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STATS: 3 Cost / 3 Power
RELEASED: 2/19/2026
ARTIST: TBD
Athos doesn’t talk about where he came from. This is not a secret so much as a decision, made long ago and never revisited. What he was before the Musketeers belongs to before the Musketeers and he has never found a reason to go back there.
What he is now is enough. Experienced in the specific way that comes not from age alone but from having been in every version of a bad situation and walked out the other side with the lesson intact. He doesn’t wait for things to escalate. He identifies the problem at its earliest point, when it is still small and manageable and hasn’t yet decided what it wants to be, and he ends it there. One shot. Clean. Done. This is not ruthlessness. It is the mercy of someone who knows what escalation actually costs.
He had reservations about the Trophaeum. Places built around concentrated ambition and violence have a gravity that pulls people in further than they intended to go. He has watched it happen. He came anyway because D’Artagnan was going regardless and someone with enough sense to recognize a threat before it becomes one needed to be present. He told himself it would be brief. He has stopped telling himself that.