Hrothiberhtaz of Eikschweig

Hrothiberhtaz is a dwarf who works in Division S.

## Biography

Hrothiberhtaz was a dwarven priest of Agiri Earthtiller who lived in the dwarven stronghold of Eikschweig. Life was good for him there: he was enjoying his priestly work of healing injured farm animals, he had a loving wife, and he had recently acquired a parcel of land just outside the stronghold where he could build a temple of his own.

Unfortunately, he was the victim of a conspiracy: one of the wealthy merchants wished to get rid of him so he could marry his wife. This merchant was friends with the head of the guard, who he paid to create a writ of arrest. Hrothiberhtaz was arrested on charges of corruption, and sentenced to execution, to be overseen by the merchant and another guard, who was in on the conspiracy. They took him outside the stronghold, bound and gagged him, and put him in a bog, which he slowly started sinking into. As they were watching him struggle, Jahegso'n came out of the trees. Hrothiberhtaz tried to warn them, but with the gag, they mistook it for him screaming about his impending death. Jahegso'n ripped off the guard's head and the merchant fled back to Eikschweig. Jahegso'n considered going after him, but he had to save his target from death. He pulled Hrothiberhtaz from the bog, and took him to the ship he'd come on.

In Division S, Hrothiberhtaz was subject to a number of gas-based experiments that eventually awakened the alchemical alterations inherited from his distant ancestor Ahk'gi. The warping of his mind was significant, and from the nice, peaceful priest, was born an obsessed, vengeful, necromantic monster. Hrothiberhtaz was promised that if he stayed with Division S, he would soon be allowed to return to Eikschweig to kill the merchant and reclaim his wife, one way or another, something he gladly agreed to when Red'foorgettcht proposed it.

## Powers and Abilities

Like the other descendants of Ahk'gi who have had their alchemical abilities awakened, he is all-but completely unkillable and is immune to most forms of mental interference.

Due to his earlier life as a priest, Ahk'gi is a divine spellcaster capable of casting a number of healing spells, as well as being able to imbue his mace with radiant energy in the form of smites.

When his alchemical abilities were awakened, he gained the ability to raise the dead as zombies. This works best on Beasts, likely due to his life of healing them, and he can zombify any within 30 feet of him. He can also do this to Humanoid corpses, but he can only raise them one at a time. He controls all those he raises, allowing him to quickly gain a zombie army. It should be noted that his zombies are considerably more "alive" than traditional zombies, often retaining much of their minds and personalities in the cases of Humanoids.

He is widely respected in Division S for his necromantic abilities, and unofficially is the last line of defence if their headquarters were ever to be attacked.

## Personality

After his betrayal and the experiments performed on him, Hrothiberhtaz became unhinged and obsessed with killing the merchant who led the conspiracy and making his wife his again, likely through force and/or necromancy. He is fuelled mostly by his hatred and rage.

He can be communicated with, and one can attempt to reason with him, mostly to the point of arguing that you can help him achieve his goals. He serves as one of the division's physicians, and helps heal physical damage and removes curses, making him pretty popular amongst the other field agents.