Deathrisen

"Time is our endless shoal....

The void is our dark heart."

Dark Elder Maug'Aarr'Uuend

Description

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.

Stages

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.

Ghast

Deathfeind "Revnant"-

Deathrisen-

Titles

Deathknight -

Lich-

Subclasses

History

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.