| “ | Before you decided to throw your life away and interfere in our mission, you should have asked yourself one very important question... What makes you so special? | „ |
| ~ Lord Brevon, after capturing Lilac |
Arktivus Brevon, better known simply as Lord Brevon, is the main antagonist of the 2014 indie video game Freedom Planet and the overarching antagonist of its sequel Freedom Planet 2. He is the arch-nemesis of both Sash Lilac, Milla Basset and Torque.
He is an intergalactic warlord who crash-lands on the planet Avalice after an intense battle. His goal is to steal the Kingdom Stone, the sole source of energy of the planet Avalice, rebuild his spaceship and continue his dream of galactic conquest.
He was voiced by Alexander Barigga.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He's the galactic conqueror who was stated by Torque to be responsible for the destruction of hundreds of worlds, death and corruption of thousands of heroes, and the theft of countless amount of energy weaponry, which was said to be "just the tip of the iceberg".
- Before the events of the game, he brainwashed Serpentine by supplying him with mechanical arms that implanted a virus into his mind, turning him into a fanatical bloodthirsty zealot.
- He was responsible for the death of Torque's crew, which still continues to haunt him to this very day.
- He plans to steal the Kingdom Stone to use its unlimited energy to power his forces to become unstoppable and conquer the galaxy, which would've left Avalice devoid of energy and resulted in the collapse of the planet's civilization.
- The first time he appears physically in the game, he's shown immediately slaughtering the Shuigang troopers who oppose him and his army.
- He kidnaps Prince Dail and gloats to his father, the King of Shuigang, about his intentions to brainwash him into his loyal puppet to kickstart a civil war on Avalice. Once he's done gloating, he beheads the King while forcing his son to watch his father's death.
- After killing his father, he has Syntax painfully brainwash Prince Dail into a slave.
- He ordered the brainwashed Prince Dail to start stealing energy from other kingdoms by force, which would result in cataclysmic civil war between the three kingdoms of Avalice.
- After Mayor Zao of Shang Mu stole the Kingdom Stone, he tempts Prince Dail into declaring a war against Shang Mu by lying to him that Mayor Zao was the one who murdered his father, and orders him to take the Kingdom Stone.
- Once a group of rogue warriors appears to stop him, he murders them all, taunting the last surviving rogue warrior by brushing off his words that he'll fail like every villain as "interesting theory" after killing him.
- As soon as he discovers the presence of Torque and his friends, he anticipates their arrival, defeating and kidnapping Torque.
- When Sash Lilac wanders into his base and attempts to stop him, he defeats her with a single knife strike and strangles her into unconsciousness, while mocking her futile attempt to foil his plans.
- After capturing her, he chains Lilac up, tears off her hair tendrils (to the point that blood marks are visible on the tips), and proceeds to break her spirit by taunting her that the entire situation was her own fault and that he wouldn't have had her or her friends suffer if she didn't interfere with his plans.
- After that, he interrogates Torque by forcing him to tell how many Chasers are left, painfully electrocuting Lilac when he doesn't comply. Though Torque confesses that he's the last Chaser alive, Brevon still electrocutes Lilac for the second time to "test Torque's resolve". After the torture, Lilac has sustained severe burn wounds, which didn't heal until she used the healing spring in Shang Tu.
- Once Carol and Milla free Lilac and Torque with Spade's help, Brevon arrives to hypocritically mock Torque for violating his Prime Directive by taking a fight over an inhabited planet. Once Torque calls him out on his hypocrisy, he tries to excuse his actions by claiming that he wants to protect his homeworld until Torque points out that his warmongering is the only reason why his homeworld is endangered in the first place. Brevon doesn't deny this and proceeds to sarcastically "apologize" for the fact that his actions harmed people before trying to have Torque and his friends killed.
- After Lilac, Torque and their friends unite the kingdoms against Brevon, he orders his troops and brainwashed Prince Dail to destroy the armies and murder Torque, Lilac, Carol, and Milla specifically, also telling them to harvest their brains if possible to use them for his plans.
- When Lilac and her friends enter his Dreadnought, he immediately tries to have them killed in various ways, including but not limited to: opening the airlocks, with his own troopers being sucked into a vacuum of space; siccing a massive army on Lilac and her friends; activating all sorts of death traps and security turrets; and trying to deoxygenate his ship's chambers, exploiting the fact that his own troops are anaerobic, unlike Lilac and her friends.
- He mutates Serpentine, his own loyal general, into a monster and sics him on Lilac and her friends.
- In Lilac/Carol's story, once they reach the engine room and prepare to depower the ship and retrieve the Kingdom Stone, he kidnaps Milla, a ten-year-old girl, and threatens to slit her throat to force them to remove the hacking device. After destroying the device, he still mutates Milla into a rabid monster out of spite, which almost resulted in her death.
- In Milla's story, he instead makes an ambush attack on Carol, grievously injuring her nearly to the brink of death.
- He displays no regrets for his actions, and when confronted by Lilac/Carol at the end of the game, he outright claims that he has no use for forgiveness, once again hypocritically accusing them of putting his homeworld at risk for "an oversized battery", before trying to murder them.
- While he offered the heroes a chance to leave, it wasn't out of genuine concern for their lives, but because he wanted them out of his way as soon as possible, and showed zero hesitance in trying to kill them afterwards.
- When confronted by Milla at the end of her story, he tries to scare her off by lying to her that he killed Lilac and threatens to kill her as well if she won't leave. Once he's beaten, he tries to strangle her to death, only stopped by Lilac at the last minute.
- Despite his absence in the second game, his actions still had the lasting impact for the next three years ever since his departure, with his minions, Serpentine and Syntax, trying to uphold his legacy, his destruction of the Kingdom Stone resulting in the release of Merga, another calamity that threatened the safety of entire Avalice, and several characters like Lilac, Milla and King Dail being horrified at the prospect of him returning and still being haunted by his actions, best shown with Dail having flashbacks of his father's death upon witnessing Syntax. With the unused dialogues in check, Brevon's supposed victory would lead more dangerous threats to Avalice, furthering the endangerment of the planet as well as our heroes.
Trivia[]
- He was inspired by another Pure Evil, General Roth'h'ar Sarris.
External Links[]
- Lord Brevon on the Villains Wiki
- Lord Brevon on the Freedom Planet Wiki
- Lord Brevon on the The Ultimate Evil Wiki