Acererak

Acererak was a powerful extradimensional being with enormous magical capabilities.

## Description

### Personality

Acererak is an extremely intelligent individual, possessing an intellect that surpasses anything that the Lords of Prael have ever encountered. He is also very driven, doing almost anything to achieve his goals, no matter the cost in terms of time and resources. However, Acererak is envious of certain heroes for possessing the ability to control their own fate, something he and many others lacked. This envy drives him into conflict with the Lords of Kylia.

### Abilities

As Asher, Acererak was a powerful cleric whose powers stemmed from his father, Erak. He was a talented healer and support caster, aiding the Lords of Kylia in their battle against Tasha and that elf who had Blackrazor. He is incredibly knowledgeable of void magic, teaching the Lords of Kylia a way to mitigate instantaneous death when it is used on them.

As Acererak, he wields incredible arcane power and holds a unique mastery over void magic. He created some unique spells, like a version of Disintegrate that pierces walls of arcane force, a version of Blight that did something nasty, and another spell.

## History

Before he was the Acererak we all know and love, Acererak was the hierophant, the head cleric of Vecna's armies, and he was named Asher. Asher served Vecna faithfully, but sought to find a way to cure Vecna, who had become mad in his efforts to avoid death or defeat in his conquests. He invented a spell, etched within the Book of Exalted Deeds, granted to him by an Archangel. This spell, the Sacrament, would purify Vecna and cleanse the evil from his being. However, before he could use the sacrament, Vecna tasked him with confronting Erak, a powerful void demon dwelling in a desert city far north of Vecna's camp. What Vecna did not know is that Asher derived his clerical powers from Erak, and was his direct descendant. Asher traveled north, battling and defeating Tasha along the way.

When he confronted Erak, he defeated the demon, and attempted to draw its power into himself. However, this corrupted Asher, and he became the undead being of void magic Acererak. After gaining additional arcane power and leaving Vecna's company, Acererak split himself into many smaller incarnations across many different realities in order to collect souls. Though this was greatly effective at first, as time passed, adventurers became wise, and began defeating the lesser Acereraks. After suffering a particularly humiliating defeat at the hands of some nameless adventurers in his Tomb of Horrors, Acererak became enraged and sought to defeat heroes with specific traits. Since the Lords of Kylia possessed these traits, Acererak formed the Cabal, promising them immense magical power for their aid, and had them summon him to Terryn, promising Tarquin his aid. After he had arrived, Acererak and the Cabal began work on a soulmonger

However, Acererak did not really intend to aid Tarquin. He served as a major antagonist throughout the third year of the adventures of the Lords of Kylia. He appeared in the battle at Delphon after being summoned by Ishkur and Atrias, where he would have killed the Lords, were it not for Zarrock's temporal magic and the lementalist's distraction. While in the Domains of Dread, the Lords probed into his former life as Asher with the assistance of Zarrock and the Necromancer. Finally, they confronted Acererak in the jungles of Omu in his Tomb of Annihilation, where they destroyed the soulmonger and defeated Acererak. Raxis then sacrificed himself to perform the Sacrament, ripping Erak from Asher and restoring him to his former self.

Asher remains in Omu Ataru, where he seeks to make amends to the Omuan people and restore the damage that he has caused.