The Kyrios
His brutal conquests are legend, his kingdom reaching from sea to sea, and all bow at his feet. He is a battle king, a lord of war.
However when there are no more unknown lands to conquer, what then does a lord of war do? Where once he typically looked to the horizon to further his domain, he now looks within himself. Seeds of foolish vanity begin maturing with specific questions, “Why bequeath an enduring legacy, when you can rule forever yourself?”, “Why stop here when the heavens are ripe for the taking?”.
Ever the opportunist, the deceit of The Emissary begins, consuming the king with alluring promises of immortality and limitless power. The fierce fires of his hubris are stoked - his desires now twisted by flattered vanity carefully steer him down a path from which his imminent fall is absolute.
Once a beloved king, he now has a new master the God Apollyon,. Empowered by evil his rule becomes a tyranny, love is replaced by fear and his conquests are now not an expansion and assimilation but a slaughter. Those who challenge him find themselves on the violent end of his spear or hunted by his twin sabre lions, Achlys and Typhon.
A new inner circle of cruel liegemen are given command of extensive territories, and an age of brutality begins. With none now safe, he labels many as traitors, and commits to having a purge culling and imprisoning many ill-fated souls in a solitary evening, the music of his kingdoms are the screams of men and women.
Believing himself on a path akin to the gods, he must perform one last bloody act to earn his place as an immortal; a blood sacrifice of paramount importance, a unique soul deemed necessary to be sent hurtling into the void. His friend and second in command, Diomedes.