Category:The Freiherr

Name: The Freiherr

Played by Shmee

DR: 21 (Over-Diety)

Symbol: The Evil Moon

Home Plane: None (Has transended this reality)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Domains: Death, Destruction, Demons, Corruption, Chaos

Portfolio: Power, Devestation, Incantation, Unholy

Weapon: Shillelagh

History:

No one really knows how an entity such as th Freiherr was created. Some beleive that he is a side affect of the Initial Creation... others claim him to be an alien entity... some claim that he was always there to begin with. After the Initial Creation, the Freiherr simply slept, blissfully unaware of the world developing upon the material plane. All it took was for the first death... a little dove dying... was enough to fully awaken the one who would seek to undo all creation. Upon waking up in the form of a giant red cloud, the Freiherr wasted no time, and began to harass the living by returning the souls of the deceased back into the world as Vengeful spirits, and then unleashed the Living Dead to plague the living as he prepared for the ultimate death: the death of the World.

In order to do that, he created the Moon, the Sentient Negative Energy Plane, and set its orbit to crash upon the world. Alas, the Lunar Advent was foiled by a single mortal hero. A Faeli by the name of Nedain challenged the Freiherr in order to stop the waves of Living Dead attacking her people. The Freiherr found Nedain to be a temporary source of amusement and accepted her challenge, and the duel was set on the Moon. However, the fight quickly became serious as Nedain landed a blow on the Freiherr enraging him and as punishment he initiated the Moon's rapid descent onto the world. At the most critical moment, as the Freiherr was about to deliver the finishing blow, Nedain was somehow able to channel enough power from a source unknown to rip one of the Moon's teeth, and throwing it at the surprised Freiherr, managed not only to impale him, but also blow up half the Moon, and effectively halting its collision course. However, the price was great, for while the Freiherr was defeated, the explosion caused a great devastation of unparalleled proportions, and also resulted in the death of Nedain herself who succumbed to her wounds after returning victorious to her people.

It was like that, impaled upon Moon's Tooth that the Freiherr, the living incarnation of Death, died, trying to reach for his heart which is also impaled upon the tip of the mountain, and cursing Nedain and every living mortal. To this day, his cold corpse can still be found on the Moon... a testimony to the folly of the gods and the End that was barley avoided. Yet it was not to be his true end, for as the world rebuilt, the gods quickly forgot about the threat that does not die, and thus, when the Pantheon of Sin attacked Heliopolis and consumed the Sun, the slaughter of the angels was so great, that the Living Incarnation of Death returned, his soul seperated from his body as a vengeful spirit to haunt the world once more.

Now able to walk upon the Material Plane as a ghost, the Freiherr lost no time to pursuiting his ultimate goal, which even his death could not prevent. Appreciating irony, he first targeted the Faeli, kinsmen of the mortal who had killed him. Appealing to the Faeli mages who had been thrown out of their ancestral home of Valorum by the Iron Gnomes, he transofrmed them into Liches, and sending them to Despair to serve the Dracolich Tyrants, he gave them the command to rid Despair of the living, since the land was once part of the Moon, which crashed onto the world during the Lunar Advent. Not satisfied with the situation that the world was in, the Freiherr manipulated the two most powerful Pantheons of the world, by using the power of the Solar Ring, pride of the Radiant Conclave to boil the world's oceans, effectivly almost killing all aquatic life, a direct affront to the Pantheon of Sin, who quickly retaliated with the Blood-Letting, effectivly killing off a third of the world's population, and furthering the Freiherr's goal.

Satisfied with the conflict which he brought onto the world, the Freiherr returned to the Moon in order to consolidate his power. His first course of action was to seek minions. In order to do that the Freiherr began to seek the graves of ancient gods in order to harvest their souls. Upon realizing it, Klashanna sent her own servants to try and thwart the Freiherr's plans, and while they did succees in denying the Freiherr the souls of Averum and Atris, they were too late to prevent him from taking enough souls to complete his plan. It was thus that the Freiherr created his most faithful servants: the Four Elemental Lords. Continuing to manipulate souls, the Freiherr tampered with the process of ressurection, so that when ever a person is ressurected, half their soul turns into a demon, where on the Moon, they are locked in eternal combat. This however had unforseen concequences as it gave birth to Karsteen the Ghost god, who upon building the Bastion of Souls, was attacked by the Freiherr who saw Karsteen as an obstable to his plans.

This started the War of Souls, where the Freiherr, the Lords and his demonic hordes attacked the Bastion, while Karsteen, having obtained the support of the Conclave seeked to chase him away from the bastion. However, the invasion was all a ruse in order to attack Karsteen himself, who in a fit of rage, left the protection of the Conclave to attack the Freiherr. As a result of his trap, though the Elemental Lords and the demons were defeated, the Freiherr in fact succeded in his objective which was to kill Karsteen. Not caring about the Bastion of Souls, the Freiherr simply left, leaving it to the hands of the Conclave. Thus ended the War of Souls.

As time passed, and mortals continued to expand upon the world, the Freiherr continued to grow in power, as conflicts continued to provide him with the deaths required to become more powerful. In the end, in order to gain a massive amount of power fast, the Freiherr killed every demon on the Moon, their deaths feuling his soul with enough power so that it may return to his body, still impaled on Moon's Tooth. With his soul returned into his body, the now once again Living Incarnation of Death seeked to unleash his true power on the world. The opportunity arrived when the Dracolich Tyrants of Symaxia came to ask for his aide, as Solaron had dispatched Michrael and his armies of angels to attack the Living Dead. Seeing an opportunity, the Freiherr agreed and waited for the right moment to strike.

The moment arrived when Michrael once again attacked Symaxia. The Freiherr uprooting Moon's Tooth, threw it as a spear onto Conviction, impaling it and instantly destroying the forest were the angels trained. The features of Conviction allowed for the Freiherr to physically walk on the material plane. As soon as he appeared on Conviction, the angels seeked to stop him. In return, the Freiherr cursed them to succumb to their bloodlust and rage, causing them to become Fallen Ones. Having converted the angels into Fallen Ones, the Freiherr began marching towards the temple where the Conclave had gathered. Tearing a path of death and destruction in his wake, the Freiherr overcame a series of gauntlets, showing his true power as he stood infront of the temple and began to assault it, calling the Conclave out. The Conclave in the mean time seeked to bide for time, while preparing their secret weapon, the Solar Ring's Solar Cannon, which was offline at that time due to technical issues. Kython god of Pestilence tried to stall the Freiherr by fighting him. While he managed to stall him, the Freiherr pushed him back. It was at that moment that Solaron and Michrael revealed themselves and confronted the god of Death. As they spoke, Michrael, fearing for Solaron's life demanded that Klashanna fires the Solar Cannon directly on the Freiherr. Klashanna responded by overloading the Cannon and throwing everything at the Walking Death. However, from the blast, the Freiherr walked out with not even a scratch, because having anticipated such an attack, he had the Elemental Lords lie in wait, and diverting the blast, sent it to Krykol, the capital of the god hating Genasi. Having thus defeated the Conclave in every possible way, and having marked his return to life, the event known as the Second Advent, the Freiherr returns triumphantly to the Moon.