Viserai, Rune Blood
Viserai is the first of his kind; an Arknight, gifted with both arcane power and physical prowess. Forced to serve the will of the master, he has long since forgotten his past, and the person that he once was. Wielding blade and aether alike, he is the perfect weapon.
As his creator searches for a way to bind Viserai to his will, the secrets of the Demonastery threaten to spill forth, as the ancient powers within stir once more. Viserai must find a way to break free before it is too late…
From decorated warrior of Volcor, to washed up carcass on the shores of the Demonastery. Lord Sutcliffe had at last found a vassal with enough strength to bear the agonizing procedure he sought to prove possible. Opening the chest cavity, he replaced viscera with an Arknight Shard, carved channels in bone to feed the arcane energy into runic vents etched into skin, and the first Arknight was born.
The Runeblade is a hybrid fighter, the only true class able to wield equal parts magic and might. Split damage types allows a Runeblade to attack from multiple angles, preying on whatever vulnerabilities the enemy may have.
Arcane energy flows through Viserai from the Arknight Shard inserted in his chest, which he uses to manifest an army of Runechant auras around him. They wait poised for the strike of their commanders blade, to unleash piercing arcane pain on the target.
Viserai, The Forsaken
In the depths of the Demonastery, profane experiments created the ultimate combination of magic, might, and man. Viserai, the Arknight, was the result of those rituals: a Runeblade with unparalleled control of aether and the martial ability of a battle-hardened general. With no free will of his own, he was forced to do the fell bidding of his masters, until a Whisper from another realm helped Viserai break free of his shackles and step between worlds into i’Arathael.
Within the heart of the Shadowrealm, Viserai grasped a forbidden power, one thought dead and banished. The Old Ones bestowed the Forsaken with the very essence of Shadow, corrupting his Arknight Shard into the Soul of Existence.
Although Chane attempted to shackle him once more, Viserai had grown far beyond the bounds of mortal ability. Chane fell to Viserai’s blade, severing the bond with the Embra Ursur, leaving Viserai free to claim the demon’s pact for himself.
Now he returns to Rathe as the new Shadow Lord, corrupting the Demonastery’s Runeblades into an army of his own. With the power of the Old Ones behind him, and Solana’s liberation at hand, Rathe trembles before the might of a man unshackled, unfettered…
Unbound.
He who breaks chains, knows no masters. The Arknight forsaken, Viserai commands that which would end this world, unleashing horrors from his banished zone.
Opening the gates to i’Arathael, Viserai traverses freely through reality to access two unique hero abilities.
Made and unmade in the realms of the beyond, the Shadow Lord usurps the runes to reap their profane power.