Achilles

Achilles Appearance (drawn by Fazolian)

**Achilles**is a Styxborne Ichori cursed by the gods with near invulnerability during a freak accident. He works as an assassin at his mercenary company, Death's Contract, and makes weapons in his spare time.

## Appearance

Achilles wears his Knights of Nyx armor most of the time, due to it being nigh invulnerable and because Styxborne's skin can be poisonous. The armor is fashioned similar to that of a crusader, made out of dark Stygian Metal and red markings. His helmet has a visor which hides his facial features while allowing his red eyes to produce a menacing flare effect. Beneath the helm is the features of a dark elf, with white hair and black skin. Few has seen under his helmet and lived.

## Personality

As the son of Vengeance, Achilles has a thirst for blood. Killing people for a purpose gives Achilles a dopamine rush, a primary reason why he took up mercenary work. Achilles is very reckless at times, as he believes his invulnerable curse protects him from anything, although in some situations he forgets about his curse altogether. His Ichor, Wrath, gives him the strength to fell gods and complete invulnerability. He is rather flirtatious and he thinks of himself as a badass.

## Background

The firstborn child of Phaethon and Nemesis, but second youngest in his family, Achilles was his parent's son. With his father's warrior blood mixed with the Goddess of Revenge's ichor coursing through his veins, he was a bred warrior through and through. He mastered sword fighting at the age of 12, and was shooting bullseyes with plasma pistols by the time he finished high school. He was part of a elite task force called the Knights of Nyx. However, as Achilles came to learn, nothing ever goes the way you want it to. His good friend Priam was killed by his older sister Andromeda, forcing him to make the decision to banish her from Elysium. The Knights of Nyx were disbanded by this loss. His father died in the Blood War while Achilles was in college. Loss after loss hardened Achilles' heart, until he thought he could never love again...until a woman named Calypso walked into his life. The two were meant to be, he thought, and not too long after graduating college, he proposed to her and they became lovers. After graduating college, he went on to discover Stygian Energy, a secret element within the River Styx's waters that is essentially liquid power. Through a process of energy decomposition, reconfiguration and distribution he created the first Stygian Energy Caspule, used to power the first Phasesaber, another invention of his. He gifted 5 of these weapons to the remaining members of the Old Knights of Nyx, and together they formed the New Knights of Nyx. They forced the waves of criminals back to Tartarus, and Elysium rested in peace for a while. The calm was unnerving for Achilles, and one day, after discovering the legend of the Staircase, he decided that his next ambitious project would be a way to access the staircase, to bring more resources down from the surface world for the war effort.

The project, dubbed Project Orpheus, used intense amounts of Stygian Energy to create a portal to the surface world. Achilles worked endlessly on this project, rejecting his wife and pushing away everyone he knew. Once it was complete, he decided to test it on himself. He fired it up and stepped into the beacon of light. The machine shook the foundation of the earth, dislodging a capsule of Stygian Energy, which fell into the beacon with him. During his ascent, Achilles' divine blood and the Stygian Energy mingled, hardening his skin. The process started from the head down, turning him invulnerable. It was about to fully encase him, leaving only his heel untouched...until the machine overloaded and exploded, killing his lover who was residing in the house during the test run. Achilles was instantly thrust into the upper world, the invulnerability process not fully complete. His heel was his only weak spot, similar to that of the Greek Mythos. Achilles, sensing that his loved one was gone, tried to kill himself in grief. The energy blade sparked and shortened against his skin, unable to cut it. He tried using a knife, but it shattered against his skin. He concluded that he was invulnerable, and the gods have gifted him this ability as a curse for his hubris.