couple traveled to the hidden village of Locostral, a little place of no more than 60 habitants.

even more time passed, and Locostral was now a city of more than 5000 habitants. Both Rho and Death had been assigned the role of elder, and it was right in one of those days that Rho finally discovered his true nature with the creation and assignment of the rift keys, one for every Plainswalker. Every key that was created bonded with their owner, all but one, who refused to acknowledge everyone who touched it. Rho was there at the time, making sure that everything was going alright. But upon touching the key to take it to the engineers, it bounded with him, revealing his nature as Plainswalker.

Time continued to pass, until it finally arrived today, Rho is one of the oldest being in Locostral, and the oldest Plainswalker alive.

## **Abilities:**

Rho possess a mixture of his in-game abilities (as Thresh) with a touch of the Dark Souls realm, where being can have much more powerful souls.

His ability consist in gaining a percentage of the power of the souls that have been absorbed:

→ Vigor (HP): ???

→ Attunement (mana): ???

→ Endurance (stamina): ???

→ Vitality (resistance): ???

→ Strength (literal): ???

→ Dexterity (also speed): ???

→ Arcane Power (for spells or abilities): ???

→ Luck (literal): 99

He’s basically a Thresh that gains a bit of every stats for every soul collected. That, plus 102 eons of doing it.

## **Curiosity Facts:**

* Rho is as powerful and as old as some of the more powerful primordials out in the multiverse, he’s just too much of a good person to use it to its full potential.
* People in the Dark Souls realm actually have miracles that sing of Rho feats, much like the other greater gods in the realm. Miracles are spells that can have any kind of effect, but they must be tied in some way to what the story is based upon. In the case of Rho’s, they’re called Soul Miracles (to be updated later).
* His flames color was initially green, like the normal Thresh, but upon absorbing so many souls (the DS realm souls are white 95% of the times), it became white.
* The lantern can “technically” be destroyed, freeing all the souls and weakening Rho exponentially, it’s just that the lantern is bonded to Rho himself, gaining all of his attributes...yeah, good luck breaking it.
* When he killed Nito, he managed through willpower alone to refuse to absorb it’s souls, because he didn't want to give the being that damned an entire world a peaceful afterlife. So he left it in Nito’s chamber, which was then visited and picked by the Chosen One ages later.
* He’s been happily married with Death for more than 100 eons, which is about 100 *billion* years, and it seems they’re going to keep being that way for a looonnnng time.
* The timeline of the Dark Souls realm Rho is currently living in is during the period of the Ringed City final boss fight, where the world is now almost entirely made of ashes and dust.
* The correct pronunciation of Rho name is if you write it with the italian filter on google translate.