Caddog the Undying
In the time before the Great Arcane Cataclysm, individuals with inquisitive natures, sharp minds, and driving passions cracked open the secrets of the universe. They played with raw arcane power, toyed with the nature of created beings, and explored truths of life unknown to any but the gods. Some saw their own enormous power and believed themselves to be gods.
Caddog the Undying was one of these.
Once a human man, Caddog became obsessed with the idea of immortality. He explored dozens of magical ways of defeating death, creating animate skeletons and hulking zombies, experimenting with vampiric abilities and the nature of the soul. In his madness and thirst for power and life eternal, he released hundreds of undead on the world, uncaring what happened to them after seeing if he could create the kind of results he longed for.
After many long years of experimentation, and many half-successful attempts to develop immortality, Caddog finally found the answer he long sought - a powerful ritual and series of spells which would allow him to become immortal. But as part of the ritual, he would have to cut out his own heart.
By that point, Caddog was obsessive. He felt no hesitation in cutting out his own heart - and in doing so, he finally gained the immortality he craved. Though his body withered and decayed, no matter how much he was injured, he could no longer die. For his life and soul were tied up within his heart - and his heart was still beating, jealously guarded far away from himself.
Caddog became a terror upon the countryside, for in his quest for immortality he had also learned immoral ways. Now with his assured eternal life, he sought out and destroyed his enemies, murdered innocents in order to join his massive undead army, and sought to rule the world - forever. Many tried to oppose him, and all failed. He seemed unconquerable - until one day, he suddenly disappeared.
No one knows for sure what happened to him - for he was legend even in the time of the Great Arcane Cataclysm, and his story has only grown more obscured in the telling. Some believe some brave group of heroes must finally have defeated him. Others think that the gods finally struck him down for his arrogance and cruelty.
Still others believe he simply grew bored with conquering - and that he will return one day, when his interest returns once more to this world.
Mental characteristics
Accomplishments & Achievements
The first and only human so far to have discovered immortality.
Morality & Philosophy
Caddog is completely amoral and immoral - the intelligent survive and exploit the stupid, while the stupid either serve the intelligent, or die.
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