The Foul One

The foul one

alignment: neutral evil

Demigod of necromancy

The Foul One is an abomination in the sights of many of the gods, but protected by many of the evil gods. As the origional members of each race died off the gods were perplexed with what to do with the corpses. They decided to place them in a pile deep underground. Some of the evil gods decided they could make something of those corpses, and used the first necromancy magic to animate the (by this point) mountain of bodies. What they created was The Foul One.

A single spirit possessed the collective of the pile, absorbing all knowledge the former owners once possessed. Ammused at this, the evil gods decided to nurture it and feed it their dead. Eventually it began sending out fresher corpses under its control to teach the living how to perform necromancy. Those bodies that were raised TFO controlled, but let them do as the raiser wished.

TFO cannot shed his form, and can exist in the smallest part of a corpse that was once a part of the pile. It can regrow by absorbing more corpse flesh.