Faindus is a masterfully trained soul magic warrior of the rogue magical society known as Arkaenus. 

 

Faindus was trained to be the best warrior of Arkaenus, however, thanks to the Soltan Invasion of Earth in 2000, Arkaenus suffered a massive defeat.  Faindus, who was married with five children, watched helplessly as hundreds of his fellow Arkaenus society members, and his family, were murdered  before his eyes by the Soltans. Over the next several months, Faindus was kept captive, being used as a magical 'battery' for Soltan magical weapons; weapons that were used against his own people and innocent people of Earth. Thanks to the combined forces of Earth's military, superheroes and citizens, they beat back the Soltans in an unprecedented victory that sent the invading Soltans in retreat to the dark side of Mars, where they'd been based out of since.

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Following the Soltan retreat from Earth, Faindus spent the next few years attempting to find the remnants of the Arkaenus society. Sadly, after several years, he was only able to find a few dozen survivors, one of which set himself up to become the 'new' leader of Arkaenus, calling himself "Arkaenus Maximus". Faindus was 'promoted' to the title of 'Warrior Prime', to which Faindus was not impressed with nor happy with. Faindus, instead, followed Arkaenus Maximus' orders and became a fighting pawn for Maximus and Arkaenus against superheroes and other magical societies and beings, much to Faindus' dislike.

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Recently, while learning to focus better with his newly obtained "Staff of Faindus" (yes, he named it that himself), he was able to 'feel' the call of the souls of his wife and children, as well of hundreds or other souls from his society...but from far away. After weeks of meditation and focus, he was able to discern that the souls were trapped in a Soltan 'soul magic' energy storage device that was now located on the dark side of Mars.  There, his family and society's souls were being 'held' in storage, all pleading to be released and/or brought back.

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Over the next month or two, Faindus planned a way to get to Mars, reabsorb his family's and society's souls and bring them back to Earth and transfer them into new bodies (if desired, or released into oblivion, pending the soul's desire).  He became obsessed with the idea of retrieving his family's souls, bringing them back to Earth and imbuing them into some other living bodies (such to the point he didn't care whose other souls he had to rip out of said living bodies, so long as he could reanimate his family). As such, Faindus' planning brought him into possession of a large chest device 'canopic skull' that could be used specifically to store any honed or still-formed souls to the strongest and safest degree.  With that, he went to his leader, Arkaenus Maximus, and respectfully requested to perform his 'quest'.

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Arkaenus Maximus told Faindus "no".

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Faindus attempted several times to convince Arkaenus Maximus, only leading to Arkaenus Maximus' patience wearing thin, threatening Faindus that any further requests for his quest would lead to Faindus' imprisonment and torture for a sentence as long as Maximus could conceive.

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Faindus submitted fealty to Maximus, however, secretly, he started putting his quest into action. He had to find a way to get off of Earth first, and thanks to some 'gleaned' information from a particular Astroguard engineer's soul he'd absorbed, he figured he'd found his ride.

 

As a means to perform his secret quest to save his family's souls, Faindus learned of a pro-offensive movement secretly fomenting amongst Earth's populace that wanted to go after the retreated Soltans based on the far side of Mars that were still plaguing Earth from afar.  Faindus spent the next few weeks tracking down the leaders of the pro-offensive movement and eventually secretly worked his way into their ranks, not as Faindus, but disguised as a common human pro-offense movement follower.

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On the day the pro-offensive movement was to 'comandeer' Terracer 1, Earth's only starship at that time, to take the pro-offensive movement groups to Mars, Faindus easily got aboard Terracer 1 with other pro-offense members.  It wasn't until a day into the journey to Mars that Faindus 'introduced' himself after detecting and defeating a Soltan spy aboard Terracer 1.  Faindus introduced himself as an 'ally' to the pro-offense movement, wanting to 'take the fight to the Soltans' to make them pay for what they'd done to him and his society. Faindus mentioned the murder of his wife and children at the hands of the Soltans and how he wanted to 'avenge' them...just like most of the others on Terracer 1 now heading out to take down the Soltans. With reservations, the leader of the movement, Captain Starfighter, agreed to keep Faindus with them, but ONLY if he stayed loyal to him and the 'Starfighters' (the Terracer 1 ship's new name for its pro-offensive army) mission.  Faindus agreed, but he was still focused on his quest - to retrieve his family's souls (and the souls of the other Arkeanus fallen if possible) and bring them back to Earth - no matter the cost.  Faindus respects his fellow Starfighters, but considers them 'ignorant' to what sacrifices they'd all soon be making to combat the Soltans on Mars...not that he cares for these 'Starfighters' at all...or does he...?

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Today, Faindus is a member of the Starfighters en route on Terracer 1 to exact revenge against the Soltans based on the dark side of Mars.  Now that the Starfighters know who Faindus is, they have 'kind of' accepted him amongst their ranks, however, Arkaenus' and Faindus' past indiscretions are still a factor that many have in distrusting him amongst them. Regardless, Faindus has 'opted' to work with the Starfighters to exact his revenge on the Soltans...and complete his quest to retrieve his family's, and brethren's, souls and bring them back to Earth - no matter the cost.

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