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Morbis Venu

Morbis is highly exceptional among the surviving members of "Inner Council" in that she (while not only being their youngest member) has mastered a truly unique form of necromancy that wills an absolute control surrounding phantasmal energies via the use of sound waves. Through haunting songs she can steal the will of both the living and the dead.

Venu is very much the ingenious Protégé of the "Lich Cerdrych", an extremely ancient and cunning Lich one who might very well control even the actions of Lord Baulter. Unlike other Lichs, those forced to master the spell of “Eternal Death” themselves, she was gifted with a complete casting of the spell by Cerdrych on her behalf. When the spell of “Eternal Death” is cast on another’s behalf, whether or not that target can rise to the ranks of Lichdom depends entirely on the strength of their will to live… an intense display of mind over matter.

Morbis’ had been bitten in a freak attack by a "Lesser Abyssal Worm". She sustained an intense injury to her left arm known as “a degloving” that left her teetering at deaths door. Having witnessed her potential first hand, Lich Cerdrych (touched by the warmth of her soul), could not stand idly by and intervened on her behalf.

Under Cerdrych’s tutelage she became an extremely cunning war commander. The spells she weaved through song were vastly effective at raising and controlling extremely powerful armies of undead. Eventually after less than a century of undeath she came into conflict with the lone Paladin. Sensing the potential of her capacity for destruction he placed a powerful curse upon her. The curse foretold that she would die within a month after leaving her home in the northlands. This effectively ensnared Morbis, confining her to the rural country in the frigid waste of the north for over 300 years. Thanks to the Paladin curse the “Inner Council” has was unable to utilize her talents in any serious way.

300 years later she is still very much a child at heart. Her only window to the world beyond, are the infrequent visits from her Lord Cerdrych, whom she shares a bittersweet unspoken love for.

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I was inspired to create this character after listening to the music from the group "Nightwish". A group I highly recommend. ^_~

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Mask-of-Vice's avatar
This character caught my attention for some reason... She's pretty (even though she's a lich). One question, what do you mean by "bittersweet unspoken love"? Or more so, what do you mean by "bittersweet"?