Teridax

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**Teridax** is the pseudonym of an extremely powerful mutated being and former leader of the Twilight Sun.

## History

### Early Life

Teridax was born as a Great Being within an Unnamed Alternate Universe. Like the rest, he was eccentric with creation and later discovered Energized Protodermis. He attempted to make beings with it, however the other Great Beings heavily disliked this research and wanted to confiscate it. Teridax then hid his work but after a thief broke in and attempted to pilfer the files, Teridax was mutated for the first time, as he was exposed to the Energized Protodermis. He donned a cloak to say that he was deformed after the thief attack him. The thief's employer also attacked him but using his newly gained strength from the mutation easily shredded their traps. At some point he touched the Kanohi Ignika and was cursed for it. For the crime of touching the Ignika, he was exiled by use of the Kanohi Olmak. However before this happened, he disappeared from the holding cell he was in. For his own purposes, he smuggled a piece of hardware into his cell to tinker with.

### Planeswalker

His Exile and his recent mutation gave him enough stress to activate his planeswalker spark and it allowed him to travel through worlds. At some point he changed his name to Teridax, was fused to a Golden Being and a Makuta, in which he was able to override their other minds with the knowledge he had of the multiverse, mutated again into the Aetherdermis being you know today, and joined with a gang of mercenaries.

### Mercenary of The Twilight Sun

Teridax joined a group of Mercenaries known as the Twilight Sun which was composed of people named Isabelle, Daniel, Ethan, Joseph, Alex, Drey, and Deron. Teridax considered them friends greatly however, an encounter with Zyglak resulted in everyone's death, save Teridax because Teridax hesitated for a fatal second. Teridax then went into rage, killing Zyglak and began hunting each of them down. After a few years, he got tired of anger and was filled with sadness. He then met Botar, a fellow planeswalker and journeyed through the worlds. The Melding of the Nexus occurred during this time and severely weakened Teridax's power.

### New Enclave

Later on, Teridax encounters the New Enclave without Botar, a group of remnants of Enclave soldiers. He helps them and allies with them. Teridax then leaves out of boredom.

### Calamity

Teridax appears into the Calamity world with an illusion of Ralsei and constructed a cabin for his own purposes, which later became our main base. He later removed the illusion and revealed his some of his secrets. He later installed ORIGIN which he renamed it to NEGIS.

## Abilities

As a gaseous form of Aetherdermis, he had to be encased within a suit of armor. This mutation into a state of energy gave many advantages to Teridax; because of his new form, he didn't need to eat, sleep, breathe, get tired, drink, and were harder to wound. A major weakness to Teridax's new form was that if the shell was broken, his essence will leak out, and eventually dissipate, killing him. He could also possess soulless beings and robots with his essence. Teridax had the Kraata powers of the Makuta who was fused to him, including the power to produce a Shadow Hand. The Golden Being's power was Dream Realization, however Teridax feared this power and never uses it. Teridax specifically uses Shadow as a point to show that Shadow isn't evil, but more amoral.

## Traits

As a Great Being, he had a large amount of knowledge and creativity that he used for building and formulating plans. Teridax's mind was highly unstable; he often had a warped sense of reality. He had a knack of being sarcastic, usually because he wishes to save the sanity he still has, even though it doesn't actually help. He despises those who think shadow is evil and light is good and even vice versa. He simply sees them as amoral, as both are used by others and isn't responsible for the user's actions.

## Tools and Weapons

Teridax has a large selection of weapons, he however prefers to use his Spear of Fusion and his Rhotuka Launcher. He wears the Kanohi Kraahkan with a few fused masks. He also has a supply of the material that responds to thought, originally used to build the Valley of the Maze.

## Trivia

* Despite being exiled by his home world, he still heavily uses its technology i.e. Rhotuka Spinners, Kanohi Kraahkan, and Spear of Fusion.
* Teridax does have a true name, however Animus Viral has no plans for revealing it for the fact that he got a lot of backlash last time. Originally, only ORIGIN/NEGIS knows his true name but that was deleted in the story later on.
* He greatly believes in the belief that darkness doesn't automatically equate to evil (just as light doesn't automatically equate to good), and, along with its opposite (as demonstrated by the various Dark elemental characters like Bubby/Reborn Lavin/Darkness, and the Light Doom Raider Luminous/Fae Eclipse/Bill Cipher), it can be used for either good or evil (depending on the user's intentions).
* Teridax's idle theme is H.A.Y by Clarx and NCS
* Teridax's battle theme is Panic Track by Remi Gallego but remixed by Jhauty Game.