Ares Intempium

"""The lifeforce of dying creatures is a resource that is getting wasted. I just take what they don't need anymore, and use it better than they ever would have."

- Ares Intempium, Necrolord of Gielinor

Ares Intempium is the current Necrolord, as far as he is concerned. He has taken this title since the downfall of the previous necrolord and his former master Fer'Ireth.

Not much is known about him since he prefers to stay out of the limelights, conducting most of his operations from the shadows. Even though he is a skilled necromancer, he prefers to do critical operations himself, together with groups of bribed and/or tricked adventurers. This way he has acquired many powerful relics, ancient spellbooks and other useful objects, such as blueprints for a Dwarven exosuit.

Unlike his former friend Mephiles Sol, he does not desire to obtain godhood, since he suspects that Death and he will have a serious talk, and he wouldn't want to miss that. Furthermore, he is even worried about Mephiles's hunger for power, and sees him as a threat for Gielinor.

He doesn't have a lot of followers, especially since he actively tries to stay as hidden as possible. The followers he has are decieved mercenaries and adventurers (Temporarily, as long as he has use for them, after which they never see him again.) and undead, mostly ghosts, skeletons and ankous.

His main source of energy is the lifeforce of creatures. He has designed several objects of power to aid in the gathering and storage of lifeforce, the two most important ones being his Spear-Staff, which is able to drain it from living creatures when it wounds them, and the Obelisk, a massive structure in the middle of Ares's base which draws in the lifeforce of dying creatures in the general area of his base, and is capable of storing it and distributing it to Ares's undead.

Life before resurrection
"I haven't had the most glorious past."

- Ares Intempium, when asked by his master where he learned how to open locked doors.

Ares has not always been a powerful necromancer. Infact, he wasn't even a powerful mage before his resurrection. While born in a family of mages in Varrock as the twin brother of Mars Intempium, he was the one to be born without any magical skill or potential, thus dooming him to live in the shadow of his brother for the rest of his life. His brother and he worked together as much as they could, although his brother was always the leader, the strong one, the privileged one. He couldn't help but grow jealous of him. He felt useless. He got in trouble multiple times, usually for taking what was not his and not accepting someone's authority. The older he got, the bigger the trouble became. It became a bit of a hobby to lift people's pockets and to pick fights, defeating his opponents with agility and speed rather than strength.

Later, while his brother was studying at the Wizard's Tower and worked at the Dig Site as an archeologist, his family wanted him to join the Varrockian Army, seeing as it was another way to serve the country. Ares, however, disliked open warfare, saying it was too risky and useless anyway. He didn't feel like fighting for some fat king on a throne. On top of that, he never felt too attached to the city, and couldn't care less if someone else took control of it. When his family, tired of his excuses, tried to force him into the military, he decided to flee the city, to Lumbridge. Without home or gold, he stole what he needed to survive, eventually becoming quite skilled at stealth, lockpicking and pickpocketting. This didn't go as unnoticed as he'd liked, however. The Thieves Guild, specifically, had noticed him and one day set up a meeting with him in a nobles house, luring him in with the promise of easy gold since the noble wasn't home. They tried to recruit him, and he accepted, knowing it meant more security and better jobs.

For a few years, things went well for Ares. he became even more skilled in the art of thieving, gradually taking on bigger and bigger targets, starting with stores, and later even convoys and banks when possible. It couldn't last, however. As he became more skilled, he became more careless, thinking he was the best of the best. It all ended when he sprung a trap set by the Al Kharid guard in the basement of the Al Kharid bank. They had noticed the one thing Ares should've avoided at all costs: A pattern in the robberies. And thus they had hired a mage to place a paralysing trap in the basement. At the changing of the guard, they had arranged an incident on the street to delay the arrival of the new bank guard's arrival, which gave Ares the perfect opportunity to sneak in. As soon as he touched the lock, however, he was unable to move a muscle. The guards soon entered the basement, together with the mage who ahd set the trap, congratulating him and giving him his pay, taking it out of the vault right in front of Ares, as if to taunt him even more.

Then they took him away. He spend a few nights in the cages, occasionall getting pelted with rotten tomatoes. The court case was quick and efficient, and the verdict was clear. Guilty of multiple robberies, break-ins, and several deaths while doing so. Punishment: the gallows. And there he died, honorless.

They dumped his body in the desert, to be eaten by the animals. It is there that the followers of Necrolord Fer'Ireth found him.

Second chance at life
The next thing he knew was that he was lying on the ground, surrounded by several undead and one robed figure in front of him, with a disappointed-ish look on his face. He was supposed to be the perfect undead, almost impossible to distinguish from the living. Sadly, like his previous attempt with Mephiles Sol, he had failed again, and instead resurrected Ares as a spirit. However, the figure did notice two things. Firstly, this spirit was capable of shadow magic, an unintended side effect of the resurrection. Secondly, he noticed that Ares, even though he was undead, generated an extremely small amount of lifeforce. Not enough to sustain himself, but it was there. Thus, he decided to keep the spirit close, to see whether his experiment had more side effects or not.

The return of Fer'Ireth and the hunt for the pages
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Mephiles Sol's madness
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Resurrecting Fer'Ireth
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Fer'Ireth's "defeat"
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The Ultimate Resurrection spell completed
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Powers, abilities and resources
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Philosophy and goals
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Images
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Trivia
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