"My followers and I fight for balance in its purest state. Morality is a distraction and good and evil were created to co-exist. The dial must remain at zero, and should never bend in either direction, no matter what."
-Isaac Aias of the Rho, Lord of the Counter Force
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In all things, there is force. Positive force moves things forward, and negative force moves them backward. However, in between them both, there is neutrality. In between positive force and negative force, there in the middle is nothingness. And that nothingness is what Isaac Aias, the Lord of the Counter Force, calls true balance.
Isaac believes that force, in any direction, is dangerous. Things must remain at a constant state of 0, never moving higher and never going into the negative.
Alongside force, positive and negative, there is a separate power called the Counter Force. The Counter Force exists to repel change. It is a primal source, however, on its own, it will only act when the world as a whole is threatened.
Isaac could be considered the avatar of the Counter Force, however, he did not originate alongside it. Instead, he was born a human who fell in battle trying to fight to retain that balance. He died defending a cause he knew nothing of and defending a people he would never know. But the Counter Force deemed him worthy. That force pushed him forward, resurrecting him and turning him into the Arisen he is known as today.
Since that day, he has fought vehemently to retain the purity that the Counter Force seeks. He wields within him, the power of the Counter Force's nothingness and uses it to create 'something'; things he considers tools made simply to push a goal forward.
He has fought in mortal battles and wars, never on any one side or dedicated to any cause that isn’t the one he himself preaches. He has been called a mercenary, though he asks for no coin in return for his battles.
The Laws of Primus stopped him from battling on his own, so instead, he decided to breed a group of adventurers under his own name that would fight to do the same that he did.
This group became known as the Rho, and he became known as Isaac of the Rho, though he will always be the Lord of the Counter Force before anything else.
Depiction
Isaac chooses to look now the same way he did in life. He is a tall man, standing little over six and a half feet tall, with dark brown skin and jet black hair. His eyes are mist-like and cloudy, taking on the properties of the Counter Force’s nothingness, and he wears a pair of golden-framed glasses perched on his nose. The glasses do not appear to have lenses in them, though they seem to reflect an endless sea of white mist if peered into.
Isaac wears the clothes of the Rho, the group that he sired. They wear black uniforms, consisting of heavy combat boots, pants kept close to the leg, and a sleeveless tunic that covers the chest. Indicative of the group, he also wears a pure red jacket that hangs down to his knees, which would indicate him as a high-ranking officer of the Rho.
Enemies
Isaac considers the majority of other Arisen his enemies, though whether or not this is returned is beyond him. He believes that any sort of acting in the world puts the balance in danger. Because of this, he believes that resorting to using Adventurers to do such a thing is better because they cannot affect balance as greatly as Arisen can.
Still, he does not like most Arisen. A better question would be, ‘Who does Isaac consider allies?’, to which the answer would most likely be no one other than the Counter Force itself.
Commandments of Isaac:
- Take the initiative to keep balance, no matter what you need to do to do so.
- Let nothing stand in the way of the completion of your tasks. Once you dedicate yourself to a mission, you will finish it.
- I embody the idea of balance in its purest state. If it means striking down a bloodthirsty warmonger, I will do it. If it means tearing a good kingdom to pieces, I will do that as well. You must be prepared to do the same as I.