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Radamarst

Shadowy second-in-command of The Vampyre Kingdom under Overseer Drihzxi (briefly) and spy for the Vampyre Lord Vhadxi who infiltrated the Graha-Blee-Mandleclang conference of 803 and ensured that the twelve realms would not be able to unite against the Vampyric Hordes during the Vampyric Wars.

Born in Graha in the year 103, the young Radamarst learned at an early age that he posessed uncanny skill for deception, trickery, and ventrilliquism. By 120, he had travelled far and wide in search of greater and greater tests of his abilities. It was in this year that he travelled far to the south, where men were said to be canny beyond belief and unfoolable by even the most skilled of grifters. As it turns out, this was true. Vampyres, immune to mortal bluffs and subterfuge, were not amused by those with Radamarst's talents. Upon reaching The Vampyre Kingdom, he was actually slaughtered by the first Vampyre peasant he encountered.

As he lay bleeding out in a ditch by the roadside, an unnamed Vampyre Lord spotted him from atop a donkey. Having mercy on the boy, he quickly converted the boy to a Vampyre. In gratitude, Radamarst stayed with the Lord, learning the ways of Vampyre kind and spent the next 500 years learning to refine the crafts he learned in life to a supernatural level of sharpness. His exact whereabouts during this time are unknown and perhaps unknowable, but when he next emmerged in 620, still with the visage of a seventeen year old boy, he was wise and skilled in the ways of lying and spinning misleading half-truths, as well as being a truly world class ventrilliquist.

Radamarst spends the next 180 years travelling the lands as an entertainer, honing his comedic timing and building a name for himself, eventually performing in most of the courts of the lands of the twelve realms. At the same time he learned of trade disputes and court intrigues. Late in the eighth century, an anonymous tip advised that he work to endear himself to a low ranking noble by the name of Drihzxi. Within a year Drihzxi was the high overseer of the lands of The Vampyre Kingdom and Radamarst was selected as second in command, viewed by Drihzxi as "just the sort of personable figure the little folks like to see at the top." As it turns out, Radamarst's loyalties were to the much more ambitious Vhadxi, who had already begun to raise an army in the Disputed Lands and had intentions of overthrowing the southern lands and invading all of Battal.

After helping Vhadxi topple the Vampyre Kingdom that had stood for nearly 10,000 years his final mission for the Lord was to disrupt the treaty talks of the kingdoms of Graha, Blee, Mandleclang who were realizing that they would need to ally with one another to face the thread of Vhadxi and his Vampyre army.

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