Ernust of Böseborg

Ernust of Böseborg is a Chosen of Depnar.

## Biography

### Prince of Böseborg

Ernust was born a prince of the goblinoid settlement of Böseborg in Nordmarch. His father was assassinated while he was very young, and his mother served as his regent. She tried teaching him how to rule, but she was not a good ruler to start with, causing him to develop very strange ideas of how to rule. Her treatment of him in general was pretty close to abusive, and she also created a number of unpopular laws in his name, which caused him to be unpopular with the commoners as well. One day while he was travelling through the town with his guards, they were attacked by an angry mob who killed all his guards and he was knocked unconscious after a rock was thrown at his head, causing permanent damage.

After this, he was institutionalised until adulthood, whereupon a priest was brought in to treat him so he could take his throne. The priest they brought in though was actually hired by his mother to assassinate him, and started shooting lightning at him, claiming it to be "electro-shock therapy". Ernust's screams filled the halls as he was slain.

This was not the end for Ernust though, and as his soul came before Depnar in the hall of Dyrðahollin, he brazenly asked Depnar to grant him revenge against those who wronged him in life so he could be at peace in the hall. Depnar, taken back by the audacity of his request, decided to accept since no mortal had asked that of her before, and reanimated his corpse as her Chosen.

### Chosen of the Underworld

Ernust clawed his way from his grave and found that his mother had crowned herself queen, the assassin had been granted a position of nobility, and the queen had scrapped the laws she'd made under his name and instituted better ones. Ernust started sneaking into houses at night, murdering the inhabitants, and raising them as undead. Before the queen knew what was going on, Ernust had a zombie horde marching on the citadel. For every one of his zombies who fell, he raised three more to take its place. He stormed the keep, killing all the inhabitants, and turning his mother into a zombie. From there, he started trying to take over the rest of Nordmarch, slaughtering entire settlements and reanimating their corpses.

Eventually, a group of adventurers led by Rognvald of Eysteinschweig rose against him, fighting their way through his horde. When they reached him, the fighting was fierce, and the majority of the adventurers were slain. When only Rognvald remained, he imprisoned Ernust deep beneath the earth, putting a stop to his zombies.

### Present Day

Division S learned about the legend of Ernust, and after a lot of effort, managed to end the spell, returning him to the surface. Ernust immediately turned on Division S and tried recreating his horde. Jahegso'n and Red'foorgettcht fought against him, eventually subduing him. They took him to their headquarters and started performing experiments on him. After understanding his deep connection to Derwo, Red'foorgettcht had him exposed to stupid amounts of negative energy, which triggered what little alchemy was still in his undead cells, empowering him more. This triggered some arguments within the ministry, as Division C had been set up in response to his capture to attempt to study Chosen like him. The solution was eventually settled on to have him on loan to Division C until such a time as he was needed by Division S.

A deal was struck between the ministry and Ernust: as long as he worked for them, he could kill indiscriminately while on missions, would be treated with dignity, and no questions would be asked about his Corpse Creatures.

## Powers and Abilities

Ernust is a powerful necromancer, with his powers being taught to him directly by Depnar herself. He can fire bolts of negative energy from his hands, heal himself when he kills others, and raise the slain as his undead minions.

As a Chosen of Depnar, he has a twisted visage capable of frightening those he reveals it to, those he kills are automatically raised as zombies, and he is also functionally immortal.

The alchemical alterations that were awakened made him incredibly difficult to kill permanently in the first place, enhancing his effective immortality to the point that a miracle would be needed to kill him. He also gained the ability to cause others to view his traumatic past in their dreams while also viewing their past. The only sure-fire way to kill him is for him to use his Resurrection ability, which sacrifices his life to resurrect someone. That said, the alchemy of Ahk'gi seems to mess with fate somewhat, making it much more likely that Ernust will find a way to come back somehow.

He has also been granted a familiar by Hasterhewsos that takes the form of a raven.

## Personality

Ernust was originally a nice child, but close to 20 years of abuse and trauma (both mental and physical) turned him into a vengeful being who finds murder to be his favourite past time. His familiar is his voice of reason, and without it he'd likely go on a rampage. He believes the undead to be superior to all humanoids in every way, and this has led him to have a fairly one-sided friendship with Jahegso'n, and Ernust was hurt when he went MIA. Recently, Ernust's familiar revealed to Hasterhewsos that Ernust just wants someone to love him, and if he should find someone, assuming he doesn't turn them into one of his Corpse Creatures, he'll likely do whatever he thinks will get him their love, in his own twisted way that likely involves mass murder.

Ernust's dream is to commit genocide on a global scale, ushering in an eternal age of undeath.