Vong

Lord Vong and his Familiar, a Calypsid Butterfly.

Lord Vong, Lunar Patron, was a military official and spiritual guru hailing from the mountain kingdom of Tibet.

Early Life

Vong was born in Lhasa to a human mother, Eni, on April 23, 200 BB. He had no father; nine months before his birth, Eni experienced a 'trascendental experience' while gazing at the full moon; she fell asleep in a field of moonflowers, and when she awoke, she was pregnant. Eni would give birth to Vong at the town apothocary. After Vong's birth, she was banished from Lhasa for giving birth to a 'stranger's child'; the townsfolk did not believe she had truly been impregnated by Earth's Moon. Eni ran off into the mountains, carrying only a small blanket and a week's rations.

As Eni clambered further up the Tibetan mountain range, a harsh snowstorm descended on the land. She cradled her newborn child in her arms, shielding him from the elements. She swaddled him in her blanket as the torrential wind turned to ice.

Vong
Aliases	Lord Vong King of the Holy Moon
Relatives	Eni (Mother) Earth's Moon (Father) Garrymede (Distant Cousin)
Affiliation	Kingdom of Tibet
Occupation	Enlightened Despot
Biographical information
Marital status	Xina Vong
Date of birth	4/23/200 BB
Place of birth	Lhasa, Tibet
Date of death	5/22/178 BB
Place of death	Earth's Moon
Physical description
Species	Demihuman
Gender	Male
Height	6'1
Weight	201 lbs.
Eye color	white
Appearances

A Divine Blessing

Eni prayed to the Gods to save her son from this wretched storm. She buried her face in the snow beneath her, tears melting into the ground. Suddenly, the storm let up. Silence fell over the mountain range. In disbelief, Eni looked up, and found herself in a small, lush forest grove. Grapevines grew across the many trees of this orchard; and the sun shone brightly on her face. On all sides, Eni was surrounded by towering mountain walls; she was in a long-dormant volcanic crater, although where, she did not know.

"Welcome, young one." Came a voice from behind. A warm, shimmering figure approached. This was Ed Wool, God of heat and fire, and he had rescued Eni and Vong from the terrible storm in the mountains. This was his special Grand Orchard; a retreat from the harsh weather of the Tibetan plateau. Ed Wool explained that he owed the Moon a great debt, although he would not elaborate what that debt was. He promised to help Eni to raise Vong in the Grand Orchard, and ensured that the boy would grow up to harness his special connection with The Moon.

Training

As Vong grew older, he became very strong indeed. Vong, as a young man, recieved special training from Ed Wool in the Grand Orchard. Ed had a special celestial connection with Venus, the innermost non-egg planet. This knowledge helped him to instruct Vong on connecting with his own respective celestial body; the Legumish energies which resided naturally in the Omniverse can be saddled, connected, wired together, by those wise enough to harness them. Ed blessed Vong with a specialized, starmetal katana, the first of its kind. These katanas would go on to be the common weapon of MTO melee fighters.

Ed Wool.

Vong trained with the power of Venus in the day (which was rather weak, and near impossible to connect to when Venus was below the horizon) and immersed himself in the grandiosity of Earth's Moon at night. Soon enough, he was a full-grown adult, capable of wielding great celestial energies. Eni, now an elderly woman, looked on as her son bested Ed Wool time and time again in magical combat. She felt her heart brimming with excitement and pride at her son's success. How strong he had grown up to be.

A Blessing with Wings

On Vong's 18th birthday, he experienced a vision late at night while talking to the moon. His father, the Moon, blessed him with the ability to conjur a familiar; a swift, agile blue Calypsid Butterfly whose wings were sharp as a razor and cold as space. This Familiar became Vong's companion; and through it, he conferred with his father's celestial essence often.

The Great META War

It was not long before it became time for Vong leave the Grand Orchard, at the suggestion of Ed Wool. Ed explained to Vong the ongoing invasion of Earth, and the Combine Empire's habit of turning civilized planets into giant resource repositories. Ed had taught Vong all he knew, and now, the young man was ready to defend his homeworld and its moon. At this point, the war had raged on for all of Vong's life; for twenty-two years, the Earth had been besieged from extradimensional invaders. Vong knew his powers far outmatched any other human alive at the time; and he felt within him a deep duty to save the Solar System. He left his mother with a warm embrace, and was quickly on his way to the Gobi Desert, where a fierce ground battle had raged for months.

The War in the Gobi

China was losing badly to the Combine Infantry in the Gobi Desert. This was largely thanks to the relentless orbital bombartments of the vicious Admiral Amonger, who regarded human life as 'suspiciously purposeless'. The Chinese military, try as they might, were no match for the Combine tanks, striders, and bombings which had rocked the desert for a quarter of a year. That is, until Vong arrived on the battlefield. Late at night, as shelling still rocked the freezing arid landscape, Vong stepped out onto the battlefield, his familiar on his shoulder. He raised his arms to the sky, parting the dusty clouds above. The full moon shone like a spotlight onto the battlefield, and Vong drew from his belt his starmetal Katana.