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== History == | == History == | ||
=== | === Selûnite origins === | ||
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.<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> | 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> | ||
=== | === Conversion to 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|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. | 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. | 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. | ||
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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
=== | === Resurrected as 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. | 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. | ||