Yago DeSaxe, also known as the Slave King, is the younger brother of the former King of Underworld, Anthony.
History[]
Early History[]
Yago DeSaxe was born as a royal. He and his older brother Anthony became members of the Kingdom of the Underworld (which did not include their French homeland) as part of the ancient group known as the Four Legendary Kingdoms. Because of his membership in the Four Kingdoms, Yago was taught about the true history of mankind, as well as learning of the five trials set by super-ancient beings to test humanity.
As they grew up, Yago and Anthony were close, albeit competitive with one another, but when Yago realised that Anthony would inherit most of their father's titles, wealth and land, he became bitter towards his older brother.
As their father grew older and increasingly aware that Anthony would succeed him as the new King, he arranged for Yago to be appointed the role of Governor of the Royal Prison of Erebus. Although this role was not what anyone in the Four Kingdoms considered desirable, it was almost as powerful as that of a King, as Yago was tasked with capturing and imprisoning enemies of the Four Kingdoms. The former member of the Kingdom of Underworld soon became known as the Slave King, a title inherited due his and his predecessors' use of slaves as guards, and as they were raised around Erebus, only he knew of the Royal Prison's exact location.
After their father's death and Anthony's ascension to King, despite his brother's efforts to show his Yago that there was no need for things between them to change, the younger DeSaxe spurned all of his older brother's offered land, money and other such assets.
In his role of Governor of Erebus, Yago set up his home within a castle in the underground cavern the Royal Prison was set within, built by the race of Super-Ancients. He also learned about the mysterious greystone powder and liquid stone that could be sourced from within the cavern, and after learning how they both worked, came up with a method of entombing prisoners in such a way that that were trapped painfully within the stone, and had them set together in what he called the Wall of Misery. Yago also opened an automated mining operation to mine the greystone powder and pass it on to the Four Kingdoms and their servants for their own purposes.
Yago eventually became friends with the King of Land, Vladimir "Carnivore" Romanov, and came to admire his qualities. When Yago showed the Russian royal how the Four Kingdoms' enemies were imprisoned upon the Wall of Misery in liquid stone, Carnivore was inspired to create his own method of imprisonment as equally horrific, leading him to create tanks of specialised formaldehyde he called Living Tombs.
During the course of the years he served as the Governor of Erebus, Yago captured many enemies and traitors of the Four Kingdoms - such as Rubles - and entombed them on the Wall of Misery, and came to enjoy listening to the prisoners' wails of agony. Yago also came to know of the Knights of the Golden Eight, royal mercenaries whom were hardy enough to make Yago ill at ease of the idea of competing with them for a target. On one occasion, however, after the Knights had captured a Swiss banker who had been embezzling money from a European royal family, the Knights and Yago made a deal for the banker to be handed over for imprisonment at Erebus instead.
Eventually, Yago became acquainted with the Trismagi guardian of the Secret City of Atlas, Hardin "Sphinx" Lancaster, who shared Yago's frustration of being side-lined by a relative in becoming one of the four Kings. Sphinx revealed to Yago his plans to use his accumulated knowledge on the ancient trials to take control of the Four Kingdoms' if the opportunity arose, and Yago agreed to assist him when the time came.
The Three Secret Cities[]
In the days after the conclusion of the Great Games of the Hydra, which had ended with the deaths of several royals, including the Kings of Sea and Sky, the Four Kingdoms were furious with the disarray that Jack West Jr had caused them. Even as they worked to install new successors, they tasked Yago with hunting Jack down for imprisonment at Erebus as punishment, and Yago was pleased to discover that they also wanted him to imprison Anthony for both failing to secure a King of Kings during the Great Games, and for siding with Jack.
News of Yago's assignment quickly reached some of the people still loyal to Anthony, and Geoffrey Moles left Anthony a message to warn him. While his brother made his way to his penthouse at Saxony Tower in New York with Jack and his team to retrieve some of his possessions, Yago left a message for his brother to inform him of his task, taunting him with the words, "I'm coming for you, brother dearest". Learning of his brother's destination, Yago quickly began making his way to New York in his private plane, and upon arrival at Newark Airport he and his people gathered a police escort to ensure a quick arrival to Saxony Tower.
Arriving in his brother's penthouse, Yago was pleasantly surprised to be immediately met by his targets. Despite Anthony's attempts to plead with Yago about the importance of surviving the trials to prevent the Omega Event, the Slave King was resolute in his completing his task and barely concealed his contempt for his brother. However, they were interrupted by the arrival of a pair of V-22 Ospreys outside the penthouse, commanded by the Knights of the Golden Eight. As the Knights stated their intention to kill Jack and capture Lily West, they warned Yago that though he had been tasked with capturing Jack and Anthony, they would allow him to take the former. Rather than argue, Yago quickly acceded and set to depart with his brother, reluctantly agreeing to Anthony's request to spare Geoffrey when he tried to intervene, knowing the Knights would likely kill the butler anyway.
Yago escorted his brother to Erebus and had him entombed upon the Wall of Misery. Soon afterwards, he reached an agreement with the Knights of the Golden Eight and their employers, Sphinx and Yago's own nephew Dion, regarding Jack's fate; officially, it was considered inappropriate for the Royal Governor to be in competition with the Golden Knights, and so Sphinx and Dion amended their deal with the Knights to allow Yago to take custody of Jack for imprisonment at Erebus.
Yago proceeded to London, where the Knights had tracked Jack and Lily, and watched from the shore of the Thames as the Knights carried out their plan to lure out the pair and isolate Lily from her adopted father. Once Jack resurfaced from the river, Yago and his boat of disguised SWAT officers picked up the Australian. As Jack tried to plead with Yago's disguised men, Yago revealed himself. Though Jack tried to warn the Slave King that Orlando Compton-Jones wasn't fully informed about undertaking the Trial of the Cities, one of Yago's men knocked him out.
Yago took Jack back to Erebus, and dissuaded his attempt to guess their location as he brought him to the mine and down to the cavern. As he took note of Jack's awareness of the presence of liquid stone, Yago explained its use by the Ancients to build their structures, before noting Jack's previous killing of Carnivore. Commenting on his old friend's method of imprisonment in tanks of formaldehyde was inspired by what he was going to do to Jack, Yago had the Australian laid in a tub of water and sprinkled some greystone powder around him to turn it to stone. Once the stone was set, Yago informed Jack of how his days as a prisoner would be spent before placing him on the Wall of Misery next to his brother.
Later that night, Yago brought Sphinx to see the imprisoned Jack to confirm his capture to the Trismagi. Soon afterwards, Yago contacted the active Kings (Orlando, Caldwell and Xi) in a conference call to confirm his warrant for their imprisonment had been executed, and thanked the Kings of Land and Sea for allowing him access and resources in their realms in pursuit of his targets.
A few days later, Yago and his guards discovered people approaching the shoreline near Erebus on their underwater thermal sensors, and decided to allow them to continue their approach in the interest of seeing how he could improve the difficulty of breaching Erebus. Once Zoe, Stretch and Pooh Bear infiltrated the cavern and located Jack, Yago and his men revealed their presence and had the attempted rescuers lower their weapons, taunting Jack with the fact that there was no escape from Erebus.
However, Yago and his guards were surprised when an explosion occurred on the surface and chaff grenades were set off. As a new intruder, the bounty hunter Aloysius Knight, began bringing down his men with ease, Yago reached for his pistol, only for Knight to shoot his hand with his shotgun, making Yago fall to the ground in pain. Once Knight and Jack's friends released Jack and Anthony, they set the Governor of Erebus in a stone slab of his own and set him up on the Wall of Misery. Jack told Yago to enjoy the new view of his realm as they departed and switched off the cavern's lights, leaving the furious Yago wailing alongside his prisoners.
The Two Lost Mountains[]
Fortunately for Yago, his imprisonment didn't last long; only a day or so later, Sphinx arrived at Erebus after completing the Trial of the Cities and had his men begin extracting Yago from the Wall of Misery. Once he was freed, Yago accompanied Sphinx as the Trismagi spent the next few weeks consolidating his newly-acquired resources in preparation for the Trial of the Mountains.
When Sphinx arrived at the first iron mountain at Mont Saint-Michel to perform the Fall, Yago was among those who accompanied him into the Hall of the Falling Temple. After watching Sphinx successfully undertake the Fall, Yago slapped his back in congratulations, just before Dion and the Golden Knights brought in a captured Hades. As Yago glared hatefully at his brother, Sphinx admonished Anthony for his failings, and when the Trismagi asked Yago and Dion for their opinions on how to sentence the former king, Yago and his nephew quickly declared death. Watching in impassive silence, Yago witnessed Anthony's head get torn off by a silverman before it was tossed into the shaft, then departed with Sphinx as the bronzemen were sent after Jack.
Not long after, as Sphinx prepared to head to the Supreme Labyrinth, Yago was given a ring of command and sent with a squadron of bronzemen and a few of the Knights of the Golden eight to assault his brother's former estate in Alsace-Lorraine where Jack's team had been operating out of. Upon arrival, Yago and the Knights fired a missile at the estate, and then made their way to the escape train platform below, where they and the bronzemen managed to corner a minotaur, but were unable to keep Alby Calvin from escaping.
After bringing his prisoner back to his C-5M Super Galaxy, Yago reported to Sphinx that all that had come of the assault was the escape of Jack's people and the minotaur's capture. As the Neanderthal noted that Jack was his friend, Yago snorted and then laughed as Easton declared that he had a name and not a designation. Sphinx decided not to bother keeping the minotaur as a hostage and ordered Yago to thrown Easton out of the plane, and Yago toyed with Easton by demonstrating the loyalty of the bronzemen thanks to the ring he wore, and with that he ordered two of the automatons to walk out of the plane with the minotaur in their grip.
Before they could carry out his order, Yago was shocked as the Super Galaxy was remotely taken over and then infiltrated by Jack in a seaplane with Nobody to rescue Easton. While confident that they couldn't take on the bronzemen, Yago was further astonished as Jack and Nobody's bullets actually managed to penetrate their armour, and desperately order all the bronzemen to attack. However, Easton took advantage of the distraction to tackle Yago and they started grappling with each other, during which Easton took the ring of command from Yago's finger and ordered the bronzemen to stand down and seize Yago. Unable to get free, Yago spat that he should have taken the opportunity to kill Jack when he had the chance back at Erebus and that it was pointless for him to trying fighting Sphinx. Not interested in Yago's words, Jack used the ring to command the bronzemen holding Yago to walk him out of the plane, just as he had tried to do to Easton. Despite his thrashing and protests, Yago was quickly forced out of the plane and sent screaming down to his death.
Personality[]
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Skills[]
- Expert Combatant: As part of his role as Governor of Erebus, Yago has been trained in several forms of hand-to-hand combat.
- Expert Marksman: As he pursues his targets with firearms such as pistols, Yago is presumably an accurate marksman and capable of using a variety of different firearms.
Equipment[]
Weapons[]
- Pistol: Among the weapons Yago typically carries on his person is a pistol.
Vehicles[]
- C-17 Globemaster III: A heavily modified version of the U.S. military transport plane, it serves as Yago's private plane which he uses to travel during his assignments. The C-17 bears a serial number which allows Yago unrestricted access to any airfield in most countries around the world. The exterior of the aircraft carries a number of weapons (including missiles and rotary cannons), and a infrared system which counteracts heat-seeking missiles. The C-17's interior, meanwhile, has been modified with reinforced steel cells for holding prisoners during transport.
- Police Boat: With the access to the Kingdom of Land's resources during his hunt for Jack West Jr, Yago was able to obtain a police boat for him and his men to traverse the Thames under the guise of SWAT officers.
- C-5M Super Galaxy: .
Other Equipment[]
- Greystone Powder: During his tenure as Governor of Erebus, Yago learned about the inner workings of the strange greystone powder that can be sourced from the ancient site, applying its use in entombing prisoners in stone.
- Liquid Stone: Much like his use of the greystone powder, Yago has learned how to apply the use of its liquid stone variation for several uses.
- Ring of Command: One of the four lesser rings which controls a small number of the bronze and silver guardians, which Yago was granted by Sphinx to command a contingent of the automatons. Yago used it to command his bronzemen when assaulting his brother's estate, but lost it to Easton during their struggle onboard the Super Galaxy.
- Bronze Guardians: The ancient bronze-coloured automatons which guard the important locales of the Super-Ancients' trials. While serving Sphinx, Yago commanded them during an assault on his brother's estate, but when Easton took his ring of command his control over them was taken.
Trivia[]
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