Home of the Dreadnaught: History

Dreadnaught has no history before his arrival in Beware. Well, that is not entirely true. He does have one, but he will not discuss it.

When He first arrived in Beware DREADNAUGHT did not engage the foe. He spent his time lurking and watching, learning and studying the problem he was faced with. This was not a land that cried out for another champion. For this land had champions, men and women who defended and fought when needed. But the Dark still ran roughshod over the land. They knew no fear, for no man would take a proactive approach, attack instead of continuously defending. And so, the Paladin found his role.

He became an anti-hero, a warrior that was tireless and unyielding. He attacked the Dark wherever he found them, capturing and killing without mercy. Soon the accusations began. The Light accused him of being the evil he fought so hard against, because he did not fit the mold of what "Light" was though to be. Even when he shed blood by the bucket to defend a maiden, she accused him of being "Just one of Them".

He became a recluse, shunning the company of others and living alone without friend or ally in the Tower of Light. He does not drink in the castle. He does not wander the lands seeking friends or conversation. He appears where and when there is need. Every action he takes has a purpose behind it.

Most have not noticed the difference, and his fearsome reputation well diserved still lingers in the minds of many. But no longer does the Paladin capture the dark and inflict terrible pain on them. He still fights, he still uses traps and deception to defeat his foes. He is still a deadly and nearly unmatched fighter, still a champion and defender of the innocent. But does he terrorize the Dark as he used too?

To be certain, he still gives foes ample reason to fear him. Perhaps that is all that really matters. But perhaps there are secrets around the stoic man that can be learned, if one knows where to look.

DREADNAUGHT became the fourth weilder of Excalibur, following in the footsteps of Atray, Sir. Geroge and Karma. Reciving the blade meant alot to him, for a variety of reasons. The prime one being that he saw it as a validation of all his years of work, all his blood lost to the fight. To him the blade meant he had attained what he had strived for after so long- acceptance. He no longer wields it.

After more than year of imprisonment within a stone statue inside the Tower of Light, DREADNAUGHT has re-emerged and returned to action in the realm of Beware. What remains to be seen is which version of the Paladin has returned? Will it be the hero, or the anti-hero? The brutal knight, or the passive champion? Time will tell.

"Ah yes, the DREADNAUGHT- an interesting individual. He is proof that either side in the conflict is much closer than they wish to admit. After all, if I leave a trail of corpses behind me and the gentry calls me a monster. If DREADNAUGHT, shining bright, does so in some nether realm, he is called a hero by the same people.
Curious is it not?"

"The diffrence between myself and the Dark? My wrath is focused, my vengace only extracted upon thoes who would harm the innocent.

The same foes who have murdered and raped innocent maidens who had no way of defending themselves have accused me of not having honor because I trapped and outsmarted them. The Dark can have their warped view of what honor is and is not. I will not be trapped into giving up victory by a Dark ideal."