Elemental Wanderer

Elemental, after encountering an ancient Construct trap.

#### Life

Elemental Wanderer grew up in a town that has long since been destroyed, happy and carefree. His life was... uneventful at best. He went to school, made some friends, and even had a brother. Later on in life, he became a miner, delving deeper than any of his coworkers dared, bringing up more minerals than expected.

On one fateful day, he went so deep, he hit the bedrock lining the bottom of the world. Upon returning to the surface, and giving his daily report, he was immediately sent back down to look around. Digging for hours on end, day and night, having food sent down to him, he stayed at the unbreakable barrier, searching for the mystery that he needed to solve.

Eventually, he found a place where the bedrock had worn, a hole lined by obsidian, and down beneath it, he felt an almost unbearable heat. Returning to the surface once more, he was greeted with questions. Did he find anything? What did he find? Does he think there's minerals to mine down there? Answering with growing concern, he tried to leave. He was stopped, however, and sent back down to find anything that could be potentially valuable.

#### Death

At the thought of being sent back down, the man strongly protested, and even tried attacking the people who had treated him horribly for years. He was quickly overpowered, and thrown in the entrance of the mine, told to only surface if something valuable was found.

Heading down to the infernal pit he had opened, staring at the strange reddish rock, he began to dig. Deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until he hit another bedrock floor. Digging from there, he stumbled on strange materials, types of stone he'd never seen before.

Eventually, his mining led him to a strange, ruined temple on the verge of collapse. Entering, very cautious, he made his way to the opposite end, where he found an altar made of the same black stone he had been mining. Embedded in the center of the altar was a strange symbol, made of even more new materials, including what looked like metal.

Hoping to use it as his ticket back to the surface, he chipped away at the altar, being careful not to hit the sigil. After a while of precise digging, the key to his freedom broke off of the altar. However, with it came a flood of molten rock, swirling and bubbling, hungry for whatever it could find.

#### Rebirth

The wave of magma crashed over the poor miner, melting his flesh and bones away, until there was nothing left. However, he was still conscious, and felt a hatred like he had never felt before. He dove for the sigil, but instead of grabbing it, he felt himself being pulled *inside* it.

Lava flowed around him, and he felt his limbs take shape, heavier and slower than before. The only thing he felt now was pure, primal *rage.* A burning more intense than the lava he was now made of, stronger than the rock he mined day after day.

Wandering the realm he was now a part of, Elemental channeled his anger to destroy anything he saw, day after day, until the fire dulled to nothing more than embers. Feeling drained, he found a place to rest, and remained there, waiting.

### Finding Vaktas

#### Discovery

After an unknown amount of time had passed, Elemental left his realm. For several years, he remained on the surface of an unknown world, finding his brother, who had also become undead. Time passed, and eventually, news of his brother's true death drove him to an even deeper rage than he had felt at his rebirth. Returning to that underworld he was familiar with, Elemental roamed the wastes for even longer, and upon calming down, felt a strange pull.

Following this invisible string, he found a rift, open hungrily, as if it wanted to swallow the spirit. Entering, he felt his magma stripped from him, and torn away again as more formed to fill the space. Exiting in a new, unfamiliar world, with no return rift in sight, Elemental began travelling this land, looking for any signs of life.