Pestilence (Death's Horseman)

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Famine was one of Death's Horsemen. The Horsemen were the undead servants of Death (Lowellyn Dachine), created as extensions of his essence through negative energy during the Shrouded Years in response to the Drowning Dreams. Death hoped to use them to permanently wipe out Azalin and prevent him from ever being restored to corporeal form. To this end, the Horsemen launched a wave of terror and destruction upon the land to drain Azalin's essence from his subjects. Ultimately they failed, and the newly restored Azalin destroyed them all and averted the return of their energies back to Death. However, the actions of the Horsemen did leave a lasting mark: the Dark Powers made Death into a true darklord, one of the tiny domain of Necropolis[1]

Pestilence appears in the unpublished adventure manuscript Death Undaunted. In that module, Pestilence seeks Azalin's soul focus like the rest of the Horsemen. He is described as using a lance, and his passage is marked by infection of his victims with rotting sores that cause quick death.[2]

References

  1. Gazetteer II p. 24, 138
  2. Death Undaunted p. 25-26