Саревок

Sarevok Anchev - порсонаж серии игр Baldur's Gate. Он появляется в обоих играх серии, однако в разных ролях. Серевок был главым злодеем в игре Baldur's Gate, и появился в небольшом эптзоде в Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn прежде чем стать присоединяемым NPC в завершающей части серии, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. Kevin Michael Richardson озвучивал Саревока. Кроме того, он появляется в novelizations of the series by Philip Athans.

Story

Будучи сыном погибшего Lord of Murder Bhaal, Саревока вместе с протагонистом и другими Bhaalspawn должен был быть принесенным в жертву своей матерью, жрицей Баала. Горион и Арфисты узнали об этом и предприняли штурм храма, убив мать Саревока. Зная, что они в опасности, Горион взял ГГ, освободил Саревока и затем покинул храм. Саревок рос на улице, пока не был усыновлен как Sarevok Anchev Reiltar Anchev'ом (В игре к Саревоку и Rieltar обращаются по фамилии Anchev или Costak. Посколько одного из Rieltar's наемников зовут Brunos Costak, можно предположить, что разработчики перепутали фимилии For the climactic confrontation with Sarevok, he is specifically referred to as Sarevok Anchev.) the leader of the merchant house the Iron Throne. When he was just a child, Reiltar had Sarevok's mother strangled in front of him as punishment for unfaithfulness, что оказало на него значительное влияние. Под жесткой опекой Железного Трона, Саревок изучал искусство запугивания и самые жестокие методы ведения боя, дабы стать Несущий смерть, сильным войном, обладающим способностью парализовывать противника во время битвы одним лишь страхом и убивать даже самых сильных врагов одним мощьнейшим ударом.

Sarevok's first appearance in-game is in the opening cut scene of Baldur's Gate, as a tall, heavily armored figure pursuing a fleeing knight. Sarevok ultimately catches the man, lifts him by the throat with one hand, then breaks his neck and carelessly tosses him onto the street (Sarevok's line "I will be the last! And you will go first..." could imply that the man slain was also a Bhaalspawn). In the first chapter of the game he ambushes the main character and his or her foster father Gorion, and viciously kills Gorion while the main character barely manages to escape. Throughout the game, Sarevok sends ever more powerful assassins to interrupt the player character in the quest to unveil the conspiracy of Sarevok. It should be noted that Sarevok's name does not crop up until halfway through the game, and he is not explicitly identified as the armored figure until the very end of the game.

Sarevok is plotting, through violence, politics and manipulation, to start a war between Baldur's Gate and Amn, causing enough carnage and bloodshed to transform himself into the new god of murder. The player character discovers that Sarevok is his or her brother, and that both are the children of the dead god Bhaal, following the cataclysmic Time of Troubles. He also framed the player character for the murder of Rieltar Anchev, who he had garrotted by doppelgangers. He felt this was an appropriate revenge for the murder of his mother. By the time the siblings clash in a mortal battle at the end of the game, Sarevok has slain many of his kin, and is one of the strongest surviving children of the Lord of Murder.

After his death by the protagonist's hands in the first part of Baldur's Gate, Sarevok makes a few brief appearance in Hell in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn as a spirit to challenge the player character. Later, he is resurrected in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal as a non-player character that can join the protagonist's party. This is done by taking some of the divine essence from either the player character or Imoen. Sarevok's alignment starts out as Chaotic Evil, but may be eventually changed to Chaotic Good through a series of dialogue options, which feature different epilogue endings for him at the conclusion of Throne of Bhaal.

After he leaves Hell, Sarevok's personal beliefs are quite vague with regards to his alliance with the protagonist. Although he was slain by his sibling, during dialog choices in the expansion Sarevok comes to respect him/her and view him/her as the next Lord/Lady of Murder, and himself as his/her right hand man. This was the main reason Sarevok chooses to stand alongside the protagonist, the more powerful sibling of the two. It also explains why Sarevok chose not to join forces with the other Bhaalspawn, since he believes that the protagonist has the most potential and is the strongest of all of Bhaal's children.

Powers and Abilities

In his first appearance in Baldur's Gate, Sarevok is a massive, heavily armored figure, standing about 7-feet tall and wearing heavily spiked, black plate armor. He fights with a large 2-handed greatsword, and his strength is so great that he is able to wield this heavy weapon one-handed, and he can cleave in half soldiers wearing plate armor with a single blow. He is also strong enough to explode a wooden door with a single punch or kick, as seen in the game's opening movie.

Sarevok's sword and armor are both heavily enchanted, artifacts of Bhaal which draw much of their power from his own Bhaalspawn essence. Besides providing him with physical protection, Sarevok's distinctive armor also appears to resist magic, protecting Sarevok from most magical energies. Sarevok's sword is known as the Sword of Chaos, and it carries an enchantment of epic proportions (a severely weakened version of the sword appears in Baldur's Gate II, having lost most of its power after Sarevok's death).

Despite his enormous strength, Sarevok is no mere mindless brute. Charismatic and intelligent, he masterminded a highly efficient scheme to seize control of the Iron Throne and the city of Baldur's Gate, and was able to draw to him many loyal acolytes who either followed him as a leader or even worshipped him as the new Lord of Murder.

Following his death at the hands of the main protagonist, Sarevok lost his Bhaal-essence and the powers that came with it. Upon being resurrected by the main character in Throne of Bhaal, Sarevok notes that his trademark sword and armor did not resurrect with him, and that he would probably be unable to use them anyway without his original Bhaal-essence to power them. His sword, however, is available at the beginning of Shadows of Amn, and if the protagonist passes it to Sarevok, he recognizes the weapon. Sarevok says that he won't be able to return the weapon to its prime, since he is not a Bhaalspawn anymore; however, he imbues it with additional properties.

Even without his Bhaalspawn powers, Sarevok is an extremely formidable warrior (being considered by many to be the most powerful joinable NPC fighter in the entire series, which also includes Korgan Bloodaxe and Minsc). He is also able to use his Deathbringer training to occasionally inflict massive damage to opponents, a critical hit-style attack known as a "Deathbringer Assault".

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