Jiren Victori

Jiren Victori is a high-elf paladin from Dungeons and Dragons: Paradise Lost. He is one of the protagonists of the campaign, and is later re-introduced as an antagonist in Dungeons and Dragons: New Dawn.

History
Raised in a small High Elf town known as Havelard next to Mount Olympus, where life was incredibly pretentious, everyone was rich except the butlers, and everyone was insanely religious.

Including Jiren, born to two wealthy parents obsessed with the God of Light, Apollo, and raised their son to be just as obsessed. He fell in love with the myths of how Apollo saved the day over and over, being the coolest, most fun God and one who fulfilled people’s wishes because, well, he was a cool dude.

Now, thanks to Jiren being raised in a situation where he could get everything he ever wanted just by saying it out loud, he naturally assumed he would be able to achieve his wildest dreams. This kid was incredibly gullible, overly eager and far too in love with Apollo, and so when he settled on becoming best friends with Apollo, he knew he was going to achieve it, and completely setting his mind on that task.

Jiren figured he needed to imitate Apollo to get close with him, so as he got older, he started copying what he saw in the myths, and doing it tenfold. Of course, this wasn’t great because the myths weren’t clean. They involved lots of murder and killing, so that’s what Jiren did. First pigs, then cows, then, well, people. For every person Jiren read about Apollo taking out with his bow, the obsessed High Elf would kill three more, believing everything he did, every action he took, every sin he committed, was for the greater good of becoming besties with the one he admired so much. Essentially, he became an extremist, eventually slaughtering everyone in his whole town. Not even his parents were safe, because well, “Apollo’s mum died in the myths, so if both my parents die, it’ll look extra good!”.

As Jiren grew up, he soon viewed his actions with a smarter outlook. He realised that the atrocities he committed didn’t look good, so he fled his town, fled that area, in search of other places to enact his holy imitation. But then it hit him, he was doing more than Apollo was. He was doing better than Apollo was. Hey, he was like Apollo Redux!

Immediately, in his scheming brain, he saw things differently. No longer did he view Apollo with respect, instead, he looked down on him. Apollo was a God, sure, but one who only did one third of the work Jiren did, so surely that means Jiren deserves to be a God even more, right?

That was the new plan, take Apollo’s place as a God. He would summon Apollo by continuing to fake worshipping him, pretending to be the worshipper he used to be, and then, when Apollo appeared, he would fight him. Show that he was a far better version, and slay the fake God with his own hands. Jiren is fueled by nothing more than his own arrogance, believing everything he is doing is for the greater good, because surely humanity would benefit from someone better than Apollo doing Apollo’s job? It didn’t matter how many people had to be harmed, had to be slaughtered at his hands, because all that mattered was that he could slaughter a particular one.

All he wants is to kill Apollo.

Personaltiy
Jiren is cruel, cold and completely unforgiving. He fully believes everything he's doing is the right thing, and justifies even his worst actions. He wants to be surrounded by people, even if he acts like he doesn't care. He's ruthless, but would rather avoid killing people he believes to be of importance. However, anyone who gets in his way, he'll take down without thinking twice.

Dungeon and Dragons: Paradise Lost
Jiren is a traveller alongside Lunus, Nevae and Ganmuri Earthjaw. He sides with them in order to better improve his own combat skills, and so he can have allies to help him take down Apollo. He starts off coming across like a kind, level-headed paladin, but his true motivations start to become clear, after he slays a high-priest who was trying to provoke him without a second thought. This causes Lunus to doubt him, and he loses his connection to Apollo. However, this does nothing but motivate him, as he continues his quest, trying to find a way to reach and slay Apollo. He eventually becomes too power-hungry and after heading to Mount Olympus to meet his victim face-to-face, Nevae and Ganmuri abandon him, leaving him just with Lunus.