Hod

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−	==the Birth of Hod==	+	'''God of Undeath'''
−	According to legend long before the time of man, in the darker reaches of space a great darkness appeared and threatened to consume all in it's path. The Gods arrived and pursued the darkness. After a fierce battle, the the Gods believed they had succeed in destroying the darkness. However, one fragment survived and drifts away into the cosmos. Over the course of a millenia the fragment slowly began to to regain it's stregnth, now fueled by hatred, vengence and now hunger.	+
−	Many years passed and the darkness slowly began traversing the cosmos absorbing and devouring every living thing in it's path, until one day it came across a small blue planet teeming with life. In an act of gluttony it crash landed onto the planet, killing nearly every lifeform on the planet in the impact. However dispite this, it could feel the tiny movements of life within the planet's oceans, it knew that this would be an excellent source of food for the time being. It planted itself deeper into the earths crust and it's darkness began slowly consuming the surrounding area.
−	Thousands upon thousands of years passed, and the planet's surface was once again filled with life. the darkness that had once been a small fragmant embedded in the earths crust had now become a large lake of darness. Although the planet had given it much sustainence ove the years, it still hungered for more.	+	== The Void ==
−	==The age of Man==
−	In a nearby village there were two brothers who had found a larg gemstone upon travelling in the woods. This had caused much conflict within the hearts of these brothers, as both wanted to keep it for themselves. Such a conflict had yet to be seen in their village before, for jealousy and greed were new to this world. unfortunately this conflict would bring about the begining of the end. One night when the two brothers were gathering food in the woods as they did every night, one of the brothers came across the large lake.
−	Mesmerized by the moon's glimmer over the dark lake, the boy heard something calling to him. A chill ran over the boy's spine as he knew there was no one around but himself and the lake. In fear he called out for his brother, who came running towards him in the distance. When his brother arrived he too became mezmerized by the dark pool. their silence was broken when the gemstone fell out of one of the brother's pockets. they immidately began to argue, more furious and more greedily than they ever had. this went on for what semed like hours until finally, one of the brothers took the gemstone, and the first and final blow was struck. the brother who'd been hit by the rock fell into the Lake and immidately sank. The survivng brother who'd only just realized what he'd done fell to his knees and begged for the return of his kin.	+	[[File:Void_edited.jpg]]
−	The entire earth beneath him began to quake, and from the cosmic darkness and the blood of man's sin Hod was born. Hod looked at the boy and laughed joyously, thanking him for feeding and awakening him. The boy begged Hod to return his brother to him, Hod laughed and immidiately began carving a sigil onto the boys head. Hod taught the boy a spell that would bring his brother back from the dead. The boy cast the spell, and his brother crawled out of the darkness itself decayed and deformed. Confused and frightened the boy walked closer to his brother, whom immidiately stepped forward and bit his neck. the boy screamed in agony and he was devoured by the ravenous corpes of his own brother. The boy's screams and the feasting of his flesh pleased and empowered Hod, whom laughed in amusement at their pain and suffering. Not long after dying, the once mournful brother would himself arise as yet another member of the living dead. These two mindless creatures would soon wander home to their own village, where they would begin the first undead infestaion.
−	==the Great Wars==	+	''"Hod is the void."''
−	Hod returned to the cosmos, having permanently scarred the Earth with the evil it had brought in ages long past. Hod believed it had sewn the seeds of the earths eventual destruction, having left fragments of it's evil behing on earth in hopes of eventually devouring it. Hod would eventually  come to use the lifeforms of Earth as servants to his will, creating Liches, Death Knights and Wights. In time some of these Liche's would become powerful enough to ascend to near god-hood, creating the first and last Demi-Liches. One such Demi-lich Ackyrak'kel-ashetakesh, had rallied the entire undead force in a fullscale assault against all living creatures on earth. This rising undead scourge would call many of earth's races to fight in a great war for the fate of the planet lasting for centuries. After many years of battle Hod would loose the war for the planet and would eventually come to betray the Undead. In a last ditch effort to devour the planet, Hod returned to the earth and begin consuming everything in his path living or undead. However Seeking salvation and vengence the remaining undead would be lead by the now idependant Demi-Liches to retaliate and devour their god.	+
		+	Opening verse of the Cruxamilon
−	'''Lost Stars:''' *translated*
−	Entry 1	+	Hod is who found, claimed and mastered the powers within the Negative Plane. Also known as the Plane of Death or The Void.
−	While testing out a new occular device on Olympus Mons, I had noticed that a nearby Solar System had suddenly burnt out. Being head scientist of my world, I decided it best to approach our cheiftain with the situation. Displeased and frightended by my discovery, the Cheiftain had asked me to investigate. As a man of science and at the request of my cheif, how could I refuse?	+	== Hod Stirs ==
−	Entry 27
−	13 star systems, completely wiped out. While all investigated solar systems have been shown to at one point be flourishing with life, it would appear all life on these system's planets has since been extinguished. Further investigations have shown that whatever destroyed these solar systems has been travelling very far for a very long time.
−	Entry 66	+	The Dthoum'yyn ([[undead]]) have been unseen in recent history and for the most part lost to time.
−	After months of attempting to track the entity killing these solar systems, further research and study has shown me that the thing destorying these planets is some form of cosmic entity that raises the planet's dead matter to consume all remaining living matter. Based on the Entitie's previous route I can only assume it will reach our Solar System within the next 100 years. Procautionary measures must be taken to ensure the existence of life thoughout the Stars, or I fear this entity will one day consume all that lives.
−	Final Entry	+	Barring the ignominious events surrounding the Mourrah'Crowl resurrections and then the subsequent hunt and cull of the beings known as "Crowler Wights", there has been very little believed Necromyn activity reported for an entire ocean of time.
−	Our efforts have failed. The entity has reached our Solar System and it's corruption has consumed nearly all life on my planet, and nearly all the surrounding planets. I am alone in my world, I think I am the last living creature on my planet. Using the same occular device that started this, I have discovered that the a nearby planet left in my Star System that still flourishes with life. It is much larger than my own planet, however the life upon it is quite young. The planet has been touched by the entity, however the planet shrimmers blue with it's ceans teeming with life, almost mocking mmy now red dusty lifeless home. I don't know how this planet has survived this entities rampage, but I wish them the best of luck.
		+	The slowest slithering glaciers have since picked up great boulders from and across the mantles face and have ground them down to dust. Hundreds of cultures of living beings have been birthed, swelled and have long since gone extinct.  Islands have risen, and babbling streams have cut entire valleys as furrows that now lie lower than the level of the great seas.
−	'''Death's Embrace:'''	+	But these happenings in that ocean of time has been but a single drop that hangs from the end of a nauseous gargoyle's tongue. We here are in that instant before the great retching. Readying ourselves as the leaning gargoyle is poised to purge.
−	Much of my life has been dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. That knowledge has protected my village well. I am blessed my people's respect, and although they call me a sage, there are many things I've yet to learn. This morning while meditating, a raven spoke to me. The creature told me of a great power that gave men the ability to conquer death. I asked the creature how to attain this power, but The Beast only laughed. He told me that this would only be given to those willing to sacrifice all for the sake of knowledge and power. I asked the creature to elaborate, But the creature only smiled. It was at this moment I felt my lung empty and the air heavy. Everything faded to darkness. There was nothing. I was nothing. In the darkness I heard the Raven's voice. It told that it would return to offer me this power once again when I returned to this realm. When I awoke the Raven was gone, but the message was clear. To conquer death in others, I must first die for myself. What does this mean? What was this Raven that spoke to me? What does it want? As leader of this village, I must find the answers.
		+	I am sure that you see the limited number of Dthoum'yyn that are still aware and among us on the mantle's crust.
−	'''Moral Error:'''	+	This fact is undoubtedly related to the loss of our loss during the Undead Wars and the deep exhumations and banishments of many bonded Followers of Hod. It is even rumored that the remains of three Undead Lords were discovered during the crusaders campaigns and that their whispers have not been heard since.
−	I have made a grave mistake. I had been studying the concepts of healing spells and death.
−	This was prompted by my youngest apprentice seeing visions of a large raven-like Creature.	+	Hod has not shown interest here and has allowed those that remain to hide, or slowly roam the dark, or to simply lie down and accept a long and rending rot.
−	He claimed this entity was telling him the secrets of ressurection.
−	After many sleepless nights he convinced me to help study these visions and attemp to decipher the entitie's messages.	+	''But''....epochs are where truths are slowly turned into the loam of the earth. And to within the earth be either forgotten or transformed. Such lengths of time can compel the weak to be restored and inviting the darkest secrets themselves to walk confidently among us without our knowing.
−	My other apprentices were more than eager to assist in this task, as most young curious minds would.
−	Convinced by my young apprentices, I constructed a massive laboratory in the basement of our tower.	+	The very gait of our own shambling feet and the squeaking grate of our graveyard's gate are themselves the sounds of an epochs end. And another dark secrets beginning. Along with those few others who have become recently ambulant. These are the third and last recognised sign that an elder's age might be resurfacing from its blighted hollowed place.
−	Unbeknownst to me, my apprentices then began collecting live subjects on which to perform dangerous experiments.
−	As soon as I found out, I gathered my apprentices and ordered them to cease their research.	+	Long crepuscular fingers are reaching out as the signs themselves. Signs that Hod stirs. And portents such as these are Hods own uncurling dark and raking immortal claws.
−	It would appear that all subjects of experimentation were ressurected, but as ravenous decaying monsters.
−	I confined these creatures within the lab below the tower, hoping that these dark secrets would never be revealed.	+	But the portents are there for those who would see them.
−	I asked my apprentices to leave me, and never return. Brokenheartedly, they did as I commanded one final time.
−	What had happened within the souls of my beloved apprentices? While pursuing the mystery mortality, could they have fallen unto the dark path?	+	'''The first portent''' is above us even now although few would ever know it exists.
		+	It is a pulse of unseen light. Pfecdema-Prime was observed as being peculiarly placed during the vernal equinox. At the apex of its stellar arch there is proof of a hidden body's ecliptic ascension.
−	The Creatures that crawl beneath the tower... I can still feel the guilt of their tortured souls shambling beneath me even as i write this.	+	''The excandescent star has again risen!''.
−	Are they the result of returning that which is dead to the world of the living? Or some unfortunate mistake of nature?
−	I was a fool for allowing this disgusting research to take place.	+	'''The second portent''' is below us even now.
		+	Through the tumults being reported among the major centers of many living populations. But it is not the shaking earth itself that is the sign but the deep cracks they have caused. Something very old is seeping up and creeps along the low and shadowed spaces under us. These are the most semblant and noticeable symptom. the earths deepest darkened bones have been broken. Their misty murk and wormy marrow rising finally up. A languid sloughed rotting pulp. A heavy spreading and sordid energy from the It of most unknowns. I have seen these things as the second sign of changing times.
−	We are not meant to play with the fabric of life and death, no matter what our reasons for doing so...	+
		+	'''And the third portent''' ..........is you.
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		+	And those recently risen like you.
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		+	The few that have been risen up against the permanence of death and away from moribundity and limiting mundane existences. Pulled up by the chains of shadow either willing or not.
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		+	Seek the void............. and be pulled out by those chains.
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		+	''Praise Hod''
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		+	[[File:Void_Magick.jpg]]
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		+	=='''The 9 Undead Realms'''==
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		+	'''Hod is the Ruler of The Void and claiming the realms of:'''
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		+	*'''1. Aabaadd''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	*'''2. The Halls of La'abydenn''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds.
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		+	*'''3. Gamnallon/The Death Gates''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	*'''4. Tenetour-ulomn''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	*'''5. [[Tieflings|The 9 thousand levels of Hexya]]''' - Commonly referred to as Hell. This plane of punishment is the home to many known demons and devils thought the many pantheons of the Material Plane and beyond. Abyssal field of study within this realm birthed the '''Ba'al 'Krynn''' strain of undeath. No further studies have been found since the passing of '''Dakar'keth'ull'kymn'hep'dthom'nyn'keth'kor''' near the end of the '''Undead War'''.
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		+	*'''6. Te'Bhogg'O'Dthoum''' - Commonly referred to as the '''Sea of the Damned'''. This place is believed to be a sort of purgatory-like realm where time seems to have no actual meaning. Ghostly ships are believed to roam these waters but wether or not they're actual ghost or mere lingering shadows of other travelers passing throughout the centuries is uncertain. The necromyc direction of Bhogg'Murr spawned from here, and any sailor said to shed blood within it's waters and be given burial at sea will be risen as one of the many '''Draugr''' that now roam the seas of the Material Plane.
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		+	*'''7. Dakar'Domyyn''' - commonly referred to as the Dark Dominion very little us known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's shadowy grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	*'''8. Csephalanx-neyth''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	*'''9. Khal'Thuul''' - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?
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		+	---------------------
		+
		+	=='''The 9 Necromyk Directions'''==
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		+	*'''1. The Excandescent Star'''- Commonly referred to as the study if '''The Astral Plane'''. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	*'''2. Huum'ann'''- Commonly referred to as the study of '''Humanity'''. This necromyc direction belongs to '''Dark Elder Maug'Aarr'Uend'''. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	*'''3. Koremantle'''- Commonly referred to as the study of the '''Underdark'''. Not much is known about this necromyc direction other than that it's where the remaining Wights fled during the final days of the Undead War. Much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	*'''4. Mnarr''' - Commonly referred to as the study if '''monsterdom'''. This necromyc direction belongs to ''' Dark Elder [[Gorgas]]'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath'''. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	*'''5. Anomyyl''' - Commonly referred to as the study of '''Abysm'''. This necromyc direction was historically documented as being synonymous with the 9000 Layers of Hexya themselves spawning the '''Ba'al 'Krynn''' strain of undeath and inevitably bringing about the Undead War. Although Abyssal magic was used to preserve the few remaining documents from these eras, the eradication of its strain caused much of it's knowledge to be lost to time. Studies are however being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	*'''6. Bhogg''' - Commonly referred to as the study of '''seas and swamps''', this strain is one of the few fully rediscovered directions of Necromyc study. While much of the origins surrounding it's birth remains a mystery even to it's most notable practicioners, the history of it's rediscovery and reinvention during '''The Age of Plagues''' is highly documented, and widely considered the start of the first major resurgence of undead in the current age
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		+	*'''7. Dakar'Dthamar''' - commonly referred to in history as the study of the '''"Dark Tower"'''. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.
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		+	*'''8. Nyth'dranor'''- commonly referred to in history as the study of '''plagues'''. This Necromyc Direction belongs to '''Dark Elder Khal'Rhun'Kannon''' and The '''Lurea'ag''' are seemingly directly tied to it. however much of it's study has been lost to time after the fall of the mighty Necromancer '''Nagash''' at the hands of the '''Skaven''' clans. Ongoing research is being done by scholars and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.
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		+	*'''9. Illith''' - Also known as the study of '''The Ethereal Planes''' commonly referred to as "The Veil" or "The Unknown". This necromyc direction belongs to '''Dark Elder Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh''' and much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age
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		+	=='''The 9 Dark Elders'''==
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		+	'''The Carriers of the Eldritch germ'''
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		+	'''1. Ga'Hadth'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:''' the First Defiler
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''2. Maug'Aarr'Uend'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:''' Humanity
		+	*'''Known as:''' "The Covent Diplomat of Temple Thull", "Usher of the West Passage" and the "Furth of the Foundary."
		+	*'''Creator of:''' the first Phylacteral Basins
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''3. Errtz'ii'Dthou'Jhetta'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''4. Gorgas'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:''' Monsterdom
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''5. Ghoul-Dthok'yyll'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of:
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''6. Eimnon'ock (Oath to the Void)'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''7. Khuur'Kresh'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	'''8. Khal'Rhun'Kannon'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:'''
		+	*'''Known as:''' "the Thresh of Lepers" and "Marshal of The Great Hobben Cloud" during the Age of Plagues.
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:''' She moves among legend upon layers of writhing pupae. She counts and accounts for every Hobben Kusst. Known as the Thresh of Lepers, Her lessons lie within; "Dark Parable of the Acolytes Hook- The Fallacy of the Absolute"
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		+	'''9. Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh"'''
		+	*'''Necromyc Direction:''' Illith
		+	*'''Known as:'''
		+	*'''Creator of:'''
		+	*'''Name Derivation:'''
		+	*'''Lore:'''
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		+	=='''The Undead Lords'''==
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		+	*Krythenn:
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		+	*Thothell:
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		+	*Marrisheth Guarhg:
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		+	*Korgg:
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		+	*Nnoth-tyrath:
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		+	== '''The Ushers of Hod''' ==
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		+	*The Death Giant Bo'urll The Blackheart:
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		+	*Albloth-x: He who Rules the 9000 Layers of Hexya
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		+	*Dredtch:
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		+	*Vhom'iyth:
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		+	---------------------
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		+	== '''Servants & Acolytes of Hod''' ==
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		+	*Khuul Ghoul Witch of the Arcane Sea:
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		+	*Gelythid the Fouling:
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		+	*Etchomadt Holder of Shadow Chains:
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		+	*Kalithor:
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		+	*Syyren the Hymn of Epheshkell:
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		+	*Rott-Rysour:
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		+	*Remeesh the Headless Hierophant:
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		+	---------------------
		+
		+	'''Other Relevant Pages and Resources:'''
		+	*[[Deathrisen]]
		+	*[[The Lost Codex]]
		+	*[[Void Trolls]]
		+	*[[Gulp Meets Death]]
		+	*[[Water Goblyns]]
		+	*[[Baulk's Betrayal]]
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		+	[[Category:Undead]]
		+	[[Category: Monster Lore]]

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God of Undeath

Contents 1 The Void 2 Hod Stirs 3 The 9 Undead Realms 4 The 9 Necromyk Directions 5 The 9 Dark Elders 6 The Undead Lords 7 The Ushers of Hod 8 Servants & Acolytes of Hod

[edit] The Void

"Hod is the void."

Opening verse of the Cruxamilon

Hod is who found, claimed and mastered the powers within the Negative Plane. Also known as the Plane of Death or The Void.

[edit] Hod Stirs

The Dthoum'yyn (undead) have been unseen in recent history and for the most part lost to time.

Barring the ignominious events surrounding the Mourrah'Crowl resurrections and then the subsequent hunt and cull of the beings known as "Crowler Wights", there has been very little believed Necromyn activity reported for an entire ocean of time.

The slowest slithering glaciers have since picked up great boulders from and across the mantles face and have ground them down to dust. Hundreds of cultures of living beings have been birthed, swelled and have long since gone extinct. Islands have risen, and babbling streams have cut entire valleys as furrows that now lie lower than the level of the great seas.

But these happenings in that ocean of time has been but a single drop that hangs from the end of a nauseous gargoyle's tongue. We here are in that instant before the great retching. Readying ourselves as the leaning gargoyle is poised to purge.

I am sure that you see the limited number of Dthoum'yyn that are still aware and among us on the mantle's crust.

This fact is undoubtedly related to the loss of our loss during the Undead Wars and the deep exhumations and banishments of many bonded Followers of Hod. It is even rumored that the remains of three Undead Lords were discovered during the crusaders campaigns and that their whispers have not been heard since.

Hod has not shown interest here and has allowed those that remain to hide, or slowly roam the dark, or to simply lie down and accept a long and rending rot.

But....epochs are where truths are slowly turned into the loam of the earth. And to within the earth be either forgotten or transformed. Such lengths of time can compel the weak to be restored and inviting the darkest secrets themselves to walk confidently among us without our knowing.

The very gait of our own shambling feet and the squeaking grate of our graveyard's gate are themselves the sounds of an epochs end. And another dark secrets beginning. Along with those few others who have become recently ambulant. These are the third and last recognised sign that an elder's age might be resurfacing from its blighted hollowed place.

Long crepuscular fingers are reaching out as the signs themselves. Signs that Hod stirs. And portents such as these are Hods own uncurling dark and raking immortal claws.

But the portents are there for those who would see them.

The first portent is above us even now although few would ever know it exists. It is a pulse of unseen light. Pfecdema-Prime was observed as being peculiarly placed during the vernal equinox. At the apex of its stellar arch there is proof of a hidden body's ecliptic ascension.

The excandescent star has again risen!.

The second portent is below us even now. Through the tumults being reported among the major centers of many living populations. But it is not the shaking earth itself that is the sign but the deep cracks they have caused. Something very old is seeping up and creeps along the low and shadowed spaces under us. These are the most semblant and noticeable symptom. the earths deepest darkened bones have been broken. Their misty murk and wormy marrow rising finally up. A languid sloughed rotting pulp. A heavy spreading and sordid energy from the It of most unknowns. I have seen these things as the second sign of changing times.

And the third portent ..........is you.

And those recently risen like you.

The few that have been risen up against the permanence of death and away from moribundity and limiting mundane existences. Pulled up by the chains of shadow either willing or not.

Seek the void............. and be pulled out by those chains.

Praise Hod

[edit] The 9 Undead Realms

Hod is the Ruler of The Void and claiming the realms of:

• 1. Aabaadd - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 2. The Halls of La'abydenn - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds.

• 3. Gamnallon/The Death Gates - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 4. Tenetour-ulomn - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 5. The 9 thousand levels of Hexya - Commonly referred to as Hell. This plane of punishment is the home to many known demons and devils thought the many pantheons of the Material Plane and beyond. Abyssal field of study within this realm birthed the Ba'al 'Krynn strain of undeath. No further studies have been found since the passing of Dakar'keth'ull'kymn'hep'dthom'nyn'keth'kor near the end of the Undead War.

• 6. Te'Bhogg'O'Dthoum - Commonly referred to as the Sea of the Damned. This place is believed to be a sort of purgatory-like realm where time seems to have no actual meaning. Ghostly ships are believed to roam these waters but wether or not they're actual ghost or mere lingering shadows of other travelers passing throughout the centuries is uncertain. The necromyc direction of Bhogg'Murr spawned from here, and any sailor said to shed blood within it's waters and be given burial at sea will be risen as one of the many Draugr that now roam the seas of the Material Plane.

• 7. Dakar'Domyyn - commonly referred to as the Dark Dominion very little us known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's shadowy grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 8. Csephalanx-neyth - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 9. Khal'Thuul - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

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[edit] The 9 Necromyk Directions

• 1. The Excandescent Star- Commonly referred to as the study if The Astral Plane. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 2. Huum'ann- Commonly referred to as the study of Humanity. This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Maug'Aarr'Uend. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 3. Koremantle- Commonly referred to as the study of the Underdark. Not much is known about this necromyc direction other than that it's where the remaining Wights fled during the final days of the Undead War. Much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 4. Mnarr - Commonly referred to as the study if monsterdom. This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Gorgas'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 5. Anomyyl - Commonly referred to as the study of Abysm. This necromyc direction was historically documented as being synonymous with the 9000 Layers of Hexya themselves spawning the Ba'al 'Krynn strain of undeath and inevitably bringing about the Undead War. Although Abyssal magic was used to preserve the few remaining documents from these eras, the eradication of its strain caused much of it's knowledge to be lost to time. Studies are however being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 6. Bhogg - Commonly referred to as the study of seas and swamps, this strain is one of the few fully rediscovered directions of Necromyc study. While much of the origins surrounding it's birth remains a mystery even to it's most notable practicioners, the history of it's rediscovery and reinvention during The Age of Plagues is highly documented, and widely considered the start of the first major resurgence of undead in the current age

• 7. Dakar'Dthamar - commonly referred to in history as the study of the "Dark Tower". much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.

• 8. Nyth'dranor- commonly referred to in history as the study of plagues. This Necromyc Direction belongs to Dark Elder Khal'Rhun'Kannon and The Lurea'ag are seemingly directly tied to it. however much of it's study has been lost to time after the fall of the mighty Necromancer Nagash at the hands of the Skaven clans. Ongoing research is being done by scholars and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.

• 9. Illith - Also known as the study of The Ethereal Planes commonly referred to as "The Veil" or "The Unknown". This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh and much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

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[edit] The 9 Dark Elders

The Carriers of the Eldritch germ

1. Ga'Hadth

• Necromyc Direction:
• Known as: the First Defiler
• Creator of:
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2. Maug'Aarr'Uend

• Necromyc Direction: Humanity
• Known as: "The Covent Diplomat of Temple Thull", "Usher of the West Passage" and the "Furth of the Foundary."
• Creator of: the first Phylacteral Basins
• Name Derivation:
• Lore:

3. Errtz'ii'Dthou'Jhetta

• Necromyc Direction:
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• Creator of
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4. Gorgas'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath

• Necromyc Direction: Monsterdom
• Known as:
• Creator of:
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5. Ghoul-Dthok'yyll

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6. Eimnon'ock (Oath to the Void)

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7. Khuur'Kresh

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8. Khal'Rhun'Kannon

• Necromyc Direction:
• Known as: "the Thresh of Lepers" and "Marshal of The Great Hobben Cloud" during the Age of Plagues.
• Creator of:
• Name Derivation:
• Lore: She moves among legend upon layers of writhing pupae. She counts and accounts for every Hobben Kusst. Known as the Thresh of Lepers, Her lessons lie within; "Dark Parable of the Acolytes Hook- The Fallacy of the Absolute"

9. Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh"

• Necromyc Direction: Illith
• Known as:
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[edit] The Undead Lords

• Krythenn:

• Thothell:

• Marrisheth Guarhg:

• Korgg:

• Nnoth-tyrath:

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[edit] The Ushers of Hod

• The Death Giant Bo'urll The Blackheart:

• Albloth-x: He who Rules the 9000 Layers of Hexya

• Dredtch:

• Vhom'iyth:

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[edit] Servants & Acolytes of Hod

• Khuul Ghoul Witch of the Arcane Sea:

• Gelythid the Fouling:

• Etchomadt Holder of Shadow Chains:

• Kalithor:

• Syyren the Hymn of Epheshkell:

• Rott-Rysour:

• Remeesh the Headless Hierophant:

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Other Relevant Pages and Resources:

• Deathrisen
• The Lost Codex
• Void Trolls
• Gulp Meets Death
• Water Goblyns
• Baulk's Betrayal