Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Feb 21, 2011 20:59:07 GMT -5
Name: Quetzar (AKA The Sun Warrior, Quetzalcoatl, EXT001)
Height: N/A
Length: 314 meters
Wingspan: 197 meters
Mass: 17,685 tons
Description:
Personality:
Quetzar is a child of eternity, a product of his own impossible longevity. Older than all of human civilization and perhaps even the Earth itself, yet still young, the extraterrestrial serpent is one of the rare few sentient beings that has seen all of the evils that the universe has to offer and still believes that it can be good. The alien dragon is a wellspring of wisdom and teachings gathered from a million planets and many billions of years, as well as a fierce opponent for any who dare defy his strict moral code. While his fascination with other cultures and hunger for new learnings might have made him the perfect librarian or mentor in another life, he is a warrior in heart, mind, and body- a creature of force before diplomacy. He will offer his foes every chance to repent and stand down when they have done wrong, but is otherwise unrelenting when it comes to his enforcement of justice. Although it is true that Quetzar does not relish death and, in fact, abhors it, it is equally true that the Sun Warrior will kill without hesitation if it works towards the preservation of purer lives. The flames of the alien are not weapons of submission, but of obliteration. What they touch without restraint will be burnt to nothing. Those who cross the line, who break the fragile barrier between light and dark, should expect no mercy from the last son of Ayaoni. Despite his noble spirit, Quetzar is a touch egotistical. He takes great pride in the sheen to his scales as well as the area of his wings. The serpent takes care to maintain his physical appearance and grows extremely upset when it is disturbed. Dirtying his coat is almost as quick a way to taste his flames as threatening innocence. The ancient titan is also rather quick to make judgment and will remain latched onto outdated impressions long after then have been disproved out of sheer distrust. Getting on the UAE's bad side is far easier that the opposite- earning his favor. The alien creature also suffers from something of a hero syndrome. He believed himself to be the sole guardian of Earth H-945 and still struggles to leave behind that narrow mindset. Trusting other with important tasks is hard for the serpent, as is allying himself equally with others. Beyond these few small instances of pettiness, there is also a much darker side to the serpent. Though the alien wyrm ultimately fights for the preservation of all life and can only be truly enraged by threat or harm to innocents, he is also merciless, hardened by a lifetime of hard decision and combat. When faced by a truly serious threat, something that concerns lives in the millions, the old one becomes cold to the point of actively deciding when it is appropriate to sacrifice innocent lives without the consult of others. In stark contrast to his good nature, the powers of the Sun Warrior are nothing but destructive and, to be used to their fullest extent, must consume the lives and land of those around him. Quetzar, despite being a champion of life and light alike, brings nothing but fire and ashes in his basest state.
Living Quarters:
Quetzar's living quarters resemble an aviary of vast height and complexity, featuring lush jungle vegetation that mimics the Central American rainforest that the solar serpent once soared over in the prime of his rule over the Aztecs. There are also mountainous peaks for the airborne serpent to rest on when he grows weary of riding the generous jet stream and swirls around the top of the structure as well as a cold mountain stream that the prideful alien can clean his scales and mane in.
Attacks:
- Thermal Shock: By inciting a brief flare in his internal furnace and venting the resulting swell of heat out from beneath his raised scales, EXT001 can generate powerful shock waves of scalding air and boiling water vapor. These bursts can reach a temperature that vaporizes water and ignites biological tissue such as hair and vegetation on contact, though the exact temperature is impossible to measure due to the brevity of these blasts. Quetzar mainly engages in this behavior as a defensive technique, incinerating projectiles and repelling foes that attempt to grapple him. The power of these shock waves has the ability to destabilize the serpent's flight, so he unleashes them sparingly- most often when he is in immediate danger or must scatter a large amount of debris or smaller foes to protect innocents. The visitor’s use of this power is harmful near humans, resulting in burns, longterm eye damage, and clothes catching on fire, but is generally nonlethal disregarding extreme proximity.
- Plasma Flares: By channeling the power pounding from his heart, Quetzar can unleash fiery blasts of oxidized air and flames from his jaws. These gouts of fire range from orange billows of nearly 7,000 degrees Kelvin to golden plumes over 11,000 degrees Kelvin in temperature. The hot breath of the UAE is supremely destructive, melting and setting fire to everything it touches- Aberrative flesh and armor included- but has little accuracy to speak of. The solar serpent finds it difficult to precisely direct these wild belches of fire and thus hesitates to use them without care. Only in his most enraged state of mind does he ever fully cut loose, something that can level cities of stone and beast of bone into nothing but glowing slag.
- Vortex Clap: Quetzar's broad, starshaped wings can generate fierce squalls of wind when he beats or brings them together. This alone is not enough to harm most other giants, their weight great enough to resist even hurricanes, but the angry gales can quickly become dangerous when they pick up shrapnel and shattered glass from war torn cities or crushed landscapes.
- Constriction: Despite his relative slimness and lack of impressive girth, Quetzar is a muscular creature. Because he is power directly by the the sun, a perfect autotroph, there are few true organs in his body. His coils are nearly pure muscle, his anatomy more closely resembling that of a highly tissued worm rather than any higher organism. The Foreign UAE can wrap his body around an opponent and squeeze with a strength equivalent to a much bulkier Burmese python of similar or equal size. His hard scales also act like saw teeth, slicing shallowly into the skin of any creature he grapples.
- Saberfangs: The emerald head of Quetzar is armed with an impressive set of saberlike teeth. Although their use in combat is relatively rare for the godly serpent, they can rip through flesh and armor with shocking ease, harder than diamond and with none of the brittleness. Bathed by flames, they become like two molten swords that can sheer through concrete, holding the heat of Quetzar's heart and plunging it into his foes.
- Teeth: Quetzar's craggy jaws are also home to two long rows of flat, bladelike teeth that can part unarmored flesh rather easily, although the more prominent hook and saberteethn already found within the serpent's mouth make then somewhat difficult to utilize effectively.
Powers:
- Cavity Reactor: Quetzar's alien anatomy is completely dissimilar to our own. It does not have a tissued heart like ours, but instead a small star that is held suspended in the center of his main body cavity- a fiery core of solar fusion contained beneath his breast like a miniature sun. This infernal power source sends heat to the rest of his body through broad veins filled with hot gaseous blood. This superheated fluid can burn at nearly 6,000 degrees Kelvin. The serpent has no muscles, moving instead by the use of the expanding vapor in his veins. By managing the heat sent to, and thus volume of gas within, different veins, the alien serpent can operate his coils and limbs. This process is not unlike the concept of liquid hydraulics. The temperature in the serpent's core is extreme, climaxing at more than 13,000,000 degrees Kelvin within his heart. It is a wonder that the serpent does not incinerate the world around him. The skin and scales of the Foreign UAE are incredibly insulate, containing the raging heat of his heart to such a degree that touching his body unprotected is merely like touching a hot stovetop rather than plunging your hand into an exploding star. The entire body of the Friendly Foreign is filled with this warmth- he is hot even to the tips of his plumed crest. The serpent has control over the degree to which the inferno of his heart is smothered though. By lifting or lowering his flexible coat of scales, the solar serpent can alter the external heat he gives off. Fully fanned, his armored coat will actually catch fire and burn a brilliant gold like the sun. His body glows at over 13,000 degrees Kelvin during these infernal states of being. At these temperatures, the serpent is little more than a renegade star and can vaporize all nearby organic materials if he is not careful to do otherwise.
- Solar Tissues: To gather enough warmth to power all of his tubed body systems, the surface of Quetzar's people has basically become a single large solar collector. All of his shieldshaped scales and especially his broad, starshaped wings act as organic solar panels, absorbing sunlight and other forms of thermal radiation without harm to the UAE. The Foreign could swim in lava without woe, only gaining nourishment from the 2,000 degree Kelvin soup of molten rock and soil.
- Molten Blood: When ruptured, the broad veins of Quetzar experience drastic pressure loss and expel their gaseous contents at high speeds, briefly setting fire to the air. Breaches of the serpent's hide are marked by tall spouts of flames. The burning vapor condenses into a liquid with a temperature of more than 5,000 degrees Kelvin upon contact with the air. This molten blood tends to splatter onto whatever device or appendage pierced the serpent's hide, and, although not the hottest aspect of the alien UAE, can burn through flesh and metal easily, causing deep scarring of undefended tissues.
- Body Radiance: Quetzar's broad wings do not only absorb solar radiation, but also reemit it at an accelerated rate. What are often identified as wings in the serpent's anatomy are not like the limbs of a bird or the mechanism found on a plane, which generate lift through airflow, but closer to what one might label as 'solar sails.' They do not gift the serpent with flight through the movement of air around them or their movement through the air, but by expelling great amounts of heat. The thermal energy that is not used to power the serpent's tubed body systems is channeled and released from his wings as a form of propellant. When the Foreign Friendly pumps his wings, he is not pushing against the air, but against the heat emitted by the starshaped membranes, similar to how a rocket pushes against the hot gasses the burning of its fuel produces, thus why it can move even in the void of space, another trait shared with the UAE. In addition to the intense thermal currents generated from his wings, each of the serpent's scales can release a small amount of energy when lifted, essentially turning it into a small booster that modifies and increases the thrust pushing the serpent through the air. The UAE is not exactly like a ship, powered by only a few great sails, but instead a missile accelerated from all angles. Quetzar is the fastest organic entity known to the population on Earth H-945, capable of attaining flight speeds of up to mach 17.2, shattering the human record by more than double. But to reach such high speeds, Quetzar must to allow his body to catch fire from its heart and ride the inferno that it generates, something that he rarely attempts below the airlessness of space in fear of surpassing the flash point temperature of Earth's biosphere. His speed below Earth's ceiling typically remains between the more reasonable velocities of Mach 5 and Mach 9, although he must serious shed speed in order to perform any sort of nonlinear maneuver. Close to the ground and in combat situations, the serpent rarely breaks Mach 3.
- Telepath: Quetzar has the ability to project his thoughts into the minds of other organisms, enabling him to communicate with creatures who do not understand his native language. The serpent claims this is not due to any unique power or special ability, but simply because his mind is older and more powerful than the human brain and can, “overlap” it. The serpent describes this process as forming a thread between his mind and the one that he is communicating with, an invisible tether that anchors shallowly into the other brain and connects them, allowing the mutual flow of thoughts. The more minds he speaks to at once, the more numerous these threads become and the more traffic his mind is forced to accommodate. Although Quetzar's mind is extremely ancient and can hold many threads at once, strong enough to cycle through hundreds, even thousands, of thoughts, there is a limit to how many minds he can attach himself to at one time. Pushing this limit causes the serpent great mental and physical strain. Despite worries otherwise by certain powerful voices on Earth H-945, Quetzar's telepathic abilities seem to be strictly noninvasive. He cannot read thoughts, only send and receive them. The other voice must be willing in order for them to converse. The serpent says that it would take a mind many times as powerful as his own to actively intrude into a foreign consciousness. Controlling the foreign mind would require even greater mental power, something the alien entity says he has never come across in all his days traveling the stars.
- Scale Armor: Beyond their capacity to store thermal energy, the shieldshaped scales covering Quetzar are quite hard and glossy. Under laboratory testing, fragments have displayed durability similar to diamond, although with none of the imperfections that makes fracturing them so easy. The hard scales fall over each other like layered armor, although they have very little difficulty moving despite this. Each scale has a long, spiny pair of roots that is anchored in Quetzar's skin. The armored coat of scales shows just as great a deal of flexibility as they do strength. However, their malleable roots also makes them rather easy to tear loose.
- Self Aware: Quetzar, with few exceptions, can repel psychic and psychological attacks because his eternity of life has allowed him to come to terms with all his flaws and mistakes. The serpent is aware exactly how he is flawed and why, nulling almost all assaults based on attacking these insecurities.
- Airless: Quetzar apparently has no need to breath oxygen or any other gas, because he is free to move between the atmosphere of Earth and the void of space as he pleases.
Limited Attack
- The Rage of Innocence: Though Quetzar is a supremely disciplined entity, he suffers from something called the, “Rage of Innocence” on his native world. Over the eons that he has served as a sheriff of worlds, Quetzar has trained himself against faltering in the face of anguish, unflinching when both enemies and allies fall to horrible injury or even death. But the infernal guardian has never been able to tolerate threat against bystanders. Hinting towards attack on- and especially killing of- those who have no place in a battle and are only there due to circumstance can cause Quetzar to fall into the Rage. The Sun Warrior is at his deadliest when possessed by the Rage, scorching landscapes to slag and toppling awesome foes in mere seconds as he unleashes all of his power without constraint, but he also loses all precaution and tends to injury himself in the process. Bouts of the Rage are potentially the most deadly period of a battle for both Quetzar's foes and Quetzar himself.
Weaknesses:
- Quetzar is not at all suited for terrestrial movement. The serpent is a creature built entirely for aerial combat and, although he can rest comfortably on the ground, cannot do much else without use of his broad membranes. If his wings were hindered or ruined in any way, the Sun Warrior would become hapless. Loosing the power of flight is actually something of a fear for the solar serpent.
- Under his hard scales, the hide of Quetzar is actually quite soft and vulnerable. The serpent's bare flesh offers no more protection that does proportionately sized human skin. Even conventional weapons can pierce his unarmored skin. If his scales are stripped away, the serpent becomes among the least defended UAEs currently known. Also, the naked flesh of the alien is not as efficient a solar collector as his scales or wings, limiting his power the more of it is revealed.
- Without a strong source of heat to power his tubed body system, Quetzar quickly weakens and finds it more and more difficult to move. His defenses also falter as he ails. The silky flesh of the Foreign UAE will withdraw like dead tissue as nourishment is withheld in his infernal heart, unrooting his prized coat of scales and allowing them to drop away easily. Additionally, the ancient mind of Quetzar will begin to slow under a substantial lack of sunlight, making him dull and unresponsive in contrast to his usual cunning. As a last defense against the total shutdown of his vital systems, the solar serpent will fall into a deep dormant state, a coma that can last a time beyond human comprehension. This trance can only be broken by the direct application of a concentrated heat source to his body.
History:
The universe began from a single point. Some say that it was a vast explosion of cosmic energy that birthed existence while other maintain that a living being of vast power and omnipotence created all, but, in truth, both are equally true. The universe started from a burst of sentient creation that spread out across the endless Void and filled it with warmth. As the first light of existence danced across infinity, it sowed what would quickly become the source of all life- stars, the glowing masses of shed light that gathered in the wake of the Great Wave and warmed the empty space that had been created from the nothing of the Void in its place. Before the Wave had completed even a fraction of its journey across the Void, a solid mass formed from the physical material left behind by it and took to orbiting its oldest child- the first star. This mass became the oldest planet in all creation- Ayaoni- and was soon joined by a smaller twin planet, Triaye, that followed the same orbit and was always in its shadow.
And it was upon these worlds that the first people in all of history were born.
The universe's first civilization developed in the air. Ayaoni circled so close to its star that the ground was fire, its surface molten and uninhabitable. Triaye, trapped in the shadow of its older sibling, was a barren wasteland of ice that leeched away all life from its surface. To exist, the first sapient beings had to fly. Developing on twin planets worlds apart, two distinct races began to form. On the larger, older world of Ayaoni, beings of heat and sunlight that thrived on the brilliance of their star alone came to rule, while those who did not perish trying to brave the unforgiving surface of Triaye became dulled to all temperatures, developing insulating coats of feathers that made them immune to both great heat and the dead cold of the planet's icy skin. Though twin species, the Ayaonians and the Triyeans saw little of each other. The Ayaonians, serpents of fire and air, were aloof and carefree, living lives as long as stars under the light of the first. Not as blessed as their brother people, the Triyeans were more accustomed to mistrust and self reliance, unable to even count on the sun to shine upon their eternally darkened world. So, although almost equally ancient and able, the two cultures, brothers by birth and blood, existed apart- from both each other and the rest of the universe.
Quetzar was born countless generations after the Wave, yet is still older than the whole of our solar system. His birth came before even the completion of the Wave- he is older than some of the known universe. Like the rest of his people, the young Ayaonian had no worries in life. He would live longer than most worlds and the might of Ayaoni was such that no creature dare challenge any of its children. There was nothing in all of creation for the serpent to fret over, yet, somehow, he was not satisfied with his existence as it was. Merely soaring beneath the first light and absorbing its rays could not sate him. He, unlike the rest of his people, was filled with energy and curiosity, so he explored the universe that his race so easily ignored, moving from world to world and wowing entire planets with his power. Yet, as much as he shared and was shared with by the people he visited, he could not understand them, not truly. Theirs worries, their fears, and their limited time in the universe were all alien concepts to him. As much as he wished to known of their struggles and thus their valor in battling them, the young Ayaonian simply could not conceive what was impossible for him to experience.
But it seems that the lifespan of an Ayaonian exceeds that of possibility, because Quetzar eventually did suffer, as did the rest of his world- in the most heinous way.
In the very prime of the serpent's youth, when his mane turned purest white and his wings stretched as wide as they ever would, the Wave, either because it had finally struck the outer boundaries of the Void or perhaps even because the consciousness within it longed for home, suddenly reverted directions and distorted itself, creating the Ripple- a wave of corruption that swelled inwards towards the center of the universe. Like the Wave had created life and light, the Ripple spread darkness and seeded dark new races that favored war and destruction, as well as twisted many of its existing children towards death and carnage. Accelerated by each mass of matter it turned to ruin, the Ripple traveled infinitely faster than the Wave and blazed across the very dimension it had filled until it collided with itself upon the sun of Ayaoni- the first star. With great horror, something that they had never felt before and thus felt stronger than any ever had, the Ayaonians watched as the unthinkable happened- their star, the first light, oldest child of the Wave, was snuffed out, its rays smothered by the churning turmoil of the Ripple.
Then, completing its self inversion, the Ripple used the dead husk of its once brightest light to birth the universe's greatest abomination- Yabdrillsk, the antithesis to creation.
A being of pure null matter- a mysterious, potent substance that seems not to exist, invisible and without mass, a literal hole in the fabric of space, yet also has the power to engulf and convert both matter and antimatter to be identical to it- the beast, a reincarnation of the Void itself, crafted a physical shell for its shapeless body out of stardust and, taking on the appearance of a two-headed wyrm in cruel mockery of the Ayaonians and Triyeans, turned its gaze on the oldest of all worlds. Stretching twin jaws wide like a cosmic serpent of judgment and spewing out the very essence of the Void, Yabdrillsk carved the mirrored worlds in half and consumed the shattered fragments. All of the Ayaonians perished, either dying at the same instant their world did or fleeing blindly from the Vessel of the Void in the fresh fear that surged through their body like the emotion of an infant and dooming themselves to starve on the lightless edges of the universe. Quetzar, off word at the time, was the only Ayaonian survivor.
The Triyeans, more cunning than their brother race as well as shielded by Ayaoni itself, which was destroyed fist, survived, although not without great casualty. What remained of their people gathered among the rubble of their world- or at least what few scraps of snow and ice had not been swallowed by Yabdrillsk, who had vanished back into empty space, its stardust body blending back into the dead sky without the light of a sun or the fires of Ayaoni to illuminate it. It was here that Quetzar, grieving and not understanding upon finding his world vanished, turned for answers. Although the last son of Ayaoni was hardly an enemy of Triaye, the only Ayaonian to ever even attempt contact with them, he was still received hostilely. An eternity in the shadow of Ayaoni had trained its children to be bitter and jealous of their siblings, so the Triyean survivors refused Quetzar shelter. Anger compounding the sorrow and confusion that churned in his belly, sensations still alien to the timeless youth, Quetzar snapped and unleashed his flames. The fire melted the ruins of Triaye and the resulting collapse of weakened ice claimed the lives of several of the surviving Triyeans, which shook Quetzar from his blind rage and sent him flying in horror away, retreating from his own sin.
Unknown to the Ayaonian, a young Triyean- one left orphaned by the actions of the eternal serpent- chased him. Vowing revenge, the determined and sly Triyean, a male called Koalt, would never stop chasing Quetzar, even knowing that it would take eons for him to catch up with the ageless wyrm...
As he winded through space, alone and overwhelmed by his emotions, Quetzar vowed to tame the fire inside of him and make it a tool to prevent tragedies like the one that had left him homeless as well as the one that had left him hated by the Triyeans- foul things brought about by both forces of nature and fate and individuals. The young serpent began to bound between worlds once again, but this time with a mission beyond personal amusement. Looking for injustice, hatred, and all manners of other evil, the immortal wyrm fought and hardened his body and soul so that it was suitable to carry the light- the last light of the first star, the sun that had been born to give life to Ayaoni and died to create Yabdrillsk. The light that had bathed Quetzar when he entered the world and ignited the infernal heart that would burn forever beneath his breast. The light that had guided all other light and molded the design of existence.
The very light of all life and creation.
Beginning around 4600 BC, our world has been host to this light. After visiting multiple places and cultures across the face of early Earth, the last son of Ayaoni decided that our planet was worthy to act as base for his light. Though this world was still crude and its people still young, he had grown fond of them and their societies despite and elected to stay. Going against the aching part of him that wished to continue moving through the cosmos and dull the pain of loss that still echoed fiercely in his chest, the serpent of eternal youth and warm skies stayed on earth and eventually became the god of one people in particular- the Aztecs. Settling in comfortably as a leader, guardian, and dispenser of wisdom to the budding Aztecs, the alien wyrm soon became known by the longer title of Quetzalcoalt- governor of the boundary between sky and earth and the serpent-god credited with the creation and protection of mankind. Quetzar ruled the Aztecs from afar, but always cast his shadow over the growing civilization, making sure to guide and nudge them in the right direction without ever smothering their culture under his will. He only stepped in wielding any amount of force when an issue arose that he strongly objected to- such as when he banned human sacrifice from being made in his name- or when an overwhelmingly strong foe- like one of the giant creatures controlled by a nearby civilization with advanced technology and philosophy known as Ataloue- threatened to wipe out his worshipers.
Strangely, it was not one of these Atalouean creatures that ultimately bested the Sun Warrior and cast him from the ancient days of legend, but a mere man instead.
After a particularly brutal battle against the Atalouean monster Mesucos in 1519, Quetzar returned to his people only to find that they had welcomed in a group of strangers- the conquistadors. Lead by the charismatic and self driven Hernán Cortés, the man who would eventually become Quetzar's bane, the foreigners appeared as if in peace and the Aztecs, awed by their alien appearance and wondrous technology, allowed them passage into their empire. The last foreigner they had let into their home had brought nothing but guidance and prosperity after all. Although suspicious of the strangers' true intents and hesitant to trust these men from the east, Quetzar elected to allow his followers to decide for themselves whether or not they were trustworthy. The old one believed that business between men was no place for him, an immortal and a guest on Earth, though he still watched the visitors closely in case of treachery against his worshipers. He had seen many seemingly peaceful pilgrims turn violent during his eons riding across the stars and worried that he might see it again, this time against a people that he had a close personal connection to. Even as he withdrew deep into the Central American forest to begin healing his terrible injuries and preen his ruined coat of scales, the alien wyrm never let his gaze stray far from the negotiations with and celebratory feasts hosted for the sake of the newcomers.
While the serpent's suspicion about the true nature of the conquistadors was accurate, his worry about who the target was did not prove so acute. It was not the Aztec people that Cortés moved against first, but the serpent-god himself. Locating and stationing his men all around the edges of the jungle canyon that Quetzar had chosen to recover in, the bold Spaniard ordered boulders cast down onto the sleeping serpent through the use of cannon fire. Still wounded, deprived of sunlight under the nighttime canopy, and caught by surprise at the sudden betrayal, Quetzar was buried under a landslide of rubble, trapping him and forcing the solar entity to submit his mind and body to a comalike slumber that would steal him away from the world for over five hundred years. As he slipped into the deep state of catatonic sleep that would spare his life at the cost of his services, the old one could only hope that his people would not be as easily subdued as he was.
Returning to the curious Aztecs, who had heard the commotion that had bested their living deity, and claiming that he was their vanished god in human form, citing the thunder of his cannons as the sound of him shedding his godly scales, Cortés wooed Quetzar's people long enough to infiltrate their capital, gather a force of rival native peoples, and wipe out the empire that had been born underneath Quetzar's nurturing wings. Though they prayed and made sacrifice to their lost god in plead of help, Quetzar was already lost completely to the static state of rest that would keep him trapped within his own mind and body for the next five centuries. He would never see his people, his children, again
Quetzar was awaken on May 17th, 2024, five-hundred-and-five years after he had been betrayed and trapped by Cortés. The serpent had been roused by the application of a direct heat source- a sweaty human palm- against his still body. Fifty decades of rain and floods had uncovered the serpent, but also kept him too cool to be revived. Vines and moss had grown over the alien's still body, making him look like a decrepit stone carving- thus why someone was so willing to place their hand against him.
The hand belonged to Alex Shepheard, who was, at the time, merely a field researcher collecting and tagging feral cats for study on the damage they cause to the native lizard populations. Confused and embittered by the actions of the last strangers on his shores, Quetzar lashed out against Alex, torching the forest around him to ash in a fit of helpless anger. Still angry, but unwilling to kill a human in cold blood for the actions of others, Quetzar took to the sky and soared for where the capital city of Ataloue once stood. The Ataloueans, although rivals, had been fair and understanding people. If anyone had taken pity on his people and saved them, it would be them.
The serpent's path carried him out of Central America and put him in Brazil, the Atalouean homeland.
Unfortunately, Ataloue had long since fallen, destroyed by the treachery of the cunning Mesucos not long after Cortés had staged his own coup. And in its place, the city of Manaus- where the Brazilian Army Aviation Command waited for him. The appearance of the serpent had not gone unnoticed and helicopters intercepted the old one. The battle was a quick one- the scales of Quetzar easily deflected all weapons that the BAAC could produce and his own speed and agility in the air far exceeded that of the choppers. There were no casualties by Quetzar's own choice, but none of the helicopters were airworthy after the serpent's work was done either.
Realizing that he was in a world unlike the one he had known, Quetzar gave in to despair and fled to parts unknown.
The serpent's demotion to misery was a short one, because only two days after he had risen from his own ancient slumber, so had another behemoth. Kedos Croder, all wrath and storm surges, appeared in Stovehaven and threatened to drown the seaside community even though they had done him no wrong. Though he was no longer familiar with the way Earth was, Quetzar knew it was still his duty to guard it, so he revealed himself to the dragon and the world once again. The alien protector tried to ward off Kedos, a rival he knew from the past, with words, but the sea dragon insisted that battle was the only way to carry things out by attacking the heavenly wyrm. The two fought evenly for a long stretch, their elemental powers counteracting those of the other, until Kedos made threat at the townspeople who had not been evacuated yet. Letting his fiery heart swell in outrage, the serpent-god wrapped Kedos in his armored coils and flew him far away from the city, where his full power was unleashed in a blinding fireball like a star dropped onto the ocean's surface.
Though he had suffered a slit throat from his battle with Kedos and faced threats from many powerful parties within global politics for his presence on Earth, only a few genuinely appreciating his service as a guardian to the planet, Quetzar nevertheless flew out to do battle again two months later when the alien killing machine Strider crashed down on the Isle of Man and then made its way into the heart of London. Meeting Kedos, who was also there to battle the foreign threat, at the scene, the two old enemies agreed to work together to try and bring down Strider. Combining their polar powers of water and fire to create awesome elemental displays that would have torn any other foe limb from limb and eventually joined by the Sub-Titan as well, the pair of monster-gods fought with all their strength, but, still wounded from their own fight, fell to the engineered death machine.
After Strider was defeated by combined force of Drakia and Fainis, Quetzar, finally accepted as a hero and protector of all Earth, vouched for the military forces that had gathered at the site to allow Kedos to leave unhindered once he had awoken. He reasoned that if the dragon was punished for doing a good deed- helping defend the word- even if he had selfish reasons, he would never learn the way of the guardian. Although there were objections, it was admitted that attacking the dragon in the midst of a city, even one already in ruins, would be too costly. Kedos was allowed to return to the sea and Quetzar to his place patrolling the skies of planet Earth in dutiful vigil over its inhabitants.
A brief few months after the defeat of Stroder, when Quetzar, Kedos, Drakia, the Sub-Titan, and Fainis were all subdued and spirited away to the UCA, the Sun Warrior became an outspoken force of justice among the many amoral and villainous fighters that ruled the ring. This earned him both friends and enemies, although no foe of the serpent was ever as great as the corrupted hero Thresher, with whom Quetzar kindled and eventually settled a savage feud. What lays in store for the old one after this bitter rivalry is unknown, but perhaps the serpent can stir up some new friendships in the upcoming Tag Team Championship defense match, for which the Sun Warrior was chosen as partner to existing challenger Talizan...
Miscellaneous:
Trivia - When Quetzar's gaseous blood cools, it turns into a thin, sticky ichor of a distinct orangish color.
Trivia - Quetzar's red eyes are very reflective and tend to glow white in bright light conditions or when he is wreathed in flames.
Quetzar's Cry
Themes - Starfall, Luftikus, Archangel, The Last Ember & Arcade (during Rage of Innocent)
Height: N/A
Length: 314 meters
Wingspan: 197 meters
Mass: 17,685 tons
Description:
Personality:
Quetzar is a child of eternity, a product of his own impossible longevity. Older than all of human civilization and perhaps even the Earth itself, yet still young, the extraterrestrial serpent is one of the rare few sentient beings that has seen all of the evils that the universe has to offer and still believes that it can be good. The alien dragon is a wellspring of wisdom and teachings gathered from a million planets and many billions of years, as well as a fierce opponent for any who dare defy his strict moral code. While his fascination with other cultures and hunger for new learnings might have made him the perfect librarian or mentor in another life, he is a warrior in heart, mind, and body- a creature of force before diplomacy. He will offer his foes every chance to repent and stand down when they have done wrong, but is otherwise unrelenting when it comes to his enforcement of justice. Although it is true that Quetzar does not relish death and, in fact, abhors it, it is equally true that the Sun Warrior will kill without hesitation if it works towards the preservation of purer lives. The flames of the alien are not weapons of submission, but of obliteration. What they touch without restraint will be burnt to nothing. Those who cross the line, who break the fragile barrier between light and dark, should expect no mercy from the last son of Ayaoni. Despite his noble spirit, Quetzar is a touch egotistical. He takes great pride in the sheen to his scales as well as the area of his wings. The serpent takes care to maintain his physical appearance and grows extremely upset when it is disturbed. Dirtying his coat is almost as quick a way to taste his flames as threatening innocence. The ancient titan is also rather quick to make judgment and will remain latched onto outdated impressions long after then have been disproved out of sheer distrust. Getting on the UAE's bad side is far easier that the opposite- earning his favor. The alien creature also suffers from something of a hero syndrome. He believed himself to be the sole guardian of Earth H-945 and still struggles to leave behind that narrow mindset. Trusting other with important tasks is hard for the serpent, as is allying himself equally with others. Beyond these few small instances of pettiness, there is also a much darker side to the serpent. Though the alien wyrm ultimately fights for the preservation of all life and can only be truly enraged by threat or harm to innocents, he is also merciless, hardened by a lifetime of hard decision and combat. When faced by a truly serious threat, something that concerns lives in the millions, the old one becomes cold to the point of actively deciding when it is appropriate to sacrifice innocent lives without the consult of others. In stark contrast to his good nature, the powers of the Sun Warrior are nothing but destructive and, to be used to their fullest extent, must consume the lives and land of those around him. Quetzar, despite being a champion of life and light alike, brings nothing but fire and ashes in his basest state.
Living Quarters:
Quetzar's living quarters resemble an aviary of vast height and complexity, featuring lush jungle vegetation that mimics the Central American rainforest that the solar serpent once soared over in the prime of his rule over the Aztecs. There are also mountainous peaks for the airborne serpent to rest on when he grows weary of riding the generous jet stream and swirls around the top of the structure as well as a cold mountain stream that the prideful alien can clean his scales and mane in.
Attacks:
- Thermal Shock: By inciting a brief flare in his internal furnace and venting the resulting swell of heat out from beneath his raised scales, EXT001 can generate powerful shock waves of scalding air and boiling water vapor. These bursts can reach a temperature that vaporizes water and ignites biological tissue such as hair and vegetation on contact, though the exact temperature is impossible to measure due to the brevity of these blasts. Quetzar mainly engages in this behavior as a defensive technique, incinerating projectiles and repelling foes that attempt to grapple him. The power of these shock waves has the ability to destabilize the serpent's flight, so he unleashes them sparingly- most often when he is in immediate danger or must scatter a large amount of debris or smaller foes to protect innocents. The visitor’s use of this power is harmful near humans, resulting in burns, longterm eye damage, and clothes catching on fire, but is generally nonlethal disregarding extreme proximity.
- Plasma Flares: By channeling the power pounding from his heart, Quetzar can unleash fiery blasts of oxidized air and flames from his jaws. These gouts of fire range from orange billows of nearly 7,000 degrees Kelvin to golden plumes over 11,000 degrees Kelvin in temperature. The hot breath of the UAE is supremely destructive, melting and setting fire to everything it touches- Aberrative flesh and armor included- but has little accuracy to speak of. The solar serpent finds it difficult to precisely direct these wild belches of fire and thus hesitates to use them without care. Only in his most enraged state of mind does he ever fully cut loose, something that can level cities of stone and beast of bone into nothing but glowing slag.
- Vortex Clap: Quetzar's broad, starshaped wings can generate fierce squalls of wind when he beats or brings them together. This alone is not enough to harm most other giants, their weight great enough to resist even hurricanes, but the angry gales can quickly become dangerous when they pick up shrapnel and shattered glass from war torn cities or crushed landscapes.
- Constriction: Despite his relative slimness and lack of impressive girth, Quetzar is a muscular creature. Because he is power directly by the the sun, a perfect autotroph, there are few true organs in his body. His coils are nearly pure muscle, his anatomy more closely resembling that of a highly tissued worm rather than any higher organism. The Foreign UAE can wrap his body around an opponent and squeeze with a strength equivalent to a much bulkier Burmese python of similar or equal size. His hard scales also act like saw teeth, slicing shallowly into the skin of any creature he grapples.
- Saberfangs: The emerald head of Quetzar is armed with an impressive set of saberlike teeth. Although their use in combat is relatively rare for the godly serpent, they can rip through flesh and armor with shocking ease, harder than diamond and with none of the brittleness. Bathed by flames, they become like two molten swords that can sheer through concrete, holding the heat of Quetzar's heart and plunging it into his foes.
- Teeth: Quetzar's craggy jaws are also home to two long rows of flat, bladelike teeth that can part unarmored flesh rather easily, although the more prominent hook and saberteethn already found within the serpent's mouth make then somewhat difficult to utilize effectively.
Powers:
- Cavity Reactor: Quetzar's alien anatomy is completely dissimilar to our own. It does not have a tissued heart like ours, but instead a small star that is held suspended in the center of his main body cavity- a fiery core of solar fusion contained beneath his breast like a miniature sun. This infernal power source sends heat to the rest of his body through broad veins filled with hot gaseous blood. This superheated fluid can burn at nearly 6,000 degrees Kelvin. The serpent has no muscles, moving instead by the use of the expanding vapor in his veins. By managing the heat sent to, and thus volume of gas within, different veins, the alien serpent can operate his coils and limbs. This process is not unlike the concept of liquid hydraulics. The temperature in the serpent's core is extreme, climaxing at more than 13,000,000 degrees Kelvin within his heart. It is a wonder that the serpent does not incinerate the world around him. The skin and scales of the Foreign UAE are incredibly insulate, containing the raging heat of his heart to such a degree that touching his body unprotected is merely like touching a hot stovetop rather than plunging your hand into an exploding star. The entire body of the Friendly Foreign is filled with this warmth- he is hot even to the tips of his plumed crest. The serpent has control over the degree to which the inferno of his heart is smothered though. By lifting or lowering his flexible coat of scales, the solar serpent can alter the external heat he gives off. Fully fanned, his armored coat will actually catch fire and burn a brilliant gold like the sun. His body glows at over 13,000 degrees Kelvin during these infernal states of being. At these temperatures, the serpent is little more than a renegade star and can vaporize all nearby organic materials if he is not careful to do otherwise.
- Solar Tissues: To gather enough warmth to power all of his tubed body systems, the surface of Quetzar's people has basically become a single large solar collector. All of his shieldshaped scales and especially his broad, starshaped wings act as organic solar panels, absorbing sunlight and other forms of thermal radiation without harm to the UAE. The Foreign could swim in lava without woe, only gaining nourishment from the 2,000 degree Kelvin soup of molten rock and soil.
- Molten Blood: When ruptured, the broad veins of Quetzar experience drastic pressure loss and expel their gaseous contents at high speeds, briefly setting fire to the air. Breaches of the serpent's hide are marked by tall spouts of flames. The burning vapor condenses into a liquid with a temperature of more than 5,000 degrees Kelvin upon contact with the air. This molten blood tends to splatter onto whatever device or appendage pierced the serpent's hide, and, although not the hottest aspect of the alien UAE, can burn through flesh and metal easily, causing deep scarring of undefended tissues.
- Body Radiance: Quetzar's broad wings do not only absorb solar radiation, but also reemit it at an accelerated rate. What are often identified as wings in the serpent's anatomy are not like the limbs of a bird or the mechanism found on a plane, which generate lift through airflow, but closer to what one might label as 'solar sails.' They do not gift the serpent with flight through the movement of air around them or their movement through the air, but by expelling great amounts of heat. The thermal energy that is not used to power the serpent's tubed body systems is channeled and released from his wings as a form of propellant. When the Foreign Friendly pumps his wings, he is not pushing against the air, but against the heat emitted by the starshaped membranes, similar to how a rocket pushes against the hot gasses the burning of its fuel produces, thus why it can move even in the void of space, another trait shared with the UAE. In addition to the intense thermal currents generated from his wings, each of the serpent's scales can release a small amount of energy when lifted, essentially turning it into a small booster that modifies and increases the thrust pushing the serpent through the air. The UAE is not exactly like a ship, powered by only a few great sails, but instead a missile accelerated from all angles. Quetzar is the fastest organic entity known to the population on Earth H-945, capable of attaining flight speeds of up to mach 17.2, shattering the human record by more than double. But to reach such high speeds, Quetzar must to allow his body to catch fire from its heart and ride the inferno that it generates, something that he rarely attempts below the airlessness of space in fear of surpassing the flash point temperature of Earth's biosphere. His speed below Earth's ceiling typically remains between the more reasonable velocities of Mach 5 and Mach 9, although he must serious shed speed in order to perform any sort of nonlinear maneuver. Close to the ground and in combat situations, the serpent rarely breaks Mach 3.
- Telepath: Quetzar has the ability to project his thoughts into the minds of other organisms, enabling him to communicate with creatures who do not understand his native language. The serpent claims this is not due to any unique power or special ability, but simply because his mind is older and more powerful than the human brain and can, “overlap” it. The serpent describes this process as forming a thread between his mind and the one that he is communicating with, an invisible tether that anchors shallowly into the other brain and connects them, allowing the mutual flow of thoughts. The more minds he speaks to at once, the more numerous these threads become and the more traffic his mind is forced to accommodate. Although Quetzar's mind is extremely ancient and can hold many threads at once, strong enough to cycle through hundreds, even thousands, of thoughts, there is a limit to how many minds he can attach himself to at one time. Pushing this limit causes the serpent great mental and physical strain. Despite worries otherwise by certain powerful voices on Earth H-945, Quetzar's telepathic abilities seem to be strictly noninvasive. He cannot read thoughts, only send and receive them. The other voice must be willing in order for them to converse. The serpent says that it would take a mind many times as powerful as his own to actively intrude into a foreign consciousness. Controlling the foreign mind would require even greater mental power, something the alien entity says he has never come across in all his days traveling the stars.
- Scale Armor: Beyond their capacity to store thermal energy, the shieldshaped scales covering Quetzar are quite hard and glossy. Under laboratory testing, fragments have displayed durability similar to diamond, although with none of the imperfections that makes fracturing them so easy. The hard scales fall over each other like layered armor, although they have very little difficulty moving despite this. Each scale has a long, spiny pair of roots that is anchored in Quetzar's skin. The armored coat of scales shows just as great a deal of flexibility as they do strength. However, their malleable roots also makes them rather easy to tear loose.
- Self Aware: Quetzar, with few exceptions, can repel psychic and psychological attacks because his eternity of life has allowed him to come to terms with all his flaws and mistakes. The serpent is aware exactly how he is flawed and why, nulling almost all assaults based on attacking these insecurities.
- Airless: Quetzar apparently has no need to breath oxygen or any other gas, because he is free to move between the atmosphere of Earth and the void of space as he pleases.
Limited Attack
- The Rage of Innocence: Though Quetzar is a supremely disciplined entity, he suffers from something called the, “Rage of Innocence” on his native world. Over the eons that he has served as a sheriff of worlds, Quetzar has trained himself against faltering in the face of anguish, unflinching when both enemies and allies fall to horrible injury or even death. But the infernal guardian has never been able to tolerate threat against bystanders. Hinting towards attack on- and especially killing of- those who have no place in a battle and are only there due to circumstance can cause Quetzar to fall into the Rage. The Sun Warrior is at his deadliest when possessed by the Rage, scorching landscapes to slag and toppling awesome foes in mere seconds as he unleashes all of his power without constraint, but he also loses all precaution and tends to injury himself in the process. Bouts of the Rage are potentially the most deadly period of a battle for both Quetzar's foes and Quetzar himself.
Weaknesses:
- Quetzar is not at all suited for terrestrial movement. The serpent is a creature built entirely for aerial combat and, although he can rest comfortably on the ground, cannot do much else without use of his broad membranes. If his wings were hindered or ruined in any way, the Sun Warrior would become hapless. Loosing the power of flight is actually something of a fear for the solar serpent.
- Under his hard scales, the hide of Quetzar is actually quite soft and vulnerable. The serpent's bare flesh offers no more protection that does proportionately sized human skin. Even conventional weapons can pierce his unarmored skin. If his scales are stripped away, the serpent becomes among the least defended UAEs currently known. Also, the naked flesh of the alien is not as efficient a solar collector as his scales or wings, limiting his power the more of it is revealed.
- Without a strong source of heat to power his tubed body system, Quetzar quickly weakens and finds it more and more difficult to move. His defenses also falter as he ails. The silky flesh of the Foreign UAE will withdraw like dead tissue as nourishment is withheld in his infernal heart, unrooting his prized coat of scales and allowing them to drop away easily. Additionally, the ancient mind of Quetzar will begin to slow under a substantial lack of sunlight, making him dull and unresponsive in contrast to his usual cunning. As a last defense against the total shutdown of his vital systems, the solar serpent will fall into a deep dormant state, a coma that can last a time beyond human comprehension. This trance can only be broken by the direct application of a concentrated heat source to his body.
History:
The universe began from a single point. Some say that it was a vast explosion of cosmic energy that birthed existence while other maintain that a living being of vast power and omnipotence created all, but, in truth, both are equally true. The universe started from a burst of sentient creation that spread out across the endless Void and filled it with warmth. As the first light of existence danced across infinity, it sowed what would quickly become the source of all life- stars, the glowing masses of shed light that gathered in the wake of the Great Wave and warmed the empty space that had been created from the nothing of the Void in its place. Before the Wave had completed even a fraction of its journey across the Void, a solid mass formed from the physical material left behind by it and took to orbiting its oldest child- the first star. This mass became the oldest planet in all creation- Ayaoni- and was soon joined by a smaller twin planet, Triaye, that followed the same orbit and was always in its shadow.
And it was upon these worlds that the first people in all of history were born.
The universe's first civilization developed in the air. Ayaoni circled so close to its star that the ground was fire, its surface molten and uninhabitable. Triaye, trapped in the shadow of its older sibling, was a barren wasteland of ice that leeched away all life from its surface. To exist, the first sapient beings had to fly. Developing on twin planets worlds apart, two distinct races began to form. On the larger, older world of Ayaoni, beings of heat and sunlight that thrived on the brilliance of their star alone came to rule, while those who did not perish trying to brave the unforgiving surface of Triaye became dulled to all temperatures, developing insulating coats of feathers that made them immune to both great heat and the dead cold of the planet's icy skin. Though twin species, the Ayaonians and the Triyeans saw little of each other. The Ayaonians, serpents of fire and air, were aloof and carefree, living lives as long as stars under the light of the first. Not as blessed as their brother people, the Triyeans were more accustomed to mistrust and self reliance, unable to even count on the sun to shine upon their eternally darkened world. So, although almost equally ancient and able, the two cultures, brothers by birth and blood, existed apart- from both each other and the rest of the universe.
Quetzar was born countless generations after the Wave, yet is still older than the whole of our solar system. His birth came before even the completion of the Wave- he is older than some of the known universe. Like the rest of his people, the young Ayaonian had no worries in life. He would live longer than most worlds and the might of Ayaoni was such that no creature dare challenge any of its children. There was nothing in all of creation for the serpent to fret over, yet, somehow, he was not satisfied with his existence as it was. Merely soaring beneath the first light and absorbing its rays could not sate him. He, unlike the rest of his people, was filled with energy and curiosity, so he explored the universe that his race so easily ignored, moving from world to world and wowing entire planets with his power. Yet, as much as he shared and was shared with by the people he visited, he could not understand them, not truly. Theirs worries, their fears, and their limited time in the universe were all alien concepts to him. As much as he wished to known of their struggles and thus their valor in battling them, the young Ayaonian simply could not conceive what was impossible for him to experience.
But it seems that the lifespan of an Ayaonian exceeds that of possibility, because Quetzar eventually did suffer, as did the rest of his world- in the most heinous way.
In the very prime of the serpent's youth, when his mane turned purest white and his wings stretched as wide as they ever would, the Wave, either because it had finally struck the outer boundaries of the Void or perhaps even because the consciousness within it longed for home, suddenly reverted directions and distorted itself, creating the Ripple- a wave of corruption that swelled inwards towards the center of the universe. Like the Wave had created life and light, the Ripple spread darkness and seeded dark new races that favored war and destruction, as well as twisted many of its existing children towards death and carnage. Accelerated by each mass of matter it turned to ruin, the Ripple traveled infinitely faster than the Wave and blazed across the very dimension it had filled until it collided with itself upon the sun of Ayaoni- the first star. With great horror, something that they had never felt before and thus felt stronger than any ever had, the Ayaonians watched as the unthinkable happened- their star, the first light, oldest child of the Wave, was snuffed out, its rays smothered by the churning turmoil of the Ripple.
Then, completing its self inversion, the Ripple used the dead husk of its once brightest light to birth the universe's greatest abomination- Yabdrillsk, the antithesis to creation.
A being of pure null matter- a mysterious, potent substance that seems not to exist, invisible and without mass, a literal hole in the fabric of space, yet also has the power to engulf and convert both matter and antimatter to be identical to it- the beast, a reincarnation of the Void itself, crafted a physical shell for its shapeless body out of stardust and, taking on the appearance of a two-headed wyrm in cruel mockery of the Ayaonians and Triyeans, turned its gaze on the oldest of all worlds. Stretching twin jaws wide like a cosmic serpent of judgment and spewing out the very essence of the Void, Yabdrillsk carved the mirrored worlds in half and consumed the shattered fragments. All of the Ayaonians perished, either dying at the same instant their world did or fleeing blindly from the Vessel of the Void in the fresh fear that surged through their body like the emotion of an infant and dooming themselves to starve on the lightless edges of the universe. Quetzar, off word at the time, was the only Ayaonian survivor.
The Triyeans, more cunning than their brother race as well as shielded by Ayaoni itself, which was destroyed fist, survived, although not without great casualty. What remained of their people gathered among the rubble of their world- or at least what few scraps of snow and ice had not been swallowed by Yabdrillsk, who had vanished back into empty space, its stardust body blending back into the dead sky without the light of a sun or the fires of Ayaoni to illuminate it. It was here that Quetzar, grieving and not understanding upon finding his world vanished, turned for answers. Although the last son of Ayaoni was hardly an enemy of Triaye, the only Ayaonian to ever even attempt contact with them, he was still received hostilely. An eternity in the shadow of Ayaoni had trained its children to be bitter and jealous of their siblings, so the Triyean survivors refused Quetzar shelter. Anger compounding the sorrow and confusion that churned in his belly, sensations still alien to the timeless youth, Quetzar snapped and unleashed his flames. The fire melted the ruins of Triaye and the resulting collapse of weakened ice claimed the lives of several of the surviving Triyeans, which shook Quetzar from his blind rage and sent him flying in horror away, retreating from his own sin.
Unknown to the Ayaonian, a young Triyean- one left orphaned by the actions of the eternal serpent- chased him. Vowing revenge, the determined and sly Triyean, a male called Koalt, would never stop chasing Quetzar, even knowing that it would take eons for him to catch up with the ageless wyrm...
As he winded through space, alone and overwhelmed by his emotions, Quetzar vowed to tame the fire inside of him and make it a tool to prevent tragedies like the one that had left him homeless as well as the one that had left him hated by the Triyeans- foul things brought about by both forces of nature and fate and individuals. The young serpent began to bound between worlds once again, but this time with a mission beyond personal amusement. Looking for injustice, hatred, and all manners of other evil, the immortal wyrm fought and hardened his body and soul so that it was suitable to carry the light- the last light of the first star, the sun that had been born to give life to Ayaoni and died to create Yabdrillsk. The light that had bathed Quetzar when he entered the world and ignited the infernal heart that would burn forever beneath his breast. The light that had guided all other light and molded the design of existence.
The very light of all life and creation.
Beginning around 4600 BC, our world has been host to this light. After visiting multiple places and cultures across the face of early Earth, the last son of Ayaoni decided that our planet was worthy to act as base for his light. Though this world was still crude and its people still young, he had grown fond of them and their societies despite and elected to stay. Going against the aching part of him that wished to continue moving through the cosmos and dull the pain of loss that still echoed fiercely in his chest, the serpent of eternal youth and warm skies stayed on earth and eventually became the god of one people in particular- the Aztecs. Settling in comfortably as a leader, guardian, and dispenser of wisdom to the budding Aztecs, the alien wyrm soon became known by the longer title of Quetzalcoalt- governor of the boundary between sky and earth and the serpent-god credited with the creation and protection of mankind. Quetzar ruled the Aztecs from afar, but always cast his shadow over the growing civilization, making sure to guide and nudge them in the right direction without ever smothering their culture under his will. He only stepped in wielding any amount of force when an issue arose that he strongly objected to- such as when he banned human sacrifice from being made in his name- or when an overwhelmingly strong foe- like one of the giant creatures controlled by a nearby civilization with advanced technology and philosophy known as Ataloue- threatened to wipe out his worshipers.
Strangely, it was not one of these Atalouean creatures that ultimately bested the Sun Warrior and cast him from the ancient days of legend, but a mere man instead.
After a particularly brutal battle against the Atalouean monster Mesucos in 1519, Quetzar returned to his people only to find that they had welcomed in a group of strangers- the conquistadors. Lead by the charismatic and self driven Hernán Cortés, the man who would eventually become Quetzar's bane, the foreigners appeared as if in peace and the Aztecs, awed by their alien appearance and wondrous technology, allowed them passage into their empire. The last foreigner they had let into their home had brought nothing but guidance and prosperity after all. Although suspicious of the strangers' true intents and hesitant to trust these men from the east, Quetzar elected to allow his followers to decide for themselves whether or not they were trustworthy. The old one believed that business between men was no place for him, an immortal and a guest on Earth, though he still watched the visitors closely in case of treachery against his worshipers. He had seen many seemingly peaceful pilgrims turn violent during his eons riding across the stars and worried that he might see it again, this time against a people that he had a close personal connection to. Even as he withdrew deep into the Central American forest to begin healing his terrible injuries and preen his ruined coat of scales, the alien wyrm never let his gaze stray far from the negotiations with and celebratory feasts hosted for the sake of the newcomers.
While the serpent's suspicion about the true nature of the conquistadors was accurate, his worry about who the target was did not prove so acute. It was not the Aztec people that Cortés moved against first, but the serpent-god himself. Locating and stationing his men all around the edges of the jungle canyon that Quetzar had chosen to recover in, the bold Spaniard ordered boulders cast down onto the sleeping serpent through the use of cannon fire. Still wounded, deprived of sunlight under the nighttime canopy, and caught by surprise at the sudden betrayal, Quetzar was buried under a landslide of rubble, trapping him and forcing the solar entity to submit his mind and body to a comalike slumber that would steal him away from the world for over five hundred years. As he slipped into the deep state of catatonic sleep that would spare his life at the cost of his services, the old one could only hope that his people would not be as easily subdued as he was.
Returning to the curious Aztecs, who had heard the commotion that had bested their living deity, and claiming that he was their vanished god in human form, citing the thunder of his cannons as the sound of him shedding his godly scales, Cortés wooed Quetzar's people long enough to infiltrate their capital, gather a force of rival native peoples, and wipe out the empire that had been born underneath Quetzar's nurturing wings. Though they prayed and made sacrifice to their lost god in plead of help, Quetzar was already lost completely to the static state of rest that would keep him trapped within his own mind and body for the next five centuries. He would never see his people, his children, again
Quetzar was awaken on May 17th, 2024, five-hundred-and-five years after he had been betrayed and trapped by Cortés. The serpent had been roused by the application of a direct heat source- a sweaty human palm- against his still body. Fifty decades of rain and floods had uncovered the serpent, but also kept him too cool to be revived. Vines and moss had grown over the alien's still body, making him look like a decrepit stone carving- thus why someone was so willing to place their hand against him.
The hand belonged to Alex Shepheard, who was, at the time, merely a field researcher collecting and tagging feral cats for study on the damage they cause to the native lizard populations. Confused and embittered by the actions of the last strangers on his shores, Quetzar lashed out against Alex, torching the forest around him to ash in a fit of helpless anger. Still angry, but unwilling to kill a human in cold blood for the actions of others, Quetzar took to the sky and soared for where the capital city of Ataloue once stood. The Ataloueans, although rivals, had been fair and understanding people. If anyone had taken pity on his people and saved them, it would be them.
The serpent's path carried him out of Central America and put him in Brazil, the Atalouean homeland.
Unfortunately, Ataloue had long since fallen, destroyed by the treachery of the cunning Mesucos not long after Cortés had staged his own coup. And in its place, the city of Manaus- where the Brazilian Army Aviation Command waited for him. The appearance of the serpent had not gone unnoticed and helicopters intercepted the old one. The battle was a quick one- the scales of Quetzar easily deflected all weapons that the BAAC could produce and his own speed and agility in the air far exceeded that of the choppers. There were no casualties by Quetzar's own choice, but none of the helicopters were airworthy after the serpent's work was done either.
Realizing that he was in a world unlike the one he had known, Quetzar gave in to despair and fled to parts unknown.
The serpent's demotion to misery was a short one, because only two days after he had risen from his own ancient slumber, so had another behemoth. Kedos Croder, all wrath and storm surges, appeared in Stovehaven and threatened to drown the seaside community even though they had done him no wrong. Though he was no longer familiar with the way Earth was, Quetzar knew it was still his duty to guard it, so he revealed himself to the dragon and the world once again. The alien protector tried to ward off Kedos, a rival he knew from the past, with words, but the sea dragon insisted that battle was the only way to carry things out by attacking the heavenly wyrm. The two fought evenly for a long stretch, their elemental powers counteracting those of the other, until Kedos made threat at the townspeople who had not been evacuated yet. Letting his fiery heart swell in outrage, the serpent-god wrapped Kedos in his armored coils and flew him far away from the city, where his full power was unleashed in a blinding fireball like a star dropped onto the ocean's surface.
Though he had suffered a slit throat from his battle with Kedos and faced threats from many powerful parties within global politics for his presence on Earth, only a few genuinely appreciating his service as a guardian to the planet, Quetzar nevertheless flew out to do battle again two months later when the alien killing machine Strider crashed down on the Isle of Man and then made its way into the heart of London. Meeting Kedos, who was also there to battle the foreign threat, at the scene, the two old enemies agreed to work together to try and bring down Strider. Combining their polar powers of water and fire to create awesome elemental displays that would have torn any other foe limb from limb and eventually joined by the Sub-Titan as well, the pair of monster-gods fought with all their strength, but, still wounded from their own fight, fell to the engineered death machine.
After Strider was defeated by combined force of Drakia and Fainis, Quetzar, finally accepted as a hero and protector of all Earth, vouched for the military forces that had gathered at the site to allow Kedos to leave unhindered once he had awoken. He reasoned that if the dragon was punished for doing a good deed- helping defend the word- even if he had selfish reasons, he would never learn the way of the guardian. Although there were objections, it was admitted that attacking the dragon in the midst of a city, even one already in ruins, would be too costly. Kedos was allowed to return to the sea and Quetzar to his place patrolling the skies of planet Earth in dutiful vigil over its inhabitants.
A brief few months after the defeat of Stroder, when Quetzar, Kedos, Drakia, the Sub-Titan, and Fainis were all subdued and spirited away to the UCA, the Sun Warrior became an outspoken force of justice among the many amoral and villainous fighters that ruled the ring. This earned him both friends and enemies, although no foe of the serpent was ever as great as the corrupted hero Thresher, with whom Quetzar kindled and eventually settled a savage feud. What lays in store for the old one after this bitter rivalry is unknown, but perhaps the serpent can stir up some new friendships in the upcoming Tag Team Championship defense match, for which the Sun Warrior was chosen as partner to existing challenger Talizan...
Miscellaneous:
Trivia - When Quetzar's gaseous blood cools, it turns into a thin, sticky ichor of a distinct orangish color.
Trivia - Quetzar's red eyes are very reflective and tend to glow white in bright light conditions or when he is wreathed in flames.
Quetzar's Cry
Themes - Starfall, Luftikus, Archangel, The Last Ember & Arcade (during Rage of Innocent)
