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A devout worshipper of [[Deities#Selûne|Selûne]], Thorm lived with his wife Melodia and daughter [[Isobel]] near the [[Reithwin Town|town of Reithwin]] as governor of the region. Such was his devotion to the Moonmaiden that he would commission a [[Infernal Mason|local mason]] to construct a grand bastion in her honor: [[Moonrise Towers]]. | A devout worshipper of [[Deities#Selûne|Selûne]], Thorm lived with his wife Melodia and daughter [[Isobel]] near the [[Reithwin Town|town of Reithwin]] as governor of the region. Such was his devotion to the Moonmaiden that he would commission a [[Infernal Mason|local mason]] to construct a grand bastion in her honor: [[Moonrise Towers]]. | ||
Yet disaster struck the Thorm family when Melodia passed away, leaving Ketheric to raise their daughter alone. 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. | 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> | ||
=== Ketheric the Sharran === | === Ketheric the Sharran === | ||
Grief-stricken and unable to cope with her loss, he renounced the worship of the Moonmaiden and turned to [[Shar]], the Lady of Loss. In his downward spiral into darkness, Shar compelled him to build an army of [[Dark Justiciar| | Grief-stricken and unable to cope with her loss, he renounced the worship of the Moonmaiden and turned to [[Shar]], the Lady of Loss. 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 | 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. | ||
In the end, the Sharran army was defeated, Ketheric himself | [[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]]. | |||
=== Ketheric the Myrkullite === | === Ketheric the Myrkullite === | ||
{{Q|Our darling will live again. What kind of man would I be if I didn't raze the world entire for her sake?|author=Ketheric in a diary entry|ref=[[Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3]]|align=left}} | {{Q|Our darling will live again. What kind of man would I be if I didn't raze the world entire for her sake?|author=Ketheric in a diary entry|ref=[[Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3]]|align=left}} | ||
More than a hundred years later,{{Verify}} Thorm would be brought back from the dead by [[Myrkul]], tasked to form an alliance with the apostles of the other two of the [[Dead Three]] and bring death to the world in exchange for bringing his daughter back. | |||
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. | 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. | ||