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# Demandred (Goat)

### **"Knight of Decay"**

**COMBAT SPECS**

▪️HEALTH — 100
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▪️POWER ATTACK — 1.5
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▪️RECHARGE RATE — 4–5 turns
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▪️DEXTERITY — 10
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▪️PROTECTION — 140
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▪️CRITICAL STRIKE CHANCE — 4%
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▪️SPEED — 3 tiles
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▪️ATTACK RANGE — 1 tile

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**ACTIVE ABILITY: SOUL EXHUMATION**

The power of Decay envelops the remains of a fallen hero, returning them to unlife. Revives a fallen ally or summoned pet as an Undead that fights on your side.

The Undead has the passive ability "Life Drain": each attack restores Health to both itself and the Knight of Decay equal to 50% of the damage dealt.

Undead Attack Range — 2 tiles. Only one Undead can exist at a time.
 Cooldown — 5 turns.
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**ACTIVE ABILITY: MALICE**

Forces all enemies within a 5-tile radius to attack the Knight of Decay. Decay corrodes their weapons, reducing their Power Attack by 30% for 1 turn.
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**PASSIVE ABILITY: DECAY**

Nothing lasts forever. Everything will become decay. The metal and flesh of all enemies rot away into dust. Deals 25 damage to all enemies every turn.
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#### HERO STORY

Demandred barely remembers his father. His entire childhood was spent with his mother, a simple healer who lived in a small mountain village at the foot of Dragon Ridge. She treated the sick with herbs, helped women in childbirth, and never turned away anyone who came seeking help.

But the time came when fear proved stronger than reason.

The Inquisitors of the Children of Light began traveling across the surrounding lands. They searched for those they believed to be servants of Darkness, witches, and heretics. A single accusation from one of the villagers was enough for Demandred's mother to be condemned as a witch.

When the boy was only a few years old, she was tied to a stake in the village square and burned alive.

He saw everything.

He heard her final screams.

And he remembered the faces of those who called themselves the Children of Light.

While the adults were occupied with the execution, Demandred managed to escape. For several months, he wandered at the foot of Dragon Ridge, hiding in forests, abandoned mines, and deserted huts. Hunger, cold, and loneliness should have claimed the child's life, but fate decided otherwise.

High in the mountains, he was found by the Servants of Decay.

They gave him food, shelter, and, for the first time in many months, called him one of their own. But not everyone was worthy of joining them.

Before entering the Order, Demandred swore an oath to serve Decay and to carry out the will of the Great Lord until his final breath. From that day on, his former life came to an end.

The years transformed the frightened boy into an unbreakable warrior. Day after day, he studied the teachings of Decay, mastered the art of combat, and hardened his body until he proved worthy of undergoing the Order's greatest trial—the initiation into the Knights of Decay.

Necromancers and Gravesmiths prepared his body for the ancient ritual.

The heavy black armor was not placed upon him like ordinary armor.

It was fused into his flesh.

Iron entered his body. Chains fused with his muscles. Plates grew into his bones. Rivets and seams became a permanent part of him.

From that day on, Demandred could no longer remove his armor.

He did not wear it.

He lived inside it.

After his initiation, Demandred became one of the greatest Knights of Decay and one of the Order's supreme commanders on the battlefield. He is entrusted with the hardest battles, the most dangerous campaigns, and the most important military operations. His name inspires fear in his enemies, while to the Servants of Decay he has long become a symbol of unbreakable will and martial valor.

But deep within, Demandred is driven by more than faith in Decay.

He still remembers the fire.

He remembers his mother's face.

And every time he meets the Children of Light on the battlefield, he sees not warriors before him, but those who once took everything from him.

To everyone else, he is the merciless Knight of Decay.

To himself, he is the child who was never able to forgive.