Hector Valorion

Hector Valorion is a former slave and founding member of ***Nerovana***. He is a Warlock who serves the fiend known as ***Rinath***. Scarred by his traumatic past, he has vowed to live life to the fullest and make up for the time he lost.

After the first campaign, Hector was made aware that he was the bastard son of King Tubar Orilai the 1st, the father of the current King of Concord, who passed away in the End Times as a result of the Demon of War's actions. After the first campaign, and during the second campaign, he has taken the throne as King Valorion of Concord.

Hector has been one of the main protagonists of the first campaign, having played an important part in every arc to date.

## Appearance

Hector has long and messy black-grayish hair. He only has one horn due to the other being removed as a result of physical trauma. He has a long unkempt dark beard. His face and body have scars from the punishment he faced during his tenure as a slave.

#### 'Disguise'

Hector recently has shaven his beard cleanly, but he grew stubble. He then (more recently) had his hair dyed a bright pink (albeit without his consent), which arguably makes him more noticeable than before, but one cannot recognize him as Hector Valorion unless they compare the scars between him and his wanted poster. This was very recently applied in Session 83, and has yet to be reversed.

## Personality

Hector is a reserved, serious individual. He is a guarded person who does not open up to people easily due to his everlasting trauma from him being a slave for over a decade. After he's spent a long time with amicable people and has warmed up to them, he becomes more talkative and outgoing, as is the case with ***Nerovana.***

Hector's alignment is best described as being **chaotic neutral**. He's not evil but doesn't go out of his way to do good. He could care less about laws, preferring to accomplish missions through whatever means necessary.

Hector's greatest hatred is towards those who have put him in constant torment and made him suffer a terrible upbringing: ***slavers***. He has no sympathy towards anyone who even affiliates with slavers in the slightest. He is even willing to kill the children of slavers, as shown by when he killed the two children of slavers during ***Nerovana***'s raid of a slave house in Jalook. To him, slavers aren't people.

## Synopsis

Hector was part of the first four original members of ***Nerovana***, meeting Nero first and then meeting Geiser and Thestalos aboard the slave ship in Jalook where they were captured. At first, Hector was extremely reserved and tended to ignore the others. As they adventured, accomplished quests, and fought together more, he opened up, becoming more talkative. He was part of the first ***Nerovana*** musical performance, playing the guitar in the band's performance of "Smells Like Dwarven Spirit."

Hector was part of the mayor's mission to kill/drive away the wolf (which turned out to be an oni). The mayor then informed the party of the wolf fiend's location of summoning. There they met a man with an odd sword made of muscle. The man turned out to be part of a demon race named ***Orgotts***, sending the party to ***Shetoq***. The party had to strike a deal with Hector's patron, ***Rinath***, giving part of ***Nero Mumei***'s "heart" in exchange for exit back to ***Psammosil***. Once they were back they rushed to the mayor's house, only to find that he was killed by an Orgott who was still in the house. They engaged him in combat and killed him. The party ran away from the town due to the town's citizens believing that the party was responsible for the mayor's death.

Hector was present with the rest of the party during the Destruction of Mountalios. He stopped Remus in her rampage. He ventured into the city to find Nero, but was caught in roots caused by Aregon. He was saved along with the rest of the party by a sudden explosion that sent them away.

Later on, Hector suggested ***Remus*** go find her long lost childhood crush, ***Leonard***. Once they reunited, however, Hector was forced to watch as Remus was put on trial for impersonation. Hector used suggestion to cause an indecisive jury, giving Remus a retrial. In the retrial, Remus called up Hector to the stand. On the stand, Hector was cross-examined shortly. The trial ended once more indecisively.

Hector tagged along with the rest of the party to kill the ***Demon of Sound*** as part of Remus' plea agreement with the ***Secret Adventurers' Guild***. He was knocked out in the middle of the battle, but the battle still ended in a ***Nerovana*** victory. Upon returning to the base from the battle, they were forced to evacuate on an airship when Shetoq invaded. There they helped an innocent group of people take refuge before leaving to ***Jalook***, where they raided a slavers' house and rescued some slaves. Hector had a confrontation with Remus due to his killing of the children of slavers, nearly erupting into a fight.

Hector accepted the quest to retrieve the ***Book of Arihomagni*** from the ***Fey King's Court*** for the ***Demon of War***. He went through all 6 layers in the ***Fey Realm*** before retrieving the book from the ***Fey King***. They returned to Jalook and handed the book to the demon. However, the demon instantly turned on the party as an all out Shetoq invasion reigned down on the city of Jalook, multiple demons from multiple realms pouring out, including the ***Demon of Hatred***. Hector gained a power-up, fighting hard with the rest of the party against the demon. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough, and he was unwillingly dragged away by Remus and Thestalos, passing out on the land of wherever they ended up.

Upon waking up, Hector and the party found themselves in a strange, unfamiliar land. Exploring around the land, they came to realize that they were in ***Abelis***, the long time enemy of ***Concord.***

## Abilities

Hector has demonstrated various abilities that allow him to combat the many otherwordly and dangerous foes Nerovana is forced to face.

This Abilities portion is based on in-lore strength, not D&D abilities. It will not mention any in-game mechanics, but merely his in-lore abilities.

### Superhuman Attributes

#### Superhuman Strength

Hector's strength has been shown to be at supernatural levels. He is strong enough to cleave a being in half, and push his falchion right through bone and muscle. This alone is not a major feat, but he also has the capability to slam his own fist right through his chest and rip out his very own heart, meaning he could do the same to other individuals if he was desperate enough to do so. His strength has not been backed up by many feats, but during the invasion of Jalook, when he received a power-up thanks to his patron, he was capable of dishing out attacks that toppled buildings and obliterated clean through the walls of the city. Every building in Jalook was mostly made up of intensely hardened clay, hard as metal, which would be almost impossible to break with your bare hands or a simple swing of your sword, which goes to show that his ability to obliterate entire buildings just through the power of his singular attacks.

#### Superhuman Speed

Hector is intensely and surprisingly fast, despite his muscular stature. He is able to match veteran assassins and high-tier demons blow-for-blow, even blocking and countering some. His speed is only enhanced by his strength, allowing him to rush towards people at immense speed, slashing them before they have a chance to even react. His speed was only further augmented during the invasion of Jalook, when he was able to fly right across the entire city in a matter of moments. Jalook is one of the larger cities in the world of Psammosil, spanning tens of thousands of square feet. Despite this, he is still not as fast as Remus Arthur in footspeed or Nero in combat speed.

#### Superhuman Durability

Hector has taken beatings that would kill your average human 3 times over, and he has still stayed standing. He is able to take blows that would render novice adventurer's unconscious or worse without flinching, and he is able to continue fighting despite debilitating wounds, such as having his skin melted by acid, or having a hole through his gut, or even having his arm hanging half off. During the invasion of Jalook, he was capable of taking attacks from the Demon of Hatred, a Demon who was able to blow buildings away with a simple punch, whilst the Demon of Hatred was going for killing blows.

#### Superhuman Precision

Perhaps the most notable 'attribute' of Hector's. His precision is honed immensely. He is capable of landing direct attacks on people in fatal points of the body with deadly precision, but this is what makes him also a deadly ranged opponent. He is capable of unleashing blasts of hellfire with accuracy that allows him to pinpoint fatal zones on the body of a being, taking it down quickly with the beams of hellfire. He can shoot the Origami Bow, which has an intensely long range, and is often capable of landing 90% of his shots out of the bow.

### Supernatural Abilities

As a Warlock, Hector has supernatural abilities that allow him to gain an edge on his opponents. Some of these abilities also come from various other means, such as spiritual energy, or God Marbles.

#### Hellfire Manipulation

Hector has displayed the ability to manipulate the flames of Shetoq to garner various effects. His go-to attack is to fire a beam of hellfire at opponents, firing holes clean through their bodies, cauterizing the wounds on the way through. He is also able to form circles of hellfire, unleash massive explosions of it onto people hit by his hellfire beams, and even coat himself and others with it to enable flight.

His natural aptitude for this ability allows him to use it for various magical means that assist him and his team in various situations, such as his aforementioned ability to induce flight onto people through Hellfire. This makes Hector an indispensable member of Nerovana.

#### Ice Manipulation

After he consumed the God Marble of the God of Ice, Hector has gained the ability to turn into, create, and manipulate ice. This has led to various techniques of his development, such as Ice Kingdom, which allows him to freeze the entire ground around him in a large circle, locking any opponents right to the floor. He also employs this to produce armor over his body to defend against attacks, or to produce spikes to deal surprising attacks and backstabs through the floor. Through his ability to turn into ice, he can also nullify damage done to him, as any damage done to him when he is turned into his element does nothing. He can also use this ability to form ice 'slides' to slide across the ground for mobility.

He has displayed great knowledge and creativity with this ability, and this has allowed him to keep up with the rest of his teammates in Nerovana.

#### String Manipulation

Hector consumed the String God Marble, allowing him to create and manipulate strings into various shapes. He can control the type of sting, and the properties of it, such as how malleable it is, and the colors of it. He most often employs this ability to utilize his Unique Spiritual Technique, which is a mixture of two techniques; Psychophant and Psykofant. He channels his Spiritual Energy through the strings to utilize these techniques. His manipulation is absolute, allowing him to form complex shapes through this power, although he has not used this much.

#### Supernatural Heart

Although not really an 'ability', Hector's heart is supernatural and odd as a result of an unknown event or pact. He is able to rip his blackened heart out of his body, turning it into an amorphous material to coat himself in an armor made from it, or to cover his falchion in it, causing it to extend slightly and deal more damage. He is capable of living with his heart ripped clean out of his chest, meaning that even if someone were to rip it out of his chest, so long as it isn't fully destroyed, he can continue to live without it. This makes him a dangerous opponent as someone could rip his heart out, and believe him to be dead, but he would instead be unharmed besides the hole in his chest.

### Spiritual Abilities

#### Unique Spiritual Control

This refers to his unique form of spiritual control like every being possesses. Hector unleashes immense amounts of his spiritual energy, unlike the majority of people who unleash a small, slow, wavering amount. His spiritual energy can only be described as rushing water, like a river, as opposed to the average slightly flowing lake someone possesses. Whenever he uses Spiritual Techniques, he unleashes larger amounts of spiritual energy into it. This is the reasoning that when he was first learning Hardening, he produced hundreds of dots of hardened skin across his arm instead of patches of it, due to the fact he was unleashing a high amount of unregulated spiritual energy. This can both be an advantage and a disadvantage, as his Spiritual Techniques have much more power, but they reduce his spiritual energy massively.

#### Hardening

Hector is capable of using Hardening to harden portions of his body to a hardness rivaling metal, allowing him to dish out and take attacks that would normally shatter bone or destroy muscles. He can also imbue his weaponry with spiritual energy and harden it to enhance it and make it more durable as well.

#### Overclocking / Empowered State

Hector is able to accelerate his mental processes to facilitate accelerated motions and perceptions, enabling the processing and actuation of biophysical activities at extreme speeds, such an effect causing the world to stand still in comparison to his purview of it. This process is accomplished by stimulating neurochemical activity and blood pressure, speeding up sensory awareness and thought process enabling vastly hyper-active movement at speeds many times faster than other individuals. This is done through imagining his spiritual energy firing throughout his body like lightning from a cloud at the center of his chest.

As well as seeing, hearing, and thinking at approximately several times faster than average, such an effect also speeds up the cardiovascular activity for the purpose of augmenting strength, toughness, endurance and/or otherwise, making Hector more physically able in the process.

##### Loud Heartbeat

Thanks to his Overclock ability, Hector's heartbeat speeds up when it is active, and begins to beat loudly, producing a sound reminiscent of a loud drum being slammed. This sound is so loud that it can be heard by people around, potentially intimidating them.

### Mental

#### Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Hector has something akin to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Having spent his whole life up until a few weeks before the beginning of the campaign as a slave, Hector has seen and experienced things that most people couldn't even comprehend. He has seen his friends hung, shot, beheaded, or tortured until they were begging for death. He has been tortured in many ways, including but not limited to; whipping, bludgeoning, and even being viciously beaten to the point where he was permanently scarred. This is what led to his complete, unfaltering hatred for slavers and people who believe they own others. This is a weakness in the way that it can be exploited by his enemies, but may also lead to decisions that can change the course of things, such as when he killed two young children who were raised by slavers without regret, remorse, or even a moment's thought. Originally, if anything pertaining to slavery was mentioned to Hector, he would become extremely quiet and have flash backs to the days he was a slave. More recently, Hector has chosen to quit reflecting on his past, but his anger against slavers has not relented in any way. He still, to this day, has not spared a single slaver that has passed his path, besides ones who managed to escape him.

### Physical

#### Post-Overclock Sickness

After using his Overclock ability, Hector can become extremely sick through over use. This causes many of his bodily functions to be uncoordinated, causing slow movement, heart palpitation, and even inducing vomit. If Hector overuses Overclock too much, he could possibly even be incapacitated for hours, if not days on end.

#### Recognizable Appearance

Hector suffers from an extremely recognizable appearance due to his peculiar horns (having one intact one, and one that is almost entirely broken), as well as his generally intimidating build and facial structure. The scars across his face and his body also make him recognizable, as well as his hair, which is often unkempt and scruffy, with a large beard as well.