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Knight Henry of Khassir, the KNIGHT TEMPLAR, is a strength hero with a wide range of utility, from offensive to defensive to support ability. With a high health pool and a survival tendency, he is played as a tanky support. His first skill is Devout Strike, which allows him to perform a dash and swings his sword dealing damage and removing the armor of the enemy he first collides and knocking it back. His second skill, Knight’s Regalia, is a sacrificial ability that makes him absorb all the damage dealt to him and his allies and dealing the absorbed damage to him afterwards, whilst knocking back all enemies upon cast. He can invigorate the hearts of his allies by forming a Crusade with allies receiving an aura buff, in which the allied creeps transforms into knights when casted in Holy Grail. Being a hero of sacrificial tendency, he is granted the gift of second life when he is at the brink of death with Holy Grail, transforming him into an archangel of holiness, in which he gains a new healing ability, Divine Will. His godly strength and noble purpose make him a valuable robust hero and savior of allies.

The dominion of evil drenched the earth’s soil with ever burning hellfire as the entrance of hell were opened wide by the Devil himself, unshackled from his frost-covered hellscape. Legions of demons sprawled from the crack of the earth, each commanded by the Seven Knights of Hell, as sins and corruption spread over the continent infesting every land in demon salivate. Millions of lives suffered, either from being feasted by the Devil or burned alive in inextinguishable flames. Thus, the life on earth hoped for a Messiah.
With fear shrouded the weak minds of mortals, their only source of courage was at the form of a prayer. At last, under several attempts, their prayer was finally granted as the Heavens descended from above to give birth to the Messiah. Foreseen by the oracles and their acolytes as the liberator of lifekind, he was prophesied as the vanquisher of demons, ordained to end the hellish reign of the Devil on earth.
A human blessed by the Heavens, Henry was born pure of goodness, fostered inside the nurturing womb of Queen Marylene of Marxon and showered with attention by his caring father, King Maximus of Khassir. He was raised by his royal parents with kindness and empathy, being aware of what evil lurks behind the shadow of the divine and prosperous kingdom of Khassir. The Kingdom of Khassir lived in tranquility and prosperity, so to speak, but the peaceful and joyful lives of the royalty and their people all ended in a tragic death of King Maximus, a death no one expected. People grieved for their lost king, and no other people grieve more to the King’s death than Henry and his mother. People think of their king as irreplaceable, but with his throne gone barren, a new king took over it, with much sinister intent. It was the Grand Duke who became the new king for whom he was fueled with greed and malevolence, who brought corruption and filth to the holy kingdom, with streets and balconies now crowded with crimes and gone bloodred. It wasn’t the kingdom Henry grew up with, it was a new kingdom filled with unspeakable horrors, as he witnessed the degrading nature of his people for whom the new king had no concern but to quench its own dissatisfaction.
Even with the sorrow and the memories of the old kingdom clouding their thought, Queen Marylene and Henry decided to leave the near experience of hell of which was their former kingdom, with the help of their old ally, the Monkey King who leaped between the tall trees of Sequoia beyond the concrete walls of Khassir. After their escape, they settled in the city of Peking, under the just rule of the recently liberated Qing Dynasty, living in peace and from time to time, a little bit of grief.
For decades, Henry had served the Qing Army, and worked its way to the high ranks, not by force, but acts of bravery and respect. Although he didn’t sit in the throne along with the royalties, he became a commander of the Qing Dynasty, to whom he led under several battles, most of them were battles of diplomacy to which they emerged victorious. For under his leadership the army achieved new feats of conquest and alliances. He is the first Commander to achieve these feats, something that incited awe to the citizens of Qing. But no other feats could outweigh the grandeur of this one, for this is the rarest feat of all. For the people on earth remembered it as the Great Loss of Qing.
It was a cloudy afternoon at the heat of the Yangtze Conflict that the great sacrifice happened. Henry’s plan was to forge alliance to the warring state of Yangtze, but to their demise, it was a bloody ambush that led to some of his men’s death. As a commander, he had a choice to fight back, but no, he instead rushed into the battlefield attempted to save tens of his injured men but at the cost of his own life, thus dying as a martyr. For many, this is a form of cowardice, but to the soldiers of Qing, it was the bravest act of all, an act that no leader had done.
The soldiers of Qing later witnessed the cold-bodied corpse of their commander filled with stab marks and embedded arrows, mourned for the mortal death of their leader and conceded defeat. The battle finally ended, with the opposition soon realized their murderous mistake, for they had slain hundreds of unarmed soldiers and the leader who always wanted an alliance with them. To pay respect for the commander’s death, they gathered together for a ceremonial ritual to memorialize his acts of unselfishness.
Upon his death, his consciousness wandered around the darkness of cosmos, searching for the light, and to know his whereabouts. There around the corner of space lies a gleaming light source, so bright that it later illuminated the once a dark void. When all of darkness was replaced by light, he saw a glowing figure from a far distance, for which he assumed was a lost soul like him. But as he approached the glowing figure, it became larger with his every step until the glowing figure no longer appeared small, it was a huge radiant human-like being. He realized that what he stumbled upon was a god, in which Henry was amazed by the holy appearance. Henry had a lot of questions asked to the god about his current place in the universe, his fate as a being. With the god chuckled in amusement about Henry’s curiosity, he explained to him that he is not the only god, but one with the Heavens, that Henry was here for a reason, that the Heavens finally found the one to become the earth’s Messiah. The god then showed Henry about the fate of life on earth, and that the Heavens needed someone to save it from damnation. He said, “Henry, the life on earth needed a Messiah, and we decided that the Messiah is you. You will be awakened from your slumber and you will receive the Holy Grail as a gift from us in order to fulfill your mission.” Henry finally understand his purpose in life, and that he agreed to do the Heavens bidding. As he nodded in approval, his vision blacked out.
The battlefield was covered in a sea of blood with islands of corpses, and piled between those rotting carcasses, the dead body of Henry soon rose in mid-air as a beam of pure light coming from the heaven struck his body, mended every wound and fatal blow until finally, he was revived, became aware of his rebirth, in his new silvery regalia. The soldiers were astounded and overwhelmed with joy; it was a miracle. But to Henry himself, this was a blessing from above. Upon his revival, he revived the dead soldiers, uttered the truth about the fate of the earth, speaking every dread life may suffer, his experience and insights with these horrors, and the goal to unite all life on earth into one army with one purpose to end life’s suffering. Soon after, all of them joined the new army under his noble leadership. These people were the first members of his newfound army.
With his rebirth, he found a new purpose. He conversed with the Heavens about the Holy Grail for which he obtained upon death. He defied the odds with a sacrifice. Now, he marches towards his finite goal with a new Crusade movement to which he hoped to unite all kingdoms of the earth in one quest to end all that is evil. His Crusade already conquered his former Kingdom of Khassir and brought the kingdom back to its former glory. He vanquished evil sects which hosted demonic rites. He slayed the two Knights of Hell, Beezlebub and Karthas, with the help of his allies. He forged new alliances with the neighboring kingdoms. He freed villages from pillaging savages and demons alike. And all of this is centered on one primary goal of ending the reign of evil on earth and someday, he will fulfill the prophecy under a new title which he calls himself, the Knight Templar. May the Heavens be with him along his journey to the earth’s salvation.