#warmonger

@odinucci Ran into a friend Mike Prysner of @empirefiles ..one of over a hundred of veterans who came to DC & were arrested for protesting the war in Iran, genocide in Gaza, and endless funding for these forever U.S. wars and Israel.

Veterans, including those who are disabled and their families, carried tulips, the national flower of Iran, where its over 170 varieties symbolize love and sacrifice.

“Burn

it

down!

All

of

it!”

(HeroForge figures I made for him)

Warmonger, real name Herman Shepherd, is an older man, and the leader of War Room

In his personal life, Herman is a history teacher at a local high-school in the city of Kingston (fictional city where the story takes place), conveniently within the edges of War Room territory. His teaching mainly focuses on the history of warfare, as that is his personal interest. All things considered, he is a pretty good teacher, and does care for his students greatly

As Warmonger, he is quite different. His costume, an attempt of which is shown above, is styled after an American Civil War uniform, particularly the Union "Commanding General of the United States Army". At his side, he wields a (decorative) sword. In order to further the intended intimidation factor of his whole design, he also deepens his voice, adding a cold tone to it compared to his normally kind, warm nature

His power itself is a weird one, sort of a Master/Shaker. Effectively, he can first summon a low, glowing, blue-white mist/fog. In theory, his effective range for it is very large, able to cover most of his territory so long as he is aware of/perceiving the area. The origin of this fog does not have to be him. From this fog, he can form spectral soldiers and other implements of human conflict/war, all glowing and colored in the same way as the fog.

Commonly, he uses this to command a small group of soldiers and potentially a few artillery. The actual projectiles shot out are more akin to blasts of energy, a rocket/missile just erupting in a way similar to what Blasters like Purity do. His limits for what he can create are very broad, allowing him to summon all manners of war-related things (horses, ancient weaponry, modern weapons, etc.) so long as he can visualize and understand the parts. However, due to his particular fascination with the American Civil War, he mainly focuses on creating things the Union army at the time may have used. The durability of his constructs is not very high, able to take a singular blow before dissipating.

He can also create a copy of himself from this, and transplant his consciousness into it for a time. When doing so, he lives through that construct of himself, and commonly does this instead of appearing in-person when handling more petty threats.

I still need to finalize it, but I think the methods of controlling his soldiers changes based on range. Closer-range, he can do it mentally, ordering them with thoughts and (unneeded) hand gestures, sometimes even verbal commands. Farther away, and they require more effort, and potentially verbal commands (such as through generated walkie-talkie/radio systems) to function beyond initial orders

Warmonger

Funny how money and war travel so well together.