History Characters / HeroesOfNewerthStrength

Many have speculated as to what great, damned warrior now lives in torment within the burning armor that marches alongside the Hellbourne army. The Accursed, as he is known, screams in agony as he brings fiery devastation to his foes, but his actions seem driven more by a desire to find oblivion than by malice.

The corrupted disciples of Sol harnessed the errant energies of the sun, and from that culmination of twisted nether emerged the ancient daemon god Amun-Ra, abomination of all that is light and holy. Fused together by black fire and fury, this immortal construct threatens to raze the lands with every burning step, defiling everything he touches with heretical fervor.

A stolid and stalwart defender of the weak, whether Man or Beast, the long-lived Armadon refused to take part in the war between the Legion and the Horde, and instead maintained a neutral haven amidst the strife. With the arrival of the Hellbourne, however, Armadon's choice became clear, and he hefted his mighty mace in the service of good. The gruff warrior is now a key hero in the New Legion.

Balphagore's gluttonous love of corpses draws him to wherever the Hellbourne's atrocities are at their worst. Armed with an array of dark powers, this daemon is not to be trifled with when hungry -- and Balphagore is always hungry.

Earth-shakers and wall-breakers, Behemoths march across the battlefield wielding uprooted trees with deadly force. The sheer force of their attacks brings enemies to their knees, where powerful blows make short work of them. Of all the Beasts, none are so mighty as these noble creatures, nor any so willing to stand between the daemons and their friends.

When news of the war in Newerth reached the Berzerker, he hastily left his frozen homeland in the North. Though he holds no allegiance to the Legion, the chance to face hell's demons is one the Berzerker could not pass up. An incredible warrior with an indomitable will, the Berzerker's reckless disregard for his own life gives him strength and power seemingly beyond measure, albeit at a risk. Once he has steeled himself, only death will stop him from killing his foes.

When the war spread from the northlands into the jungles of Newerth, both man and Deamon discovered why the natives call the land Death's Cradle. Creatures warped from the chaos of the past abide in these forbidden lands, where beasts are prey and plants are predator. Deep in these jungles, the Keeper found the eldest of the mantraps and fed it the blood of the corrupted - Deamons and the fallen. Filled with their dark power, Bramble now stalks her chosen meals across the battlefields, helping destroy the enemies of the Keeper...

Lost beneath the depths of the darkest sea, a dead behemoth dreamt a nightmare of unfathomable evil. Infused by the primal energies of the earth, his dream took to reality as a living omen to insanity, trodding out of the ocean floor and onto land.

Born of the cruelly tainted lands of Newerth, Deadwood is the undead husk of the first Keeper of the Forest. All around him, living things wilt, and he has little hesitation to destroy trees or use them as weapons. Despite seeking the destruction of Newerth, he still commands the incredible strength and natural powers of a forest guardian, thus combining the cruelty of the Hellbourne with the powers that once belonged only to the Beast Horde.

Consuming and destroying all in its path, the corpulent, putrid Devourer exists only to feed. No pain can match the agony of its hunger, and so it shrugs off all attacks, spreading its rot and disease across the battlefield like doom itself.

For the Drunken Master, there exists only a single cardinal rule: that booze shall flow, freely and indefinitely. At first apathetic to the Hellbourne threat, the Drunken Master lept to action when a wise sage explained to him that should the Hellbourne overrrun Newerth, there would be no more booze. Armed with expert combat techniques and fueled by questionable substances, the Drunken Master embodies that which is unpredictable and unyielding.

The finest Legion spies learned mere months ago of a mad archaeologist whose unnatural thirst for knowledge led him into a forbidden pact with the Hellbourne. His discoveries have been used to forge Shocktroopers, men fused with Ancient technology, pulsing with violent energy. These horrifying hybrids bear a tank of liquid lightning upon their backs, and they wield its contents as both sword and shield.

The legionnaire spent years entrapped within the earth, tortured by his captors. Thrashed about by gravity itself, he became infused with its strength. Slowly he built himself a suit of the hardest metals known to man, tempering away for years as he honed its infernal machinery in secret. As he soldered the final plate onto himself, he emerged neither man nor machine, but a force of nature itself.

Nedd the ogre was captured by the Hellbourne when their war with the legion overran his home. The Hellbourne used their demonic magic to alter Nedd, fusing him with powerful weapons, and lobotomizing him to ensure complete obedience. Now little remains of the peaceful ogre he once was. He's an abomination, a living weapon, a tightly-reined destructive force: He is Gauntlet.

Mighty and stoic, this famed warrior left behind the ruins of his home for a place in King Maliken's first Legion. From boyhood on, he has known nothing but battle, and his silent determination and deadly strength have earned him the epithet "Hammerstorm." Every blow of his hammer resounds like a death knell across the battlefield.

King Jeraziah, the hope of humanity and one of the two leaders of the new Legion, is not just a mighty warrior but also the chosen of Sol himself. Charged with divine fervor and favor, he rallies his men and wreaks havoc among the daemons. The light that shines forth from him leads all toward victory, and represents the dawning of a new day, one without cloud or shadow.

An ancient protector of the forest, the Keeper fights to save the lush lands of Newerth he has tended to his whole long life. Possessing a spiritual link to the trees, the Keeper has the ability to see what they see, be hidden amongst them, and even use them as brutal weapons to aid him in battle.

A scourge upon the seas of Newerth, the Kraken consumed countless victims who were unfortunate enough to travel his waters. Though he be ashore, the Kraken brings the wrath of the ocean to the battlefield, dragging his enemies to depths unknown, unseen, and unwanted.

Legionnaires, the namesakes of the Legion itself, bring unflinching power to the battlefield. With their massive battle-axes, these warriors spread carnage among their foes and cleave bloody swaths through enemy ranks. Even those daemons born of fear itself can be terrified by these heroes of the Legion.

Dr. Repulsor stood back and looked over the creation in his laboratory. The golem made from magnetized stone and steel was complete and ready to be brought to life. He watched as Hellbringer completed the ritual to summon forth the demon that would power the construct and bring it to life. The Eldritch runes etched into its frame would hold the creature eternally in place. While it may lack the intelligence of Chronos, the new soldier would be the first of many demon powered war machines.

Lord Salforis, Baron of Blackwal, commands necromantic powers that distinguish him from typical Hellbourne fodder. A potent sorcerer and general alike, his mere presence on the battlefield is enough to induce visions of fear in his foes, rotting them from the inside and draining their souls. Rumor has it that falling to his lance will doom one's soul.

A keeper of lost lore and a priest to forgotten gods, Magebane invokes unholy rituals to drain the energy of his enemies and turn it back against them. In less desperate times, heretics such as Magebane would have been burned at the stake, but this is not the first unexpected clemency brought about by the war against the Hellbourne.

The primordial and elemental creature known as Magmus is no demon, though he fights alongside the Hellbourne. Rather, he was drawn forth from the earth, as evil calls to evil and separate flames join to form an inferno. A holdover from an ancient, cataclysmic age of fire, Magmus dreams of returning Newerth to ash, lava, and cinder, and he wields his considerable might and magic in that terrible cause.

Once the greatest defender of mankind and lord over the entire Legion, Maliken walked too close to the darkness and was claimed by it. Now he is nothing more than a slave among the damned -- but his incredible might has only grown in his downfall. Wielding a damned sword fed by his own damned soul, Maliken is the bane of the very heroes he once led into battle.

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The tale of Auric of the deserts is perhaps a shrewd allegory to the fall of man. A wise and knowledgeable researcher, he had devoted his life's work to perfecting the ancient art of alchemy. However, upon discovering the vaunted power of transmutation, his lust for knowledge turned to greed, and within the span of a few mad days all around him was transformed to gold. Realizing what he had done, he gave an anguished cry and set out to atone for his sins.

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* [[AnIcePerson A Gold Person]]: Once he gets his Ultimate ''Transmute'', whenever each of his enemies has touched two of his other three skills, it freez--er, turns into gold.

Leaving a trail of headless and maimed corpses in his wake, the blade-throwing Moraxus is among the most feared of the Hellbourne daemons. Some speculate he was once a Beast, transformed by sheer agony in the pits of hell. Others claim he is an elemental creature of warfare itself. Whatever his origin, Moraxus is an unstoppable, implacable foe.

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The last of a race of warrior-monks sworn to a chaste existence in the misty Sang-La mountains, Pandamonium has left his bamboo groves for the battlefield. He moves with a grace that belies his great stature and strikes with fury surprising in one with such an apparently gentle nature. And though he is a creature of few words, the Beasts put great stock in his wisdom.

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The elemental creatures of Newerth have long kept away from mortal struggles, seeking instead to heal the destruction left in their wake. In the current war, however, some elementals have taken arm against the daemons, and the huge and implacable Pebbles is one of them.

Once a councilor to the Moon Queen, Pestilence betrayed his people -- for as a male, he could never have come to rule them himself. With his own powers augmented by the Hellbourne, he is as strong as the queen he served in the past. But his arts are unholy: mindless, ravenous insects he calls forth, cruel and violent skills he deploys.

The Hellbourne unearthed this creature from the shifting sands of the Great Waste. He could originally speak but a single word, which has become his name -- Pharaoh. It seems he must once have been a mighty king, wrapped as he is in golden finery, but now he is simply a monster, summoning forth his dead servants from the grave and conjuring fire and fear across the land.

With huge, lance-like claws of solid bone emerging from their forearms, and spikes fit to impale the strongest foe spread across their hard shell, Predators seem more like daemons than Beasts. The men who fight beside them look at them with recollected fear from the days the Predators hunted humans, not daemons. But the hunger, speed, and rage they bring to bear against the Hellbourne are a welcome boon.

Prisoner 945 led the ground forces of the Titan Rebellion and was imprisoned by Jeraziah in the dungeons of The Capital. He is released in this desperate hour to battle the Hellbourne, but only his actions on the battlefield will finally free him from his chains.

In the armies of men and beast most soldiers are brave and true. They are loyal and follow the orders of the men who command them. But among the armies there must be leaders of men, generals to whom all others wills bend and heads bow. These are the men and women who take command of the forces that defend Newerth from the Hellbourne horde. They give new meaning to the word hero and all men come to their call - RALLY!

A ranger of the vast plains of Seradati, Rampage has captured in his human form the strength of the Beasts. Atop his mighty rhino Horatio, Rampage smashes through enemy lines and moves at times with unnerving speed.

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The souls of the damned suffer eternal torments in the hells ruled over by the Daemon Lords. The administration of such torments are left in the hands of the cruelest and most sadistic of all the condemned. These irredeemable souls take such delight in the torture of others that they are imbued with the purest essences of anger, cruelty, and hate. These beings earn a title that strikes fear into both the living, and the dead; they are the reapers of souls, the crushers of dreams, the bastions of terror, and the delivers of the damned. They are Ravenors, and their Lord is known by that title alone.

Riptide is an ancient elemental from the bedrock of what became Caldavar. He has emerged from the primordial deep of the Inner Sea, manifesting the enormous power of the cold, black tides that once covered all of Newerth. Our advice: learn to swim.

The mighty Salomon has been summoned by Ophelia to serve as magical guardian of the Legion, and to make sure the Hellbourne's wishes never come true.

Among the tribes of the moon, there lives an elite caste of warriors. Like Krixi, the Moon Queen, these women draw their power from the rays of Lunari. As children of the Moon Goddess, the rays of Sol burn their flesh, forcing them to construct a vessel to channel Lunari's might during the day. The magicks used were so potent that only a chosen warrior, born in perfect balance between light and darkness, could harness its vast power by being forever bonded to her armor. In the night, the chosen can retake her true form and strike from the shadows, free from her confining shell. Be it through strength by day or stealth by night, Solstice, the Lady of Lunari, stands ready to show her enemies what power truly is.

Although trial by combat was long ago outlawed in the Legion of Man, on the fringes of civilization there are several who still practice it. When the war between the Legion and the Hellbourne broke out The Gladiator ventured forth in search of worthy opponents, each crack of his mighty whip sounding the death knell for another daemon.

From the ice-caverns of the Frostfield hails Tundra, a white ape shaman of enormous size and power. His thundering voice commands the obedience of wild creatures and his magical powers conjure up the terrible cold of his northern home. Even fiery Hellbourne daemons feel a chill as he enters the fray.

Once a hound keeper in the underworld, War Beast heeded the call to arms in order to feed the victims of Newerth to his pets. War Beast's allegiance was never questioned. His hunger for carnage remains unending, feeding the animal within.

* CriticalHitClass: ''Metamorphosis'' gives ''all'' units under War Beast's control the ability to crit, including Lycan himself. Expect to see a lot of red numbers when he's fighting while ''Metamorphosis'' is active.

* SkillGateCharacter: Warding utterly destroys Devourer's attempts to gank. However, skilled Devourer players will adapt and throw more difficult hooks, leading to supports needing to adapt warding positions as well. This leads to an interesting level of progression from the newest players all the way to professionals, where Devourer players have to try to outthink their opponents, or be rendered dead weight.

*** [[MadeOfExplodium Which explodes once enough damage is recieved]].

* DropTheHammer: [[MeaningfulName As if the name isn't a hint enough.]]

!!The Gladiator

--> '''Legion Strength'''

Although trial by combat was long ago outlawed in the Legion of Man, on the fringes of civilization there are several who still practice it. When the war between the Legion and the Hellbourne broke out The Gladiator ventured forth in search of worthy opponents, each crack of his mighty whip sounding the death knell for another daemon.

* SummonMagic: ''Call of Winter'' lets Beastmaster summon Shiver and Coeurl, with varying increases in effectiveness as he levels the skill up.

* SkillGateCharacter: Warding utterly destroys Devourer's attempts to gank. However, skilled Devourer players will adapt and throw more difficult hooks, leading to supports needing to adapt warding positions as well. This leads to an interesting level of progression from the newest players all the way to professionals, where Devourer players have to try to outthink their opponents, or be rendered [[JustForPun dead weight]].

* LongRangeFighter: In spite of being a melee Strength hero, the Gladiator is not recommended to directly manfight at close range. His real strength is to barrage his enemy with water geyser or ghost ships or manipulating their locations from afar, and only closing in just for one ''Flagellation'' strike, which can hit multiple enemies behind his intended target, it also has a wide range and when properly itemized, it can deal absurd damage against the enemies he just barraged from afar.

* PandaingToTheAudience: But of course.