Slith The Despised

For any newly practicing Necromancer their first resurrection is a very personal matter filled with love and dedication. Reinhardt Garlind spent months tracking down just the right components for his first. He gave her a beautiful face that was like snowy porcelain. Spent what felt like ages fine tuning her delicate hands alone. No expense was spared in crafting her silken dress that billowed in the wind most elegantly. When he finally breathed new life into her she was a most impressive sight to behold. The ancient Lichs were much impressed to see that such a finely crafted undead had been crafted by such youth.

Dubbing her Sylph he soon sent her on her first mission; to deliver a box of the nation's finest chocolates to the Baroness of the North to whom he owed a great debt of gratitude for her sponsoring his early training. Sylph eagerly left to complete her mission, her sole desire being to please her new lord. Events however did not go smoothly as planned and in fact could be said to have been disastrous.

Attempting to take a short cut through the woods Sylph encountered a Titanic Brood Mother. A very irritable arachnid who was not at all pleased to have her children awoken by one so wispy as Sylph. She punished Sylph by biting her porcelain face right off and laying eggs inside of her brain. It would do much to teach such a lowly zombie to watch whose home she barges into.

Still clutching the package of chocolates in her delicate hands Sylph bumped into a sleeping Paladin on the road spooking him severely. He promptly sliced off both of her hands believing her to be carrying out some sort of dastardly plan. It would do well to teach such a lowly zombie to watch who she goes bumping into.

Having lost her package Sylph had to return home for another but tripped on the way back and rolled down a hill covered in violent Corpse Weeds who were not at all pleased to have their sun bathing interrupted by one so garish as Sylph. They bit and poked at her with their thorns slicing her silky dress into frayed rags right up to her landing at the bottom of the hill. It would do well to teach such a lowly zombie to go stomping on sleeping plants.

When Sylph finally made it back home she was in quite a terrible state. Garlind could only shake his head in utter disbelief that a member of the walking dead could have so much trouble with so simple a task. He stripped her of her name and left her to her rags and spiders. So infuriated was he that he never repaired her to her former glory; instead grafting two razor sharp hooks where her hands should have been.

These days Slith's duties are to gather the dead, the freshest she can find as specimens for her Lord's research. It was a bothersome task to Slith and she did not care to wander far into the world to find them. She eventually got lazy and just opted to bring home living people. They were much easier to find if not somewhat trickier to carry since they would not stop their kicking and screaming until she was very nearly home.

Despite her initial failures, Slith always managed to bring home the best components for her Master research. He decided to keep her around despite her garish appearance. She might have begun undeath as a low ranked zombie but in time she would surely join the ranks of the elite and maybe have some of her original features repaired to boot. Those thoughts along with the chirping spiders in her mind go a long way toward making those cold nights alone in the harsh vicious world much more bearable.

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This one took much longer to complete than I initially expected, my computer crashing and wiping out 4 hours of work half way through didn't help matters much either. > .<

Slith is a rather infamous undead in her areas of operation. She has been bested multiple times by Paladins, Mercenaries, and even farmers but she is relatively easy to repair and through her experiences has become quite the adept combatant. She especially enjoys throwing fierce kicks with her high level of unexpected agility just to keep things fresh. Occasionally she is capable of surprising opponents via envenomed spider bites from her hollow face.

Oh yeah FYI She's not wearing a mask and those aren't her eyes. XD

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