Daght

## **Daght, The Miner**

Behemoth of a man, Daght is an over 2 meters tall miner from West Shores region. He is powerfully built and incredibly strong, being able to kill Aranite Crawlers and break through enforced wooden doors with his bare hands. While he lacks dexterity, he more than makes up for it with his sheer strength, size, durability and most importantly, his great patience. He is familiar with many mining tools, from simple pickaxes to advanced Seran Drills and can weaponize them if necessary.

Daght is a genle giant - he refrains from violence, unless he must defend himself or his friends, and tries to promote positivity and self-discipline whenever he can. He often diminishes his own deeds he’s known for to not came out as arrogant.

## **Story**

Daght has many grim memories related to the day when he became a hero for his people. He was on his break in the Aranite ore depot when a distress call came from one of the newest and deepest shafts. The miners must have either found something or have their equipment fail, and regardless of the reason, Daght was one of the first to go down to help them. He and other miners took spare tools, lamps and healing supplies just in case, but they could not be prepared for what awaited them down there. Their ride down was quiet. Tense. The silence before the storm.

When they arrived to the new shaft, they were greeted by darkness. Pitch black primal darkness of the underground, with no one answering their calls. They moved forwards slowly, unsure what to expect, growing more and more terrified with every next body they found. Something has killed the poor miners and destroyed all lights in the shaft. His friends wanted to go back for reinforcements, but Daght pressed on, hoping to find any survivors. Not long after, he did - few men has barricaded themselves in a storage room, and as soon as Daght and his team approached, they cried in terror and urged for all lamps to be turned off. The survivors only had one lamp still lit, tucked in the corner.

What followed, none of these few who came back to the surface can clearly remember.

The walls came to live. Creatures with stone shells and way too many legs came from every direction, swarming the unprepared miners, devouring the scattered ore and rushing to extinguish all light there was. Daght fought them back, as did everyone else, but only few of them could fight their way to the elevators, with Daght ripping and tearing all stone-covered monsters with his pickaxe, and when it broke, with his bare hands. When he was back on the surface with healers tending to his wounds, Daght was still holding the last lamp from the lost shaft. An eternal reminder of this dreadful day.

He was known and respected in his town before, but after that day the entire region has heard about him as the hero of his people. Daght however did not cared about fame at all, and as soon as his wounds were healed, he returned to his work in the depths of the Aranite Mine, gathering the magic-conductive metal. The stone worms, which appeared to be a previously undiscovered species were called the Aranite Crawlers, and kept coming back to attack the miners, but from that day on the miners were prepared. Years passed since the Crawlers first attacked, but Daght still keeps that lamp. And just like that day he is always the first to fight the Crawlers.

## **In-game**

Daght is a begginer friendly fighter with great defensive capabilities and high teamfight impact. Bugbait forces his enemies to fight him first, but it's important to note that he still can be killed, so one should not taunt everyone recklessly.

Abilities
 Skullsplitter
 Bugbait

## **Trivia**

* Daght was the first playable human character with any facial hair.
* Daght's visual theme was partially inspired by classic fantasy dwarves.
* His in-game description, while in development, was a parody of Slayer's Testament 1 from DOOM 2016.
* Before a minor rework in update 3.1 Skullspliter cound hit multiple enemies, but instead dealing damage it granted +1.5 damage for 2 attacks.