Kedric Castellon

> "*I’m truly sorry for your existence, a slave to an unending war, in that we share no difference at all. Not you, not me, and not anybody in this universe is truly free.*"
> ― Kedric Castellon, 58 P.T.
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**Kedric Castellon** was a Metahuman and Military Officer of the Vortex, more specifically, a Viceroy. During Legacy, he was tasked with finding an instrument to destroy Humanity, which he carried out by leading the occupation of the Western Apollonir and the acquisition of the Dagger of Skavann.

## **Appearance**

Kedric is of average height, relatively muscular and angelic-esque in appearance. He has long and silky white hair which he keeps in a bun, with a bang falling from the side of his face, brown eyes (with an unnatural orange outline, which makes them look like an eclipse) and a fine nose.

He usually wears a set of white robes, akin to that of the romans, and sandals. However, when in deployment he uses the standard Vortex Officer uniform with a military hat. During his fight in the Liberation of Avan, Castellon also donned a red crown made of blood and had the Dagger imbued with his right arm.

## **Personality**

Castellon is a charismatic, poetic and usually soft-spoken individual. He is notably very calm, but that facade usually changes when challenged or disturbed, bringing out a brutal and despotic side to his personality. Kedric is also known for his intelligence, and his ability to manage large operations all on his own.

He is also an immaculate combatant, both with his Paralysis ability and hand-to-hand combat, this power is even greater when weilding the powers of the Dagger of Skavann. His personality can also be described as that of a mediator, usually being willing to hear out the opinions of his subordinates, and even his enemies during battle.

## **Biography**

### **Iron Nations: Legacy**

#### **Deployment to the Orion Dimension**

In early 46 P.T., Viceroy Castellon was ordered by Leader Pegasus to mobilize from his administrative role in The Praetorium to the volatile Orion Dimension to meet up with two of his old colleagues. Once he arrived at Conqueror Base in the Far North, him and his comrades (Norgaard Slovknet and Kassandra Scippius) were briefed on the mission to find an artifact to destroy Humanity, which he gladly accepted.

After the meeting, Castellon discussed an idea he had concocted during the conference to his friends, which consisted of seeking out a relic in the planet of Skavann which allowed for its weilder to create an infinite amount of Metahumans. He proposed the idea of building a Metahuman Army capable of destroying Sol, starting with the Apollonir Systems. Norgaard agreed with the plan, while Kassandra declined the offer and instead decided to go on her own hunch. However, before preparations to commence an assault to the Apollonir could begin, Norgaard was sent off to search for the Ruby Sword of Enton, with his death at the hands of Henry Davis halting the operation.

The Viceroy and the Marshal would both have to wait even longer, when in 50 P.T. their operation was once again stopped to favor Chimaera Agent Kondo's Plan to create a galactic cataclysm with the help of the Sicarii prophet Laikana and the dark god Scotus. When Operation Pioneer came to a close, Castellon and Scippius continued with their planning for their respective operations, giving priority to the Viceroy's Plan.

In 54 P.T., Castellon hired the mercenaries Leone Romano and Kross in order for them to find the Dagger while he made an appeal to Pegasus for the command of a light dreadnought, an army and a fleet for a takeover of the Western Apollonir.

#### **Fall of the Western Apollonir**

Three years later, he would acquire both the relic and the order of command, launching a sudden attack on the Western Apollonir, capturing the entire region and setting up base in the capital planet of Avan. So in 57 P.T., while his fleet fought border skirmishes with the URO's disorganized forces, he brainwashed Romano with the Dagger and ordered him to form a team of the best mercenaries to protect the Vortex assets in the region.

In 58 P.T., a full year after the takeover, Romano had formed a team of ten elite mercenaries which Castellon had a complete control over. In the meantime, he had also hidden the light dreadnought under a new district of the capital city of Avan, ready to be launched for the next step in his plan. While he continued expanding his personal guard of Metahumans, a TDO team led by Elizabeth Jäger would infiltrate the region and begin a campaign to rescue Governor General Silva who was under imprisonment in the Administration Building. Shortly after the deaths of Vontross, Porcaro and Speiser in Tellorium, Castellon caught wind of the situation and would order Romano and his team to mobilize in order to hunt down and kill the "insurgents."

A few weeks later, the Administration Building would be breached, with Castellon ordering Romano to kill the agents and the Governor General. After the subsequent assaults to the Starship Port, the Military Headquarters and the convoy on Avan's Jungle Moon, Pegasus would pressure Castellon to put down the insurrection. Following the tracks of Jäger, Lohart and Blanca to Pentelicus, the Viceroy and Commander Romano would intercept the team as they sent a signal outward regarding the dreadnought situation and the incoming assault to Apollo. While the mercenary Esseno fought with the terran soldiers, Castellon swiftly defeated Lohart and stabbed him with the Dagger, effectively making him a new servant and using his disoriantated berserk state to pitch him against Romano.

After saving Romano from near death three times, Lohart finally came to his senses and fled, while the Viceroy and the wounded Romano left Pentelicus after disposing of Esseno, who had broken free from Castellon's dagger control. Once the incident in Pentelicus was over, the Viceroy ordered the entire fleet to be recalled to the regional capital to defend the planet from the incoming onslaught from TDO forces. Three days later, the Liberation of Avan would begin and while his fleet clashed with General Roux's fleet in orbit, he sent out Romano to eliminate Angelo's Team. Encouranging and furthering his control over the mercenary, Castellon amplified Romano's bomb ability after his critical defeat at the hands of Admiral Jäger and Lt. Colonel Alexa von Osus, which allowed him to fight for a while longer before finally being killed by Lohart's annihilation ability.

Preparing for the storming of the Administration Building, Castellon imbued himself with the dagger and started losing a grip of his sanity, but in exchange gaining power over all the metahuman mutations he had distributed to the defunct elite team. When his fight with the Orion soldiers began, he used his paralysis to stop both Elizabeth and Theo while he fought with Angelo, whom he finished off with an explosion. He then fought Jäger and Lohart simultaneously, pinning the former with Strummer's gravity mutation and freezing the latter with his paralysis. Attempting to use the Dagger to force the MUQ soldier to kill the commando, the Viceroy was interrupted by Angelo, who had activated his innate ability of revival and lost his right arm to the Ranger's Aegis Blade. His sanity was finally broken when he saw Blanca's left eye, imbued with the eye of Luigi Fox, Devil of Terra, and the symbols of the Fourth Son of Scotus. Soon, Elizabeth broke free from his ability as his connection to the Dagger was severed, being defenestrated from his office by the TDO commando and finally being sliced apart with both Angelo's Aegis and her wristblade.

## **Abilities**

### **Paralysis**

Castellon's original Metahuman power made him capable of freezing up to two people/objects in place by yelling their names or the words "stop/don't move", rendering them completely useless in combat, and making them unable to keep fighting. This ability also had a secondary effect, which allows Kedric to concentrate the pressure of the paralysis into the insides of an object or person, forcing the pressure out and making them explode, this ability is also activated with a verbal command; in this case, "release."

### **Dagger of Skavann**

The Dagger of Skavann not only amplifies his pre-existing abilities, nullyfing their physical toll on the user, and also granting it's weilder the ability to create Metahuman servants they can freely control by stabbing them with the artifact. But this instrument can also be imbued within the body of it's user, and by doing this can gain access to all the Metahuman powers the user had distributed to his servants.