Sa'nakt
The Sword of Destiny
Sa'nakt is a man with many titles: Sword of Destiny, He Who Sleeps Under the Shifting Sands, Son of the Sun, God-King of Amrikh and many, many more. He was an aasimar crafted by Hesmash, the Amrikhi sun-god, with the purpose of protecting her people. He lived and died through many wars, and eventually led the Amrikhi during the Twilight Wars.
After the Cataclysm, Sa'nakt went to sleep again under the sands, waiting for a time to reawaken and bring the Amrikh empire back to power with countless undead legions.
After the Cataclysm, Sa'nakt went to sleep again under the sands, waiting for a time to reawaken and bring the Amrikh empire back to power with countless undead legions.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Sa'nakt is an aasimar created by the Sun, ancient amrikhi god of life . He served as an immortal champion for the amrikhi who they could ressurect whenever they needed his aid. As the years turned to centuries turned to millennia, Sa'nakt was resurrected time and time again to protect his people and fight their enemies. Crisis through crisis, Sa'nakt accepted his duty as guardian. But slowly and surely his acceptance turned to frustration. How many times did he have to protect these mortals? How many times must their leaders make mistakes that he had to spend his own blood and pain to correct? Each ressurection, a painful and fiery process, slowly made him more and more bitter.
With the coming of the Twilight Wars he had enough. He was resurrected in time to save the amrikhi empire from the legions of daemons and Twilight elves, turning them away with his burning halo of sunlight and driving them back underground. He marched up to the king of the amrikhs and told the king that he would rule the amrikhi from now on. The king and his priests tried to brand Sa'nakt a heathen and blasphemer, but Sa'nakt personally gutted them all and hung their entrails out to dry in the desert. The people, fearful of the daemons and twilight elves, hailed Sa'nakt as their savior, as their god of protection, and he began to rule them.
He crafted great armies and took them with him underground, where they were one of the earliest surface realms to strike back at the Twilight Realm. While Sa'nakt wasn't there for the assault on the Abyssal Well, the news that a surface nation could strike at the Twilight Elves was great inspiration to the many nations working together to defeat the darkness in those bleak years. His armies fought in the Twilight Realm, breaking several important fortresses and being vital in the success of the campaign.
After the Twilight Wars were finally over, Sa'nakt enjoyed peace for the first time in his long existence. He was a great ruler, giving his people good laws, changing the religious customs to place less focus on human sacrifice and gave slaves more freedoms. He was given many titles by the people who loved him, as he was the most competent and caring ruler the amrikhi had enjoyed in milennia.
When his natural lifespan finally neared its end, and he would soon be reincarnated again, he returned to his slumber. He trusted the grandchild of the deposed king to rule wisely with the instructions Sa'nakt had left behind, and entered his slumber knowing that he had finally done some real good for his people
When he woke next time, he realized that things hade gone horribly, horribly wrong. For a few generations, Sa'nakt's legacy had stood strong. But the kings grew more and more decadent, wishing simply to hang on to their power. When crises did arise, they did not ressurect Sa'nakt, fearing that he would take their power from them. Instead they tried to weather the storms themselves, resulting in the slow but steady reduction in the amrikhi empire until finally only Akshus remained.
These weak kings had been decieved by the Grand Necromancer, who taught them how to use necromancy to create legions of tireless, undead warriors, how to prolong their existences into eternity by using synthetic afterlives to enjoy hedonism and luxury in death and how to create terrifying incarnations of death to use in war. This knowledge lead to the creation of opulent afterlives for the mightiest kings and meager humble family afterlives for merchants and those who could afford it, sustained by great monuments and the blood and deaths of thousands of slaves. Death architects, half wizards and half priests, had taken to using the necromancy in new and creative ways, inspired by the Black Book they had been given.
But after a few centuries, this terrible dystopian world collapsed into anarchy. The Grand Necromancer completed his great experiment gone wrong, creating the shadowfell in the same extradimensional space as the Amrikhi's synthetic afterlives. The darkness of the shadowfell beld over into the other domains, destroying from the inside out and twisting the amrikhi who existed there. This led to a terrible rise of undeath in the amrikh empire and a crisis of faith for the entire nation.
Driven to desperation the death architects ressurected Sa'nakt. Seeing the desolation made of his home, he spent no time waiting before casting himself into the fight against the undead and spirits. Sa'nakt gathered the armies he could and mustered a defence of the nation. Through years of brutal war and devasation, that saw Amrikh nearly destroyed, Sa'nakt and his armies managed to claw back to life. After far too long, the enemy was finally beaten back, the Shadowfell spirits locked away.
Sa'nakt was devastated by the state of his beautiful country, that he had fought so hard for so destroyed. And he was horrified at what his people had become to invite this doom, the creatures of night and death created by the Amrikhi themselves.
So Sa'nakt made the hardest choice of his life: to wipe the Amrikhi from existence. To so totally and completely destroy his country, so their mistakes could not be remade and their weapons laid burried beneath the sands forever. So he formulated a plan: convince the death architects to aid him in turning every amrikhi into an undead soldier, which they would use to reconquer the world after enough time had passed that they could surprise it. He oversaw the genocides and rituals himself, turning his country into an army. When the deed was done, and the Death Architects waited smugly for their own lavish afterlife, he gathered the most important ones in his palace. Then he killed them all, had them purged. He gutted and crucified them in his palace and cursed them with their own magic to endure the torment forever.
Sa'nakt's sun guard travelled with him to the City of the Dead where he was laid to rest. The Sun Guard died standing at attention outside his tomb, one last show of devotion.
Sa'nakt has protected the Master Scepter for five thousand years now, and will continue to fight.
With the coming of the Twilight Wars he had enough. He was resurrected in time to save the amrikhi empire from the legions of daemons and Twilight elves, turning them away with his burning halo of sunlight and driving them back underground. He marched up to the king of the amrikhs and told the king that he would rule the amrikhi from now on. The king and his priests tried to brand Sa'nakt a heathen and blasphemer, but Sa'nakt personally gutted them all and hung their entrails out to dry in the desert. The people, fearful of the daemons and twilight elves, hailed Sa'nakt as their savior, as their god of protection, and he began to rule them.
He crafted great armies and took them with him underground, where they were one of the earliest surface realms to strike back at the Twilight Realm. While Sa'nakt wasn't there for the assault on the Abyssal Well, the news that a surface nation could strike at the Twilight Elves was great inspiration to the many nations working together to defeat the darkness in those bleak years. His armies fought in the Twilight Realm, breaking several important fortresses and being vital in the success of the campaign.
After the Twilight Wars were finally over, Sa'nakt enjoyed peace for the first time in his long existence. He was a great ruler, giving his people good laws, changing the religious customs to place less focus on human sacrifice and gave slaves more freedoms. He was given many titles by the people who loved him, as he was the most competent and caring ruler the amrikhi had enjoyed in milennia.
When his natural lifespan finally neared its end, and he would soon be reincarnated again, he returned to his slumber. He trusted the grandchild of the deposed king to rule wisely with the instructions Sa'nakt had left behind, and entered his slumber knowing that he had finally done some real good for his people
When he woke next time, he realized that things hade gone horribly, horribly wrong. For a few generations, Sa'nakt's legacy had stood strong. But the kings grew more and more decadent, wishing simply to hang on to their power. When crises did arise, they did not ressurect Sa'nakt, fearing that he would take their power from them. Instead they tried to weather the storms themselves, resulting in the slow but steady reduction in the amrikhi empire until finally only Akshus remained.
These weak kings had been decieved by the Grand Necromancer, who taught them how to use necromancy to create legions of tireless, undead warriors, how to prolong their existences into eternity by using synthetic afterlives to enjoy hedonism and luxury in death and how to create terrifying incarnations of death to use in war. This knowledge lead to the creation of opulent afterlives for the mightiest kings and meager humble family afterlives for merchants and those who could afford it, sustained by great monuments and the blood and deaths of thousands of slaves. Death architects, half wizards and half priests, had taken to using the necromancy in new and creative ways, inspired by the Black Book they had been given.
But after a few centuries, this terrible dystopian world collapsed into anarchy. The Grand Necromancer completed his great experiment gone wrong, creating the shadowfell in the same extradimensional space as the Amrikhi's synthetic afterlives. The darkness of the shadowfell beld over into the other domains, destroying from the inside out and twisting the amrikhi who existed there. This led to a terrible rise of undeath in the amrikh empire and a crisis of faith for the entire nation.
Driven to desperation the death architects ressurected Sa'nakt. Seeing the desolation made of his home, he spent no time waiting before casting himself into the fight against the undead and spirits. Sa'nakt gathered the armies he could and mustered a defence of the nation. Through years of brutal war and devasation, that saw Amrikh nearly destroyed, Sa'nakt and his armies managed to claw back to life. After far too long, the enemy was finally beaten back, the Shadowfell spirits locked away.
Sa'nakt was devastated by the state of his beautiful country, that he had fought so hard for so destroyed. And he was horrified at what his people had become to invite this doom, the creatures of night and death created by the Amrikhi themselves.
So Sa'nakt made the hardest choice of his life: to wipe the Amrikhi from existence. To so totally and completely destroy his country, so their mistakes could not be remade and their weapons laid burried beneath the sands forever. So he formulated a plan: convince the death architects to aid him in turning every amrikhi into an undead soldier, which they would use to reconquer the world after enough time had passed that they could surprise it. He oversaw the genocides and rituals himself, turning his country into an army. When the deed was done, and the Death Architects waited smugly for their own lavish afterlife, he gathered the most important ones in his palace. Then he killed them all, had them purged. He gutted and crucified them in his palace and cursed them with their own magic to endure the torment forever.
Sa'nakt's sun guard travelled with him to the City of the Dead where he was laid to rest. The Sun Guard died standing at attention outside his tomb, one last show of devotion.
Sa'nakt has protected the Master Scepter for five thousand years now, and will continue to fight.
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Current Status
Stuck in a time-buble
Current Location
Ethnicity
Age
9500
Circumstances of Birth
The sun stood at the top of the sky for a whole day when Sa'nakt came to the Material World
Birthplace
Southern Akshus
Children
Current Residence
The Ash Pyramid
Pronouns
he/him
Gender
Male
Eyes
Brown
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