Kotiz

Zebuxoruk the Demigod

In past time did a great necromancer rise to greatness. Kotiz was he. He was once the apprentice of the Shissar. It is there that he learned the secrets of the dark circle. After the Green Death took the Shissar, Kotiz made their laboratories and libraries his own. There did he train many new apprentices. In the year 199 A.G. he finds a rip in time and journeys to the netherworlds. There he discovers the trapped soul of an ancient evil, the demigod, Zebuxoruk.

Zebuxoruk was imprisoned for blasphemy and his essence now was trapped within a crystal. Kotiz was promised great knowledge in exchange for assisting the demigod in his freedom. Kotiz was told to return to his world and gather 100 necromancers and bring them one at a time to the crystal where Kotiz would sacrifice them using the crystal as the sacrificial dagger. Knowing only of his own brood, Kotiz brought them one after one to be sacrificed to the demigod. Upon the death of the last apprentice did the crystal shatter. A shard imbedded itself in the shoulder of Kotiz. There was no demigod to be seen. The tiny plane began to fold in upon itself. Kotiz escaped using the last mana he had. He believed he was deceived by the demigod. He destroyed his own brood for naught. Suddenly the shard of crystal in Kotiz began to move under the skin. It rushed to his right arm. With great pain, arms began to sprout from his own arm. They grabbed Kotiz's shoulder and ripped his arm from his socket and began to form a demonic creature. Zebuxoruk was free! He lay a book in front of the dying necromancer and left in a flash of light. The book was The Unholy Writ of War. Each page was made from the skin of the sacrificed brood. Kotiz repaired himself and hid the book in a tesseract within his library. There it would remain. Eventually Kotiz could sustain his life no longer. He entered death 700 A.G.