Famous for his Darkhelm, Ogrek started off his Wraith existence, throttling Goblins in the Catacombs, but upon Laylak's order, moved to Eastern Daas to establish a colony of Dark priests.

For a dead Lord, he sure was talkative.
After death his flag became a Red skull on a black background.

Ogrek was the first Wraith to come out of hiding - he was the Herald of things to come during the years 2592 to 2598. No one knew what he was or what he wanted, only that he was one of the Triangle of Evil. 

See Laylak and Wraiths.

For millennia, the greatest thinkers and philosophers of more than a hundred races have speculated on Orion's origins and purpose. Is he a God? Is he really immortal, eternal and without equal?

Below is a history of Orion - by no means complete, it does shed some light on this enigma of a being...

Eventually these two bodiless beings decided to settle and turn their thoughts to things other than exploration. They decided to share their knowledge and wonder of the Universe by making a child. They joined their minds in an act of pure creation, drawing upon the cosmic energies and matter present in suns, nebulae and anomalies to mould a being of such perfection, beauty and power that the entire Universe rippled with his coming.

The child was Orion and he was more than they had ever dreamed.
In appearance, he was perfect; standing well over 7 feet tall, his skin flawless and ageless from an inner luminescence. Like an angel, he bore a pair of huge glowing wings, projected behind him by the power of his mind and able to soar him through the stars at the speed of thought whilst one side of his body shone purest white, the other a deeply absorbing black, representing the natural balance of his soul.

The two beings rejoiced at their creation and guided Orion to many of the Universe's greatest wonders. Some say the sounds of their happiness still echo now at the farthest corners of existence, bringing comfort to the lost and forgotten.

They taught Orion everything they knew, sometimes passing decades in contemplation and speculation. But eventually Orion came to his own conclusions and chose a path his parents would not / could not condone. One day he descended upon a young world and found humanoid beings not dissimilar to his own appearance, engaged in acts of terrible violence and atrocity. Before his parents could stop him, he ignored a thousand years of their teachings and made himself visible.

Unshielded, Orion's naked mind and body contained the harnessed cosmic energies of the Universe. It proved too much for the fragile humanoids before him. Some went suddenly and irreversibly mad while others burst into flame, their flesh overwhelmed by his light. In moments, the beings smoldered until only a handful remained, hideously twisted and scarred. (Note - This is where Baphomet links his mind to this world, Silvosa, creating a gateway. The Dragon King hears the minds of these people crying out across the void and comes to their aid. But when he arrives, he senses another being of tremendous power and leaves. The gateway remains though, linking Silvosa to the Heartstone of Eldahar and its network of Voidal links - proving instrumental to future events.)

Orion cried out and took the fragile forms up into his arms. Weeping, he summoned his parents; 
"Why is this?"
"You are not like them... you are of the stars, the Heart of the Universe beats as one with yours. It is too much for these beings... your aura can influence the very suns that give these beings life. What then does it do to their mere flesh and bone?"
"Make it the way it was," Orion demanded.
"We cannot. We may be timeless but we are still bound within time."
"Leave them Orion, they are of no consequence. Thousands of millions of them die in the Universe as we speak."
"No !" Orion cried. "Why?"
"Why do you still persist in this matter? You know the secrets of the Universe. You know why it cycles, why things are the way they are..."
"I have the power to reshape this Universe. I am the Universe bound in flesh. If you cannot do as I ask, why then cannot I?"
"We forbid it."
Orion looked down at the thousands lying dead at his feet, feeling their tiny minds evaporating into the ether. "I have done wrong of these beings. I will see things set right."
"If you choose to interfere at this level, we cannot help you. You will be alone."
"So be it. This is something I must do. I have seen the Universe through your eyes, now let me see it through the eyes of such as these."
So the two bodiless beings left, leaving Orion among the dead, trying to use his powers in different and more subtle ways. He managed to preserve two of the creatures and restore them. Such was his naivety of other forms that he recreated theirs into a likeness of his own, but try as he might to make them part black and part white, Orion could not because he had stepped over the boundaries of his own balance.
When these two beings awakened, Orion spoke to them from afar. "I am Orion. I have remade you and reshaped your flesh so that it is now more durable against time and the elements." Then, unable to think of anything else to say, Orion retreated to a distant corner of the galaxy and watched.
The two beings stared at one another, at their white skin, tall lean frames and wide colorful eyes. They had become creatures of unparalleled beauty, one male, one female. At first they just wandered, weeping over their dead kin. Then after a long time, they sat and contemplated the future.
The male was called Lythan, the female called Teah. Together they had become the first of a new race, created by Orion and later to be called the Qual.

A thousand years passed and Orion still watched as if time had only blinked. Teah and Lythan had managed after many attempts to sire a family, a feat Orion found incredible, as when he had created their new bodies, he hadn't given any thought to procreation. Indeed, though their flesh bore no similarity to his own indestructible cosmic matter, the template was very much the same and hence, sterile.

Somehow though, Lythan and Teah had overcome this problem and sired 6 children, each radically different from the next. One was short, hairy and thick set with a strong musculature and frame. The second was tall, lissome and thin. Swift of foot and keen of eye and hearing. The third was dark skinned, thin, swift and cunning. The fourth physically unimpressive but mentally focused and astute. The fifth strong and winged, the sixth adaptable and blue skinned, able to exist in different environments.

These children in turn became the first of their own kinds, forming the Seven families.

After another two thousand years, the seven families had grown in population, calling themselves different names and developing distinct characteristics to set them apart from the others. Also, a few more Qual had born, giving rise to the theory that one in every ten thousand couplings would produce a Qual; literally a hybrid genetic mix, as each and every member of the seven families had come from the same DNA.

Then something happened that changed everything. The Qual discovered Baphomet's gateway.
At first they didn't understand it. But it's material was unlike anything they had previously found and it's design suggested the presence of other intelligent life. This meant the Qual could not leave it alone. They labored for many years, trying to unlock its secrets until one day, they did.

Orion knew the gateway didn't really exist - it was the projection of a mind or power even more powerful than his own; an illusion of such intensity that to anything other him, it would be real. What bothered Orion though, was that this gateway led to somewhere he could not go and knew nothing about.

Opening the gateway, the Qual risked angering this "power beyond" and not willing to see his "children" harmed in any way, Orion descended upon the Qual homeworld of Silvosa like a falling sun.
Sending waves of comfort and love before him, Orion appeared to all his children and announced his return. As one, to the very core of their being, they felt his presence and accepted his rule. With Orion by their side, they were now complete. He then told them of their origins, how he had inadvertently destroyed their ancestors and they forgave him, rejoicing in his light.
When the celebrations began to fade, attention turned again to the gateway. They called the energy flowing through the gateway - Void energy and with Orion's help, they managed to harness its power into 12 ruling rings. But try as he might to probe this Void, Orion's mind kept becoming lost. In this void, there were no markers or points of reference. Also, it literally proved timeless, i.e. in the gate, time stood still. All this conspired to make the gate an enigma. All the Qual and Orion knew for certain was that anything going in, never, ever came out again.

Thousands of more years passed and the 7 families became 7 races occupying 7 closely linked worlds. The Qual ruled over the other six and Orion ruled over the Qual. Not that Orion ever made decisions or acted directly... in fact Orion spent hundreds of years at a time in silence, sat on his throne, sending his mind across the cosmos in search of his parents. He wanted to show them his creation, show them they had been wrong all this time. But most of all, he wanted their companionship. He was alone among the Qual. They still feared him like a God and tried to keep their minds a secret from him, none of them truly understanding his power or his purpose.

Then the events as chronicled in The Coming of Humankind to the Seven Fold Circle took place. The gateway was made unstable by the detonation of a Anti Matter Bomb just after human rebels fled through it to another world. Closely followed by the decimated remnents of the 7 races and Orion himself, the golden age of the Qual had come to a sudden and cataclysmic end.

Now Orion had been so engaged in the search for his parents that he hadn't noticed the arrival of humans among his children at all. When the bomb exploded, hearing the death cry of 95% of his "children" brought him snapping back across the Universe in a furor.

He was still too late. Able to partially contain the explosion, he found himself only able to delay the collapsing gate (that was rapidly becoming something similar to a Black Hole). Orion lacked the power to move his people away to safety as matter was being sucked into the gate at a frighteningly exponential rate. So he made a decision. If his people were unable to escape the gate, he would shield them with his mind and enter it to.

What followed was later called "The Homeland Exodus." All the worlds touched by Baphomet's Mind gates across the Void began to collapse, one after another. Before each gate became too unstable, refugees from each and every world down the line piled into the collapsing gateways in order to escape destruction. Eventually, over a hundred and twenty worlds later, thousands of these fleeing beings, of hundreds of different races, religions and creeds, poured out of the Master Gate on Mount Eldahar. They had arrived at the "Eldar Home" - origin point for all the Voidal Gates and home to Baphomet - Dragon King, creator of the Heartstone of Eldahar.

Year 0;-
Sensing a terrible force following the refugees through the gate, Baphomet shut and locked the Master Gate, keeping the Cataclysm at bay and turning Eldahar into a Safe Haven. What followed is chronicled the Story of Baphomet.

The Titans and Dragons of Eldahar were divided on what to do with the Homeland refugees. Some of them feared the power these new races brought with them and feared losing control over the Heart of Eldahar. Others were willing to give these homeless people a new Home. Eventually things became so volatile that a group of Dragons led by the Titan Eskanu attacked and "killed" Baphomet. Note - The story of this terrible day has been told many times - there are many different versions. In another, it is Orion who unfortunately causes Baphomet's demise. In another, Baphomet is merely crippled and rendered inanimate by the shattering of his own Heartstone.

Orion refused to let this group of creatures destroy his children. Also, within the Heartstone of Eldahar, Orion himself have become vulnerable to whoever had absolute control of the Heartstone. i.e. Whoever controlled the Heartstone could make or remake anything in Eldahar - including to some degree, a being as powerful as Orion. Sensing this danger to himself, his purpose and his children, Orion took a bold and suicidal step. He reached out with his mind and tried to place the entire world within his own imagination. As he was technically already inside it's imagination a sequence of strange events transpired.

A replica of the Heartstone of Eldahar materialised inside Orion's mind; something Eskanu and Baphomet had never been able to accomplish and Orion only managed because of the uniqueness of his mind. Then, focusing his will, Orion shattered the stone inside his head, thereby preventing anyone or anything from gaining absolute mastery over Eldahar.

Orion however suffered a mental schism that literally shattered his mind along with the Heartstone. His mind and that of the World had for a moment been one. Now the world was cracked and Orion along with it.
Some of the side effects of this were;-
 

• An infinite number of realities (or Ids) came into existence representing the infinite paths of history from that moment onwards. Eldar Prime remained the main reality but countless other lesser realities (or reflections trapped in the shattered crystal) became real.
• Orion's form dissipated onto the astral plane, his mind and purpose becoming that of the World and vice versa. From the moment he shattered the Heartstone, he became a part of every cloud, every God, every item and every being in the World.

The future;-
Eldahar's Heartstone and Orion's mind must be healed. Some things have arisen within the Campaign that Must have done so by the will of Orion.

A Mentalist called Tamara made contact with Orion's mind by gaining entrance to his unconsciousness. There she discovered Mental Facets or Archetypes called Fatherland, Motherland, Sisterland and Brotherland. It was her belief that all four Archetypes needed to be united in order for Orion to reform himself. She discovered herself to be Motherland, Danae Mercy Celeste to be Sisterland, the World's interpretation of Orion (not the true Orion) to be Fatherland and the person that started the whole Cataclysm in the first place, Hannibal Murdoch O'Neal, to be Brotherland.

The far future;- A possible scenario...
Orion and Danae gain control over the healed Heartstone. Orion representing the Universe beyond Eldahar and Danae representing Eldahar itself. Together they reopen the Master Gate and reform the Voidal gateways. As the Void is timeless, so to is Eldahar in the eyes of the outside Universe; hence no time has in fact passed.
They reverse the flow of matter from the Void, leave Eldahar and travel back to those Worlds that the Cataclysm destroyed, finding them reformed.

Together they travel through the Universe and come to a startling conclusion. Recreating the gateways didn't just undo the cataclysm but also undid time, taking them back to the point in time that Baphomet created the gates in the first place. Phew.

Orion realises this and one other fact. He and Danae now exist as bodiless minds after their metamorphosis in the Heartstone. Two bodiless beings journeying the Universe that will eventually have a son.... called Baphomet ?

By-names of Orion. Throughout the centuries, many countries have adopted their own beliefs about who Orion is and how he will return. As a consequence of this he has been called many names;-

Orion's aura allows him to propel himself through space and air at phenomenal speeds. 

The Overfiend is born into the World with very little knowledge. However, as soon as he touches another spirit or living entity he can for an instant only, actually become that entity.

One of the fundamental Laws of Existence states ;- "Two identical things cannot exist on the same Id at the same time. If for any reason they do, one of them will cease to be."

When the Overfiend reverts back to his base form, he retains a % of the knowledge of the form he just was. Further contact with the object / entity has no effect as this ability only works once. This is because the World sets up a "block", preventing this quirk in Creation from happening again.

During his first few hours of existence, "Ash" - as he is called by Ragnek and Syrene (his parents) begins learning about the World and his place in it. Elondil and Daig both witness the Overfiend's arrival in the World and gather to discuss it's meaning.