Barath (Minecraft)

*This article is about the character of The Altered Adventure Minecraft series. For his novel counterpart, see **Barath**.*

**Barath** the Barbarian, formerly known as the Fire Guardian, is a character on *The Altered Adventure* Minecraft series. He débuts in the seventh episode of the first volume. He is voiced by GizzyGazza.

## History

Before Gizzy's Arrival

Barath has a younger brother named Saga. Barath trains to become a soldier of King Alpha's, which earns him the title of Barath the Barbarian. ("The Grave Robbers", "The Future of Altered")

Barath is at Alpha’s side at his kingdom when they are discussing the Demon. When Elizabeth shows up, he isn't very friendly towards her, and makes many remarks towards her. They are debating whether to go into battle, and agree to do so. He becomes a close warrior to Alpha, the king of the Altered Universe. A war soon rises between Alpha's kingdom and a demon. He is surprised to see Witch already at Dawn's Opening. Barath participates in the war for the King's army. During the battle, The king is killed by a demon. His powers are split into four elements: fire, water, air and earth which are each given out to Barath, Elizabeth, Voice and Witch. Barath is given the fire element which changes appearance changes, as the element changes his skin to red. The war is won when the four are able to imprison the Demon inside the gates of the Prophecy.

They return to the kingdom where they discuss what they should do now. Voice suggests that they rule the land like King Alpha, and become known as the Guardian, to which the others agree to. The Guardians decide to never speak of the Prophecy again in case someone would try open it. Suddenly, Jen bursts into the room to see her husband, but is devastated when she learns that he died in the battle. They cheer her up by saying that they will bury his body at the Jungle of Hope.

Eventually, Barath becomes filled with sudden anger and hatred, driving him insane. It is killing him from the inside out, because he isn’t strong enough to maintain it. Elizabeth offers to help, but punches her. However with his new power, it causes an explosion, destroying the area and killing Elizabeth. Voice and Witch arrive shortly after, and execute Barath for treason. With two elements missing, they have to find two new guardians and quickly. Being the Nether Champion, Witch recruits Inferno to take Barath’s place. ("Origin")

After his death, Barath's soul moves on to the Spirit World, where he may be allowed to rest in peace for being a hero of Altered. Barath's body is buried with his hammer at an NPC Graveyard. During the years, multiple adventurers attempted to excavate the tomb, presumably in hopes of retrieving the hammer. It is unknown what happened, but the hammer stayed in the crypt and the adventurers may not have survived. ("The Grave Robbers", "The Spirit World")

Volume One

Another adventurer, Gizzy, digs up Barath's tomb and falls into the hole which makes him unconscious. When he wakes up, Gizzy finds a chest and takes the Barath Hammer that was inside of it. When he takes the hammer, Barath's spirit speaks to Gizzy and tells him to leave. He starts invading his mind, but is stopped when someone drops TNT in to the crypt. Gizzy manages to survive the explosion and escape the tomb with the Barath Hammer. ("The Grave Robbers")

The graveyard is visited by Cib, the person who dropped TNT in Barath's grave, to make sure Gizzy was dead. Upon entering the graveyard, Cib is haled by Barath's spirit. He starts inflicting pain on Cib, until a villager comes to help Cib. Barath, who is afraid of NPCs, stops the pain and leaves Cib alone. ("Deception")

Volume Three

Summoned by Voice, Elizabeth, Gypsy and himself, Gizzy is teleported to the Spirit World when he combines all four Prophecy items. In the strange dimension, Gizzy reunites with Voice and Gypsy, and meets Barath and Elizabeth in person. Barath asks if he can defeat him now since the Chosen One stole his precious hammer, but Voice denies the request claiming that there's more important stuff happening. Voice reveals that Witch has now teamed up with the Demon and the two will try to take over the universe together. The four spirits inform him that in order to actually slay the Demon, Gizzy must first obtain the King's Sword, as it was tainted with the Demon's blood in the first battle and is the only weapon that can kill it. The deceased heroes then teleport the current Air Guardian to King Alpha's home where the enchanted sword is located. ("The Spirit World")

## Physical appearance

### Normal

Barath has grayish skin. His eyes are black and his right eye has a red scar. He wears a lot of armor, which contains a diamond helmet with a black mohawk, diamond chestplate, diamond boots, two black sashes, gray and black chain shoulder armor, and black and gray gloves with a yellow marking. Besides armor, he also wears a black scarf and and pants.

### Angry

Barath looks the same as he was normal, but his colors are changed. His skin is red. His sashes, shoulder pads, gloves, and pants are also red.

## Personality

Barath was a bold and brave warrior. He was very loyal to the king because he pledges his life to him, and fell into despair when Alpha died at the battle. Barath was also very sexist to Elizabeth, believing that women could not be as great as men. He constantly made rude comments to Elizabeth. He also did not trust her. ("Origin")

After receiving the element, Barath became willed with hate, anger and confusion. Even though he could barely control his emotions, he bottled up all of his negativity and refused to let anyone help him. He instead decided to avoid people. Eventually, Barath became envious of the other Guardians for being able to control their elements while he could not. All of this anger would eventually be the Fire Guardian's downfall. On the other side of being a guardian, Barath understood his role of protecting the universe. He knew he was a very important person. However, it gave him a huge ego. Barath thought it was unjust of Witch and Voice to execute him because he was a Guardian who deserved better respect. ("Origin")

He had a strong relationship with his hammer and can be very possessive about it. He was extremely overprotective of his hammer and refused to let anyone else touch or use it. If he could, he would fight Gizzy for stealing his hammer. When Barath died, he became a very hostile spirit. He was still overprotective of his crypt where his hammer was buried in. He was savage against any intruders and attacked them with a red chant. According to Brayden, no one had survived the crypt until Gizzy arrived. ("The Grave Robbers," "Deception", "The Spirit World")

## Powers and abilities

* **Standard Guardian abilities:** As a Guardian, Barath possesses multiple unique powers attributed to all four Guardians of the universe.
	+ **Guardian detection:** Guardians are able to sense when another Guardian is nearby. ("Jekyll and Hyde")
	+ **Teleportation:** Guardians are able to teleport, meaning that they can move themselves or others instantaneously from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between. However, this power is limited as they can only teleport others once a full moon occurs, and they must wait another full moon until they can teleport again. On top of that, teleporting others to their location has a certain time limit, and when this time limit is reached, the teleported will return to their previous location. Also, Guardians can only teleport to location they've been to. ("Cruise", "Higher Rank", "Guardians vs Rebellions")
		- **Tracking teleportation:** Guardians can teleport to any person one desires to find, unless the target is in the presence of Lucky Blocks or holding a Pendant of Luck. ("Lucky Block Cavern", "The Power Born")
		- **Summoning:** Guardians are able to selectively summon other Guardians from any other location, at any time, to another specific location to host a type of meeting or trial. Although unclear, it seems that Guardians can only use their summoning powers at Cloud Temple. ("The Last Warning", "The Power Born")
	+ **Signature agreement:** Guardians are able to perform the signature agreement, a sacred bond, with another being. Should this agreement be broken by any of the participants in any way, shape or form, they will be punished by death. ("Cruise")
	+ **Respawn disabling:** When a player is killed by a Guardian, they're not able to respawn and remain permanently deceased. ("The Last Warning")
	+ **Storage sealing:** A Guardian's chest is specially sealed, making it impossible for someone to open it, except the owner, the other Guardians and former Guardians. ("Higher Rank")
* **Pyrokinesis:** As the Fire Guardian, Barath is able to use the Fire Element and can manipulate, shape and create fire, strong enough to damage a beast such as the Demon. ("Origin")

## Trivia

### On-Screen

* Barath has a fear or strong disliking of NPCs. ("Deception")

## Appearances

* The name Barath the Barbarian appears on a gravestone in "The Grave Robbers" and "Divine".