Illagers

## Profile Info

### Leaders

Ixol (House of Power), Illusioner Captain (House of Winter), Unknown Illager Leader (House of Annex)

### Found

Overworld (Anywhere)

Illagers are a race of warmongering, Villager-like humans who were corrupted by the Wither and became evil. They have since ceased allegiances with him and will often raid towns and other villages of their own fruition.

## Description

Illagers all look very similar, greatly resembling Villagers but with light grey skin. Witches have a more natural skin color, and have warts on their noses. Pillagers wear bulky leather coats, with iron pads on their shoulders. They have a large belt buckle, and carry crossbows. Vindicators wear fancy, dark grey button-down collared jackets and striped cyan pants, and carry iron axes. Evokers wear long, pale brown robes that have a gold trim with an almost lightning-bolt shape. Illusioners wear long, bright blue hooded robes that have multicolored spots on them, and buttons similar to the Vindicator's jackets. They also carry bows.

## History

### War of the Wither

During Wither's destructive reign over the Overworld, he captured and corrupted hundreds of Villagers, turning them into Illagers. He also created the Ravagers, massive behemoths that the Illagers could ride as mounts. Once the war against the Wither was over, the Illagers fled, developing a culture of their own. Their known bases are Woodland Mansions and Raid Outposts. They eventually split into several millitary-like sects, called houses, with the biggest and most widespread one being called the House of Raiders. The second biggest was the House of Power, led by Ixol, Ever Powerful, who was a very skilled Evoker. Finally, there was the House of Winter, who was rather small and settled in the more snowier areas of the world.

During the thousands of years after the war, including the rise and fall of Provenance, and the birth of New Anvil, the Illagers were somewhat absent from History, only appearing here and there to occasionally disrupt the peace, such as the House of Winter overtaking a village in a snowy plain, which was noticed and stopped by the traveling Creon.

A short while after the peace treaty ending the Cold War was signed and the Disciple's War began, the House of Power found and pillaged Manticore II, stealing the precious Emerald Block that had already been taken from New Anvil. Once the Disciple's War ended and the Wither was slain for good, members of the Allium Alliance returned to Manticore II to find the Emerald Block missing, along with some of the riches and resources they had stored there. Following their tracks to a Woodland Mansion, Cadmus and Damon assembled a raid team to attack the inside. Once there, the Heroes killed Ixol's top general, Kilex, slew his prized experiment, a massive Ultra Zombie named Ghu'or, and disabled the Mansion's security measures. Finally, they charged upstairs to the master's chambers and fought Ixol himself, eventually killing him, effectively wiping out the House of Power. With their two highest-ranking leaders gone and their main base compromised, the remaining house members fled into the wilderness, where many of them merged into the House of Raiders.

Some time after construction had begun on the massive City of Haven, a new house emerged seemingly from nowhere, called the House of Annex. They would begin launching attacks on the unfinished city routinely, under the orders of the mysterious Alzir, Thief of Thieves. These attacks made the construction of the city difficult, so Damon and Creon sought out the house's main base, but were unable to locate it. The house has not ceased attacks on the city, and Alzir still remains unseen.

## Faction Sects

Houses
 House of Power |     | Woodland Mansion
 House of Winter |     | Snowy Plains
 House of Annex |      | Unknown, presumably somewhere near the Haven

## Trivia

* The Illagers are the most absent race from the story's lore.
	+ Despite this, they have the most endgame activities out of all the others, with two entire raids.
* The Illagers are heavily compared to the Cabal from the *Destiny* series, being that they have a society based around military, and also the House of Power is heavily compared to Emperor Calus' Loyalists.
	+ However, the tradition of the sects being called "Houses" was more typical of the Fallen.
* It's debatable whether or not Witches came about the same way as the other Illagers, as they maintain a fairly normal skin color, compared to the dull grey of the other Illagers.