| Razravkar Dominus | |
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| Profile | |
| Status: | Dead |
| Age: | 116 (at time of death) |
| Race: | Elf |
| Gender: | Male |
| Class: | Necromancer |
| Nation: | Yamato |
| Faction: | Dresdens |
- "You spoke of the ultimate price, meaning death. No, fool, there is another price which is far worse than death."
- —Razravkar Dominus to Edward Cullen
Razravkar Dominus was an elven necromancer and a mercenary. He escaped from demon slavery in Yamato and ended up doing odd jobs for various factions ranging from the Totenkopfs to Union Workers while also seeking items of great power. He helped the Dresdens repel a demon invasion in Illunii, interfered in the Day of the Damned ritual in Reign and later helped free the goddess Laverna from the body of Haruko Mizushima in Malperdy. He ended up in the centre of many plots while being chased by the Anti Mage Police who believed he had murdered one of their operatives. Razravkar's continued use of the power of the mysterious Watcher entity eventually drove him insane, which resulted in him committing suicide in an explosive tricycle accident in Alent during the King and Queen's Ball.
Biography
Early Years
Razravkar grew up in Yamato where he was a slave. He was trained in magic by a minor demon who sought to use him as a rival. Said demon probably shouldn't have taught him the invisibility spell, mentioned that it worked on demons, and then let him test it, but that demon wasn't the brightest tool in the shed anyway. Using his powers to escape from slavery, Razravkar wandered off into the civilized lands to work as a mercenary and look for items of power.
At some point he saved a girl named Lily from a life in prostitution, and they eventually got married. They lived happily for a while until Lily was murdered by the paladin Andronus Callente, which made Razravkar cruelly avenge her death by trapping Andronus's soul into a magical sickle. The act set him on the path of becoming a ruthless mercenary.
Godslayer Era
The Point of No Return
- "We know what you did to Sir Andronus. I know those weapons require the death of a godly man to be empowered, and that particular weapon is keeping his soul in torment."
- "Then you must also know what Andronus did to my wife."
- "Of course we know. But to act on that would have scandalized the church, my dear little elf. You were warned not to press the matter, but to defy us so openly? I can just imagine the fate the Sultana has planned for you now. It won't be pleasant."
- —Razravkar and Aluette
Razravkar found his way to Alent where he spent some time studying magic and doing odd jobs for money. One day he sneaked into the residence of Edward Cullen, a mage he despised, and ended up witnessing Rain and Razoul taking Cullen hostage. Razravkar became curious of what the two warriors had in mind for Cullen, so he followed them unseen into the secret passage which led from Cullen's house into the catacombs below Alent.
In the catacombs he stumbled upon an odd scene: a field of strange, magical garlic and Drishnek, a masked, seemingly eccentric mage in yellow who was responsible for growing the garlic. Drishnek sensed Razravkar's presence and invited him to join the others for some soup eating. Razravkar accepted the offer, curious albeit wary of finding out what would happen next.
The necromancer didn't have to wait long before Drishnek revealed his true colours: the masked mage made Rain and Razoul fall under his spell with the magical garlic and revealed that he had been behind the attack on the camp of the Grand Alliance some time ago. Cullen was in fact one of Drishek's acolytes and they both belonged to the Totenkopfs, a death cult which was a mortal enemy of the Grand Alliance.
Drishnek's magic didn't effect Razravkar or at least not immediately, however, and he made the necromancer a tempting offer: if Razravkar escorted the now hypnotized Rain and Razoul of the lair, delivered Drishnek's message to his imprisoned minion Cain Highwind and then returned Cain's answer without tipping off the Alliance, Drishnek would reward Razravkar handsomely. Although the necromancer wondered why Drishnek didn't kill him and the two warriors then and there for discovering the hideout, he was still curious enough about the whole scheme and wanted the money, so he took the job.
Razravkar located Cain and got instructed where to deliver the note: a local brothel called the Garden of Earthly Delights. Once inside the brothel, the sight of prostitutes made him reminisce about his dead wife Lily until he met Zenobia, the agent he was supposed to give the letter to. When they retreated to a nearby room where Razravkar was to receive his payment, they were ambushed by Cullen who held a grudge against Razravkar who had made fun of him in front of Drishnek. Cullen swore to make the elf pay for such mockery and attacked him, but in the end the necromancer beat him and trapped his soul into the magical sickle.
The necromancer then led Rain and Razoul back to the Alliance camp but did so by disguising himself as a member of the Black Guard so that people wouldn't recognize him. However, he was ambushed by Aluette, a female inquisitor of Artemicia, who sought retribution against Razravkar killing her comrade Andronus years ago. The paldin put the still disguised Razravkar into a carriage and hurried away from Alent with her prized cargo.
However, the event had been witnessed, and soon the Black Guard was alerted about the kidnapping of one of their comrades. Captain Razoul gathered a search party and went after the kidnapper, unaware that the kidnapped Black Guard was in fact Razravkar in disguise. The group eventually located the paladin and Razravkar and attacked her, freeing Razravkar in the process. They were soon attacked by members of the Clergy of Nergal, however, and barely beat them, but the Artemician paladin slipped away in the ensuing chaos.
Once the battle was over, the group decided to head for a nearby forest to heal their wounds and hide from any other pursuers while pondering why clerics of Nergal who belonged to the Crimson Coalition could have appeared so far into Alentian territory without having been stopped by the Alentian army. Razravkar introduced himself to his new, temporary companions although he kept the details of his short servitude to Drishnek a secret.
Soon after the group was ambushed by elven rangers led by Lieutenant Geras Sylevar who took the group captive and led them to the hidden elven city of Illunii where they would be judged for trespassing in sacred elven grounds.
Fool's Errand
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Defiler's Touch
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Day of the Damned
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A Cry in the Dark
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Deceiver's Gambit
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Heart of Darkness
Once he had attended a meeting with his surviving companions and Hannibal Losstarot in the Losstarot manor, Razravkar learned that the Coalition planned to use the survivors of Malperdy as their agents whether they wanted to or not because they had let Laverna flee from the Coalition's grasp. Razravkar had a private chat with Simon who tasked him to travel to Alent to free the imprisoned necromancers and use it as a way to pay back his debt to the Coalition. Simon handed him a bag which contained various magical items and gave him freedom to reach Alent in any way deemed fit.
While travelling to Alent, Razravkar ended up caught by the Grey Guard as he was closing in on their hidden encampment in a nearby forest. At the same time he met with a fellow necromancer Spector Drakai who was captured alongside with him. Soon Raul and Sara joined the group of captives as well as the guards had caught them as well. They were taken to the Grey Guard camp where they met Arcturius's mother, Helena the Grey, who questioned them about the earlier adventure in Malperdy.
After a tense exchange of words, Razravkar and the other captives were let go and could continue their journey. Although Razravkar pondered whether Arcturius would truly be happy with Helena, he chose to nevertheless carry on his mission to Alent without worrying about the rest of his company's safety. He had already left Haruko as the Coalition's captive so Arcturius's fate didn't concern him that much either. All that mattered to him was to finish his contract with the Totenkopfs and hopefully free the captive necromancers.
The necromancer eventually reached Alent where he met with the Totenkopfs' contact, who turned out to be none other than Zenobia, in the Garden of Earthly Delights brothel. Zenobia instructed Razravkar to help locate the elusive nymph Serene who had gone missing and suggested that Razravkar should start searching for the nymph in the Sarquil Downs among the desert elves. To help him infiltrate the desert elven community, she used special makeup to make Razravkar look like a desert elf.
Razravkar became increasingly confused and annoyed by how he was being used no matter what he did and that most of his actions had resulted in nothing but misery and how nothing he did matter at all in the great scheme of things. The power the Watcher had granted him weighed heavily on his mind, and as he pondered these things, he ended up in Harkinian's diner where he ordered food. What happened next was murky, but Razravkar's mind changed as the Watcher's maddening influence finally took its toll on his weary body and soul.
Death
- "MAI BOI, THIS IS WHAT ALL TRUE WARRIORS STRIVE FOR!"
- —Razravkar's last words
After Razravkar had been reunited with Marisa in Harkinian's diner and learned that the woman had strapped a tricycle full of explosives while having yet another zany scheme in mind, he finally snapped. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer the rational Razravkar Dominus but a necromancer who acted on impulses. The Watcher's power had finally taken over him. He mounted Marisa's tricycle and pedalled it towards Alent's central ziggurat, Etemenanki, in full speed while shouting out loud what Harkinian had joked to him earlier. Razravkar and his tricycle hit the ziggurat, and the explosives detonated, killing him instantly.
Aliases and Nicknames
- Necromancer
- What some people called him.
- Sammael Malaclypse
- Used by Razravkar while posing as an illusionist in Trinity Gask.
Appearance
Short spiky white hair, 5'6", red eyes, dark skin.
Personality and Traits
Arrogant and cold. Extremely intelligent. He had shown signs of kindness to people he bonded with and even respected some people who he shared some views with, but his life as a mercenary had affected his view of the world and made him look at things from a more cynical point of view. There were times when he lost his temper, but most of the time he acted collected.
His philosophy as a necromancer was that raising the dead was justified because it gave them more time in the Land of the Living against the eternity of death. As a corollary, he would have no objection to being raised.
Powers and Abilities
Razravkar forged a magical sickle from the soul of the paladin Andronus. It was an intelligent and malevolent weapon, which upon striking a foe would rip out its soul and transfer energy to the wielder. It was loyal to Razravkar and Razravkar alone, and could lash out telepathically at unwanted wielders. It was destroyed in a rather one-sided confronation with a being with affiliations with the Watcher in Darkness during the first Threshold riot.
He could also see through the disguises of minor demons due to his distant demon blood.
Because he was a necromancer with decades of experience, he could use the following spells and abilities:
Spells:
- Divination
- Razravkar may call up the spirits of the dead to give advice/use prophetic abilities/see their loved ones, etc. He can summon specific spirits with this ability. He can also divine the future to an extent from entrails of a freshly killed person or animal. People are more accurate.
- Illusion
- Razravkar can use illusions to alter his appearance for extended periods of time, turn invisible (though not inaudible), and project sounds and images (aka minor image). He can also use the Mind Trick on the weak-minded. These abilities are far less likely to work on his fellow mages.
Combat:
As Razravkar is a necromancer, his spells draw mostly on the powers of death. All the spells can be protected against, and they wear out the caster quickly. Razravkar has also recently learned a bit of shapechanging magic and turned himself into a wolf. How this will turn out remains to be seen.
Low-level:
- Shadow manipulation
- Kill people with cold shadows, deflect attacks, minor telekinesis-like abilities. The source of his illusion abilities. Dispellable by competent light mages.
- Command Undead
- He can command a limited number of undead. Powerful undead may resist this effect.
- Bone-shattering curse
- Shatter target's bones, causing them to richochet through body. Extremely painful.
- Spell of decay
- Target's flesh decays rapidly, causing excruciating pain and loss of body functions.
Mid-Level:
- Summon Shade
- Summons an undead shade on a moment's notice. Shades may be summoned out of combat with a longer ritual which takes time to cast, costing less energy. They may be bound to corpses to raise them as undead or ordered to try to possess the living. Drain is inversely proportional to time. Easier to summon into corpses.
- Dance of Undeath
- Raises nearby corpses in the area to fight for the caster. A perversion of the Dance of Death which Razravkar developed by studying the Totentanz. The zombies raised by this spell are not very powerful, slow, and incapable of taking initiative. They are, however, expendable.. Razravkar developed this ability in Chapter 13.
High-Level:
- Anathemic Sundering
- Severs the target's links between mind, body, and soul causing instant death if it succeeeds, although there are ways to dispel it. This spell is not to be used lightly, as anyone who knows anything about magic abhors it and it requires part of the caster's soul as payment. While the soul grows back over time, it is still extremely painful for the caster.
- This ability calls on the power of the Watcher in Darkness. If used too often it may weaken the creature's prison,which could result in releasing the eldritch abomination upon the land.
- Travel
- Razravkar may tear open a gate to the underworld to use to travel through. Entering and exiting the underworld broadcasts a signal to nearby dark magic users. He is also not protected from the dangers of the underworld unless he convinces a shade to help him willingly--and even this does not protect him from direct assault. He may bring along others if needed.
Weaknesses:
Razravkar is not a warrior. His fighting ability consists of stabbing helpless or unaware people with his sickle after a spell bombardment. He would be absolutely useless with any other weapon. He is doubly vulnerable to light magic as he is both demon-blooded and a wielder of dark magic. He projects a dark aura visible to other necromancers and undead in both the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead.
Relationships
Andronus Callente
Andronus was a knight in the Clergy of Artemicia who raped Razravkar's wife Lily. Razravkar reacted with uncontrollable rage and killed Andronus, forcing his soul into a sickle. Since then Andronus's spirit has remained in the sickle in its seemingly eternal prison, a punishment devised by Razravkar for Andronus taking away the only person he had ever loved.
Crowe Lley
Despite knowing that the shady and promiscous councillor was bad business, Razravkar couldn't help but be intrigued by Crowe's jovial and amoral personality. He found himself liking some of Crowe's views and relaxed attitude, and Crowe returned the feeling. However, he also knew Crowe was a powerful mage who should not be underestimated even though Crowe's actions seemed to prove otherwise. Razravkar nevertheless took Crowe's advice--especially the bit about not trusting anyone's motives, including friends--to heart.
Deidra Finian
Despite having a rough start, Razravkar and the fellow necromancer Deidra Finian seemed to bond during their adventures together. Razravkar was unsure of what to feel about Deidra, at first seeing her as an enemy but then coming to understand her plight a little. This trust shattered when Deidra kidnapped Persephone Barca and seemingly tried to murder her in an eldritch ritual, which forced Razravkar and her companions to finish her off. Razravkar later learned that Deidra's intentions, albeit shady, had been noble in the end and that he had caused the death of a person who had understood him perhaps better than any of his other companions. Razravkar regretted killing Deidra, but his short conversation with Deidra gave him some solace when the fallen necromancer forgave him and sacrificed herself to save him and the others from the trap laid by Persephone and her demonic associates. Deidra and Razravkar had a brief, somber reunion when Razravkar summoned her spirit to ask for help in locating her clan.
Lily
Razravkar saved Lily from a life in prostitution and married her. They lived happily for a time until Lily was murdered by Andronus, which made Razravkar cruelly avenge her death.
Marisa
Razravkar and Marisa got along although the latter more or less clinged to him because she wanted to have adventures with a dark wizard. Razravkar found himself attracted to her but tried to keep his mind focused, so they never became anything more than acquaintances.
Raul Emmenson
Razravkar and Raul seem to get along for the most part even if the two keep snarking at each other every once in a while. Razravkar is still somewhat wary about the Union which Raul represents, however.
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