Meldreg Tethot Cesqec
The Prince of the Abandoned
Status:
VacantName of Story: Upheaval
Setting: Starts at the Abomination's Sarcophagus, and expands into the medieval world of Hamur
Lore Size: Massive-Expansive
Plot: Long ago within the canyons of Aker, a massive army mustered by the kings of Hamur encroached upon the Empire of the Abandoned, a mystical fortress of society's outcasts and rebels. Even with the land on their side, the defenders of the Abandoned succumbed to the superior weaponry and numbers of the allied forces. The kings' soldiers swarmed the canyon citadel as they captured the fortress' young prince, Meldreg, and brought the rebel leader to the kingdom of Kafel where the world witnessed Meldreg's execution as the prince's body dangled from the gallows. The kingdoms celebrated Meldreg's death, but the ominous words left by the prisoner sent a tingle down everyone's spines: 'At the sepulchral toll of Tazilek's bells, the Abandoned will rebel from the earth's embrace, and claw out from Neela's grasp.'
After the execution, the people threw Meldreg's body into a special burial pit and labyrinth, built solely to contain the prince's body where no one could resurrect him in order to prove his prophecy wrong. And, so, for the next centuries, the rebels of the Abandoned fell silent upon the forgotten graves in Aker. However, as mankind's knowledge increased, their capability for terror shot up to disastrous levels. A powerful tyrant made it his goal to capture all the kingdoms in order to unite all lands under his rule, and so, he razed kingdom after another, enslaving his enemies whilst his power and wealth grew. The innocents suffered in his diabolical grab for power, and it would seem that the now self-declared emperor Warros was unstoppable.
Then, from one of the peasant villages, the elders sent forth their most promising rogues to deal with the situation. The victims of the tyranny decided that if Meldreg's prophecy was true, the forgotten prince could be the answer to defeating Warros' rule. However, it was quite unfortunate that every able man was forced to serve the army, and as such, they had to make do with a female rogue to search for Meldreg's tomb. But, before the woman could leave for the journey, one of the elders gave her a dazzling, emerald bell-- the Bell of Tazilek. The elder instructed her to ring the bell once she found the tomb in order to awaken Meldreg, and save Hamur from destruction.
So, the rogue travels for miles upon miles, and though battered and bruised, comes face to face with Meldreg's tomb after she traverses through the labyrinth. Quickly, she sounded the bell as an eerie, haunting toll echoed through the labyrinth's stone walls. As the echoes died down, tremors shook the tomb, cracks forking out around the dust-ridden prison of the fallen prince. Then, finally, a forceful hand burst out of the coffin as the prince emerges from his death with fury in his eyes. Immediately, he assaults the rogue with questions, only for him to realize that he was resurrected far too long than what he had envisioned. However, Meldreg focuses his mind, and agrees with the rogue to defeat Warros. But, he would need her help to go back to the forgotten fortress in order to rally the ghosts of his fallen brethren.
Though Meldreg was also known as a monster in his own right, it was often a last ditch hope that it would take a monster to defeat one.