Frans Lang

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## Biography

### Early Life

Frans Lang was born in Zalgovich in the year 74AT, during the fallout of the divine war. His family were nobles affiliated with the military, and such he became a general in his early adulthood. As a devout follower of Erathis, he was always looking to try and save his people from the horrific conditions their country had been left in. In the year 98AT, he had a dream of clean lands across the ocean, devoid of scarring from divine powers. He spread word of this dream and amassed a large group of followers. The rulers at the time denounced him and the gods as traitors and banished him from the country. He set sail with his group across the seas and eventually stumbled across the lush green lands of Ogru'unel.

### The Colonisation of Ogru'unel

Nogru'un, as it was called, was a large island where the dwarfs had been carved from the rocks. As such, they were the only residents at the time. In the year 112AT, Frans and his followers discovered this new land and began to set up settlements. It wasn't long before explorers came across the dwarfs digging in the mountains, and reported back to Frans about monsters devouring rock. Frightened at the prospect of boulder-eating monsters, Frans ordered a group of men to head up and scare the monsters off.

The dwarfs, when confronted by strange tall men shouting and waving weapons around, fell into their natural dwarven instincts and attacked them. The men fled with few survivors, warning Frans that they were attacked. Frans quickly gathered a small army to march into the mountain and kill the attackers. Upon looting the mountain, they discovered vast amounts of stored wealth from the dwarfs.

From here, Frans became obsessed with dwarven riches, and frantically scoured the land for dwarf settlements in order to plunder and pillage them. He justified it as keeping the threats in check. Erathis tried to call out to him in a dream, warning him against his actions, but he did not listen. Human settlements began springing up just as quickly as dwarven settlements were falling. The largest human settlement, Gravenham, was established in the midlands of the island in an area surrounded by hills and full of fertile land. Frans built a mighty castle for him to live in, and named it Corvair Castle.

### The Kingdom

As Frans continued to raid the dwarfs, he came across an ancient tomb. Within, he found a tome detailing undecipherable necromantic rituals, but they were incomplete. Intrigued, he took it back to his home and kept it hidden to hopefully discover the secrets of it at a later time. He began to have nightly dreams from Erathis, threatening him to stop his pillaging and leave the dwarfs in peace. He refused to listen, but the dreams eventually changed. A voice crept into his head, advising him of where and how to attack in order to pillage more and more. The dwarfs went into hiding took down the dwarven citadel of Khim-Brakkus and desecrated a holy monument to Moradin within. Erathis was furious, and in her anger cursed Frans to feel the pain of the thousands of lives he had needlessly taken. He was turned into a vampire, cursed to never see the sunlight again.

Frans retreated into Corvair Castle, boarding up all the windows to keep him from the sunlight. His armies were dwindled as he wrestled with fighting the curse, the dwarfs finally making a foothold back on their lands. He turned to the book he had obtained, hoping there would be some ritual inside that could cure him. A voice crept into his head, offering him secrets long lost to time that could make him as powerful as any man. It offered him the resources to take over the island, and even take down the gods that had cursed him this way. Intrigued, he followed this voice's instructions.