Damien Alabaster

Damien Alabaster
Nationality	Taranisian
Organization	Taranis (formerly), Insurgency (formerly)
Species	Sylph (cyborg)
Height	6'4" (head to toe)

"Seraphina, you annoying old hag! Why must you interfere? You can't stop the great Damien Alabaster! I'm going to enjoy clipping your wings, White Angel."

―Damien Alabaster to Seraphina Harrison

"You disgust me with your barbaric ways, but I cannot deny how resourceful your abilities are. You are hereby banished from the empire never to return. I won't hesitate to kill you the next time we meet, but I won't stop you from making yourself useful. Now get out of my sight!"

―Phyliss Taranis during Damien Alabaster's trial over war crimes

Damien Alabaster is a necromancer and a disgraced commander that once served Taranis having been banished to the Oraulan East Condemned Zone for war crimes severe even for the ruthless standards of Taranis itself. Like many other necromancers, he is a cyborg that can take control of Rampants to command them as an army.

Although he prefers to work alone, Damien collaborates with the Cult of Kronos by trading knowledge about Rampants and cybernephrine. He obtains said Rampants from the scrap remains of deceased synthetic life forms.

Appearance

Damien has orange eyes and long, straight hair going past his shoulders. His horns are positioned towards the front of his head.

Damien wears bronze robes similar to the standard Taranisan universe although the are tattered due to his time spent in the wasteland. He also is in posession of a standard issue polygonal drama mask, though he keeps it hanging on the side of his head instead of wearing it over his face. His right arm has been replaced with cybernetics to augument his abilities although due to wear and tear in the wasteland, he has replaced some parts using makeshift materials. In place of fingers on his prosthetic arm, he has razor sharp claws.

Personality

Damien is spiteful and cruel always looking to exact revenge and unleash his anger upon others. He has an inferiority complex, seeing Mortimer Nex as a reflection of the sort of man he could have become. Damien is more than willing to kill and torture others to get he what he wants. During his time serving Taranis, he often took the role as an interrogator.

Powers and Abilities

Damien is a skilled necromancer, using his cybernetic abilities to resurrect synthetic and virtual life forms with a Rampant virus and add them to his army. Perhaps one of his most notable feats is the resurrection of Franzo the Clown, a notorious serial killer who abducted children to torture them in a virtual reality circus.

History

What pushed Damien over the edge causing his exile was a mission where he was tasked with rooting out a spy who had been feeding intel to the Federation. While he discovered that the spy was an Old Guard soldier Janus Quirinus, he tortured and killed Janus' entire family in the process to get the information he needed. When it was later discovered that Janus was the only traitor and that his family was still loyal to Taranis, he was put forth on a military tribunal over the murder of innocent civilians.

The Old Guard demanded that he should be executed for causing the needless death of many innocent people. In particular, Kratos Duellona pushed the hardest for this sentence and believed it was the only logical action to deal with dishonorable assets. Ultimately, Phyliss Taranis presided over the tribunal herself and chose to spare Damien's life, sending him into exile. She told him to make himself useful in the Condemned Zone to continue serving Taranis' interests unofficially through a loophole in the truce with the Federation.

Out in exile, Damien found the best use of his time facilitate the cybernephrine operations run by the Cult of Kronos involving the poaching of virtual life forms. Damien has also been building an army of Rampants for himself to grow in power and influence. While in the wasteland, he began to turn his attention to Seraphina Harrison, a vigilante who had been disrupting his operations.

Relations

• Rark Zampos - Damien considers Rark a colleague but also a coward since Rark tends to project himself with an avatar within the Condemned Zone.
• Phyliss Taranis - He respects her just enough given that she spared his life from being executed and gave him a second chance.
• Kratos Duellona - He despises him for his supposed goody two shoes attitude.
• Seraphina Harrison - He wants to kill her due to her interfering with his Rampant operation.
• Joshua Harrison and Angela Harrison - Has nothing against them personally save for their relationship to Seraphina. Damien hopes for the chance to capture them to use as leverage against Seraphina.