The Boraxian Fog

Revenants of the fallen Empire of Boraxia, the Fog wanders the plane, in constant conquest, searching for their long forgotten homeland. Boraxia was a powerful empire at the height of the Fourth Age, but fell to ruin during the Great War. The empire was led by a corrupted queen who only found contentment by conquering surrounding villages and enslaving their citizens for her entertainment. When she tired of them, she executed them en masse, secretly feeding their corpses to her subjects, and would begin plotting a new conquest. With each slaughter, her empire fell further into darkness. She was a beautiful woman in her youth, but as she aged, the evil of her wickedness weathered her face. In her desperate, vain search for eternal youth, she appealed to Logranon, secretly sacrificing slaves in her chambers, hoping to curry the god's favor and blessings. Though the god of life could be invoked for the purposes of undeath and life preservation, and although sacrifice was indeed a requisite for such rituals, she was ignorant of the true nature of the rituals. Any life offerings must be given freely, with the only exception being the just execution of particularly heinous murderers. Innocent life disrupted the balance of life, and displeased Logranon. Thinking the god of life had any interest in preserving the beauty of a being so internally vile, and especially insulted at her presumption that such blessing could be bought at the cost of innocent life, Logranon brooded. Upon her own death, after a lifetime of cruelty and torture, she was cursed to forever roam the plane in undeath, starvation, and spiritual vacancy. There was no path for her to ever find peace or contentment, and those who served her sadistic conquests met the same fate when the vile empire was toppled in the great war.

Coparrah, Queen of Cruelty Coparrah's reign of terror brought the ire of all Pixelos upon Boraxia, and was one of the catalysts for the Great War. She grew up in a small fishing village off the Western coast, and she was married into the great "Emerald Empire" when her beauty caught the eye of King Jadus. An expert in manipulation, she enjoyed the life of bureaucracy for a time, but she eventually tired of it and her appetite set on conquest. She believed that physical beauty was the highest of virtues, and as she aged, she grew fearful that among her subjects existed one whose beauty might surpass her own. She selected all of her servants individually, only accepting the most beautiful of maidens. At first, those who were selected reveled in the prospect of entering the royal circle, but over time multiple disappearances aroused suspicion and rumors arose of the queen locking away her servants, or worse. As the rumors spread, it became more and more difficult to find willing servants. So she turned to to the surrounding villages. When she found resistance, she resorted to enslavement and executed any who dared question her right to abduct who she pleased. Aware Jadus was not in alignment with her cruelty and was plotting to have their union nullified after their daughter reached ruling age, she enlisted the help of the royal mage, Talfus, to help solidify her uncontested role as ruler. Talfus was a simple enough man, as he was known to have many mistresses. As royal mage, he was a powerful man and could coerce any he wished into submission, but the queen was the forbidden fruit he longed for the most. Once she revealed to him her desire to be rid of the king, Talfus quickly devised a scheme to stage an accident which would kill the king, creating a vacancy on the throne. When the deed was done and the king was removed, Coparrah renounced her daughter as the heir and sent her away to the distant realm of Ulricus, where she was to be groomed as an heiress to the throne. Talfus was ready to take his place as the ruler of Boraxia. But Coparrah had different plans. Knowing the only thing which surpassed his desire for her was his desire to rule, she knew that he would not simply let her take the throne. She was not prepared to release her most manipulable servant however, so before the light of the next full moon, she enlisted the help of her most trusted mage, Khaianne, to create an undeath potion and prepare the resurrection ritual. Believing this to be intended for Jadus, Khaianne quickly made it, and upon its delivery, was rewarded with her own swift death. Coparrah would murder Talfus, silencing the last voice who could tell of her treason, and upon his death, she would bring him back in undeath, to serve her for as long as she reigned. Having drawn the ire of Solumar for her depraved abuse of power and invoking the wrath of Logranon for her insults, the gods decided to put an end to her reign. The united armies of the East descended upon her empire, and she was killed in the invasion. Upon her death, Logranon intercepted her soul, preventing her from approaching the river to the afterlife, and condemned her soul to wander restlessly until the plane was no more. Talfus, the Green Flame Talfus was born into poverty, and as a young boy was stricken with a crippling case of Horseman's fever, which left him horribly scarred on the left side of his body. He was always self conscious of his scarring, and in pursuit of healing he ventured to the Logrand, hoping to learn how to heal his body. He was a diligent student, and during his time in Logrand he learned not only how to heal virtually any malady which he encountered, but he also learned how to restore the scars on his own body. He became obsessed with physical beauty, and by learning to master the elements, he earned a reputation as one of the most powerful mages in all of Pixelos. This drew the attention of Jadus, who recruited him to serve in his royal court as the royal mage, giving him command over the empire's academy, as well as command over a legion of 1,000 mages in times of battle. Talfus's obsession with beauty made him particularly weak to the charms of the young queen Coparrah, and nurtured his unquestioning devotion to her. Unable to fully comprehend the depravity in her heart, his ignorance led to his demise and he now serves the cruel queen in undeath until the cosmos swallow the plane and they both pass out of existence.