Arkh, The Void
Surprised, the Elder God saw little negative reaction to his tragic creations from the Young Goddess. "Wicked as it is, it's almost like she enjoys it, the tragedy... The villainy of passion!" he thought. She then came back at him with a response to his words, which left him quite annoyed. As she spoke, his Skeleton form began to become more and more ethereal, with crackling sounds of orbiting ice shards breaking.
"No, you tell me... why do you assume to know what I prefer or do not? How can you attempt to read such chaotic things as desires and preferences? If you want to know, I prefer peace..." As Arkh noticed his agitated state, he started forming a large black-as-the-void cape in which he covered himself, only letting his skeleton face and his bony hands revealed. While doing this he continued, in a sort of absent mumble: "And the unlife is but a way to achieve it. Dead creatures are not opposition to life, unlike undead creatures, who will counter-balance the living one's destruction.". As he said this, he thought to himself he had indeed grown quite fond of his creations, in a possibly unnatural way. Possibly a weakness... In a moment of silence he thought to himself "such are the perils of dealing with life so closely", before proceeding in a more firm tone "I have no form of attachment to the creatures that are only to serve their function. Only in the expectation that they do so correctly. Success rate that is now lower since you cursed them with the ability to awake from their peaceful slumber of unlife. But I can work around that limitation of theirs. There are many things one can do. In fact, we can give each living creature a special unique present, to maximize effectiveness.
Saying so, he looked into the planet and made a gesture with his hands, indicating a demand for something to rise from the ground. And things rose.
Create Unlife: Angel of Decay "The outsiders, these need someone to put them in their own place!"
As a mockery to the wise and mysterious Ahkrons, came Arkh's Angels of Decay, in order to show the true nature of those apparently superior beings. Everywhere they would seek to hunt the Ahkrons, and undo their doings. Though their grudge is special against the Ahkrons and any other outsider they sense, no living creature, but very powerful Necromancers, is at peace with them. And the peace with these Necromancers is an uneasy one.
Create Unlife: Dream Vestige "The sons of the dream and the nightmares, great specialists in making both of these come alive, they too should find the peace of unlife. Why not through the substance they are made of?"
Born and more prevalent in the Alfar populations, though not restricted to those, these monsters of nightmare lurk mocking the dream lord while hunting his children.
Create Unlife: Mohrg "The Urdimkal, so obsessed with vengeance and retribution. Well let's aid them in that task, bringing punishment for those who escaped it, and for those that failed to apply the law."
From the remains of brutal unpunished assassins, terrible creatures spawned causing chaos to the region and peoples that allowed such being to meet his eternal rest without doing the same with justice.
Create Unlife: Grave Dirt Golem "To their technology-driven siblings, some rotten advances for them to enjoy."
Out of the experiments of Necromancy-practicing Dwarves arose a necromantic machine that would soon be replicated more than it should...
Create Unlife: Ghoul Create Unlife: Lacedon "The bestial Eyonoi, deserve nothing more civilized than their undead counterparts."
Now resting was unsafe both near land and near water in the Eyonoi lands. As long as one would prefer to stay alive, of course.
Create Unlife: Dracolich "The arrogant Dragons, when set it their right places, can make good serfs."
Though nothing happened instantly, the spark of potential arose, and it was only a matter of opportunity of an evil Dragon mixing with the right necromantic arts to form this incredibly powerful beast.
Create Unlife: Carcass Eater "Ah, your precious Wolves, creatures of honor and love. Let's give them something new to love."
Eating the carcasses of any animal available, whenever possible preying in the young wolves not momentarily defended by their packs, the Carcass Eaters turned life for Wolves (and for any living creatures that met them, as they gradually expanded their presence) into a more dangerous one.
Create Unlife: Bloodmote Cloud "The annoying pixies, childish creatures of the forests. This will be a new toy which we'll see how funny they'll find."
Specially present in swamps and filthy lands, the Booldmotes migrated to almost every forested place in the mortal realm, looking for all those who inhabited them, to suck them dry of their precious blood.
Create Unlife: Crypt Chanter Create Unlife: Spectral Lyrist "The isolated and elevated Elves. Don't they love music and arts? Then that they shall have."
Both haunting and beautiful melodies start echoing through the Elven Forests, specially in the Sylvan isles, giving Elves a taste of what dangers the lands outside their island will present them, and a reason not to trust very much the music makers.
Create Unlife: Bleakborn "The wastelands are not welcoming enough. Let's make them receive their visitors properly..."
In the wastelands of his creation, around the very common frozen and unforgiving places, a new creature rose in order to call forward others into its unliving slumber. Even when not directly encountering these beings explorers with not enough precaution that got lost in freezing climates, suffering death by either environmental or magic cold, could end up turning into one of these unliving murderous traps for travelers.
"Ahh, is this not good?" Asked Arkh with evident pleasure.
AP 0 (12-12) (Create Unlife: Angel of Decay, Dream Vestige, Mohrg, Grave Dirt Golem, Ghoul, Lacedon, Dracolich, Carcass Eater, Bloodmote Cloud, Crypt Chanter, Spectral Lyrist, Bleakborn)
GP 12 of 18
