LightburneR wrote:Too Little, Too Late appears weird to me.
I'd really like Forlorn Hope to stack =d.
LoR seems against the feel of the hero.
Also, speaking on the feel, this hero appears to have a minimal amount of emotion within him.
First keep in mind that the hero is under a near complete revision right now, as I try to figure out just how to make a hero that is designed around buffs (Read: I'm hitting my head against the wall a lot, I see the potential, it'll just take a bit to harness). That being said...
Too Little, Too Late is weird, the intent was that you could keep a push alive against all odds even though some of your men are dying. It is currently not in my build for the hero. Forlorn Hope is designed around the concept of the Forlorn Hope. Wiki it if you need to, but it's not a stackable thing, and neither is the skill itself to be honest, unless you want to create needlessly overpowered heroes. Light of Redemption is meant to be a break from the feel of the hero, it's very name is meant to show this, although it too is undergoing revisions.
On the topic of feel, I figure I should actually write my "concept" for Aethum down, so here goes:
Envision a young general, fresh, promising, the type of thing people tend to gravitate towards in times of war. Well, needs be what they must, he heads the army, leading it out into battle to fight the Bane. He's nervous, yeah, but at the same time, this is what he's spent his life working towards, the battlefield is his domain, and for the first few seconds of the battle, that might have been true. Suddenly, his army is cut into with unexpected viciousness, he's losing troops left and right, and within the space of an hour, each and every man under his lead is either dead or dying. He tried to fight too, but the Bane had something far more cruel in mind. They saved him for last, surrounded him, and overwhelmed him, but didn't hurt him, at least not yet. The Bane soldiers took their turns for the better part of a week beating him brutally, breaking, setting, and rebreaking every bone in his body, until the young, promising general was little more than an empty shell of his old self. At this point, they send him on horseback ahead of them as a message to whatever city they would come across, as a mockery of how they had hailed him as the "Last Hope of Humanity".
Years pass, wounds heal, if only by raw determination. The moment he had the strength to hold a weapon, he was training with it, and as soon as his legs would take him, he returned to the battlefield. Although despised by the other soldiers, as he was a constant reminder of how the Bane had shamed them all, he fought on, leading those who would listen, and protecting those who wouldn't. Others question why he still fights, as there is no gain in it for him, and even the people he fights to protect despise him. But he doesn't. He fights not for honor, not for pride, but because he knows it's what's right, and for him, that's more than enough. He is Aethum, the Lost Hope of Humanity, and even if he is the last man standing against the darkness, he'll be standing in the gap to save those who couldn't care less about him.
Or, at least, that's the gist of it...