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I am the alienated, the ridiculed, the despised. No need to praise my name. No need to envy my body. I am the shadow under the radiance of my ancestors. Birthed of the darkness of glorious legend. And so, I hate, I resent. Nourished by the sighs of the people precipitated within the darkness, people that curse the light. This is my disgrace. Because of her [Syntyche] unsullied glory, I must forever be belittled.
Jaeherys Innangard (ᛃᚨᛖᚺᛖᚱᛃᛋ) is a member of the Yggdrasil family, conceived by Wulfric I and Syntyche, making him the only bastard-born child of his many siblings. At birth he was given the name Wulfric and was taught Golden Saga discipline, serving to both disguise his identity as the child of Syntyche and the last Silver Saga. He intentionally drafted himself into the Jotunn Empire at an early age and became apprenticed to the Spirit King Jotunn, Ancelot. This was where he met his friend and later mentor, Edmund Yggdrasil, both of which were manipulated by Ancelot into fighting one another. This worked to stratify the military force they had absorbed from the Empire into two halves, resembling what would later be known as the Spirit and Chaos Jotunn during the Civil War. He was believed to have died against his final fight with Edmund, but in truth, he was saved from death and trained in secret by Ancelot. He embarked on an odyssey through the known Nine Worlds, where he secretly partook in Ancelot's machinations. The physical and psychological trauma of Wulfric's unforgiving training regimen resulted in his immersion into evil as his master intended. With his childhood memories suppressed and his original identity forgotten, Wulfric only knew himself as Ancelot's apprentice, an assassin and a living weapon to be deployed against the enemies of the Spirit Jotnar. Edmund's spirit, Wulfric's first Fylgja, abandoned Valhalla to serve his friend in life—where he recounted the truth of Wulfric's ancestry. Adopting his true name that Syntyche had intended for him, Jaeherys returned back to his family and participated in the war against Ancelot.
Background
I. Early life
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Jaeherys was believed to have been born in Fensalir (Old Norse "Fen Halls"), conceived by Wulfric and Syntyche, prior to the Jotunn Empire War. It was because of this that when the bastard-born Jaeherys was brought up surrounded by his father and Frigga's authentic children that he felt like less. He was mainly able to cope with these feelings because his eldest brother, Nemesius, maintained an amiable relationship with him. As the second youngest son [bastard] of Osmund Yggdrasil, the leader of the Yggdrasil family, Jaeherys lived a life of luxury and privilege. He spent fifteen years being raised in the Yggdrasil as Osmund's illegitimate son, alongside his true-born children with his wife. Due to his bastard status, Jaeherys grew up feeling like an outsider in the family. Although Osmund would see that he was well-treated, Jaeherys' attendance at their more "formal" occasions was restricted and he would even be barred from sitting inside at the table with his family so as not to offend important guests. Otherwise, Jaeherys still lived better than many bastard-born children and was well-raised by Osmund as his own. He was loved by his father and eldest brother, was never hungry or poor, and had a noble's upbringing. While it's true that Osmund openly acknowledged Jaeherys as his son, he felt like an outsider nonetheless. He had little interest in the family's regal plans, and although he excelled at and enjoyed his training, he spent most of his time pursuing a playboy lifestyle. Many within the family considered the carefree Jaeherys to be a dangerous liability, and they resented his father for coddling and protecting him. Such repeated shame have both humbled Jaeherys and tempered his fury to steely resolve. While Jaeherys has good relationships with his siblings, especially Nemesius with whom he trained since they were children, and Lyanna, whom he sees as somewhat of an outsider as well, he never cared much for the rest of his siblings. Osmund refused to speak of his mother and the boy grew up unaware of her identity, something which has wounded and haunted him. When Jaeherys dreamed of her as a child, he considered her to be beautiful, highborn and kind. Once, Nemesius and Jaeherys were at a continued game of sword-play in which they would shout out the names of great heroes when Jaeherys called out (as he had countless times before), that he was "Lord of the Yggdrasil", leading Nemesius to swiftly reply for the first time that he "couldn't ever be a Lord" as he was bastard-born. This became a sore memory for Jaeherys, as part of him always wanted to succeed Osmund and resented that it was impossible for him. At this young age, his hero had been Baldr, the boy king and his eldest brother who had acquired the love of all the Gods. Despite his bastard birth, or perhaps because of it, Jaeherys had dreamed of leading men to glory just as Baldr had and bestowing honor on the house he had never really belonged to. He hoped to somewhat fulfill these ambitions when joining the Jotunn Empire but becomes disillusioned and ashamed of such dreams due to Ancelot's manipulation, resigning himself to his fate in the union.
II. Joining the Empire
He had many masters in the Empire—Scáthach, Ancelot, Edmund. Toward the end of his training, he sought out many to learn techniques. It is said that he returned to his first master at the end of his training, in order to learn how he might best leave the Empire.
In the academy, Jaeherys earned top grades, earning him recognition as a prodigy and the best of his generation alongside his fellow rival; Edmund. Ultimately, he became very popular among his peers. With his talents soon being recognized by the Æsir, at age seven, Jaeherys graduated from the academy at the top of his class in a single year. Upon becoming Vanir, he and his classmate Edmund were teamed together under the leadership of Scáthach. Edmund soon assumed the leadership role in their friendship—it was the common belief of others in the Empire that Edmund was the stronger of the pair. Jaeherys had an insatiable hunger for knowledge and learned everything that Ancelot knew, then studied under a number of other Masters, quickly becoming the Empire's most promising pupil. He would consistently score the highest in each subject and quickly learn any skill taught to him, even teaching himself Xaoc-level techniques that were otherwise impossible. At age twelve, he unlocked his Heiko. His accomplishments were a source of great pride for his family, his father viewing him as proof of the Yggdrasil's future prosperity and his also-protege brother, a worthy rival. Jaeherys spent a great deal of time training with Nemesius, who gave him the recognition that his father did not. However, for all the attention he received at a young age, few truly understood Jaeherys, believing his isolation to be a result of the gap between his abilities and theirs and not his dissatisfaction with the Jotunn's life of conflict. Scáthach taught Edmund and Jaeherys about the brutal truth of the world, refusing to hold any of the gruesome information back to the two as they had already proven themselves to be more adept than most adults. She taught them the cosmology of the Nine Worlds, the stories of Asier and Athanasius the First, and the struggle of the Gods. Jaeherys also learned of a powerful wolf whom even the All-Father feared intensely. It was this being that most interested him. He could feel something more in the histories that described the Dread Wolf, something similar to his own wanderlust.
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III. Eoten War
On the blood of our fathers...on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the Empire, even to our dying breath! Those who would break this oath are heretics...worthy of neither pity, nor mercy.
Alongside his friend Edmund, he became an Æsir at fifteen and a vocal and charismatic critic of the Empire's inactivity in the ongoing Eoten Wars. Long before there were Jötnar, the Eóten had arisen as the military force of Ginnungagap. They were forces of ruin, their armor and skin constructed from Eydask, The Tree of Ruin in Nastrond. Many of them were once mortals who committed the worst atrocities in the universe, being sent down to Nastrond. After countless years in the darkness of Nastrond, they became corrupted due to the close proximity of Ginnungagap. When the Eoten threat first arose, many were eager to defeat the enemy of the Empire. But the council thought it best if they moved with care and caution because the true threat, they feared, had not yet revealed itself. But Jaeherys would not be dissuaded. In defiance of the Empire, the Æsir duo took upon the names Krosis (Jaeherys) and Rurik (Edmund), then started a movement to combat the Ginnungagap threat as another Empire known as the Union. Charismatic and powerful, it was inevitable that many of the Empire would flock to Jaeherys' seemingly noble cause. Others followed, many of the youngest and brightest, intent on saving the Yggdrasil from the threat of the Ginnungagap. Their forces gradually pushed back the Eoten over the course of three years, saving countless worlds at the price of devastating moral compromises and the embrace of dark side practices as Ancelot became a closer mentor to Jaeherys and consequently, Edmund. Jaeherys and Edmund won battle after battle against the forces that opposed them. Exposed to the teachings of what would be later known as the Chaos Jotunn, before each battle, Jaeherys would stare at his reflection in a mirror while wearing Asier's false mask and recited the Chaos Jotnar Oath repeatedly until the words seemed to blur together. It was his belief, and Ancelot's, that the Empire must be ruled by a single leader: the very embodiment of strength and power. If the leader grows weak, another must rise to seize the mantle. The strong rule; the weak are meant to serve. During the pinnacle of his dark status, this was his mantra.
IV. Battle at the Gjallarbru
On the Gjallarbru, Jaeherys sacrificed thousands of lives to destroy a portal from which the Eoten were pouring out of. The conflict climaxed over the Bifrost, where Jaeherys defeated the current leader of the Eoten, Grimhild, in single-combat. Coughing up blood, Grimhild removed his mask and began to speak to his victorious opponent about how he had been betrayed. Puzzled, Edmund questioned Grimhild as to what he meant, and the dying man explained that he had been manipulated by a white-haired Jotunn into beginning the war before taking his last breath, unable to provide any proof. Jaeherys took Grimhild's mask, his symbol of leadership, as his spoils of war. With Jaeherys' victory, the Empire's forces began to press the Eoten forces closer and closer to the portal. Edmund advised against this as moving too close to the base of the Yggdrasil posed threats that were beyond normal comprehension, as they'd never mobilized that far before. It was then that, beyond a looming portal, a writhing serpentine body seemed to attempt to pierce its way through. The sheer size of the serpent implied that it was no Eoten, but a Titan, and it became blatant that it was the woeful Nidhogg when he reclined back to stare through with a single purple eye. He then broke through the portal and spread his wings, overshadowing the sky from one horizon to the next with his body who's length was impossible to define. He then charged straight into the sky and disappeared, but not before laying waste to those who had awakened him from his slumber. Edmund and Jaeherys both watched in horror as most of the Empire's fleet and a large number of the Eoten were crushed underfoot, inadvertently triggering Jaeherys' use of Praxia Hesporos, destroying what remained of both armies and the portal itself but winning the war in the process with his Daughters of the Vesper technique. Or at least it seemed like he won the war. Many worlds, still inspired by his actions to split off from the Empire, continued to bleed into their militia thereafter.
V. Ancelot's Manipulation
Savior, conquer, hero, villain. You are all things, Jaeherys... and yet you are nothing. In the end, you belong to neither the light nor the darkness. You will forever stand alone.
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Many of Ancelot's efforts were centered on shaping Jaeherys into the perfect apprentice. He continually compliments Jaeherys and his achievements against the Eoten, insults the Yggdrasil family both passive aggressively and directly, calling them fools for not recognizing his potential. His constant stream of praise feeds Jaeherys' ego. During the end of his training with Ancelot and when the war was becoming one-sided in favor of the Union, Jaeherys became the embodiment of conflict. The dark warrior, whose blood secretly flowed with the legacy of some of the most powerful Gold and Silver Saga in history, represented a focal point between the Spirit and Chaos, a balance that intrigued Ancelot so that his powers could be used to further the ambitions of the Empire. His fall to evil suppressed the boy who had once been named Wulfric, a name that Ancelot decreed could never be spoken in the Spirit Empire. Jaeherys himself strived to bury his past, though the painful experiences and emotions from his youth were nonetheless something he could channel in order to further his own power. He ultimately hoped to build an immunity to the light, and to succeed where Osmund failed. Like Osmund before him, Jaeherys believed it was his destiny to rule over the weaker beings of the Nine. He idolizes his father, but only the dark parts of him (namely Ignatius)—not the light of Osmund. Though Jaeherys feared the light and knew he had to avoid Osmund's sentimentality, Ancelot nonetheless encouraged him to use the heritage of both the light and the dark, which only furthered his inner conflict. He studied both the skills of the Gold Saga and the arcane Silver lore, contradictory teachings that gave him his power through discord. These teachings made the dark warrior, one whose great temper was honed to be a great weapon of the Jotunn Empire. Although Edmund initially rejected these teachings, Jaeherys' nihilistic viewpoint of the Empire rubbed off on him. This was how Edmund was introduced to Chaos teachings after being mislead, and the two's overconfidence thereafter led to their corruption by Ancelot's hand. It was only a matter of time before rumor of his deeds had reached the hierarchy of the Empire. They heard that it was his command to deactivate the portals, to push back the Eoten, but they also heard of his unrelenting behavior on the battlefield that invalidated his valiant efforts. What appeared to be a noble crusade against the enemies of the Yggdrasil, which was what it truly was at the start, was slowly mottled by Jaeherys' transformed nature. He discarded ideal principles to gain advantage, put his own men at the stake and his methods of "liberating" the Eoten became more and more grisly. Although it was an important practice in antiquity, the Blood Eagle was popularized during the Eoten Wars. It became Jaeherys' favorite way to absolutely wipe his enemies from the annuls of history.
VI. Brought to the Gods
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And so shortly after his success against the Eoten, Jaeherys (but not Edmund, Ancelot stating that it was important that he remained with him) was invited to Gladsheim, the hall in Asgard where all the god's have their seats. Under the pretense that he was soon to be rewarded for his bravery and courage on the field of battle, he attended the meeting, but was instead meant to answer for his military desertion as a teenager. When he appeared in front of the court, he was visibly malformed in the eyes—his usually vibrant red eyes suffused to a dull, cold grey. He kept his armor on as a testament to his trials, caked over with dry blood. His nails were longer, his hair unkept, and a visible aura of conflict radiated from his body. The protege boy that they knew had been possessed and gripped by the sorrow of war. Furthermore, the awakening of the Nidhoggr left the Council unmoved by his defense on top of the visible change in his nature, and Jaeherys was stripped of his rank, title, name, honor and branded a heretic for his failure in safeguarding the Nine. The Mark of Shame was branded upon his chest in front of many of the Empire, and he was sentenced to death. He was sentenced to be "hung by his entrails" and his corpse "paraded through the city" to quell any ideas of a rebellion. Tyr went so far as to say "it was heresy," but showed a level of pity for the boy. Upon being brought to Odin, his step-grandfather, he intervened and offered to commute the sentence if he would become the next Thrall. The Thrall is a ceremonial, religious and political rank bestowed upon a disgraced commander as a way to atone for his or her failures. Although the Thrall is intended to die serving the Empire, Jaeherys survived his several perilous missions throughout his time serving underneath the Council. He continues to hold this title in wake of its dissolution, even after the Civil War. Understanding that becoming the Thrall of the Empire amounted to an indirect death sentence, but also seeking an opportunity to redeem his name to retain honor for his continuing bloodline, Jaeherys accepted the offer. Before the trial was concluded, Jaeherys questioned Edmund's fate and Odin swiftly replied that there was only one reason why he was commuted, and that it was because Jaeherys was his grandson according to men's laws. There was only one way that the entire Union and Edmund could be pardoned for following a heretic. Jaeherys would become the monument for their sins, granting them absolution in the process. He would have to become Fenrir's host.
VII. Sealing Fenrir & Life as the Thrall
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"It was a ritual created as a testament to his resolve, to seek answers where no one else cared to look and to continue down the path so many fell blazing. In your body is proof that those who earned its power never gave up and never lost their way. You may not know the legend of Hrungnir, but should we call on you, will you honor the heralds who suffered Fenrir's curse and continue the hunt?”
Jaeherys was brought to the heather marshes of Calluna and was sealed in fetters in front of the dread-wolf, with enough range between them that no contact was possible from either side, the Lasa Rune slowly binding them together after a few day long process. The imprisonment had an adverse effect on Jaeherys. Because of his link to Fenrir, he was able to temper the wolf's hatred and desire for war, but Jaeherys was influenced in turn, and he underwent centuries of torture at the hands of the wolf in an instant. This sought to twist Jaeherys further into evil, and though he was able to resist the approaching urge to evolve into an Obsidian Saga, rejecting the natural cycle brought him much pain. This had the effect of splintering Jaeherys' mind between its light and dark halves, though the effect was not evident at first. By the time he was released, he had come to view the Empire and the King Jotunn as a scourge on the Nine that he would sacrifice his moral principles to destroy. Using Fenrir, Jaeherys intended to unleash his power upon the people of the Empire, and he was once again willing to sacrifice innocents in order to advance his cause. There was only one obstacle holding him, the Thrall position he was oathsworn to. He then convinced himself to sweep any responsibilities or tasks that the Council required of him, most of which were perilous and seemed endless. When the Council were exhausted of missions and it seemed like an impossible task to kill off Jaeherys, they allowed him to go renegade.
VIII. The Duel on Iðavǫll
When Jaeherys returned, Edmund was on the verge of a promotion to the archaic rank of Xaoc, the highest order of the Jotunn that is only seen once a generation. Their friendship dissolved when Jaeherys expressed his contempt for Ancelot, leaving only tension and mistrust that sparked a fierce duel as Edmund had seemingly replaced Jaeherys as pupil. Still overconfident with Fenrir's power flowing through him, the recently cultivated Jaeherys led his former friend, Edmund, to the Iðavǫll (loosely pronounced; Itha-fall), the meeting place of the gods. Edmund attempted to reason with Jaeherys, claiming that Ancelot was successfully plotting them against one another. However, Jaeherys no longer cared for their past and quickly claimed that Edmund was his enemy; the pair then drew their weapons and locked blades. The duel was lengthy and brutal with neither of the combatants gaining the edge as their abilities countered each other's. The duel took place across the court room, with the two combatants making their way through the conference room, hallways, and outside in the gardens, the last of which led to them inadvertently triggering a meltdown on the towering spire when Abasdarhon's misdirected Khrusor throw cut across the Heart of Iðavǫll . As a result, the citadel began to collapse under the weight of its own hulking energies. The fight moved onto the actual neck of the tipping spire—where Ancelot witnessed it, preparing to ensnare the winner. After an impressive use of the Gibo Rune, Jaeherys managed to seize Edmund's movements and unsheathed his sword, ready to strike down his friend, but instead turned and swung at Ancelot. He admitted to having foreseen the attack, which was easily deflected and countered. Ancelot used the Crystal Staff to fling him off the Iðavǫll, where Edmund attempted to catch him, but was cut down in the process by an arc of unsuspecting energy. Ancelot gripped the tipping tower and hurled it down onto Jaeherys, who was screaming in terror as the massive vessel fell on top of him. He was struck silent and saw utter blackness the next moment.
IX. Saved from death
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The battle left Jaeherys badly wounded and was presumed dead. Unbeknownst to his family and the rest of the Empire, he survived. Bruised and battered, the black elves (sons of Ivaldi) in Svartalfheim rescued the man formerly left for dead, offering him a chance to live again if he would help them reconnect with the Gods. Remembering his last encounter with Odin, he was reminded of his oath as a Thrall and accepted their bid. They performed extensive operations to repair him with cybernetic enhancements, removing those body parts too damaged to be healed and replaced them with limbs cultivated from Magitek plated over in Crucible steel, which helped quiet the auditory hallucinations of Ancelot's mental prying. Despite his injuries, Jaeherys' right Heiko had survived intact and appeared to unlock the Völva design. He began a long rehabilitation process, eager to recover enough for him to return to Asgard and help his family and inform them of his survival. With the help of one of the black elves, Sagira, Jaeherys became accustomed to his replacement limbs and the abilities they granted him. His natural speed and agility became greatly enhanced and his Yggdrasil skills had been augmented significantly, warping most of his abilities and deactivating his bond with Fenrir. He was now a deadly living weapon and he worked with the elves to reintroduce them to their faith, simultaneously protecting them from threats like Draugr. After awhile, his Equilibrium Body repaired those wounds that the elves could not, allowing him to shed some of his prosthetic pieces. Upon doing so, he reopened his telepathic connections to the hierarchy of the Empire, which reminded him of his duty as a Thrall and demanded that he kill the elves as punishment for their lack of faith. Disgusted with himself, both the mechanical parts of his body and his burden as a Thrall, he scrapped what remained of his artificial limbs and stimulated his contract with Fenrir. Channeling his power, he shattered his own conceptual oath and relieved his own duties as a Thrall, consequently destroying any connection he had to the Empire as a whole. After this, he made a personal vow to never use Fenrir's power to shatter an oath again, or break any on his own affairs.
X. Journey of the Nine
Living a nomad lifestyle, he wandered the Nine for a number of years, battling his inner demons and trying to come to terms with what had happened during his time under Ancelot. Most of Jaeherys' journey across the Nine has been kept a secret and he's preferred not to speak on it. He has personally stated before that he had played the role of an assassin and committed many treasonous acts that he's ashamed of, resulting in him trying to "kill the past." In his eyes, without a past, he's no longer beholden to an impossible legacy and his entire story revolves around freeing himself from the pedestal that both Ancelot and Osmund put him in. Jaeherys married Sagira and sank into obscurity for several years until he began to have visions of a mysterious threat from his past. Believing the fate of the Yggdrasil family was at risk, Jaeherys left his wife and unborn child behind in search for answers. Jaeherys' revelation's led him to the crumbled remains of the Ithafoll, crossing paths with Edmund's spirit. Jaeherys self-inflicted wounds, both mentally and physically began to heal, albeit after initially snubbing the spirit's words of wisdom and knowledge. Edmund sacrificed his seat in Valhalla to pay a debt that he had swore to Jaeherys in life and became his Fylgja. It appeared that during Edmund's time in Valhalla, he acquired the knowledge of Jaeherys' entire ancestry. At their reunion, he answered the prime question that had haunted Jaeherys since birth; his true mother.
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- Reflection at Hllesey: Looking for more information on his mother, Jaeherys had the Naglfar ferry him across Urd's Well up to one of Temple spires, which he entered by way of its external landing platform. Jaeherys brutally fought his way through the Kvasir before finding the entrance to Hllesey, a coral cave connected to the Well. Approaching the end of the cave, he activated a message left by his mother, the first time he was able to hear her voice. She stated that Jaeherys' destiny was indeed in his own hands, and that he had to drink from Urd's Well once and for all. Jaeherys then fell into a Seidr vision after taking a sip from his hands, in which he was forced to navigate the labyrinth of his own mind before entering into a confrontation with a dark specter. In a brutal duel, Jaeherys managed to knock off the specter's helm, thus revealing the face underneath to be his own—pale and twisted through deep immersion into the Obsidian Saga.The sight of his own visage caused Jaeherys to hesitate, and the specter seized the opening by driving him down to a lower level within the labyrinth. The fight continued on with renewed vigor in both opponents, but Jaeherys eventually won when Ghost pounced onto the specter and rent him apart, thus ending the vision. However, as Jaeherys regained his senses within Hllesey, he saw that his left hand had taken on the clawed and emaciated appearance of the specter's arm, which intones that his previous life as Wulfric would never escape him.
XI. Returning home
Appearance:
As a preteen, he wore solid black clothes beneath a cumbersome cloak, decorated with raven feathers. He claimed that solid black specifically implies the rejection of heraldry, and is therefore strictly speaking not a "symbol" in and of itself, but the absence of a symbol. During the Eoten wars, he wears his Al-Vaepni, plates of chrome armor inlaid with jet in elaborate vine-and-leaf patterns. In the center of the cuirass it features an inlay of a dead weirwood tree, surrounded by onyx ravens taking flight. Following his training with Ancelot during the war he bears a thin, red scar over his right eye that rendered him blind, giving him the visage of a younger and more brooding Odin. After his final showdown against Edmund, his body becomes malformed with his major limbs being rent to uselessness, replaced by cybernetic enhancements tessellated from his Al-Vaepni. He wore a porcelain mask in mockery of Asier's heron and a wolven pelt coat over his spaulders while he traveled the Nine which earned him monikers like "Fen-Dweller" and "Fame Wolf." Jaeherys is now described as having strong Yggdrasil features with a lean build, long face and unkempt black hair. His wounds have since healed after returning home but he still bears scars on his sculptured body.
Personality:
The only child in the family with a different mother, Jaeherys is a dirty secret made flesh, a child who's mother is both a mystery and a fault. He is both loved and lost, clacking between two emotional settings; brooding despondency and gale-force angst. He has the complexity of being born a bastard, making people around him look down upon him with immediate prejudice. Despite all this, he follows his fathers teachings in his decisions, making him honorable, loyal and kind hearted. He enjoys a warm relationship with Nemesius and Lyanna aside from this, particularly favoring Lyanna due to her tomboy status. When he was a boy, his hero had been his eldest brother, Balderich, the boy king who had conquered the hearts of even the gods at an early age. Despite his bastard birth, or perhaps because of it, Jaeherys had dreamed of leading men to glory just as Balderich had and bestowing honor on the family he had never really belonged to. He hoped to somewhat fulfill these ambitions as he became older but became disillusioned and ashamed of such dreams because of Ancelot. When he entered in the war against the Eoten, Jaeherys began to change. Over the course of the Eoten Wars, Jaeherys became more and more cold and calculating, adopting the militant mindset of his enemies in order to win his battles. By the end of the war, Jaeherys was more than willing to sacrifice allies and his citizens in order to gain or preserve an advantage over his opponent. After his near-death experience, Jaeherys dedicated himself to demolishing his former consortium. However, he began to have an existential crisis and self-loathing regarding his cybernetic state. It was not until he encountered Edmund's spirit that he made peace with himself and returned home to bring order to a crumbling Empire following the death of his step-mother, Frigga.
Abilities:
-Masterful Energy Manipulation: Jaeherys possesses an incredibly high level of internal energy which is so tremendous and extensive that most opponents give up trying to gauge his exact power, as it seems that no matter how much they dig into it they're unable to reach the bottom. He has always had an incredible amount of energy, to the point of being considered a monster by most who happen to encounter it. Though his willpower as Wulfric served as an outlet, his lack of understanding and training in control of energy served both to limit and harm him. Manifesting as bursts of electrical energy, his power could easily incapacitate and outright kill just about anyone or thing, and with no control over it, such events were bound to happen more than once and it did. He evolved into Jaeherys relatively young in his life and so the problems of his power were never brought to the fore as Wulfric, but after reincarnating as a Silver Saga, the necessity of training became a quick reality.
-Energy Radiation Type: Despite its tremendous power and quantity, Jaeherys' energy is neither thick nor heavy and it has no negative effects on other beings or even the environment itself, pulsing harmlessly, brushing against those in its vicinity which leaves a refreshing sensation. During his time as the Commander of the Spirit Jotnar; Jaeherys' energy alone served to inspire morale and soothe his subordinates. When released in the presence of someone Jaeherys has strong feelings about, the energy is known to intermingle with their own body which results in an unique sensation that gives impressions which can, when properly read, give a clear indication about Jaeherys' opinion of that person.
-Energy Color/Types: Pearl White | All base Yggdrasil energy types
-Gjallarhorn/Titan(s): Hesporos, Phanes Acmon, Fenrir
-Chosen Heiko: Wyrd, Völva, Bileyg
-Polearm Mastery: Jaeherys is a master of the spear, capable of holding his own against single or multiple opponents in the midst of hectic battles. As great as his skills are, there are many individuals both within and outside the Nine Worlds who could hold up to him in a fight if his technique were all he had. What makes him a truly peerless lancer is his ability to switch from one form to another in the middle of a battle, a switch that can throw off many opponents. This tendency of his to switch around between different forms led him to develop a new fighting style that incorporates part of a number of different spear styles.
-Bleeding Willow
-Dibella's Tragedy
-Ginnheilagr Al-Vaepni (Most Holy Protection): At one point Jaeherys' Vaerne was a symbol of power, and even the smallest shard was imbued with eons of energy. In youth, while the other Yggdrasil were determined to gauge their power on how many Gjallarhorn they could accumulate, Jaeherys preferred to develop the only thing that could defend against even the strongest Gjallarhorn. On a lighter note, he was shown to take comical beatings from his friends and subordinates and seem to be alright with it, even laughing about it on occasions as a testament to the strength of his Vaerne. He built up a lot of the durability during his training with Aegon, where the latter had repeatedly attacked the former in order to build up an internal resistance to brute force. This was only the beginning, eventually walking through grand-scale techniques unscathed to continue building upon that resistance. Upon having a revelation that his mother was Syntyche, the rampant emotions and frenzy he had gone through could only be described like being blown out like a candle, or walking into a tornado and walking out the other side. His Vaerne became brittle and cracked, his cape was torn at the end and the polished alloy was dented in several places. It was then discovered that the only true weakness to his Vaerne was himself, and he has long since discarded of it, only preferring to use it when it is convenient for him. It now servers as a constant reminder of his illegitimacy, and while the engravings and royal patterns were once patriotic to the Yggdrasil family, it now bears an inlay of a dead weirwood tree, surrounded by onyx ravens taking flight. His Al-Vaepni is complete with a distinctive helm sculpted into the shape of a snarling dog's head, with his black hair still flowing from the back of his helmet, and his discolored eyes shine just between the teeth of the visor.
Items:
Perundril
Gáe Bolg
Wardruna - An energy-devised Iron Thane. The weapon was crudely built off an ancient design and operated using a cracked Sowulo rune. It thus has an unstable blade, necessitating the use of exhaust ports to channel and vent the weapon's excess energy so that it would not overload. The excess energy served as the blades quillons, tributaries of the primary central blade. The weapon's blades also crackled and arced like electricity and funneled like fire, giving the weapon a ragged, menacing appearance and a deep, growling hum.
Claíomh Solais
Techniques:
-Storm Cell
-Yassen Templa, Storm Cell (Ancestor Empowered Storm Cell)
-Fimbulwinter (Endless Winter)
-Skirnna Hima, Ima-Fimbulwinter (Baptism of the Nine Worlds, Timeless Fimbulwinter)
-Mega'a Beraduna (Bringing the Thunder)
-Mina'a Móðr, fy Heyra Glyma (Mine is The Fury, Hear Me Roar)
-Wotan's Spirit Raven of the Slain, Munin
-Daughter's of the Vesper
-Primordial Avatar of Ether, Malkuth
As a preteen, he wore solid black clothes beneath a cumbersome cloak, decorated with raven feathers. He claimed that solid black specifically implies the rejection of heraldry, and is therefore strictly speaking not a "symbol" in and of itself, but the absence of a symbol. During the Eoten wars, he wears his Al-Vaepni, plates of chrome armor inlaid with jet in elaborate vine-and-leaf patterns. In the center of the cuirass it features an inlay of a dead weirwood tree, surrounded by onyx ravens taking flight. Following his training with Ancelot during the war he bears a thin, red scar over his right eye that rendered him blind, giving him the visage of a younger and more brooding Odin. After his final showdown against Edmund, his body becomes malformed with his major limbs being rent to uselessness, replaced by cybernetic enhancements tessellated from his Al-Vaepni. He wore a porcelain mask in mockery of Asier's heron and a wolven pelt coat over his spaulders while he traveled the Nine which earned him monikers like "Fen-Dweller" and "Fame Wolf." Jaeherys is now described as having strong Yggdrasil features with a lean build, long face and unkempt black hair. His wounds have since healed after returning home but he still bears scars on his sculptured body.
Personality:
The only child in the family with a different mother, Jaeherys is a dirty secret made flesh, a child who's mother is both a mystery and a fault. He is both loved and lost, clacking between two emotional settings; brooding despondency and gale-force angst. He has the complexity of being born a bastard, making people around him look down upon him with immediate prejudice. Despite all this, he follows his fathers teachings in his decisions, making him honorable, loyal and kind hearted. He enjoys a warm relationship with Nemesius and Lyanna aside from this, particularly favoring Lyanna due to her tomboy status. When he was a boy, his hero had been his eldest brother, Balderich, the boy king who had conquered the hearts of even the gods at an early age. Despite his bastard birth, or perhaps because of it, Jaeherys had dreamed of leading men to glory just as Balderich had and bestowing honor on the family he had never really belonged to. He hoped to somewhat fulfill these ambitions as he became older but became disillusioned and ashamed of such dreams because of Ancelot. When he entered in the war against the Eoten, Jaeherys began to change. Over the course of the Eoten Wars, Jaeherys became more and more cold and calculating, adopting the militant mindset of his enemies in order to win his battles. By the end of the war, Jaeherys was more than willing to sacrifice allies and his citizens in order to gain or preserve an advantage over his opponent. After his near-death experience, Jaeherys dedicated himself to demolishing his former consortium. However, he began to have an existential crisis and self-loathing regarding his cybernetic state. It was not until he encountered Edmund's spirit that he made peace with himself and returned home to bring order to a crumbling Empire following the death of his step-mother, Frigga.
Abilities:
-Masterful Energy Manipulation: Jaeherys possesses an incredibly high level of internal energy which is so tremendous and extensive that most opponents give up trying to gauge his exact power, as it seems that no matter how much they dig into it they're unable to reach the bottom. He has always had an incredible amount of energy, to the point of being considered a monster by most who happen to encounter it. Though his willpower as Wulfric served as an outlet, his lack of understanding and training in control of energy served both to limit and harm him. Manifesting as bursts of electrical energy, his power could easily incapacitate and outright kill just about anyone or thing, and with no control over it, such events were bound to happen more than once and it did. He evolved into Jaeherys relatively young in his life and so the problems of his power were never brought to the fore as Wulfric, but after reincarnating as a Silver Saga, the necessity of training became a quick reality.
-Energy Radiation Type: Despite its tremendous power and quantity, Jaeherys' energy is neither thick nor heavy and it has no negative effects on other beings or even the environment itself, pulsing harmlessly, brushing against those in its vicinity which leaves a refreshing sensation. During his time as the Commander of the Spirit Jotnar; Jaeherys' energy alone served to inspire morale and soothe his subordinates. When released in the presence of someone Jaeherys has strong feelings about, the energy is known to intermingle with their own body which results in an unique sensation that gives impressions which can, when properly read, give a clear indication about Jaeherys' opinion of that person.
-Energy Color/Types: Pearl White | All base Yggdrasil energy types
-Gjallarhorn/Titan(s): Hesporos, Phanes Acmon, Fenrir
-Chosen Heiko: Wyrd, Völva, Bileyg
-Polearm Mastery: Jaeherys is a master of the spear, capable of holding his own against single or multiple opponents in the midst of hectic battles. As great as his skills are, there are many individuals both within and outside the Nine Worlds who could hold up to him in a fight if his technique were all he had. What makes him a truly peerless lancer is his ability to switch from one form to another in the middle of a battle, a switch that can throw off many opponents. This tendency of his to switch around between different forms led him to develop a new fighting style that incorporates part of a number of different spear styles.
-Bleeding Willow
-Dibella's Tragedy
-Ginnheilagr Al-Vaepni (Most Holy Protection): At one point Jaeherys' Vaerne was a symbol of power, and even the smallest shard was imbued with eons of energy. In youth, while the other Yggdrasil were determined to gauge their power on how many Gjallarhorn they could accumulate, Jaeherys preferred to develop the only thing that could defend against even the strongest Gjallarhorn. On a lighter note, he was shown to take comical beatings from his friends and subordinates and seem to be alright with it, even laughing about it on occasions as a testament to the strength of his Vaerne. He built up a lot of the durability during his training with Aegon, where the latter had repeatedly attacked the former in order to build up an internal resistance to brute force. This was only the beginning, eventually walking through grand-scale techniques unscathed to continue building upon that resistance. Upon having a revelation that his mother was Syntyche, the rampant emotions and frenzy he had gone through could only be described like being blown out like a candle, or walking into a tornado and walking out the other side. His Vaerne became brittle and cracked, his cape was torn at the end and the polished alloy was dented in several places. It was then discovered that the only true weakness to his Vaerne was himself, and he has long since discarded of it, only preferring to use it when it is convenient for him. It now servers as a constant reminder of his illegitimacy, and while the engravings and royal patterns were once patriotic to the Yggdrasil family, it now bears an inlay of a dead weirwood tree, surrounded by onyx ravens taking flight. His Al-Vaepni is complete with a distinctive helm sculpted into the shape of a snarling dog's head, with his black hair still flowing from the back of his helmet, and his discolored eyes shine just between the teeth of the visor.
Items:
Perundril
Gáe Bolg
Wardruna - An energy-devised Iron Thane. The weapon was crudely built off an ancient design and operated using a cracked Sowulo rune. It thus has an unstable blade, necessitating the use of exhaust ports to channel and vent the weapon's excess energy so that it would not overload. The excess energy served as the blades quillons, tributaries of the primary central blade. The weapon's blades also crackled and arced like electricity and funneled like fire, giving the weapon a ragged, menacing appearance and a deep, growling hum.
Claíomh Solais
Techniques:
-Storm Cell
-Yassen Templa, Storm Cell (Ancestor Empowered Storm Cell)
-Fimbulwinter (Endless Winter)
-Skirnna Hima, Ima-Fimbulwinter (Baptism of the Nine Worlds, Timeless Fimbulwinter)
-Mega'a Beraduna (Bringing the Thunder)
-Mina'a Móðr, fy Heyra Glyma (Mine is The Fury, Hear Me Roar)
-Wotan's Spirit Raven of the Slain, Munin
-Daughter's of the Vesper
-Primordial Avatar of Ether, Malkuth
Quotes:
-"Now....and forevermore." -To the original Oathsworn, as they swore falsely into the Chalice.
-"Those that stand behind you, give them protection. If they stand besides you, give them respect. And if they stand against us, give them NO mercy!" -Jaeherys' final words to his people as they gear up for the Sacred Rebellion.
-"I have no mother, and I'm not a product of love. Therefore, I can't understand what a 'wife' truly is. Even so... the love she gave me is my entire world. No one can humiliate that." -Speaking about Sagira
-"A blatant attempt to goad me into combat. However, to answer your question: It has been approximately 6 years since I have last exercised purely physical force. And I relish the opportunity." -To Ancelot, upon returning back to his family during the precipice of the Jotunn Civil War
-"Every world begins as a big pebble lost among trillions of pebbles. Every worthy sun was once cold hydrogen spread thin across the vacuum. Even the universe, this cosmic garden that surrounds us and awes us... this monument to creation was once the size of an apple seed. And everything that's splendid and great stands at the end of incalculable chance and mayhem. Yes, you have talents. Enormous, wondrous powers. But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a Yggdrasil is? Not yet. Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed. But you will grow." -To the new generation of Yggdrasil
-"Jaeherys wore the mask during the Civil War, and during his time as Ancelot's pawn. To me, it symbolizes his dark past—a relic from a time before he became the man I loved. I was afraid that if I showed it to him, it might trigger something inside his mind. It might awaken some dormant evil, rekindle the spark of his dark past." ―Sagira
-"By this right alone do I rule." ―To the Coalition
-"Now....and forevermore." -To the original Oathsworn, as they swore falsely into the Chalice.
-"Those that stand behind you, give them protection. If they stand besides you, give them respect. And if they stand against us, give them NO mercy!" -Jaeherys' final words to his people as they gear up for the Sacred Rebellion.
-"I have no mother, and I'm not a product of love. Therefore, I can't understand what a 'wife' truly is. Even so... the love she gave me is my entire world. No one can humiliate that." -Speaking about Sagira
-"A blatant attempt to goad me into combat. However, to answer your question: It has been approximately 6 years since I have last exercised purely physical force. And I relish the opportunity." -To Ancelot, upon returning back to his family during the precipice of the Jotunn Civil War
-"Every world begins as a big pebble lost among trillions of pebbles. Every worthy sun was once cold hydrogen spread thin across the vacuum. Even the universe, this cosmic garden that surrounds us and awes us... this monument to creation was once the size of an apple seed. And everything that's splendid and great stands at the end of incalculable chance and mayhem. Yes, you have talents. Enormous, wondrous powers. But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a Yggdrasil is? Not yet. Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed. But you will grow." -To the new generation of Yggdrasil
-"Jaeherys wore the mask during the Civil War, and during his time as Ancelot's pawn. To me, it symbolizes his dark past—a relic from a time before he became the man I loved. I was afraid that if I showed it to him, it might trigger something inside his mind. It might awaken some dormant evil, rekindle the spark of his dark past." ―Sagira
-"By this right alone do I rule." ―To the Coalition