Deadlift: The Dead Shall Rise

  New Hellbourne Strength Hero: Deadlift

Deadlift was a normal man named Eckol captured by the Hellbourne and forced into slave labor in one of the countless Bonedust Camps, where his size and strength made him the perfect candidate to operate an Incinerator. These murder machines chewed and burned its victims but left them alive so they could be fed to the ravenous Fright Hounds, and when the victims were hesitant to enter the churning maw, Eckol had to force them in.
 This drained his soul and left him hollow, until the next victim was Reena, his wife. They had not seen each other since the Hellbourne raid on their village, and when they embraced Eckol felt life and hope return to him. This lasted until the Pit Lord and his Malphas broke them apart. The Pit Lord commanded Eckol to shove his wife into the Incinerator. Instead, Eckol tried to start a revolt in the Bonedust Camp. We'll never know if it would have succeeded, because at that moment Calamity opened the Vault of All Hells and tore the Scar open even further.
  The chasm ripped through the camp and pulled Reena in, and Eckol caught her hands just before she plummeted into the depths of corruption. As he tried to pull her away from the grasping, slithering, clutching limbs of the daemons emerging from the Scar, Eckol watched his beloved wither and decay as the corruption took root within her. The Incinerator shattered in a furious explosion, tearing Eckol's flesh and connective tissue into ribbons. In his pain and grief, Eckol did not notice the corruption snaking into his wounds, cauterizing them and infusing him with the ability to raise the dead. As madness and agony coursed through Eckol's tainted veins, the Pit Lord whispered the only way this ruined man would ever find and recover the corrupted soul of his wife -- send an endless stream of souls into the underworld until Reena's hands reach up to touch him once again. And so Deadlift began his work.

 

In Stores 26th February 2015!

Zhang Fei: Warrior Of The Monastery

Nomad Alt Avatar: Zhang Fei

Zhang Feid keeps to himself while at the Monastery of the Way, meditating and contemplating his relationship with all things of the world. However, when the time for battle comes, he concentrates on the relationship of his blade with the skulls of his enemies. This relationship is always short and messy.

In Stores 18th February 2015!

Diao Chan: Guardian Of The Monastery

Empath Alt Avatar: Diao Chan

The Sang-La Mountains have always produced legendary warriors, and with Calamity's attempt to begin the Third Corruption wreaking havoc throughout Newerth the Shào Temple has sent the elite Guardians of the Monastery of the Way to help thwart this dire threat to Newerth. Diao Chan feels the tragic disharmony of Newerth, pushed to a critical level by the arrival of Calamity and the tortured souls of All Hells. She moves as one with her fellow Guardians of the Monastery of the Way, and woe be to the enemies who amass before her with the intent of harming her allies and home.

In Stores 16th February 2015!

Lady Sita: Symbol Of Virtue

Holiday Edition Wretched Hag Avatar: Lady Sita

Sita is the consort of Pra Ram, the hero of the Thai Ramakian epic myth. Pra Ram is the incarnation of the Hindu Deity Vishnu Narayan, born on Earth in order to punish the Demon Yaksa Tosagan and to fight for the return of Sita, who is esteemed as a paragon of spousal and feminine virtues for all Hindu women and is known for her dedication, self-sacrifice, courage and purity.

After Pra Ram rescued her, Sita refused to leave the battle and chose instead to prove her courage and dedication to preserving the human race. She began by walking across burning coals to show she carried no impurities from her imprisonment, and when she emerged unharmed from the flames she knew she had a powerful weapon to use against the evil forces of Newerth.

 Note: This avatar has two versions, and purchasing one adds both to your account.

* English Voice: Lady Sita

*Thai Voice: Ramayana Sita

In Stores 12th February 2015!

Blackwal Salforis: Throne Of Corpses

Lord Salforis Ultimate Avatar: Blackwal Salforis

When Maliken Grimm sent emissaries across Newerth uniting man under a single banner, he traveled in person to Lord Salforis in his mountain fortress of Blackwal. At that time, the Baron of Blackwal was considered one of the most powerful sorcerers and generals among men. He had not been seen upon a battlefield in years, and rumors spread he had discovered a magic that would end the wars of Man and Beast.

* What Maliken found within the fortress caused him and his men to seal it from the outside and pray it was never reopened. In his chambers, Salforis sat upon a throne of corpses in a room full of the dead, commanding them to rise. He cursed Maliken for allowing his unborn children to unleash the Hellbourne, rantings Maliken could not comprehend at the time.

* For decades, Salforis raved at his rotting corpses until the necromantic energies from the opening Scar filled him and empowered his sorcery. Now he ravages the battlefields, harvesting corpses and souls for his private army. What his plans are when that army grows large enough, only he knows.

In Stores 12th February 2015!

Savior Hammerstorm: You Can Run But You Can't Dodge

Hammerstorm Alt Avatar: Savior Hammerstorm

The Savior Advanced Robotic Mobile Suits (or A.R.M.S.) were discovered in a sealed military bunker buried nearly a mile below the City of Iron, unearthed by the dwarves scraping every shred of ore from the endless tunnels and caverns. They seem to have been created by a previous civilization in a time of great conflict, designed to carry elite warriors into battle and protect them from harm while allowing them to carry weapons far beyond the capability of mere humans.

Even Hammerstorm knows there is one thing stronger than the hammer -- the forge. By wrapping himself in the mysterious metallic armor found beneath the City of Iron, he constructs a new, impervious version of the famed, stoic warrior. And the suit lets him carry a bigger hammer, so forget the other stuff.

In Stores 6th February 2015!

Necrosis: Insidious Necromatic Arts

Gold Edition Blackwal Kinesis Avatar: Necrosis

Any sorcerer who feels drawn to the insidious necromantic arts and wants to learn from the master will eventually make the pilgrimage to Blackwal, where they will thrive or perish. Others, like Necrosis, will have their unwilling corpses dragged from the battlefield by the Carrion Harvesters and dumped into the Tombs of Travail, where they will awaken to an agonizing new existence that is neither life nor death. Necrosis had once been a Disciple of the Way, harnessing the energy of life that flows through all things, but Salforis has shown him the undercurrent beneath that flow -- the undertow of death and decay -- that is quickly rising to the surface of Newerth. Necrosis embraced it like a maggot feeding on dead flesh, and now he carries the power of dead against his former brothers in arms.

In Stores 4th February 2015!

Brimstone: The Corrupted Flame

Blackwal Pyromancer Avatar: Brimstone

Brimstone Pyromancer is an affront to the Sacred Order, the men and women whose complete devotion to Sol grants them power over the miracle of flame. His blessed spirit had ascended to the afterlife, but once his body was reanimated by Salforis' fell sorcery his soul was dragged into Purgatory to witness his former vessel commit acts of merciless depravity as he spews Hellfire: corrupted flames that consume the soul and flesh alike.

In Stores 2nd February 2015!