![]() Over many years, the cult blossomed and spread, and the Dark Entity managed to possess Mortanius himself. ![]() Mortanius' seduction provided him the opportunity he sought in an "expertly calculated" move, he murdered the Balance Guardian, Ariel, through Mortanius' body. The Mind Guardian Nupraptor, Ariel's lover, soon found her corpse, and - "wracked with grief and tormented by suspicions of treachery" - plunged into madness, and turned his powers against his fellow Guardians. His mental onslaught drove the entire Circle to irrevocable insanity, and invoked the corruption of the Pillars. Over the ensuing thirty years, the Dark Entity maintained his hold over Mortanius, though his control was not unhindered - sometimes, Mortanius was able to assert his own shattered will. "In constant conflict" with his possessor, Mortanius struggled to redeem himself for "inviting" these dark forces and enabling the Pillars to be compromised. Defying the Dark Entity's will, Mortanius guided Kain in a quest to slaughter the mad sorcerers and restore their Pillars, seeking to ensure that a new Circle of Nine could rise to replace the old.ĭuring one of these periods of respite, Mortanius hired assassins to murder the human nobleman Kain, and subsequently revived him as a powerful vampire, in a desperate bid to purge the Circle of its corrupt members. ![]() Of which you are the tragic ”hero.”" ―The Dark Entity Don’t you see? My silencing of Ariel, and its calculated repercussions, is but the first act in my theatre of Grand Guignol. Kain gleaned little information regarding the forces behind the Pillars' corruption during his quest, finding only a few references to the Cult of Hash'ak'gik in the Library of Willendorf and Hash'ak'gik's altar in Avernus Cathedral.
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