Apollyon

"And yet, here they still stand, searching for a sign of peace. I will show them! I am Apollyon! I bring war!"

- Apollyon during the intro narration

Apollyon is the main antagonist of the story mode of the 2017 video game For Honor. She is the chief warlord of the Blackstone Legion and intends to break the peace between the Knights of the Iron Legion, the vikings of the Warborn and the samurai of the Chosen.

Youth and forming the Blackstone Legion
Apollyon was born in the scrablands of Ashfeld. During her youth, Apollyon saw all the horrors of war and never forgot, remembering it as a lesson.

Initially a member of the Iron Legion herself, Apollyon grew dissatisfied when the peace between the factions started. Together with fourteen others, Apollyon left the Iron Legion to found the Blackstone Legion - intending to manipulate the factions into open warfare once more in order to usher in "an age of wolves". After founding the legion, eight of the members claimed the title of warlord before Apollyon but they all fell. Only Apollyon survived when she claimed the title and became warlord of the Blackstone Legion. She and the six remaining warlords took on demon names afterwards to remind them what they must become to change the world according to their vision.

Warfare against the vikings
"These barbarians. They seem like they're good people. Hmm? They embrace each other like they were all kin. But that is all a lie. When night falls, they stab each other with their knives. If there are wolves among them, should we not set them free?"

- Apollyon to the Warden, regarding their attack on Svengard.

After viking attacks endangered the last Iron Legion sanctuary in Ashfeld, Apollyon sendt her Blackstone Legion to save them. They managed to scare off the vikings and took in the remainders of the Iron Legion, making them part of the Bloodstone Legion. However, Apollyon noticed that the Warden, a newly-recruited member who was pivotal to their victory in Ashfeld, seemed uncertain about the Legion's extreme methods. With help of the Warden, Apollyon and the Blackstone Legion were able to conquer the entirety of Ashfeld.

While journeying with the Legion, the Warden was sent to eliminate some Iron Legion defectors. After killing some of them in their base, the Warden faced another group of defectors but Apollyon swept in and came to the Warden's aid. After she killed enough men to send the traitors running, they found the exit guarded by more Blackstone Legion warriors. Apollyon and the Warden then eliminated the remaining defectors while the Legion prevented them from fleeing. In the battle, Apollyon took a sword hit to the back and a dagger to the side but remained fighting nonetheless, even saving the life of the Warden. After the fighting was done, the Legion rounded up the remaining defectors. Two of them stood up to Apollyon and attempted to kill her but were swiftly defeated and apprehended. Apollyon then held a brief speech to the remaining prisoners, reminding them that only sheep wait for their own slaughter. Beheading two of them with one swordstroke, Apollyon then gave the order to have the remaining prisoners slaughtered. The two attackers, however, she welcomed into the Blackstone Legion.

Apollyon then led the Blackstone Legion against Valkenheim, a stronghold of the vikings. After her second-in-command, Holden Cross, lowered the bridge for the main army, Apollyon strode over the bridge among her forces. As she did not want to leave a force behind at Valkenheim to guard the prisoners, Apollyon ordered them all executed. The Legion continued their march north and eventually reached another viking fortress. To avoid an open attack, Apollyon sent one of her own, the viking peacekeeper known as Mercy, to clear the path. Mercy indeed managed to sabotage the fortress' elevator mechanics and took out the vikings in her way. Afterwards, she returned to the Legion and reported to Apollyon that the mission was a success.

With the fortresses in their way eliminated, Apollyon led the Blackstone Legion against the viking's main stronghold of Svengard. By attacking Svengard, where the true warriors of the vikings live, Apollyon hoped to rattle the vikings from their peaceful living and return them to their life of war. During the battle, the Warden fought Gudmundr, the chieftain of the vikings, and ended up falling to the ground and becoming unconscious. He was awoken by Apollyon who merely told him to get back onto his feet.

The Warden later learned from Mercy that Apollyon chose to attack Svengard because that was the place where the vikings stored their seed grain. With no new harvest, Apollyon expected that famine and hunger would lead the vikings to fight and kill each other over the little food remaining. The brutality and extreme methods of Apollyon caused the Warden to forsake the Bloodstone Legion.

After the batte was won, Cross asked Apollyon why they were not burning all the food. Apollyon explained that burning all the food would cause the viking clains to unite, but leaving scraps just enough for two or three clans would ensure that fighting broke out amidst the vikings. Their plan a success, Apollyon then told the Legion that they would march home.