Chen/Lore

Chen
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	About
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Factions	Knights of the Fold
Places	Hazhadal Barrens
Gods	Obelis

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Chen, the Holy Knight

Born in the godless Hazhadal Barrens, Chen came of age among the outlaw tribes who eked out an existence in the shimmering heat of the desert. Using an ancient form of animal enthrallment, Chen's people husbanded the hardy desert locuthi, a stunted species of burrowing dragon that melted desert sands into tubes of glass where twice-a-year rains collected. Always on the edge of starvation and thirst, fighting amongst their neighbors and each other, Chen's clan made the mistake, one fateful day, of ambushing the wrong caravan.

In the vicious battle that followed, Chen's clan was outmatched. The armored Knights of the Fold made short work of the enthralled locuthi, who attacked and died in waves. With their dragons dead, the tribesmen followed. Chen struggled, and slashed, and clawed, and perished—or would have. Defeated, on his knees, he faced his execution with humility, offering his neck to the blade. Moved by Chen's obvious courage, the executioner halted his sword. Instead of the blade, Chen was given a choice: death or conversion. Chen took to the faith with a ferocity. He joined the Fold and earned his armor one bloody conversion at a time. Now, with the fanaticism of a convert, and with his powers of animal enthrallment at their peak, he seeks out unbelievers and introduces them to their final reward.

Friendships and rivalries[]

Allies meeting Chen

▶️ r You gotta teach me that mind control trick.
▶️ r Chen, I'm tellin ya, you and me could make a killing in White Spire.
▶️ r Do you have any friends not compelled to stay with you, Chen?
▶️ r You act the honorable part, Chen. But you betray your true self in the service of charlatans.
▶️ r Do you care for the animals in your charge, Chen? Or are they just pawns to be placed in battle?
▶️ r Okay first I'm gonna murder all of them, Chen, and then I'm definitely gonna get back around to you.
▶️ ▶️ r I like your mount.
▶️ r Send them down the paths of penitence, Chen.
▶️ u Send them down the paths of penitence, Chen.
▶️ r I welcome the forest's aid, Chen.
▶️ u I welcome the forest's aid, Chen.
▶️ r Honestly, Ken, you're lucky I acknowledge your presence at all.
▶️ r Hey, Ken, got a line on any chimeras? Oh, sorry Chen.
▶️ ▶️ r Just promise me you won't control me, okay Chen?
▶️ ▶️ r Ethically speaking, how are you okay with marching helpless creatures off to their demise?
▶️ r Bring the forest to our aid, Chen.
▶️ r So your thing is animal husbandry? I hear there's good money in that.
▶️ r As long as you don't deal in sentient animals, we're good here.
▶️ r The only persuasion Mortimer needs is a good cookie or five!

Enemies killing Chen

▶️ The god who drinks no blood deserves no worshipers.
▶️ Off you go, Chen.
▶️ I send you to your final redemption.
▶️ r No one tells me what to do!
▶️ r I won't be your pawn!
▶️ My Strider is beyond your influence, Chen.
▶️ Chen, now you are holy.
▶️ Worship that!
▶️ Stop clogging the lanes.
▶️ I guess they find me more enchanting, Chen.
▶️ r Now you submit to my cause, Chen.
▶️ r If I say what I feel, my tongue might turn black and fall off.
▶️ r This one feels better than most.
▶️ ▶️ You call those things an army, Chen?
▶️ Dismounted.
▶️ r No matter how many creatures you enslave, you die alone, you weak-willed fool.
▶️ Sagan has been eyeing your mount all day.
▶️ If you must dominate a beast to your cause, you have already lost.
▶️ ▶️ r I'll destroy every one of your puppets, Chen!
▶️ ▶️ r Die, slaver!
▶️ Your minions can't help you now.
▶️ Your congregation of squirrels and chipmunks cannot save you, Chen.
▶️ Chen, faith is a tool, not a bludgeon. You would have done well to learn this.
▶️ r Would you rather be buried in your homeland or with these pompous fools?
▶️ r To compel another into service is to deny the very breath of life.
▶️ There lies Chen. Never were followers more misguided.
▶️ r Was that your big plan, creep wrangler?
▶️ r Your mount looks happier dead.
▶️ May your thralls feast upon you.
▶️ You ride no more.
What you call righteousness, I call foolishness.
▶️ I have cast you into Hell, Chen. Doubt it not.
▶️ Heh. What kind of knight are you?
▶️ ▶️ ▶️ The blood of martyrs bleeds just as red.
▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Chen, I wearied of your sanctimony.
▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Chen, your beloved creatures will feast on your corpse.
▶️ What you see before you, Chen, is truly intelligent design!
▶️ The forest rejects you, Chen.
▶️ r You sought to control the world around you. Yet each choice led to here.
▶️ ▶️ Keep in mind, Chen, godliness is next to deadliness.
▶️ ▶️ What a pious jerk.