Xankresh Avani

Xanvani, the Southern King, or better known in these times as Xankresh Avani is a very powerful and ancient Obscuran that reigned in the Eastern Sorrows for thousands of years alongside the other two members of The Three Kings Agreement. He is known throughout as a generally ruthless man with no qualms in hurting anyone getting in his way. Previously his identity was a mixture of confusion and conjecture, nobody has ever had any proper historical documentation on Xanvani due to him meddling and manipulating his existence throughout thousands of years of life. However, due to the Reversion, his true identity has once more been revealed and his previous crimes and atrocities have resurfaced where before he had managed to eradicate their record.

It is very clear that Xanvani is not only a disgusting man outright, predatory to young women and abusive towards family members, but he is also responsible for the Spreading of Obscura. He was also the main instigator of the Arkon War, and though he would eventually lose a match against a fully empowered Drake Morvala, this did not stop the fact he managed to manipulate the entire course of events to his own favor and destroy the Drow Alliance utterly. He has a body count that is reserved for armies in wartime, and can be traced back as one of the most deadly criminals of the Pre-Demon Wars Terros.

Xanvani has caused such widespread destabilization through his actions, he has changed the face of Terros for the worse forever. For this reason, the elves have continuously tried to stop him over thousands of years but have continuously missed their mark on multiple occasions, due to Xanvani's admittedly high level of intelligence and foresight to enact such long spanning plans, their true natures aren't seen for a thousand years.

Xanvani is so ancient the only official records of him begin long into his storied dominance over the South-Eastern Sorrows, alongside the other members of the Three Kings Agreement, Morvala and (Gotta find the OG Middle King). They also tell of a time when he was much less horrendous of a person and for much of his rule he was a calm and profound seafaring titan. Then when the Agreement were catastrophically forced into the Empire of Dusk, his demeanor slowly changed over time as his resentment built, as did the behaviors of his fellow kings. That they had been made to bow to the Empress destroyed their jovial wills forever, though Xanvani had always had his proclivities and vices, they grew worse, and he became a butcher of his enemies and a slaver to the Empire's precious humans, of which he had no such love for. What was once just a perverted old man with a penchant for being so hammered he fell off his own palace terraces, became a predatory, a slaver, and a violent monster who ravaged the Southern Sorrows.

Xanvani would be the brainchild behind the plans the Three Kings would take to destroy the Empire, the Empress, and bring Aradia to her knees for instating her supposed will into the Empress of Dusk to subjugate the world, with the exemption of their elven cousins who were allowed to continue to heir own empires. But not the Three Kings, they had been put down with force, and despite their ancient and powerful armies they were swept away by the empire's advanced weapons and the Eyes of Dawn and Dusk-led by a general bearing the Heart of Obscura. Their original plot was fairly simply, they led a coordinated strike of The Capital, in the process the Crown Prince and the Middle King lost their lives when the wielders of the Eyes and the Heart ambushed the coupe and tried to kill both sides to instate their own will-having been driven mad by the awesome power of the artifacts.

The wielders were killed, and while Narn retained the Eye of Dawn, Xanvani managed to get the Eye of Dusk, and unlike Narn who tried to limit his use, Xanvani jammed the artifact into the socket of his missing eye, and let the full power of Aradia course through him as he got his remaining brother king out of the area and the Empress and her Husband mourned for their fallen child.