MAGIARCH MARLOCH SORCERON
The Shaanite
dynasty, first monarchic dynasty of Southgate, ended with king Zaroun
(a.k.a. The Ill-Fated) in 50
A.R., who died of an unatural disease and without an heir.
Zaroun's wife, Anlara Tyrane
(a.k.a The Dark Majestrix),
was presumed to have murdered him through foul magics. Anlara
proclaimed herself as the first Magiarch
of Southgate in 51 A.R. (Year of the Dark Majestrix). The year
after (Year of Sorrows), Magiarch Anlara outlawed all goodly and
lawful worships in Southgate and its area of influence, promoting
instead the worship of dark and/or chaotic powers such as
Sorcere, Shades, Hates, Kharalkuur, et al.. In 59 A.R., Magiarch
Anlara proclaimed the kingdom of Tyrane,
which spanned the lands that today constitute what is known as
the Greater Southgate area.
Anlara Tyrane was slain and replaced by a proeminent member of
her inner circle of mages in 70 A.R. (Year of the Lich), a man
named Marloch Sorceron who
turned out to be a powerful lich. Thus Magiarch
Marloch (a.k.a. The Lich Lord)
proclaimed the kingdom of Malebonia
(in lieu of the kingdom of Tyrane), enslaved all of the people of
the kingdom and instituted his 300 year-long Reign
of Terror (from 71 to 370). It was under
Marloch's reign that human sacrifices were almost a daily
occurence, and when the church of Orcas rose to unprecedented
heights in proeminence and power.
Unexplicably, Magiarch Marloch abdicated and disappeared in 370
A.R., allowing for the necromage Crenax Faralax
(a.k.a. The Callous) to ascend
as the third Magiarch of Southgate. The tyranny of Magiarch
Crenax ended in 422 A.R., after the necromage was deposed and
slain by the sorceress Gaele Magnus
(a.k.a. The Restoratrix).
Being a devoted worshiper of the goodly goddess Dweore, Magiarch
Gaele outlawed and expulsed all evil/chaotic worship out of the
kingdom of Malebonia. She then dissolved the kingdom, returning
Southgate to a status of city-state and applying herself at
restoring prosperity and good living in the city and the whole of
the Greater Southgate area. In 432 A.R., after a 10 year-long
reign, the good, kind and wise Magiarch Gaele restored dynastic
monarchy in Southgate by abdicating and crowning Pharaos
Nelanthyr, first king of the Nelanthian
dynasty.
To this day, no one is certain as to what happened to Marloch.
All that is known is that he retired to a secret, private sanctum
sanctorum that is rumored to be located somewhere in what are
known today as the undersewers of Southgate. Is the lich still
alive but dormant? Or did Marloch's lichdom ran its course,
leaving him as nothing more than ash and dust? These are
questions that remain without answers.
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