Brontes Gladius

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## Affiliation

### Occupation

White Brigade
Mage Defense Force (Former)

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**Brontes Gladius** 「ブロンテス グラディアス *Brontes Gladius*」 is a former member of the Spade Kingdom's Melee Division of the Mage Defense Force and is now one of the Apostles of the White Brigade.

## Appearance

Brontes is a dark skinned, middle-aged man who cuts an imposing figure due to his extreme height and the bulk of his muscles, making him dwarf normal humans. Overly top-heavy in build, he has a well-muscled torso with wide-set shoulders, thick arms, and legs

## Personality

Brontes is quite cold and apathetic, not hesitating to injure his own allies if irritated.

Although he is known to be a violent fighter, Brontes actions tend to be for the best. Brontes lives for battle, and enjoys a good fight more than anything.

## History

Brontes was born in the Spade Kingdom, and was raised by his parents who were members of the Mage Defense Force until he was 8 years old his parents sacrificed themselves to save royal family from an attack. Believing they died a truly heroic death, many supporters praised his parents for their action. Brontes however, was devastated by their deaths questioning the purpose of their actions that led them to their death.

In order to learn about this reason and to follow in their footsteps he be came a mage of the Obsidian Recondition Force after obtaining his grimoire. Even at a young age Brontes showed a natural talent in the art of his magic. He achieved numerous acomplishments that earned him praise and recongnition throughout the kigndom, being given highly dangerous missions and not expected to survive. He sought to earn the respect of others as the person with the most feats in battle. Many people in the kingdom believed he would become the next Division Commander very soon. Over time, Brontes lost sight in his purpose and became proud and overly confident in his abilities, having mastered his Earth Magic to staggering hights and still desired more and despite all his accomplishments, Brontes still sought more power.

At the height of his glory, the king and queen Orion and Lanira Erebus enabled him to undergo a tiral in obtaining one of the royal familys greatest tressures stored within the castle, the Earth Spirit, Gnome that he had spent centuries searching for a new worthy user to inherit it's powers, however nothing happening as he approached the scroll containing it, proving it has failed to acknoledge him as its master, surprising and disappointing Brontes looking to his leaders and majesties for support, only to be further dismayed when The king and queen shook their heads of another failed attempt of finding a worthy user of the spirit and returned him back to his duties.

Upon his return to duty, word has spread of his failed tiral and their cheers of priase turned to doubt and ridicule as people laughed and mocked him behind his back believing him to weaker then they had led to believe.

he overhears some people talking about Brontes' failed trial at a bar. He then walks up to them and frightens them away with a glare. While other Obsidian Recondition Force mages then repeatedly bashes Brontes, which makes him furious and provokes him into crushing them with his magic. Confused and outraged, Brontes laid waste to the town, leaving behind a trail of destruction in his fury before charging back to the royal castle in order to exact his revenge against the king and queen, blaming them for his current reputation along with his misguided waste of life surving under them with no real purpose.

He fought his way through the castle until he reached the thrown room where the king and queen awaited his arrival. Still furious that the king and queen had been the cause of his life of misery and did not hesitate to battle against them in a fight that left the entire castle to near ruin. During the fight, Brontes noticed one of the king and queens elder sons and saw prince as nothing more then leverage in the fight, Brontes then charged towards the young prince in an attempt to leave the pair in misery in order to gain the upper hand, however the king and queens urge to protect their child causes them to use the full extent of their magic, allowing them to overwhelm Brontes and lethally wounds him, ultimately defeating him.

There was nothing else to do but prevent such devastation from happening again and thrown into the kingdoms mostly heavily confined prison, sealing away his magic, leaving him in prison as punishment for his crimes against the royal family of the Spade kingdom where he spent the next few years of his life rotting away, cursing the royal family and all of spade kingdom. During his confindment, he was resented for his actions against the king and queen was constantly getting beaten by the prison guards and making up several excuses to not give him any food or proper aid.

One day as he was laying helplessly on the floor in a weakened state, he hear commotion from within the prison as the guards fought against the unknown intruder as they were easily slaughtered in their attempt. When a strange man breaks into his confined prison room and freed Brontes, promising power in order to obtain his revenge as he invited him to join the White Brigade. Vowing revenge and to become stronger in order to defeat the king and queen so that he could prove himself the strongest and to prove himself to be supireror to even the Earth Spirit, Gnome, he accepted the mans invitation and escaped the prision with him.

## Battle Prowess

### Magic

* **Earth Magic:** Brontes possesses this powerful magic attribute which allows him to generate and manipulate earth. This allows him turn the ground hard and to manipulate it as he wishes.
* He can freely shift the geography of any environment made of stone. He has absolute control over the environment, making him a formidable opponent.
* His earth that he controls is more durable than normal as it is nearly indestructible, impervious to intense heat, powerful blasts or slashes and nothing less than the power of an equal to Brontes can damage it.
* utilizing them as floating, omni-directional defense, and offense.
* being able to mold it into anything he wants.
* With this magic, Brontes is capable of feats of considerable power, as demonstrated by his ability to conjure avalanches. The range of his magic appears to be fairly long as well, with Brontes being able to remotely manipulate the earth found in a whole forest area.

Rising Fall
* **Creation Magic:**
	+ **Terra Guardian:**

### Abilities

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**:
* **Enhanced Speed**:
* **Enhanced Strength**:
* **Immense Magic Power**: As one of the highest ranking members of the White Brigade, Brontes possesses a tremendous amount of magic power. His large reserves allow him to cast two different spells at the same time with ease.

### Equipment

* **Grimoire:** Brontes possesses a spade grimoire that contains various earth-based magic spells.

Brontes' Grimoire