Avalon Lore: Early Years PT 1.

WARNING: TAZZ IS RATHER INCOHERENT. This isn't supposed to be a work of art here. misspellings kept intact.

Cyanogynist - Today at 12:14 AM
-THERE WAS AN IMAGE HERE-
"can i have lore" "just not up my gorilla"
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:17 AM
You can have lore as long as you actually ask for what lore you want.
So what lore do you want?
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:18 AM
/infodump avalonfirstyears
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:18 AM
huzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzah.
Avalon was initially no more than a kid living in something...err, analgous to Birningham, Alabama.
I say analogous for a reason.
But that's not relevant yet and hopefully NEVER will be.
I suspect you already know why I hope this, but anyways.
Avalon was kind of forcifully destined for more. Short of it is, a mildly-divine entity needed a quick respawn, tried to fetus-jack him and wound up on the recieving end of Soul Mark Olympia's signature move: The Chains of Light.
This wasn't an ability that Avalon was aware of, but it came into very sudden effect without any warning whatsoever at the worst possible time. The abilities this mildly divine entity had included transformation into alternate forms, and Avalon was due to finally get his powers in the standard trope of adolescent being a time of superpower gain.
This was painful.
FUCKING painful.
Fortunately a mysterious stranger arrived to help him out in his time of extreme, near-lethal pain.
UNfortunately, and what is ultimately the first catalyst in a long series of catalysts that ruined everyone's lives at the time, this mysterious stranger had an agenda and effectively kidnapped the poor sap.
Avalon was whisked ridiculously far from home, to the point where only this jerkface knew where he was from at all. He was intended to just be stowed away somewhere 'safe' and 'isolated from society' wherein he could be contacted, but others found him first.
To put it bluntly, the now-scared and now-superpowered Avalon was promptly frighetened by THEIR agenda, which was basically to kidnap him again, and unintentionally made them explode.
He fainted.
At this point he was found by the local law enforcement, which, in this case, happened to include the heads of the military of the world that Avalon stumbled upon.
This world, as it happens, was the capital of a multi-dimensional empire to basically put most of the Multiversal factions in the current multiverse to damn shame.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:25 AM
i wish mspal could access dms
this could be a good pastebin
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:25 AM
Mph.
Ill pastebin it myself later.
Moving on.
Before Avalon awoke again, the stranger came back.
The Stranger had powers of his own-indeed, the whole fucking world Avalon was transplanted to had such powers, as did almost everyone else-had explicitly told him to hide his name before he awoke and feign amnesia for his 'safety.'
He was confused enough to be stupid and do it, thus giving the name you now know him as. His real name is undisclosed.
From there, he started actually getting some names.
The world he was on was known as Cavix; the city he was in was known as Valthume, the capital of the Onlisk Republic.
The people who found him were, aside from the generic police officers, some of their highest-ranking military powers (mostly there on discussion of terrorism issues).
This included Geoffrey Exius, the infamous 'Invincible Bull' and basically the second-most-powerful figure in authority in armed combat that the Onlisk Republic had, and by far their most powerful asskicker.
This also included Iris Novolos, a rather young but extremely talented scout that was a major part of the reconnisance division, and T.E.A.L, as he liked to be called because his real name (which TEAL is an acronym of) is just too long, basically one of Geoffrey's second-in-commands.
TEAL is also the identity of this stranger.
Finally there was Avonu Halcy, the current Govenor of the Onlisk Republic, which was the highest position of power they have in the governmental branch, and formerly a member of the armed forces as well.
He wasn't part of the group that found Avalon but happened to be there for his retrieval at the time.
A conversation broke out due to his intense powers and TEAL made the suggestion to have Avalon be trained directly under Geoffrey to keep his powers under control-after all, he did unintentionally make three men explode. (They had pardoned him for the manslaughter while he was unconscious).
Much argument was had but they accepted and agreed to start in a week after Avalon adjusted.
This is where shit starts going REALLY downhill. After everyone else left, TEAL, the Stranger from before mind you, basically spilled the beans in as much as he could on the political climate of the Onlisk Republic as well as its biggest threat.
Due to a religious schism, a radical branch of an otherwise-peaceful religion, this branch being known as the Julisk-Taw, have assembled under the banner of the Absolvers. The Absolvers had already been defeated and their previous leader had been slain. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Avonu was the leader's brother and still supporting them.
You can imagine that being the fucking Govenor might undermine their efforts in stopping them.
To say nothing of the corrupted lackeys that Avonu's good word as a 'war hero' had managed to put into office to further rot the government that the Terrorist Absolvers hated so much.
Their ultimate goals were to (a) cause Armageddon and (b) destroy what the Absolvers believed to be a terminally-corurpted government in the Onlisk Republic, not necessarily in that order.
TEAL, in response to learning this, assembled Eon Sky, who were...Also Terrorists.
You can see where this is going, kind of.
TEAL detected Avalon's serious power levels. Nothing TOO unprecedented by all means but he knew of a few reveals he opted to not reveal right then and there.
Somewhat more unprecedented in a kid his age, however.
TEAL 'really' didn't want to drag Avalon there, REALLY he didn't, but he was running out of manpower and out of hope due to one failed mission after another to assassinate the corrupted officials and eventually Avonu.
Coincidentally, while space travel existed, TEAL was the ONLY guy who knew where the hell Avalon's home was in comparison to everything else due to his insane foresight, and offered to transport Avalon safely back home, unharmed and reputable, should he comply.
Avalon had no real choice.
We're not entirely done yet, though.
Later that day, in getting a physical and power-check to observe EXACTLY what Avalon was capable of, the inevitable topic of Soul Tattoos came up. You'll learn about that later.
I mean, Soul Tattoos in general.
But as stated, Avalon had two Soul Marks:
Abolitia, which generates the Alightment and at the time was relatively common;
And Olympia, which is like the Infinity Plus One Sword of Soul Marks and of which their known users had been counted in single digits.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:41 AM
that's the two soulmark syncs used in Anarchy
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:41 AM
It also revealed the mildly-divine being from before and Avalon's full nature; being connected to him in such a manner, Avalon had effectively not only become him, but the poor sap himself was now basically his slave.
Oh, and he was no longer human.
More fainting ensured.
For the next year, Avalon struggled with the reasonable dilemma of his new abilities, power and species (which, while otherwise a total benefit, is rather alienating because it did make him look a bit like a fish) as well as the reasonable dilemma of being drafted into fucking Terrorism while training under the very government he was going to betray.
This went on nearly a year before TEAL was finally found out as the leader of Eon Sky. No other names were given in that raid and no-one else was caught, but TEAL was executed.
His second-in-command and now-leader, Mario Azval, was informed of teh coordinates Avalon needed, fortutiously, but this was a pretty bad blow as TEAL was a badass.
Guess who absolutely NEEDED to be on the team for their next mission to steal a just-finished military prototype spaceship to get the hell off the planet and start actually working their magic?
Avalon complied.
Well, actually no, skipped a part.
Avalon actually declined initially becuase at this point, fuck this shit. He had no investment beyond the coordinates and he suspected Mario really didn't have them.
It wasn't too long after this (in what was a tragic coincidence) that the Absolvers decided to get REALLY bold and attack Valthume's government offices, where up 'til this point Avalon was basically living in, rather secretly.
Face-to-face with one of their elites and nearly killed by her (I don't feel like I need to name every character now), Avalon had only just managed to nearly put her down, with a personal vow that the Absolvers would put him ten feet under for it.
NOW he accepted because he was more than happy to pay Avonu back for what he felt like was a deliberate attack and a "I know you're part of them" thing.
Avalon later learned that Avonu in fact did not even approve of that brash, reckless and stupid attack and definitely didn't approve of the attack on an innocent then-teenage boy. Special powers or no that was really just morally rephrensible.
Of course, Avvie had no way of knowing that.
Right then.
With his training mostly complete at this point, Avalon was a force to be reckoned with.
not a direct attacker, Avalon's abilities nevertheless stretched the limits of subterfuge.
And when he actually had to directly fight, Olympia as a direct combat soulmark could not be denied.
this, on top of the hundred-or-so Eon Sky operatives that were, while not as powerful in such a raw manner, were nevertheless badasses in their own right, managed to almost totally secure the ship.
Of course, this wans't a clean operation and alarms went off.
Geoffrey Exius, for his proximity, rushed to help.
It says a lot about someone's life when the worst decision they made was totally reasonable at the time, right?
Geoffrey had managed to pin Avalon and naturally hesitated on a killing blow.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:50 AM
it is weird
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:51 AM
Avalon managed to slip away from his grip via teleportation during this time and escaped to the now-stolen ship. Eon Sky celebrated the first victory ever with Avalon as a 'good luck charm' while Geoffrey flipped his shit over what he could only see as...
...well, terrorists putting a kid under duress.
That's pretty reasonable.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:51 AM
what is duress
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:51 AM
Uh
Basically you're being forced to commit crimes by outside sources.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:52 AM
got it
is the lore done yet
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:52 AM
I think it's either a reason to not get jailed or a reason to jail someone.
I may be misremembering terms, this was from a High School law class.
In any case.
Avalon, continuing training without assistance, proceeded to become an unfrotunately integral part of multiple attacks across the Onlisk Repbulic's territory, only occasionally broken up by interrupting attacks on the Absolvers.
This culuminated in a lucky stroke; Avonu and company were to meet in a secretive location that Eon Sky caught wind of. Unbenownst to them, Geoffrey and Iris ALSO caught wind of this.
Eon Sky proceeded to fight against the Absolver's forces and Avalon, after a long fight, managed to kill Avonu and a few other high-ranking Absolver leaders, basically tearing off the head.
Before I go on, I forgot a big detail.
I'm typing this without a refernece so forgive me.
AS could be expected of suddenly being thrust into a new world, no-one spoke English.
Avalon needed telepathy to communicate, which is great and all, but avalon couldn't be bothered to learn the language on top of training himself daily and trying to learn how the world worked properly.
Geoffrey and Iris, however, were both immune to telepathy, and gear could block it out, so occasionally he relied on Mario and others to figure shit out.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:56 AM
3muchlore5me
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:57 AM
The aformentioned duo rushed to the scene, and trying to take everything in, Gear said "give me like 5 minutes."
Mario had an agenda and frevrish loyalty to Teal, to say nothing of what he believed to be corrupted. Realizing that if he told the truth Avalon would cut all ties to them (and the rest would still be jailed) he twisted that into saying that THEY had five minutes.
This...Was bad.
Avalon and the rest of Eon Sky bolted.
Once to safety, Mario opted to have everyone split to keep heat off them and taught Avalon how to pilot a rudimentary spaceship.
Now, unkbenownst to Mario, Avalon had finally manged to figure out the coordinates all on his lonesome; TEAL wrote them on a piece of paper to make sure that they weren't just commited to memory, and Avalon cracked the safe.
Avalon naturally returned home immediately.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:59 AM
lore overload
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:59 AM
You'd think all would be well after that, right?
This is only halfway through.
Cyanogynist - Today at 12:59 AM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
The Nonexistent Tazz - Today at 12:59 AM
I agree!
We'll continue tomorrow.