I am taking a character from my own book (It hasn't been published yet...Work in Progress). Here's where you can get a basic overview of what it is like (He is in it, but there are no picture of him.):
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Real NameTall-Li
Alias & Most Commonly Known ByIchor
GenderPresumed to be male
AgeTrue age, unknown. Presumed age: 500 years
RaceUndead, lich. Was a former human, though he had the height of a dwarf.
Height125 cm (4 feet and 1.21 inches)
Weight54 kg
HairWhite. Due to the many centuries that Ichor has lived through, he is almost bald, thin strings of hair on the back of his head, which he usually covers up with a hood.
EyesIchor’s eyes are brown, but unlike the living creatures, his eyes has long since dried out though Ichor uses minor illusion spells to make them look somewhat lively.
Skin ColorGrey, from the centuries of decaying, and there are several spots, especially on his chest, where the skin has decayed completely away, displaying his brown-white bones.
Facial appearanceIchor certainly doesn’t have the prettiest face to look upon, in fact it is a rumor that he’s so ugly that mirrors breaks when he looks at them.
Ichor doesn’t have much meat left on his face, making it look very emaciated and dried out. His nose is at the beginning to decay away, and the skin at the left side of his chin has decayed so badly that the bone and part of the yellow teeth are showed.
Ichor’s ears are halfway gone, again due to the decay his body is going through, however, insects and animals has helped the speeding of this decay and have bitten large areas off so it looks more like rats has been busy gnawing off his ear than the work of mother nature.
On the top of Ichor’s almost-bald head, there is a small hole in the skin, about 3 cm in diameter, where the skull can be seen, plus there is a small crack where a 10 year old child’s pinky finger can fit and touch his brain, which is still wet and covered in green goo.
Body BuiltIchor has a very fragile looking body. He is hunchbacked, his arms and legs has long since lost what muscle it was suppose to have, giving him a frightful skeletal appearance, when he’s not wearing his rather loose clothes of course.
His fingers are long, for his height, and boney. They have long sharp fingernails that look sharp enough to cut into a man’s flesh, if the right force was used.
When he moves his fingers, the ligament in his hand can be seen clearly moving, as the dry skin hold onto what is left of the body.
Ichor’s chest is, like the rest of him, skeletal and so thin that the bones can be clearly seen. His vital organs have long since stopped working but they are still there, after all the centuries, so he does have some human structure about him.
His feet are much like his hands…bony, fragile looking, and the toes have long and stake-pointy nails.
PersonalityIchor is a mad little fellow. He acts randomly, unpredictably and is one of the hardest allies to control.
He is a mad man, for spending 500, or more, years on the run, having to hide in the slums and witness the horrors that arcane magic can do and conjure has driven him to the point of insanity…yet he isn’t completely insane (as he would describe it). He finds it hard to focus when he isn’t doing something ‘important’.
Ichor has spend much time studying science and magic, thus he is highly intelligent but this intelligence backfires when he’s bored, or feels endangered, and thus his madder mind kicks in and he becomes the little monster that everyone hates and fears.
Ichor is the type who just does what comes to his mind and does it without any further thinking. One time he thought of, jumping through a window, landing on a wagon and then drive off to escape his opponents…it all went according to his plan but he didn’t think of the height he would be jumping from, and ended up with a broken leg, which he just laughed at as he thought his sheer stupidity was more funny than the pain he felt.
Ichor is a hard ally, for his randomness and inability to focus on serious conversations between his allies. It isn’t because Ichor is uninterested in conversations and interrogations, he just doesn’t see how people can kill time talking when they aren’t doing anything physical or saying gory ‘jokes’.
He does, however, give you his undivided attention, if the topic is about science and magic, for those are two of his favorite subjects to discuss (excluding the Religion War era, for then Ichor realized that he needed to be serious if he wished to survive, plus the horrors of war still scars him to this day).
Ichor, to much surprise, enjoys listening, or directing, to classical music. Whenever he hears this gender of music he waves his arms to the beat, closing his eyes and lets the notes of music flow into his mind and calms him down.
When Klause Von Stein’s life is talked about, Ichor becomes silent and sits for a while and then leaves the place to be alone. This is because of his past, and his interaction with this Klause Von Stein, whom was his closest friend while he was alive.
Famous Quotes and Actions-
”Now. I am the puppet master, and you are my puppet!” Then the veins of the man flies through the skin, and then tightens around Ichor’s hands, like strings, ”Start dancing!”-
”You know…Smoking is good for your health. Look at how quickly it killed me!”-
”Sanity is for the insane!...Ooh! Puppy!”-
"Knowledge belongs to everyone."-
”You see a wife,” Ichor then kills the husband, ”I see a widow!”-
”Rest in peace my friend,” Ichor kneels beside a dead Dark Knight and closes the man's eyes, ”I hope you enjoyed your peace, for you are going back to that battle!” He then casts a Raise Undead spell and makes the newly dead man come back as a mindless slave.-
”You just hate me because I’m short!”-
Takes a glass filled with whiskey and pours it into his eyes, ”It burns!”SpellsIchor, despite his weak appearance, is one of the most powerful creatures that exist from his home world, and he can do several spells at the same time, in order to avoid filling in pages of spells that he can cast, those who will be mentioned are those he knows from the top of his skull. They are the following:
Speed of the DevilThis is one of the most frequent used spells Ichor knows. He turns the arcane power he has into energy that his body can use, allowing him to move with demon-like speed. Only Ichor knows how long this spell lasts, as he is the only one who knows the boundaries for his own powers.
Claws of SteelThis spell transforms his hands into steel claws, which are both sharp and pointy. He uses it along with
Speed of the Devil, to kill his opponents faster.
Bolt of ShadowIchor sucks together nearby shadow, no matter how weak they may be, concentrates it so it becomes a spell that is as dangerous as the
Fire Ball.
Normally, it takes time to suck the shadows together and then concentrate the bolt, but Ichor, after centuries of practice, has mastered the spell so well that he can do it within moments.
Undead HealingLike many other Undead creatures, Ichor can heal severe wounds, though he cannot heal wounds that are has damaged his head or heart.
Shadow PortalThis is like teleportation, although Ichor has to use shadows and darkness to travel with. Even for a master of magic, like Ichor, this spell requires a lot of focus, and he can’t do it while the sun is beaming down on him, he has to be in shade to perform such a spell.
IllusionThis is Ichor’s favorite spell…for when he does this spell, he lets his ‘creative’ part of his mind to go wild. Most of his illusions are about how he slowly tears his victim apart, and since he has mastered this art of magic perfectly, he is able to make the mind think that the physical body is in pain…thus when he delivers the final blow against his opponent, it causes a heart attack and the entire body system shuts down.
For example, he once made a man think that Ichor pulled out all his veins and used them as ‘puppet strings’ thus his brain couldn’t handle it (as it couldn’t see the difference between reality and what Ichor was showing it) and he died after a few minute of Ichor being the ‘Puppet Master’.
Blue Fire BallThis is like a
Fire Ball spell, however, instead of using normal fire, he uses blue fire from hell, which attach themselves to the object that it touch.
The Third Law of NatureThis is a spell where Ichor enforces Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion. He basically, uses his arcane power to create an unseen force that makes any moving object hit an equal force, causing an abrupt stop. He often uses this when projectile weapons are fired at him.
The Dead Never Rests This spell does so that all the dead around him come back to life as his mindless, will-less minions. They go under the category ‘Undead’, and thus are defenseless against divine magic.
WeaknessesIchor is like many of the combined undead. He is weakest when sun is shining directly at him, he cannot cast spells on holy grounds (yet even enter holy grounds), and when he is hit by divine magic, he suffers great pain and agony, plus he might become madder from the pain.
Ichor has a phylactery, an object needed to become a lich and it contains his soul. This is his ultimate weakness, as the destruction of this item not only destroys his physical body, but also his spiritual form, permanently preventing him from ever coming back to the material world.
This phylactery is the necklace of his mother, it contains paintings of herself and her husband, along with their names at the bottom of their paintings. To Ichor, this
treasure is worth more than all the gold, diamonds, and valuable paintings added together, and he would never, even to the exchange of the knowledge of the entire universe, trade it away. He has hidden this item somewhwere in the world he originates from, where Ichor has forgotten.
As an undead, Ichor looses certain senses, such as his ability to smell and taste, his eye sight and hearing is in the meantime improved, it still effects his ability to react, for he wouldn’t notice his clothes being on fire before he would feel the flame licking up his body, or taste the difference between a juicy slice of meat and the rotten flesh of a long dead corpse
Weapons, Armor& ClothesIchor doesn’t use any weapons when he fights, although he does like the shiny armor, it is hard for him to find any in his size. He prefers to use his hands (after he has casted the spell
Claws of Steel) and the spell he knows.
He does, however, use weapons when he needs to perform rituals and certain spells, and such conditions also affect the clothing he wears.
Ichor is usually seen wearing cult dark robes, living up to the traditional image of an evil cult member, or the typical image of a necromancer.
It isn’t known if Ichor changes his clothes, for the smell of decay is far stronger than the smell of unchanged clothes (which only the gods knows has been through how many severs, and how many crypts these clothes has been through).
HistoryIchor…his name is now only said in whispers, he is wanted all over his home world for being the greatest undead mad man on the loose who has evaded the Holy Church of Lunian for half a millennia.
It is said that Ichor was born as an evil little being, only knowing to destruction and death…that he enjoyed spreading misery and pain from a very young age, and that his parents were some of the first to suffer from his vile deeds.
All of this….is just a bunch of lies, made up by the Church to make the world hate Ichor and everyone else who was a member of the Klause Von Stein Cult.
Since there are no exact documents about Tall-Li’s age until he became a lich, it is believed that he was 25 years old when he entered the College of Magic.
Ichor was born in a wealthy middle class family, in the Empire 278 years, After the Founding of the Lunian Church, but back then he wasn’t called ‘Ichor’, his name, back then, was ‘Tall-Li’.
Tall-Li, was tall for the kids in his childhood, but the growth eventually stopped and he became the height he is today. He went to a great school, got some of the finest grades, he then entered the Empire’s finest University where he had outstanding grades, after graduating university, he was offered to enter the Empire College of Magic, which he accepted.
In the College of Magic, Tall-Li fell in love with the many subjects of magic; arcane, fire, frost, enchantment, illusion, limited conjunction, and transmutation were some the subjects he could take, and though Tall-Li was dying to take them all, the college only allowed him to study one subject.
Feeling that he was being treated unfair, Tall-Li decided that he would go against the system and learn all the subjects, but the teachers would only
see him study arcane magic…It worked in the short term, he studied vigorously, reading thick books within hours, memorizing spells and practicing several rituals in secret, he became one of the most talented wizards in the College, but his secret deeds didn’t stay secret for as long as he wanted it to.
One day, while he was practicing a newly read spell, under the category ‘Enchantment’, he was seen by the teacher of transmutation, and he was reported to the Headmaster of the College.
Tall-Li was given a choice, continue studying Arcane Magic under strict supervision, in order to avoid him learning anything else or be banished from the College, forever. Stubborn as Tall-Li was, he demanded to be explained why he couldn’t study the subjects he wished and the answer was simple:
”Traditions…We follow traditions in this college.”Outraged Tall-Li was banished from the College of Magic, though his last act, before being thrown at the gate was to destroy all documental evidence there was that he had ever gone to the school, though they were rewritten later.
Leaving the Empire, Tall-Li used his family finance to travel to the Heckclown Union, the only country where committing a crime was legal, as the kingdom was ruled by the major gangsters of the world.
There, he bought many illegal spell books, stolen from the various kingdoms throughout the world and he started his own college, which was a mixture of studying science and magic, and this particular college attracted many wizards who had the same thirst for knowledge as Tell-Li, and one of these wizards were called ‘Klause Von Stein’.
Klause Von Stein was an educated doctor and an above average wizard in conjunction, he had a vast fortune, both earned and inherited, and like Tall-Li, his thirst for knowledge was undying.
Tall-Li and Klause began to work together, using their money to hire thieves who traveled across the world and gathered spell books from the Colleges of Magic. It went great for the two, their own college became a center of learning, and with contacts with several Gang Lords whom they paid and in return they ensured that the college didn’t loose any of its materials or staff members.
One day Klause brought up the idea of ‘creating own form of magic.’ Tall-Li was, at first, rather skeptical, for according to history, it took generations to create a new school of magic, not to mention that the source where the magic would come from, but eventually Klause managed to get Tall-Li convinced. The idea that Klause had was ‘bringing life to the dead.’
Tall-Li’s first respond was: “That is purely illogical. Once you are dead, you can’t come back to life!”
However, according to a newly arrived book about the powers of Divine Powers, it was possible to bring the dead back to life, though the body took damage, the soul would come back to its original body and the wounds would heal.
First of all, Klause and Tall-Li spend a year to study the Divine powers that the Church possessed, afterward they practiced a series of experiments to get the hang of how the powers worked, and afterward they did a series of grave robberies and got their needed corpses.
Using a combinations of science (or…the classical electricity) and the limited divine powers the two men possessed, they did their experiments on their dug up corpses, and after untold many attempts to bring life to the corpses, bringing the two men at the point of giving up, they finally managed to bring a simply, newly killed man to life…but he didn’t live like the priests in the Church could do it, no, this, this…thing didn’t have a will, it did however understand full conversations and obeyed without any hesitation, it walked and moved its limps like it was a living person and this brought much interest to the college, which was now forming itself into a secret cult, which devoted itself to study every topic they could think of.
The cult, now called ‘The Seekers of Knowledge’, continued to investigate the types of ‘undead’ and perfected the spell that Tall-Li and Klause had discovered, and they moved beyond it, being able to bring back skeletons and even ghosts and dead spirits, they began to widen their influence beyond the Heckclown Union and into many other kingdoms, their small cult began to grow in size, and their monthly income increased as well as they rented out ‘Church Approved books’ which contained information that many libraries and schools had never heard of before.
Though no one could have foreseen the terrible incident when Klause, the now appointed leader of the cult, went to the Empire to demonstrate the newly discovered form of magic, which they had named ‘Necromancy’. Amongst the crowd, there weren’t just powerful wizards, but religious lords of the Empire and archdukes of the church, and they all disapproved the newly discovered art of magic and accused Klause for being a heretic and his cult for being a threat to the world.
Klause was placed against a wall and filled with arrows, though his corpse was supposed to have been burned as well but Tall-Li and other high ranked members of The Seekers of Knowledge prevented this and brought Klause’s body back and buried it in a secret place.
After that, there was a full scale inquisition throughout the world, seeking out the member of the cult and killing them and burning their libraries and destroying their laboratories. Outraged with these actions, Tall-Li took command of the cult and declared war against the Church, making his fellow cult members raise hordes of undead and caused a global terror for the endless hordes of the undead.
The war lasted for five long years, then Tall-Li was convinced that they couldn’t win the war, and even if they did they didn’t want global power, so the undead armies were disbanded, some went back to their sleep while others roamed the world, terrorizing whoever and whatever they got in contact with for a while before they were hunted down.
The size of the cult had dropped by three quarters of its original size. Tall-Li, at the brink of old age took a crucial decision and did a ritual that bound his soul to his mother’s necklace, he no longer needed to fear death’s cold shadow and he could now continue, and ultimately end, with what Klause and he started and try to rebuilt the size of the cult and continue the purpose of the cult, which had now renamed itself to ‘The Cult of Klause Von Stein’, and Tall-Li renamed himself ‘Ichor’, a name he knew the world would soon respect and fear when he had rebuilt the power that his cult once had.
Ichor went into hiding, along with the few other cultists, and continued his studies in peace, growing in knowledge and power by every passing decade, using both real and false gold coins to hire thieves to steal the needed books and materials he needed to increase his collection knowledge.
Decades passed by, and the war between the Church and the Cult of Klause became history. The cult didn’t recover from the war, however, it remained weak and few in numbers as they were captious with who they allowed into their cult now (even after a hole century of peace).
They continued their researches for more knowledge, gaining money from lending their service to powerful Gang Lords who needed the arcane powers that the cultists possessed for beating their rivals in their Gang Wars.
The centuries which Ichor spent sheer loneliness with his fellow cultists, who lived and died, new were recruited and old friends died, wasn’t what made him the little mad monster we know him today, no far from it. Ichor endured the pain of seeing friends and fellow believers come and
go, he was grew used to the Gang Wars that he participated in, the death and destruction he caused became a part of his daily life, he saw it like the time when he fought for the survival of his cult though not in as dire situations.
Ichor also spent many more centuries memorizing spell books, letter by letter, doing the same experiment over and over till he could do them blindfolded. He invented spells and rituals of his own that he, and his cult, only knew of.
Roughly at year 698, After the Founding of the Lunian Church, a global war broke out. The Church’s new Pope, Storma II, had declared war against all heresy throughout the world as the war mongering believers of Bromiere, The Angel Butcher, were harassing the Church’s borders in the North, the vile demon worshippers of Netharzeem, The Twisted, were making the roads, forests and fields between the Empire and the Hemillion Kingdom, plus massive Pagan armies were coming from the Barbarian Tribe Lands and were raiding the lands of Dutchy Rysan.
The Church was responding to this with violence and had the kingdoms of the world united to fight this war, which became known as ‘The Religion War’.
Ichor was contacted by Dracul, the High Summoner of Netharzeem and met, in secret, with Saud Thu, The Chosen One, Br'nard Even'star, Pagan Chieftain of Chieftains, and Mortorn, King of the Orcs. The five men agreed to band together and fight the church, though they never agreed on any tactics, leaving every heretical faction for themselves, in the beginning at least.
Ichor made the few members of The Cult of Klause Von Stein transform themselves from mortal beings into liches and then they raised massive armies from the dead Gang members, entire graveyards were emptied as their ranks were filled up, and then the South East of the Papal State with a third of the Orc horde coming to aid them from the north, the Eastern lands of the Papal State was quickly conquered and the uncountable horde moved westward, towards the capital of the Papal State, Curia.
The Akadian Kingdom, the most technical advanced kingdom came to the aid of the Church, for the first time introducing the world to gunpowder, flintlock muskets, pistols, canons and mortars, they combined raw technology with divine powers to hold off the undead waves and the orcish horde.
Ichor knew that focusing all the liches on a single battlefront would be a waste of good talents, thus he had the Gang Lords, whom were now terrified by his powers, smuggle half a dozen liches throughout the world, which would then terrorize the regions they were in, causing both internal and external problems for the kingdoms.
During this era of warfare, Ichor was slowly loosening his sanity. He was used to killing maybe a dozen humans on the streets for coins but…slaughtering hundreds of soldiers? Butchering uncountable many civilians? This was where Ichor began to slide slowly towards madness.
The sight of the gore, witnessing the destruction of dozens of cities whom he thought only existed in the heavens above, and then seeing the floods of blood flow through the streets. The smell of the gore, the carnage greater than any previous war was pulling his logic deeper and deeper into the ocean of insanity…and the worst of it all was, it was
him who gave the orders!
Something unexpected happened within the first three months of the war, paladins began to betray the church and pledge themselves to The Cult of Klause. Ichor, at first, thought they were spies, thus had them killed, animated as undead knights and send off to the front lines, but the almost steady flow of knights who were turning their back to the Church made Ichor realize what was really happening…The very knights who had sworn to defend these lands with their lives were now giving up and wanted to size a chance to continue living.
Thus the Dark Knight Order was formed, with Henry the Dark Bringer as their grandmaster. These knights were taught the basic necromancy, and used a combination of dark and divine magic to battle.
Ichor, his undead armies and the orcish hordes were now a day’s march away from Curia. Having defeated the armies of both the Church and the Akadian Kingdom, and raised them as their undead slaves, they had an army which could take the massive with force within days!
Just as Ichor gave the order for attacking Curia, his army, and the orcs, were attacked from their backs by the elves who lived in the forests in the Papal State, and they had come out from their hiding to stop Ichor from causing anymore destruction to the human world.
Unprepared by this sudden attack, thousands upon thousands of orcs, undead, and Dark Knights were butchered by the elven arrows and swords. The liches’ magic couldn’t match the elemental powers that the elves controlled with grace and perfections.
Being attacked by the elves and humans from Curia, Ichor gave the order of a massive retreat back to the closest city that they had recently conquered.
For the following five years, Ichor and the last thousand orcs stood their ground there, battling between the Church, Akadian, and elven armies with control over this metropolis town, which was slowly being grinded closer and closer to dust as the war machines rarely stopped their bombardment and the spells both factions casted caused massive damages both to the city and nature around it.
Now it said
click in Ichor head. He began to appear more and more near the front lines, his orders became more suicidal and the choice of spells he casted became more diabolic. He made knights die as easily as peasants, and was singing children songs while he did so!
His appearance on the battlefield caused the Papal, Elven and Akadian soldiers to tremble in fear, he became know as ‘The Midget of Death’, ‘Ichor, Lord of Destruction’ & ‘Him!’
Not matter how many Ichor murdered, no matter how many he tore apart, he still couldn’t make his army gain much more land than that single town, which was being reduced to dust and ruins, and was populated by millions of dead corpses.
Ichor learned, over the five years, that the was going equally badly for the Pagans, Bromiere and Netharzeem worshippers. The sudden appearance of the elves had shocked them all and they had lost considerably large numbers, crippling their armies horribly.
The Church had send archdukes to the Hemillion Kingdom, who summoned angels from the heavens, who then battled the abyssal demons and devils that the Netharzeem cultists summoned from hell, the flintlock and gunpowder fueled weapons were distributed to the Northern borders of the Church, and the Bromiere armies were shot down and blown apart, even the numerous reinforcements that were coming down from the Barbaric Tribe Lands didn’t help, instead it just helped to make the carnage even worse.
Mortorn, who had been busy invading the Dutchy Rysan, was being beaten back, as the Rysan army was getting help from the Empire, who had one of the most organized army.
A year passed by. More slaughter, destruction and carnage was added throughout the world as the war continued, now in the favor of the United Kingdoms and Empires.
Ichor is informed that that Saud Thu tried to do a last military attack against the Church’s armies, and attacked a castle which was the key way between the Northern borders of the Church’s land and the Hemillion Kingdom, and had brought tens of thousands of the final Pagan forces with him, including Br'nard Even'star.
They failed, Saud was killed in a duel against a captain called Saxious, and Br'nard was blown into pieces be a mortar, their army was slaughtered in the streets of the castle, and their corpses that were piled up against the walls almost reached the top of the walls.
Saud, and Br'nard’s attack against the castle had failed, though they had managed to weaken the Northern border’s army so well that in the future there wouldn’t be enough soldiers to patrol the forests and fields to hold away all the pagans and orcs that would come, and the castle had been damaged so badly, it resembled more of a ruin than the mighty castle it used to be…but the price had been the two leader’s life, along with ten thousand other pagans and Bromiere Heretics’ lives.
After a total of seven years of war, Ichor ordered a retreat of his cult and the orcs, as their numbers had been lowered dangerously, making them valuable to the Church Armies. The Cult of Klause retreated back to the Heckclown Union, while the orcs returned to their own lands. During the retreat the dark Knights and the Klause cultists were separated, as they were hotly pursued by the elves and Papal State.
Ichor believed they were safe in the Union, and that the church wouldn’t pursue them into the lands of the criminals…he was wrong, the Church ordered the Inquisition, led by High Inquisitor Jahn the Heretic Slayer, to hunt down all Heretics in the Heckclown Union.
The ‘hunt’ turned into genocide, as the Gangs of Heckclown were believers of Conagh, the God of Outlaws, thus considered Heretics by Jahn. This started the War of Light and Shadows, between the Church and the Conagh worshippers.
The Gangs used their assassins to kill the Inquisitors, high ranked soldiers, and more three dozen assassination attempts were made against the Pope. The cities were torn apart as genocide continued and more and more troops were being deployed to help the Inquisition. The Klause cultists and thousand Gang members fought against the Inquisition on the streets, making them run red with blood, and the reports of these battles just encourages other nations to send in troops to gain Papal Favor.
In the end, it was an all out genocide that almost destroyed the entire country, till the empire stepped in and placed an embargo on all the kingdoms who contributed to the slaughtering, which resulted with the Inquisition running low on supplies and it stopped, after 6 months of pure, merciless killing.
During this period, Ichor’s cult was reduced to a number of four liches, and thirty mortals. Afraid that they would all be killed in this war, they snuck their way out of the Union, through the Eastern lands of the Papal State, from where they stole a ship and took sails.
The Cult of Klause Von Stein had become a group of nomads now; they traveled first to the Empire, where they made ‘evidence’ appear, so that captain Saxious was accused for committing war crimes, and torture of civilians. This made captain Saxious go on trial, which he lost and was exiled from the lands where Lunian’s religion was the major religion.
Afterward, the cult traveled through the world, disguised as wizards being sent to minor fronts where there still were pagan warbands, or orcish clans raiding, they made their way to Veresa Kingdom, where they settled down. The living members used what was left of their treasure to start a college, which then became one of the most successful colleges in the Veresa Kingdom, thus the king financed the college, allowing the cult, who still held low profile, to expand the college enough to allow the remaining four liches, Ichor, Da Thuun, Hen Da, and Wohen Hao, to hide in the basement of the college.
The four liches acted like head teachers of the school in the basement, grading the essays and reports the students wrote, allowing the living members of the cult to have more freedom in the new society.
Everything was fine, Ichor and the other liches actually liked their new job, despite Ichor’s mental and emotional instability from the Religion War, they were sure that they could stay there…and who knew, maybe the world would forget about this war in a few centuries time?
Five lovely years passed by, the world for the first time seeing international peace between their borders and religion. Countries recovered from the war, economies became better and old soldiers settled back home with their wives and kids…well almost everyone was happy.
There came a message from a group of Bromiere Heretics, whom had survived the war. They were trying to gather together all the cults and Heretics, so they weren’t spread out, weak, and easy targets for the Inquisition.
Ichor, and the cult which had grown a little in its numbers, traveled to the Eastern coasts of the Empire, where Dracul High Summoner of Netharzeem, Henry the Dark Bringer, Valdimir the Destroyer (a former general of the Church who was exiled for slaughtering a hole city because it contained a few Klause cultists), and Saxious, who had turned into a Bromiere Heretics, the captain whom Ichor had exiled because of the false evidence which Ichor didn’t mention anything about.
Saxious proposed that they banded together and tried to do a second attack against the Papal State, but this time, they would attack Curia, its capital, kill the Pope, and his successors, and then watch as the world would crumble down as their religious leaders would be gone.
Ichor is now currently working on rebuilding the former army he led during the Religion War along with Henry, his knights, and his cult members.
Ichor doesn't look forward for the suffering that will come, no...he looks forward to read the many books that the Papal State has in its private library, after all,
"Knowledge belongs to everyone."