He is not undead, though he does appear very similar to a wraith, nor is he alive. He is neither Negative nor Positive energy, and he seems to vanish completely, leaving no trace, at will.
Many beleive he is to blame for the wastelands to the South. Long ago, when the elders were only children, the southlands were lush. To this day they tell stories of the rich lands, and the fine crops harvested before the darkness came, and the people fled.....
They tell of the attempts to stop the progression, yet the Wastes creep steadilly Northward as if driven.
The Clerics of both Light and Darkness claim to know nothing. Indeed, they will not even go near it. All of the mages within the realms have been unable to explain it's presence, and have also been unable to stem the Northward flow thus far.
Them.
If you were to explore the Wastelands to their origin, you would find a pillar. All black, it is an 80 foot tall triangular pillar of deep black, neither dull nor reflective.
He commands armies of nightmare creatures he brought from another plane through a Rift in the universe, a hole in the very fabric of reality, deep within the Wastes.
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His mind was waiting in the Sea of Eternal Darkness for the Gods to join it with a soul and a body.
He has a different view of the world, the only thing he sees is souls. You have no face to him, just as he has none for you to see. You are just another soul that can be caused to radiate terror so strong that he can feel and feed off of the energy.
Why terror, you ask?
They do not know where it has originated from, nor where it came from. This might explain why they have had no luck stopping it's progress.
The old-timers say it grows by the day, and that it will never stop until it has reclaimed what it has lost.
Around it swirls the aqua lightning, magical energy in reserve. It serves to hold the energy he has gathered. There are smaller, though similar pillars scattered across the land, which gather the energy and then transmit it to the large one. The transfer can be seen as enormous bolts of blue lightning arc across the sky.
HISTORY
After becoming self-aware, he started training his mind to manipulate things within the Sea. Slowly, ever so slowly, he grew stronger. After gaining in strengh over several millenia, he forced his conciesness out of the Sea, and won his freedom.
Needing a source of strength, he learned how to draw power from people's emotions, gathering energy. Not having a soul or body, nor emotions of his own, he harvests energy from others emotions: fear, and terror.
Love is also a strong emotion, some say it is stronger that abject horror.
However, those supporting love as the strongest emotion are not reigning over entire universes, are they?
