Revenants are the dead who are unwilling to pass into the afterlife, their souls lingering in their body and fightng off decay by the sheer force of will. Unlike wights and other undeads, malice and hatred are not their source of unlife. Rather, it is determination to see their cause through. Even among Ellesland, there still exists a Revenant King, once the chief of his clan. When the Selentine Legion invaded the isle, he proposed an alliance as for the sake of his people, he would not wish to see war. Yet, there were certain politicians within the Legion saw more profit in war, and arranged for an an ambush while the peace party, along with the king, were en-route to the Legion’s camp. The king was badly wounded and died after being rescued.
Now entombed within his mound upon an island in a lake, it is said that his malice and bitterness had posioned the waters itself, and wards have been set by the priests of the True Faith to keep his evil in check. Yet recently, the wards seem to be losing its effect – thick rolling fog began to seep out from the lake, and many were found dead in their bed, dying from suffocation. Have the Revenant King come forth to avenge the cowardly attempt on his life?
When was not recorded in the accounts when the Seletine Legions invaded Ellesland were that many of the clans were willing to trade with the legion and found ways to avert wars. The Revenant King was once of those, and even in death his desire was for his people to prosper. Yet when many tenacious kings become malicious wights after their death, priests of the True Faith set up wards to fence them within their mounds. The Revenant King too was confined by such enchantment.
- The wards are failing simply for one reason – the people of his old kingdom toil and suffered under the rule of the ruthless nobles and the corrputed clegry. Those the serfs and the smallfolks were not of his own people, the Revenant King sees them as his subjects for they live on the land that he once rules. The suffering of the people feeds his fury, which destroys the ward set to confined him. Those who are found dead in their beds are especially wicked men, though they may maintain pious fronts. If the adventurers do not convince the Revenant King that mortal men could settle the injustice of his people, he may just marched forth and who knows what chaos this would cause?
- Despite being interned and trapped within his mound, the Revenant King still has certain amount of power in guarding his land – most notably in keeping demonic foes at bay. Despite of not being the True Faith, the undead King was once pious and was proper in conduct, and such received the blessings of the Five Elements of the land. A certain cult, seeking to remove the Revenant King for he is an obstacle to one of their nefarious schemes, set about to secretily uproot the wards and commit murder, then using the priests to stir up adventurers to destroy the Revenant King. Only a certain scholar who has unearthed accounts of the King’s attempt to seek a peace treaty with the Selentine Empire may shed light on the true purpose of the cultists.
- A certain sorcerer has broken through to the Revenant King, damaging the wards that had kept his power at bay as proof of his sincerity. He had sought an audience with the King and had convinced him the time is right to march upon the corrputed King Hadric of Ellesland, for his corrpution and incompotent rule. For some reasons, the sorcerer has earned the trust of the king and he began the campagin by killing of nobles and people of authority who could organise a proper defence. The next step would be to rise an undead army and then marched to the capital. However, if the adventurers attempt to track down the identity of the sorcerer, they would realise one thing eventually – he was the traitor who sold out the Revenant King’s route to his ambushers. Who is the sorcerer, what’s the secret of his longevity, and how does he get to play Merlin to the Revenant King? Would it be possible for the adventurers to expose the sorcerer’s deception?
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