Born Elaida Kalim of the old town of Harken in Esia. Her father was Kored of Harken, her mother Elaina of Verity and her brother Tibus (Seer of Osarkir in Yarili).

Elaida was one of 3 people (Elaida, Tibus and their friend Grayam) who read the Statutes of the Damned in the Carnabrium of the Dead. Transformed by the book's powerful death magic into a thin, pale ivory skinned undead of absolute physical perfection, she became overnight the symbol of the Damned and Queen of all her kind.

Changing her name to Makaila, her effect on the impressionable minds of the common people proved nothing less than divine. The religion of Akilla sprang from her actions and ways but over 1500 years (800 of those spent lost and entombed) the Spirits of Cairis forgot their origins and Makaila - wanting to believe they sprang from a divine source, not undead.

In 2600 when Goruan Eshan found Makaila's entombed body and released her, she was received with mixed feelings among the spiritual community. Many wanted to kill her and a few actually tried. Nevertheless without Makaila's aid, the Deathwatch of Orin would never have been defeated.

When Goruan met an untimely death he became the first of the New Spirit's of Power and called himself Darkmoon. Only one other person became became Spirit of Makaila after that; a young girl called Ruth who transformed into the Spririt Dark Child.

Makaila regenerates POW back at different rates depending on the time of the month and moon cycle. Her powers are also linked to the moon (just like the Spirit's of Cairis whom she created). Therefore during the Full moon she is at her weakest and during the New Moon she is strongest.
 
 

Makaila can perceive all planes and see through all forms of invisibility. She has the equivalent of True Sight 15th level.

She can also shift to any spiritual plane of existence at will - passing beyond the veil.

Anyone baptized by Makaila's blood (either by drinking it directly with her permission or by being fed it whilst near to death) will return upon death as a Spirit of Power. Their exact manifestation is dependent upon how much of Makaila's blood was used prior to the transformation and their own alignment / emotions / personalities. I.e. It is unlikely that a Goodly priest who has led a zealot's life will return as a Spirit with power's over inflicting pain -though saying that his sermon's might.

Her blood can also be used to make any conjuration or illusion solid / physical for sometimes days in duration !

From 2101 to 2601 there existed a small out of the way village in western Damorkand called Man End. To the casual passerby this village appeared normal and the people, even if overly suspicious or anxious to be rid of strangers appeared to be plain village folk going about their everyday lives.

However behind the facade lay a darker side as every seemingly normal human being living in it was in fact a monster.

The Brood of Abaddon
Abaddon was the thirteenth Eshwin (or Black Elf) created by Orion the Eternal. Unfortunately during his creation Eskanu attacked Mount Eldahar and interfered with the procedure, causing random genetic changes to occur. Whereas the First 12 Eshwin were to be The Guardian's of the Lesser Races, Abaddon was to be to Enforcer and Law Bringer.

Following Eskanu's Dragon attack on Mount Eldahar in 201, everything fell into turmoil. The Eshwin fled, pursued by the Qual and whole sections of the Mountain were sealed off for many years. In one of these sections lay the incomplete Abaddon.

Aware of his surroundings but with only a partially made body, Abaddon spent some time completing his own creation using the tools and wealth of knowledge scattered around him. Whilst doing this he discovered a whole batch of "imperfect" Heartstones Orion casually tossed to one side, to be destroyed at a later date and noticed how after Eskanu's attack they now seemed to throb with life.

Eventually Abaddon discovered a way to leave the battle ruined Mountain with the Heartstone's close to his chest. He whispered to them, promising them life and in return they whispered back, calling him The Father.

One of Whailin's southernmost citadels.
Current Lord - Bastian, 6’1”, blk hair, brn eyes. Aged 37.

An arrogant, self-centered man whose sole purpose is to further his own dominion, Bastian delights in pompous displays of power, regal furs, ornate trappings and clean halls and corridors. He is a mad-emperor in the making.

Isir and Aeris, The Lord’s daughters, aged 15 and 16, both 5’11” and blonde haired.

Zeal, Head Kori of Kyth, 5’10”, blk hair (wild), grn eyes. Aged 32.

Zeal is unbalanced and therefore unpredictable. He swings from devout and holy to rabid rants and blasphemous outbursts. This is due to several unfortunate experiences during the Evermore war involving demons, Wilders and a stint of torture along the way. Nevertheless, he still holds title of Head Kori due to his unswavering zeal. (Also because no one else wants to deal with the Lord, since the Lord has taken a liking to chopping off heads).

General Gozin – Known for his huge moustache and smelly feet.
Major Bron – A stocky solid soldier, dependable but lacking in brain power.
Major Haggard – A great spearman and hunter. Haggard captured the troll Vader.
Major Justaf – Fairly new and inexperienced, raised in rank more by luck than talent.

The Horn of Marith – A bejeweled troll’s horn that rests on a stand by the Lord’s throne. Rumored to be the Horn blown in the Battle of the Gap against an invading army from Aegis.

Recent history
Whilst most other citadels have welcomed the years of peace, Marith’s Lord has taken the opportunity to expand his territory without challenge. He has increased his keeps and towers by building solely in wood, having no less than 7 keep sized and 14 towers C2616.

Marith’s population has flourished, now having up to 4000 people.

Math-mada-ma-may lived as Minantias' Raven familiar from 2481 to 2602. During this time the bird became a symbol of the Black Wizard's evil, spreading its wings far across the northlands. Where Math-mada appeared, people died.

The Land of Dark Moon.
Lord Goron of Dark Moon.
Ruler of a sizable population of humans. Most of Goron’s soldiers use stolen Frost-fire to increase their strength. They are also taller and larger than most, but take extra dmg vs fire and heat. The Frostfire caves did belong to the Wolfen, but Goron swore allegiance to Sidhe and she sent him Witch aid to defeat Juna’s people.

The Wolfen have been in magical slumber for over 300 years. Their Lord was Juna, cursed by the Witch King for not paying homage. They are frozen in blocks of very hard ice throughout the land. Sidhe often threatens Goron with releasing the Wolfen. Goron recently moved the blocks into one big mine and collapsed the entrance in the hope they never escape. However, he missed a few along the way. Namely, Chevran of the Tremere.

The Land of Ice Gard.
Lord Bastil (Bane’s son), of Ice Gard
Inherited his father’s Tower of Stars. Just as ruthless and mercenary. The people of Ice Gard have 3 ap vs cold and are very pale skinned. They eat a lot of meat and indeed, cannibalism is not against Bastil’s orders, especially in the Citadel itself. The people have the Ice Vein.
General Havoc (aka Hurin) of Ice Gard is an immense pale man who can swell himself magically up to 20’ tall. This ability has been his since birth and is a result of the Midnight Sun and his Witch mother Cyrene. Cyrene was punished for her indiscretion and given to Lord Bane as a sexual slave. Bane beat her, blinded her and let most of his troops rape her. She is imprisoned still in one of Ice Gard’s many towers. Havoc knows she is there but hates her.

The Land of Dim Dale.
Lord Jackal of Dim Dale.
An evil man, if ever there was one. Jackal’s ancestors cohorted with shadow demons and loved it. He now wields Blade, a thing of shadow that steals strength from its victims. He also has a monster of a bodyguard called Jugger. Ever since the Shadow wolf ate the Sun about 2000 years ago, Shadows have existed in one form or another. Now however, ever since the War of Shadax’ell, aka The War of Innocence, shadows are locked away inside black water pools and puddles. A mountain of black ice exists in Dim Dale called Mnt Sharendane. Though the shadows have no real power anymore, Jackal still listens to their whisperings. The Shadows were defeated by the heroes Antenor and Saiph. They used Daycaster’s tombstone and the words inscribed on it to briefly unite several powerful Anu. 

The Land of March.
Lord Tabelyn of March.
The March men live in the ground or in natural caves. They follow Kyth and have very rigid laws. They all wear bands around their heads, as symbolic protection from the Witch’s third eyes.
All girls are tested at 12 years of age for signs of witchcraft. If the girl shows signs of the craft or a leniency towards the Midnight Sun (see Witch tests), then the girl is blinded. Many of the wisest people in March are women who claim that only after losing their sight did they begin to "truly see."

The Troll Wastes.
Lord Gikhek of Tarma (of the troll nation).
Not really a Lord before Iner came along, but impressive nevertheless. Gikhek is tall, strong and of above average INT for most trolls. He has a slight characteristic lisp and single good eye.
The Trolls of the Far North live underground in icy "hollows" where they spend 75% of their time hibernating.

Goron is at war with Bastil. Dale is at war with March. Everyone is at war with the trolls, treating all trolls as fodder. In fact, every year Lord Bastil goes out to cull the troll numbers and hunt them down to use as slaves.

The Land of Midnight.
The Witch King - Arun.
Between 33 and 900 this land was ruled over by the Dark Fey (or Drynn, see 7 star races).
The Drynn became currupted by a powerful ANU spirit calling itself "Purity."

The Lord of Ice-Gard's magic items ;-
The Everlost armor ;- frosty white and draconian in nature. AP 22 and 9AP / dice vs cold.
The Shield of Winter ;- If wielded, freezes anything coming within 25’ for 2d6 dmg, and a further 2d6 dmg cumulative for every 5’ closer that target gets. If placed in an area, the shield can be used to create (over a period of time), an ice fortress, of icy towers, corridors, doorways etc, etc. This shield has been responsible for Icegard’s huge outer wall of ice, over fifty feet high and spiked on top.
The long sword, Pyre, is +10% +2 / +2 and possesses the power to turn normal fire into cold-fire. This ability can be used 3 times a week on any single piece of fire of any size (except dragon fire).

Other items in the Far North ;-
The sword, DragonSlayer. Once used to slay the Dragon Yamahay. +20% +4 / +4 x3 vs dragons.
The sword Blade. Thing of Shadow.
The Tombstone of Daycaster. Ancient relic with even more ancient writing.
The Ring of Anu. Aka the Somite Ring, or the Ring of Wizardry. A very elusive and powerful artefact.
The Elfstones - Tier Uthinel's - of which 3 exist.
The Star Metal artifacts - various and sundry objects forged from Star Metal.

ICEGARD

The Krystalgard – Elite guard of the citadel. All pale men. There are only 30. Their leader is Krisar. Their second is Femur. Every one the guard have a minimum of 60 skill ranks and an average ap of 14. They are all taught long sword, broad sword and spear.

An Odus – Stone shrine in the center of some villages. Dedicated to the Unnamable Witch King, a sacrifice is always made every ten days.

The Ice Vein – Those that possess it are deemed noble. It shows itself through pale skin and 70% blue eyes. The majority in Icegard who possess the vein, live in the citadel at Bastil’s court. They are resistant to cold, live 130% longer than normal humans and bleed at ½ rate. However, fire does x1.25 damage and pale women are 99% barren. Two types of Pale man exists. Those born with the vein (extremely rare) who are considered Lords and those who are initiated to the pale, via one of the ice vein’s natural pools / lakes.

One of the Triangle of Evil, Molgwin was everything children imagined witches to be, old, cackling and thoroughly nasty. She delighted in torture, in causing horror through her spells and bestowing curses on the unsuspecting.

She had a nice Skull staff that acted as a x2 PP multiplier and 40 PP store.
Her nastiest item was The Dust of Shrinking... used to shrink her victims down to several inches.

Top of the lot though was her fascination with all 8 legged hairy things. She loved poisons, webs and lots of eyes above dripping fangs.

One of 12 in Esium's Coven of Mordark, Mona was granted demonic power over plants. She hoarded many of the Coven's items during 2595, including a Ring of Mind Shielding and Bracelet of Spell Turning.

5'7" tall, shoulder length blonde hair, hazel eyes. DOB 2568. MHP 22. A thin face but full figure. Deceptively nice personality for a Coven member but would quite happily get your rose bush to prick you to death.

In 2598 she became Coven leader in Esium.
See Coven's of Mordark.

The Monarch (born Jasar Devery in 2202) lived until 2601, when a run in with North and several resurrected Kings of Esia put an end to the greatest unarmed fighter to live.

Years of physical training, mental discipline and spiritual pain therapy (designed to increase spiritual resistance and flexibility) made the Monarch a formidable, almost indestructible warrior. The head of a group of super assassins, the Monarch set up base on the island of Sevekar alongside the School of Mirror-mages. Using mirror magic to enter foreign palaces undetected, the Monarch and his assassins planned to terrorize the whole of Eldahar.

Skills;-

STR 22.94 DEX 22.22 AGI 23.61 CON 24 HEA 18.95 POW 19.83
DBON 1d6+1 (2d6) MHP 51
Dodge 110 SR
Tumbling 56 SR
2 handed attacks Rapier 122 SR ! Short sword 100 SR
Acrobatics 95 SR
Power moves 66 SR - special ability to use POW in combat - ie to leap great distances and dodge the impossible.
Hand strikes 102 SR
Kicks 104 SR
Sweeps 92 SR
Throws 82 SR
Locks 85 SR
Power strike 55 SR
Climb 93 SR
Landing 76 SR
Poison immunity 98%
Throwing crescent 78 SR

A.K.A Mordark
Also see
Moorum of Evermore
Lords of Evermore
Chaos Lords

Mor is a land in the far north of the continent of Eldahar. Prior to the 6th century it was known as Evermore and occupied by villages and a few ice towns. Then in the 6th century a power entered the world, the Power of Chaos. Suddenly invaded by the Chaos Lord Mor, Evermore became a haven for creatures and undead, spearheading three great campaigns of destruction into the more southern countries.

Places in Evermore;-
The Maelmord
Large black twisted forest full of Lady Yulasha's spiders.
The Black Mountains
Impassable range of mountains forming a natural barrier between Mordark and the south.
The Citadel of Souls
Moorum's citadel. A hideous structure that shifts around Evermore devouring matter, reshaping it and then spewing it back out in its wake. Moorum's citadel could just as easily consume a swamp and create a beautiful forest - it doesn't care and neither does he.
Citadel Fenring
The Morgrind
Citadel Terrorkin
Citadel Bachisgard
The Morlake
Poisonous soul consuming lake that grants true reflections of self. The waters of Morlake can also restore a soul to its rightful place.
Dark Dale
Home to the Black Giants of Mor. Over 75 of them live within its borders.
Citadel Black Mark
Ornis Keln
Citadel of the Orn.
The Black River
Thick, viscous river full of dead bodies.
Citadel Mormeldin
The living Citadel.

Creatures of Evermore
The Mormen - The Frozen dead. Led by Updul's and Vath's, the Mormen are the animated frozen dead bodies of those that die in battle or of natural causes. Animated by Priest's of Mor or the Ice Trolls themselves, Mormen number in the 10's of thousands and form the core 80% of Mordark's forces.

The Orn - Hideous Orc-like beings standing nearly 7' tall. With white hairy manes and huge fangs, these bestial like humanoids live by a strong code of battle honor. Their leaders rule by ferocity and strength, symbolizing the entire Orn attitude to fighting. Orn fear nothing, run away from nothing and do not stop fighting until told to by their leaders. They only respect brute strength and bravery considering all other races shortchanged in these departments.
Orn live on Evermore's southern plains, existing in loose tribal structures. The Orn of Evermore (The Khi'uyo) are not to be confused with the more wild Orn of the Fells and the more structured and Religious Orn of Louhri's Kingdom.

The Black Giants - 75 of them exist in 2599 though that number drops to 43 by the beginning of 2602. Once the inner court of Lord Orcist of Mor, the 99 lesser Lords and Nobles of Pain were transformed in 998 into 20' tall Black skinned giants of incredible beauty and prowess. Made immortal by the Chaos God Mor, these giants were only hindered by poor senses. When Mor made them large, powerful and unaging, he also gave them defects. Some went prematurely blind, others deaf or dumb. A few lost the ability to walk or to smell or feel whilst some developed poor memories and others lost all sanity completely. Many of the Giants did excel at forging Black Iron into Black Steel, creating many of Mor's armor and weapons in the, well you guessed it, The Black Forge.