Acheron, the Dark Wizard, also known as the Magic Thief, is the main antagonist of the Roblox game Arcane Adventures.
Once a young boy without any magical ability, Acheron came across the Absorption Sea Curse. Realising his true potential during a bandit raid on his village, he sought to steal all the magic in the world and someday rule it, his conquest claiming the lives of thousands if not millions of innocent lives and completely reshaping the world. He was the archenemy of Theos, the Phoenix and the nemesis of the Peacekeeper.
Biography
Becoming the Magic Thief
As a young boy, Acheron was born with no magical ability at all, feeling distant from the other children in his village as a result. During a walk through a forest, he came across a large purple cube. Putting his hand through it, the cube exploded in a flash of light. He felt extremely powerful, but had no idea what had happened, and returned to his village the same day. Not too long after, bandits attacked the village using magic. His house collapsed on him while he slept, breaking his left arm. Seeing the bandit that had destroyed his house, he felt compelled by some force, secretly the god Hades, to raise his right arm, draining the man of his magic energy, killing him. Acheron could now summon the magic circles required to cast Light Magic, realising the cube he had encountered was the Absorption Curse, and he now had its power.
Travelling the world for three years, Acheron became known as the Magic Thief, able to use all seven types of known magic: Fire, Lightning, Light, Wind, Earth, Water, and Shadow. During his exploits, a man challenged him to a fight. Acheron accepted, baffled when the man started laughing after converting his own arm to dirt, even more baffled when he couldn't absorb his magic, the man having no magic energy whatsoever. The man told him had never been magical before, to which Acheron realised he was a fellow curse user, the Earth Curse. Acheron switched tactics, instead draining his physical energy, tiring him out. Acheron then killed the man and stole his Sea Curse.
After gaining many Curses, he used their powers to build a tower, which he would stay in for the next decade. He experiment with his abilities, learning how to revive the dead, reverse the effects of Curses, combine them and even turn a magic into a more powerful form of itself, which later came to be known as Mutating. The world advances around him as he remains in his tower, with there being around thirty different types of magic, borne of Mutations. Despite his prior knowledge of them, his lack of innate magic ability meant he had to wait for the outside world to discover and start using them so he could steal them. Not wanting his research to be interrupted, he resisted the urge to emerge into the world once more, remaining in his tower. Having remained in hiding for so long, the world forgets about him.
Encounter with Theos the Phoenix
Four years later, Acheron leaves his tower and returns to his old ways, feeling his lust for power return after stealing Sun Magic and Flash Magic. He came to the city of Oberon, the largest city in the world at the time, setting his sights on the gatekeeper, Theos the Phoenix's, magic. Theos proves too powerful for him to absorb his magic easily and the duo duel for hours, eventually destroying the city's gate. Theos is forced to retreat into the city, but Acheron is shaken by the encounter, retreating as well. He decides to build an undead army to help defeat him.
Another four years later, he completes his army of undead peasants and mages. He provides some of them with magic. Will they march to Oberon, he gains the powers of the Lightning and Explosion Curses.
The army reaches Oberon by the beginning of the next year, only for it to easily by wiped out by Theos. Now locked in a one on one dual once more, Acheron found himself close to death, having lost his right leg in the clash. In a last desperate attempt to save his life, he combined all his power into a single blast. It missed Theos, instead hitting a mountain behind him, causing an explosion so great it reduced eighty percent of the human race to ash, irreversibly altering the world at the same time. It filled the skies and sea with magic pollution causing massive tsunamis, huge storms, snow in deserts, and other various weather anomalies. Some areas of the earth became so malicious and polluted with energy that life could no longer existed there. The energy in the atmosphere and seas would remain this way for about five hundred years, until it finally dissipated into space, which returned the world's weather back to normal. However, one effect that never changed was how Sea Curses interacted with the water. The pollution now meant Curse users could no longer swim in the world's oceans, which now encompassed far more of the world than they had before.
The New World
Three hundred years later, Theos, now referred to as the War Phoenix, hunted Acheron across the Seven Seas for the destruction of his home and family. Meanwhile, Acheron was rebuilding his undead army, ensuring to always stay a sea away from Theos. However, in the wake of the destruction he had caused, the Seven Seas now had a central government, the Arcane Government. He viewed them more as a nuisance than a threat. Most of the commanders were Curse users, meaning that he needed to engage in long prolonged fights with them to steal their Curses, during which they could easily call for reinforcements and overwhelm him. In retaliation, he used his necromancy to resurrect some of their fallen ships, making them unsinkable. Knowing he couldn't risk getting captured and with encouragement from Hades, he shed his body and went into hiding, now an immortal dark spirit.
Hoping to obtain influence in the First Sea, he broke the minds of promising mages there and murdered Ramses II, ruler of Savaria, as well as large swathes of its population. Three years later, he returned to Savaria, resurrecting his victims. However, the spell had gone wrong, and he would inadvertently resurrect one of the victims of his attack that had taken the life of eighty percent of the world's population, a person would prove to be his greatest foe, the Peacekeeper, granting the once magicless peasant some of the greatest potential of any mage.
They materialised near Theos in Newground Island, where they helped him kill the wizard's who had been driven to madness by Acheron. During their travels, the Peacekeeper was able to lay Ramses II and his forces to rest once more, ending Acheron's influence in the First Sea. They later encountered Theos again in the Second Sea, who revealed to them his history with Acheron and how he was responsible for most of the evil in the world, recruiting them in his quest to kill the dark wizard once and for all. During this time, Arthur the Cursebeard, captain of the One-Shot Pirates, began to see the threat Acheron presented, sailing to the Seventh Sea to kill him. Fearful of the man who had killed the very gods, Acheron resorted to a secret weapon, he resurrected Prometheus, the very progenitor of magic itself.
Becoming aware of Theos in Stormwall Island, Acheron travelled there with Prometheus, seeking to kill his rival once and for all. The fight is interrupted by the Peacekeeper, who helps Theos kill Prometheus once more, but Theos loses his life in the process. In his dying breath, he requests they end Acheron for good.
Defeat and Death
The One-Shot Pirates finally came face to face with Acheron's army, resulting in a naval battle that riddled the sea with thunderstorms, cannon fire, tsunamis and enormous icebergs. Out of desperation, Acheron revived Zeus as well. Acheron's forces began to slowly win the fight, converting every pirate they killed into another undead soldier, soon only Arthur and one of his officers, Poseidon, God of the Sea, remained. By the time Peacekeeper arrived in the Seventh Sea, Arthur was dying, while Poseidon fought his undead brother, eventually being killed by him, allowing Acheron to revive him. Arthur and Poseidon duelled fiercely, the seas around them forming enormous waves that stood still in the air due to the two’s abilities to control the ocean, while the ground shook with the strength of an earthquake due to their power. Arthur had to use his full power to kill Poseidon, something he hadn’t needed to do since he had raided and destroyed Mount Olympus. Ambushed by Zeus, Arthur finally gave in from it all and was killed.
With only Peacekeeper left, Acheron sought to finish off the only remaining threat to his power. In the fight that followed, Zeus was killed and Acheron was defeated. Desperately trying to do anything to escape, Acheron blew himself up in a final suicide attack, killing himself, freeing all his previously absorbed Curses but also destroyed the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Seas, and sent a large portion of the earth's curst into space.
Legacy
The effects of his blast were felt for a few months all around the world, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, and more insane weather. In the War Seas, this event became known as “The Wrath of the Gods.” Tales of the one who had finally slain Acheron spread far and wide, and they became known as “The Peacekeeper.” Chaos energy was attracted to the world by the cataclysm, and it ravaged the four remaining seas, entirely wiping entire islands off the map. The destruction of the Fifth Sea also lead to the end of the Arcane Government, as their headquarters and most of their high ranking members were located there. The intense magic radiation that infested the seas mutated sea life, making some unnaturally large and giving birth to the infamous Poison Jaws and White Eyes.
The story of his battles with Theos also spawned a religion. Followers of this religion saw Theos as a religious figure, known as the Great Protector, while Acheron was named the Vengeful Darkness. This grew to be one of the most prolific religions in the War Seas.
Three years later Hades was discovered by the Peacekeeper, revealing himself to be the one who had helped Acheron in his fall, hoping to use him to test the limits of pure dark magic. The two fought and Hades was killed, removing the last major threat from the old world, and killing the last of the Greek Pantheon. Learning from this the way to destroy Sea Curses, they set out and found the Absorption Curse, planning to use it to destroy the Sea Curses once and for all.
Trivia
- Acheron was originally named Durza, after Durza from Eragon. During the Port Mistral update of 5/31/2024, he was renamed to Acheron to avoid the association.
- His name comes from the river of the same name from Greek Mythology. It is the River of Woe or Misery, and located in the Underworld.
External links
- Acheron on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Acheron on the Arcane Reborn Wiki
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