Editing Atriox

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{{Quote|I am not ''[[Tartarus]]'' or some fanatic. I am ''not'' [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]]. I am ''not'' [[Prophet of Regret|Regret]]. I am their remedy.|Atriox to a group of [[Silent Shadow|would-be assassins]].{{Ref/Reuse|HP}}}}

'''Atriox''' is the powerful [[Jiralhanae]] warmaster who leads the [[Banished]], a violent [[Covenant remnants|ex-Covenant]] faction of mercenaries and criminals. He originally fought on behalf of the [[Covenant]], but was banished after thwarting his own execution. A deadly warrior and brilliant military leader, Atriox inspired many others to join him in exile.{{Ref/Level|Id=ANE|HW2|HW2:A New Enemy|A New Enemy}} He has led his followers for over a decade, during which time he amassed a large amount of ordnance and materiel, especially following the collapse of the Covenant empire in [[2552]].{{Ref/Reuse|RoAPL4}} By [[2558]], he had become a symbol for even [[Jiralhanae]] not serving with the Banished to rally around.{{Ref/Game|Id=RoAPL6|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox VI|Rise of Atriox VI]]}}

Atriox's full ambitions are unclear, but they are grandiose.{{Ref/Game|Id=RoAPL4|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox IV|Rise of Atriox IV]]}} His largest play for power came at the end of [[2558]], when he led a large force to [[Installation 00]] with the intention to use its [[Foundry (location)|forges]] to build [[Halo Array|Halos]].<ref name="Lootcrate description">[https://vault.lootcrate.com/products/loot-crate-halo-banished-crate?variant=26087539464 '''Loot Crate Vault''']</ref> After months of occupying the Ark, the Banished were confronted by the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} and [[Second Ark Conflict|a battle]] for control of the immense [[Forerunner]] construction ensued.{{Ref/Reuse|ANE}} In a matter of days, Atriox lost his [[Decimus|right-hand man]], his fleet's [[Enduring Conviction|flagship]], and a [[Installation 09|newly constructed Halo]] was sent through a portal to the [[Soell system]], placing it beyond his reach.{{Ref/Level|Id=LS|HW2|HW2:Last Stand|Last Stand}} With the aid of his forces outside of the Ark, Atriox later returned to his Banished forces in the Milky Way galaxy using a [[slipspace portal]] located on [[Reach]] to search for the [[Xalanyn|Endless]], leaving behind his troops to hold the Ark in his absence.{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR|SoR}} Believed to have died during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]], Atriox later resurfaced and discovered the Endless [[cylix]]es in [[2560]].{{Ref/Game|Id=stinger|HINF|post-credits cinematic}}

Atriox serves as the namesake for several positions in his Banished such as [[Atriox's Chosen]] and the [[Hand of Atriox]], a rank of enforcers and a special operations unit respectively.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF108|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/despite-distance|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Despite Distance}}

==Biography==
===Covenant service===
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{{Quote|My brothers fall in the war against your kind. And for what?|Atriox venting to a Marine about how pointless he considers the war against humanity to be.}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=RoAC2|RoA|Issue=2}}
[[File:HRoa 1 Atriox.png|x250px|thumb|left|Atriox leads Jiralhanae of his clan into senseless battle.]]
Atriox was born into the Covenant on May 28, [[2510]].{{Ref/Reuse|TwitterAtrioxbirthday}} When he was old enough, he became part of [[Covenant military|its military]] and was taught by his ''[[daskalo]]'' [[Escharum]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=SOR3|HSoR|Chapter=3}} During the Covenant Empire's [[Human-Covenant War|war]] against [[human]]ity, Atriox served as a [[Jiralhanae Stalker]]. For part of the war he served alongside his war-brothers, [[Castor]] and [[Orsun]], as Stalkers of the [[Bloodstars]]. In this role he was commanded by a [[First Blade]] of the [[Silent Shadow]] and charged with hunting down [[Spartan|demons]]. At one point, these four captured a squad of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|imp]]s during a raid and interrogated them for three days. From these captured ODSTs, they learned of the rumor that the [[SPARTAN-II program]] had abducted children as its subjects.{{Ref/Novel|Id=R256|HRet|Chapter=??}}<!-- Either page 256 or 265, Id tag and given page number differ --> Through experience in combat, Atriox honed his tenacity and shrewd strategic planning.{{Ref/Game|Id=Atriox log|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Leaders/Atriox|Atriox]]}}

Later in the war, the [[Covenant]] began to use Atriox's [[pack]] for frontline troops, throwing them against the [[United Nations Space Command]] as cannon fodder. Groups of forty Jiralhanae would be sent to storm enemy positions, clearing the way for follow-up attacks, but typically all of the attackers would die in the process.{{Ref/Reuse|ANE}} Sometimes repeated waves would be ordered against entrenched humans even when it was clear the battle had already been won, making it seem as if the leaders simply wanted blood, regardless of which side it was spilled from. Atriox was the first to return as the sole survivor of one such suicide mission — a feat which he repeated multiple times after that. During one engagement, Atriox and thirty-nine others of his pack brothers assaulted the last bit of [[UNSC]] resistance on a planet, led by [[First Sergeant]] [[Jessica Kress]]. By this point he had already distinguished himself enough to warrant a leadership role during the assault. He led warriors through a breach in the western section of the marine base. Atriox charged headlong into the enemy's position, slaughtering [[UNSC Marine Corps|marines]] mercilessly. Before long, instead of only Atriox remaining among the Brutes as usual, there were only two human survivors: Sergeant Kress and another marine. These two attempted a daring escape through a packed crowd of Jiralhanae in an [[M12 Warthog]] but Atriox fired upon the vehicle with a {{Pattern|Pez'tk|fuel rod gun}}, killing its gunner and throwing Kress from the chassis as it flipped over. He casually approached the last living human on the planet and waited, allowing her to stand and assume a fighting posture with a [[combat knife]]. The marine bravely lunged forward at Atriox but he caught her in the gut with the haft of his [[Gravity hammer (fiction)|gravity hammer]]. As she collapsed, he raised it overhead and brought the head down on her exposed form, smashing her into bloody pieces.{{Ref/Comic|Id=RoAC1|RoA|Issue=1}}
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===Banishment===
{{Quote|no=two|q1=Atriox. you have murdered one of your own. Stolen the life of your brother. Stolen him from the holiness of the Great Journey. We observed the battle to study the strength of our enemy. Instead, we found a heretic. Your ''blasphemy'' corrupts the Covenant.|[[Itho 'Hesiikee|The Executioner]]|q2=He was a slave. A puppet sent to kill me. I relieved him of the burden of that shame.|Atriox|Atriox faces his executioner with defiance.}}
[[File:AlgolisAtriox.png|thumb|300px|Atriox in a bloody battle frenzy on Algolis.]]
As Atriox continued to lose pack-mates over the course of many battles, his resentment toward the Covenant, and the [[Hierarch|Prophets]] in particular,{{Ref/Game|Id=TB|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/The Blinded|The Blinded]]}} grew.{{Ref/Reuse|ANE}} Tales of his improbable survival made him legendary in the eyes of many. However, Atriox did not believe in the [[Great Journey]] and viewed the genocide of the humans as wanton. In [[2549]], during the [[Algolis Invasion|occupation]] of the [[human colony]] of [[Algolis]], Atriox returned once more to base as the only living veteran of a recent battle. The Sangheili in authority over the group of Jiralhanae to which he belonged, [[Itho 'Hesiikee]], was troubled by the cult of personality surrounding Atriox. Speaking to the [[High Prophet of Truth]] via remote communication, he noted that Atriox was never supposed to have survived this long. His unprecedented success and celebrated reputation could pose a threat should the Jiralhanae begin to question their role in the [[Great Journey]], especially given rumors that his faith was already wavering. Truth believed Atriox could still be a valuable tool of warfare, and stated that he would only sanction his elimination if it was confirmed that he had lapsed in his loyalty. Atriox was seated alone, still covered in the blood of marines, when the Sangheili approached him. His commander offered praise of his prowess, but Atriox rebuffed it by saying it was simply the duty he had been assigned. Further congratulations drew his ire and he told the Sangheili that he doubted his brothers were defending the Great Journey as opposed to dying pointlessly. He also rebuked the underestimation of the humans' abilities that ostensibly caused so many of his pack to continually be killed and said that perhaps absolute loyalty was not the path to righteousness as the Covenant taught. It was reported to Truth that Atriox was even more dangerous than they had feared. The decision was made to have him executed, but it was agreed that it must be done so delicately in order to avoid martyrdom.{{Ref/Reuse|RoAC2}}

Another battle on Algolis was soon underway, and Atriox once again found himself being flown into the heart of it surrounded by other Jiralhanae, all of whom were outwardly inspired by his presence save for one, who locked eyes with him during the flight. Atriox assaulted the marines garrisoned at the compound they were assaulting. His movements during the conflict were carefully watched by the Sangheili hoping for his death through the use of [[San'Shyuum]] [[Eye]]s that flew over the carnage. Having secured victory, Atriox found [[Michael Taylor|a wounded marine]] and instead of finishing him off, he told the young man to run. As he did so, Atriox lazily followed after him. The marine stumbled and fell and as Atriox came closer he loudly proclaimed his frustration and hatred for the Covenant's lies to the frightened human. With no malice toward the man, Atriox killed him. Atriox then turned around to find himself facing the Brute with whom he had stared down during the [[Phantom]] ride into battle. This warrior challenged the blasphemy he had overheard, and Atriox desperately implored him to use reason and to see the Covenant's beliefs and strategies for what they were. Despairing of the possibility that his zeal could be argued away, he raised his hammer and dared the accuser to fight him. He took a hard blow to the side, but in the end Atriox stood triumphant over the Jiralhanae's corpse.{{Ref/Reuse|RoAC2}}

[[File:HW2-Order66.png|thumb|left|350px|Atriox kneels before [[Itho 'Hesiikee|his executioner]].]]
Returning once more to the base alone, he was met by a group of [[Sangheili]] led by Itho 'Hesiikee. The murder of his brother on the outskirts of the battlefield was used as a pretext for this sentence. Atriox begrudgingly surrendered his [[Gravity hammer (fiction)|gravity hammer]] and dropped to his knees, seemingly accepting his fate.{{Ref/Reuse|ANE}} He did not fail, however, to boldly and unapologetically defend his reasons for killing the one who would have done the same to him.{{Ref/Reuse|RoAC2}} When a [[energy sword|bloodblade]] was thrust toward his face, however, he caught the blade with his right hand and asked that those present watch what happened next. Rising to his feet, he stabbed 'Hesiikee, his would-be executioner, with his own sword.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=RoAPL4}} The other Sangheili drew their swords and prepared to attack him together, but at that moment other Jiralhanae who had been watching, including a particularly fearsome Brute known as [[Decimus]], leapt into action. Decimus, [[En'Geddon]],{{Ref/Game|Id=Target09|HINF|[[High Value Target]] dossier, En'Geddon}} and all the other Jiralhanae in the area, slaughtered the Sangheili as they were inspired by Atriox's defiance. Decimus knelt before Atriox as others howled in affirmation of their decision to follow him, and from this moment, the group that would come to be called [[Banished]] was born.{{Ref/Reuse|ANE}} Atriox gloated over the dead by saying "How the righteous fall".{{Ref/Reuse|RoAC2}}

===Guerilla war===
{{Quote|So he's not just stealing armaments, he's recruiting. At the moment he's still using guerrilla tactics, which means he's still small time. Still, I'm impressed he's still alive.|[['D']], concerning Atriox.}}
[[File:PL Atriox.png|thumb|300px|Atriox inside the Carter Guard Armory, as seen through the footage of an ODST's helmet camera.]]
Now enemies of the Covenant, the Banished were forced to become self-reliant. Atriox's subordinates were mostly Jiralhanae, but there were also [[Unggoy]] that had already been assigned to certain Jiralhanae and those who were kidnapped from the Covenant and pressed into servitude. They took to raiding Covenant resources to not only survive, but to continuously build themselves as well. Eventually, the UNSC became a target of these raids as well. In early [[2550#January|January 2550]], the Banished raided the [[Carter Guard Armory]]. Atriox personally killed a group of [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] defending it with his bare hands.{{Ref/Game|Id=RoAPL1|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox I|Rise of Atriox I]]}} [[Helmet recorder|Helmet cam]] footage from [[Sergeant]] [[B. Wright]], an ODST killed in the raid, provided the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] with its first look at Atriox, who was identified to agents by a captured Unggoy that had been forced to serve him. The attack on the armory was unique because the Covenant typically did not bother to steal UNSC equipment, whereas the Banished emptied the place of gear. That same year, they moved against a Covenant training camp.{{Ref/Reuse|RoAPL2}} When the UNSC deployed [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] to this camp in June, they found it depleted of all vehicles and weaponry with no signs of life but for a few dead Sangheili. This evidence, when reviewed months later, offered the first indication to ONI that Atriox was not only raiding, but recruiting as well.[[File:Atrioxengineer.png|thumb|left|200px|Atriox metes out justice to one of his own.]] By November 2550, Covenant-held locations had been found in similar states seven different times, the most recent of which was a forward outpost meant to be attacked as part of [[Operation: SLOW DIVE]]. The ONI agents monitoring Atriox's activities surmised that they might be able to use his guerrilla tactics to their advantage when it came to coordinating their own offensives against the Covenant and even dared to wonder if some sort of agreement could be reached with him.{{Ref/Game|Id=RoAPL2|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox II|Rise of Atriox II]]}}

At some point prior to the end of the Human-Covenant War, Atriox was aboard a {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} in preparation for leaving a location that had been looted. When Atriox gave the order to engage its engines, however, a series of hull breaches on multiple decks throughout the ship suddenly caused rapid decompression. One of these breaches, torn through the hull by unexpected detonations, was on the bridge where Atriox was. Thinking quickly, Atriox grabbed a Jiralhanae in a [[vacuum suit]] and hurled him at the hole. The armor sufficiently stopped any further loss of air. Indignant at what had occurred, Atriox ordered Decimus to delegate the task of investigating what went wrong to a new chief engineer his right hand had recruited. Decimus pointed out that the Brute plugging the bridge's hull breach at that very moment was in fact that chief engineer. Filled with suspicion, Atriox questioned the individual regarding the fact that he was the only one wearing a vac suit when the explosions went off. He claimed he had only just returned from making repairs on the outer hull, but Atriox refused to give deference to his excuse. He reasoned that he was either lying, and therefore a saboteur, or he was incompetent. Either way, the engineer deserved to die. Atriox strangled him where he lay against the interior hull, leaving his corpse to continue sealing them from the vacuum outside. As he left the bridge, he charged Decimus with finding a new chief engineer for the vessel—one who could be trusted.{{Ref/Comic|Id=RoAC3|RoA|Issue=3}}

===Detour on Otraak===
{{Quote|The Covenant already treats its warriors as tools. It's why we left. The warriors who will follow me will do so because they know me. Because they have seen me--and they know I will fight whoever it takes, wherever I have to--and that I will win, no matter what.|Atriox to Decimus.}}
[[File:Atrioxdrones.png|thumb|300px|Atriox in battle with Sig Raan's Yanme'e.]]
At some point soon after the incident aboard the battlecruiser, Decimus suggested that the Banished [[Skirmish on Otraak|travel]] to the planet [[Otraak]]. It was largely-unknown that the Covenant had a presence there, but Decimus was acquainted with a [[Kig-Yar]] scientist operating out of an installation on its surface by the name of [[Sig Raan]]. If Raan could be persuaded to their cause, then they would gain a significant source of ingenuity  and technological capability. Decimus led four other Jiralhanae on an expedition to this installation and met no resistance but for some unarmed [[Unggoy]] which were called off by Raan soon after ambushing them. The [[T'vaoan]] invited the Brutes inside to show off what she had invented: a device that mimicked the sonic and pheromonal signals of a [[Yanme'e Queen]], allowing its user to control many [[Yanme'e]] drones. Rather than pledging herself to the Banished, however, Raan turned on Decimus and ordered her drones to attack. Just as it looked as if the swarming Yanme'e would be too much for the Jiralhanae, Atriox revealed himself atop a high platform within the chamber they all found themselves. He let the Kig-Yar know that he had known all along of her treachery and only sent Decimus ahead of himself so that she would show him what she had created. Leaping from his perch, he battered Yanme'e with his [[gravity mace]], [[Chainbreaker]], and landed on his feet. His ferocity against the drones inspired his compatriots to fight back alongside him with renewed vigor. Sig Raan was aghast at the ineffectiveness of her drones against Atriox, even surmising that there may even be a problem with her invention. Born aloft by a Yanme'e, she evaded Atriox before he could deal with her personally, but her escape was cut short by a blast of superheated [[plasma]] fired from Decimus' [[Type-25 plasma pistol]]. The shot killed the Yanme'e carrying her, and she plunged to her death from high above the floor. Some time after Raan's death, Atriox and the others had still not left the installation. Decimus was enthralled with the possibilities that the scientist's invention could offer them, but upon hearing of his plans to make Yanme'e thralls serve as engineers and fighters, Atriox snatched the device away and crumpled it in his hand. Decimus was horrified, but Atriox adamantly explained that while the Covenant had treated its warriors as tools, he aspired to a much higher standard for himself. The Covenant's disregard for its troops, after all, had been the reason they had left it. Atriox enthusiastically stated that he wished for those following him to do so because they know him and know he will do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals, not because they are tricked into doing so by a peculiar technological and biological cheat. The destroyed device was left behind when they took their leave.{{Ref/Reuse|RoAC3}}

===Seizing an opportunity===
{{Quote|I see you for what you are and what you could be. We can do great things together. Not as master and slaves, but as the warriors you truly are -- free to continue your crusade without the shackles of outdated faith.|Atriox to Resa 'Azavayl and the rest of his Silent Shadow squad.{{Ref/Reuse|HP}}}}

With the demise of the Covenant Empire in [[2552]], Atriox acquired numerous weapons and soldiers once belonging to its [[Covenant military|vast military]]. Atriox's experience fighting against the Covenant gave the Banished a strong advantage over other factions in the post-Covenant War galactic environment.{{Ref/YouTube|Id=BTS|l4axn4oo_KE|Halo|Halo Wars 2 E3 Trailer BTS|Y=2016|M=6|D=16}} The collapse of the former hegemony also afforded him and his Banished an enormous opportunity to fill new power vacuums and to consolidate weaponry, vehicles, and ships left behind or weakly held. Atriox's faction no longer had to run from the Covenant and attack it with guerrilla tactics. In addition, with the former Covenant's [[Human-Covenant War|genocidal campaign]] now foiled and halted, Atriox's Chieftains were able to spread the Banished's influence into [[human]] criminal enterprises as well.{{Ref/Book|Id=H:OSFM2|OSFM|Page=156|Quote=Atriox is reported to have led a fleet of Banished to an unknown destination, but the chieftains he has organized and controlled continue to spread their influence and power throughout Brute colonies and even into human criminal enterprises.}} Atriox and his Banished were open to recruiting from all species, including humans and even the Sangheili, who had oppressed his Jiralhanae brothers.{{Ref/Reuse|H:OSFM1}} 

[[File:SSconfronts.png|300px|thumb|left|'Azavayl resists Atriox's offer to join the Banished due to hatred of Jiralhanae.]]
At some point following the [[Great Schism]], a [[Sangheili]] squad of the [[Special Operations]] division, the [[Silent Shadow]], began to mercilessly hunt down and slaughter groups of [[Jiralhanae]] and any others found associating with them. Atriox was leading from one of his vessels, along with a contingent of his forces at that point, a captured {{Pattern|Ceudar|heavy corvette}}, ''[[Elegy's Lament]]''. The Silent Shadow, led by [[Resa 'Azavayl]], managed to infiltrate the vessel and catch several Jiralhanae off-guard thanks to the use of [[active camouflage]]. An alarm was soon sounded, tipping Atriox off to the assassins' presence on his ship. When the Sangheili finally approached Atriox on the bridge, he was ready. He invited the would-be assassins to show themselves and proceeded to question their motives. Resa had been unaware that his target was Atriox, whom he called "the betrayer". Atriox conceded that he would gladly fight the Silent Shadow if necessary, but he made it clear that it would be in the interests of all involved to join forces. He had mentioned to them that he was not involved in the [[Great Schism|betrayal and massacre]] of the Sangheili, and the squad began to view him as "other". Atriox mocked Resa's short-sightedness and stubborn adherence to old hatreds. Resa was not swayed from his task upon hearing Atriox's words, but the others responded quite differently, driving their [[energy sword]]s into their leader's back and allowing themselves to be welcomed into the Banished.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HP|TFSS|Story=Hunting Party}} Following this, Atriox was able to recruit more Sangheili mercenaries into the Banished.{{Citation needed}}

[[File:HW2-Letbows.png|thumb|300px|Let 'Volir swears fealty to Atriox.]]
The most powerful asset he gained was the {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}} ''[[Enduring Conviction]]'', along with her experienced [[Sangheili]] crew and warriors. By [[2553#May|May 6, 2553]], ONI learned of a recent engagement during which the carrier had broken from its fleet decidedly.{{Ref/Game|Id=RoAPL3|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=[[Phoenix Logs/Campaign Logs/Rise of Atriox III|Rise of Atriox III]]}} Atriox had sent forces to raid an air base on a planet belonging to the [[Covenant separatists]] but when the carrier's shipmaster, [[Let 'Volir]], found him within its armory, Atriox dropped [[Chainbreaker]] and voluntarily gave himself up for capture. A {{Pattern|Ru'swum|Phantom}} took he and a number of his forces to the ''Conviction''. The shipmaster was hailed and asked to confirm that he had captured Atriox, but the Brute instructed him to give no answer. 'Volir was surprised by his boldness and only grew more confused when he was told that Atriox had tried to spare as many of his crew on the ground as he could, because they would need them. Only once 'Volir had been given a small measure of the warmaster's intentions was he then told to give the confirmation to the asker. In his proposal, Atriox appealed to Let's wavering faith in [[Arkad Nar 'Kulul]]'s Sangheili-led fleet and his devotion to his ship and crew, offering to provision and fuel both, respectively. Twelve hours later, ''Enduring Conviction'' broke formation and severed contact with the rest of the fleet. The ''Conviction'' was hailed, warned, and then fired upon when her crew ignored orders. The ''Co