Hossenpheffer

The Emperor of **Everglow**'s first and most crucial Bloodvine infection site, **Hossenpheffer** is a steam golem made of a design and material lost to the motions of time that weathered them and their forge alike, a beloved leader of Bloodvine, they have carried the virus to spectacularly productive levels within a startlingly short amount of time.

### Creation

An ambitious lab project for an underequipped time, Hossenpheffer was created and named by a visionary scientist, **Luciel Hossenpheffer**, a head inventor within the golem's birthplace, Catalyst Forge, which resided underground of a mediocre village of the name **Drayleaf**. Made for a time and land ruined by war and gutted of resources, Luciel and her team at the Catalyst had a vision of a sleek, human-like golem to completely revolutionise their lands defensive capabilites.

With plans that have long since vanished to the ages, they succeeded in making a perfectly functional, self sustaining steam powered Golem... in theory. In practise the realisation of the sheer amount of energy a fusion engine like this would take to kickstart came far too late within the Catalyst teams design process. Any attempts to wake the golem up permanently lasted only a few hours before it's fusion core slowed entirely to a halt.

With nothing but a defunct and inoperable copper human to show for their work, the brutal and power hungry warlords of any and all enemy lands made quick work decimating everything the sun hit within Drayleaf, leaving only the Forge, abandoned and hidden from the world, the shame of Drayleaf's failed project remained sealed away and erased from living memory.

### The Bloodvine Crash

Roughly 200 years after the Drayleaf slaughter, a small extra terrestrial object began it's rapid and uncontrollable descent into the Everglow plane.

Breaking up rapidly upon entry, this unknown object fell to pieces of mostly harmless debris, scattering chunks of it all across the land as it collided, the largest and most intact piece however, landed directly on the head of the hidden Catalyst Forges. For the first time since it's creation, sunlight began to hit the forge, and mysterious vines began creeping in. tearing the broken forge into further disarray and ruin.

Unbeknownst to all however, these vines held the key that Luciel and her team had struggled to find throughout their years of research. The sentient pathogen that gave life to the vines quickly gave that same life to the defunct and abandoned Golem, bestowing upon it, for the first time since Luciel's death, conciousness and free will.

### The Bloodvine Beginnings

Ever the sentimental type, Hossenpheffer used their new lease on life to start repairing the legacy of their creators, cleaning the forge and repairing it's state of the art smelting equipment to an attempted level of it's prevous glory. Setting up the Forge's defenses once more, they left to go visit the remains of the small town of Drayleaf. A town they had been born to protect, now fallen to ruin. Hossenpheffer stood amongst the rubble of their forebearers, and began work once more to repair this legacy also. Clearing the houses of rubble, and setting up the farmlands once more, they promised to never see such needless destruction happen to any lands of their own. To keep this promise grusomely remembered, they made a mask of the Drayleaf chief's skull, who's body was found hidden away in the Drayleaf mines, and fastened it to their face with the very vines that kept their mechanical body running.

With this gruesome fascimile to the past adhered to their head for all time, the golem walked back into the sunlight once more, and was shockingly greeted by their first encounter with the new generation of the everglow land. Chris the Panda, and The Goatman, high status members of the local land Aclana, had heard the sounds of construction and industry happening within Drayleaf and came over to inquire. While discussing their individual histories, Hossenpheffer agreed to take them on a tour of the crash site and the forge, upon their return however, things were not as the golem had left them...

### The Bloodvine Empire

The virus had forever changed the land it had touched, unsurpisingly it had continued to spread far beyond the forge, with creatures pouring out of the crash site, the local farm, a nearby crucial water source, reanimating and creating horrendous things that any and all sane people would have kept within their rightful place of the grave. Seeing their chance to rectify their past failings as a defensive system, and with the help of all of these new infected beings, Hossenpheffer and the new group set to creating the land now known as the **Bloodvine Empire**, a testament to past industry, and the virus that had given each and every one of them their new take on life.

With the weight of an empire once more upon their back, Hossenpheffer slipped back into their programming, keeping their role as protector, keeping any and all threats clear from his new family, no matter the cost.