I wish vidya RPG had as much customization capabilities as TTRPG.
I remember doing this for a campaign that never ended, we never got to use it.
Edge Lord.
A man in a mask and a fedora walks through town with a small host of little girls at his side; his blackened leather trench coat flying with the wind. They rush through the streets and burn the houses as the masked man continues on his casual meandering. A crying child now stands in his way. He approaches slowly. He unsheathes his black steel katana, lays his hand on the child's head and looks him in the eye. “If I take that off would you die?” Asks the child in a mix of awe and terror. The big guy kneels down in front of the child, “it would be extremely painful” he says in a dark monotone. The buildings are charred and decrepit now. The masked man teleports behind the child “pshh, nothing personnel kid” he says to the child as he stabs his sword through his chest. Spitting blood the kid can do nothing but look at the masked man in the eye “are you a big guy?” he asks with his dying breath. A stream of blood spouts from the kid’s chest “for you…”
He is the edge lord. They are not lords of land or people necessarily. They do however have power. Dark power. Donning and wielding weapons as darkened and edgy as his very soul, he is often seen as a high functioning autist. He brings a combination of calm but short-tempered fighting rage as well a certain amount of magic abilities he uses to often annoy and destroy their opposition before, during and after the battlefield.
Being of Pure Edge.
They say it's the quiet ones you should watch out for. This statement is truest for an Edge Lord. They say few words because their energies are concentrated on suppressing their raging autism… until provoked. The simple act of walking through a crowd makes the dark lord's presence known through the meme magic that pulsates from his very being. You embrace the hold that Kek has over you and in return it awards you with innate abilities made to destroy and spread ruin.
During times of youth, you may have shown prodigious skills in your studies or the fine art of drawing furry porn and for this were ridiculed by your peers, especially that one faggot Kevin Robinson from magic school; fuck you Kevin stop showing everyone my fucking grimoire you piece of shit. But after time or simply one event, you are lost in the darkness. In that darkness, you learn to master the edge within. Though you may not have been of noble descent, as the title suggests, you are indeed a person with great power over something. That something is memes incarnate, tightly wound within your being.
Hardcore cunts.
An Edge Lord’s inherent autism makes him not have very much patience for the mundane. Even combat training has seemed to be slightly rushed. They are able to use the most devastating weapons, folded a thousand times, and the most gentlemanly clothing, shunning the use of anything less than the best. They are lords, first, and warriors, second. Their energies are used most to scheme and direct and only use what they will need. An edge lord will take what is useful and leave the rest which often leads to the neglect of stronger uses, this is most evident in magical pursuits.
Authority and poise are characteristics of someone who is very well off and successful. Something humans aspire to be. Humans often are the ones who fall for the powers of evil. The drow elves, however, often dabble in the dark arts and are just as susceptible to the seduction. Tieflings are rather drawn to these dark arts naturally and are the most likely to take them to the utmost extreme. Half-orcs, vampires and half-elves can also be drawn in for various reasons ranging from fury towards the world to being fed up with simple harassment. But above all, edge lords seek to see their superiority to tower over the masses.
Creating an Edge Lord.
One can only become an Edge Lord when they have finally ascended, they are one with the edge; they shun puny gods and goddesses and they’re only concerned about themselves.
A character that becomes an Edge Lord is immune to being healed by clerics, and mind affecting attacks, resistant to necrotic and slashing damage (because they’re just so edgy).
They are also unable to use anything that isn’t an edgy enough weapon (ask GM).
Other than that, the character retains all their class abilities it had before their ascent.
Edge Lord’s Identity.
The Edge Lord adds a “The Hedgehog” to the end of their name and is also completely unable to convert into a religion, immune to alignment changes.