Dealthagar
From Atlantic Roleplay Wiki
| |
| Dealthagar | |
| Player: Dealthagar | |
| Place of Birth: | Moonglow |
|---|---|
| Class: | Technomancer/Necromancer |
| Guild: | Order of the Ebon Skull |
| Personal Data | |
| Aliases: | None |
| Race: | Human (Vampiric, Entropic Imbument) |
| Age: | Varies by account |
| Height: | 6'3 |
| Weight: | 185 |
| Eye Color: | Voids, Naturally Violet Blue |
| Hair Color: | Unnaturaly Red |
| Biographical Data | |
| Residence: | Umbra |
| Former Guilds: | Not Specified |
| Marital Status: | Widowed |
| Relatives: | Zilthai Locke, Son (deceased), Anna, Wife (deceased/missing) |
| Accolades | |
| Magus of Flesh, High Necromancer of the Ebon Skull, Herald of Oblivion, Oracle of Control, Member of the Dark Triumvarate (Dealthagar, Anna, Unity), Technocrat Primus of Sosaria | |
| Abilities | |
| Entropic Archmagi, Seer, Vicissitude and other Vampiric Abilities, Technomancer, Plainswalking, Omnilingualist, Tantric Magic | |
| Unique Equipment | |
| None | |
| No additional information available. | |
Contents |
Appearance
He has sharp angular features and deep set eyes. Typically, his eyesockes are empty, with shadowy vortexes in the sockets where the eyes would be. When he does have eyes, they are usually a deep blue/violet color. He appears to be middle aged, with age lines and crows feet, but his skin is remarkably scar and blemish free. His hands are broad and well toned, but his fingers are quite long and thin, like a pianist's hands. His nails are highly manicured, rounded and polished.
His clothing varies, preferring shades of red similar to blood, shadow greys and black. When in the Dark/Divine Awakening, he nearly always wore a regal purple with gold.
He has taken lately to eaither wearing form fitting leather catsuits, or just a simple wrap around the waist. Robes go in and out of favor with him on seeming whims.
It is not uncommon for him to wear a leather mask that lacks eyehole, and it was a symbol of his station as the Herald of Oblivion.
History
Pre-Sosarian Origins
The Scholomance holds a tome that tells of the Herald of Oblivion's origin, that mark his birth as an event from another world, four thousand years earlier. His early days with the Order of the Ebon Skull would suggest otherwise. Few have pressed him for a more complete answer.
Joining the Order of the Ebon Skull
Whatever his Origin, the living mage Dealthagar made his way to Caina where he pledged his allegance to Oblivion, the Ebon Skull and the Lich Lord Azalin. Azalin looked into the young mage's soul and declared that he was bound for greatness in the Order, and big Mesostopholes to take care initiating him.
When the first choice for master was found wanting, Mesostopholes took the Necromancer as his personal charge and becan his shaping in earnest. Under the elder Necromancer's tutelage, Dealthagar's natural talents for the manipulation and harvesting of flesh became apparent. In less than half the time of any before him, Dealthagar rose to the rank of Magus. Dealthagar's sojurns to the lands of the lightbringers, often with one or two aprrentices in tow to study the lightbringers, became a habit he maintained, even as High Necromancer.
Under his watchful eye, the Necromancers of the Ebon Skull went from a few disjointed twisted scholars, to a band of the most feared magi on the planet. Names that still draw fear, like Rune Artisem, Xavori, Alucard, Pandora the Fallen and Dryzzid, came to prominance under his tutelage and focus. The Paths of Necromancy, a sytem of schools and degrees that became the hallmark for advanced practitioners of the Dark Arts were crafted and cultured during his reign.
For his service, Azalin and Bal-Anon Dak sacrificed Dealthagar's eyes to the Maw of Oblivion, creating a direct link from the bowels of the Abyss to Dealthagar's soul. Embued with the Vision of the Damned and the Eyes of Oblivion, Dealthagar became the Herald of Oblivion, the Voice of the Void, a prophet of the Grand Convergance. He acted as Azalin's personal advisor, often acting as the dissenting voice in Council meetings.
The Rise of Technomancy and the Dark Awakening
Years of dominance bred complacancy. Without a challenge, Dealthagar grew restless. Acting as Azalin's voice to Shadow Conclave meetings, Dealthagar met and struck up an unlikely romance with Anna, warlord of the Cult of Infernal Necromancy.
Yew had been a thorn to both organizations, yet other than the Stormreaver's dominance of the Felucca facet, no action had been taken against them. Both saw it as an insult to thier own power.
As Dealthagar began to study the newly discovered art of Technomancy, Anna came to him with a plan. She had seduced an old lord of the land, and he had turned his castle over to her care. She would gather an army, and take the city. All she needed was a leader of men. A face, a voice, a being of purpose and conviction.
Dealthagar's studies of Technomancy and the Gargish virtues had been leading the Herald to a different path than the Anti-Virtues the Church of Oblivion preached. Dealthagar and the rest of the council had several lengthy arguments and debates, that lead to Dealthagar being threatened with discorporation as a traitor to the Skull. When Technomancy was banned in Caina, Dealthagar threw down his red robes and left the land of ice, seemingly to never return.
Arriving in Yew, Anna and unity presented him, n robes of gold and purple to the forces they amassed. Christening the troops as "The Dark Awakening", the cheer of men, and the drums of war beat in his ears. A culture of violence was about to be born.
The Second Yew Wars
Dealthagar, Anna and Unity, as the Dark Triumvarate whipped thier army into a frenzy. Destiny was something you took by the throat and made your own. The Gods were false, the Britannian Virtues and Anti-Virtues were hollow. The Path of Singularity was the path of true enlightenment, and its followers could do anything.
Within weeks, Awakening outoposts and advances surrounded the city of Yew, conquering most of the northwestern corner of the continent. Technomantic forges worked day and night, crafting profane and horrific weapons of war. Immense vats of stragne chemicals grew drone soldiers to fill the ranks. Survival of the fittest was the rule. Weakness and laziness was not tolerated, the unfit torn to bits and fed to troups in grand feasts of vile debauchery.
Once the Awakening marched on Yew, the battle was never in question. Most Yew soldiers died still readying thier weapons, unready for the fervor and ferocity of thier foes. Even the interferance of the Regency and several bands of knights, soldiers and allies to the Yewish government did little. Within months, there was no more challenge to the Awakening's rule - it was absolute.
The Fall of the Awakening and the Ascention
Internal treachery and the machinations of small minded officers lead to conflicts within the Awakening. In the end, Anna dissapeared, turning away from Dealthagar. in his dispair, Dealthagar left the Awakening to Unity, a man he called brother, and returned to his secret estate on the outskirts of Caina.
Dealthagar tried several times, to move on withhis life, recapture his existance before the Awakening, or find solace, but nothing filled the hollow in him. Repeated betrayals and hollow promises caused him to fall into a great dispair. A brief allaince and dalliance witht he queen of the elves bore him a son and a reborn human form, but it could not mend the cracks in his spirit.
Returning to the Shrine of Singularity, Dealthagar called upon all the magics and faith he had ever commanded, and willed himself to the universe, flinging his consciousness far from Sosaria.
The Return
After decades away, Dealthagar returned to Sosaria. His mind fractured, the realm changed, he found himself drawn to people and places he could not name, but knew. Faces from his mind's eye haunted him, his world and the memories of his lost time nothing mroe than shadows and myth.
His memories still imperfect, he rejoined the small band of necromancers left in Umbra, drawn by the natural entropy of the land. During the ceremony activating an entropic artifact of great power, the Maw of Oblivion re-established it's connection to his souls, rotting out his eyes and returning the Vision of the Damned to him, yet leaving his form mortal.
The Herald of oblivion walks the realm once again. The will of the current Lich Lord of the Ebon skull, has renamed him to his position as the High Necromancer. Given free licence to practice his chosen art, Dealthagar has begun blending the best and worst aspects of Necromancy and Technomancy, much to the horror of any who would seek to oppose him.
His existance, his story in ongoing. The next chapter is only an experiment away,
Other Information(In Progress)
- Third being to hold the station of High Necromancer of the Ebon Skull (after Pazuzu and Mesostopholes)
- Apprenticed in the Ebon Skull to Mesostopholes personally
- Rebuilt the Necromancers of the Skull from a few hidden individuals, to a prominant force of dozens of feared Magi.
- Created the Necromantic Paths
- Conquered Yew (Trammel Facet) handily as the Lord of the Dark Awakening and held it for several years.
- Served the Regency as Grand Marshall, Sherrif and High Justicar.
- Holds the station of Technocrat Primus of Sosaria; considered to be the foremost Technomancer in the realm.
- Holds a cure for Vampirism, and has cured at least two.
Fiction
2009
September
Turning of The Gear - Part 1: The Waking World - Dealthagar returns to Sosaria, but missing parts of the whole.
Turning of The Gear - Part 2: The Dreams of the Dead - The dreams of a man long dead lead the amnesiac ancient to his past, and his destiny.
Turning of The Gear - Part 3: The Broken Tooth - In the end, Oblivion devours all.