Thorash the Hallowed (Old Lore)

> "*Never in a lifetime of travels have I seen a creature as disgusting as the Lord of Shadowkeep. Not even in the darkest Ghul-lairs have I witnessed such perversion of the human form. Never will I be able to percieve how this monstrosity was born of a human host or why they title it "Hallowed"*"
> ― Telion, Nephilim Worldwalker
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## Thorash the Hallowed

### Titles

Hallowed, Lord of Shadowkeep, the Invincible, Voice of the Eather, Lord of the Possessed, Voidsalved

## Introduction

Thorash the Hallowed, also known as *Thorash of no name,* is one of the four great lords of Xaarat and the Sorcerer Tyrant of Shadowkeep. His reign is undisputed since the War of Heavens and is among the mightiest sorcerers to have ever lived.

## History

It is said that Tharosh was born during the darkest Sethnight that had occured in Xaarat since ages. A monsune ravaged the western coast and its impact could even be feeled in this darkest of nights. Over the drumming sound of the rain and the roaring thunder, the cries of dying lifestock and Skinmen could be heared as they drowned in their cages. At the next morning the sky where blue and mysteriously free of the monsums dark clouds. The only thing one could see above the pale tower of Shadowkeep was a single black crane circling above before swooping down and landing on the open window of a royal chamber. Inside a nurse draws out a crying boy from the obergrown bowels of his mother. She did not survive his birth and since she was a sorceress of low rank in the Xaarian soceity, no one would waste Bornwater on her rescue. Tharosh himself was a bastard, spawned by an outlandish lover in his mothers service. To their suprise he did not loose his magical powers like all other Vishar do. Neither did it require rituals to unlock his powers. He was a natural and quite a skilled one. Thorash would serve as a bastard without name in the archives and mines of Shadowkeep and his efforts where focussed on studying and learning of the arcane rather then the games of political power that where played in the tower above him. Thorash was exeptional in any way and while other Xaarians would turn pale without exposure to the sun, bis skin turned ashen although he did not saw the sun for more then 40 years during his studies. He was amongst the first to uncover the secret of the Leystone and how to produce it. He even managed to conjure a portal into Anacron and retrive a single book from its realm. With its aid he mastered the Path of the Mind, learning almost all known commands to Xaarat aswell as creating five of his own. While he shared four of them he keeps the fifth to himself and refused to teach it to anyone. Yet despite all this power Torash did not desire power or worldy pleasures and this was the only thing that saved him from the assassins blades his enemies held ready for him. He was feared and admiried, so much so that he would become the personal assistant of the Archspirit Xar Aul that ruled Shadowkeep at that time. It was then when his rather peaceful and enlifted mentality should change.

A cabal of Samesi had corrupted the pale tower and he was their chosen vessel to victory. They placed a spineeater larvea in his palaquin and when he fell asleep, the creature bit him and entered his flesh. It spread its corrosive corruption across his flesh and began to turn him into a Samesi. When he fell into a coma, the final step of the transformation, the Samesi surrounded Thorash to greet him as their servant. Yet Thorash simply opened his eyes and spit the larvea out. He was immune against her poision and defeated the infection with shere force of will, being the only mortal to have ever done so. He uttered a single word, the fifth command he had always kept to himself. When guards entered the chamber they found the Samesi gone and the sorcerer stronger then ever.

Although Thorash resisted the corruption, it had still changed him. Now the Samesi lust for power had taken hold of him. Carried by Xar Aul own Bodyguards, Thorash entered the throne chamber of Shadowkeep. The Archspirit stood no chance against the sorcerer and simply begged for his life. Thorash commanded the spirits servants with magical power to place Auls body into the throne of Shadowkeep where he transformed and bound it to the Obsidian artifact. Since then the throne is of its own life and of service of Thorash, floating above the ground and even flying should he desire it. Since then the Sorcerer Tyrant used his time to gain a tight grasp on his City and slay all who'd oppose him. He did not wish to surrender his body out of mere mistrust for anything that could perform the ritual. He instead used another ritual to gain even greater power. Thorash made use of an revered and rightly feared ritual of his kind, so dangerous it was rarely up to never attempted. He openly invited Infestants, parasites from the void into his own obese flesh. Each of them was a being of great power that would have taken controll over any lesser man or creature within days. No other sorcerer ever attempted to host more then three of these parasites inside their body as it was but impossible to keep them in controll. Thorash however managed to bind twelve of these malign spirits to his flesh and imprison them inside his overgrown apperance. Since this day he fights a constant battle against these spirits and his iron will is the only thing containing them. Yet they move through his body openly as his ashen skin moves under their agonising twitches as if gigantic maggots had infested him. This granted Thorash the title Void-hallowed and and complete immunity against magic. With so many of these creatures inside him he is utterly immune against any spell or supernatural manipulation.