Nulgath

* Miltonius
* Nulgath

Leader of the Nulgath Nation

AQWorlds Artist (formerly)

Oversoul lead (formerly)

### Allies:

Empress Gravelyn, Balor, Revontheus, King Klunk, Dilligaf, Odin Fatalis, Tendou no Mazo, Ddog

### Enemies:

Dage the Evil, Artix Krieger, Beleen, Aranx, Ragnor the Cruel

### Current Status:

Left Artix Entertainment in 2015Active once a year.

## Social Media

### Youtube:

Miltonius Arts

 Biography

The original name of Nulgath was Miltonius, a character which is not as infamous as Nulgath. Nulgath is an Archfiend, also known as an archdemon and serves a dark master whose name is unknown.

Nulgath is from the AQWorlds timeline, but a character as powerful as him is also able to hop timelines. He uses portals for this purpose.

### Life as Miltonius

Before becoming the archfiend he is now, Nulgath was a human named Miltonius. How exactly he came into contact with his master is unknown, but it is very likely due to practicing dark magic. He often wandered into the caves under the Citadel of the Grand Inquisitor where he discovered his dark secrets.

### Transferring to an Archfiend

As he explored the caves more and more, he found a lot of powerful items, creatures, and magic that he could bind to his will.

As he got more powerful than ever, he was eventually able to shed his mortality and become half demon. He made his palace deep within the caves and named the maze-like caves 'Tercessuinotlim' (MiltoniusSecret).

He claimed his home within the deepest of the caves, guarding two massive gates.

On top of his power as a half-demon, he animated his blade as a companion and named it the Oblivion Blade of Miltonius. If one would step too close to him, the blade would strike them down.

### Becoming Nulgath

As more adventurers came visiting his cavernous palace in the core of Lore, he obtained a lot of power from striking harsh deals with them; these contracts bound them to him or were souls that he got in return for his favors.

Due to his power and evil ambitions, his master was impressed and allowed him to evolve into a fully fledged, powerful demon.

The old Miltonius was gone, and Nulgath the Archfiend arose. Even his sword changed, including the items he had granted to adventurers before.

Another significant change was the appearance of more minions and locations, which all resonated his dark powers.

### The Dage versus Nulgath war

At the height of his power, Nulgath took a couple of apprentices to serve as his generals and learn his dark magic. These included Revontheus, Dage the Evil, Dilligaf, King Klunk, Odin Fatalis and Zee.

However, Dage the Evil broke his contract that bound him to Nulgath, resulting in his soul being shattered into a multitude of pieces.

Then Dage rose an army of undead, which were different than normal. They still had fairly intact brains and were soul-linked to Dage. This Undead Legion would later be Dage's most famous asset.

Dage confronted Nulgath at the Oblivion Gate, a place that was a rip in the timestream and led to another world.

In the war that followed, Nulgath and his generals: Dilligaf, King Klunk and Revontheus, led the Nation against Dage the Evil and his generals Laken, Vokun and Aranx.

Despite Nulgath's victory in the war against Dage's legions, in the end, Dage managed to trip up his old master, causing him to fall into the Oblivion Gate. He quickly closed it afterwards, trapping Nulgath in the realm of Oversoul.

### The realm of Oversoul

After being trapped in the realm of Oversoul, the first thing that Nulgath did was devour more spirits and souls to attain even greater power. Later on, he also summoned his generals that helped him in the Evil War to this new realm in order to build an army and return to Lore.

Over time, Nulgath had attained enough power to send projections of himself back to Lore and other timelines. But despite a few appearances here and there, no one has directly heard from him ever since...

## AE Lore

### AQWorlds Lore

As he is originally from this timeline, the most lore about Nulgath and Miltonius is written in the AQWorlds timeline. His old cavernous home in Tercessuinotlim can be found in the caves under the Citadel. It is a maze for anyone that enters it, and its inhabitants are not always so friendly to visitors.

There are many more instances and items that refer to Nulgath, being mysteriously indicated by his minions, runes, or the mere presence of his items.

#### Chaos Storyline

In the Chaos Storyline against Drakath, Nulgath appears to be subject to Empress Gravelyn of The Shadowscythe as she rallies The Nation as well as Dage and his Legion against Chaos. But because Nulgath has already been trapped in Oversoul by then, he could only send a projection of himself.

When the Hero lands in the underworld and desperately needs to save the Empress, Nulgath jumps in and shows a fraction of his power to save the day.

#### Chaos Lord Beleen

Shortly after the war, Beleen gets corrupted by chaos and becomes one of the Chaos Lords. Nulgath, who had just opened the Oblivion gate again to re-enter Lore, happens to land right besides her.

Having become extremely unpredictable, Beleen nullifies Nulgath's attempt by turning him and his minions into cute little beings and starts pinkifying Lore.

Nulgath comes up with a plan to stop her, but afterwards he has to retreat to Oversoul again.

#### Birthday Events

Every January, Nulgath's birthday is celebrated and his NPC appears in Battleon or Battleon Town.

#### BattleCon

In BattleCon, there are two projections of the great Archfiend in both Vendor Booths to promote Oversoul, and in Artist Alley to sell some of Nulgath's wares.

#### Dark Fortress

The Dark Fortress is an instance back-in-time when Dage was still Nulgath's apprentice. The Dark Fortress is outside of Lore and a training place for Nulgath's apprentices.

### AQ3D Lore

Despite not having arrived in AQ3D, Nulgath's Nation did set foot in the Underworld in that timeline. This is to oppose Dage's Legion, who also has a presence there. But both leaders are only referenced to and not physically present for some reason.

### DragonFable Lore

In the DragonFable timeline, Nulgath can be found in the Snowy Forest instance, where he is obviously looking for a way back to the Oblivion Portal and get back to Oversoul.

### Oversoul Lore

Arriving in Oversoul, Nulgath did not hesitate. He quickly figured out that he is pretty much the strongest being in that realm, and started executing his plan to turn the whole Oversoul realm into Fiends and strike back at Dage.

Yearly, he does appear as an NPC for his birthday, as well as a playable character.

## Fun Facts

* Nulgath does more than 3 billion damage in a single strike, which should not be possible considering AQW uses 32 bit system and maximum value within 32 bit system cannot exceed 2,147,483,647.
* Nulgath changed his appearance 5 times.
* During the Evil War (Dage vs Nulgath), Nulgath actually won the war judging by the score count. It is unknown why AE made Dage win, but it was probably done for story reasons such as the debut of the game Oversoul. This was rewritten later on.
* In Oversoul, Nulgath's minions often mention "The Old One".
* Despite all the evil beings in Tercessuinotlim, Nulgath allowed Polish to be around as the only good character present.
* The transfer from Miltonius to Nulgath actually was done because he did want to own the name Miltonius while AE has copyrights on the name Nulgath.
* Unlike Dage, Nulgath eats souls which makes him more evil.
* The very first name that he used when he began working for Artix Entertainment was Hadin.
* Ddog was his nephew in real life.
* He uses a lot of symbolism from greek or chinese characters.
* In the Mirror Realm, Nulgath is an Archangel.

## Real life story

Milton is known to be one of his real names, which is why he adopted the name Miltonius shortly after being hired by Artix Entertainment somewhere around 2006 after making the Artix vs Undead video.

### Founding of AQWorlds

He is the one that founded almost all the concept art for Artix Entertainment's first MMORPG, AdventureQuest Worlds. Being the founder-artist of AQWorlds means that the item, character, monster, and background animations templates were initially designed by him and later taken over by other artists.

This does not mean that he made it all by himself back in 2008 when AQWorld was launched, but he did play large role in its development. Despite that, he did not work from the underground lab.

From 2009 to 2010, he secretly started building his own map and story and snuck it into the game under the name Tercessuinotlim. He has always been sneaky with his artwork, leaving small references to himself in the form of runes and symbols on all the things he created.

The popularity of his artwork within the Artix Entertainment community rose because it was hard to obtain. Some were simple, yet catchy in design.

### Oversoul

In 2012, certain events happened and Miltonius claimed his name 'Miltonius' for his own purpose, making Nulgath the new name of his character. Shortly after this, a video of Artix Entertaiment was shown with spoilers and hints on a new card-based game that Nulgath would bring in.

After the Dage versus Nulgath war happened in AQWorlds, he left AQWorlds to work on his own new game Oversoul with his real life friends, King Klunk and Dilligaf. AE sent their support for the game in the form of Warlic and Revontheus.

However, Oversoul was less of a hit than AQWorld and there were insufficient boosts to it to make it successful. King Klunk and Dilligaf were working as volunteers for some time but could not get paid, and so eventually they left the project. For a time, Nulgath worked on Oversoul alone with Revontheus and Warlic until giving up on it in 2015.

### Current status

With AE focusing on AQ3D, he decided to better hone his art and animation skills by making web-comics and animations. With the goal of training himself to become an even better artist, he eventually left Artix Entertainment to pursue making more personal artwork.

He does still submit some artwork for his birthday in AQWorlds annually.

## External links

* Dage versus Nulgath war video
* Artix vs Undead video