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alias: age: herald: cool anime power: cool anime weapon: magesight: | Heron 30 heron telekinesis ashsteel sword / razor swarm momentum |  |
Sir Heron, his majesty's champion/right hand/bodyguard. Unassailable and incorruptible if only you ignore that whole Lancelot/Guinevere thing he's got going with the emporess (sic).
He's exactly the same as regular Heron except that in this universe he is cool and epic. traded in the dyspraxia for an invincible sword made of magic white metal that chimes like a temple bell when struck, and wields it with monstrous strength. he can and will cleave you in twain if you so much as think one unflattering thought about the empore (sic). has the ability to "see" momentum--a skill which makes him insanely good at hand to hand combat. also has telekinesis which only works on glass and noble metals so he carries a bunch of silver razors around for when he needs people to mega die. Considering nobody's invented gunpowder yet, this is unbelievably badass. Fear is a favorite weapon of his, and he is very good at inspiring it.
Has a four-digit killcount in only five years of tenure, but that's only because every dinnertable scene ends with ~10 bad guys jumping out from various hiding places; Heron sighing heavily. Throwing down his cutlery. Dabbing the corner of his mouth with a napkin, and then getting up and hacking the would-be assassins into giblets while the royal couple continue their meal with jaded dignity.
Spends all the time he's not protecting the emporer or the forbidden love of his life emporess pursuing The Way Of The Warrior in the lorefriendly kansian dojo. They have those in kansia. Practicing kansian jujitsu with a bunch of other heaving sweating seminaked men on a daily basis has made him 3x saner than prime!heron despite all the murder. Truly he is living his best possible life.
FAQ
Why do they spell it like that?
That's just how they do it in Kansia 🤙
Is his thing with the emporess mutual?
It has been ever since he escorted her across the realm to go arranged-marry the emporer. Spend a month on the road alone with someone and you get a lot of time to know each other. Unfortunately. Oh yeah and they totallllyyyy had to pretend to be a couple so as not to draw suspicion.
How far have they... You know.
Physically? They have touched hands for 0.1 seconds more than what was strictly chivalrous, after which they couldn't speak to each other for three days. Intellectually? Utterly orgiastic discussions on all matter of science and philosophy which leave the two utterly dripping.
Does the emporer know about this!?
Lol it is not so hard for him to notice, yeah. He's not so out of touch with reality that he can't tell when his wife is dreaming about another man.
Hes cool with it!?!?!?
Darling of course he's cool with it, the situation is ideal. Let his wife who doesn't love him fall for only man in the world he trusts not to ever act on that desire. Heron gets even more insanely loyal, and Susan gets something nice to think about to distract her from The Horrors. Couldn't have invented a more perfect situation himself. It's totally cool and nobody wants to execute anyone about it at all.
TRIVIA ETC
- Still ambidexterous. Slight pref for his left hand.
- Still bi, but he doesn't know homosexuality exists in this universe and is therefore incapable of even having any internalised homophobia. All his emotional and physical reactions to his favourite male colleagues are simply the Warrior's Bond, you non-martial types wouldn't get it 😤
- Lives thru 9999 different nightmare AUs during the quest to the Tomb of God's Heart. I'm tempted to make different tabs for all of them, but I won't. no wait I lied NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE
- Do you belong to a magical or alien species? As far as Heron is concerned, you are an elf. And elfs have no rights 😤
- Getting chivalrous on it 24/7
- I cannot stress how fucking badass his razor swarm is. Being uniform playing-card-sized kite-shaped bits of coin silver, each one is actually legal tender—they're stamped on one side with a portrait of the Emporer, sword in hand; on the obverse, a heron killing a snake, and an ominous motto in Old Kansian: IN GOD'S NAME, I FIND MY MARK. He'll pay for stuff with them on a regular basis (politely bluntening them first if he likes you, or killing you with them if he doesn't) so there's actually a few of them in circulation (either that scavenged from battlefields). Some may consider killing enemies of the state with literal (albeit oddly shaped) money to be a little on the nose, but they're still a numismatist's wet dream.
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