Mordred the Perfect

Mordred the Perfect is the only known Perfect Yokai to have existed in Eternia. It single-handedly nearly annihilated Valmasia, but was narrowly defeated by the Order of Light and the Knights of the Round Table after Arthor Pendragon gave his life to fell the evil titan in 304 AC.

In its aftermath, the Perfect Yokai left nearly one million dead and Valmasia's landmass forever shattered and terraformed through the course of several destructive battles.

Mordred is recounted to have been 10 thousand meters tall, and more massive than the greatest mountains in Frostvale. His occult potential could drive men across the country insane when he began to prepare a single attack - the raising of his hand could obliterate armies thousands-strong in the blink of an eye. The Perfect was also observed to occasionally take on a much smaller humanoid form that appeared to have pitch-black skin, red eyes, and enormous horns protruding from its forehead.

Though Mordred did not directly speak to anyone but his chosen disciples in the Tenebris Aurora (and possibly Arthor Pendragon himself), the few that did hear him speak claimed the Titan believed that his unholy crusade against Valmasia was justified and righteous. Somehow, Mordred believed himself to be the force of good in the conflict.

History

Folktales recount stories of Mordred devouring an entire country whole, both the people and land, prior to arriving at Valmasia. It is presumed that Mordred bypassed the Peace barrier simply by swimming through it, braving Kraus' wrath through sheer durability.

Mordred is said to have officially arrived at Valmasia in 290 AC, but communed telepathically with the leaders of the Tenebris Aurora decades before his arrival. Immediately upon his arrival, Mordred began a campaign of biblical proportions to consume and destroy Valmasia. The Order of Light failed to contain his relentless hunger time and time again, having to battle Mordred directly as well as the thousands of yokai and followers he had accumulated.

By the year 300 AC, all hope seemed lost. Several kingdoms had completely fallen to Mordred, Nostvale now becoming the main hive for Yokai and Occultists across Valmasia. It is then that Arthor Pendragon announces the final push against the Perfect Yokai, naively named the End of Wars. The whole of the Forsworn, Pendragon's most trusted and powerful knights, and the Order of Light's collective armies march on Nostvale with the ultimatum of either succeeding or dying.

In 304 AC, Mordred is at last slain by Arthor Pendragon after a long duel costing the hero his life. Upon the Perfect's fall, he spawns not one, but three unqiue Kaor Blades. Their whereabouts are to this day unknown.

The Legacy

Being a fully-realized and developed Yokai, Mordred's sheer destructive capacity is challenged only by Azrael. Despite the god-like abilities granted to him by Excalibur, and despite the several legendary warriors in the Knights of the Round Table assisting him, Arthor Pendragon was absolutely no match for the Perfect Yokai - as most scholars and historians agree. Yet, somehow, perhaps through sheer stubbornness, Arthor prevailed.

His Curse

Within the first day of his arrival, Mordred had utterly obliterated the kingdom of Mefarn, a once great empire located in the lands now known as the Deadland Marshes. It is said Mefarn is the kingdom he had chosen to begin his siege of Valmasia upon. As Mordred's servants lay waste to the kingdom, he wove a spell of great potency from the derivative energy of Occult Magic; one that would bind the souls of his hundreds of thousands of victims into the soil they had been slaughtered upon.

And thus, the fertile and lush grounds of Mefarn were transformed into the tormented lands of the Deadland Marshes, where the victims of Mordred's cruelty are still sealed in eternal agony and suffering. The Crellus are remnants of this ancient curse.

His Generals

First seen in the siege of Mefarn descending from the Perfect's mountainous body, Mordred had Six Generals, Imperfect Yokai of immense strength that served as his primary scouts and commanding officers. They commanded Mordred's immense yokai legions, and lead wild incursions into other kingdoms.

During the dark days leading up to the Knights of the Round Table's formation, it was Sir Lancelot that fought down the most powerful of the generals in single combat. Three were slain in a single encounter with Sir Pendragon, and one more by various Round Table knights.

The final Imperfect Yokai, having forseen Mordred's fall by Pendragon's blade, deserted battle and was never again seen.