Peter Mauk

Peter Mauk (ペテル・モーク) was a silver ranked adventurer and leader of the Swords of Darkness.

Appearance
Peter had blonde hair and blue eyes, both of which were common in the kingdom, while his unremarkable face had smooth features. He wore a chainmail armor with numerous chains of rings forming a mesh, which was worn on top of leather shirt.

Personality
Peter was described as a cheerful and nice person. He possessed great leadership within his adventurer team.

Background
Not much is known of his background, except at some point he heard the tale of the Thirteen Heroes and their exploits and admired the Black Knight's exploits particularly. It inspired him set out to create the Swords of Darkness with the aim to acquire the four legendary dark swords wielded by said hero.

The Dark Warrior Arc
Peter and his teammates see Momon and Nabe, who are attempting to procure a job and to let both teams work together. However, the pharmacist's grandson Nfirea Bareare comes to make a direct request of Momon. He suggests for Momon to take that job instead. In the end, a compromise is made as Nfirea agrees to take both parties as his bodyguard.

As they travel to Carne Village, the party is attacked by a large group of goblins and ogres. A battle plan is devised quickly, with Peter and his teammates face off the goblins while Momon and Nabe would eliminate the ogres. As the fight proceeds, Peter quickly realizes that their fellow companions are no mere adventurers. He looks upon the two with awe, comparing their strength to the heroes of legend.

The journey proceeds smoothly after the encounter, but things are amiss as Nfirea realizes Carne Village is more fortified than usual. Sensing that something is wrong, Peter and his teammates advance cautiously but are ambushed by a large group of goblins, stronger than before. No fight breaks out as the goblins tell them that they have no intention to start a fight. In fact, it turns out that they are protecting the village under Enri Emmot's orders. During their stay in Carne Village, he and his teammates are introduced to the Wise King of the Forest which Momon tamed.

After completing the request, Peter and his teammates leave with Nfirea to his house to collect the reward. However, a sinister presence is already there, waiting for them. Peter is killed at the hands of Clementine and Khajiit Dale Badantel as he attempts to buy time for Ninya and Nfirea to escape. Peter along with Lukrut and Dyne are then turned into zombies and are killed by Momon to free them of their fate.

Mass for the Dead Arc
A half a year after the event known as the Catastrophe that saw the emergence of the Cracks and appearance of the Chaos Beasts and Contaminated Beasts, Peter led his team to collect herbs in the Great Forest of Tob. While heading to the nearby settlement of Carne Village, his team rescued a little girl named Nemu Emmot who was fleeing to get help to save the village from Chaos Beasts. The adventurers journeyed with her to the village to save what was left when they met the protagonist, Surako and Narberal Gamma. The two groups then decided to help one another and Peter and his team provided information on the current situation of the world.

Together they managed to drive the Chaos Beasts and Contaminated Beasts off, when the members of the Sunlight Scripture led by Ian Als Heim arrived. Though the Scripture was not originally here to evacuate the villagers but on their own secret mission, Ian agreed to left some of his men to escort the villagers to safety to the city of E-Rantel. But the Scripture guides could depart, Peter and his friends went into the forest to search for the missing Enri Emmot, Nemu's sister, and Morgan. However it was too late for Enri as she was killed by a Quadruped Chaos Beast. The adventurers and Nazarick agents then traveled back to the village to bury her remains. Peter would part ways with the protagonist as he and his team would help the Scripture escort the villagers to the city. While traveling with the refugees, the convoy was attacked by a Giant Chaos Beast. Peter and his friends were nearly killed when the protagonist and his friends came to the rescue and managed to defeat it.

Later while resting in the Adventurer's Guild in E-Rantel, he discussed with his team of a rumor on the location of one of the Swords of Darkness belonging to the Black Knight. The discussion attracted the attention of Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra who wanted to seek out the sword which was suspected to be Hyumilis. Even though adamantite adventurer explained that only she could safely wield it, the Swords of Darkness joined her and Gagaran on the quest to see the legendary weapon. In the end though it turned out to be just a monster infesting a magic sword.

Abilities and Powers
Being a silver ranked adventurer, he had a great swordsmanship as a warrior.

Active

 * Fortress: A Martial Art that raises one's own defense to be able to handle direct attacks to their bodies.

Equipment

 * Banded Armor: A hauberk upon which interwoven strips of thin metal bands were held together by leather.
 * Unnamed Sword
 * Unnamed Shield

Momon
He first meet Momon at the Adventurer's Guild in E-Rantel and offer him a job for both teams to work together, at first he was jealous of Momon's full plate armor despite him being the lowest copper class adventurer. However, when he saw the true strength of Momon, he believes that he could be an adamantite adventurer or can evenly match Gazef Stronoff. As a warrior, he admires and respects Momon and that someday he can be like him in the future.

Lukrut Volve
He valued the his friends ranger abilities and general got along well with each other, despite Lukrut's tendency to flirt with every other beautiful woman he see which at times annoyed him.

Ninya
As their leader, Peter trusted and valued Ninya as a talented colleague and friend. He greatly respected her abilities in using magic and was not even shy about boasting the fact she had a natural talent for it. When Clementine showed up, despite knowing the fact they will most likely all die if they fought her, they still decided to try and stall for time to allow her to escape so she could find her sister, which showed how he truly cared about her.

Dyne Woodwonder
Despite being his senior, Dyne did not mind of the young man being the leader of the group and even valued his ability to unite everyone so close, likewise Peter valued his druid abilities and rather calm and jolly nature as way to calm everyone down in a tense situation.

Trivia

 * He also appears in the game Mass for the Dead along with the other members of the team during the main story and even has his own summon card that allows the player to play with him.

Quotes

 * (About Momon): "Unimaginable. He surpassed Mithril level and reached Orichalcum… No, could it be Adamantite level?"
 * (To Nfirea about Momon's level): "Frankly speaking, I think Momon-san is already at the same level as the Kingdom's Warrior Captain."

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