| “ | "I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil." | ” |
— Dark Age, Chapter 17
| ||
Atlas au Raa was a Gold from House Raa of Io and the youngest son of Gaia and Revus au Raa, the brother of Romulus, the father of Ajax and Bellerephon, and the uncle of Diomedes. He was the Legate of Legio Zero Pavor Nocturnus and the Fear Knight of The Society until his banishment to the Kuiper Belt in 739 PCE. He retook the post when he returned during the Solar War to fight for the Society Remnant.
Appearance[]
Personality[]
Skills[]
Atlas fought with a hasta, and was skilled in many disciplines, including close combat martial arts like Kravat.
Biography[]
Pre-Saga[]
Atlas was born on Io in 705 PCE to Revus and Gaia au Raa.[1] He grew up in Sungrave, and later witnessed the birth of his sister, helping his father wrap her in linen afterward.[2]
At the age of ten, he was sent to Luna to serve as a hostage in the court of Octavia au Lune to keep his parents in line following the end of the First Moon Lord Rebellion.[3] His mother's last words to him before he left were to do his duty.
In the Core, Atlas was privileged and educated, but derided for being the son of traitors. He was trained by Octavia in the use of the Mind's Eye,[1] and was taught to be an extension of her will, turning him against his family in the process.[3]
In 721 or 722 PCE, he attended The Institute, presumably on Luna, and was drafted into House Pluto. He eventually graduated as a Peerless Scarred.
Atlas was eventually appointed to the office of Fear Knight, and became the commanding officer of Legio Zero Pavor Nocturnus.
In 731 PCE, he and Aja au Grimmus coupled with each other on Octavia's orders, leading to the conception of theor son, Ajax au Grimmus. At some point before or after Ajax's birth, he fathered another son Bellerephon, who was raised on Io with the rest of the Raa family.
At some point before 733 PCE, Atlas became close friends with Brutus au Arcos, the husband of Octavia's daughter Anastasia and father of her grandson Lysander.
Between Red Rising and Golden Son[]
Sometime after the conclusion of the 542nd Class of the Martian Institute, Atlas met Darrow au Andromedus during the latter's service as a lancer of House Augustus. Darrow attempted to impress his stength on Atlas by squeezing his hand, but Atlas let the arm go limp, embarrassing Darrow.[3]
In 739 PCE, Atlas committed unspecified "indiscretions" after Brutus and Anastasia were assassinated by Octavia in 738, and was dispatched to the Kuiper Belt to exterminate the Ascomanni as punishment. When he departed, he left the Gorgon operative Xenophon on Luna to serve as his agent in Hyperion.[4] Soon after he left, Octavia appointed another Fear Knight to replace him, and when he made contact a year later reporting that all but two of his ships had been destroyed, he was ordered to maintain radio silence until the mission was completed, signalling to all that his assignment was ultimately meant to kill him and those who went with him.
Atlas and his men realized that they would never feel the sun on their faces again, but found solace in the face that he was spending his life spreading the light of The Society. He eventually grew close to his Obsidian subordinate Vagnar Hefga, who becane his confidant and brother-in-arms.[2]
Solar War[]
After the Battle of Ilium and The Fall of Luna, Atlas began concocting a plot to punish the Rim for the Second Moon Lord Rebellion and reaffirm their loyalty to The Society while simultaneously weakening the fledgling Solar Republic.
He dispatched Vagnar and a group of fifty Obsidian Gorgons to conquer the Ascomanni and unify them under a single banner. Atlas then returned to The Core after the fall of Earth and sought the sponsorship of the Society Remnant, retaking his positon as Fear Knight in the process.
In 747 PCE, he and his men participated in the Remnant's Siege of Olympia on Mars alongside Apollonois au Valii-Rath, where a Red spy named Daedre played on his prejudices to gain their trust over the course of a week before lacing their food with a nerve agent that killed 104 of his troops before he caught on.[1]
During the war, Atlas began carving meditation totems depicting people who preyed on his prejudices.[1]
At some point before 750 PCE, Atlas sent Xenophon to become useful to Sefi Volarus and lead her away from Darrow into the fold of Vagnar's alias, Volsung Fá.
Dark Age[]
Light Bringer[]
Relationships[]
Trivia[]
- The Fear Knight is known for his mask of resembling “the face of a sexless child ringed with hair of serpents” a similarity to the Gorgons in Greek mythology.
- South of Hyperion is an Interplanetary Docks which share Atlas's name. They may have been named after the Fear Knight.
Quotes[]
- "Dido au Saud, for the crime of treason against your Society, I sentence you to death." - Light Bringer, Ch.45: Allfather
- "The body of worlds is made sick by our division. Our most noble families are rife with desire for vengeance. For power. Division is a cancer, Lysander, and I am excising the affected tissue." - Light Bringer, Ch.47: The Bringer of Darkness
Gallery[]
