Wraith King

This is the article on the character ***Wraithking** who is one of the bonded Simmering Souls in both **The WRAITHBLADE** and **WRAITHFORGED.** Warning Spoilers ahead:*

## Background - *Simmering Soul*

The Wraith King is a ghoulish spirit created by the necromancer Aeron Zacharias. As one of four powerful simmering souls, the Wraith King is an incredibly powerful entity. Although his real name has been lost to time, the memory of the man who would become the Wraith King is etched into the memories of people descended from those he terrorized. Before he was resurrected by Aeron Zacharias as a simmering soul, the King terroized the people conquering their lands centuries past. The man had "slaughtered their people and used them as slaves to build the massive Slaybourne Citadel... he had decimated any who challenged to his rule... The master of Slaybourne was no mortal man, but a man of war, blood, and fear. A man of murder, lawlessness, and chaos. Of pure evil..."

The Wraith King was a talented necromancer in his own right yet somehow, lost to his own memory, his fallen mortal form was harnessed to create one of the four simmering souls. The Wraith King is now bound to the form of a formless ghoul who is forced to bond to a living host to continue "surviving." Only his host can hear his voice, to everyone else only the gutteral growls and airy sounds of his ghostly passage can be heard. The host he is bond to is given the title of Wraithblade.

The Wraith King was previously bound to the tyrant King Henry for over a decade, where he conquered and subjugated Saldia, until he was betrayed by one of his subordinates. Attacked by Otmund Soulblud with a Bloodbane Dagger (the only weapon that can harm a simmering soul) the Wraith King was injured losing his left pinky and ring finger. He fled to the shadows where he could not be harmed leaving Henry to his fate.

Hunted and mortally injured, King Henry fled through a portal into an ancient ruin where he had the misfortune to run into Connor Magnuson, a drifter who was drawn to the cries of the child Henry accosted and terrorized while trying to perserve his own life. In a twist no one could have seen, the drifter bonded to the simmering soul, when Henry died.

As the new Wraithblade, Connor Magnuson finds himself enhanced in ways he never thought possible. The muscles in his body bulked out impressively consequently increasing his natural physical strength. His senses of sight and smell also significantly increased. With the favor of his simmering soul, Connor gains the ability to manifest twin shadow blades as well as a similarly manifested shield. He also finds all his appetites multiplied as well. The cravings for food, sex, and violence become annoyingly persistent urge. While he indulges his increased appetite for food, Connor resists his other cravings, even as they grow stronger.

The Wraith King has a general attitude of superiority, looking down on most mortals. Although he continuously encourages Connor into acts of depravity, he is often thwarted by Connor's morality. Yet a grudging respect forms between Wraith and Wraithblade, which sometimes sees the Wraith King acquiescing to Connor's will. As the relationship between the two evolves will Connor fall or will the Wraith King rise as something more noble than the evil monster that haunts men dreams?