In ages past, the mightiest of heroes and chieftains who fell in battle were entombed in cairns and barrows of stone and earth, still garbed in the armour they wore in life. Surrounded by their earthly wealth, they were sealed in with curses and hexes, ensuring that none disturbed their eternal slumber. However, while these ancient spells of warding might keep centuries of tomb robbers at bay, they pose little hindrance to the most powerful Necromancers.
Their tombs defiled, these ancient heroes are infused with the Necromancer’s power and rise to become Revenants, deadly undead warriors whose power is far greater than that of the lesser Undead. Though their flesh has long since rotted from their bones, they are encased in heavy ensorcelled armour of bronze and iron, making them nigh on impossible to destroy. Their weapons radiate a deadly chill, and it is said that those felled by these cursed blades are damned for all eternity, their souls forfeit. The Revenants form the armoured elite of a Necromancer’s army, and there are few living warriors with the strength or nerve to stand against them.
Helikaeth, the Revenant King
Of all the warriors and kings of old, few were as powerful as King Helikaeth. A giant of man, standing almost seven feet tall, he carved out a kingdom that ranged for thousands of miles in all directions, ranging from the foothills of the Dragon Spine mountains in the west to the Ironskin Mountains in the east. He forced hundreds of chieftains and kings into subservience, and while he was a fair ruler, he was utterly ruthless to any who defied him. He defeated countless invasions, drove the Orc hordes from the Plains of Dust, and forged alliances between men and Dwarfs that still hold, and yet he was dead before he had even seen twenty-three summers, slain by Elven arrows... read more of this story.