Black Prior
Real Name: Vortiger
(Part 1)
Race: Human
Faction(s): Knights
Hero Type: Heavy
Age: In his late twenties or early thirties
Gender: Male
Universe: For Honor
Voice Actor: Graham McTavish
Appearance: Heavy heroes who wield the large kite shield and longsword. Their armor consists of leather, black steel, and cast iron. Chainmail lies beneath everything with leather above it. Plate armor covers their arms and legs.
Bio: Once they were former friars and nuns of a religious order, but their allegiance to Apollyon corrupted their morals over time. The dark agents fight alongside the Knights but are free from the code of chivalry. Whatever victory's cost, the Black Priors will pay the price. Once Apollyon's faithful warriors, today they return from exile to fight with their leader, Vortiger, reinventing their legacy and bringing fresh chaos to the battlefield.
Vortiger, once a noble knight and leader of the Holy Order of Balaur, he and his knights took a dark road after crossing paths with Apollyon.
Vortiger was one of the greatest Knights in the Order of the Holy Balaur, elite prior-warriors who would spread the Knights' cause throughout the realm. He was the 'knightliest' of the order, protecting the weak and slaying the wicked with his blade and kite shield.
But his faith in the Holy Balaur was shaken the day he met Apollyon. She shared with him her conviction that this world had no room for sheep. The path of the wolves was the true path to success. She promised him a special place for his order. And so when civil war broke out, Vortiger led a band of priors from the Holy Balaur, renaming himself "Camio".
The Holy Balaur was rechristened The Black Prior, a dark order of Knights who were free of the code of chivalry. They became the terrifying force tasked with drawing out the 'true wolves'. They were ruthless warriors who cut a trail of terror across the land.
When the tides of war turned and Apollyon was defeated, the Black Prior dispersed and disappeared. For years, they were silent.
Then the earth rumbled again, threatening humanity. The Black Prior emerged from exile and, in a show of good faith, pledged their swords to the Knights. No one knows where they came from, but the Knights agreed-this dark force would help prepare for a new cataclysm. They would do anything and everything to advance the Knights' cause. And for Vortiger, this was a chance to erase mistakes of the past; to prove the path of the Black Priors was the true path to righteous victory.
He is very adamant about carrying out the creeds of Apollyon's ideals along with his own vision of his faction's modus operandi and projecting them onto the world. He holds a twisted heroic viewpoint that runs counter to many of the superheroes, not unlike Night Raid and the Regime at times. To him, the time of repentance has long passed. Mortals that had many chances to ask the Lord for forgiveness for their transgressions but repeatedly pushed Him aside are only worthy of these three things in hell...
Chaos, damnation, and death…
In his own words,
"Mala ultro adsunt. Misfortune comes uninvited. It hungers for blood, craving eternal darkness. The time to repent is over! I will take up arms again. Step out of the shadows and teach them true darkness!"
In short, no one is safe from Vortiger's sword of judgment. For those, that have the unfortunate luck of encountering a Black Prior, or let alone, Vortiger, may God help them.
Intro Motion
1st: Vortiger is seen kneeling in front of the altar that houses the statue of the crucified Jesus and the bloodied helmet of Apollyon. He stands up and he sees at the corner of his eye, his opponent coming forth. He quips his spiky, bladed kite shield onto his left gauntlet and he picks up his sword. His enemy taunts him as Vortiger turns around to glare at him/her with cold dark fire in his hateful eyes. Undaunted, he pushes back with a taunt of his own and points his sword gravely at them before brandishing his sword, banging it on his menacing shield, and slicing it against the sharp rim of his shield with sparks flying from the harsh contact.
2nd: Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several police officers and US army soldiers with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes a US army general that was desperate to plunge a combat knife to avenge his entire platoon. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen general, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed his real opponent witnessed the massacre and without looking, he taunts him/her. Enraged, his enemy hollers angrily at Vortiger, not taking the massacre very well. Uncaring of the insult/threat leveled against him, Vortiger points his sword to the corpses and warns him/her before getting into battle stance once again.
Intro
Doctor Fate
1st
Doctor Fate: You were once an honorable warrior…an inspiration for many. But you've allowed Apollyon to drag you down into the abyss, transforming into a monster of darkness.
Vortiger: A fate I have wholly embraced as humanity succumbs to the darkness with every passing second.
Doctor Fate: One that will end in your death for eternity!
2nd
Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several police officers and US army soldiers with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes a US army general that was desperate to plunge a combat knife into the fallen knight to avenge his entire platoon. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen general, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed Doctor Fate nearby and without looking, taunts him.
Vortiger: This is the fate for all who have failed to come to repentance for their evil!
Doctor Fate: It is my duty to put an end to your senseless bloodlust and quest for vengeance, monster!
Vortiger: Then join the unbelieving in their absolute damnation in Hades!
Aquaman
1st
Aquaman: Leave, fallen knight! Atlantis denies you entry!
Vortiger: It's not just Atlantis that I'm after…it is you. By hiding away in your underwater kingdom like the coward you are, your transgressions have condemned you and the oceans will stain red with your sins!
Aquaman: Tread carefully, Vortiger, or face your own damnation beneath the waves.
2nd
Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several Atlantean soldiers with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes an Atlantean general that was desperate to plunge his combat knife into Vortiger to avenge his entire platoon. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen general, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed an infuriated Aquaman nearby and without looking, taunts him.
Vortiger: Only a coward would send his people to deal with the consequences of his sins, barring himself from taking any responsibility.
Aquaman: Your condescension to arrogant judgment while you slaughter good, innocent men sickens me!
Vortiger: Careful, Arthur Curry. Your hypocrisy will only drag you further into the hell that awaits you!
Batman
1st
Batman: I know how to beat you, Vortiger.
Vortiger: But you lack the conviction needed to overcome my vengeance, which fuels my strength. Knowledge alone is not enough.
Batman: Just as sheer hatred alone won't be enough to put me away.
2nd
Vortiger: I am the Lord's Wrath. Those who try to reject it will be consumed by it.
Batman: You have perverted His Name! No amount of "divine" justification will hide the fact that you weaponized it to harm the innocent!
Vortiger: There is no innocence, only death and damnation!
Captain Cold
1st
Captain Cold: You're really getting high on this Crusader business, and it has done a lot more harm than good for your cause. That's a lot coming from me, which you'd say I'm a heathen.
Vortiger: A heathen with his heart locked away by cold flames of Hades with his evil all the more present in his heart. All the more reason for me to punish you in the Lord's name!
Captain Cold: It will be a cold day down there that's for sure.
2nd
Vortiger: Have you come to me to beg for forgiveness for your sins before I reunite you with your dead sister?
Captain Cold: Now that's touching a raw nerve that shouldn't be touched, bastard!
Vortiger: It matters not…you will die, and you and sister will suffer damnation for all of eternity for your sins.
Gorilla Grodd
1st
Gorilla Grodd: Your services, skills, and drive for vengeance could be of great use to me for my vision for the world.
Vortiger: And debase my honor and integrity by replacing my loyalty to the Lord and Apollyon for yours, beast? No! You will learn what true darkness when you submit to my blade!
Gorilla Grodd: I knew trying to recruit a religious, militant fanatic was futile from the start!
2nd
Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several gorilla soldiers with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes a gorilla general that was desperate to plunge his spear into him to avenge his entire platoon. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen general, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed an infuriated Gorilla Grodd nearby and without looking, taunts him.
Vortiger: Repent, dirty beast. This is what shall await you now and forever if you continue to fight against the agent of the Lord's Wrath!
Gorilla Grodd: The only wrath you should fear is mine!
Vortiger: No wrath on earth is greater than the Lord's! And by speaking blasphemy, you invite His wrath to befall upon your miserable existence, of which you will be undone, unbeliever!
Joker
1st
Joker: Doom and gloom for the sermon, Friar Tuck? BWAHAHAHA!
Vortiger: Cease your thoughtless, unflattering laughter as it mocks the sanctity of the Lord's temple!
Joker: Well, holy Bloody Mary…I must have forgotten that it is the Communion! Unless, you have ran out of blood to drink from! HAHAHAHA!
2nd
Vortiger: Come to laugh in defiance of the death sentence that now hungers for your damned soul?
Joker: So dull and not so bright when the punchline flies over your head. But then again, that's what I am here for…to deliver it to you so we can all die laughing together!
Vortiger: I accept whenever the Lord deems my service here to be finished. If you wish to continue denying your place in the Inferno by laughing besides yourself, so be it!
Scarecrow
1st
Scarecrow: A living relic from a long, bygone age…how interesting.
Vortiger: You're looking at the very incarnation of the Lord's Wrath, whose blade will suffer none of your devious hallucinations, demon!
Scarecrow: So consumed with vengeance, I wonder what fear you're trying to hide from me?
2nd
Vortiger: Don't think you will fare any better than the heretics who rejected their only chance to repent of their crimes!
Scarecrow: You suffer from the fear of losing your purpose. You're just another serial killer that happens to brandish a sword and a shield, hiding behind the name of God to justify your actions.
Vortiger: I fear nothing, demon. You, on the other hand, are too afraid to admit that you have much to lose for what awaits you after your death.
Ruby Rose
1st
Ruby Rose: Wow…um, you look like somebody I know of back home, but…darker and more scary? *Gulp*
Vortiger: Leave, now. This is no place for the unbelieving nor the pure-hearted lest I bring you to hell.
Ruby Rose: Eeep! I-i-isn't that…uh, um, kinda…d-dark to say for a hero?!
2nd
Vortiger: This is the fate for all who have failed to come to repentance for their evil!
Ruby Rose: Those people had nothing to do with what's happening to this world! How could you do that to them?! I thought knights were supposed to be about protecting the innocent and the weak! Not slaughtering them!
Vortiger: Everyone is inherently evil and those who fail to come to the Lord for repentance of their sins are doomed to spend an eternity in Darkness, which they deservedly so! Only those cleansed by Apollyon's holy fire will walk the path of redemption! Either you repent or join the unbelievers in their eternal damnation, child!
Weiss Schnee
1st
Weiss Schnee: I hate people who have thrown away their honor for the sake of sating their bloodlust.
Vortiger: You have much of your father's sins to answer for, and they can only be paid with your blood.
Weiss Schnee: I am not like my father. I detest him for what he had done to drag the Schnee name through the mud.
2nd
Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several Atlesian soldiers with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes an Atlesian general that was desperate to unload whatever remaining ammo he had in his gun onto him to avenge his entire platoon. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen general, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed an infuriated Weiss Schnee nearby and without looking, taunts her.
Vortiger: This is what awaits for you and your world, especially your father's company as they drown in their corruption and greed!
Weiss Schnee: Savage, hypocritical, and utterly disgusting…I'll spare no mercy for you.
Vortiger: The Lord's Wrath knows no mercy, Schnee, as you will find out firsthand!
Blake Belladonna
1st
Blake Belladonna: Such darkness…such evil…hate… and so much sadness…
Vortiger: I weep for how incapable man is to repent and turn away from his sins. I weep no more as my heart has hardened with only one command from the Lord. To punish.
Blake Belladonna: You are a painful reminder of everything wrong about humans to the Faunus! Why there can never peace between us because of people like you!
2nd
Vortiger was in the midst of a one-sided battle turned massacre, ruthlessly slaughtering several White Fang grunts with frightening, unnerving ease. He shield-bashes the chainsaw-wielding White Fang lieutenant that was desperate to cut him down to avenge his fallen comrades. Vortiger walked on top of the fallen lieutenant, crushing his spine with his kite shield and stabbing through the base of his neck with his sword. He sensed an infuriated Blake Belladonna nearby and without looking, taunts her.
Vortiger: Once I destroy you, the entire White Fang are next to be purified in the Flames of the Lord's Wrath along with all of the unbelievers!
Blake Belladonna: You're a deranged psychopath using religion to destroy everyone that oppose you! You're no better than Adam!
Vortiger: May the damned tear you and everyone you love to shreds when I send you to Hades, wretch!
Yang Xiao Long
1st
Yang Xiao Long: Wow…excessive much being the edgelord here?
Vortiger: This is a place of worship, not a bar for you to get drunk.
Yang Xiao Long: Eh…I rather stay sober. Besides, you can e-vort to brighten up the place so it doesn't feel so depressing! Eh? Eh~?
2nd
Vortiger: Your friends are next after I debilitate you severely.
Yang Xiao Long: You better not lay a finger on them, especially my little sister! Not even your shield can protect you now that you've pissed me off!
Vortiger: That is the point. Your misfortune will be what will bring them to their demise as punishment for their sins.
Ragna the Bloodedge
1st
Ragna: You've really gone off the deep end with this Crusader shit for Apollyon.
Vortiger: Degrade her honor with your atrocious tongue again and I'll inflict worse punishment upon you than just cut it off.
Ragna: I've been inflicted with blows a lot worse than you can possibly imagine, you religious crackpot!
2nd
Vortiger: There's nowhere for you to run, Ragna!
Ragna: Yeah, bite me! I have planted many psychotic nutjobs like you into the pavement where they can kiss it for all I care!
Vortiger: You must be deaf as well as mentally incapable of comprehending that this is the end for you!
Atrocitus
1st
Atrocitus: I sense an unhealthy abundance wrath raging about in your dark heart, fallen knight.
Vortiger: The time for repentance has long passed. It is time for divine retribution of Darkness!
Atrocitus: Show me your conviction!
2nd
Vortiger: Who are you to boldly challenge the true agent of Darkness and the Lord's Wrath?!
Atrocitus: The screams of your victims demand justice in the form of your blood being shed!
Vortiger: Tread carefully, heretic. Don't make promises that you can't keep.
Kratos & Atreus
1st
Kratos: Another man consumed with vengeance just like one such person I once knew in his grievance against the gods.
Vortiger: And who is this man? I am curious to meet him face to face so that I can teach him the true meaning of Darkness.
Kratos: You're looking at him right in front of you.
2nd
Vortiger: You and I are kindred spirits. Join me and we can teach the world what it means to suffer in Darkness!
Kratos: I've already seen the world suffer in it once! I have no intention of putting it through such catastrophe again just to ease your petty temper tantrum over losing your unhinged master!
Vortiger: Then suffer a fate worse than death since it is too soft on your tainted carcass!
Atreus: If you want my father, you'll have to go through me first!
Grimlock
1st
Grimlock: You…a monk…but you…are somehow like me…Grimlock.
Vortiger: The only thing you and I share in common is our bloodlust, that's it.
Grimlock: Too bad…you are just…as bad…as Megatron!
2nd
Vortiger: Why do you concern yourselves for these wretched sinners that have no place in God's paradise, but in Darkness?!
Grimlock: You spilt…both bad and innocent blood! People…scared. Grimlock…can watch…no longer! Dinobot Smash! (He transforms into his T-Rex form)
Vortiger: So be it! I'll grant you your extinction, monster!
Anenokoji
1st
Anenokoji: Such a small world we live in, isn't it, Vortiger-san?
Vortiger: Yes…too small for my liking when it comes to you, serpent.
Anenokoji: The feeling's mutual.
2nd
Vortiger: My mistress should have finished you off. It was a mistake letting you slither off scot free!
Anenokoji: Maybe or maybe not, it doesn't matter now. Your life is now forfeit the moment you decided to confront me at your own peril. Death and damnation await you.
Vortiger: Be silent, or I'll cut off that forked tongue off of yours!
Akame
1st
Akame: How the honorable have truly fallen in these dark times.
Vortiger: Honor means nothing when it comes to victory at all costs against enemies that would not hesitate to destroy and desecrate you. You of all people should understand why I am doing this.
Akame: It is because I understand your motivations that I will eliminate you at all costs.
2nd
Vortiger: You chose to fight against me, Akame?
Akame: Even if I share your sentiments about the world's affairs and human nature, it will not change the fact that you are an enemy too dangerous of a wildcard to be left to his own devices. Thus, I have to kill you.
Vortiger: Then may God have mercy on you.
Leone
1st
Leone: Ugh…I don't know what's worse! Your shitty smell like you went through a crap pile for days, or that you smell like the blood of your victims!
Vortiger: Tread carefully, She-Lion. You already have a lot of transgressions to answer for. And my blade is hungry for your blood.
Leone: Look who's the kettle calling the pot black! And guess what, my claws hunger for your blood for all the senseless carnage you caused, you son of a bitch.
2nd
Vortiger: This is the fate for unbelievers that continue to walk down the path of sin and denial!
Leone: Hey! What gives you the right to act as judge and executioner over everyone, you damned psychopath!
Vortiger: I am the Lord's Wrath and Enforcer of Apollyon's creed! You confront me, you sin gravely against the Lord! A dire crime that can't be forgiven! For that, you forfeit your right to live, wretch!
Lubbock
1st
Lubbock: Geez, you think you ought to give this temple at least some light and color to not make it so overwhelmingly depressing.
Vortiger: Who are you to sneak into the place of worship, which is sacred and holy to the Black Priors, to defile it with your lecherous filth?
Lubbock: The name's Lubbock, and I am here to end your reign of terror on the many innocents you label them as "heretics" in your Crusade gone astray.
2nd
Vortiger: You call these "sheep" innocent when they have been wolves complicit in aiding the Regime?!
Lubbock: I know they're not, but because they aren't does not give you the right to sentence the entire populace for the sins of the few!
Vortiger: Then die a hypocrite's death and suffer the worst of punishments in Hell!
Tatsumi
1st
Tatsumi: You probably know why I am here for you, Vortiger.
Vortiger: You seem to know my name, but I have yet to know yours, heretic.
Tatsumi: The name's Tatsumi. Akame has told us quite the info about you and your cult.
2nd
Vortiger: Your idealism blinds you to the dark reality of this world. Let this shatter your stupid naivety of the goodness in men when there's none in their hearts!
Tatsumi: You're dead wrong! People can change their hearts for the better! They need time and help, not chaos and destruction!
Vortiger: You stupid boy! There's no salvation for heretics, even for you, despite you claiming to be the hero when you're just as much to blame for exacerbating humanity's path towards their own destruction!
Finishing Move
Tenebris Rising: Vortiger slams his kite shield into Aquaman. If the shield successfully hits Aquaman, Vortiger would let out a battle cry when he stabs his sword into the kidney area, piercing through his armor and deep into the flesh. He then rips the sword out from Aquaman as Atlantis' king stumbles away, staggering while he covers the wound to try stop the bleeding. Aquaman would get a face of sand thrown into his face, blinding him which enrages him. This happens to cause Arthur Curry to execute a critical mistake by recklessly punching out at Vortiger, hoping to sock the fallen knight. However, Vortiger slices his arm off and slices his throat with the sharp edge of his shield. Vortiger then grabs Aquaman by the head and slam him into the steel brace of his shield. Atlantis' king sags onto the shield with head and sliced throat sticking out as he bleeds to death with life flashing before his eyes. His last sight was that Vortiger crying out,
"TENEBRIS!"
And swinging his sword downwards onto his neck, beheading Aquaman. His body slumps to the ground and his head rolls across the arena.