Description
This pale, hunched, and ghastly-thin creature gazes about wildly through the
milky-white eyes of the dead. But unlike so many mindless undead that roam
the land, you sense the malevolent will behind those profane eyes that
drives this undead creature. The skin of its face is pulled taught by an
enlarged jaw that houses innumerable iron-hard, needle-thin teeth that poke
through the flesh haphazardly in all directions. The creature's body is
hairless skin and bones, compared to the usually muscular forms of the
wight, but the pull and snap of muscle fibers beneath the nearly translucent
skin evince its unholy strength. Its limbs are eerily long, with thin
fingers extending into sharp and cruelly-hooked tips. Despite the strength
its body seems to possess, it sways on its feet like a man after a hard
march, as if it could collapse at any moment. It wears the remnants of thick
black robes etched in runes, cinched extremely tight with a finely crafted
belt, marred by a hole for the buckle having been imperfectly cut far from
the end, the slack hanging down limply.
Role
Hunger's Call
Added Sun Dec 13 14:28:51 2020 at level 23:
I was quite insane...For a time.
But my will is strong, even if my body is not.
I grew deaf to the maddening whispers...Learned never to listen to the lies it
spun.
Then, in time, it left me with a truth far more sinister.
Feed...or die.
Pieces of Emptiness
Added Sun Dec 13 14:29:36 2020 at level 23:
Only fragments remain of who, or what, I once was.
I recall a young boy from which I had fed being led away from a burnt building
by a minotaur. Feldscren, he was named. My hunger had fully manifested at
that point and I had partially fed upon him, weeping as I did so, for I could
not control myself. I weep now, for I must continue what I had begun.
The others too. The children. Tristhana, Veldren, Ehrlon, Vrimold, Leopohl,
Nastrella, Ahrloire, Dollerveim, Andreste. I cannot forget them. Their names
are those my hunger has seared into my mind in an endlessly repeating mantra.
They will sustain me. They will finally make me whole again.
Perhaps another path exists. Another way to fill the infinite emptiness. I
would give of my flesh, my soul, to become more than the shell that I am, but
to look upon me is to know that I have nothing of either to offer.
I wish to be free of this feeble need to take from others to sustain myself.
I look upon those with strong bodies, strong souls, and am filled with endless
envy.
The hunger rules my life. I wish only to reclaim the sort of life that others
are born into.
Envious Dreams
Added Tue Dec 29 15:12:20 2020 at level 38:
Krugnuk is gone. Was he ever real? Did I do those things on my own and
imagine his presence?
I have so many other half-memories, some my own, some clearly not. Living on
a farm, pulling life from cattle ready to be slaughtered. Living in a city,
observing stray children through bloodshot eyes, planning their capture.
Which is real?
But this memory was useful. A bit of praise and I got to make use of one with
such a...wonderfully vital body.
Why am I cursed with this state of being when others are not? Why am I this
empty shell?
I have dreams.
In these dreams my heart beats like thunder. In these dreams I roar and the
land trembles.
And then I wake to fits of coughing, my lungs filled with cobwebs, my heart
the faintest flutter.
I am tortured by that which might never be.
Is feeding upon those once-children my only chance of succor?
Perhaps I am simply too straight forward. Perhaps one who has suffered as I
have, and rose to true greatness through wit and cunning would see a path that
is invisible to my undiscerning eye.
At least the Goblin King might have once dreamt as I do.
Might understand my envy.
The Cost of Trudging On
Added Tue Dec 29 15:31:14 2020 at level 38:
My hunger grows. I have fed upon so few. I have fed upon none of those for
whom I most deeply long.
For this my hunger drags me in my mind to ever more tenebrous depths.
The loathing for what I must do to continue along this feeble mortal coil ever
cowers in the face of looming hunger.
The conscience whispering in my ear ever more drowned out by the piercing cry
of need.
Is it cowardice that I do not end my life that the other children may live
their lives free of their hunter?
Or is it strength of will?
Ah...Is that not a wonderful thought? That I have one thing that many others
lack, that they might be envious of ME for: The unconquerable will. That I
stand in defiance of all that life has stacked against me.
Perhaps that is righteousness. Perhaps that is courage.
That I might never turn away from what depravities I must commit to sate my
hunger, to be free of this miserable lot in life, no matter how bitter the
bile that rises in my throat.
Though, perhaps, in the lonely dark, I might turn from myself.
Morius' Bequest
Added Thu Jan 14 16:49:56 2021 at level 49:
Everything was prepared.
I had the trust of the deformed water bird.
Morius asked me to taste her flesh. And how badly I wanted to feed off some
vitality.
She lay there sleeping. Recovering. Trusting the creature I became.
Underwater. Ah to sleep again.
What whispers remain of my conscience wailed in protest. Cried in its soft
voice that it was the frozen lake for those that would betray an ally in cold
blood.
But hunger calls. A path forward demands sacrifice!
So I touched her face with my inhuman claws to keep her sleeping, my
conscience still wailing in a distant corner of my mind, so easily ignored.
But somehow...she resisted the call of magical sleep...and then again!
She awoke and fled to the deeper waters to hide among the sand and muck.
I will never get another chance so perfect.
Will I get another chance at all?
Perhaps Morius only wished to see the depths to which I would go to earn a
place. To see if I would betray an ally that long trusted me for my own
purpose.
Perhaps, but for now I will continue to hunt until I am called.
PK Wins
Dec 11, 2020|Lv 23|The Consortium|Vazwah vs 1: [23] Mordrel (100%, poison)
Dec 13, 2020|Lv 23|Azreth Wood|Tamrohzin vs 2: [23] Mordrel (49%), [21] Krugnuk (50%, bite)
Dec 15, 2020|Lv 27|The Dragon Sea|Tamrohzin vs 1: [27] Mordrel (100%, KB)
Dec 21, 2020|Lv 32|The Citadel of Ostalagiah|Lonfedric vs 1: [32] Mordrel (100%, crush)
Jan 1, 2021 |Lv 38|The Aryth Ocean|Salzaren vs 1: [38] Mordrel (100%, penetrating acid)
Jan 13, 2021|Lv 49|Khardrath's Planar Sanctum|Olaran vs 1: [49] Mordrel (100%, cut)
Jan 26, 2021|Lv 51|The Eastern Road|Ragus vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, chilling touch)
Jan 31, 2021|Lv 51|The Dragon Sea|Scyreth vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, burning, weeping sores)
Feb 4, 2021 |Lv 51|The Eastern Road|Vrimold vs 1: [51] Mordrel (0%, ) *Power Word Kill*
Feb 4, 2021 |Lv 51|The Eastern Road|Alendross vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, KB)
Feb 6, 2021 |Lv 51|Forest of Prosimy|Yanasna vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, poison)
Feb 8, 2021 |Lv 51|Grinning Skull Village|Gyson vs 2: [51] Mordrel (25%, word of death), [50] Omugug (74%)
Feb 9, 2021 |Lv 51|Fortress of Light|Umbrand vs 2: [50] Nulgha (68%, savage feeding), [51] Mordrel (31%)
Feb 10, 2021|Lv 51|Eaststride Road|Zorellaia vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, burning, weeping sores)
Feb 14, 2021|Lv 51|Udgaardian Plains|Bibbery vs 2: [51] Asaigai (87%, punch), [51] Mordrel (12%)
Feb 18, 2021|Lv 51|Balator|Sertif vs 1: [51] Mordrel (100%, punch)