Elizabeth Redtides of Blackstone (Vampire - Arkadia): Elizabeth has been kept under lock and key at Blackstone Keep for decades, away from danger by her dominus, the vampire that made her for reasons unknown as she surely is the most powerful blood mage of all vampires. Exceptionally, her dominus, the overlord of the domain of Blackstone decided to let her step into the world for a mission of utmost importance. So she roams the world with her chaperon to achieve the mission of her overlord. She is a young vampire, and was alone for most of her short undeath, there remains a childish side to her as well as an unconsciousness born of overprotection. While she can be quite haughty, considering many beneath her and not hesitating to remind them, she can also surprisingly show great compassion and empathy uncharacteristic of vampires. Despite her rebellious streak, she shows absolutely no desire to lead and has very little ambition. While she is a powerful mage, she is clumsy and unskilled with any kind of melee weapon.
Dandelion (Wight - Nevarra): Dandelion is a wight lord, having served other wight kings before you. He is quite silent about his past but is profuse in advice to you. He’s a strategical genius, a devious and ruthless one, but a master nonetheless. He shows a very confident and charming side to everyone, but can easily become scarily serious in a matter of second, his skill with his serrated, poisoned saber (Hydra’s Fang) and his magic shield (Roar of the Manticore) makes him an exceptional duellist and assassin. His leadership preserved the undeath of many other wight knights, and they have come to trust him as an unformal leader.
Helena (Banshee - “nowhere”): Helena is a banshee. She was always fascinated by the old world, and became as hungry for knowledge as any mage, roaming the land to search for informations wherever it could be found. She ended up stumbling onto old, forbidden records, speaking of a legendary ‘Wight King’, an undead so powerful that it made entire continents tremble in fear, and she thought until now that it was simply a story to scare children. Even then, she didn’t expect to stumble onto the new wight king in the flesh. She decided to travel along with this living legend. She learnt long ago that the best way to spend your undeath was spent laughing, especially when you’re fleeing a past that draws ever closer.
A Wight King can die, but are very hard to kill. When a Wight King is wounded, their body instantly starts regenerating. So, even if you can kill them, it might not be very useful if you can’t KEEP them dead. If there’s still energy for them to regenerate they’ll rise back up almost instantly.
How would you do that though? If you kill someone yourself they could immediately take your energy. Maybe try killing them from afar? But then can there be something strong enough to take out the Wight King from a distance?
By the way does regeneration only comes from absorbing human energy or any sort of life forms (like animals, bugs, plants etc)
Ahh so a site where many tombs are is definatly not the best place what with all the little things that love those places to survive off of, and the fact plants grow well there for some reason…
Question what about chopping and putting them in several stone containers Barely big enough for the parts then burying them in the ground surrounded by stone blocks (like several meter thick rectangular blocks) on all sides?
Effective enough to ensure a king don’t get back up?
Edit: my phone keeps replacing words…grr
Chopping them up WILL temporarily disable them. But as long as the Wight King lives, the wight knights will know where each parts are, instinctively. Imagine it like Seth cutting Osiris into parts and scattering him around the world. Then the wight knights get the parts back one way or another. As long as they have enough of the head and a powerful source of energy the Wight King will slowly heal and regrow their mortal body.
But if they’re starved of energy long enough, the Wight King could die, but you can’t be sure it kills them, especially if it’s only rock and not magic that blocks energy flow. The Wight King can willingly go into some kind of mummy mode to save energy, so they could just wait for the wight knights to get them.
Killing a Wight King requires great sacrifices. It’s very hard. Starving them is a good tactic, but it’s only temporary. You need more to destroy them completely.
Yes. The wight king is particularly powerful near those kind of places, and Balespire Keep. Balespire has both the monolith and the fact that buried under it are the dead of many wars.
Hmm this raises a intresting question.
Can wight knights sense a wight king at a distance, and if so how far away?
Edit: and is it all wight knights or just those loyal to them?
Ok so several meters of stone on all sides might not be enough. Ok you mentioned enchanted things what if it was buried at a paladin fortress where the paladins regularly train and use thier holy power would that “holy power” help or hinder said king? It is a form of energy but is it a kind that would be like Diesel in a gas engine.
Wight knights have a permanent empathic link to the Wight King, and a telepathic one when they are within 500~1000 meters. Basically, the wight knights would know in which direction the Wight King is but not exactly where, not unless they get close enough.
This is how Dandelion would lead the knights back to the king.
As an undead, holy magic is harmful to the Wight King. And they cannot absorb magic, not directly, they have a passive resistance against magic. I think something like 30% resistance and 10% absorbance.
That changes in mummy mode, all energy transfer is blocked and magic resistance is upped even more.
So it would effectively weaken them, but it could take several years to destroy one mummified part that way.
Villain 101 rule n°1: Never state you are invincible under threat of dying in the next five minutes.
How is it determined who will be born as the wight king? Do you have to be someone powerful? Also do you have to be dead or you could transform while still being alive?
I haven’t thought of a specific span between Wight Kings, between 1000 and 500 years for the last one. The last one had a particularly violent and short reign. They were responsible for the dead zone in front of the only entry to the kingdom of Arkadia, the tainted zone called the Scar, into which nothing can live. It goes from the mountains of Arkadia to the borders of Nevarra.
This Wight King and Dandelion didn’t really get along, neither did the rest of the wight knights.
I wonder will we be able to turn/corrupt paladins to join our side
Also do knights have any sort of moral compass or they obey our will without question
