Keos was built within just one week for the final round of the 2012 Bio-Cup, vs Nick V and @Monarth.
The category was “Your Best” or, literally, to just come up with something to wow the judges. Unfortunately due to administrative issues the contest ran over another two weeks more than I could give due to my starting at university, and Nick ended up being disqualified. I was so angry with the deadline extension I nearly didn’t enter at all but, in the end, I decided to make the best of a bad job and put together a WIP I had half done already. Far from “my best”, (especially compared to previous entries Lehvak, Senkhrast, Tenum, Bennus and MATRIARCH) but, hey, at least it was something.
Perhaps fittingly, Keos is one of the most unpleasant characters in the Cyclic Plane Storyline.
Keos, also known as “Strider”, is a Dark Hunter operating on a reformed Spherus Magna in the great swathe of desert that still remains between New Atero, Vulcanus, Tajun and Drachen’s Hope.
Wearing the immoral Great Mask of Scavenging, Keos fights a war of endurance against the remaining feral vorox, sustained by their life force. His armour, a relic from his days as a Knight of Spherus Magna, is patched with pieces of vorox shell and wasteland junk.
Keos has long since lost his Toa Tool. His Arc-Focus Engine is faulty and no longer grants him access to the dwindling elemental energy in the world. Instead he wields a double-barreled shotgun and a sword fashioned out of venomous vorox tails.
Keos made his money by selling scrap and vorox parts and guarding caravans like Bennus’ as they crossed the desert. Originally independant, he was quick to side with the Dark Hunters as they muscled in on the area, under the command of the shady figure known only as The Baron. He was often at odds with Tavryn.
A definite example of a hero living long enough to see themselves become the villain, Keos once served under Knight-Commander Irohs, but his defeat by Gloriana during the War of the Weave shamed him and pushed him to the fringes of the empire he inhabits now.
