Airiel Hawkins

There is a lot of mystery that surrounds the origins of Vor'athi and why he became the nightmare he strove to be. Most of what is known about him is known only to the Chosen because of visions and other things that have been left behind for them to find.

Vor'athi was born under tragic circumstances. He was the bastard son of his mother and her lover who was not her husband. Their plan had been for her to run away with the elf who had claimed her as a lover, but her husband caught wind of the couple's plans and put a stop to it just in time for Vor'athi's birth.

Vor'athi Sr., Sythra's husband, hired a kiss of vampires to attack her and prevent her from meeting up with Mathai. He knew that he was no match for the elf because he had never had any talent with magyk and could not have fought the elf. When Sythra was attacked, the stress and damage to her body put her into labor. Vor'athi was born as his mother died and her husband came to collect the child before Mathai knew something was wrong.

Vor'athi Sr. named the child after himself as an insult to Sythra. He knew she hated him as much as he had hated her and knew that if she knew what he had named her child, she would hate him more. Vor'athi Sr. treated the child as little more than a slave to do his bidding and eventually took another wife and had three more children with her: a daughter named Korrin, another son named Vor'athi, and a third son who had been stillborn. 

Vor'athi grew to love Korrin more than any other person in his life and eventually he convinced her to marry him. They were met with riddicule because most people believed they were truly brother and sister. Vor'athi killed all who opposed his marriage, and eventually Korrin began to believe them. Before she could hurt him, Vor'athi decided that he would keep her forever by killing her and carrying a vial of her blood with him at all times.

As a form of vengeance against all of those who had caused him pain, Vor'athi began sewing his seed into the virgin fields of the young noble women. He became father to numerous children and denied all realtions when their pregnancies came to light. When he was questioned, he would cast spells to prove his innocence. Many of the women were outcast and Vor'athi watched with pride as their families fell apart.

But it wasn't enough. He wanted more. Vor'athi began attacking villages and killing all of the men and children he could find. He went through three villages before even that wasn't enough and he needed to do something more. He waged war on the people of Catseye, promising that one day he would be in control of them all.

And then, hope. A prophecy delivered from the Fates themselves told of children known only as The Chosen who would be born with the power to defeat him. The key to their abilites lay in the fact that they were his decendents.

Vor'athi refuesed to believe he could be defeated. He tracked down all of his children and their children and killed them with four exceptions. His favorite daughter, Korrin, who became his lover, their daughter, also Korrin, and the two he didn't know about: Sythra and Theia. Little did he know, it would be the children of Sythra and Theia who would bring about his destruction.