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| “ | It'll take more than a few lines from the Book to impress me, Jasper. | „ |
| ~ Augustine's introductory and most famous quote. |
| “ | I remember you now. Yes, Charles's little friend. It really should've occured to me sooner, you two really are so alike. Stubborn, misguided, easily defeated, and ultimately inconsequential. Tell me, what have you accomplished today? This library is burning to the ground, your friends are all corpses, and when I leave here the sheep will believe only what I tell them. But you have convinced me, of one thing. You commoners have grown too numerous, too difficult to control. Perhaps it's time we shepherds...thin the flock. By, half, perhaps? Yes. It's time for a fresh start. After all. The Crusade has only begun. | „ |
| ~ Augustine's speech to Paul in the final battle before attempting to gauge his left eye out like he did with Charles. |
Archbishop Augustine, or simply Augustine, is the main antagonist of the YouTube original animated drama series the Thirteenth Crusade by Universal Heat.
A high-ranking member of the theocratic Templar organization that rules the remnants of humanity in the fallout of an apocalyptic bio weapon outbreak hundreds of years ago, Augustine is both the leader of the Inquisition that enforces the Templar's draconian rule of the commoners and the overseer of the titular Crusade, the latest of many "holy wars" to retake the infected regions of the world for mankind and find the city of Isis to attain the knowledge and technology to rebuild human civilization. But Augustine has an ulterior motive for the campaign.
Biography[]
Augustine's early life is unknown. All that is known is that he was born at least 600 years or more after the Infection destroyed human civilization and forced the remnants of humanity to live under the rule of the Templar's. At some point he became an Archbishop of the Templar's and the head of the Inquisition, enforcing their policy of keeping any advanced Old-World technology out of the hands of commoners, having anyone who violated this decree tortured and executed, while also endorsing the Crusades against the Infected regions of the world. At some point after the 12th crusade, he arrested a member of a Crusade resistance movement named Jasper who was painting signs condemning the Crusades as a lie. In a cowardly attempt to save his own life, Jasper told Augustine the location of the Resistances hideout. He led a raid on the hideout where he had most of the rebels executed via firing squad and captured their leader, a knight of the Crusader army named Charles of Dumar, who was convicted on charges of blasphemy and treason. He had Charles locked away in an Inquisition prison and tortured him for a year, with Augustine at one point using a spike to gauge Charles left eye out, forcing the disgraced knight to wear a metallic eye patch.
A year later, Augustine would place Jasper, who had been made to take credit for Charles accomplishments in the 12th Crusade, in command of the Crusader army and act as the overseer of the 13th Crusade, with the alleged goal of journeying to the lost city of Isis and seizing the technology and knowledge within in order to rebuild human civilization. For an unexplained reason, Augustine released Charles from prison and conscripted him back into the Crusader army, much to Jasper's discomfort and guilt. During the voyage across the Ash Sea to the Infected Lands, Charles challenged Augustine to a duel, which Augustine agreed to out of boredom. The duel remained fairly even until Augustine began using the technological capabilities of his sword to gain an advantage in the duel, using the flexible and retractable elements of the blade to non fatally stab and injure Charles until Jasper interrupted and declared Augustine the victor in order to spare Charles more suffering. After the duel, Augustine told Jasper to ensure the soldiers on their ship didn't survive the Crusade.
Eventually reaching the shores and navigating the Infected Lands with the Book of the End, the army eventually came across an infected Hive, which Jasper intended to destroy to avoid taking a 10-mile detour around it, with Augustine approving the attack. He takes note of Jasper's strategy to use a squad of 500 soldiers as a diversion from his primary force for the Infected Horde defending the Hive, telling Jasper his plan would fail before mockingly wishing him luck. As the battle takes place, he realizes Jasper had placed Charles with the diversionary force, leading to Augustine attacking Jasper and breaking his right arm in anger because he needs Charles alive for an unknown purpose. When the Infected begin to overwhelm the Crusaders, Augustine prepares to board his hovercraft and leave Jasper and his men to die despite Jasper's pleas, only to change his mind at the last minute and ordering the Templar's to use their advanced weaponry to massacre the Infected. He then orders his men to launch an advanced missile at the Hive to destroy it with an artificial black hole and causing the remainder of the Infected linked to the Hive to die instantly, with Jasper realizing to his horror and guilt that the battle had been completely unnecessary and Augustine had the means to destroy the Hive from the beginning. The archbishop then warns Jasper not to expect him to be so "charitable" in the future.
That night, Augustine converses with Jasper as the Crusaders made camp, with the archbishop attempting to "comfort" Jasper by assuring him that the men that died in the battle had served a higher purpose. Jasper rejects this notion, feeling ashamed of himself for getting so many killed in a pointless battle and for betraying Charles to the Templar's in the past to save himself, pointedly calling Augustine the Devil. Augustine shrugs off this insult before retiring for the night, leaving Jasper to wallow in his guilt. He's shown using a drone to spy on Charles and his comrade Paul, whose friend Mike had been killed in the battle at the Hive, about using the technology and knowledge of Isis to rebel against the Templar's, at which point Augustine begins making plans to thwart them.
The following day, the Crusaders and the Templar's finally reach Isis. Augustine orders Jasper and his army to stand by while he and the Templar's infiltrate a library at the heart of the city. When Jasper questions Augustine for his goal regarding the Library, Augustine claims it may hold information about the city that could hasten their efforts to occupy it, claiming he wants to save lives. Jasper finally snaps at Augustine after hearing this hypocritical claim of wanting to save the lives of his men, calling him and the Templar's out for throwing away the lives of countless soldiers in the Crusades, soldiers that are armed with archaic and ineffective weapons when the Templar's had far more powerful weapons that could've ended the war long ago. Augustine attempts to pull rank on Jasper to quell his defiance, only for the commander to demand he and his squad accompany him to the library, threatening to go to war with them right then and there if he kept trying to keep them in the dark. Augustine begrudgingly relents and in the next hour their forces push into the heart of the city towards the library, with Augustine having his men activate a sonic pulse field to paralyze the Infected Horde in the city with pain, Jasper snarkily noting how useful such a device would've been in the battle yesterday. As they move into the library, Augustine orders his Templar knights at the camp to kill Charles, who had been ordered to stay behind at the camp, and bring his corpse to the library.
Upon reaching the library and studying the treasure trove of tomes and technology from the pre-infection society preserved within, Augustine turns on Jasper, stabbing him in the stomach before ordering the Templar's to slaughter Jasper's soldiers while leaving Jasper to die from his wounds. He has the bodies of the squad piled up in the center of the library before dousing the corpses and the library itself in gasoline before setting the entire building on fire, with the true goal of Thirteenth Crusade being revealed to have been to destroy Isis's knowledge and ensure humanity never gained the knowledge and power to rebel against the Templar's, while framing Charles for the deed as a scapegoat. Augustine finds himself held at gunpoint by Paul, who had survived being shot thanks to the cross around his neck partially softening the bullets impact and steals a Templar's rifle. He demands to know why Augustine would burn the library and deny the commoners access to the knowledge and technology that would help rebuild their civilization, with Augustine stating that his people couldn't be trusted to not abuse said knowledge and technology and that it would only bring chaos and damnation to them. Paul calls him out on his hypocrisy for this since he and the Templar's commit horrendous atrocities against commoners on a regular basis with the very resources he claims to be protecting from being misused by the rest of humanity. As the conversation continues, Augustine agrees with Paul about how monstrous he is and admits he and the Templar's are damned to Hell for what they've done with the power and freedom they have, using this as a rationalization for his sins by claiming that his actions are sparing the commoners the "burden of freedom" and that keeping them under the Templar's control is the only way to keep them from being damning themselves to Hell as the Templar's have.
Throughout Augustine's mad rant, Paul's rifle had been automatically disabled by the eye scanner which didn't recognize him as a Templar, with Augustine grabbing the rifle and forcing Paul to pull the trigger to shoot him to prove the gun had been shut off. He then knocks Paul to the ground before preparing to kill him with his sword for defying him and dishonoring his "sacrifice" for the sake of his peoples souls. Before he can kill him, Jasper, who had crawled himself down the stairs leading to the center of the library as he bleeds to death, shoots the device emitting the sonic pulse keeping the Infected Horde from attacking the library, causing the Infected to charge into the library towards the Templar's. Using the distraction to his advantage, Paul heats up his knife with the flames burning the library and stabs one of the gasoline tanks, causing an explosion that sends the Templar's into a panic and burns Augustine's left eye. As Paul climbs the stairs and runs towards the top of the library, Augustine furiously chases him up the floors in a desperate attempt to kill him before he can tell the other Crusaders of his deception. He later stabs Paul through his right leg using his retractable sword to impale him through the floor, slowing Paul's retreat while Charles was fighting through the Templar's to reach Paul. Cornering Paul at the top of the library, he used the ends of his sword to pin him against the glass domed roof of the building while he called his remaining Templar's to pick him up on their hovercrafts.
Augustine proceeds to taunt Paul over his failure to stop him as he extends the middle part of his sword towards him to gouge his left eye out like he had with Charles, while also promising to slaughter half of the Commoner population in response to Paul proving to him how "numerous and difficult to control" they had become. Before he can cut Paul's eye out, an injured Charles appears and cuts through and breaks the blade of Augustine's retractable sword, disabling it and rendering it useless. He then fights Charles barehanded and overpowers him, snapping his sword arm and smashing his head against the glass of the dome, while his Templar's shoot Paul in the side to stop him from interfering in the fight. He then pins Paul down with his foot and gloats over the success of his plot in spite of the rogue Crusaders interference. However, at that moment a giant flying Infected creature appears, having been approaching Isis's library since Jasper destroyed the sonic pulse generator, knocking aside Augustine's flying Templar's and causing one of their hover crafts to crash through the dome and land on the roof. Taking advantage of Augustine's confusion as the flying Infected approached the roof, Paul used the broken end of his cross to stab Augustine's foot pinning him, grabbing Charles sword and slashing his reddened left eye out in an act of poetic justice for Charles before the flying Infected crashed through the roof and buried Augustine under the rubble.
Charles urges Paul to retreat on the downed Templar hovercraft and expose the Templar's actions in Isis to the remaining Crusaders so that they may rebel against their unjust rule over their people back in the homeland. Staying behind, he fights Augustine with his sword one more time to keep him from escaping and blaming him for his actions in Isis. Even injured as he was, Augustine beats Charles down and tries to strangle the Crusader Knight while he lies on top of the glass floor overlooking the inside of the burning library. With the last of his strength, Charles grabs his sword and stabs the glass floor, causing the 2 to fall into the burning building to their deaths, ending Augustine's reign of tyranny as a precursor to the downfall of the Templar's in the future.
Appearance[]
Augustine is a tall and imposing man in white technological armor with the red cross of the Templars branded on the chest plate. His head is completely bald and he has pale green eyes. After Paul blows up a gasoline tank in his face, his right eye is left reddened from the trauma and pain from the explosion
Personality[]
| “ | Paul: Go to Hell! Augustine:...Of course I will. Oh, I don't delude myself. I've done unspeakable things. And I'm going to Hell. I've killed thousands of men and women. Their deaths are necessary and for a righteous cause, but I-. I KNOW that many didn't deserve what I did to them! That's the burden that comes with freedom. With the power to choose comes the power to sin. To make decisions that destroy the soul. We Templars make those decisions EVERY DAY! But only so you commoners can be free of them. We committ monstrous acts. But only to keep you on a righteous path. Some of us think that there's hope for us. That we can still save our souls somehow, but I see the truth. We're all damned! That's why this library will burn, because if it didn't our sacrifices would mean NOTHING! |
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| ~ Augustine revealing his nihilistic philosophy to Paul. |
Augustine is a soft-spoken and articulate man, which does very little to belie the monstrous tyrant he is underneath his refined mannerisms. He's a cruel and merciless zealot who tortures and murders commoners by the thousands for the smallest offences in order to enforce the Templar orders rule over humanity, taking visible pleasure in the suffering he inflicts with his own hands. And that's without mentioning that he endorses the Crusades, wars against the infected beasts in the name of supposedly reclaiming humanities old territories, but in truth are merely another means of maintaining the Templar's rule of humanity by giving them a different enemy to fight instead of them, leading to thousands of needless innocent deaths in pursuit of an unattainable goal since the lands are too corrupted by the Infection to sustain human society again. This isn't helped by him deliberately under equipping the Crusaders despite the Templar's having weapons and technology that would prove more effective against the Infected creatures and only helping the Crusaders under his command when it suits his interests.
As a Templar, Augustine has a very self-righteous and condescending demeanor towards commoners, who he treats as little more than sheep to be herded and controlled by him and his order, showing complete apathy towards their suffering and plight at either his hands or the monsters he forces them to fight. He has a rather cynical perception of humanity, believing that allowing them access to the technology of the old world would lead to a repeat of their ancestor's self-destruction and the damnation of their souls, having any commoner with even the smallest piece of technology in their possession killed on sight. He's also a hypocrite as he uses the very technology he outlaws to enforce his tyrannical rule of humanity and overpower anyone who poses a threat to their rule, as shown with his usage of a flexible broad sword to win a duel against Charles.
He's also extremely spiteful and petty, mistreating Jasper out of annoyance or for making mistakes that inconvenience him, nearly leaving him to die with his forces in a battle with an Infected hive for nearly getting Charles killed and ruining his plans for Isis and only helping him at the last minute when the latter humiliated himself and begged on his knees for mercy for himself and his men, and later kills him personally when Jasper defies his authority to accompany him to the library in Isis while forcing him to watch the massacre of his soldiers. He also vows to kill hundreds of commoners to spite Charles and Paul for defying him in the final battle.
Despite his sadism and self-righteous zeal, Augustine is shown to be far more aware of his own sins than he lets on. Even though he rationalizes his actions as a necessity, he acknowledges his victims were innocent and he is damned to go to Hell for his crimes, a fate he has resigned himself to. This is made most apparent when Jasper calls him the Devil he made a deal with out of self-preservation, an accusation Augustine doesn't deny or challenge. Despite this self-awareness, Augustine has convinced himself that his sins are necessary to keep the commoners he oppresses on a path of righteousness by denying them their freedom from the Templar's, as he believes letting them choose for themselves will lead to their own damnation. Because of this, he believes himself to be a martyr who sacrificed his soul for the salvation of his subjects and sees any opposition towards him as ingratitude for his "sacrifice".
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