Catenator

"*My brothers and sisters, I am sure that all of you have felt it, that which is on the horizon. With every passing moment, Morvas comes closer and closer to arriving at its destiny. To the north, our doomed cousins are caught up in their supposed superiority. To the east, the apes fight amongst and destroy themselves. And must I speak of the failures that once thrived in the west? We, however, are united as Drow.*"
—The Catenator to his Vanguard
The **Catenator** is the enigmatic ruler of Morvas. Having pronounced himself the divinely-appointed god prince of Morvas and heir to all of Eldrus and beyond, he conquered and used the Dark Elf population to construct a zealously loyal religious state. He rules with an iron fist, subjugating and manipulating those below him in the Morvassian hierarchy with the assistance of the Vanguard, his closest advisors and agents.

## Biography

### Early life

The Catenator claims to have been born millennia ago, when the races of Elves were united as one, to a farming family on the coast of Ceasia. His family lived a simple life, though it was not one free of luxury, as the Catenator had the time and resources to be taught various trades by masters from all across Ceasia, His simplistic upbringing would be brought to a close, however, by the slaves of the farm rising up and killing their masters.

Having survived due to the Ashen One's blessing, the Catenator was appointed the volcanic deity's messenger. With the gift of immortality and visions from his god, the Catenator was told to spread his faith, seek out Morvas and lead the first of the Dark Elves. If the parables, chronicles and sermons are to be believed, he was witness to much of the region's early history, from first contact with the Kobolds to the construction of Blackstone.

At some point, however, if his word is true, the man who would become the Catenator disappeared from Morvas. While it is unclear what he did during this time, the Catenator returned in 409 BU to unite the splintered Dark Elves under his one true faith. After waging a costly, bloody and decades-long war against his brethren, the Catenator became the sole ruler of Morvas in 379 BU. Five years later, the Ceasiell Sovereignty was formed.

### Ruler of Morvas

As the head of Morvas' hierarchy, the Catenator created a society that was wholly dedicated to serving him, the Ashen One's chosen ruler, and thus also serving the Ashen One. This hegemony went largely unchallenged for hundreds of years, with any dissidents being swiftly and silently done away with. This was the case until 42 AU when the young and promising mage Val Draven performed a series of experiments that he claimed proved that the Ashen One did not exist.

Word of Val Draven's heresy spread quickly, too quickly for the Catenator and the Vanguard to contain. Thus, the Catenator opted to make a spectacle of the mage's subversion; so long as Val Draven remained in Morvas, he was to be sacrificed to the Ashen One. With the majority of Morvas calling for his death, Val Draven was uprooted. Revoked of his Ceasiell Sovereignty citizenship, and much to the Catenator's dismay, he escaped to the island of Aerius, where he would form the Mage's Guild.