Vulnus

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I have decided to correct and update this page. Truthfully this page has become somewhat of an abomination, I wrote something fairly smaller than the existing old page, but it was edited by many others. Either way, all authors were bias. Then the page was protected and the page wasn't fixed or kept current. I plan to update this over the next few days to reflect as much history as I can remember, and try my best to provide a more objective lens than before.

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Vulnus is a senior GMC member joining in 2013, and have started playing Graal since 2011. With his long tenure he has been involved or associated with a good handful of the GMC's historic events.

Vulnus is notable for planning the system a team of senior GMC officers used to unite the unite the collective GMC for the first time. Vulnus was later unexpectedly voted this system's High-King over Auel and other contenders. Vulnus also is one of the few people to climb the ranks of the State from Private to General. He is also most renown for being hailed as the famed Sentinel Slayer. Finally least known and most crucial, Vulnus is known a document maker, guild organizer, and leading thinker behind many different guilds and iterations of those guilds throughout history.

Vulnus is titled with names: Kusan II, Mendacium VIII, Auel III and is also the founder and owner of the old family Consilim, and the premier family Regium.

History

Before 2013

Vulnus joined Graal in 2011 first under the name Apollo, then Necromancer then later Snow. Engaging in many different sorts of adventures Vulnus had been a part of a brotherhood of knights, a served as a PI, and a hitman. It was during this time Vulnus (then named Snow) had come into contact with Soren, and through him also met Machette666 another GMC related mobster. Vulnus had occasionally worked with the two. A job gone wrong had led to a strained relationship between Vulnus and Soren. Afterwhich Vulnus spent much of his time towering with a successful towering guild of the time, New Age Legacy or NAL.

2013

Joining the GMC

As Vulnus was returning from a hiatus from Graal he was quickly greeted by a job proposition from Soren. Soren wanted Vulnus to infiltrate a guild that Vulnus had never heard of, the State. Vulnus still sour from a previously strained relationship, warned Auel via pm about Soren. Auel was already aware of Soren and took little notice of either the Vulnus or his warning. Vulnus then didn't think about the interaction again, and continued to have his different adventures across Graal. One day while traveling through Swamptown he came across two state soldiers, Sergeant Bushgod & Lance Corporal Wildcat. Vulnus befriended them by chance without realizing they were members of the State. The two inducted Vulnus into the State as a Private in the spring of 2013.

The Renewed State

After a few brief weeks Soren contacted Vulnus, thinking that Vulnus had taken the job. Vulnus denied joining the State for Soren and informed him that Vulnus had joined the State legitimately. A few days later Vulnus was kicked from the State. Soren had used PMs of when Soren had proposed the job to Vulnus and taken them to his commanding officer, Captain Kusan of State Infantry III. Vulnus knew he was wrongly kicked and wanted to rejoin the State. He asked Kusan often, and was able to rejoin about a month later after member Bushgod and Wildcat had led a small revolution within Infantry III poaching the vast majority of the members within the guild. Vulnus proved to be an ambitious member, writing documents for Auel even at low ranks such as Private, taking lessons from Kusan, and being a dedicated worker. With the large void within Infantry III, Vulnus rose to become Kusan's right hand man and effectual second in command, rising to the rank of 1st Sergeant. It was also around this time that Vulnus founded the Consilim family, as Auel had incentivized the State to begin making their own families. The Consilim family would be the second family made at this time after the now dead family Atlas. As a result the Consilim family is the oldest remaining family born from within the State. Towards the end of this era Vulnus met his long time friend, and often right hand man Raiden, who would also join the Consilim family in this era as one of its first members. In this era Vulnus first met notable figures like Auel, Kusan, Sherlock, Morzan, Winry, Gorgo (under Alias), Raiden, Donald, Peter.

USR

The transition between the Renewed State & Unitary State Republic was an intentional cycling by Auel. Kusan, Auel's right hand man, had been given the task of promotion boards. Vulnus used his relationship with Kusan to secure a good position for himself, and served for the first time as an officer. Vulnus was a Captain and served as second in command under Major Falcon but was given full authority sans promotion once Major Falcon took a leave of absence. The USR was still an early attempt at cycling and while thoroughly planned, the State's leadership did not account for overextending, and the USR collapsed after about 6 weeks. After this Vulnus left to go on hiatus.

The Virtus Republic and the Forgotten Era of the State

What came to be known as the Age of Chaos came after the USR's fall. When he returned to Graal, Vulnus briefly led a guild along with Raiden, Wildcat, & Roy named the Virtus Republic. It was around this time the Sentinels first appeared, elite and typically silent warriors with allegiance to Auel. With their unique customs, silence, rumors of hacks and glitches at their disposal, and generally threatening demeanor, the Sentinels were the fear and envy of the GMC. Vulnus was inspired to become the first person to ever defeat these threatening warriors and so in Virtus Vulnus began to trail-blaze. Kozak became Vulnus's most significant and formative spar mentor. Through developing an anti-glitcher method first dubbed the Vulnitarian trick and later simply the V-cancel trick, Vulnus was able to become the first person that ever defeated a Sentinel. However this was not before Virtus was stifled by infighting. Virtis ended after a ploy by Auel known as the Tardis alliance which effectually united the majority of the GMC under his control, once in this new (and largely forgotten era) of the State, did Vulnus defeat a Sentinel.

I'm dubbing this brief era of the State that only lasted a few weeks as the Forgotten Era, as most other records on this site don't seem to make any name or reference to it. There were three divisions under the flagship, led by Kusan, Vulnus, and a third individual. This was one of the weaker eras of the State as it was just developing and was a rather forced unification between different preexisting factions. There was an unusual sense of dissent in this era, led by King Auel and General Viral. Vulnus learned a lot about how the GMC really works, the dirtier part of how big decisions are sometimes made. Meanwhile, Soren had become the sworn enemy of the State, vowing its destruction. He over a few weeks talked to Vulnus, Viral, and a few other officers; he sought to sow dissent. Soren successfully convinced Viral, Ambrgio, and Vulnus to leave the State because of Auel's predisposition to tyrannically destroy other militaries. Vulnus then convinced Kusan to also leave in rebellion, in turn Kusan convinced the final tag leader to leave as well, (save the flagship led by Auel). When Auel next logged online, all his allied guilds had deserted them, some of them already changed and some of them destroyed. Soren had successfully destroyed the State by causing major dissent amongst Auel's officers. This prompted Vulnus to take another hiatus from Graal.

2014

Brittannia

After returning from a break from Graal, Vulnus joined Auel, Kusan, and his old friends in a new guild named Brittannia. Here Vulnus continued to trail-blaze and work on developing his combat abilities. He continued to challenge and duel the Sentinels under Auel's control. He would even later work to help expand the Sentinel program. For his efforts and growing prestige Auel made Vulnus a unique version of the Britannia body, as he did many other individuals. Vulnus's was to match the Centurion's helm that used to be found in for purchase in York. It would also be around this time that Vulnus met his friend Stein who would later become a Consilim but has since quit Graal. After having returned to Graal for a month, Vulnus was forced to quit Graal.

The Second Age of Chaos

Vulnus later returned to Graal and found the GMC weak and decentralized. There were scores of small militaries that had less than 15 members, and few of those that were strong and organized. Kusan however had been developing a small guild, Elysia. Elysia would later be a long lasting and dominate force in 2014. Vulnus and Kusan made a deal: Vulnus would join Elysia and not make his own guild and Kusan would let Vulnus create some ideas and write documents for the guild. When Vulnus submitted these documents to Kusan, Kusan rejected them. This drove Vulnus to use these documents and to draft others, he prepared to launch a guild called Alteria that existed briefly. Vulnus was approached by Auel, who wanted Vulnus to lead a major division in his upcoming guild: Imperium. Under Imperium Auel demonstrated how there would be democracy and how Vulnus would rule over all the colonies. Vulnus, and the majority of GMC guild leaders at the time all quit their guilds for Imperium, another ploy by Auel. Auel would quickly cycle his guild into the Rectified Era of the State.

The Rectified State

Vulnus was initially made a Lt. Colonel in this new State. Now that Vulnus was beginning to understand how the politics of the GMC work, Vulnus was ready to play on a higher level. He worked hard to get a set of loyalists, and Vulnus worked on his general diplomacy skills. Through his efforts within the State and his developing cabal, Vulnus was elevated to Colonel, and later would be made general. This made Vulnus, after Kusan, the second person to rise from Private to General in the State. Vulnus also got access to Auel's hacks, and customs. As General he took a significant role as the Head of Personnel, who was responsible for all the Promotions ands Demotions within the State. The State would fall when Auel would later quit. Vulnus knew that Auel was going to quit long before others signifying that these former adversaries were turning to friendship.

Age of the Power Struggle

Auel quit and he gave Morzan control of the State, whom instantly killed it as what he claimed was a "purge". Within a few weeks it was brought back and Vulnus became a Minister then a General. Vulnus, through his circle of cross-guild sources gave him a tip that Sherlock planned on destroying State. Morzan would soon after give leadership to Sherlock, before Vulnus could speak with him. Vulnus was instantly kicked. Soon other officers and important members were also kicked from the guild by Sherlock. Morzan and Vulnus would later rejoin and led a successful coup from Sherlock. The remaining members of the State were torn between Morzan and Vulnus. After a few days Vulnus received total control over State, but he realized that he was beating a dying horse so to speak. Seeing the inner turmoil and strife over the past week Vulnus made the final decision to end the State.

Alteria

Composed of old State members, Anti-State petitioners, and new recruits Alteria was revived by Vulnus, taking the ideals of Elysia, State, and Imperia to try and create a lasting military. For a few weeks Alteria was the dominate military force in Graal, but the lack of activity from him and his leaders combined with the disloyalty of many of its members led to several members to either defect or retire from militaries. Afterward, Vulnus quit Graal.

Neo-State

Vulnus returned to Graal to find a new State, Neo-State, a State built on the ideals of 1940's fascism and nationalism. In Neo-State, Vulnus returned as a Brigadier General and continued to be an excellent officer. For the first time ever he started to handle things Auel normally would, Vulnus was entrusted with propaganda, promotions, management. Auel confessed to Vulnus that he was busy in real life and starting to lose his drive.

Vulnus & the Sentinels

Vulnus was the first person ever to defeat a Sentinel, that remains the crown jewel of his crown of achievements. With his defeat of the Sentinels brought him new respect and fame. Making it the first time he was recognized as a person of importance from people, guilds, & militaries other then the State. He created and gave name to the technique, The Vulnitarian Trick his own personal method he used to defeat the Sentinel.

"When they first revealed themselves [The Sentinels], I was just as amazed as everyone else, Hacker-Knights in shiny gold armor with a bizarre secret code, what was to not me awe about? I tried talking to them but they didn't give me too much information at first, I got the majority of my knowledge about them from Kusan and learned how they served Auel, and his line. This gave me an obsession with trying to understand the power of Auel, and I looked into his past finding out about the State Eras that predated me, Imperia, about his enemies and allies. I became obsessed with the idea of having power that equaled his, that equaled his sentinels. In turn I drastically increased my combat ability, I can credit advice and basic sparring abilities to my mentor Kozak, but I honestly belive I was more self-taught then anything. After awhile I started challenging them and repeatedly failed, it wasn't until I developed the Vulnitarian Trick I was able to defeat them. I cannot express the joy that came with defeating the Sentinel."

What I had achieved had brought me a great honor, as I was questioned by all those who were curious, leaders of State Guilds, Imperial Guilds, and other empires came to me alike. It was the single most important reason I have gotten where I have today, I gained respect everywhere. People confronted me saying I was the only one with the power to defeat Auel unless I shared the secret, I named the secret the Vulnitarian Trick but for the most part, kept the technique to myself. To this day it remains known only by few. Their have been sightings hinting at a coming return of the Sentinels, people will come to me asking what they did the first time, and how I defeated them the first time, and I will keep my technique and only share it with the worthy"

-Vülnüs K. M. Çønsïlïm

Abilities

Mind Manipulation: Vulnus is one of the most powerful manipulators in all of Graal, harnessing his abilities to help the situations of himself and his friends whenever he needs.

Combat Skills: Vulnus has considerable combat skills, able to defeat many top sparers with considerable effort. He also posses the Vulnitarian Trick as an ability to bypass invincibility that Sentinels and other players sometime posses.

Graphics: A decent editor, he created his own head and a few uniforms, capable of recolors and basic changes.

Orator: Vulnus was once the head of all State propaganda due to his Oratory skills, able to harness the ability of language and appeal to the emotions if the masses, ultimately swaying people to his side.

Leader: Vulnus is a successful infantry leader in Graal.

Government/Military Designer: Vulnus has created, edited, or co-created the majority of the modern military ranks, doctrine, and regulations in a variety of guilds. His real world political sense has allowed him to be a successful document writer in Graal, he was once even coined the, "James Madison" of Graal.

Quotes

"You know, the smart people will always be on top, don't you forget that, if you want to get somewhere you need the brains, and the ability to get what you want through words. Look at me, I almost always get what I want, from day one I established connections in high places. If you want to get somewhere, you need to learn to speak effectively, I'm not propaganda director just because Auel wanted to give me a job. Words are the weapon of the intelligent, the quicker you learn that the better you are."

"Vulnism....you know, the belief that all badasses are the offspring of our dark lord, Vulnus."

"Life is short, get the hell off this game and make the best of it"

"Words are the weapon of the Intelligent"

"No, I give everyone a fair chance, I don't judge until you have given me a reason to do so"

"If everyone is an officer, then there is no true power"

"Leave me the fuck alone, I'm a Cynic now"