Zell Atterrius

By blood begun. By blood undone.
Father to child. Our souls turned vile.
Hunted by kin and kind. One by one they lost their mind.
No memory of the start. Just the pain of the aching heart.
Weep, Weep, Weep no more. Just another corpse upon the door.
The beginning of the End. All to god's secret's plan.
Lonely boy on the street. Power and he destined to meet.
Pure and Dark compete. Ultima his destined feat.
Little boy who had no power. Destined in a solemn hour.
A deal struck. A stroke of luck.
Protect his child's mother. Power from his own brother.
A trick and deceit. The Destined knew defeat.
God's secret's took his birthright. Here was born an eternal plight.
Power stolen and a curse enacted. A curse that could never be retracted.
Wander times maze. Endless waking days.
Immortality birthed. The look of an unearthed.
The light in truth reveals. The reflection sure conceals.
On the first day. He went to pray.
On day two. His madness grew.
On the third day. In a coffin he'd lay.
On day four. He tore out his core.
On the fifth day. His family shackled him in clay.
On the sixth day. They burned him as children would dance and play.
On the seventh day. He made them pay.
Eternal struggle forevermore. Wishing his way to death's door.
The Lych now by name. The only for whom Death never came.
God's secrets holds the key. To set this wretched soul free.
Wandering forever more. No longer wishing to find Death's door.
This cursed one to be undone. The life of a father or son.
By blood begun. By blood undone.
Note: Text in gold is the unknown last part of the curse's rhyme.

   The Archon, also known as "The Existential". The Archon is the physical embodiment of the pure energy of existence, also known as "The Archon Energy", which is an impartial energy which is found at the core of all existence within the Omniverse and is somehow connected and tied with them all. The Archon was "born" when the "manifestation of nothingness" or rather "The Void" took form. This form was known as Eros, and Eros is the primary disposition of all reality and all existence, viewing existence as chaos, and nothingness as order. In order to merge the two into perfect harmony, Eros attacked a realm, and began to collapse the realm, slowly deteriorating it away and assimilating it into the Void. It was in this realm that "The Archon" was born and held his life. Born to the name "Zell Amuri" he was a prince who was named after his adoptive father's kingdom, Zeloria. This world had seen many atrocities. The war between Gods and Dark Gods, the war of primordial beings, the desolation of a grand empire of highly advanced humanoid superiors. The rise of "Archdemons" which were a genetically cross-bred child of an Arch Dragon and a Mrion, Zell Amuri being one such child, the other his "cousin" and "brother by oath" Thorgron the Destroyer.

     Zell Amuri, Thorgron the Destoryer, Anaxii the Runekind, Karav the Pirate King, and Kyros the klepto. The names of that realm were legendary, saviors of the world. Defeating beings known as "Chaos Lords", or powerful people who resurrected, returned from death with incredible powers that influenced all of existence around them. Though this "Eros" was akin to a Chaos Lord, they were unsuccessful of stopping her power. So rather than defeat her in combat with time and research they ascertained the motive of the being known as Eros. Eros was attempting to slowly devour the realm in order to expose the "Archon Energy" that was at the heart of the reality. Anaxii the Runekind, born of both God and Dark God, surmised that if they could get a powerful magical artifact into the Archon energy it could potential revitalize the realm and save the realm. Anaxii then pressed Zell to use "Dracorex" the blade made from the corpse of his father Ire, the Emerald Arch Dragon. Zell agreed and knew that as his father/gene-donor was a defender of earth there was no better way to honor his memory.

   The final "confrontation" of Eros and the heroes was at the heart of the world, the void literally surrounding their little land mass of about 200 squared foot and a pillar of the strangest energy one had seen. The battle was short, they were so horribly outclassed, but to win in combat wasn't the goal. By time Eros had noticed the true intentions of the battle, Zell Amuri had Dracorex feet away from the pillar of pure Existential energy. Eros began to try and remove him form existence, but he was so close to the Existential energy that he powers were moving very slow and sluggish. Zell's upper body was slowly deteriorating, one leg mostly missing and he didn't have the strength to throw Dracorex into the energy. Having lived a full life, having loved, been loved and fought hard, Zell resolved that it was time to die. He continued to walk forward, knowing that it was the only way to save his realm. So he walked into the Existential energy, as Eros had intended to do. Theoretically it should have stabilized everything and thrown Eros from the realm once the energy consumed Dracorex. Dracorex never made it into the energy however.

   Eros had deteriorated his arm off short of the Archon energy and Zell Amuri was lost into the energy. Zell Amuri should have died immediately, though this was not the case. By the laws of existing reality an Arch Dragon was not to breed with a Mrion. The Mironian empires genetic experimentation forced these things together and made what was called an "Archdemon". These things were reality enders, and now one was dropped into the heart of reality itself. The existential energy surged and exploded. The realm itself was utterly ended and the void consumed it, but Zell Amuri was remembered by this energy. A creature of power that attempted to sacrifice everything to restore order and protect all life, all reality at any cost. The Existential energy ripped apart Zell's psyche, every fiber of his being painfully ripped and torn apart. His very soul undone and stretched. There was no concept of time, there was no knowing how long it had been. A single second to you was an eternity to him. An eternity of pain, of being dismembered and unwoven like a messed up science experiment.

   The existential energy unmade him, and scattered him to every realm throughout the Omniverse. A "Zell" was born everywhere at all times. Not always by the same name, not always with the same looks. But there was a Zell everywhere, and he had the same goal, and same purpose. He was to protect the fabric of reality, to protect and secure the safety of realms. Need preform genocide to do so, then so be it. Zell Amuri was reborn, in the heart of all existence he exists with the existential energy, an energy he calls "The Archon Energy". While he isn't important in every realm, he exists. In times of dire need or in order to save a realm's "Zell" the Archon energy will awaken a Zell to knowing who he is, The Archon, an Omniversal being. When he does this he understands that he is not one person in one place. It is true that physically he exists in that realm in one finite location, but his mind is scattered throughout many areas, collecting a lot of knowledge. All with the purpose of defending reality.

 Zell Atterrius was the son of Dr. Gibson Atterrius, a man whose real name was actually Dartameaze Valtiari. Dartameaze was a descendant of a long dead superpowered person known as "Ragnarox" who was one of three individuals with power, the fourth having no signs of power. Zell was a blessing to his mother "Alenya" and to Dartameaze as well. Dartameaze was well to do in the fields of genetic experimentation and research at a company known as "Gene-Tech". During this time he traveled to Ireland where he met a poor doppleganger look-alike Irish orphan named Niall. Zell noticed the child's desire to have a family and selflessly let the child "swap" places with him. His parents noticed when the accent proved to be more genuine and not just childish mimicry. Instead of being able to discern one form the other, they put the boys side by side. Zell forced upon himself an Irish accent, and he and Niall made use of a little trick Zell thought up to fool the DNA test. Subsequently the test proved they were both Zell...and so rather than argue Dartameaze scoffed as his wife accepted in this stray thing.

   Late nights, horrific hours and an ever ambitious partner known as "Mister Summers" would keep Dartameaze consistently working as the company continued to fall deeper and eeper into debt. When Gene-Tech was "doomed" to fail, Dartameaze was found, murdered in his own lab. Zell was only five at the time, and his father never had shown much love or affection towards him, in fact Zell had been an outlet for a great deal of stress. Unfortunately, Zell still missed having a father all the same. Zell lived a year with his mother, and she eventually thought of remarrying the man Mr.Summers. She resolved to do so in hopes of many things, though fate would have a very sick and twisted turn for the young man. He arrived home one day to found that his mother had taken her own life, hanging herself. Zell was broken, and all he had was Mr.Summers, who turned out to be ore abusive, neglectful and utterly cruel than Dartameaze. Mr.Summers used Niall in an experiment to upload a human consciousness into an artificial intelligence and retaining the knowledge and sentience that one was still alive. When Mr.Summers succeeded, he refused to put Niall back in a human body and burned the noted, deleted all traces of research, leaving Zell truly alone.

   With the assistance of a few of Dartameazes' old friends, Zell was able to surgically install a computer chip into his forearm, one that allowed Niall to access and coexist inside Zell's body. Their existence was peaceful for years, until a test-tube child was born to be Zell's "clone-twin" of sorts. This younger "twin" was named Corbin and life would soon be hell for the both of them. Zell had only known being beaten, being berated, and keeping his nose buried into books. Being victimized by a psychologist was one of his most haunting memories but all too soon they turned up dead for unknown reasons that Zell had absolutely nothing to do with. Life was going poorly as always, but things eventually began to look up. Of course they had to get worse first.   Eventually, Mr.Summers, had one last experiment. He stabbed Zell in the throat with a serum and hooked Niall into a device which transmuted his very soul into an electronic Artificial Intelligence, and downloading it into the chip in Zell's arm before leaving Zell for dead. He then proceeded to count Zell as a failure, before turning on the clone child Corbin. Zell, however did not die form the serum, and the Lych's carelessness would get the better of him. In the end Mr.Summers was shocked to find that Zell had survived, though all too pleased. Zell, in anger,  shoved him out the window from the top story of the Gene-Tech tower. Zell watched him splatter and he laughed. Years of being beaten, verbally tortured and made a pin-cushion had finally been rectified.... or so he thought.  

   Zell would learn that Mister Summers was none other than the villain known as "The Lych" and soon Zell developed an exosuit worthy of fighting and combating his "immortal" foe. For years Zell would do the right thing, remaining hidden from the spot light as he slowly became the most intelligent man in the world, and his secret double life as a exo-suited poster boy proving to be hazardous but all the more worth it. Eventually he was outed and a seventeen year old piloting an exosuit to combat dangerous metahumans didn't sit well with his company, so he went stagnant. He inherited Gene-Tech and he turned the company around, from debt to the worlds leading Genetic/Bio-engineering and lead of genetic research. He was a global company and he was well resourced and highly spoken of.

   Events of his past remaining the past, Zell unfortunately caused the death of the woman he loved, and underwent a dark transformation into the being known as Ouroboros. An Ethereal whose energy could create life, and with such power he gave birth to several chest-bursting babies. Jordan, son of Yamm. Shael, son of Shara. Michael, son of Sean. Silus and Hel, twin son and daughter of Sean. As Ouroboros Zell was a villain that none had ever seen, the power quite literally deteriorated his brain and drove him into madness before he was able to fight and regain control of himself following the events of Elena Vexus' attempt at taking over Washington DC. When in the presence of the one who tore rifts in reality, The Archon Energy revealed Zell Atterrius as his own vessel, and separated the entities.

  From then forward Archon, finally Zell Atterrius once more, returned to his benevolent ways, and his intentions of keeping Reality in place, and stopping beings like Raziel and The Lych at every turn. Though fate would twist things again once more for young Zell. It was revealed that Zell was forced to amalgamat himself tmporarily to the entity known as "The Lych" in order to drive back Raziel, who was then later killed by his son Michael. In this amalgamation Zell learned the History of the Lych. Essentially he learned that Raziel created "The Lych's Curse", he learned that The Lych was more connected with him than he ever realized, being as The Lych was really Mister Summers and even had a hand in Zell's birth. He learned that The Lych desired to toughen and harden Zell so that he coud one day kill Raziel and free him from his curse. Once Zell learned of this he forced himself free of the amalgamated being and fled to resurrect Raziel, who offered him life for the knowledge of how to kill The Lych, permanently.

   Zell confronted The Lych in Washington with his son Silus, but as Silus was about to be framed for murder, Zell took the fall and was arrested. The Lych reveled his plan to summon Raziel and kill him by dropping him in "The Netherverse". With the stars aligned as they did, Sean and his family appeared right in the middle of the ritual, and Zell was sucked into the Netherverse instead. As the portal threatened to rage and devour the entire city, Zell was forced face to face with the ideals of death, the concepts of life and his duty as "The Archon" in accordance to the survival of his family. The Archon Energy pulled him through the vortex portal that led to the Netherverse after he accepted his role and he confronted The Lych. Zell announced that The Lych's Curse could only be broken by sacrificing a child of The Lych, or the Lych's father. Zell manipulated his gauntlets "Ender" and summoned Imperium to them, impaling both the Lyuch and himself upon the blade. Zell spoke to the Lych, calling him "father" and revealing that he saw the Lych's memories of giving him up. With the Talisman of truth upon the Lych's chest Zell asked him a final question, and got a final answer before The Lych faded away, and Zell was turned to ashes.

   Silus sought out Raziel to learn of a way to resurrect his father. Raziel then told Silus of a way to do so, but neglected to tell Silus the price of doing so was his own life. When Zell killed the Lych, Zell became the cursed one. As the Lych's tale even states "From father to son" and that their souls turning vile is saying that murder, a vile action is what tainted them. By blood Begun, by blood undone is to say that just as The Lych was killed by a son or a father, a son or a father may sacrifice themselves to resurrect The Lych. Silus, ignorant of the sacrifice went off in search of the solution alone. He found it, and he branded himself with the mark of sacrifice. Zell was reborn but to see Silus die was too much for him to bear.  It was then "The Woman in White" or rather, his resurrected first lover, Shara appeared and offered to save Silus life, if Zell agreed to hand over Imperium. Zell reluctantly agreed and Silus was saved as Share, The Woman in White gained control of Imperium, and ultimately The Lych/The Archon himself.