Players of the Game Character Spotlight: Ed Burnhelt

Ed Burnhelt can reach the horizon well within a second.  But he can’t outrun what awaits him.

He’s grown a beard in an attempt to hide the scar that Corsis’s Lizard avatar gave him at the end of The New Players.  But that doesn’t really work.  The claw marks on his cheek light up with blue flames when he uses his hyper powers.

That’s the least of his problems.  The Holy Alliance is staging another invasion.  And a focal point is again in the beleaguered frontier city of Findenton.  And even if he and his friends fend off disaster.  There’s the matter of a Skin Bot named Vermillion.  

The Grellish spy discovered secrets vital not only to the battle against the Holy Alliance but also to the Game itself.  Vermillion is being held and interrogated in the pico realm of Inparadis.  Locked behind many, many layers of security.

Find out if Ed and his friends can reach Vermillion in time in The Breakers.

Art by Ringasure.  This is an older version of Ed’s armor that has way more plating and silver, rather than its streamlined mesh and blue revised appearance.  But this rendering still looks rad with his pose, face, and swords.  So I wanted to share it.

Other more current versions of Ed will show up in future installments.

Players of the Game Character Spotlight: Ed Burnhelt

Ed Burnhelt is one of the main characters of the entire series.  This is another rendering of him as he appears in the third book.  As you can tell from his bearded image in the post below, he doesn’t come out of it without a few literal and figurative scars.  Despite that, Ed maintains a lightness in comparison to others like Ashe Stelfire or Harry Mang, and would much rather disarm a conflict with a joke, rather than through his powers.  Circumstances often conspire to prevent him from taking the less fraught route.

Ed Burnhelt does what is hard.

Ed is one of the main characters in the upcoming “The New Players” novel, Book 3 in the series.  He hails from the advanced and isolated nation of New Grelland, and is the youngest member of a powerful and influential family.

He is gifted with Flames of Tumult that generate within his body, which grant him hyper speed and strength, and the capability to think faster than most computers.  He can also vent the electric fire from his eyes.  He is also a skilled duelist, wielding his deceased mother’s sword.

But there are draw backs to this power.  He had to spend a year in sensory deprivation to accustom himself to his enhanced perception of time.  His fellow Grells fear him, seeing an unstable weapon, rather than a person.

All of this was by design, not chance.  His family engineered his lot in life, knowing the consequences it would inflict on him.

They had to.

Corsis always lurks on the periphery.  And the Burnhelt’s need every advantage they can get to fight him.  It will not be easy, but Ed has spent his life girding himself for the trials to come.

He does what is hard.