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Vhadxi

The Vampyre Lord credited with organizing the forces of the corrupted dead to lay waste to the twelve realms. It is generally agreed that he came to power because he had a longer cape and made more theatrical speeches than the other Vampyres. Vhadxi's personal philosophies and tenants of vampyre culture came to form the Cult of Dark Destruction. Which continued to sow evil down the ages. Vhadxi's stronghold was known as Blackest Minathok and it stood on the cliffs overlooking the southernmost edge of The Shield.

True to his Vampyric nature, Vhadxi kept several mistresses in addition to his queen, Adhnaten. Some human, some vampyre, some neither, his tastes ran to the exotic and even included for a period his own sister Alanyaa. His greatest pleasure was the game of seduction. He would toy with his mistresses for months at a time, discarding them when the thrill died. His sensuous conquests will be the subject of an upcoming novel series, The Castle of the Vampyre Lord.

Also, Vhadxi's possession of the notorious Fell Blade indicates that he was once a Magic Sword King himself! Sources differ on what could have caused him to turn to evil, but undoubtedly his experience as a monarch and intimate knowledge of the politics of the twelve realms contributed to make him an even greater threat than he would have been otherwise. His greatest failure as a leader was failing to understand that since Vampyres have no real economy amongst themselves, it is insensible to attempt to tax them by means other than accepted currency, which they have no use for anyway. Perhaps his greatest legacy, despite the terrors he wreaked upon Battal, was his invention of Battal Universal Standard Time, a system of reckoning widely used right up until The Ending Times.

During his second bid for control of Battal, Vhadxi made great use of Dark Elemenstors. It is unclear if Vhadxi himself ever actually learned Elemenstation or merely learned much about elemenstation. There is no specific mention of him having the knack. His various and sundry supernatural powers may have been elemenstation based, or merely attributed to his substantial Vampyric powers.

Lord Vhadxi's Personal Timeline

• 777 - Vhadxi is turned to Vampyrism

• 779 - Vhadxi turns his sister Alanyaa to vampyrism. The two became lovers, possibly just to show how evil they were.

• 790 - Founds the Cult of Dark Destruction and begins to attract followers in the Disputed Lands.

• 790 - Fed up with latecomers to meetings of his new cult, declares Battal Universal Standard Time

• 796 - Unbeknownst to Vhadxi, Adhnaten kills Alanyaa. Vhadxi takes Adhnaten as his bride.

• 798 - Introduces the Puppy Meat Tax

• 799 - Partly responsible for The C'nf's'ng Trade Dispute. Due to Vhadxi's misunderstanding it was agreed that the Vampyres would be allowed to inhabit the mines beneath G'nth'l in exchange for exclusive distribution rights to Vampyric Freezees in the Twelve Realms

• 801 - Wrests control of The Vampyre Kingdom from Overseer Drihzxi, and does away with the title of Overseer, preferring to be known simply as Vampyre Lord.

• 803 - Declares war on the Twelve Realms
  • In the same year, the Vampyric Wars begin

• 850 - Kills Lord B'gh'd. This leads to the fall of K'th'ith'h

• 897 - Orders the damming of the Sw'ftfl'w River, creating Adhnaten Lake

• 903 - Betrayed by his wife Adhnaten

• 904 - Revived by his dreadcoffin
  • In the same year, disposes of his treacherous wife Adhnaten

• 1003 - Bests King Pomcloud in single combat Leads to the fall of Graha
  • In the same year, he is finally defeated by the armies of the Twelve Realms. His unlife is too great to be vanquished entirely but the armies manage to seal him within the CryptoCrypt in the depths of the Chasm of Eternal Sorrow

• These cataclysmic events plunge Battal into the period known as The Wandering Age. Vhadxi remains sealed in his tomb for more than 25,000 years

• 26,780 - Released from the CryptoCrypt by an Epic earthquake

• 26,780 to 26,788 - Has a thoroughly Vampyric yawn and stretch, then wastes no time in raising an army to begin The Unlight War

• 26,795 - Learns the art of Elemenstation (or at least learned much about Elemenstation)

• 26,808 - Creation of The Twelve Twisted Evil at the hands* of Mo-pi

• 27,521 - Defeated by the combined power of The Reunified Elfish Council of Elven Factions. Without minions to protect him he is utterly destroyed by the Soul Hunter Alanyaa, his dark power finally leaves the face of Battal for good

See the timelines for The Magic Sword Kings Period and The Unlight War for a broader overview of his military campaigns

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Nowhere to we have a better description of the draconian and yet charismatic picture of Vhadxi as dictator/king/cult leader than as portrayed as a Hail Vhadxi, We Serve Thee from the still classic Elemenstors Rocks Your Socks.

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