(Age: 61)
Achilles Teach is the thunder to Ephram’s storm — a giant of flesh and fury whose raw might carved the legend of House Teach into the bones of coastlines and the wakes of fleets. Where the Emperor bends the world with will, Achilles shatters it with brute manifestation, his blade Bloodwake rewriting the shape of battlefields with every swing. Once the terror of Freedom Bay and its slave fleets, he bent the knee to Arnot not out of defeat, but recognition: only Ephram’s presence was vast enough to match his strength. Now, he stands as the Emperor’s hammer, the executioner of chains and storms.
Build: Towering at 11 feet 4 inches, Achilles is not as colossal as the Emperor, but he is built like a fortress of corded muscle — a living ram whose weight crushes lesser men by proximity.
Face: Salt-scarred and sun-burnt, with a square jaw and a mane of iron-grey hair braided in sailor’s knots. A jagged scar runs from brow to cheek — the mark of a leviathan’s strike that nearly drowned him.
Attire: No crown sits upon his brow, only a kraken-hide sea-cloak draped across his shoulders. His armor is stripped iron, bound with ropes and scarred by storms. At his back always rests Bloodwake, the Leviathan Cleaver, its red-black edge gleaming like wet stone.
The Emperor’s Sword: To Achilles, loyalty is simple: the strong follow the strongest. He does not flatter, plot, or posture — he crushes, and leaves scheming to weaker men.
Brute Philosopher: In destruction he sees truth. What breaks was never strong. What endures, endures because it must. His humor is low and rumbling, his wrath cataclysmic.
Fearless and Direct: He has never turned from a storm, god, or king. He advances without hesitation, splitting apart all that dares to bar his path.
The Crusher of Kings: He does not lead by word but by spectacle — felling the mightiest foe before their men’s eyes, breaking morale with demonstration.
Pillar of Chains: Where House Teach rules seas through fear, Achilles ensures that fear is absolute. His role is not to govern but to make rebellion unthinkable.
Enforcer of Truth: Lies, plots, and deceit crumble before his philosophy. Strength is the only true currency, and his answer to dishonor is obliteration.
The Pirate’s Bloodline: Bastards trail his wake across Freedom Bay and the Orange Sea — mercenaries, captains, raiders. Few match his size, but all inherit the Teach ferocity.
Chosen Heirs of Bloodwake: He cares nothing for noble succession. Only the one — child or stranger — who can lift Bloodwake without being broken earns the right to his name. None yet have.
Feared Ally: To Arnot’s lords, Achilles is execution made flesh. His silence weighs heavier than their schemes, for he could end any quarrel by simply rising.
Respect for Rivals: He does not seek challenges as Ephram does — but if forced into combat, his duels are remembered as disasters, reshaping coastlines and sinking fleets.
The Mountain-Splitter: At sixty-one, Achilles is still peerless. Valleys break beneath his swings, and stones split beneath his tread.
Sword of the Empire: Where Ephram plays the grand game of crowns, Achilles has only one role: to strike down any who dare end it. His legacy is not in courts but in scars carved into the world.
1. Shattering Force
Concept: Strength so absolute it denies resistance.
Effect: Whatever he strikes, breaks — stone, steel, or flesh, none withstand his blow.
Signature Use: Splitting a fortress wall and the mountain behind it with a single swing.
2. World-Cleave
Concept: Strikes that extend beyond the blade.
Effect: Force travels through land, sea, or air — cleaving not just men but terrain and fleets.
Signature Use: Sending a tidal wave through a fleet by striking the shoreline.
3. Unyielding Bulk
Concept: A body too dense to move.
Effect: Achilles cannot be forced back. Even storms and siege engines crash harmless against his immovable bulk.
Signature Use: Standing unshaken amid a naval bombardment, flames rolling from his cloak.
4. Annihilator’s Rhythm
Concept: Battle as cadence — each blow heavier than the last.
Effect: His swings flow into each other, compounding destruction until escape is impossible.
Signature Use: Reducing a phalanx to ruin in a storm of continuous cleaves.
5. Cataclysm Stance
Concept: The battlefield is his weapon.
Effect: By rooting himself, Achilles channels destruction through terrain itself: ground quakes, cliffs collapse, seas churn.
Signature Use: Splitting a peninsula during his duel with the King of Spears, reshaping the coast forever.
⚔️ Style Note:
Where House Oni bends the world with Will, House Teach crushes it with Force. Achilles Teach embodies that creed: not subtle, not refined, but brute truth — scars carved across land and sea. He is not emperor, but he is the chain and the hammer that ensures the emperor’s reign is unbreakable.