Charcarrion

Multi Attack (4)

### Death Sounds

The Charcarrion is a large, semi-humanoid creature and is one of the three bosses of The Orpheum. It is an endurance fight that focuses on positioning and wearing away at your party's maximum health.

 Cleave the Left
 Marrow Lust
 Body Scream
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## Lore

* The Charcarrion's race were once the dominate species in Purgatory, the Charcarrion is the last known remnant of that time. Charcarrion made a deal with an unknown demonic entity to become "immortal" and protect his species from oblivion. However over time erosion slowly ground his people into dust leaving him a lone wanderer of Purgatory. After eons the strength of the deal has waned and his resurrections are now incomplete, rendering him crippled and mentally destroyed by untold centuries of agony.
* "The Charcarrion" - a hideous name for a being once heralded as the summit of beauty and honor. Before the time of humans there was another race, a race of scholarly giants which reveled in arts, sciences, and philosophies unknown. Purgatory was their world; they built cities and mounted a force strong enough to repel even an Ungod. Ultimately their mortal counterparts went extinct, and without reproduction within Purgatory, entropy began to claim them. The Charcarrion, adorned in crowns of bronze, made a deal with a Demon for the strength to protect his kind as long as possible in turn for his undying body becoming the Demon's new home. He reigned as the deathless king and fought the hand of entropy for what mortal minds would fathom as an eternity. When the last of his kind turned to dust in his arms, rendered now but a barely-conscious worm of bone, he knew he had failed, but the pact with the Demon was forever. When you weep, weep for the beast now known as the Charcarrion, for he houses not a demon, but the kind of love only a Messiah could know.

## Death Quotes

**Bosch**When the Charcarrion resurrects it removes Scars from the two party members infront of it, take advantage of this!**Bosch**When the Charcarrion is "dead", strike as hard as you can. You'll thank me later.**Bosch**Bring smaller parties when fighting the Charcarrion; large parties will get annihilated.

## Trivia

* The Charcarrion was originally designed for Talia Mair's final student project Robo-Rapture at Vancouver Film School. The Charcarrion was cut due to time constraints but would have been a mini-boss with a focus on being able to sacrifice maximum health to heal. The Robo-Rapture team was depressed that the Charcarrion needed to be cut but Talia promised the Charcarrion would live again. This promise was and inspiration for the Charcarrion's resurrection mechanic.
* The Charcarrion's name is portmanteau of charred and carrion, this name was inspired by portmanteau names of enemies in DOOM II such as the Mancubus. Charred was chosen as the Charcarrion's encounter originally incorporated fire that would erupt from the bones sticking out of his shoulders.
* The Charcarrion resurrection mechanics was partially inspired by Talia's immense fondness for "victory lap boss phases" where the boss has essentially been defeated but the fight continues. Particularly the ends of the Roland van Buckingham and Arnold Sphitz boss fights from Lisa the Pointless were key inspirations.
* The Charcarrion was thematically inspired by the episode "A Human Work" of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. In "A Human Work" the titular Evangelions, which are initially presented to the audience as giant robots but turn out to biological in nature, face off against a genuine giant robot that greatly resembles what the the audience assumed the Evangelion's were. Similarly Brutal Orchestra begins with Nowak making a deal with Bosch who is presented as a demon/devil but in truth is not. The Charcarrion parallels this by being a creature that actually has made a deal with a demon. This demon now resides within the Charcarrion's chest.
* The Charcarrion's head is heavily inspired by the "face" of the 14th angel Zeruel from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
* The Charcarrion is capable of communication and can actually speak simple English and several other human languages but is now too mentally destroyed to speak.
* The "blood realm" the Charcarrion summons upon resurrecting is a sea of the remains and viscera of his people. Mentally the Charcarrion is in that strange realm at all times, with it only being rendered visible to those who witness the demon's cruel miracles.
* The "blood realm" is heavily inspired by the Eclipse a deeply disturbing event from manga Berserk.
* The shadowy Charcarrion silhouettes that stand in the background of the "blood realm" are actually present before the world becomes the "blood realm". Lightening strikes will often reveals parts of their floating positions.
* The Charcarrion is without doubt the most morally pure of Brutal Orchestra's bosses.
* The name of the attack body scream is taken from an unreleased poem written by Talia Mair. The poem is a sort of short story about a cruel man who wants to witness a person's body and not mind or "soul" scream revealing that the body and mind were separate entities this entire time.
* Fighting Charcarrion in his prime would be kind of like fighting Jesus
* Due to Charcarrion missing his lower half he is forced to take a quadrupedal stance, however originally his species walked on two legs, and only ran on all fours
* The shoulder bones on the Charcarrion are a hold over from the Robo Rapture design where the Charcarrion could scream and then shoot itself across the map in a straight line by shooting a huge plume of fire out of those bones. In Brutal Orchestra they are kinda meant to convey that the insides of the Charcarrion are being just as scrambled as the outside, so bones jut out of places they shouldn’t.
* The Charcarrion is meant to Mirror Nowak and Bosch, revealing what a deal with a real demon would look like.
* Before the Egg of Incubus update Charcarrion used to apply Frail, in a way this role got moved to the Unfinished Heir

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 e
2. ↑ Steam Trading card
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/gOz0tZ-EO14
4. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/483793457098522645/879230601947930654/1007015631243190313
5. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/483793457098522645/879230601947930654/1012810638772424776
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqMpNvZHzR4