Kerghan

Kerghan-

The key villain of the 2001 computer game,Arcanum Of Steamworks And Magick Obscura.The first of the dark necromancers.

History-

Millenias,before the events of the game.Kerghan grew into one of the most powerful human wizards.He was hand-picked by Nasrudin,to be on the elven council.For 200 years,he studied the different colleges of magick.Yet this was not enough,and he searched more.He came upon the magick of dark necromancy and shared his discovery with the council.Narrow-minded and scared,they told him to quit his discovery into the darker side of magick.He ignored them and put together the college.By bringing back the souls of the dead and talking to them,summoning dark beings,reanimateing dead corpses,and then quenching the lives of living beings.Nasrudin became suspicious and sent Arronax to investigate Kerghan.Arronax told Nasrudin and the rest of the council,what the sorcerer was doing.First they were going to exile him,kick him off the council.But Arronax convinced them that he should instead be banished to the void,a mysterious world, where an ancient civilization existed and where they banished other beings they saw as a threat.

When Kerghan entered the void,he discovered that there was no time and was able to enter the realms of the afterlife.He entered the world,where souls go to die.There he found peace and eternal happiness.He then realized that life is a great mistake of the function of the universe,and in order to correct this is to destroy life.He continued to practice his dark necromancy and although it increased his power.It also corrupted his body and spirit.

In a few years Arronax was banished and tried to stop the necromancer.But Kerghan managed to get the upper hand and imprisoned him,in his castle.Shortly afterwards,the dark elves called across the void.Kerghan took advantage of this,by pretending he was Arronax and told them,in order to escape,they must weaken the barrier, between the two worlds,manipulate the Panarii Church,a religion of the teachings of Nasrudin and the prohecy of the living one,his reincarnation,and send him a kingdom of dwarves,known as the Black Mountain Clan.He forced the dwarves to build a portal device,that would enable him to re-enter Arcanum.One of the Black Mountainers escaped and warned the living one of Kerghan's plan and to give his best friend Gilbert Bates,back his ring.Thus begininng the living one's quest to stop,join,or talk Kerghan out of his plan.