Eisenberg of World's End

*“In the dark, the city is yours and you are the city’s and together you sleep like the dead, like the very stones in your north field. There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the city, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the city knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take. The city has its secrets, and keeps them well.”*

-Eisenberg of World's End

## History

Half as old as the city itself, Thradrous Eisenberg is a byproduct of an era he himself only conceives of in myth. Eisenberg’s father was the blacksmith for a great mage, the vampire Count Roland von Eisenberg. When the blacksmith died, Count von Eisenberg adopted young Thradrous as his son and heir. The count had been born in a nation lost to time outside Dragonsmouth, and believed in the legacy of the King of Dragonsmouth. The teachings that he imparted upon the younger Eisenberg were far more extreme then those of the King, however, for the elder Eisenberg believed that undeath was the true form of man. Only by transformation into undead, argued the count, could mankind ascend and by doing so, starve Rhan-Tegoth to death. Thradrous Eisenberg took his foster father’s teachings to heart, and in time grew strong enough to overpower the count and force him to let him drink from his blood, transforming him into a vampire and quickly disposing of him. Freed from the constraints of the living, Eisenberg went farther then his father dared by leaving the city to explore far beyond its walls. Determined to seize one of the three gates for himself, Eisenberg set his sights on the Northern District, where he bent the rival steelworker guilds to his will by spreading the plague of undeath among their ranks. The merchants could not stand before a vampire, and so Eisenberg swiftly became the uncontested warlord of the Northern District and master of the North Gate. He set about imposing his foster father’s vision for mankind within his territory, forcing the steelworkers to give him their blood and their firstborn, to be transformed into ghouls. Paranoid, solipsistic, and power-hungry, Eisenberg was determined to master both magic and machines, proving himself a skilled necromancer and artificer both. In the modern-day, Eisenberg is by far the most powerful mage in Dragonsmouth, and second only to General Erik Herk in political power. But with time and might has come sloth and malaise. Eisenberg’s sense of the passage of time is slipping, and his project to transform Dragonsmouth into a city of the dead has slowed to a halt. Generations pass too fast for him to account them into his plans, and though he cannot see it, he will never go beyond the status of a petty, complacent tyrant.

## Personality

In the modern-day, Eisenberg is by far the most powerful mage in Dragonsmouth, and second only to General Erik Herk in political power. But with time and might has come sloth and malaise. Eisenberg’s sense of the passage of time is slipping, and his project to transform Dragonsmouth into a city of the dead has slowed to a halt. Generations pass too fast for him to account them into his plans, and though he cannot see it, he will never go beyond the status of a petty, complacent tyrant.