Anton Slavik
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| Anton Slavik | |
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| Rank: | General, leader of the Black Hand |
| Role: | Commander, Leader of the Black Hand, former Serbian paramilitary commander |
| Appears in: | Serbian paramilitary operations Second Tiberium War Firestorm Crisis post-Firestorm Crisis (Assassinated) |
| Faction: | Brotherhood of Nod |
Anton Slavik was a high-ranking Nod Commander and General before, during, and after the Second Tiberium War. He was a very resolute and ruthless man, completely devoted to Nod's cause. His command aptitude was only second to his loyalty to Kane. Slavik was Kane's heir to the Brotherhood but due to his death was unable to carry out his role for long. Slavik hailed from Serbia.
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[edit] History
Before officially becoming a Nod battle commander Anton Slavik was a young and gifted leader of a Serbian paramilitary group, earning his nickname, the "Serbian Wolf" due to his sheer ruthlessness. Eventually, he would rise to become one of the most powerful and influential figures of the secret society, and especially during the Second Tiberium War's aftermath. His abilities made him rise up quickly through the ranks of the Brotherhood, to eventually become the leader of the inner circle of Nod's most elite military force -- the Black Hand.
It was recently revealed that Slavik had been a member of the Brotherhood of Nod since childhood; his participation in Serbian paramilitary actions was likely a cover for his duties as a prelate of the Black Hand.
[edit] Ascension
Prior to Kane's reappearance in 2030, Anton Slavik was captured and arrested by members of the guard of Nod's general Hassan, who was actually a puppet leader of the Global Defense Initiative, and was sentenced to public execution by lethal injection (with a "100% toxin and no sedative" mixture) by Hassan under the direction of GDI's general James Solomon, who recognized the inherent dangers Anton Slavik represented. Before the execution could be finalized however, Slavik was liberated by a group of Black Hand Kane loyalists led by Slavik's second-in-command; a woman known as Oxanna Kristos. After being transported to their mobile and subterranean base of operations, the "Montauk", Slavik swiftly resumed command by killing the man who had betrayed him to Hassan, in front of Oxanna and other Nod soldiers.
[edit] Second Tiberium War
Out of the reach of GDI's covert grip on the remnants of the many Nod splinter groups, Slavik began to work towards reuniting the Brotherhood under his own command. It was his belief that this would further Kane's legacy. This included capturing a major TV station dedicated to the Brotherhood's followers worldwide for purposes of propaganda, and freeing a rebel commander who was fighting against Hassan's forces as well. These efforts came to fruition when he would invade the base of operations of the traitorous general, eventually capturing him. During a ceremony celebrating the Brotherhood's reunification on worldwide television, Hassan was to be executed, but as hails to Kane were made, Kane himself reappeared, finally uniting the split Brotherhood for the first time since the end of the First Tiberium War. As one of the few generals to remain truly loyal to the Brotherhood's cause throughout the long period of Kane's absence, Slavik was made Kane's right hand man and Nod's leading general throughout the Second Tiberium War despite his relatively young age. His value was one of the reasons Kane forgave him for being captured by GDI commander Michael McNeil.
[edit] Firestorm Crisis
After Kane's second "demise" at the hands of the GDI commander Michael McNeil in December 2030, Slavik, as a member of the Inner Circle, tried to convince the remaining Nod generals to continue to follow the line set by Kane: One Vision, One Purpose. His plans were met with hostility however as these other generals, under the lead of a man called Marzaq, quickly proved to have no intentions to follow, instead attempting to secure a powerbase within the Brotherhood for themselves. Slavik then ordered one of his commanders to retrieve the three fragments of CABAL's system core which was disassembled and deactivated by GDI at the end of the second war, seeing the reactivation of the AI as a way to forcefully unite the again split Brotherhood.
However, this move would soon prove to be nearly fatal as the AI went rogue without warning and assassinated the remainder of Nod's generals, leaving only Slavik alive and inadvertently making him the single (and only) most powerful leader within the Brotherhood and the heir to Kane's legacy. Eventually, after being forced into an unholy alliance with the GDI in order to overcome the ever growing threat of CABAL, the AI was defeated and Slavik was left as the sole ruler of the Brotherhood until Kane's eventual return.
[edit] Post-Firestorm
According to recent intel reports, Slavik's rule of the Brotherhood was short-lived following the Firestorm Crisis. Internal tensions rose as Slavik became more and more unpopular.
The Black Hand disliked their leader becoming the new heir of Nod as it brought unwanted attention to their once secret organisation. Slavik's intention to merge the Black Hand with the core of Nod gained opposition within the organization. Details remain sketchy, but it appears that eventually, Slavik was assassinated and succeeded by Marcion, who reshaped the organisation into the New Black Hand as a fanatically loyal zealot order within the Brotherhood.[1]
Despite his death, Slavik's legacy lived on.
[edit] Trivia
Before details of his death surfaced, many speculated an Inner Circle advisor was Slavik.
 | Prominent members of the Brotherhood of Nod | |
| 1995-2002 | Kane, Seth, Gideon Raveshaw, Carlos Mendoza, Sakura Obata, Elena Petrova, Greg Burdette |
| In 2030 | Anton Slavik, Oxanna Kristos, General Vega, General Hassan |
| In 2046 | General Kilian Qatar, Agent Ajay, the "Legendary Insurgent" |
