Nicholas

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Player: Gaztron

Character Full Name: Nicholas DeVies

Character In-Game Name: Nicholas

Nickname(s): Nick

Association(s): Black Harvest, The Ebon Blade, the Forsaken, the Scourge(Formerly)

Race: Forsaken

Class: Death Knight

Age: 24 at Death, currently 33.

Sex: Male

Skills and Abilities: Nick is exceptionally strong with the powers of Frost, giving him several strong attributes he can use in fighting situations.

Cold Touch: If the person is scared to the bone, Nick can use the ability Cold Touch to simply lock the target down, making them unavailable to move and giving them the feeling of being frozen from the inside out.

Frozen thrust: By enhancing his Runic weapon, Nick is available to gain a cold attribute to his next swing, making the attack freeze the enemy, slightly lowering their speed. Icy restore: Nick can restore himself if he is in the situation of being beaten up, by absorbing large amounts of ice. Therefore he gains an upper hand if the battle takes place in Northrend, or other environments much alike Northrend's cold grasp. The Icy Restore can only close minor wounds, and it takes some time to complete the "ritual" making it almost impossible to do during a battle, which is why he easily recovers after tough battles, compared to others.

Glacier of Vengeance: Nick's strongest move is shooting a small ice particle at his enemies, paralysing them momentarily, giving him very few seconds to make an escape, or give a fatal blow to his enemy. The Glacier of Vengeance has no major damage influence, but might hurt very weak opponents.

Sword by life and death: Nick has always and only used swords in combat, giving him the disadvantage of being handicapped with maces and axes as he is not used to the weight distribution of those weapons compared to a sword.

Grasp of anger: A cold blooded attack which he learned from his father while still alive. His long, sharp fingernails penetrate the throat as he chokes his victim, freezing the blood in the throat and making it more difficult to breathe as well as causing a lot of damage. He often combines this move with Glacier of Vengeance.

Ghoul minion: Summons a ghoul minion to do his bidding.

Weight: 240 lbs.

Height: 6'1”.

Hair: Nick's hair is dark and filled with dirt, giving it a rough look. The hair itself is very thin and close to falling off.

Eyes: Runic blue (Glowing)

Other appearance: His face is pale and almost without any disfigurements - he does have a small scar on his chin looking like it came from some sort of throwing weapon. The body of this knight is very muscular and well built.

He is just a few inches taller than the average Forsaken. He often wears a black headband he wore the day he was slaughtered by the Scourge, as a rebellious symbol to what Arthas did to his land, and life.

Usual garments/armor: As a human he wore ragged clothes, making him look stupid due to the undersized clothes he wore when he reached his teen years.

When he signed up at the local Garrison he used the classic Hillsbrad guard outfit with tabard.

Today he is often seen wearing heavy, blue/purple plated dark armors with a tabard of the Banshee priding his chest. He carries his fathers favorite cloth piece as a headband as a symbol that his father is still with him, in his new life.

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Personality: Nick is tough. He was raised by an iron fist of a father, giving him little sympathy for the weak and innocent.

He is not the brightest. He is easy to command around once you've gained his trust or respect, but if you try to boss him around without any respect or trust he can get very angry.

His anger can be troublesome from time to time, as he can go into a rage where he doesn't remember much of what happened if you step on his toes too much.

The emotion known as love is one Nick knows very little of. As a Human he never felt loved by his family. He was rejected by the one girl he had interest in before he went to war, now revived, left alone after the Lich King, and his father's way of treating and manipulating him throughout his entire life he doesn't have many feelings left other than anger and hatred, but if he manages to control these emotions they might become a powerful weapon one day. One day he might experience love, if the right woman shows up here in his new life.

As previously stated he is not as bright as the common Human/Forsaken which makes him lose many conversations. He can easily learn new tricks like the saying "Monkey see, monkey do." After giving him a quick demonstration, he can easily carry out the command he is given, making him a useful brute to have on your side.

History: Pre death:

Born and raised in the DeVies bloodline he lived with his dad up in Hillsbrad. His mother ran away at a very young age, leaving him only with his now devastated and manipulative father.

During his childhood, Fernando, a cousin of Nicholas arrived at their home to be raised by his uncle. Nick quickly lost his fathers interest, when Fernando started to show amazing skills with his agile movement, and quick mind, compared to the young teenage Nick who was more of a brute than a speedy know-it-all. He didn't know that his dad worked for an undercover agency, which could have explained his father's strange behavior; not sharing a lot of his private life with Nicholas. (See Fernando DeVies story)

He often dreamt about murdering and beating up his father because he was treated so badly compared to Fernando. The jealousy flew through the veins of Nicholas for a long time.

When he was 16 years old, Nick ran away from home. He was tired of being treated terribly and signed in at a local garrison to enlist for the army of Hillsbrad. He was finally feeling approved and he got along great with the other aspirants, but it soon took a turn for the worst when the Plague started to spread throughout Lordaeron.

The aspirants were all ordered to work twice as hard, due to the lack of reinforcements in Hillsbrad. The local towns people supported them with food, water and fresh equipment and it was there he met a girl called Annabel. Annabel was a young beauty, that he soon took interest to. Weeks went by with training, preparing to reinforce the armies of Lordaeron against the horrific Scourge. It took him many days to get the courage to address the girl of his dreams, Annabel. He walked up to her and handed her a small silver ring, which was all he could afford on his soldier salary.

She turned him down and rejected the ring. She looked at him at said, "I'm sorry, but I see you as nothing more than a defender... Besides, you'll probably not make it back from the battlefield like many others."

Nick ran, and felt his heart being torn apart as he rushed to the garrison sleep chambers. The next morning he woke up to his closest guard friends Tom and Ryan as they were packing their things, knowing it was time to tell the captain they were ready to set off. Nick's heart pumped and his body was filled with many different emotions, hate, anger, rejection, love, for the first time since he left his father he felt alone again.

They left in a small squadron with five other aspirants, and a Captain heading to Andorhal. On the way they were assaulted by a pack of Cultists with a bunch of ghouls dragging a large meat wagon. Nick lifted his sword up, knowing he would give it all he had since he had nothing to return to. It was clear it was the mix of different emotions that led him into the blood rage he was about to begin. Shortly after the ghouls charged, the soldiers all stood close and held their shields and blades high, readying themselves for the incoming attack.

They held for a long time, and the ghouls couldn't break through their defensive positioning as they fought in a small mountain passage. But Nick's emotion was about to turn him mad, he couldn't control himself resulting in Nick going into a blind rage. He turned to his squad and simply yelled “Charge!”

He broke the formation, not knowing he now had doomed himself and his comrades. More ghouls kept running in on him. He sliced one ghoul after another, screaming in rage. It all looked like it was going well for the team, and soon rest of the squadron joined him and broke the formation. It didn't take more than one weak link to give away the ensured victory.

But as soon as the entire formation broke the cultists dragged out and loaded the meat wagon with ghouls and started shooting them at the squad. Nick yelled out "If we unite we will conquer this ..-" And then Nick was hit by a pack of ghouls and fell down to the ground. Within seconds his anger turned to fear as he screamed for help as the ghouls ripped his armor and skin off of him.

By the time the ghouls had been cleared out by the Captain, Nick lay dead on the ground, his body and bones torn apart and his armor destroyed, his morale sank. It didn't take long before the rest of the squadron fell to the Scourge attack wave, thanks to Nicholas' emotions.

Revival:

His dead corpse was loaded on to the meat wagon alongside his now slaughtered comrades, and headed to Caer Darrow. When they arrived, the cultists inspected the dead bodies of Nicholas and the squad. It didn't take them long before they found interest in Nicholas as they could feel his unstable emotions. The cultists agreed that this unstable feeling of being left out and anger would be a fine supplement to the Lich King's soldiers.

They resurrected him before anyone else from the squadron. Nick's mind was dominated by the influence of the Lich King, he was easy to control due to his emotional problems and knew only one thing now - Serve the true king.

Him and his risen comrades quickly left Caer Darrow and now set off to serve Arthas. They walked for days and finally reached a small scourge force led by a Lich. They were few but enough to take down a Lordaeron Village. No mercy was shown to the innocent people, as the Lich commanded them all dead.

Within two days after the village massacre he was travelling with Arthas throughout Lordaeron but before anyone knew it he was struck down by Sylvanas and many of the Scourges minions had been freed from the Lich King's grasp due to him being weakened, lucky for Nicholas he was one of them.

He vowed himself to Sylvanas, his savior from the grasp of the Lich King, and he had a feeling that he would play an important role for the Banshee Queen. He was wrong. He was ordered to do borderline patrols to ensure the security of the innocent people.

He was proclaimed Forsaken now.

He served for years and his anger and disappointment due to the fact that he knew he was worth more than just borderline patrolling, but that would soon change. One fateful day he was attacked by several ghouls, and he was struck by a flashback. He saw himself alive, fighting for his life and being slaughtered alongside with his friends by ghouls.

That flashback led to anger, and hatred building inside of him. He charged the ghouls and made quick work of them, he felt stronger than ever and realized he wouldn't have stood a chance as a mortal human in this situation. But more ghouls came, almost triple of what attacked him last time. The last thing he remembers before blacking out is the cold grasp of dozen of ghouls overrunning him like the first time the scourge attacked him.

He was carried to Acherus still knocked out. Some of the cultists there remembered him and knew how unstable he was, it didn't take them long to start a ritual that would change Nick's life forever.

Nick woke up and could remember nothing of the past years working for Sylvanas, he was like a robot being reprogrammed for one purpose - Serve the Lich King. His first task was to eradicate a Scarlet base.

At Acherus he gathered with many other Death Knights to deal the final blow to a Scarlet town known as New Avalon, lying behind Tyr's Hand, another Scarlet bastion. It didn't take the Death Knights a long time before they had taken New Avalon. Nicholas couldn't believe how easily they were dominated by the aid of the Lich King and Mograine. Now the only bastion that stood left in the Plagueland, excluding Stratholme, was the fragile Light's Hope Chapel.

He was rounded up by Mograine and they all marched upon Light's Hope. An epic battle followed, until Tirion, a paladin hero of the Alliance and Argent Dawn fought the Lich King. It was there Tirion freed Darion Mograine and the other Death Knights from the control of the Lich King. Nicholas felt the grasp of the Lich King disappear. It had been years since he had last been himself.

The Ebon Blade was formed, and many of the Death Knights sought vengeance upon the Lich King. Nicholas remembered all he had done in his services of the Lich King. He didn't feel grief, however. His anger was placed elsewhere. He travelled home to see his father, only to find out he died many years ago. He found a letter in the old house, saying:

“My dear son, Nicholas. I am sorry I never had time for you. My work was too dangerous to combine with my private life. If we had grown a to close bond, you could have ended in danger. I write this letter in case I don't see you again. I hope you return home – and can forgive me. Please return so I can see you one last time before I depart from this world. Your father.”

Nicholas fell to his knees, looking at the back of the letter. It carried the DeVies family seal, he knew that this letter was no fake. He cried out for the first time in many years. His tears fell down his cold lifeless face. The emotions bubbling inside of him were many, and uncontrollable. He felt guilt. After pulling himself together he grabbed some coins and his fathers favorite cloth piece. He tied it as a headband as a symbol of apology for all the hate and death he had wished upon his father, and he now left only to wander the forsaken lands.

Today Nicholas' emotions of guilt is over after many years of grief. His emotions are still unstable but might prove a powerful weapon once he can control them like he could under the influence of the Lich King. He has now proved complete loyalty to the Forsaken Banshee Queen Sylvanas, and now seeks out the Black Harvest to join sides with Executor Jared to assist the Banshee Queen the best way he can – with brute force.

His headband is tied, his rune blade is sharpened, the tabard symbolizing the Banshee queen has been equipped and now he runs off into Silverpine looking for Jared, will he find him? Will he be accepted? Only the future will reveal it.