Ketheric Thorm: Difference between revisions

Through it all, he kept a note from Isobel close to him,{{ref|[[Crumpled Note]]}} showing that deep down a small part of him still remembers the man he once was.

Yet disaster struck the Thorm family when Melodia passed away, leaving Ketheric to raise their daughter alone.<ref>''[[Letter to Ketheric]]''</ref> With a child in his care, Ketheric persevered, and though doubts plagued his mind, he never abandoned the Selûnite ways he would raise his daughter in. It wouldn't be too long after, however, that tragedy would befall Ketheric once more, this time with Isobel dying.<ref>''[[Mason's Log]]''</ref>

Grief-stricken and unable to cope with her loss, he renounced the worship of the Moonmaiden and turned to [[Shar]], the Lady of Loss.<ref>''[[Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1]]''</ref><ref>''[[Tablet Fragment (3)]]''</ref> In his downward spiral into darkness, Shar compelled him to build an army of [[Dark Justiciar|Dark Justiciars]] beneath his home town in order to cleanse the world of Light. Moonrise Towers, once a bastion of Light, turned into a symbol of darkness and grief, and Thorm would systematically erase all Selûnite trace of the town, forcing all believers of the Moonmaiden to convert to Shar or flee. Those who remained devout to Selûne did so in secret, arranging a fledgling resistance.

At some point, Ketheric would trick his daughter's lover, [[Dame Aylin|Aylin]] and trap her in a prison, made to serve as a perpetual sacrifice for Dark Justiciar initiates.  

[[Harpers]], a loose organization that roots out villainy, found Ketheric guilty of "Murder, Slavery, and Desecration of Temples Most Holy," and began to seek an alliance to end his reign.<ref>[[Scroll of Evidence|''Scroll of Evidence'']]</ref> Reithwin soon became the site of battle between Ketheric's army and the combined forces of the [[Harpers]] and [[Druid|druids]] of the [[Emerald Grove]]. Meanwhile, the result of [[Mason's Log|a bargain struck]] between [[Raphael]] and the Selûnite [[Infernal Mason|architect of Moonrise]] takes place as [[Yurgir]] begins to annihilate the Dark Justiciars.  

In the end, the Sharran army was defeated, [[Break Yurgir's Contract|virtually all Dark Justiciars were killed]], and finally Ketheric himself perished. Yet, before the final blow was struck, he would curse the lands with a terrible darkness that would persist long after his demise, afflicting any survivors from the battle and all the inhabitants left.<ref>''[[Olam's Journal]]''</ref> His body was buried in the [[Thorm Mausoleum|Thorm mausoleum]].

Yet after reviving his daughter [[Isobel]] with help of [[Balthazar]], Ketheric's plan at a family reunion failed. When the revived Isobel saw his broken visage, she fled.

Undeterred, empowered by Myrkul, and granted immortality by the [[Nightsong]], Ketheric begins amassing an army of followers of the [[Absolute]] in order to march to Baldur's Gate and sow destruction.