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Guys, apparently I can't do the design as apparently the application I used, Heromachine, is kind of complicated and hard as f*ck to be used in ten minutes. So as such, I'll just do the same thing as you guys.

Name: The Iron King

Side: Bad

Gender: Formerly male, now genderless. Referred to with male pronouns.

Based On: Ealoseum, Thane and Raidriar (all from the Infinity Blade series), as well as the villainous Black Knight (both Garrett and the Vatican one) and believe it or not, some stuffs from Ultron. His appearance has some inspiration from Sauron, too. His origins have some resemblance towards Sigmar Heldenhammer from Warhammer Fantasy, too.

Powers and Other Cool Stuffs: Before his untimely demise and resurrection as an automaton, the Iron King is already a physically capable person. A warrior-king of mythical strength, the king gains his name of the Iron King due to his physical prowess and his capability of infamously shattering his enemies' own arms and armor using his bare hands. The King is known to have destroyed countless other powerful warriors, even allegedly overpowering an entire army by his own with limited equipment while weakened. The name "Iron King" is also attributed to the fact that his will is indomitable. I know, those might sound weird but I'm trying to be as creative as possible. Sorry.

After becoming an automaton, the Iron King now holds up to his name in many ways, including literal ones. He's now literally fully composed of iron and other metal ingots, making him almost indestructible, but not always invincible. His organs are still within his body, but believe it or not, they all ceased to work not because he's a "robot" now, but because now they're encased in mercury and the organs stopped working; the Iron King does not require any food, water, or oxygen and is sustained by the mystical force pulling himself together. Oh and for your information, rust ain't workin' on this guy's body. You wanna beat him? Hehehe... I wanna see how that works. But remember, he's not all that invincible.

So before stepping into the next section of this part, in summary his powers are superhuman physical characteristics (imagine Marvel's Thing and Iron Man combined), self-sustenance, a degree of invulnerability, and the power to empower himself by absorbing the "essence" of other machines. Weird, I know. But you'll know why later on. Oh and for his abilities, as I've said before, he's an awesome fighter and was deemed in his human form as one of the greatest fighters the world has ever seen at the time of his life. He also commands an army that right now has soldiers with similar features to his own, but weaker (still, they're strong nonetheless) with no one brave enough to actually challenge him. If you want to find "disorder" in his army, you have to take a peek into his mind that's telepathically resistant (well, for a reason his brain is also metal...). In his mind, he is virtually omniscient to all things that happen in his kingdom. How so? His mind has access to his soldiers' "minds", which allows him to see everything one of his soldiers see through his eyes.

With that out of the way, this time I'm discussing how he'll look like. I know I have no design, but maybe you can get a glimpse of how he looks like through my description. In his human form, he kind of looks like one of those bearded Vikings and the Varangian Guards. Just, imagine his human face having the appearance of Michael Barrick from Gears of War (0_0), but smoother and he has a red hair along with a red beard. Oh, sideburns too! He usually wears a large but light plate armor, kind of like a cuirass combined with the entirety of a typical French knight's armor. Now, imagine his automaton form as being a gigantic, 10-foot-tall titan wielding a giant-ass blade that looks like a mixture of a Claymore and Zweihander (he wields other weapons, don't worry), which is his signature weapon called the Steel Judgment (bad name, sorry), all gleaming in its glory with mechanical accents. How about his entire automaton body? Well, I can't really give a detailed glimpse but to tell you that his entire armor is silver-coloured, but kind of on the darker end of the spectrum with some "old" marks. His helm is integrated to his entire body, and the helm has an iron crown of sorts that can heat itself up to exaggerating temperatures. What for? Nobody knows. Some says that it signifies his temper. But there are other times where he suddenly can blast out lava out of his hands when his crown lights up.

Personality: The Iron King is virtually emotionless when he's an automaton. But such form and his old form do share some similarities. He has always had an unquenchable thirst for battle and a brutal warrior, for sure. But his brutality isn't always blood and gore everywhere, as he actually likes to torture the sh*t out of his enemies without drawing any blood. How? He uses a personal torture chamber of his that has LOTS and LOTS of lava and molten metal that can be used to heat the info out of the victim.

Believe it or not, the king is actually a patriot in his own terms, but a chauvinist at best. He deems his dominion, the Iron Kingdom, better than any other nations and such that exist in the world. He loves his people before their demise after his transformation, and that trait still continues up to now in a different way. He simply doesn't like getting his soldiers "butchered", even though they can be rebuilt.

Temper is kind of a big thing for the Iron King. The guy has always been pissed off many times and is not afraid to swing his sword and decapitate the one who makes him angry, even in front of his people. But his people themselves are quite scared of him, but at the same time respect him. When he's an automaton, he's not just relentless in physical terms, but he's also relentless in making master plans to destroy the other remaining nations, integrating them forcefully to his Iron Kingdom.

Backstory: Now this may get longer than the other sections, as I'm also explaining this dude's origin's... origin.

Hailing from an ancient kingdom known as the Iron Kingdom, the "Iron King" is actually a title bestowed upon the many kings that ruled over the nation for centuries. Iron Queens do exist, but they're less prominent in the nation. Nevertheless, these queens still have the same level of authority as the Iron King. The automaton "Iron King" here refers to the latest Iron King of the now ruined (but rebuilding) Iron Kingdom, who is known to be the 369th of the generations of rulers.

So, what the hell is the Iron Kingdom, actually? The Iron Kingdom is considered to be-if not the oldest-the oldest civilization to have ever existed in the world of Medieval Quest (other users, think about this one. If you have other, older, civilizations, you're welcome to change this fact). The Iron Kingdom actually started from a small clan in a mountainous region in the northern hemisphere of the world. This clan's name has been lost after centuries, but the inhabitants of the Iron Kingdom possess a local dialect and language that actually evolved for centuries, developed by the said clan. And with the local dialect and language, the translation of the clan's name is something akin to "Silverstone" or "Obsidian". This clan is known to have been successful even in the harsh mountain region, hunting and taming local beasts of strength while also mining for precious metals.

You see, all these "metallic" stuffs going around the Silverstone Clan isn't some sort of thing I made up randomly. The people of the Silverstone Clan worship a certain god that is chronicled to have been exiled from the heavens due to his "destructive" nature. But this god is not destructive at all. The destructive nature only stems from the fact that the things that he embody are related to destruction in the future. Enter, the Nameless One, the God of Machines. While machines weren't something in the past, the God of Machines allegedly taught the Silverstone Clan of the importance of "technology" in this huge world. And so, while other primitive humans all around the world that time were still learning how to make fire, the Silverstone Clan (you can refer them as "Northerners") has already started making mines that extract precious stones, metals, and such in the high mountains of the region and tools made of the said materials.

After years and years of development, a person of importance was born in the Silverstone Clan. This "baby", or man (depending on how you see him) would become the first Iron King to have ever existed. The child grew up to be a powerful man who encouraged the clan and its people to integrate other clans and villages into their own. Some resisted and failed, but some peacefully accepted their integration. And as centuries passed, the Silverstone Clan has finally made a kingdom alongside their allies, and the said man became the first Iron King, and a distant ancestor to the Iron King I described up above.

For centuries, the Iron Kingdom developed itself substantially, conquering neighboring nations at the time and wiping out any known competition. The only kingdom that managed to hold its own against the Iron Kingdom is an early incarnation of the Malvon Kingdom (Coolot :D), which eventually "won" against the Iron Kingdom after the 369th King's transformation into an automaton. But anyways, although the Iron Kingdom looked like a bloodthirsty nation, it surprisingly brought peace to nearly half the world. And of the kingdom's allies, there were indeed some nations that became its allies. But allegedly, most of these "nations" were composed of "corrupted" humans and inhuman creatures.

With the history lesson out of the way, let's step in to see who the 369th King is. The 369th King was born in the later stages of the Iron Kingdom, which apparently hadn't changed much for the course of history. But as you know from the previous sections, this Iron Prince (remember, prince first, then king) is very different from other kings. So "different" and powerful that he's deemed to be the Nameless One's own descendant (just to add up to the lore, it was rumoured that once the Machine God actually became the 200th Iron King and did so to show that he's "proud" of them) and a blessing to the kingdom.

Eh, you know what, let's just cut to the chase of how the hell he became a goddamn robot. As you know, the Iron Kingdom is extremely fanatical towards their own mechanical religion, worshipping the Nameless One. But the 369th brings out this fanaticism even more. He's not all that delusional, but he slowly believed that he's indeed a descendant of the Machine God. And as such, he went on a quest with some of his most trusted soldiers to uncover a secret only known by his predecessors as the place where only the worthiest of the royal blood could be crowned as the Machine God's Avatar; the God-King and Eternal Ruler of the Kingdom. Although so, actually such place was never visited by any Iron Kings. I mean, some did venture there, but never actually used the place to become the kingdom's eternal ruler. That, was until 369 uncovered the secret and underwent a "ritual of stones" allegedly performed by the Nameless One himself. But apparently, he never expected what would happen to him and the fact that being the "Eternal Ruler of the Kingdom" also meant that the nation's doomed. In an instance, 369 was cursed as a mystical automaton, with his soldiers turning into mindless minions themselves that are placed under his rule. After his transformation had taken over, the Iron Kingdom and its domains suddenly collapsed by a multitude of disasters. Fissures, avalanches, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. You name it. 369 and his soldiers also got affected by the disasters, and they're buried under the secret place's rubbles for years until the Medieval Quest's present timeline takes place (the one when the other episodes are set in) and he's back to rebuild his kingdom and restore it to its former glory, coming into conflict with the other heroes and VILLAINS in the process.

I think that's all that I can tell, and sorry if it's kind of crappy. I know one of you will say that this is uselessly crap, hehe. But anyways, yeah. Feedback, folks?

VA: John Noble.