Artix von Krieger

Artix von Krieger is a hero from different online flash games created by the indie company Artix Entertainment. Even though he is not actually the main character, he is widely-recognized as one of the most familiar and popular characters Artix Entertainment has ever created. He is also the character used by Adam Bohn, the founder and boss of Artix Entertainment who also uses the name "Artix" in-game and at work at the company.

Surprisingly, Artix is actually the Champion of Darkness, which explains why he doesn't actually use light-based magic, and why he was unaffected by Vordred's signature spell, the "Voiduminance Necrot-Morph". He also has a dog named Daimyo.

Personality
Artix is a good-hearted and honest young man who loves battling the undead. This makes good sense as he is a paladin and a member of the paladin order. He is also shown to be friendly, and seems to have a romantic interest in such characters as Robina the Hood and Lady Vayle. Interestingly, Artix has a huge fear of ponies and the color pink, and can sense them from a distance, although he doesn't seem to mind the pink clothing worn by one of his friends, Beleen. Artix loves his parents very much and thus can never find it in his heart to attack them even though they are already undead. Artix tends to get jealous whenever his friends see and fight some undead he hasn't seen yet, and wishes to fight these undead that were unseen by himself as of yet (even though he can't fight Undead Artix because Undead Artix is his Mirror Realm self and going there means he would have to switch places with him).

Background
Artix was born in the plane of darkness as a shadowborn under the title of "Champion of Darkness", sent to destroy the world in a single wave of darkness. However, Artix refused to use his darkness powers to destroy the world because he was not up to doing anything to hurt anyone. As such, he was branded as a betrayer to the plane of darkness. When he was young, Artix saved a girl who had been caught within a river, whose name was Vayle. Since then, Artix and Vayle had become friends.

Artix, along with Vayle, was the sole survivor of a green mist that killed everyone in the village he lived in, including his parents and her brother Edgar. The mist was spread by the first army of the undead sent by the plane of darkness, which had come to retrieve Artix. Lady Celestia took Artix in and trained him as a paladin to fight the undead armies, and gave him a magical axe, the Blinding Light of Destiny, as a gift as he grew older. Over the years, Artix eventually joined the paladin order and became one of King Alteon's trusted soldiers.