Dead Wastes

Senior GMs: David Woodlock, Oleg, Phil Wells
To the far south lies a great desert filled with ancient evils. Liches and necromancers raise armies of the undead from the sands and do eternal battle with one another, and woe betide any caught in the middle. As well as the undead, magics as old as the world lie dormant in the sands and can unleash terrible curses upon those who stumble onto them.
The settlers of the Dead Wastes are a secretive and canny people, moving from oasis to oasis in small nomadic groups. If they meet they often trade, but large groups find it hard to survive in the deserts and can easily attract unwanted attention.
==Region Stats==
Military2	Infrastructure2	Loyalty7	Purity9	Unification8
Settled: 0408, 0509, 0608, 0609, 0708, 0709, 0808, 0809, 0810, 0908, 0909, 1008, 1009, 1010
Explored: 0309, 0409, 0310, 0710, 0811, 0910
Points Of Interest:
1010 - Black Library
===Player Characters===
Asthvan (retired)
Atesca Kaldan (retired)
Aurzel (retired)
Flint Flagon (retired)
Kayus Gharund (AWOL)
Salthazar Hu'bar
===Interest Groups===
Anubis of Maketh
Children of Khalfani
==Antagonists==
Liches
Liches are exceptional individuals that have given all but their bodies to the power of the undead. During their lifetime they gave their souls away to be granted the strengths of an undead body and immortal life.
Necromancers
Necromancers, like liches, are individuals who excel at raising and utilising the undead for their own means. Unlike liches however, they themselves are not undead but mortals like most common races in Athesia. Most of the known necromancers come from tribes in the dead wastes or in some cases whole tribes become necromancers, such as the Lizuge tribe.
Nkosi
Nkosi the necromancer has been crowned Pharaoh by the Athesians and now acts as a magic stabilizer to the Dead Wastes as a Pharaoh should be, however he has eschewed any rights of rulership he might have been entitled to.
==Allies==
Onuris Tribe
The Onuris Tribe is made up of the last bastions of the Horus Guard, specialized troops that rear and use different kind of Sphinxes on the battlefront. The Onuris tribe is one of the few tribes of people that have allied themselves with Athesia for their own protection and for the future of the Dead wastes. Tired of constantly running from the never ending hordes of undead their leader Onuris has commited his knowledge and power to the fight.
Onuris
The 4th Son of the Pharaoh and wielder of the Evening Star has been an ally to Athesia for the past 4 years. He two important parts of the remanents of the now defunct civilization of Thanya. The first is the ability to wield and gift glyph magic to others.The second is that the Evening Star is an artifact handed down to him by his father the last Pharaoh. It is one of four Artifacts needed to crown a new Pharaoh.
Onuris has been on the run from his brothers, Lizuge, Moswen and Nkosi who are banding together to claim one of their own to be the new Pharaoh. If any of the necromantic brothers get crowned it would spell doom for Athesia. So Onuris has been well guarded in Unity City which as yet to fall.
Onuris almost died when his brother Nkosi was crowned Pharaoh, however through the diligent efforts of Arianna he has recovered and is able to live out the rest of his life as a regular human.
Matilda
A exiled Yuan-ti from the Osiris Liches, she is a special case of Yuan-ti blood. Yuan-ti are known to have similar properties to humans in being able to be half bloods quite easily. As such Matilda is an experiment of combining Yuan-ti with the strength of centaurs. So unlike pureblood Yuan-ti she has 4 legs below her serpentine body that hold her up like a horse would. Matilda was exiled due to being the sole survivor of a skirmish with the powerful necromancer Nkosi. Her commanders thought that she sold out her troop and was banished from the jungle. She was later found by the adventurers of Athesia and formed an alliance providing some inside knowledge on the workings of the Osiris Liches and their forces.
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