Eric

* Human Form
* Withered Form

**Eric** is a protagonist and anti-villain of NETHER WAR being the second anti-villain after Jack, as well as a Villain in NETHER TITAN.

## Personality

Eric basically suffers from a conflicting split personality due to his witherkin race and corruption, carrying a human side and a wicked side. on his perverse witherkin side he is someone who kills by his instinct, his desire and his pleasure, being someone evil and sadistic. while on his human side he is someone who carries remorse for his own reign because he did not want to be King of the Wither Kingdom and regrets it by loving humanity.

## Lore

Eric was born as a witherkin in the normal world and came to be hated by the villagers for his part wither between his left eye until he was banished from the normal world for giving rise to a whiter in a flower that he corrupted by touching it and then in the nether he was raised by piglins thanks to a Baby Piglin who picks him up and was in the piglin kingdom until he tries to retain a wither skeleton which stops when he learns that he is a witherkin and puts himself at his service, and when the baby piglin protects him he is accidentally killed by the wither skeleton that protects Eric making the piglins hate him too, and he ran away until he couldn't stand the suffering anymore and blinds himself with revenge. then at one point he leads the wither species and takes the piglin throne but feels empty and lonely at the same time.

## Story

He appears facing Alex and Steve but with a wither mask and a few minutes after the fight they discover that he is a human (Or rather a witherkin) but he decides to shoot them down with flames anyway and catches Steve along with the piglins and then he sees Steve to then remember his dark past. at one point when Steve discovers that Eric is the king of the Wither Kingdom with no alternatives he orders Steve to be executed, which he later regrets but the execution is stopped by Alex shooting at Eric who flees. then he is seen in the castle and he confronts Alex and Steve corrupted and makes this quite difficult but it comes to a point where Eric starts to cease but then he gets aggressive again and at one point he almost kills Alex but this makes Steve desperate blinding him and causing him to become too violent towards Eric before falling into a lava cliff but is picked up by Steve who recovers from his anger before he fell into the lava but where Steve hangs on it begins to crumble and Eric lets go presumably dying in the lava to later be seen coming out of it surviving thanks to a fire resistance potion but more corrupted now.

## Abilities

* **Pyrokinesis:** While he only does this for a few soul fire creation tools, Eric can use fire as both a weapon and propellant.
* **Putrefaction:** Eric left rot on a poppy flower which in turn created a Wither skeleton.

## Weapons

* **Thrower:** This is Eric's main weapon. It's fuel tank is composed of netherite and there are four dispensers connected on it. It can shoots soul fire and soul fireballs.
* **Netherite Sword**

## Appearances

1. NETHER WAR
2. NETHER TITAN
3. The Epic Rescue of HEROBRINE

## Gallery

Eric with crownEric with wither maskEricEric's withered formEric's thrower
## Trivia

* Eric was the first opponent that angered Steve
* Eric is certainly the opposite of Isaac because of the following things
	+ Although both were banished from their respective peoples, Isaac was left literally alone until he found Steve, while Eric had a friend in the nether, which was the baby piglin who picked him up.
	+ While Isaac is a cryokinetic Illager who was the disappointment of the iceologers due to his low control of cryokinesis, Eric was the disgrace to the villagers due to his wither curse and his connection to the wither skeletons and later controls fire in a form excellent with some soulfire creation tools.
	+ On the one hand, Isaac is in Steve's debt even though his people killed his kind, and on the other hand, Eric ends up being totally corrupted after falling into the lava, plotting revenge.