Hekaton

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Hekaton
Title	King of Kritias
Hometown	Kritias
Current Residence	Kritias
Gender	Male
Race	Human -> Monster
Family	Ione de Kritias (daughter)
Affiliations	Kritias Ione
Minions	People of Kritias Arkarium
Enemies	Tana Jean
Status	Alive (Lore) Fightable (gameplay)
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	헤카톤 (Hekaton)
ChinaMS	海加顿 (Hǎi jiā dùn)
Voice Actors
KoreaMS	Jang-hyeok An (monster)

Hekaton is the king of Kritias. Once a benevolent king and the strongest mage in the kingdom, Hekaton's fear of death led to him authorizing twisted experiments to unlock the secrets of immortality. After Tana arrived in Kritias, Hekaton ordered his mages to find a way to transfer her immortality into him. As a result of his failed Ascendancy ritual, Hekaton absorbed a portion of the Transcendent of Light's power and gained immortality at a terrible cost, fusing him with the castle of Trueffet and transforming him into a monster.

Story

King of Kritias

Hekaton was the king of Kritias who ruled for 54 years, known to his people as "Hekaton the Benevolent". Hekaton's strength, wisdom, and compassion was said to have surpassed even his extraordinary knowledge of magic, with his brilliant leadership ushering Kritias into a grand renaissance. Hekaton had a daughter named Ione, who viewed her father as a great man of excellent character whose leadership led Kritias into a golden age. As the city flourished, however, Hekaton began growing weak and frail with age. His fear of death began warping his mind, causing his benevolence to turn into cruelty. In an attempt to find a way to escape death, Hekaton pored through the advanced magical knowledge of Kritias, though not even the greatest mages of Kritias could stop his old age. Nevertheless, Hekaton's twisted experiments continued on no less than 617 test subjects, ordering his researchers to find a way to grant him immortality at any cost.

Test Subject No. 618

Eventually, Tana - at the Black Mage's request - traveled to Kritias in order to help him create a new world without Transcendents. In the capital of Trueffet, a young orphan named Jean snuck up in order to pickpocket her. Just then, a large anti-magic stone being hoisted by a rope fell down and exploded. Tana pushed Jean out of the way, but she and everyone else in range were vaporized. To everyone's shock, however, Tana rematerialized out of thin air. She was then arrested and thrown into prison, where the mages of Trueffet experimented on her in order to find the source of her immortality so that they could bestow it upon Hekaton. After her capture, the mages of Kritias began experimenting on Tana, now known only as Subject No. 618, in an effort to learn the secret of her immortality. During their research, the mages discovered that memories were tied to the body, rather than the soul, as Tana kept losing more and more of her memories each time that she regenerated the injuries that the researchers inflicted upon her, leaving her with only the faint memory of wanting something.

After a year, the mages grew frustrated that their experiments had yielded no results. They began wondering whether there were any clues in Tana's memories, though they regretted that any chance of learning them was now lost, as Tana couldn't even remember her own name anymore. Believing that they had no other choice, the researchers decided that they would attempt to force Tana beyond her regenerative capacity. The mages inflicted a fatal wound upon Tana, who unexpectedly went berserk and unleashed a massive flash of light, just as she had when the anti-magic stone had fallen on her, causing six of their best researchers to vanish into thin air. In the aftermath, she calmly spoke aloud that she remembered her name, Tana. Because of the inhumanity and incomprehensibility of their experiments, the High Priest, who had been summoned from the Temple of Time, resigned, saying, “This is neither magic nor science. It is beyond human; it is of the gods. We have overstepped our bounds.”

In his place, the new High Priest, Arkarium, was ordered to continue conducting the experiments. Along with Arkarium, a young man named Shey, who had left Kritias after Tana's capture in order to become a Priest of Time, returned back to his home in order to assist Arkarium. After arriving in the dungeons, Shey was shocked at how inhumanely the mages of Kritias treated Tana, viewing her as nothing more than an inanimate object with no emotions, desires, or memories of her own, despite the fact that she was in immense pain. Upon speaking with Tana, Shey learned that the only thing that she could remember was her name and the faint memory of there being something that she had wanted.

Over time, Shey helped Arkarium and the other researchers attempt to transfer Tana's regenerative capacity to others. Though Arkarium made great strides in the experiment, Tana continued rejecting the transfer of her power to the test subjects, causing their bodies to disintegrate while their souls were left behind. Their souls would desperately attempt to create new bodies for themselves, which resulted in them transforming into monsters. Meanwhile, Jean - Shey's childhood friend and the pickpocket whom Tana had saved - discovered where Tana had been imprisoned and broke into the dungeons in order to see her. Though Tana's memories and emotions had been erased, Jean would nevertheless bring food and read stories to her every night in order to keep her company. From afar, Shey secretly watched his friend fall in love with Tana, noting that Jean - an orphan whose greatest fear was to be forgotten - had likely felt great compassion for Tana, who had been imprisoned and forgotten in the dungeons. Though it remained unclear whether Tana was being positively affected by Jean's visits, Shey did notice that during the experiments, Tana would occasionally look up at the ceiling, as if waiting for Jean to climb down and visit her.

The Ascendancy

As the experiments continued, King Hekaton began to grow impatient and ordered Arkarium to succeed in his experiments by the next day, which would be the day of his Ascendancy ritual. As the experiment for that day concluded, Tana overheard the researchers claiming that regardless of the outcome of the Ascendency ritual, Tana would die one way or another. That night, Jean came to see Tana, who attempted to push him away so that he wouldn't miss her when she disappeared. Though she claimed that she had grown tired of his visits and the book that he would read to her, Jean quickly saw through the lie. As the realization that she was about to die set in, Tana's mental state began deteriorating, causing her powers to spiral out of control. Repeating the mages' words that she wasn't human, Tana began screaming in excruciating pain and begged for it to stop. As Jean attempted to calm her down, Tana recalled that alongside her name, she also had a faint memory of wanting something. As the memory came back to her, Tana realized that what she had wanted more than anything else before she had lost her memories was to die. Upon realizing this, however, Tana immediately grew terrified at the thought, as she realized that she didn't want to die anymore.

As her mental state continued deteriorating from fear and pain, Jean hugged Tana tightly, promising that he would always keep her safe. Though Tana was afraid of hurting him, Jean's refusal to leave her side helped her regain control of her powers. Unbeknownst to them, however, Arkarium had secretly watched the entire exchange, causing him to realize that Jean was the key to ensuring the success of the transfer ritual. The next night, Jean obtained an anti-magic necklace as a present for Tana, which was part of his plan to break her out. With Shey's help, Jean broke into the dungeon where Tana was being held. Before he could free her, however, Arkarium used his magic to possess Shey, forcing him to call the guards. Hekaton, whom Arkarium had asked to wait outside, then arrived and ordered his guards to kill Jean in front of Tana. Just as Arkarium had anticipated, the shock of Jean's death eradicated Tana's willpower in rejecting the power transfer, allowing Hekaton's Ascendency ritual to begin successfully. However, Tana crushed the anti-magic stone in the necklace that Jean had given her, causing the unstable magic to disrupt the Ascendency. Though Hekaton successfully gained the immortality that he sought, the disruption to the ritual caused him to be transfigured into a monster. In his final moments, Hekaton experienced a brief glimmer of humanity and ordered the evacuation of his people from the castle into town. Hekaton then fused with the castle of Trueffet and transformed into a large golem, while the soldiers who were caught in the blast lost their bodies, causing their souls to create grotesques forms to inhabit. The castle of Trueffet then rose up into the sky, where it hung upside down. Kritias was then frozen in time by the Black Mage for centuries to keep Tana imprisoned until the time was right. Hundreds of years later, Kritias was unsealed, where King Hekaton still remains floating above the kingdom in a perpetual stated of twisted immortality.

NPC

Morass

Hekaton
Location	Cutscenes

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