Horevan Antagoniste

## Common Knowledge

If, for some ungodly reason, you were paying very close attention to the deepest tundra wastelands of Oraefin, you might see a tower be built overnight by a couple of funny-looking people. If you kept watching for a couple of months, you might then see a group of adventurers walk in, and then about an hour later you might see the entire tower explode. And if you kept watching, for another couple of months let’s say, you might see the entire thing happen once or twice a year.

That’s Horevan Antagoniste and Tark the Tower. And they’re trying their best.

## Further Description

Horevan Antagoniste, the self-proclaimed “nemesis” of the Binturian Party, is a moderately strong pixie who enjoys mildly inconveniencing the Binturians. Most of his time is spent with Tark the Tower, a lich who acts as a mentor for Horevan, and their construction of Tark’s Doom Towers (towers powered by runes and automatons). He is somewhat skilled in Phantasmal magic and the manipulation of True Names, but is a formidable fighter. He will very often adopt the persona of an over-the-top villain, complete with dramatic gestures and corny overreactions.

Horevan fancies himself to be the Binturians’ archenemy, even going so far as to make “Antagoniste” his last name, and enjoys luring the Binturians into his traps to menace them. These traps usually consist of a few harmless alchemical concoctions on convoluted rube goldberg machines, puzzles, non-lethal combat, rock-paper-scissors games, and sometimes a combination of those things. All in all, it’s a very fun time for those involved, and Horevan always pays the Binturians well at the end and lets them watch the Doom Tower blow up. Despite his claims to the contrary, Horevan is an ally of the Binturian Party and even considers some of its members his friends.

Horevan is not well respected among Fae and their ilk. His obsession with the Binturian Party makes him an embarrassment, even among the fair folk who say that anything is fair for fun and games. Those Binturians known to consort with Horevan are sometimes mocked or harassed by other pixies or fae for the company they keep.

Though Horevan entered the Material Plane as a fae, his time spent on it has weakened his powers to that of a pixie, albeit a relatively powerful one.

## Early Life

At some point before 10,016 A.B., Horevan entered the Material Plane to pursue his true life’s goal: menace the Binturian Party. He may have had a few short escapades on his own before he encountered Tark the Tower, a lich whose body is entombed in a massive obsidian body. Tark figured out that Horevan’s innate magical powers can fill runes, and by extension power his automatons. The two became fast friends, with Tark becoming a mentor and an accomplice to Horevan’s harebrained schemes.

## Time with the Binturian Party

### Enter, Horevan! (10,017 A.B.)

Horevan and Tark arrived outside of Will’s Tavern in Binturia ready to spring their trap, in the clever guise of a fae and a heavily-armored lich wearing fake moustaches. They cordially invited the Binturians to take on his challenges and puzzles, and offered them teleport scrolls. A fun time was had by all, and the two groups left on amicable terms.

### Horevan vs. Jester (10,018 A.B.)

After getting into an argument in Will’s Tavern, Horevan Antagoniste and the Constellation Jester organized a competition between themselves and hand-picked Binturians. The challenges consisted of an obstacle course, ball games, riddle solving, a footrace, and a tie-breaking rock-paper-scissors tournament. In that same tie-breaker, Horevan’s team won by the skin of their teeth.

### Xaoc’s Finale (10,018 A.B.)

Horevan was walking through the wintry wastes of Oraefin one day, when he suddenly stumbled upon a very weak-looking man. Horevan took in the stranger and nursed him back to health. The man, Xaoc, said that he wanted to show his gratitude by helping build a Doom Tower. Up until that point Xaoc had exhibited a number of evil characteristics, such as maniacal laughter, ominous hand-wringing, general cruelty, hour-long rants about how much he hated the Binturians, and vulgarity, but Horevan decided to have faith that this man had had a change of heart.

He hadn’t, of course, and Xaoc immediately used the tower’s power to reinvigorate himself, then flooded the tower with Fel magic. Horevan sent warning to the Binturians, then was imprisoned in the tower with Tark. Xaoc lured the Binturians to the tower, but with the help of Horevan and Tark they were able to break him from the tower and put him down for good. Shortly thereafter, the powers of the Hierophant were sent to Suuzi, a pirate captain in Calahay.

### Battle of Binturia (10,019 A.B.)

Horevan and Tark both answered the summons to help at the Battle of Binturia. No doubt their exploits were noteworthy and highly comical yet somehow effective.

### Talk to Me and My Child Again (10,019 A.B.)

Horevan arrived in Adria on short notice, with an automaton in tow. He explained that he had accidentally granted sapience to this automaton, and rather than tell Tark about it he wanted it to learn about how to be a great hero from the best heroes around. Together, they romped around Oraefin disabling three massive automatons: a bear-owl who cheats at riddles; a parrot that mimics everything it sees; and a spider who’s really good at rock-paper-scissors (that one actually got away, but it wasn’t doing anyone any harm).

With valuable lessons learned, Horevan asked one Binturian in particular if they would exchange part of their personhood to make the automaton permanently sapient, and they agreed. By exchanging parts of their True Names, the automaton got Akrai’s demon heart, and Akrai got the automaton’s ageless machine heart. The party once again left on amicable terms, with the added bonus that one of them could now live forever if they weren’t killed.

## Current Life

Horevan Antagoniste is still out there somewhere, probably cooking up new trials to throw at the Binturian Party.

## Further Information

* Automaton
* The Binturian Party
* Fae
* Fel Magic
* Jester
* Lich
* Magic
* Pixie
* Tark Vegadon
* True Names
* United Delagacy, the Domionion of Oraefin (U.D.D.O.)
* Xaoc