Lampreydeath

## Characteristics

**Overview :**

The lampreydeath needed no more food, nor water, they would survive vampirizing life essence from other oceanic lives like fish, whales or their countrymen. They also had the ability to convert other fish life toward lampreydeath by biting and pumping their own fluids in the wound, replacing the target blood with the tainted saltwater sludge that coursed in their veins.

**Reproduction and toxicity :**

Lamprey warlocks have a highly infectious toxic sludge pumped by their heart, it can be injected into a victim by their prehensile tongue, if used in slow quantities it stuns and poison the victim, in vast quantities it will lead to a toxic shock. If the victim was progressively emptied of their blood, the toxic sludge will progressively replace it, leading to the creation of a new lampreydead. This form of undeath can only apply to mairne biology, it was designed by valkadian necromancers for the Amiae, but got infectious enough to animate any kind of sentient marine creatures.

## History of Lampreydeath

### 375 DC : The Birth of Lampreydeath

#### Necromancy, or how to fabricate friends.

> *“Give an amiae a fish and he will eat for the day, teach him necromancy, kill him and raise him back and he will never be hungry again … for fish” - Baladak Necromancer.*
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Politic is a shadowy web of intertwined fates and interests. And Valkadian excels on the field, after almost a century of contacts between Valkadia and the Amiae, the Dark Imperator faction wanted to hook this neighbor to themselves. After a few years of spying and negotiations, they found out that their priesthood, favouring an undead-like outer plan creature, would be very eager and open to the joys of an unending existence. Seeing potential allies into the clergy, the valkadian head of state assembled a cabal from the higher houses, organizing a playing field, they were to find a ritual repurpose to fishlike life to grant them a form of sentient undeath.

#### The ritual

A decade later, they had the perfect fit, Lampreyfication, was a spell purposefully designed for Amiae biology, and cost only a few hundred terrible failure… morality being secondary to eternal life, the church heads were eager to provide test subjects. The final result was a ritual that took a month to prepare, a week to unroll and a day to perform. The head priest died that day, replaced by a new creature. Death and the ritual had permanently altered their form and scarred their soul, giving them a lamprey like mouth, hidden deep under a mask of normalcy. Soon after the first successful transformations, numerous Valkadian nobles cut deals with various degree of the Amiae priesthood, and after one year, new ritual, shrouded in secrecy, had emerged in the Domain.

#### Sarlae Almeiurus the first Lamprey warlock

Sarlae Almeiurus, head of the Amiae church, was the first lampreydeath to be created. With the end goal of resolving the Amiae crisis of 350 AS and to fill his own ego, he personally underwent the ritual. Pretending his new form to be a sign of the favour of Ixul the Amias could obtain the favour of the clergy once again and be placed at the top of Amiae priesthood. As he started to feel the hunger, feeling bownd no more by the Amiae morality, Sarlae started tricking his followers into sacrificing themselves to him, draining their life force, of which he described to be *"More delicious than any meat" .* His nefarious deeds not only attracted the suspicions of other families, but also the real favor of Ixul, macabre and twisted himself, the god took delight in observing his spawn's deeds.