Vexus Orthos

"''Ruuk - "But it's incredibly hard to break Flame Tongues"

Vexus - "Well, I was incredibly pissed off"''"

- Vexus and Ruuk discussing the time Vexus broke a flame tongue in half Vexus Orthos is a human Paladin of Mortality. A member of the Avum Empires Special forces – the Auxilia Select – he is a veteran of many of fights against many of the most dangerous of the Empires enemies. These foes have ranged from the traditional monstrous dangers of the world, to other nations and black ops missions, to the literally unthinkable – missions so dangerous against foes so perilous that the events of the missions were scoured from Vexus’ mind by magic.

Vexus is remarkably robust, and a master of defence. He would fight alongside Maximilian Valerius Cato, a Confessor of the Imperial Cult, and became close friends with the fellow follower of the Mortal Cause. During their time together, they would become involved in counter insurgency operations to root out demonic cults that had been seeded within the Empires new West Arban provinces. Vexus’ Select Team would lead the kill mission against the cults lair, during which Vexus was stabbed in the gut by a flame tongue wielding cultist. Vexus would shatter the blade, before slitting the cultists neck with the broken remains of the blade. He would later reforge this blade into Nix Ignis – dead fire later renamed to Vadokan (by Ruuk).

Vexus, along with the Confessor, were later redeployed to support the Auric Lodge. Vexus was initially taken aback by the sudden shift from military discipline to the more informal structure of the Adventuring Guild, but soon became a core part of the team. He would later repeat his feat of breaking a magical weapon when he managed to extract a diamond from the axe Glarrax, an action that left him unconscious but undoubtably saved Ruuk’s life.