Lord Orthas

**Lord Orthas**, also known as the **Scourge Lord** is a supporting antagonist in The Adamantine Island. He is a major antagonist in the Karkutan arc, and the main antagonist of the Aporidas mini-arc. He is the personification of cancer and originates from the children's book, Peculia. He first met Hunt Igbane when they were traveling through Peculia, arriving at his castle in order to defeat and him and walk free. Currently, his spirit resides within his rod of lordly might, which is kept in a portable hole by Tempus.

## Physical Appearance

Lord Orthas has an incredibly unearthly appearance, appearing as a 10 ft. tall man with a hunch that reduces his height to around 7-8 ft. His skin is deathly pale to the point where all color has been drained from it, and his limbs, especially his arms, are disproportionately long, along with his oversized hands and feet. He is incredibly lanky and gaunt, with little but bones, skin, and some muscle remaining on his body. His eyes are crazed and a piercing purple color, and his black hair is shaved closed to his head. He is clad in white trousers, a regal purple cape, and his crown floating slightly above his head.

As a wraith, he retains most of his appearance, and simply appears as a deep purple spectral version of himself, albeit with no pupils in his eyes.

## Personality

Lord Orthas, being the personification of cancer, is a very unpleasant and insidious being. He is a loud, obnoxious, bigoted, immature, egomaniacal person who wants nothing but to make everybody upset, scared, or furious. But above all else, he was insane and deluded, wanting nothing more than to make everybody else suffer and to consume all. In almost every single interaction he had with another creature, he would target their insecurities and personality traits to purposefully make them angry and upset. Any attempt to refute him, make him upset, or insult him would only cause his ego to grow, since it showed that he was worth even paying attention to.

## Abilities

Lord Orthas did not have many innate abilities, aside from being stronger than the average person despite how frail he appears, and his speed caused by how large his stride while walking is. Nearly every magical ability he had came from the scourge crown or his rod of lordly might. The crown, alongside other abilities, gave him the ability to grow in power alongside his ego, which made him nearly insurmountable in battle.

As a wraith, he retains many of the abilities he had while wearing the crown, along with the ability to possess other creatures.

### The Scourge

While wearing his crown (and as a wraith), Lord Orthas could spread a cancerous plague at will known as "The Scourge". The scourge could affect organic and non-organic material alike, and would corrupt anything it came contact with, turning it into a sickly purple color and deforming it into a writing mass covered in pulsating tumors. He had attempted to destroy Peculia with the scourge, but his plans were stopped by Hunt Igbane.

## Activities

Orthas has a single goal in mind; to consume anything and everything he possibly can using his Scourge. When the book was cursed after the author's death and the Scourge Crown was formed, Lord Orthas used the crown to become the king of Peculia and attempt to destroy it using his scourge. He would be stopped by Hunt Igbane and would escape from the book into the Adamantine Island, fleeing after his crown was destroyed and hiding out in the Vault of Diyu in Karkutan.

After being slain in the Vault of Diyu, his spirit possessed his rod, which was hidden in the portable hole owned by Hunt Igbane. However, Orthas would communicate with Vierdyrian under the false guise of being his god Tempus, telling to wield the sword and give a righteous death to his foes. In reality, the rod, being stuck in it's sword position, would steal the life from whoever it killed, and after enough life force stolen and fed on by Orthas, he would be set free.

## Relationships

Lord Orthas had no close or true allies, purposefully making himself as unlikable as possible. In Peculia his only allies were his servants who, in truth, feared him and helped retaliate against him by aiding Hunt Igbane in the fight against him, and the corrupted Jabberwock that was under his control.

He did have many enemies however, the most notable being Raymond from Peculia, Hunt Igbane, the protagonists of Peculia, and the inhabitants of Peculia as a whole. His most bitter enemies were Hunt Igbane.