Aakon Foulbreath is one of the main protagonist from Disciples: The Sacred Lands, Horde Saga, and the main protagonist from The High King’s Retreat scenario. He was perhaps Mortis' most important servant, a brutal and ruthless undead commander, the murderer of the High King Sturmir, king and ruler of of the Moutain Clans.
Biography[]
Aakon Foulbreath was an undead warlord, one of the commanders of the armies of the undead goddess Mortis, who received his most important mission from his goddess. Once upon a time, the goddess's love, Gallean, was cruelly killed by Wotan, the god of the dwarves and the Mountain Clans, so she wanted revenge at all costs and believed that the most humiliating thing would be for the person who represents Wotan's will in Nevendaar, the most powerful king of the dwarves, to be killed by someone. The great and talented warlords of the Undead Hordes, Arkon Darksoul, Thegesh, and Algor Mournblade had won very significant, devastating, and brutal victories over the dwarves, the undead had become very strong, and the Mountain Clans had suffered significant losses. It was Aakon's mission to end the campaign and deal the final blow to the dwarves by killing the king. However, he had to prepare thoroughly for this, as the dwarves protected their king very strictly and with a strong guard, who was also in a difficult-to-reach place, in a castle of Sagarheim, witch was surrounded by mountains and with only one way to enter the castle. However, there was no excuse for the undead commander, and he began to prepare to fulfill his goddess' most important command.
The undead city of Anhers was surrounded by various monsters, as well as two neighboring cities, Hotan to the west and Vydiburg to the south, both of which were protected by elves. Aakon first began hunting lonely, solitary monsters with his undead, as they were instantly paralyzed by his specter, making them able to easily kill their opponents. After that, he gradually sought out stronger and larger enemies to kill, while his undead became stronger and he himself became more experienced. After gathering enough strength, magic, and experience for all of them, Aakon devised a plan that he believed would teach the dwarves such a painful lesson and humiliation that they would never forget. He headed south and attacked the city of Vidyburg, where the elves proved to be formidable opponents, but he ultimately managed to claim victory. A dark lord, Uron, said that the dwarves' fortress was on a peninsula to the west and that Mortis' revenge could finally be fulfilled. Aakon agreed with him, but said nothing important, because his plan was more complex and detailed than simply seeking revenge. He then continued south, killing everything in his path and then besieging the city of Orsay, which was now the territory of the Mountain Clans.
The only serious factor in the city's defense was a hill giant capable of creating chain lightning, but the undead successfully killed the creature, after which the rest of the battle was no longer difficult for them. In the city, the undead killed everyone, a tenderfoot, Pyro Eckart, who was injured and begged Aakon for his life and not to kill him, but the undead leader mercilessly killed him. But then Aakon did something no one expected. He deliberately chose the more difficult, more dangerous route, thinking that the enemy would obviously think they would choose the easier route, and the pride of the dwarves was too great to expect such a surprise attack and trick. He then continued westward, where he attacked a proud dwarf, Charulf, and his novice, killing them both. He then moved forward and reached the city of Fergal, which was defended not only by dwarves but also by a blue dragon, and its territory on the sea by humans, including knights, priests, mages, witch-hunters, griffins, even some goblins and a dwarven engineer, Calderic. At that moment, Aakon thought he would reap a great harvest here and unleashed the power of Mortis and used every possible spell to spread as many curses, damage, and diseases as possible on his enemies, then launched an attack and killed everyone and everything one after another, the undead advancing unstoppably across the waters. In addition, before this battles, after capturing Orsay Fort, Aakon had previously visited a sorcerer named Maixent south of the city, who gave him an extremely powerful spell in exchange for gold. This was one of the demons' spells, the Paraseus, which reduced the movement of the enemy army by 100%, the victims became very slow, sluggish, and could hardly move anywhere. Only capturing the city of Fergal was a difficult task, as he could not use his evil spells here, and the dragon that guarded it attacked with water vapor, which was able to harm even undead immune to the weapon, but after the spectre successfully paralyzed the creature, the outcome of the battle was decided for the undead and they quickly killed the dwarves and tenderfoots fighting against them, and finally the dragon. The city's leader, a loremaster, Gothmar, proudly and arrogantly wanted to share something about the magic of the undead, but Aakon killed him, and then prepared for the next attack.
From here it was possible to advance further towards the king's castle, but Aakon had other plans and wanted to completely clear the surrounding areas. Before the dwarven capital of Donarsheim, two dwarven leaders, Jollum Eernisson and a loremaster, Eraric's forces, awaited him, along with a green and blue dragon, but since they were in open terrain, Aakon was once again able to use curses, corruptions, and diseases to defeat the weakened enemies. After that, he continued north, where he had to fight a very strong and tenacious melee bodyguard, Calderic, and a Proud Dwarf, Hrolf, with him, but Mortis' magic affected them as well, and Aakon inflicted a humiliating defeat on the strong dwarf. He then attacked the city of Ibsen, where the Hill Giant was the only threat to them, but after he died, any dwarves and tenderfoots who resisted were killed without difficulty. The leader of the defenders, a veteran dwarven captain, Grimo, said that the peninsula was inaccessible and could only be reached by dwarves, then laughed, but Aakon killed him, knowing that the dwarf was blinded by his pride, as he had already found the way, but had not deliberately gone in that direction. He continued north, where barbarians already lived, who helped the dwarves in the battles, but Aakon killed them one after another and laid siege to Bonal Fort, which was protected by a stone and a tempest giant, so the battle was quite difficult, but the undead eventually won, although at the cost of losses. After that, a barbarian who had a polar bear stood in his way, but he killed both of them, then he met a warrior also named Calderic, who was also a very strong melee fighter, but Aakon believed that history would repeat itself and inflicted a similarly humiliating defeat on this warrior. He then laid siege to the city of Kishin in the north, which was defended by stone giants, barbarians, and a jay named Victor, who was a human but a friend of the dwarves and also had a bear. For Aaakon, this promised to be a similarly tough battle, but this time he had prepared in advance. Not far away, he had purchased some spells used by other factions from a wizard named Shiva. His undead received a certain degree of protection and wards against earth-based attacks, so the giants' effectiveness was reduced, and the spectre's paralysis also worked here, so although there were losses for the undead, they were minimized compared to the previous siege. Everyone in the city was killed, Aaakon wounded Victor and killed his bear before that, and the man said with his last strength that they were too late, but they had warned their dwarven friends, but the undead leader completely crushed his hope when he showed with his gaze that he already knew everything and had already destroyed almost all of the dwarves' defenses, and then killed the archer. After that, he attacked the nearby eastern city of Malache, which was also defended by barbarians, an archer and a stone giant, but the undead were accustomed to this type of defense and the battle eventually ended in their victory again. A death knight, Sarghal, told Aakon that now the dwarves had nowhere to escape, and that was exactly the undead leader's plan. He practically circled the mountainous areas surrounding the Dwarf King's fortress, making sure that not only would he feel no help if he attacked, but the king would have nowhere to escape if he got out of the castle, because the undead could be anywhere. He then crossed the waters to the east, killed a great sea serpent, and attacked the last neutral city in the area, which was directly opposite the city of the undead, the city of Hotan, which was defended by the elves, but they did not stand much of a chance against such experienced and bloodthirsty, cruel undead. After everyone was killed, a lich, Ahandyr, informed his leader that everything was now ready to launch the final offensive. Aakon agreed and then set off back to begin his final, decisive attack.
The dwarves were unable to retake the lost territories, Mortis' influence was everywhere, magical curses and diseases struck them as they entered the territory, and the undead were present in every captured city, mainly weapon-immune werewolves, along with paralyzing ghosts. Aakon returned to the city of Ibsen, from where he had set out to finish what he had started. An imperial knight stood in his way, accompanied by two griffins, but the undead, after weakening the proud creatures and the knight with curses and diseases, easily and humiliatingly killed them, then moved on. The path to the mountains was guarded by the last strong guard of the king, Baldaric, with an alchemist and some of the dwarves' most experienced warriors, but Aakin was not afraid of them, in fact he decided it was time for the glorious warriors to learn their lesson and he would give them a painful defeat. He cast as many curses, diseases, and damaging spells as possible upon them, then after attacking them, he deliberately attacked them with werewolves, who could not be wounded because they were immune to melee weapons, while the spectres began to paralyze the dwarves. After paralyzing them all, Aakon let his werewolves kill Baldaric, the veteran warriors and the alchemist who were unable to move, defend, or fight, and eventually they all died. He then continued east and entered the mountain paths, where the dwarves, giants, and the bears he had tamed were already waiting for him, but they were no longer an opponent for Aaakon, he had fought too many similar creatures and groups, he knew well what to do and how. He finally managed to reach the fortified city of Sagarheim, where he was the king of the Mountain Clans, an undefeated warrior and champion, with his own red dragon, veteran warriors, a mountaineer, and his alchemist. Aakon knew that this would be his hardest battle, but also his last, because if he won here, Mortis' revenge would be fulfilled, and he would become a legendary warlord. The siege began and the dragon inflicted unpleasant losses on the undead, but Aakon had anticipated this, as one of the spectres had been given a fire resistance potion, which rendered the dragon's fire completely ineffective against it, and the undead successfully paralyzed the creature. Aakon challenged the king to a duel, while his undead fought the dwarven defenders and weakened the dragon. In the end, the battle was decided for good, after the dragon was destroyed, Aaakon wounded the king, who retreated into the city's interior, where he was in the throne room, but his soldiers and the alchemist were unable to retreat, everyone was killed by the invaders. The undead leader then did something unexpected. He believed that the king's strongest warriors and forces were all dead, so only the weaker ones and reserves remained, so he sent skeletons into the castle, including a tall, lame skeleton, to kill the king. The skeletons walked into the castle, killed the last of the dwarven guards and warriors, and began to mow down the corpses, laughing, while the lame skeleton continued to walk among them, into the throne room. The wounded king tried to defend himself with his hands, but the skeleton eventually killed him with several sword blows, and his crown fell from his head and rolled on the ground. Mortis' revenge was fulfilled, and Aakon carried it out in the most perfect and painful way possible. Not only did he personally defeat the king, but he also humiliated, shamed, and killed him and his proud, strong, and experienced warriors, and the entire area of the dwarven capital fell under Mortis' influence, where diseases, curses, and the undead awaited the dwarves who passed by. Shortly after the incident, the dwarves successfully inflicted several defeats on the undead and managed to restore the influence, naturalness of the area and the rule of the Mountain Clans, but they could not forget this extremely shameful incident, the death of the king and Aakon's total victory. By carrying out the battle he never lost, and killing the Mountain Clans' finest warriors, veterans, and their king in the most humiliating manner possible, he left an eternal scar on the dwarves and became perhaps Mortis' most important henchman. His fate is unknown thereafter.