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"Time is our endless shoal....

the void is our dark heart."

Dark Elder Tsa'ath


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Description

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The Deathrisen are a race of monsters that once lived and died as one of the mortal races but were retched away from the clutches of death to exist as an entirely new and dreadful creature. These beings exist through the use and manipulation of powerful negative energies. Every "Risen" are a unique creature with their own interests, ambitions views and take on their place on the physical plane and their goals within the expanding multiverse.

Once they are risen they go through an intense process of change. Each of the three stages of this transformation bring about extreme adaptions to their physical state as well as permanent derangement of their souls. Their once living essences that they had while living are slowly bound and forever corrupted by powers far beyond the effects of the gods they knew in life or indeed the underworld itself.

They become evolved Undead beings that after receiving their Dark gift continue to evolve as they grasp at masters of the powers that their Dark gift connects them to. They are the progenies of the Undead God Hod and seek through their unholy efforts an assured place among those who have gained corporal immortality and a place within the deep void with the God of Undeath.

The Deathrisen are monsters that have been separated from the living world but through a connection to the darkest known magicks from the deep void have been unnaturally risen up. are the progenies of Hod and the extensions of Hod's will. Death is our permanent state of being while the living is seen by our kind as a lesser form of existence. Life itself and the living are often thought of as something to siphon from or consume.

Undead come in many forms and are the unliving horrors and abominations of most mortal races. Only the living descendants of the first mortals that mastered the energies within the negative plane to hold the key to the processes that allow for the dead to be risen. The first of these were ancient forms of the Hobben race called The Dark Elders and although there are few remaining strains that still exist, they are powerful and channeled from the void itself. This key to undeath is known as The Dark Gift and those who are the carriers of this dark magick through connections with the legacy of the Dark Elders remain hidden and silent. But not for very much longer. For soon, it is said to be the age of the next great awakening. The recurrence of the tendrils of the void sweeping across the Material Plane and a revival of the most vile kind.


Stages of Undead Ascension

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Rotrend "Ghoul"-

When a soul is turned into shadow and the body is risen again the creature is held fast into a rending and horrible rot. It is a slow and languid existence which is usually horrific for those newly risen. Flesh begins to foul and if exposed to effluent environs it will begin to fall off the ghoul's animated bones. The stage of Rotrending creature will have lost many of the senses that it knew in life. It can no longer taste or smell as they once did. Those senses are dulled deranged seeking out the essences that the living emit. They never again seek out food or drink, unless it gets them closer to an unwary victim. The sense of touch is largely diminished as the organic systems of the body wither and decay. Hearing remains unchanged although the sounds they hear and not taken in anymore by their ears. Nor do they need their putrefying eyes to see. But, during the darkest nights the faintest evil light will begin to pulse behind the remains of those empty orbs as the shadow within them gathers and writhes inside itself.

The newly risen is a horror unto even themselves. Tormented and lost unless guided by the one who raised them up. The Rotrend is torn apart from within with memories of a life just lived but without the living consciousness to tame the evil filling up where once there was life and the understanding of the coils of mortality. They are slowly rended from their former existences. And it leaves them inside a mindless and horrible deviation of will. Some that knew them in life will mistake this as grief. But it would be at their extreme peril to try to help their lost departed. For they are no more akin to the ghoul now than a priest is akin to a prowler.



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Deathfeind "Ghast"

Evolution for the undead is not the same process as it is inside living cycles. The stages beyond the horrific Rotrending are divergent casts of the same race if one wishes to see it such ways. Becoming a Ghast happens after the Ghoul has found and consumed adequate sources of life energies. Devouring the bodies that they either kill or otherwise have access to are the most common on these. When the change happens the new Feind starts to be more directly linked to the deep void and ultimately to the deity Hod. The more successful the Ghast becomes at finding sources of life to siphon the stronger the Ghast's insatiable corrupted hunger gets and the stronger their connection to the source of void energies. This link is for the darkest divinations and it is known (although it is a simple term) as the "Shadow-Chains" or "Chains of Shadow". This is the link of the darkest and most evil of evolutionary paths.

The shadows within the Ghast begin to form its own corrupted core and twisting gravities. Their form develops new affects during its evolution as a Ghast. The process of their rotting slows and only continues at an almost imperceptibly slow rate.Their skin usually starts to turn deep and lacquered tones of greys. The skin hardens upon their flesh which first rigours, dries and petrifies into lengths of unnatural and twisted chords of tissues across the body. The crawling creatures and larvae that once fed upon their flesh fall away from the changing body and rarely return since there is little left that could be used to sustain them on the well evolved Ghast.

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The Deathfeind starts to gain evolved undead senses that it begins to see the world anew. The dim light within the sockets of the eyes start to become more defined and darkly brighter. Memories of their former life are almost totally lost by the Ghast. Only nightmare images of what they were before being retched away form the tenuous cycles of living realms. Cycles that the Ghasts now find irrevocably fixated on. Constantly hungering to destroy and consume them.

As a Ghoul within the state of Rotrending, their mind was a tourtured blend of blatant and mindless thrashing. But the evolving Ghast finds that their thoughts begin to take on a form of reason. The once mindless obsessions begin turning into a more semblant ration of focus. Minds that begin taking on a more adapted and lurid cognisance. When enough time passes, and they find more to consume and as they begin to become more evolved they begin to hear the whisper from beyond their protracted suffering. It is not heard well enough to be any use to them yet, but the time will come when the voice will bring them closer to the source. Closer to the beginning of every horrible ending.



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Reaver "Revenant"-

Revenants are Undead that have survived and have found their own way to settle into the experience of undeath. With the abilities they learned during life they can now start to improve upon during undeath. The last of the basal changes (called ascendancies) that the undead will go through culminate within a process called "The Reaving". In many ways, it is the true beginning for the creature as it is the awakening of undead self awareness and is only granted to those who were able to make it through the first two stages of Ghoul and Ghast and have learned to thrive inside their new horrific reality. And, for their ability to survive and for their service to the void they gain the first formal gift from Hod. The shade within them now is now deeply bound by the chains of shadow and are restored with a new un-living sentience. This state can be considered in some regards as the emergence of undead consciousness.

The Reaver doesn't just regain the abilities of speech and other social abilities that they knew while alive. But, it is that new languages and abilities can be learned to assist the dark aspirations of the Reaver. Their former lives are again remembered, but it is with an imperfect and cruel recounting. These memories are now a distorted and often emotionally charged versions of what actually transpired while they lived. It is often the conquest of those that gain this Undead reasoning and memory that they would make it a personal quest to right perceived wrongs that may or may not have happened to them. It is common that the Revenant would find an constant obsession to exact extreme revenges on upon individuals related to their hazy pasts. Total eradication of entire families to settle scores that they may imagine or are true are sometime the first real and feverish endeavors for newly realised Revenants.

The many changes gone about the creature as it finds victims and sources to consume will find the reaver a new and horribly unrecognisable being. A being that until now had only rudimentary abilities to speak or complete complicated tasks. But with their newly established and coldly settled undead consciousness, the possibilities for more complex and interrelated connections to the world at large become possible. The realisations of logic and calculative reasoning within the cults and cultures for the Undead are made possible. As they develop this new consciousness and as they become aware of their link to Hod, they can again pursue new knowledges and talents. To again lurk among the hidden centres of undead learning. To actively seek to interpret the Three triangles of connection to Dark energies of the void. To make best use of the possibilities and promises of immortality.

For all undead creatures, becoming Revnant is the end of a protracted painful process that sees them nearly fully realised again but within a new identity. But it also marks the beginning. For it is the first form of the higher ranking echelons of undead societies. For although they do not live in the open, groups of undead have been known to inhabit spaces together. And history shows the the existence of the great halls of Chind and the sprawling underground lairs known as the Koptyc Crypts under the black sands of the Skeleton Dunes are proof that undead cities once existed. These were the centres of dark power while they stood. found their own collaborative efforts during those ancient times. They were the pinicles of collective Undead power. And there are numerous hidden caches of these old societies hidden under layers of ages and dust. But ages change. And Hod stirs.

But still there is the spectre of a slow decay that haunts them. Although their flesh has become almost entirely resistant to degradations that daed material goes through they are not totally immune from times slow deterioration of their physical bodies. And when their bodies are slowly worn away from them the magicks that sustain their efforts of movement and whatever else the physical body provides them. Because of this they begin to pursue the arts that will keep their slow disintegrations at bay. What will be required to cease this process will be through the void and increase their connection to the shadow chains leading to it. The whispers that were heard but still not understood when they were Ghast are now more frequent and clear. It is the sound caused by those that have studied the dark arts of Hod. And it is delivered to them by a very real and evil thrumming bug that is often harboured within their very skulls. It is the decision of the Revenant to either stay dormant or accept their slow decay or for those ambitious to follow the dead reckoning of the whisper and find their place among the new throng of undead masses about to rise. To be lead into the higher forms of unliving. To be found within the newly forming and second Undead Army. To fight in the war that will see the realisation of the new Age of Undeath which looms just ahead of us.


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Deathrisen-


Corporeal Subclasses

Rotrend (Ghoul) Subclasses

Skeleton

Zombie

Flesh Golem

Corpser

Deathfeind (Ghast) Subclasses

Drugar

Wight

Morrikynn

Kordregg


Incorporeal Subclasses

Ghost

Wraith

Clothshade

Spectre

Lure'aag


Titles

Deathknight -

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Lich-


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History

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When the Dark Elders were violently sent into the nine directions during the destruction of the ancient Temple Thuul, each took three manifestations of the void from their tombs within the walls of the Temple with them.

The first of these manifestations were their connection to the negative planes and the whispered voice of Hod, God of the Undead in their ears. For they had forsaken the first deity and had given themselves to the domains of eternal existences and to the void and to the endless hunger growing within them.

The second manifestation that escaped with them into the far and shadowed reaches was the secrets contained in their dark arts. For they were the first to write what would become known as the Abhorrent Wisdoms and the first to make tradition from these great hidden works.

The third and last manifestation that all of the Dark Elders held was the Ochreom'necrom. A single drop was the inheritance of each of them and it was as alive within them as much as they were dead they had long left within the living worlds. This material is the heavy heart of darkness itself. Each Dark Elder holds a single drop of the ochre in their wicked hearts. And that drop is the deepest and most vile of oceans within them. Their hearts are filled with those vilest oceans and it aches with terrors yet undone even as they wither and continue rotting away.

And they were the mortals to call forth the first energies ever to be pulled out of the Deep Void. These Necrom magicks remained hidden within the Dark Elders as they traveled the planet in the nine seperate directions. Each of them searching for a unique source among the various living and elemental regions of the world. There they would dig beneath the surface to feed on the life forces above them. And it was there for many centuries that they would wait and gather their strength.

It was when the Void within them found its ill repose that the greater void called out for them. And it was those of us that answered that call that would become the creatures known first as "Dthoum'mekkah" and through the many centuries since that time there have been many name given to us. The most recent of these being Deathrisen.




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