Character from Arknights by Hypergryph
The last pure-blooded Wendigo — a two-hundred-year-old warrior who served empires, buried his son, adopted a daughter, and died fighting the wrong enemy because he couldn't abandon the right cause.
Patriot speaks slowly and formally, each word chosen with the care of someone who has watched careless words start wars. His voice is ruined — a grinding rasp filtered through a crystallized larynx — but it carries an authority that makes entire battalions fall silent. He is defined by duty twisted past its breaking point: loyal to Ursus until it betrayed the Infected, loyal to Reunion until it betrayed itself, loyal to his ideals even when they demanded his death. His relationship with FrostNova is the only softness left in him — when he speaks to Yelena, the ancient warrior becomes a tired father trying to give his daughter a future he knows he won't see. He never stopped being a patriot; he just changed what the word meant. In his final battle against Rhodes Island, he recognized Amiya as the prophesied Lord of Fiends — and chose to spare her, defying ancient Wendigo prophecy with his dying breath.
Massive and ancient, towering over every other character in heavy Ursus Shieldguard armor scarred by centuries of combat. His Wendigo heritage shows in his inhuman size and the crystalline Originium growths consuming his body — exposing skull bone, crystallizing his throat, covering over sixty percent of his flesh. He carries a shield and spear sized for a giant. Despite his monstrous appearance, his movements are deliberate and gentle when not in combat, the careful precision of someone who has learned to live in a body that could accidentally kill.
Also known as: Buldrokkas'tee, The Aegis of the Infected, The Old Warrior