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LoB bio: Phalanx

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"The King shall guide the multiverse to a new era, an era of conquest, where the strong shall slaughter and devour the weak.  Those fool enough to oppose shall be the first to be feasted upon." –Phalanx, General of the Tenth Demon Kingdom.

Name: Phalanx, "The Pale Butcher"
Race: Greater Demon
Age: Several thousand years
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Theme: Dragon Battle (Baldur's Gate 2)


Appearance: Phalanx is a tall, gaunt demonoid with pale skin and clawed feet.  His head is that of a skeletal ram, and his ribcage is almost completely exposed.  He has leathery wings that extend from his clawed arms, and the edges and tips of the wings are razor sharp.

Bio: Phalanx was, at first, a deranged serial killer whose modus operandi was to either brutally dismember his victims or devour most or all of their internal organs, sometimes both.  Eventually, after a lengthy battle in which he slaughtered over a dozen law enforcers, he was ultimately captured and brought the Tenth Demon King and his twin sons, Princes Heavyheart and Rumlord.  The King was determined to sentence Phalanx to immediate execution, but his chancellor, an ambitious Greater Demon named Arma, insisted that his execution be pushed to a later date, claiming an execution would leave a bad impression on the Kingdom's current peacetalks with the Mortal Realm.  The King reluctantly agreed, but in the process, he doomed his rule to a bloody end.  Unbeknownst to him, Arma despised the thought of peace with Mortals, believing that the Demons deserved to rule over them and their Realms.  One night, Arma appeared before Phalanx in his cell and gave him an offer: In exchange for his undying loyalty, Arma would grant him the power to slaughter anyone he wished, and outlined how he intended to turn the Mortal Realms into Demon territory, where the weak were mercilessly slaughtered by the strong.  In Phalanx's twisted mind, such a world was paradise, and he immediately agreed.  What followed next was a bloody revolt incited by Arma and Phalanx, and at its conclusion, the old King was dead, and his sons were deformed into pitiful Lesser Demons that would serve as Arma's personal slaves.  Arma ascended to the throne of the Tenth Kingdom, and appointed Phalanx as his General.  Now the Pale Butcher stands ready at his lord's side, hellbent on making his dream of a world for the strong a reality, no matter the cost.

Personality: There is no two ways about it; Phalanx is insane.  He takes a perverse, sadistic joy in slaughtering his enemies, and oftentimes devours their innards, sometimes while they're still alive.  His quarters in Arma's palace are drenched with the blood of his past victims, and bits of flesh litter the halls.  However, while his insanity is as strong as ever, Phalanx's time as Arma's second has granted a (very) loose "control" over it.  Using this control, he can suppress his sadistic bloodlust for a time, allowing him to think clearly so that he may better serve his King.  However, he only adopts this control when he is either in Arma's presence or within the walls of his castle.  At all other times, he lives up to his title of The Pale Butcher.  He despises Hagane due to the Steel Souls tendency to work with the law, and takes a cruel joy in constantly reminding him that his Life Debt to Arma forces him to serve.  He has a similarly dim view of the former princes Heavyheart and Rumlord, and makes a habit of abusing them whenever he gets the chance.

Combat: Phalanx is an absolute beast in combat.  He uses his wicked claws to rake his enemies, and uses his wings to buffet his enemies and produce razor winds to sear them.  His wings are also razor sharp at the edge and tip, and he uses them to dismember opponents.  When pressed, he uses the Crest of Time to slow or stop time so he may retreat to a better vantage point, and then either attacks with his razor wind or incinerates his foes with the blue fire he produces from his exposed chest cavity.  Phalanx takes a sick pleasure in his kills, preferring to make them suffer and squirm before giving them the death they desperately beg for eventually.
Here's another LoB bio. This time its of Phalanx, Arma's sadistic general.
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