Vareen

**Vareen**, also known as the **Plaguespreader**, was an Eldritch Abomination older than most Guardians, a founder of Urgamakka, and a former member of the Master's Organization.

## Appearance

The Eldritch took the form of a tall figure with slender limbs.

## Abilities

After centuries of studying his condition of undeath and how Chaos interacted with living beings, Vareen discovered how to share the "gift" of the black core which granted him the Plaguespreader moniker. After feeding upon a prey, he returned the stolen energy and mixed it up with his own, turning them into living-Abomination hybrids. Unlike Baba Yaga's children, however, his creatures had no free will nor much time to live. The growing Chaos inside of them made the hapless hybrids as hungry as Vareen, forcing them to feed non-stop to keep their Abomination side from devouring the living half. They helped Vareen to scour the lands, looking for anything that possessed enough light element to quell their hunger.

## Background

Vareen helped found the city of Urgamakka when he was an Eldritch after learning rumors that an Abomination who managed to enter a Fringe had learned from Mogar that the same method that allowed the living to gain the white core would also turn an Abomination into a new life form. Instead of canceling each other, the black and the white core were supposed to merge, granting the Eldritch a power on par with that of the Guardians and absolute mastery over both life and death. Vareen joined the city's violet-cored Awakened to pursue the project and invested a lot of resources in it, even sharing his considerable knowledge with the Awakened community of Urgamakka, including a precise description of his breathing technique and the very secrets of magic that he discovered over the millennia. Vareen also made acquaintances with Aylen Nagaar when she was but an apprentice.

However, between the number of casualties caused by the failed experiments and the mages dying of old age, the population of violet-cored of the city steadily decreased. The Eldritch progressively lost hope and searched for new ways to get rid of the curse of undeath. On top of that, the more an Abomination practiced magic, the greater their need to feed. For those reasons, Vareen started to spend more and more time away from Urgamakka, until he completely forgot about it, deeming the city another of his many failures.

Vareen joins the Master's Organization due to his interests aligning with the Master's, but grows too impatient to wait for the Master to find a monster suitable for his black core and also believes they have gone soft. He ventures to the border between the Griffon Kingdom and Blood Desert after hearing news of the ancient ruins of Urgamakka being discovered. In actuality, the Awakened Council had organized a test for their apprentices and constructed a replica of the ancient city, though Vareen mistakes it for the actual ruins. Vareen ventures to the ruins, intent on erasing the traces of his knowledge and monopolizing any useful research.

Vareen finally comes across the Urgamakka replica and sends his Abomination minions to attack the city. The Hordes that are helping the Council attempt to fight him but are outmatched, as well as Zolgrish the Lich. Vareen sees Lith and mistakes him for a living Abomination. He approaches Lith's group thinking Lith had found the secret to the white core within the ruins. Vareen attempts to force Lith to submit, but Lith's group resists. Zolgrish the Lich attempts to intervene but is quickly eliminated. Lith's Possession ability allows him to summon the soul of Renkar, one of Vareen's old enemies, though Renkar is killed after attempting to take over Lith's body.

Inxialot Nagaar intervenes when they are interrupted by Aylen, who had become the first Lich and a white core. Aylen's Mirror Magic and Silverwing spells overwhelm Vareen's regeneration, eventually killing the Eldritch.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 1509: Learning From the Past (Part 1)
2. ↑ Chapter 1521: Spreading the Plague (Part 1)
3. ↑ Chapter 1529: Mirror Magic (Part 1)
4. ↑ Chapter 1527: Chaos Unleashed (Part 1)
5. ↑ Chapter 1530: Mirror Magic (Part 2)