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Portfolio: Undeath, punishment, jealousy, obedience, decay, exile

History in Avendar

Of Fenthira's two immortal children, the second was Sitheus, chosen of the Serpent. Deft and intelligent, Sitheus quickly established Himself within Sythtys, the great swamp which sheltered the srryn race. He coveted the power of His brother, Sythrak; this envy would grow as Sythrak's might with the magics of Fire increased. The greatest insult to Him was when Fenthira chose Sythrak over Him for dominance over the srryn race. The War of Fire was sparked by Sythrak's ambition and self-assurance, inciting Sitheus and flaring His jealousy ever greater. Angered by His own impotence, Sitheus embraced His natural guile to settle the score.

As Sythrak's war waned and His following scattered, Sitheus struck. His own power had grown substantially in Sythrak's absence; the chosen of the Flame had little power to oppose Sitheus' might. Although He had the opportunity to banish Sythrak from the swamps, He held back; the greatest punishment Sitheus could imagine was the long, painful, and maddening impotence He had felt during Sythrak's rise. With Sythrak's power broken, Sitheus encouraged the srryn to hone their natural speed and strength. As well, He was the first of the race to realize the power of Void. How He came to that revelation remains a mystery; Sythrak's chosen assert it was gained through cavorting with warmbloods.

Sythrak, however, would not remain defeated. His rage at His brother's backstabbing drove Him to greater and greater command of Fire. At the dawn of the modern era, Sythrak returned with a vengeance. The battle of Fenthira's chosen was protracted and spectacular; srryn shaman say that fire rained down over Sythtys for seven months as they struggled for supremacy. Sythrak, however, was no longer weakened by war. He smote Sitheus, utterly destroying His brother's body and banishing His undying spirit from Sythtys. Sitheus' undying specter roamed in exile, mad with jealousy and defeat. Reveling in death, His spirit drifted, eventually crossing into the cursed Plains of Shargob. It was here that Sitheus first saw the fruits of undeath, and felt the otherworldly intrusion of Gamaloth.

Inspired, Sitheus fashioned for Himself a body from the decaying remains of dead srryn, rotting plant life, and brackish slime. Reveling in His new undead form, Sitheus began to create His own and utterly obedient following of undead. He sought ever greater command of negative energy, raising more and more bone horrors to serve Him. Soon, His undead srryn warriors would seige human settlements; as well, His own Sept, known as the Thissa, forged a permanent presence within Sythtys itself. Sitheus continues to seek greater power in undeath, asserting His own twisted brand of srryn dominance upon mortal Avendar.

Sitheus prefers srryn, but will take what he can get. If you are not srryn, he will turn you into a srryn, but he is not able to turn you into a live srryn... so as you go on in the faith, you will have body parts turning into necrotized srryn parts, and you will start having your (max)stats changed to be more srryn-y.

sigils are coloured serpents. t3 is the black serpent? (12571/13832)

Contrast his manipulation of undead to Rveyelhi's golemancy (shuddeni have no real problem with his rotting, animated corpses crudely stitched together, but do disdain it as crude; they like the refinement of technique, building a better undead monstrosity, etc)