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| + | Sub's service before the Dark ages was scattered, and many times, away from the primary group of Yoshi Bodyguards. Sub worked hard against the COUE and Darkcorp remains, organizing Yoshi regiments to fight against their fleets. His actual battle service was limited, though when he did get the chance to actually fight, he was in he thick of battle, sometimes battling General Mysertio himself. | ||
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| + | Then, on the planet Yoth, Supreme Commander Mack unleashed a new weapon to turn the tide. The Yoshi Bodyguard Clone Army was in motion, and, though the battle for Yoth was a failure, Subsourian and Sneezier built upon this newly founded clone army with their magi and tech skills. Sub, in particular, gave many of them enchanted weapons and trained some in the art of magic. | ||
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“Scorch, I want to see this war come to an end. I want to have civilians go about their lives without fear of invasion. I want to see our men on parade routes not tours of duty! I want to see every planet in this miserable, war torn universe free from the grasp of the Metal Army and us with the ability to prevent any future wars!.”
-Subsourian, Anecdote 3
Subsourian the Dark (or Sub) is a Morph, a humanoid being created by dark magic long ago. He is currently a little under five thousand years of age, and at one point commanded an entire empire. He now is one of the last Yoshi Bodyguards, leading the clone army at the rank of General. Sub is depicted as a tall, thin human with black hair, pale skin, and golden eyes. He is usually clad in sky blue robes, though he has been seen bearing Yoshi Bodyguard ARC Trooper armor. Subsourian is one of the oldest RP characters still active, having appeared in the Yoshi Military three years before the The Yoshi Bodyguards were created. He regularly appears in Topmonhit’s stories and comics, and is one of the major players in the Metal Wars saga. He is on friendly terms with most Yoshi Bodyguards, although he has earned the disdain and distrust of many.
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History
Creation and Escape
Subsourian was created around 2200 BZ on the continent of Elibe. One of the most powerful dark mages in history, Nergal the Madman, had begun to create an army of Morphs to aid him in obtaining the power of dragons. Several Morphs were granted the emotions and personalities, Subsourian being one of the lucky few. Soon after his creation, a band of heroes from the neighboring country of Lycia raided Nergal’s lair at the Dread Isle, killing Nergal and the bulk of his morphs. Subsourian was one of the few survivors to flee the destruction of the gate, taking with him his master’s spellbook, the Twilight Lexicanium.
Subsourian fled to the mainland of Elibe, where bounty hunters searching for the last remants of Nergal’s army pursued him. After a war broke out on the mainland between the countries of Bern and Lycia, Subsourian fled the continent altogether, fighting refuge in a distant land with a band of mercenaries. There, he learned the art of war and tactics, and aided them in overthrowing a cruel dictator in their kingdom. However, in the last days of the conflict, Subsourian was forced to use his master’s spell, Erishikigal, to save his allies. The spell worked, but Subsourian, unable to control the spell, was hurled into the vortex of dark mana, and thought to be dead.
The Yoshi-Koopa War
Out of the Abyss
When Sub used Ereshkigal and opened up the vortex of dark mana, he was cast into the abyss between worlds, where all dark mana is spawned. Sub was sustained in a stasis there, and, for nearly two thousand years, simply remained locked between time and space.
One day, on the planet of Star World, deep in the Koopa Kingdom, mages were testing uses for dark magic. One of the spells they cats tore a vortex through a nearby town, destroying it an it’s populace. The vortex was strong enough, however, to rip Subsourian out from the Abyss and into Star World.
For about five years, Subsourian wandered, disguised as a mere goomba, the lowest of lows in the Koopa Kingdom caste system. He was later conscripted to join the Koopa Kingdom’s military, and served in their magi regiments, where he continued honing his skill for the arcane arts. Sub was forced to fight under the command of the Koopa king, Ludwig von Koopa the First.
All of this changed when Sub and his regiment were charged with attacking a small tribe of Yoshis. The Yoshis, who were divided into tribes at the time, were virtually helpless against their onslaught. When King Ludwig ordered the slaughter of a tribe who had saved their regiment from defeat, Sub was one of many who defected to the tribe to fight against Ludwig.
This defection outraged King Ludwig, and he sent his massive naval fleets (all of which using Renaissance Period technologies) to assault the traitors. Sub, his defected human ally Pentance, and the Yoshi leader, Yoshimire, all formed together to defend their island from the attack. Thus, the first Yoshi-Koopa war began.
Yoshi-Koopa War I
The Yoshis rallied together, and defended from the Koopa attack. The battle was fierce, and cost many lives on both sides. In the end, however, the Yoshis prevailed, pushing back the fleets. The Yoshis launched a counter offensive to the Koopa mainland, which ended in a complete failure.
In the next three years, the two engaged in fighting for the Yoshi Islands, both sides having to ally with and fight off other Yoshi tribes. In the end, Yoshimire was able to unite the Donut Plains under his control, while the Koopa Kingdom still held the outlying islands near their territory. This is when Subsourian devised a plan.
Through the course of the war, Subsourian, who was now one of two Supreme Generals who advised Yoshimire, had developed some primitive magi-technology. Two of his inventions turned the tide of the war. One was the mass portal network, with the ability to take in multiple people at once, allowing for swift army movements. The other was a manafire bomb, with the ability to blast through even solid iron, which was unheard of at the time.
While Yoshimire was beginning to push into the Koopa mainland, Subsourian sent in specialized mages to set up an entry portal near the Koopa’s capitol building, the Koopa Keep. Then, Subsourian himself lead in a night raid and detonated several manafire bomb in his castle, destroying the Koopa Keep. However, King Ludwig survived, and pushed his naval forces deeper into Yoshi territory, setting up a Koopa Tower as his main base of operations.
Two more years past, and the war seemed to be going nowhere. However, an event soon came to unite both factions.
The Starlite Invasion and the Ascension of the Yoshis
All of this changed around 100 BZ when several technologically advanced transports descended from the sky on the Koopa’s territories. They were the Starlites, a hyper advanced race from another world, who had sent a force to scout out Star World for its occupation. The military force took the Koopa Tower, and drove the Koopas away. They, they began to push into Yoshi territory, taking island after island.
In a desperate attempt at victory, the Yoshis and the Koopas allied together. They were still outclassed by superior weapons that rivaled even modern timeline weapons. However, what the allied factions lacked in technology, they made up in magic. The Yoshis and Koopas had managed to hold off the Starlite advance on a single naval base held by the Yoshis. After the victory, however, the Starlites managed to launch a nuclear missile on the island, completely annihilating it and its occupants. With such sheer power, the Yoshis and Koopas were demoralized.
However, drawn to this incident were the Axis, an alliance of worlds devoted to destroying the Starlites. With the Starlite presence strengthening on Star World, the Axis supported the Yoshis and the Koopas in their assault. In the end, the Elite fortress island was destroyed, and their presence was pushed off of Star World. In the final battle, however, the Yoshi ruler, Yoshimire, mysteriously went missing. No one knows his fate to this day.
After the battle, the Yoshis and the Koopas were offered massive advancements in technology if they would ally with the Axis and aid their war effort. The Koopas refused, not wanting any more to do with the war. The Yoshis, now under the rule of Subsourian, took the offer. Subsourian, however, was unpopular among many of the allied tribes, due to him not being a Yoshi himself. He offered the tribes a choice to stay on the planet or leave in space, and colonize a new world. Out of the twelve tribes united under his rule, three took the offer.
The Yoshis were horded aboard Axis ships, and sent into space. The tribes that abandoned their homeworld were deemed “Dark Yoshis,” a term that stuck with them through their legacy. This would not be the last time they would see Star World, however.
The Reign of Subsourian
The Settling of Greenflame
Around the year 150, the Axis granted the Yoshi Tribes a planet to settle on. This was a largely barren plot of land on the fringe of the known universe, known as Tarsonis. This was an oxygen rich planet, though filled with psychotically sensitive hostile creatures. Subsourian ordered the ships to settle near an ocean, and began to found a metropolis with the help of the Axis. Within ten years, the city of Greenflame was fully functional, and a crown jewel on a barren tract of space.
The Yoshi race, unknowing of democratic leadership, crowned Subsourian as their new Emperor, a role he did not take lightly. There, he sought to help the Dark Yoshis establish a new life, using Tarsonis's large mineral reserves to trade with the Axis.
The Yoshis were not the only race in Greenflame. After several years, the Durians, a race distantly related to the Zoras of Hyrule, sought new a homeland, as their planet was destroyed by the Starlites. Subsourian set up a large aquatic sector of Greenflame. A mass influx of Durians swept in, making them the second largest ethnicity in the city.
Subsourian then fufilled his side of the bargain to the axis, and formed a massive army out of the Yoshis he had, known as the Imperial Forces. The Imperials were not many in number like most of the races in the Axis, but developed amazing magi-technology, such as the Nightwind, Subsourian's first capitol ship, and the Metal Titans, which were thought to all have been destroyed until recently. Subsourian appointed Gigey Foxer and Mia Takahashi to lead the Imperials, and even set off into battle on his own in some circumstances.
The Axis Wars
Not much is known on the Axis wars, other than it had spanned since nearly 1000 BZ, when the Starlites first obtained space travel and the ability to conquer other worlds. Their leader, Skylar Luyez, an egotistical creature who's life span far exceeded the war. He sought to bring the entire universe under his rule, and for the time, he had the resources to do it.
It was about this time the Vhozons were recovering from their near annihilation by the Necrons, preventing them from stepping in. Also weakened at this point were the Celestial Architects, whose numbers were dwindling close to extinction near the rise of the Starlites. Due to the Chozo's nonviolent nature, and the Starlite's distance from them, conflict between the two was minimal. With no powers in their way, the Starlites would have trampled through the universe. However, invaded planets banded together, forming the Axis, with the express purpose of blocking the Starlite advance.
The Imperials contributions in the field of arcane studies were immense. Several battles documented showed old tribal spells created by Yoshis back on Star World being used in battle. Also documented were the massive Battlecruiser warships, and the five Metal Titans created by the Imperial force.
The Axis pushed back the Starlites to their home world of Starel, and proceeded with a land invasion. Subsourian himself headed the attack in his capitol ship, the Nightwind II. The battle was an immense failure, almost costing Subsourian his life as well as the lives of millions of others.
Starel did fall about three years later, when their Luyez was assassinated by one of his own officers and the entire empire broke into civil war. The Axis took this chance to strike, and cleared up the remaining forces. However, by this time, the Dark Yoshis were having problems of their own.
The Second and Third Yoshi-Koopa Wars
While the Axis wars began to draw to a close, Subsourian wondered what became of the Yoshi's homeworld of Star World. He sent scouts back to the planet to discover what had become of the tribes that stayed. The scouts reported a grim realization: King Ludwig von Koopa I, who had been prolonging his life by use of his mages, had reclaimed several Starlite weapons and began to use them on a conquest of Yoshi's Island. Subsourian acted instantly, sending in Imperial troops to Star World under General Mia Takahashi to quell the inbalance of power.
The Koopas, though equipped with high technology, had very little experienced in it's use. Subsourian first ordered the destruction of their moon base, and then focused in on King Ludwig's stronghold, the jungle island of Keyhaul Key. General Takahashi bombed the island with napalm charges, destroying Ludwig's massive naval force in one fell stroke. Ludwig and his officers just barely escaped, and called for a ceasefire. The King then made his way inland, his naval power crushed.
Two years later, however, Subsourian struck at the Koopa Empire's mainland, eager for revenge for past crimes of the king. The Imperials managed to make it to their new underground base camp, before another event called them back to Tarsonis.
Ludwig's Starlite technology was destroyed, and the Koopa Empire reeled in defeat for centuries to come. The anti-Yoshi sentiment between the two only grew as King Ludwig passed on, and his decedents took up the throne. However, the Emperor was having throne issues of his own.
Subsourian vs Sneezier
Between the time of the ceasefire and the third Yoshi-Koopa war, the terms between the Koopa Empire and the Imperial Yoshis were distant, and yet the two kept in contact. One specific event happened in this time that changed the two leader's perspective of their world forever.
Crown Prince Ludwig, from the modern times, had taken a time machine created by Egad and went back in time to rally two famed leaders to their cause. He deceived them both, making them believe that the Koopa Kingdom was on the brink of extinction, and Mushroom Kingdom was invading the remainder of the world. Subsourian and Ludwig put aside their differences for the period, came came back with the Crown Prince to help him.
Their orders were simple: they were to hold a space station against the invading armies. The station, unbeknown to the two, was a superweapon targeting Yoshioplis. Mexous Sniffin Sneezier and a young Yoshi named PB were sent in to disarm this weapon, and faced Subsourian in combat. Though close, Sub was faced with far superior technology, and was defeated. Crown Prince Ludwig was later to follow, allying with his future counterpart to kill off Sneezier.
Then, Bowser revealed his plan, unknowingly overheard by Sub and Ludwig. Sneezier and PB fought Bowser, but was losing, until the two stepped in on their side, destroying the station. The two were thought to be dead at the time, but escaped back to the past in Egad's time machine, promptly destroying it to ensure no more tampering with the past.
The Foxer Coup and Exile
Back on Tarsonis, year 500, Subsourian's growing power was unnerving many below him. Several attempts were made on his life, none successful. Until one of the most powerful men in the Empire decided to make a grab for his seat.
While his forces were away, and Sub was alone at his throne, General Foxer took his Honor Guard and caused a riot in the city. General Foxer himself faced Emperor Subsourian in combat, almost defeating him. However, as an act of kindness, he allowed him to leave with a group of loyalists. Sub boarded the Nightwind III, allowing to crew to go into cold sleep. Gigey Foxer disabled Sub's hyperdrive, and sent him on a long exile.
There, Subsourian drifted in space, his loyalists in cold sleep. He remembered Star World, a land the Imperials had forsaken, and slowly began to drift toward the planet with what little he had.
Eventually, the Nightwind III encountered a COUE vessel. The Confederation pirates ordered them to be boarded, but Sub refued, firing on them. Eventually, the Yoshi Bodyguards intervened, saving the Nightwind III. Subsourian was grateful, and, knowing some of the members from the time travel incident, was offered to join. Unknowing of anything else in the strange, new universe, Subsourian and his crew were all honorary Yoshi Bodyguards.
Service in the Yoshi Bodyguards
Pre-Dark Age and the Rise of the Clone Army
Sub's service before the Dark ages was scattered, and many times, away from the primary group of Yoshi Bodyguards. Sub worked hard against the COUE and Darkcorp remains, organizing Yoshi regiments to fight against their fleets. His actual battle service was limited, though when he did get the chance to actually fight, he was in he thick of battle, sometimes battling General Mysertio himself.
Then, on the planet Yoth, Supreme Commander Mack unleashed a new weapon to turn the tide. The Yoshi Bodyguard Clone Army was in motion, and, though the battle for Yoth was a failure, Subsourian and Sneezier built upon this newly founded clone army with their magi and tech skills. Sub, in particular, gave many of them enchanted weapons and trained some in the art of magic.
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