Zeratul

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Zeratul is prelate of the Dark Templar, a renowned psionic warrior and assassin whose forbears were exiled from the protoss homeworld of Aiur over a thousand years ago. Zeratul holds the rank of prelate and is probably best known for his role in both ensuring the survival of the Protoss, and helping unite the Khala-Protoss and Dark Templar Protoss, by befriending the executor Tassadar.

[edit] Role in the original StarCraft

As one of the Dark Templar, Zeratul like his people, sought every way possible to aid their Protoss brethren on the home planet, Aiur, in any they could, usually behind the scenes. Despite being banished from Aiur for refusing to submit to the Khala, a pervasive communal link, the Dark Templar have always felt a strong sense of loyalty towards their original home. Zeratul had a pivotal, yet ironic role in trying to protect Aiur; although being the first one to permanently kill a Zerg Cerebrate, (preventing it's reincarnation by the Overmind), by doing so, he unfortunately gave away the location of the Protoss homeworld Aiur, which led to its invasion by the Zerg.

Zeratul also was one of the first Dark Templar to ever befriend a Khalai Templar when he met Executor Tassadar on Char. Though this proved to be the first step in healing the rift between the Khalai Protoss and the Dark Templar, when Zeratul travelled with Tassadar back to Aiur, they both had to confront the Protoss Conclave & Judicator Aldaris who regarded Tassadar as a traitor and heretic for consorting with the Dark Templar. Tassadar was imprisoned by the Conclave, he gave himself up wanting to avoid Protoss-on-Protoss fighting. However, knowing that Tassadar's help is required in fighting the Overmind Zeratul helps Jim Raynor, Fenix and the current Protoss executor (i.e. the player) to free Tassadar in a momentary bout of civil war on Aiur.

"You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."

Zeratul went on to fight alongside Tassadar, slaughtering two more Zerg Cerebrates to open a path through the Overmind's defenses. This forced the Conclave to a sudden and immediate about-face regarding their strategies in fighting the Zerg, as their efforts were constantly undermined as Cerebrates were continuously being reincarnated. It also vindicated Tassadar efforts to bring the Dark Templar back to Aiur and helped to finally reconcile the Dark & Khalai Templar. The final battle against the Overmind saw both fighting alongside each other in defense of Aiur against the Zerg for the first time.

[edit] The Brood War and beyond

After Tassadar destroyed the Overmind, Zeratul then helped evacuate the remaining Protoss on Aiur to the secret Dark Templar homeworld of Shakuras. When the Swarm followed the refugees back, Zeratul helped recover the Khalis and Uraj crystals, which allowed the protoss to activate the Xel'naga temple there and wipe out the invaders. Later, when the dark archon Ulrezaj threatened to destroy the Aiur protoss "violating" Shakuras, Zeratul was instrumental in thwarting Ulrezaj's schemes.

But Zeratul also carries many terrible burdens. In the act of slaying the cerebrate Zasz, Zeratul became temporarily linked with the Overmind. Although he came to know much of the Overmind's hitherto unknown motivations and plans, it won from him the location of Aiur itself, and so the seeds of the planet's devastation were sown. Furthermore, Zeratul has a long and bitter history with the Queen of Blades, having been manipulated and betrayed by her more than once as she destroyed the remaining zerg cerebrates in order to secure her control over the Swarm after the Overmind's death.

As part of her schemes, the Queen of Blades took control of the beloved protoss matriarch Raszagal. Zeratul later rescued the matriarch, but he found her to be irrevocably corrupted. Sorrowfully he took the matriarch's life to spare her from continuing as the plaything of the Queen of Blades. With her mind freed by the deathblow, Raszagal thanked him and named him as leader of the dark templar. Such an honor Zeratul felt unfit to take, his soul too scarred by his experiences.

For the moment he focused on a more immediate concern: contacting any other nearby protoss who had survived the Queen of Blades' treachery. Tracking protoss power signatures to an obscure moon, he hoped to reunite with his comrades and return to Shakuras with them in order to plan for the future. Instead of comrades, however, he found a former agent of the Queen of Blades -- the enigmatic Samir Duran -- engaged in breeding protoss/zerg hybrid creatures. Although Zeratul destroyed the facility, Duran claimed that it was merely one of many. Duran also revealed that he had been known by many names over the millennia and that he was not serving the Queen of Blades, but rather a "far greater power". Deeply troubled by what he had seen, Zeratul went into self-imposed exile with only a handful of followers at his side. He continued to seek answers for what manner of being Duran truly was, and what dark future he was working toward.

StarCraft Characters [e]
Chars · Main chars · Main char category · Characters
Protoss Characters:	Tassadar | Zeratul | Artanis | Selendis | Raszagal | Zamara | Ulrezaj
Terran Characters:	Arcturus Mengsk | Jim Raynor | Nova | Sarah Kerrigan | Tychus Findlay | Alexei Stukov | Gerard DuGalle | Jake Ramsey | Valerian Mengsk | Edmund Duke | Rosemary Dahl
Zerg Characters:	Infested Kerrigan | Daggoth | Zasz | Infested Stukov | Overmind | Ethan Stewart
Other Characters:	Samir Duran

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