desc + You set your gaze upon a stout, ebon-skinned figure clad in
desc + priestly attire. He stands approximately five feet tall and
desc + probably weighs nearly 200 pounds. He has no recognizable
desc + neck and his head rests like a boulder on his broad shoulders.
desc + His hair is long, but extremely thin giving it a patchy look.
desc + His scalp is horribly scarred as are his forearms and legs.
desc + His eyebrows are extremely thick thinning only slightly where
desc + they meet over his nose. His eyes are a pale yellow and are
desc + separated by a broad nose with cavernous nostrils. A thick,
desc + greasy beard hangs from his face ending just above his navel
desc + where it is cut into three triangular points. He is powerfully
desc + built, but overweight by normal human standards.

role + **********=====BELIEFS=====**********
role + Yllorok was orphaned at birth. Some say his first kill was
role + his own mother and, to some extent, he is glad they say it.
role + It's something he takes some degree of pride in; that he had
role + destroyed as early as his first breaths. He lives for bringing
role + suffering to others, for sharing his own turmoil with as many
role + as possible. He aims to take a position of great power so that
role + he can breed frustration and contempt and squeeze every ounce
role + of hope from the populace as if he had his hands around their
role + collective throat. He would rule over a broken world, a world
role + where the people are too downtrodden to rise up against him, a
role + world where the people accept their destruction like a beaten
role + dog cowering in the presence of its master.
role +
role + **********=====BIRTH=====**********
role + The enslaved druids muttered to themselves. It had been a
role + long time since they had seen the greenery of the land far
role + overhead, the wildlife they held so dear, and the moon. Oh
role + how they longed to see the moon. They could still sense it
role + so they knew at least what phase it was in, but not being
role + able to see it had broken their spirit.
role +
role + They had been rendered nearly useless, which suited their
role + captors just fine as a druid too beaten to cast their fiery
role + seeds or plant their sharp thorns was a druid they could
role + make use of. They still had their knowledge, of course,
role + and it was this that the duergar wanted.
role +
role + Druids made excellent midwives. For a long time the duergar
role + had been plagued by children born still. They saw it as a
role + sign of weakness, but a few were wise enough to know it was
role + probably something else. They were the ones who had captured
role + and enslaved the druids. Since their arrival no child had been
role + still-born.
role +
role + The birth of Yllorok was only slightly unusual. He was born
role + on the last Day of Deception in the Month of Futility. They
role + couldn't know for sure, but the druids believed that the
role + Sentinel of Order held both the Celestial Eye and The Burning
role + Ring. They took this as a bad omen. The child would likely
role + take a place of power over many others and rule tyrannically.
role + A second bad omen came when Yllorok's mother died in child-
role + birth.
role +
role + Some said the newborn clung to his mother's innards as he was
role + born, dragging her guts out along with him. Others said he had
role + kicked her so long and so hard that deep bruising and bleeding
role + caused her demise. Still others said his mother's death was the
role + the doing of Shokai as retribution for her unleashing such a
role + menace unto the world. Only the druids knew the truth and they
role + weren't telling.
role +
role + **********=====TRAINING=====**********
role + Orphaned at birth, Yllorok was given no choice but to be taken
role + in by the duergar armies. He was trained in combat, strategy,
role + interrogation, and torture. Yllorok reveled in the pain he
role + endured as well as that which he inflicted. If a prisoner held
role + secrets Yllorok was called upon to get at them. He did this for
role + many years and was considered a prodigy of sorts. It was as if
role + he was born attuned to suffering and turmoil. He could take a
role + man to their breaking point so that only death promised sweet
role + release. Under these conditions most would share their inner
role + most secrets willingly.
role +
role + Many believed he had been gifted by the dark gods. Seeing him
role + as a possible weapon, the duergar king demanded that he enter
role + the unholy priesthood and so he did. He took to the ways of
role + the shaman as he took to breathing upon birth. His given duty
role + was to bring the world under his, and by extension the King's,
role + dominion. How he did so was entirely up to him.
role +
role + **********=====EMPIRE=====**********
role + Yllorok regretted his decision almost immediately after reciting
role + the bloodoath. One part struck him as untrue as he repeated the
role + words that Vidros spoke. His soul was damned, he knew it and his
role + Lord knew it. It did not belong to the Empire, it belonged to his
role + Lord. When he was vanquished it would not haunt the halls of the
role + Palace, it would be beside his Lord in the Abyss bringing pain
role + and punishment onto those who had not gained the enlightenment
role + that he enjoyed. Though he regretted his decision, he accepted it.
role + One more piece of evidence, he thought, that he was damned.
role +
role + Others immediately lorded themselves over him. He had expected
role + as much, but this did nothing to decrease the bite of it. He saw
role + only one way to make the best of things and that was to make his
role + worth known so that he would rise through the ranks. Once at the
role + top he fully intended on making suffer those who had been foolish
role + enough to think themselves better than he. Of course, that had
role + been his intent from the start. He had always planned on being
role + the Emperor, or Provost Magistrate, or Chancellor for only from
role + those seats could he spread his bile and pain to the farthest
role + reaches of the land. Now, however, his ascension through the
role + ranks took on a sense of urgency.
role +
role + It was not long before he rose above being a simple Bloodoath.
role +
role + Yllorok advanced far in the Empire, in his guild, and spiritually
role + over the many years since taking the Blood Oath. It still gnawed
role + at his mind each time the novitiate guard of the Divine Sect had
role + him repeat the Oath, but seeing it as a means to an end he always
role + gave the correct reply.
role +
role + However, his progress on many fronts had hit roadblocks and grown
role + stagnant. He could advance no farther up the Imperial hierarchy
role + without first stepping on the High Priest. He had no qualms about
role + this. The Divine Sect lead the Empire in donations and yet the
role + Immortal Lords of Empire saw fit to raise a Black instead. Yllorok
role + sees this as failure on the part of Haaslett. The Divine Sect
role + did what it was supposed to do; donate more than the rest, but the
role + High Priest failed to carry it to the Throne. The Dread Lord
role + Smonund had voiced his desire, in a noncommittal sort of way, to
role + see Yllorok into the Council of Four. Yllorok hoped the Emperor
role + wanted the same. Too many had taken to stepping on the toes of the
role + Divine Sect and for some reason the High Priest refused to throw
role + the weight of the Sect around. Yllorok would not be so passive.
role +
role + As far as the Empire in general was concerned, Yllorok felt only
role + slightly better about the choice he had made. He had surrounded
role + himself with fools, to be sure, but he kept his eyes on the Throne.
role + It seemed to him that too many embraced the ideal of a glorious
role + future without first accepting the pain, suffering, and turmoil
role + it would take to see the ideal to fruition. The Empire would have
role + to seize rebellion by the neck and squeeze the life from it. The
role + Empire would have to force bystanders to commit to the cause or
role + count them as rebels. The Empire would have to become more stern
role + in general because being accepting of faults was getting it
role + nowhere.
role +
role + Yllorok also believed that his grasp of his Lord's religion had
role + loosened. He had not yet received his Lord's mark, a sign to him
role + that he was missing something. When the fool Blade Hukalon became
role + the first to separate Yllorok's body and soul a zombie was raised.
role + The zombie advised Yllorok that death was not the only type of
role + pain, that pain in life must also be spread. He had plans on how
role + to see to that in the future and had already allowed others to
role + know pain in life in the past. Perhaps the most vivid moment was
role + when a young storm giant let slip that he cared only for the
role + children of the world. Yllorok promptly summoned every child he
role + could and littered the floor of the Sect Hall with their corpses
role + so that the healer could sense their presence through prayer.
role +
role + Yllorok decided to rededicate himself to all he had set out to
role + do at the beginning. He had grown soft with the ease of it to
role + this point. It was time the world knew what he was about.