The pumpking

### Aliases

Pump, The king of pumpkins, The hermit of Holeneas, The ancient of wisdom, The stone most wise, Rock (by SwappedAround), Soul mage

### Eye color

Black

"*Nothing is endless, you see. Everything dies, but me!"*

*"You see, the difference between you and I is, I don't always aim for success".*

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The Pumpking was the third creation of the elder gods. He was an ancient of stone, which made his size never change. When The pumpking was made on the peak of holeneas they started climbing down the mountain, eventually arriving at a jungle. He started exploring the jungle, when he found two other people, FadyTheAwesome and hisking22. FadyTheAwesome acted much like a jester, and hisking22 was rather serious, wanting to create housing and exploit the resources of the world for himself. The three of them agreed to make a town named jungle town in that same spot in the jungle. Eventually, an unknown ancient came to jungle town to look at what they had, steal it, and burning down every house that could burn. This event made jungle town split, and soon after, The pumpking made a town, holeneas.

## The unknown creatures

After setting up his house, he had remembered a portal he had built to the infernal realm, which the world was beginning to call "the nether". So he returned to jungle town, to move the portal to holeneas. When arriving at the portal, he saw many strange creatures about his size coming out of the portal itself. They requested his help in finding shelter, as they did not belong to this realm. After many years of making a culture with them, he decided to ask them for a favor, to kill the destroyer of jungle town. When they arrived at their house, they successfully assasinated them, but it wasn't without casualties. Most of the creatures died, and The pumpking was cut in half, although his body eventually returned similar to that of the creatures he had befriended, thus prompting him to start experimenting with souls. But soon after, the remaining creatures starting dying, and they were unwilling to reproduce. This event caused The pumpking to finally be scared of death, and trying to make the years he had left until death of natural causes longer.

## Seeking immortality

After trying and failing to gain immortallity from souls, The pumpking decided to acquire them another way, through the gods. He went to confront the elder god Dath, and ask them for immortality, no matter what it took from him. Dath asked him, by writing, for three corpses and the remains of The pumpking's praised animal, the odd blue goat. Pumpkingpie acquired the required objects and handed them to Dath through a shrine, and something he could never have expected occured. Dath spoke to him in words too loud to be understood, causing mass destruction, and doing what he assumes was giving him immortality. After that, Dath disappeared from holeneas. Soon after, The pumpking understood that he had also been cursed, the curse stopping him from living anywhere outside of holeneas.

## Revival of the blue goat

Many years after The pumpking gained immortality, he wished to stop living in holeneas, as it was getting quite unlikable, living in a mountain hole he knew too well. He remembered what Dath asked him for, the remains of the blue goat. So The pumpking realized he needed to revive the blue goat. Oddly, Dath did not ask for the goat's soul, so he still has it, so now he just needs to prepare a body. He prepared the body with a normal goat's corpse and some blue wool from sheep, the inferior creatures. Once the soul was put in the body, it simply exploded. The explosion was small, but it worked. However, he still was required to find a place of living he was satisfied with.

## Struggling for life

After the curse's removal, he knew he couldn't live for long, but he had to prolong his life, and he knew how to temporarily do it, he needed to fuse his soul with those of ancients. Going to the old library of holeneas, he saw that most of his preserved souls didn't quite survive hundreds of thousands of years, and those who were preserved properly barely had the power they previously had, they only lasted up to a hundred years. He was left with one soul, the strongest of souls in his collection, the soul of Hisking22. But he couldn't risk this soul for only a few years, he needed to strengthen it. And he knew what that required, a mass... meeting. A soul can only be strengthened by multiple other souls, and only those who have already used soul magic, and he would acquire that, however much it costs, in this case, releasing a somewhat fake book of soul magic to the world, spreading this soul magic everywhere around Iaddithis, and they would just need to pay for the book, with their lives.

## Immortal again

A few people did come to the ritual, not knowing this would cost their life. But they were merely humans, beings not strong enough to properly strengthen a soul, Except for one... An ancient came, not knowing of their own power, and believing themselves to be a mere human. The pumpking could not have gotten anyone better for the ritual. And so, the ritual began. The soul was getting stronger, most clearly. A soul like that of an ancient with a still healthy soul still in the body itself is the strongest soul that The pumpking could have gotten. And, at the end of the ritual, he was immortal again. So now, he thought to himself, what should he do?

## The Kaiser's death

A day came and multiple citizens of Gewebe noticed their Kaiser, Lettcor Volkost, could not be found. And so, they believed he had been nabbed, perhaps even killed, and they believe it to be the fault of The pumpking. and it was, The pumpking did kill the Kaiser of gewebe for reasons not yet known, although he claims it was payment. And so, they marched to Holeneas and asked The pumpking, quite violently, for the location of their kaiser. The pumpking was willing to tell them all the truth they required and was willing to even show them the site of the killing. At this point, most of the citizens had returned to Gewebe and one remained, and the offer was accepted by that same person, Gerrisen Vertauscht. They both went down to the dungeon, The pumpking first as was requested by Gerrisen. At the sight of the Kaiser's dead body, The pumpking was euphoric, but Gerrisen ran towards the body and attempted to lift it out of the dungeon. However, whilst too busy lifting his Kaiser's body, he did not notice The pumpking locking the dungeon's doors on him. As the body was lifted off the ground, The pumpking began a conversation. This conversation consisted mostly of Gerrisen attempting to bargain with The pumpking for his life and the Kaiser's body. During the conversation, Swapped took the Kaiser's body, and rammed Lettcor's head into the wall. This broke the wall, to the surprise of both The pumpking and Gerrisen, but Gerrisen took the opportunity and began moving out of the dungeon. He was very easily able to get out, due to The pumpking's weight.

## Gewebe's hand

Only a few days later, Gerrisen returned to Holeneas with some other Gewebens in battle equipment. The pumpking heard from many sources of the strong offensive forces of Gewebe, and knew fighting back to be useless. The gewebens requested he hand over The Kaiser's soul and any knowledge, despite the soul being anomalous. And so, the Pumpking reluctantly handed the Gewebens Lettcor's anomalous soul and his well-known book "soul magic" which only contained lies about soul magic, for The pumpking wished to be one of the only people with knowledge of soul magic. The gewebens also told The Pumpking to research the soul and give them results, but all of his research lead to nothing. Every day, the gewebens came asking for results, but The Pumpking had nothing to give. That was, until one of these days, Gerissen Vertauscht returned and asked for the weapon with which his Kaiser was killed, The Pumpking's spear. This spear was not one he had wished to merely give away, as it was forged by him with much effort to never wither or break a million years ago. But this day, Gerissen brought an interesting individual. This individual was the temporary Kaiser of Gewebe, Rider Von Spinne, who was large and oddly furry. Rider spoke to The Pumpking as just another bandit, seemingly not caring much about the death of his Kaiser. The Pumpking earlier told Gerissen that he would perhaps hand over the spear for some knowledge, the greatest of all things, and so, Rider began telling stories of himself, and his attainment of immortality. These stories often Involved Rider using something similiar to soul magic, yet different than The Pumpking's. This infortmation was satisfying, and the Gewebens had acquired the spear and returned to Gewebe. However, later that very same day, The pumpking journeyed out through the swamps towards Gewebe, in order to research this Rider invidividual.