Annoski

Annoski was an Obscura wizard and the main villain of the Infinity Keystone Arc.

History

Early Life

Annoski was born 1,000 years ago to an unknown Obscura sensitive. During this time a purge of Obscurics was taking place, with the Obscurics being forced to Sinnoh after most were driven off the rest of Pokepan via getting exterminated. During a battle on the site of what would one day be known as Jubilife, Annoski's mother and her partner Houndoom were overwhelmed and killed, but not before leaving a pile of bodies on top of them. Alphonse and two other Aura Guardians managed to rescue Annoski from being killed by a Pokepanese general, the child getting his name from a necklace found on his person.

Aura Guardian training

Annoski was then raised an an Aura Guardian under Alphonse, gaining a Pokémon partner in the form of a Spiritomb and living with his fellow human apprentices Sarah and Alois, who had partners in the form of a Lucario and Ninetales, respectively. Though the Aura Guardians treated him well, Annoski was often feared and hated by others for his powers. At the age of 12, the trio and their master worked together to stop a rampaging Tauros in a small Sinn village, only for some villagers to remark that in their eyes Annoski was little more than a freak.

A few hours later during a discussion on the keystone and its attendant staff in the Aura Guardian's possession Annoski discussed possibly using its powers for good, only to be sternly reprimanded by Alphonse regarding its dangers.

Turn to Darkness

Over the years Annoski became more and more obsessed with proving his worth to the people of Sinnoh, leading to him studying scrolls in order to discover secret arts. At the age of 17 Alois found and confronted Annoski about it, only for his Spritomb to pin him to the wall with Shadow Sneak. Upon heading over to get the Keystone he was confronted by Sarah and her Lucario, but ended up getting the upper hand in their confrontation until Alois' Ninetales showed up to distract him after freeing the Aura Guardian.

However, even this wasn't enough to defy Annoski, and Alphonse was forced to step in after he was about to kill them all with a Dark Pulse. During their fight, however, Annoski managed to shoot Alphonse in the face with a Shadow Ball, scarring him permanently. This act managed to temporarily get Annoski back to sanity, but his friends weren't having it, with Sarah just yelling at him to go away and take the Keystone with him.

Annoski did so, and created an army of the spurned to augment his own Spiritomb Army made up of disaffected Obscura users, People of the Vale, and others. Alphonse and his apprentices fought against Annoski's forces, near the end causing him to hole up inside The Cathedral. After a titanic battle, Alphonse marked Annoski with Aura before using a powerful technique to destroy his physical body, before sealing him inside the Keystone. The trio then buried him underground, where he would stay for 1,000 years.

Release

About a year before being released, Annoski's Keystone was discovered by Tagg and DS in the Sinnoh Underground, the former getting a weird feeling about the Keystone but taking it anyway. During the events of the AU Arc, OI Arc, and Hoenn-2 Arc Annoski fed off of Tagg's despair, and ended up being released when Tagg took the Keystone to the ruins that used to be the monastery used his group of Aura Guardians. After using some Spiritomb minions to distract Tagg's mons, he engaged him in combat, revealing himself to be a Soul of Silver as well. After toying with Tagg with a while, which got rewarded with a slash that severely injured him, Annoski telelported behind Tagg in a rage and shot him in the back with a Dark Pulse. He was prevented from finishing off Tagg due to his mons managing to get him away in the nick of time.

Due to his injury Annoski opted out of fighting the J-Team directly for most of the arc, instead using his Spiritomb minions and in one case the Family of Blood of Sinnoh to combat the J-Team, as well as Pentigan under the moniker of Hex, though the latter would untimately end up betraying him.

Trivia

• Annoski is the Ainu word for "midnight".