Timelapse Video:
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Lore: Converted from an old deforestation machine, this hulking automaton strikes fear into its adversaries by charging them down like a bull before decimating them with its fire-based weaponry.

Backstory:As the urban areas of New Victoria expanded over the decades, certain regions of the surrounding wilderness needed to be deforested for housing and construction. Consequently, a line of automatons known as ‘fire reapers’ were manufactured to help expedite the process and work in conditions too dangerous for humans. Despite their slow, cumbersome movement, these machines proved to perform simple tasks like chopping lumber and setting prescribed fires with precision and efficiency.

While most operators rarely thought of their machines past their day’s labor, let alone life career, one employee by the name of Edgar Crain offered nearly half of his life savings to purchase one of the fire reaper units for himself. Subsequently, Edgar would spend the remainder of his savings on a single vial of Aetherium. Having been paraplegic and wheelchair-bound his entire life, Edgar has been fascinated with Aetherium and its potential to have a human ‘live’ through an automaton. That night, when he finally began his telepathic-bonding with the machine, the thrill and surreal sensations that Edgar felt were beyond words. He could only later describe it as his body ‘melding’ into the metal, as if the robot’s gears and pistons were his very own joints and muscles.

After years of disciplined training, Edgar entered his first aether-ring tournament. Much to the audience’s surprise and his own incredible delight, Edgar's fire reaper dominated its first matches and quickly became the spectacle of the event. From then on, Edgar would only refine his skills and upgrade his fearsome automaton, climbing the ranks of the Aethosphere and eventually earning him the title ‘the Infernus.’

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