Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-58.110.104.164-20150102075203/@comment-67.22.249.68-20150103052636

Here's my character:

Name: Xalek

Realms ruled: Dol Guldur

Faction: Wych Cults of the Black Wood

Rank: High Necromancer

species: Avari Elf

Weapons: Cursed flintlock (It's shots wither your flesh away), fabled staff of black sorcery (not a weapon, used in magic), Balrog whip (now burns black instead of orange)

Information: The Wych Cults of the Black Wood are a group of highly, highly secretive dark cultists who are almost certainly the last faction to practice magic in Middle-Earth now that the Elves have either left or faded. They are not an army, they're barely even a proper faction. There are amazingly few of them, and they're not just Orcs. It's about 60% Orcs and 40% humans. They are also, as I said, amazingly secretive. The only hint of their existence anywhere in Middle Earth is the occasional horrifying-looking shrine in the Dol Guldur portion of Mirkwood (the Black Wood), and the fact that no one has managed to actually find Dol Guldur in a hundred years. They are led by a council of five High Necromancers (only ever five!), who each are advised by two under-Necromancers (only ever two!). The Council, in turn, is in charge of the Chapter Master, who commands the Wyches in his chapter of the Cult. Basically, here's the chain of command from most influential to least influential: High Necromancer, Under-Necromancer, Chapter Master, Wych. In order to become a Wych, you must show signs of magical power. In order to become a Chapter Master, one must demonstrate to the Council that you have enough magical power. In order to become an Under-Necromancer, one must do basically the same thing, but demonstrate even more power. In order to become a High Necromancer, one must have served as an Under-Necromancer, and a High Necromancer must have either died or been kicked off the council. The Under-Necromancers then must undergo a series of tests to determine who the next High Necromancer will be. If there is a tie, the two who tied will duel each other. The survivor will become the next High Necromancer. Xalek, however, got to become a High Necromancer in a much different way. He entered the Cults, and soon became an Under-Necromancer, in fact in record time. Then, one of the High Necromancers died of old age, and the test was held. In the end, the item they were sent to retrieve was picked up by another cultist. When this other cultist presented the item to the council, Xalek entered and killed him with his bare hands. A rather unexpected action from an Elf. He then picked the relic out of the dead rival's hands and presented it to the High-Necromancer he had been advising, a Human woman named Blight. She was quite impressed by his audacity, and allowed him to become a High Necromancer.

Appearance: His skin is abnormally pale, and he's about average height and build for an Avari Elf. Once he became a High Necromancer, however, he took the skull of a Balrog's corpse and fashioned himself a mask. He also reignited it's whip, although now it glows with black fire instead of orange. He wears all black robes with a black hood, and the mask, of course, completely obscuring what he looks like. However, he has a necklace of Cold Drake teeth about his neck, and several sets of herbs and bones and the like to use in dark cultist rituals.