The Red Death (Entity)

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The Red Death is some kind of otherwise nameless, faceless, transcendent entity exiled from a far away land of Mists.[1] but summoned to Gothic Earth by Imhotep in 2700 BC.[2][3] Although Imhotep "merely" desired to summon the magic necessary to render his master King Djoser immortal, the Red Death's answer gave him much more than he bargained for. Imhotep and King Djoser were among the first of the Red Death's corrupted servants.[4]

Since its arrival in Gothic Earth, the Red Death has been steadily working away at everything humanity holds dear. It has shrouded the Earth in a web of evil that cuts the world off from the planes, and it has voraciously eaten away and tainted the essence of magic humanity used to rely on such a basic level.[5] As all but the incarnation of everything evil on Gothic Earth since its arrival, the Red Death has some influence on some level or another anything vile that occurs in the world. Wherever there is evil, the Red Death can inhabit.[6][7]

Although it is the most malign of entities in nature, it is almost a force of evil than a decided presence itself. It has no ultimate agendas or goals beyond spreading evil. It prefers (and may ultimately need) to create minions through subtle temptation ultimately ending with Faustian pacts. However, unlike a devil, those who make deals with it don't end up as cheated pawns so much as willing tools of evil.[8] On the other hand, it has shown a malicious joy in animating from the dead those who would never serve it in life, such as the case of Tanner Edmund Jacobbi[9]

On December 20th 1899, agents of the Society of the White Rose, alongside a band of 1500 Lakota Sioux warriors led by Sitting Bull, gathered in Cairo. From Cairo they sought to travel to Saqqara and enact what The Defiance sought to do millennia ago by conducting a ritual to banish the Red Death from Earth. [10]

Known Servants of the Red Death

Servant Ranks of the Red Death

References

  1. ↑ Masque of the Red Death (Book) p. 5
  2. ↑ Masque of the Red Death (Book) p. 11-12
  3. ↑ A Guide to Gothic Earth, p. 6, Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
  4. ↑ Masque of the Red Death (Book)p.224
  5. ↑ Masque of the Red Death (Book) p. 5
  6. ↑ Masque of the Red Death (Book)p.224
  7. ↑ A Guide to Gothic Earth, p. 105-106, Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
  8. ↑ A Guide to Gothic Earth, p. 106, Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
  9. ↑ A Guide to Gothic Earth, p. 111-112, Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
  10. ↑ Defiance
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