Karrus Weyloran

Karrus Weyloran was a master duelist, cultist, descendant of the betrayer Weyloran, and a shadow-fire mage. They spent their life chasing after Xánwyr, a mania which destroyed them. Their life was a cautionary tale of obsession.
== Early Life ==
 Karrus was the first villain / party-opposing character I ever created, just preceding Vezrath! They hold a dear spot in my heart for this. Elsewhere on the wiki you might see me use gendered pronouns, but [they] is canon. I guess maybe they were genderfluid? It's up to interpretation! 
Karrus was born in the rural Western Danderillon in Shrike's Roost in 1466. It was a small town in the Hextorr marshland north of Jarren's Well, surrounded by thick briars and brambles. Their father was Jarrën imv'Malfa Weyloran, and their mother was of Vistu descent from the Burning Hills. Their mother died when they were young, so Jarren and Karrus moved to the outskirts of the Blackfeld Abbey, which was against her wishes whilst she was alive. 
Via their father, Karrus was descended from Weyloran, an infamous cultist who most notably was one of history's most famous betrayers, killing Emperor Regulus Kingmaker, as well as being a wielder of Xánwyr. Because of this, both Jarren and Karrus believed their bloodline to be rightful wielders of the sword. 
=== Taken In and Trained ===
When Karrus was twelve, their father caught wind of a lead of the location of Xanwyr. Jarren travelled to a nearby diocese village where he found and studied the movements of Rezmyr, a draconic knight. Once he was sure she had the blade, he broke in, duelled her, and won, though he was wounded. They acquired the Black Blade and returned. However, all was not well. The following year, Jarren himself was lured into a trap, was duelled, and was killed by Vezrath Startouched. Vezrath relieved him of the blade and left Karrus parentless. They were taught for 11 years, indoctrinated, and learnt shadow-, blood-, and fire-magic. They became an impressive, top-of-the-class warrior. They excelled at duelling with their thin, long estoc sword, perfect for piercing armour. Their fighting style was notable for uses of off-hand blasts of darkness, shadow-teleportation, and using invisibility. They had turned into a machine, a machine who sought to avenge their father's death by any means.
== Joining Lira's Chosen ==
In the year 1490, the Jarrenian priest Baddhuk Firgelspar received a vision from his god, the pagan Vreigardt forest deity Lira. She said she had been captured by powerful binding magic and that Vezrath Startouched had done so to steal her divine power. Baddhuk roused a group of heroes, Lira's Chosen, who included Elias Silverton (future Saint Eleiäs), Trajan, Paul Prescott and Michael Shoemaker. They adventured from Jarren's Well overland to Aomodos. Karrus caught wind of their quest, and saw a chance to find their father's killer and reclaim the sword. 
They appeared at calm moments to the group, often whilst they were dining and resting. Karrus struck up a friendship with the preacher Elias, as well as becoming intimidated often by Trajan. Karrus tried to trick members of the group into betraying one another, but ultimately knew they needed all of them to 1) track Vezrath, who was hidden from divination and 2) kill him to relieve him of the sword.
Despite their dark and brooding nature, Karrus had a heart. Whilst the Chosen were staying at Martta Meliketh's farmstead, they warned her through a spell to awaken and be vigilant as an assassin from the group's enemy approached - thanks to this, she just about survived the attack. 
=== Legendary Flight to the Abbey ===
Late into the group's quest, they came to Aomodos, and there they fought the Sect of the Poisoned Chalice. They failed to stop the cultists (who were circumstantially at Aomodos) from calling down a great Wasting Blight upon the land, which was a regional pandemic that wracked the Danderillon from 1490-2. Despite this, the group managed to complete their own ritual to plane shift to where Vezrath was hiding with his godly hostages. Karrus was left behind, too late, all alone. They could not divine their location - the Chosen were gone! So, they took Trajan's white stallion named Charger, and rode from Aomodos to the Blackfeld Abbey. According to legend, Karrus and Charger made the trip of just under 2000 miles in only a week, which seems nigh impossible. After this legendary ride, Charger's name was taken by the Charger Coach Company of speedy stagecoaches.Once at the Abbey, Karrus used the most powerful divination available to learn the Chosen's location. They were fighting corrupted angelic beings, Paul fell into a fissure and died, Michael's eye was cut out, Vezrath killed the pagan god Tyrian, & Trajan was tricked into killing the pagan god Lira. Wow. Finally Trajan and Elias duelled Vezrath and killed him. They returned to Indratera. Michael vowed to return to his native Lanmop to live as a politician and shoemaker. Elias went to preach peace in the Interior Burning Hills, where he did until he was killed by separatists many decades on. But Trajan fled somewhere. By the time Karrus returned to Aomodos, Trajan was unfindable, long gone, and the sword with him.
=== Deal with Ormander ===
Like all hubristic beings, Karrus turned to a deal with the devil in their time of need. They entreated Ormander in 1490 with a ritual in the Burning Desert. In return for promising Ormander every single soul they killed, they asked that they be unharmed by any being. This wish was worded in such a way that no mortal, monster, or god's actions or deeds could hurt them. 
== Chasing Trajan ==
Karrus was obsessed to the point of self-destruction. They would follow whispers and rumours, exhausted, wasting away for years. The following year, they came to Datria, then to Bracken - Karrus could not find Trajan, but did briefly meet future Lich Heinrich, the warrior Kessar, and future King Altor and helped them in the Battle of Bracken. They went ever northwards to Rakkimar, arriving in Kalyr in 1498, and then Aurora (then-Hjarofjall) in 1504. Sometimes they would go years without knowledge of of Trajan's whereabouts, the obsession taking hold.
=== Alf and the Heiðurbarda ===
In north-central Rakkimar, they styled themself as the Heiðurbarda, an Old Rakki word meaning 'reclaimer'. They also formed a romantic relationship with a bronze-skinned brawny hobgoblin engineer named Alfur Ðokvesti - initially, Karrus bought a dogsled off him to chart the Solthur Wastes and various lands around the environs. The weather here was lethally cold, but Karrus had heard tales of the Man of the Mountain, which could only be Trajan. Alf tried to calm Karrus's obsession, but it was of no use.
=== Stasis ===
In late 1504, Karrus was charting the base of Mount Nainrok, one of the most distinctive peaks of the southern part of the Kaserini Massif. The Kaserini were one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, and their slopes reached almost -100°C in the worst storms, with thundersnow events, snowbursts, blizzards, and frequent whiteouts. Karrus found out that Trajan had been almost definitely sighted in a geothermally-warmed cave deep within the mountain, accessible only from the inner part of the massif. It would be suicide for a sane person to attempt to go up there. But Karrus was not sane. They ventured out one autumn morning on a long journey, started scaling Mt. Nainrok, made it to the crater lake- and fell through the ice, not noticing it beneath the powder snow. It was so cold, they were completely flash-frozen and perfectly preserved. Because despite the fact they had made a deal with Ormander that they would be unharmed by the actions of mortals, monsters, and deities, they were instead here harmed by a simple force of nature.
Alf believed his partner to have died to the cold of the Kaserini. He mourned them, moved on, and died peacefully some four decades later.
== Revival ==
In 1552, the Agents of Chaos were seeking Trajan too. They wanted to relieve him of the sword so they could kill Velarin Naysayer. (Since the Naysayers defeated a wish-dragon, they wished that as long as Velarin lived, the God Wars could not happen, because they had had premonitions of the apocalypse. The Agents of Chaos... wanted to undo that, to put it simply.) They came to Aurora, followed the trail of the Old Man of the Mountain, and climbed Mount Nainrok. At the crater lake, they noticed Karrus trapped in the ice, and awoke them using fire and healing magic. Karrus emerged, alive, but incredibly weak and wasted-away. They accompanied the group into Trajan's geothermal caves. When they finally met him, he was an old bearded man, ashamed of his past, but forever cursed to wield the sword until another worthy person relieved him of it. The sword had aged him, but kept him alive.
Finally, their obsession realised, Karrus challenged Trajan to a duel - and was declined! Karrus was too weak from the stasis, so Trajan did not see them as worthy. It was Karrus's worst shame. They had to watch as Luke Stormwind, the knight, duelled Trajan, set him free, and put him to his eternal rest at last. Luke took the sword and the Agents of Chaos parted ways with Karrus in Aurora again. 
=== Penance and Death ===
Destroyed by their unrealised obsessions and in an unfamiliar world fifty years on, Karrus wandered as a lemures, a wandering spirit, often ignored by others. The last years of their existence were a tragic, somber, and sobering one. They saw what had become of Felonil, a smoggy industrial stain. They made one last pilgrimage to Aomodos, where this all began, and laid down peacefully for the final time. Or so folk say.
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