The Risen

The Risen was a godly figure from before the events of the Travescot campaign.
== Personality ==
The Risen's personality was lost to time, but he had very spiteful moments.
== History ==
=== Fall of Archmoor ===
The Risen used to be the savior of the Kingdom of Archmoor, being responsible for protecting the citizens as well as allowing the dead to raise and to give them miracles. When the kingdom was in danger of the local wildlife overtaking them, the Risen returned once again to save his people. His power was greatly valued by Lord Archmoor to use to save his kingdom, so he contracted his high wizard to help harness the Risen's power. The high wizard's spell worked, and the Risen was turned into an orb of pure chaotic energy. Angry at this, the Risen used the last of his dwindling life force to send out an energy blast, killing all of the remaining townsfolk and leaving them to be devoured by the wildlife. Later, the Risen's spell reactivated, reanimating those he had killed to become his undead army, with the resurrected Archmoor as his general.
At some point between this event and the Travescot campaign, Atlas put up a number of protective glyphs in the area to quell the lingering curse.
=== Travescot Campaign ===
The party was sent looking for the Risen's orb by Father Aurelius, with the then-secret intent for him to use it in a ritual to appease his goddess Orelia. They found it in the castle's throne room, inadvertently resurrecting Archmoor in order to retrieve it. Once they got it safely back to the Gilded Lands, Aurelius took it from them, detained them, and used it in a ritual for Orelia, after which he was turned into a golem by her, and she took it for herself.
When the party confronted Orelia, she absorbed the Risen's orb in a fit of desperation to achieve true godly status, after which the orb was gone forever.
== Notable Moments ==
* Saving and slaughtering the Kingdom of Archmoor
== Trivia ==
* Originally, there were a number of things different about the Risen's story.
** First, he was originally going to be a false god like Orelia, still present and alive, not tied to Aurelius' relic quest at all.
** Second, he was going to have been weaponized by Aurelius to have caused the cataclysm that befell Archmoor, viewing it as a rival kingdom, rather than being the one solely responsible.
***A relic of this storyline persisted through the books the party had found in Atlas' library persisting with images of the two, but the story evolved in a different direction later.
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