Alexandros the Faithful

Alexandros the Faithful was one of the children of Soran the Dark.

## History

Alexandros was born a number of centuries before his father's death to a priestess of the Derjorath tribe of deryth. He had an identical twin brother, Sikandar, who died while they were teenagers. The evidence suggested that one of the lesser deryth tribes had found and killed him, leading Alexandros and one of his father's officers to have a war of retribution against them.

After the collapse of Soran's empire, Soran was hunted down by the forces of Karandos, who proved unable to kill him. Instead, they were able to imprison him in a tomb deep underground in the desert, bound by powerful magics.

Millennia later, some humans uncovered the tomb while they were constructing the fledgeling city of Rehas. A group of adventurers from the Kingdom of Aegis and the Aventi Empire managed to retrieve the ancient relics needed to break the seal on the tomb, releasing Alexandros from his imprisonment. To those adventurers, he gave a grimoire he had written containing some of the ancient knowledge of Soran's Empire.

Alexandros took on human form and made his way to Aventus. He spent centuries there, working on a ritual to resurrect his father while slowly gaining political power under a number of guises, eventually becoming an advisor to the Emperor. He convinced the emperor to send a force to The Wastes to recover an "ancient superweapon mentioned in the oldest legends", a force which he would personally lead. In the Wastes, he found the prison of his sister, Dolofina, and had the aventi expeditionary force excavate it. Once they broke through the ice and Dolofina was released, she proceeded to slaughter the aventi there, before the siblings reunited. The two made their way back to Aventus, where Alexandros was finally able to put his ritual into practice. It was successful, and Soran was resurrected. Unfortunately, Alexandros had made a miscalculation with his ritual, and it released vast quantities of magical energy, which interacted strangely with some of the Fraal technology on the island, resulting in an explosion which forced Aventus to the depths of the ocean. Soran rescued his children and took them to the ruins of his throne room. There, as their reward for bringing him back, he used his power to turn them both into eternals, though at the cost of his physical form. The now incorporeal Soran sent Alexandros to infiltrate other societies and infiltrate their development in accordance with his plans. Alexandros spent much time in Yemas in particular.

At one point, Alexandros took a wife, who gave birth to Madeira, his only child. His wife, a powerful wizard, was investigating Nul and potential ways to harness its power. One of her experiments involved attempting to breach the spheres and create an opening to Nul. This experiment failed, and the resulting portal that led *somewhere* sucked through her daughter before closing. Alexandros was away at the time, and when he returned home he found his daughter missing and his wife dead with a suicide note in her hand. Alexandros, after burying her remains, decided to bury himself in his work, seeing it as his only escape from the pain of grief.