"Little Lantern, burning for hope and prosperity. What do you know of power? What do you know of destruction? You know nothing, your tiny mind has yet to see what lies beyond the veil of space and time. You say you fight for freedom, for honour, to defend the weak. But what is coming is beyond your ability to defend against. If you think I am the harbinger of destruction, the bringer of woe and misery, you are not prepared for what will come next." -Orlok to a Blue Lantern.
The deadliest and most destructive of the icon's servants, Orlok is a force of pure destruction, known as the Eternal for it's undying nature, the lord of the Elementals is a being that exists only to tear down what creation has made. A fire elemental from a distant universe, Orlok is the lord of a vast army of elementals, the third type of being that can withstand being commanded by the Icon's vast worldmind in addition to the undead and the mechanical.
A mighty conqueror who waged war across the planes of his native universe, Orlok became known as the eternal for his seeming inability to die. He conquered world after world and put more still to the torch. As lord of all fire elementals, he was a pyromaniac with no equals nor even serious rivals. His love of fire was such that he would often create spells to ensure that the solar systems he burned would remain forever blazing, appearing from space as vast stars that never faltered in their burning glory.
But his age of conquest would not last forever. When the Icon came to his universe to feed, he threw his armies at the thing, but the hordes of Iconoclasms and other such beasts drove his armies back, and the Icon itself was powerful far beyond what he could manage or muster enough force to overcome. He had no tricks left up his sleeve, no way of defeating the terror from beyond the stars, and there was no hope of rescue for him, as the Icon was far beyond any of the other powers of his universe, or even all of them combined.
Sensing his doom, Orlok came to the devourer of universes and offered it his surrender, knowing that he had lost. The Icon surprisingly accepted on the condition that he serve the creature as it's destroyer and executioner. In return, the Icon made him lord of all the elements and turned his army of Elementals into the harbingers of destruction. He betrayed those allies who fought with him against the Icon, and he forever solidifed his Moniker of the Eternal, for he would pay any price to ensure his continued existence, an eternity fueled by his ultimate cowardice.
Now under the command of the Icon, Orlok and his armies left the dead husk of his native universe as it was consumed utterly by the Icon. Whereas the Electrical Protectorate would serve as the Icon's numberless tide and the Black hand it's stealthy dagger, Orlok's forces would be it's hammer of destruction, unsubtle but unstoppable. A dark force that would smash all that it encountered into pieces and leave nothing but misery and woe in it's wake, an army that embodied primal, destructive fury.
The elemental and energon horde would be dubbed the Blazing Horde. For it was an force that would put entire universes to the torch to prepare them to be fed to the Icon. While the armies of the icon rarely meet or cooperate, the Blazing Horde is the one that most frequently brokers deals of cooperation between the armies of the Icon as they most often require being summoned to a target world to destroy it utterly in the universe that hunger's dark name.
The Blazing Horde is the most recent arrival to our universe, having arrived a mere billion and a half years ago, and already they have brought quadrillions of galaxies in our universe to utter destruction, smashing them before the limitless of elemental fury. In battle, the Blazing Horde uses Elementals and Energons of all sorts; not just the classic four and positive and negative energons. This has lead to the defeat of countless foes who were preparing their armies for just these six types of foes.
Powerful elemental mages turn the very matter and energy of assaulted worlds into yet more energons and elementals, providing for an overwhelming force of the supernatural that quickly break down any coherent defence against them. Thanks to their typically overwhelming individual power and numbers, the Blazing Horde can overwhelm virtually any defence set up against them by any enemy. They have repeated this process from universe to universe, preparing them for their master's coming, always making sure to cultivate psychics in the universes they attack to bring the Icon there even faster.
When the world they have targeted has been destroyed, Space energons will then take them to the next detected world to repeat the same process. The Blazing Horde has some minor elements located on the Earth, but so far the main advances are comfortably far away from the Earth even as they rampage through the galaxy. But it is only a matter of time before the Blazing Horde eventually reaches the Earth, and the people of that world will face a foe unlike any other.
So destructive is the blazing legion and so powerful is Orlok that many have attributed the effects of the Icon's approach on the Vine Prime Universe to it instead of the true source. He has been called many names "Thrazadgar the ruiner" By the Watchers, "Alfarinesh" or "the great destroyer" by the Eldar, "The Harbinger of the flame" by the Kree. But to all who oppose him, he is ruination incarnate. To him, our universe is nothing more than another lamb to be slaughtered at the altar to appease an dark being whose hunger knows no bounds.
Short of the Icon itself, Orlok is quite likely the greatest threat of them all. He combines the traits that make each member of the Black Hand's triumvirate deadly into one horrific whole. One that has served the Icon for longer than any of the other armies of the great devourer that have come to our reality. Thus the earth can be very glad that so far it has not yet received the destroyer's attentions.
Orlok so far has not tasted the sting of defeat during his stay in the Vine Prime universe, having slaughtered all he has come across, from lanterns, to novamen, to space marines to so called gods. His lethal combination of ruthless genius, overwhelming physical power, dark magic, and mastery over the elements and energies have made him formadible in the extreme, and that is of course, not saying anything about the Blazing horde.
Orlok is the most powerful and dangerous of the Icon's servants, being indeed so mighty that he has his own super powerful heralds known as the Archomentals, beings whom he has deemed worthy of having a fraction of the Power Eternal and given great control over a single element or energy. He has hundreds if not thousands of such Archomentals at his disposal, beings of all kinds, Elementals, Energons, Undead, the Living, even Gods who were in awe of Orlok's greater power.
Orlok is something of a blood knight, only gracing worlds attacked by the Blazing Horde with his presence if he believes that there is something worthy for him to fight on that world. As of yet, Orlok has deemed that the heroes of the Earth are not worthy of his time to fight. Indeed, he deems the Earth something to be left to Vrakmul and the Black Hand, whom he deems to be a cowardly wretch who insults the icon by working from the shadows.
But as the strands of fate tie ever more strongly around the Earth, some who know of Orlok on the Earth fear that he and his blazing horde will come if the Black hand and Electrical protectorate prove to be incapable of subduing the Earth in preparation for the coming of the dread Icon. If such an event comes to pass, the Earth would be devastated to an extent that could be scarcely imagined even if it were to repel the Eternal one. His advance is sending ripples throughout the very fabric of the cosmos, bringing forth visions of the entire universe on fire before those with the gift of prophecy, visions that grow more frequent and vivid as he puts more and more of the universe to the torch.
"Little man, cowering behind your soldiers, your walls, your ships. You think you can hide from me. You think that my bloodlust will be sated if you simply throw enough corpses at me. But you fail to understand me. I am not some mere tyrant to be bargained with. I am not some mere biological who will take prisoners. I am not here to conquer your world. I am here to destroy it Grand Accuser, I am Orlok, I am Tharidizun, I am the destroyer, I am the end of time, and I come for you."-Orlok as he destroyed a major Kree world.
Statistics
The lord of the Blazing hordeHeight: Variable, prefers to tower over others at well over twenty meters.
Weight: Unknown
Identity: Blissfully unknown by the general public of earth
Occupation: Destroyer of worlds
Enemies: All things that do not serve the icon
Allies: the Black Hand, the Electrical Protectorate
Aliases: The Eternal One, Tharidizun the destroyer, the bringer of the endtimes, the hand of ragnarok, the everburning, the Blood Lord, the doom of all, he who blazes, the Atomic Ebonpyre.
Goals: The destruction of all things
Age: Without number
Birthday: Meaningless
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Powers
Strength: Orlok's strength is without measure or equal, he is at the very least as strong as Kargoth the destroyer. Adamantium is as nothing before his might, and overpowering him is virtually impossible, foes seeking to defeat Orlok would do best to avoid trying to match him in a battle of raw strength and power.
Durability: Orlok is incomprehensibly durable, and even if he is destroyed, he simply posseses another mass of energy and elemental matter and reforms within a matter of moments, though he does require specially prepared samples of such to reform to full immediately.
Regeneration: As long as Orlok has access to elemental matter or energy of any sort, he can draw upon them to restore his body, he frequently consumes his own minions to this effect, so for this purpose he always keeps omnimentals around them as they can provide him with everything he needs.
Intelligent: Orlok is a canny and ruthless foe with an inhuman mind capable of great strategic and tactical genius. While many would assume that Orlok is a stupid brute, he is very fond of manipulating this view of him to his advantage, relishing in the surprise his foes will experience when they find out that their conceptions were folly.
Lord of the elements: All of the elements and their combinations are Orlok's to command, though sapient creatures are better able to resist his command.
Master of energy: All forms of energy are at Orlok's beck and call, though again, sapient beings are capable of resisting Orlok's indomitable will.
Lord of time and space: As in his universe, time and space were forms of energy, Orlok was given control over these two fundamental aspects of the cosmos, his power with them is formadible, and has yet to be truly tested, as he rarely deigns anything to be a sufficient enough threat to actually make use of these powers.
Incomprehensible mind: Attemping telepathic contact with Orlok would be attempting telepathic contact with a being of vast evil who has been committing unspeakable atrocities for an age far longer than the universe has been around, such folly would only result in insanity.
Magic: Orlok is at least as powerful as Vrakmul in the arcane arts, which he uses to great effect in order to supplement his elemental and energy control. To boost his own magical prowess, he frequently consumes the souls of mages to bolster his own power. To further worsen things, Orlok is massively resistant to enemy magic, to the point that most spell casters would likely have more success throwing mundane rocks at him then they would lobbing fireballs.
The power eternal: Something like a supernatural equivalent to the power cosmic, this power lets Orlok manipulate and bend reality on a truly vast scale, enough to exceed even primal gods in level of power. The Power Eternal is theorized to be as strong as the power cosmic itself, and Orlok often gives it to his own heralds, further solidifying his image as the Icon's greatest servant. Orlok is powerful enough to destroy entire universes on his own.
True form: Orlok has been exposed to the power of the Icon that he has a second, even more powerful form that he uses as an ultimate trump card. This boosts his abilities to the point where he could stand toe to toe with Multi-eternity, where he is capable of destruction on a truly multiversal scale.
Elemental traits: Orlok has no readily exploitable weak points such as internal organs or joints, and has no need to eat, sleep or breathe. As he is not "living" in the normal sense of the word, he is capable of surviving telepathic contact with things such as the Icon, and he additionally immune to any sort of poison or disease, even if they are supernatural or genetically engineered.
Agile: Orlok is surprisingly deft, quick, and agile for something of his size, easily capable of running circles around most foes, additionally, he is capable of flight, "swimming" through the ground, going through water, and teleporting through fire. His reflexes are peternatural and borderline prescient.
Shapeshifting: As his body is made out of a mixture of energies and elements, he is easily capable of altering his form to any shape he desires, though taking on the form of a truly living creature is beyond his abilities without magic, and even then he almost never has a need to disguise himself as a "material" creature.
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