Emeth Mechapes

"'I am not all knowing. I have made more mistakes in my lifetime than I think anyone else ever could.' - Emeth to Nicholias"Emeth Mechapes is one of the Bretton Heroes, the first master of the Fateslayers and the founder of the Sons of Truth.

Appearance
Emeth is a lean man of medium build with gold eyes, silver hair and dark tan skin. He appears to be a man in his late twenties and at times he sports facial hair. He tends to wear clothing befitting monks though he has a tendency to modify them for his needs. He wears a magatama pendant, and an earring that grants him telepathic communication. He also has a grouping of psionic tattoos that form his wife's family crest on his left shoulder.

Early Life
Emeth Mechapes, which means Truth Seeker in Notzrim, was given a name based on his souls goal like all kohen. His name always influenced his actions as he always enjoyed uncovering secrets. He was raised by his parents in the forest outside a small town. His father Chuphshah Mechapes (Freedom Seeker) and mother Atliza Mechapes (Joy Seeker) raised him to seek joy in all things, to cherish freedom and as all kohen are taught, to love all races. But he soon discovered not all creatures were taught the same lessons.

Throughout his childhood his family was hunted by the church and his parents were both killed before he was 5. The church named him Truth and decided to train him to be a paladin of the church. He met many other children in similar positions, as well as pages, altar boys and girls of the affiliated Coventry. For a while he was grief stricken but eventually he made new friends amongst them. He enjoyed that he was able to meet so many new races but he never forgot the freedom that his father wanted for him. Many years later a group of his friends worked together and successfully escaped. They had escaped onto a ship but a storm hit them and they were shipwrecked. By the time he awoke he was being fished out of the sea by an orc fishing boat where he worked for a year until it docked in a thriving port city.

At that point he departed the ship and began to ask around about news on his friends. He discovered that the church had found and killed everyone who survived the wreck.

He traveled for a time trying to see if anyone heard of any survivors but soon gave up on the possibility. He ended up catching the attention of the church and was attacked. When he managed to succeed over the soldiers with ease he grew curious as he sensed no ill will from them and realized they had sent untrained villagers and he slew them without mercy. Upon realizing this, he swore to never wield a weapon again, and fled to a nearby dwarf mountain. He made money in a fighting ring and spent his free time meditating. Eventually he was able to make peace with what he had done and his old curious and whimsical personality began to return little by little. After leaving the mountain he followed some church activity, and a rumour that Tyria, one of the coven girls (a rare half-phoenix half-shadowkin) that he had been very fond of, had survived and was recaptured by the church. He followed it all the way to the city of Santaris on the island of Bretton where he met Aariel who was traveling alone.

Untold Origins
Upon arriving in Santaris the pair met a curious dryad named Verdana, a short tempered squirrel person named Tupai, and a somewhat violent orc named Dench. As Emeth was interested in what Verdana and Tupai were and Verdana was captivated by Aariel, they decided to travel together, taking Dench along with them. After gathering some information on the country, he got his hands on a key to a nearby cavern. In this cave they came across a drow rogue named Keldon. He escaped but in the fight he dropped a magical pendant. The pendant had a enchantment on it that lead them to a slave encampment in human territory run by the church of Zaurus. They were attacked by the slavers but easily defeated them and set free all the slaves. After investigating the encampment then discovered that the church of Zaurus was working with the church of Tharizdun.

On the road, Emeth informed Aariel that he had found a lead on the location of the church sect that he had been tracking. Tupai had mentioned that she wanted to set off on a small trip in search of treasure, so he took advantage of the moment and he and Aariel snuck off to chase the lead. Once they arrived they found the sect was training assassins. Aariel had no qualms with killing them all. and while sneaking closer she was able to convince Emeth that it was the best choice, do to the fact that they would become threats later.

The group continued to use the pendant to lead them to church of Tharizdun camps. In one of the fights that would follow the pendant was broken. The group then had to start following other leads, and after they interrogated some remaining members of the church the group discovered that the church was assassinating the leaders of the races of Bretton. The party headed into the Hazy Mountains to warn the Shogun of the Kitsune that lived there, they arrived just in time to help ward off the assassins, but the Shogun was hurt.

After securing the Shoguns safety, Aariel noticed that there was a commotion near the inn. When they got closer they saw a thin sickly kitsune who was raving about having escaped a group of human slavers. Emeth quickly approached and took the kitsunes memory of the escape, then he asked Aariel to again accompany him. When they caught up to the cult, they began their assault but after they had felled half of the troops, the elites began to order the slaves to attack, promising food if they succeeded. Aariel was about to kill them as well when Emeth insisted that she leave them alive and focus on the actual threat, the church's elites. He then proceeded to use non lethal force to incapacitate the slaves and Aariel killed all but the leader of the troupe. Emeth and Aariel interrogated him but as he refused to offer any information, Emeth killed him.

After rejoining their companions, the party moved downwards into the Mythrin Woods to warn Ohken. They arrived there to find that he was training a new druid who was in turn slowly poisoning the great treant. The group managed to fend off the pack of assassins coming to kill the weakened leader, as Verdana squared off against the elven druid, the following fight badly damaged the forests life force. After Ohken was cared for and beginning to heal the party left for the Forest of Lunarissitha.

As they journeyed they heard a few rumours of a town turning away all travelers and merchants. To be safe, Emeth stole the memory of the city from the merchant, but when he did he recognized the symbol of Zaurus on a nearby building. He informed Aariel of this and they set off to figure out the town's situation. When they arrived they snuck into the town and realized quickly that they had been subjugated and were being ruled by the church of Zaurus. They stayed undercover in the home of a baker while sizing up the enemy's strength. Aariel had mentioned that there was no benefit to merely saving the townfolk as they would simply be conquered by someone else in the future. To that end, at night, they went from home to home mustering the captive townsfolk and inciting rebellion. After a couple of days they, along with the townsfolk, rose up against the church and fought hard while supporting the townspeple and keeping as many of them alive as possible. When only the leader of the conquering sect remained, Aariel refused to attack him and insisted that Emeth do the same so that the citizens could become self-sufficient. Once the baker had killed the leader of the sect, he turned to them and thanked them for their leadership, offering Aariel an enchanted necklace that had been passed down in his family, and gave Emeth his family's enchanted signet ring, explaining he was descended from a noble house. After making sure the town would be fine, they returned to join the party.

When they finally arrived at Lunarissitha, they were able to keep the Queen of the White Elves safe, as Dench killed Keldon. They then departed back to Santaris to protect the King of Humanity, Darian Santaris. Upon becoming his royal security the group began to uncover the truth and realized that he was the leader of the church of Tharizdun and orchestrated all of the previous attacks. When they confronted the King, he used all of the royal blood he had acquired to summon a Demogorgon using an ancient arcane ritual. The group managed to hold off the Demogorgon as Tupai fought and defeated the King ending the enchantment. The group continued to defend Bretton for about a decade, during which Emeth continued to track the church until it became clear that wherever Tyria was, it was likely somewhere in Unitas.

Broken Chains
After getting a lead about Tyria's location, Emeth and Verdana set out to find her. They were able to find and kill a few members of the church of Zaurus and sneak into one of their holds...

Post Losing Tyria
After he and Verdana lost Tyria, he never returned to his old party. He began to search fervently for Tyria, all the while adopting a policy of simply watching the world progress as he felt his immortality could cause him to unjustly bias the decisions of the mortal world. He gathered wealth and connections in order to further his search for Tyria. A few years past and Dench's crusade picked up steam in Unitas. Emeth watched as Dench and his orcs cut a swath through Anor. He approached Dench and asked him what he thought would come of this. When Dench told him of his plan to exterminate all elves Emeth approached the leaders of the four elf races and told them what was coming.

The Dark Elves, later known as Drow, scoffed at his warning and said that they would simply kill the 'stupid brutes'. The Deep Elves, who would later be known as Goblins, heeded his advice and hid away in their mountains. The High and Wood Elves decided to ban together and fight back, knowing this could lead to Dench's death he supported their choice in Aariel as leader, in the hopes that her reason and composure would lead to a peaceful outcome.

Emeth watched as she helped them push back against Dench but as Emeth arrived at what should have been Dench's surrender, his madness had driven him to continue his bloody campaign. Emeth arrived moments after Aariel killed Dench. Saddened by the events that transpired and what his choice to be impartial had done, he simply congratulated Aariel on their victory and left with Dench's body.

Post Orc Elf War
After laying Dench to rest, he returned to Anora in the heat of its celebrations. He stayed out of the festivities until Aariel revealed to him that she would be ascending to the Astral Plane. He made sure to see off his closest friend at the end.

After Aariel left, he disconnected himself from the world and redoubled his efforts into finding Tyria. The church managed to keep her hidden from him for a millenium and a half before he found her. She had been held in absolute secrecy but when he had come close a few decades prior, she had attempted to escape and was killed. As she was a child with no memory of him and he had no way of getting to her from the outside, he devised a plan to fake his death and have his 'son' captured and enslaved. He used his connections to regress his aging back to his 5 year old self and was recaptured by the church of Zaurus. He planned to escape when he and Tyria were adults again, and to that end he left everything of value hidden away in a place that could only be accessed by someone with his blood.

Pre Dead War
Eventually his plan paid off and he was able to befriend Tyria again. As time passed history began to repeat itself and once again Emeth and his friends were able to stage an escape by boat. Emeth informed them of his stash, claiming it was his fathers, and said that it could be used by any of Truths sons (a name they had begun calling themselves as they had performed a blood pact with one another). Unfortunately, the church got wind of the plan and ambushed them. Emeth blacked out and awoke ashore in Dondar. He traveled to the rendezvous point and waited for two years while trying to glean any knowledge of the ambush that he could. He traveled for a time and befriended many on his travels but never caught word of his friends.

Eventually a halfling came to him and called him by his true name. Emeth immediately recognized him as Adlar, one of the fellow paladin trainees who he escaped with. When asked how he survived he said that the church found them all afloat and was about to capture them all until Tyria, cast a spell that hid many of them from sight. The church fired arrows and spells haphazardly and successfully killed most of them but some of them managed survived. In the past Tyria, Adlar and Emeth were inseparable, Adlar his best friend and Tyria the object of both their fancies. Emeth realized she must be the reason he was still alive, so he asked if she made it. Adlar told him that she wasn't able to cast the spell on herself in time and instead of killing her they recaptured her as her phoenix blood would have her be reborn upon death. Emeth asked where she was but Adlar said that all he knew was that they were keeping her hidden away. Emeth asked how Adlar found him and he said he heard about someone fitting Emeth's description. He said he'd been hunting clues as to their old friends' locations to band together to save Tyria. So far he had found 4 others and they were traveling together. They needed someone who could defend themselves to look into the leads they had.

So Emeth asked for all the rumors they had heard about Tyria and promised if he found anything he would be in touch. Part of him hoped that he would be the one to find and save her. He marked his arm with the family crest she had shown him one night in the church, to draw out any who recognize it. The first thing he did was return to the forest where he had lived as a child, and donned his father's pendant (magatama). He had also begun looking into alchemy and psionics to try and get an edge against the church.

He eventually met a cleric and joined Sabretooth with him as a means of gathering information and resources. He and some of the other new recruits made a plan to form a guild of their own once they had gathered the means and reputation necessary to do so.

Dead War
The first few mission they were sent on had seen Emeth thrust onto the front-lines, they quickly discovered a large cavern that held within it a vast history protected by the undead and an illusory dragon that turned out to be a goblin. His allies, fooled by the illusion, retreated to a safe distance but Emeth saw through it and approached. After convincing the goblin to stand down, he began to search the room and discovered an ancient blade. Sensing something was amiss, he refused to grab the blade and instead took a portable hole that they had found and filled it with treasure. He eventually called in his comrades and Wolfie took the blade without a second thought.

Once he had the sword he began acting differently and Emeth could tell something was amiss. After killing Dirk, the goblin, in a rage, Wolfie admitted that he was hearing a voice. At that point Emeth had him restrained and they managed to exorcise the blade, releasing Maloron in the process. After killing him Emeth gathered his ashes and they continued on their way.

They went on more missions and fought a succubus and saved a city, though Lorna and Wolfie extorted the mayor and killed a homeless man. As he rose through the ranks with his new companions, he began to notice some of their behaviour was unsavoury and began his practice of extreme secrecy whenever at all possible. He and Bert condemned these actions but Emeth needed to keep on their good side so he never confronted them about their actions.

They eventually traveled to a city after hearing about disappearances. Emeth left the group immediately and returned to find them in the sewers. When he rejoined them he saw that they were being attacked by snake people. After stealing the memory of one of them he discovered that they were once humans and stopped the combat by simply knocking them out. They followed chanting and found that the disappearances were caused by an underground race of serpent-folk, the Yuan-Ti, who were performing a ritual to transform humans and summon their god. After dealing with them they rushed to another city that was being attacked by a dragon. On the road, they came across slaves fleeing slavers. Emeth recognized them as Xander and Lucian, two slaves from his childhood. He helped kill their slavers but Xander died in the battle.

Emeth refused to accept his death and performed an unholy ritual of alchemy and pseudoscience to revive him as an abomination. He used any and all parts he had at his disposal to bring Xander back stronger. That night he introduced Xander to the group and he and Lucian formally joined them. On the road Emeth sold Maloron's ashes for an enchanted ring.

They stopped on the road to help stop some more kidnappings and were temporarily captured by a were-tiger. They managed to defeat him but they were aware that they were being watched. They killed his lord who was experimenting on the kidnapped victims.

They were told that the dragon was evil but upon closer inspection, they quickly saw that Bernard, the merchant leader of the town, was not all he claimed. They approached the mountain and thanks to Sherman and Emeth's draconic, were able to learn the dragons wife was killed by a red dragon, and that Bernard had stolen one of his eggs. They returned to Bernard's office, killed him and took back the eggs, along with his mystic bag of holding.

Terandious, the dragon thanked them and grants them his wife's scales for armor. After the mission, Bert returns home for a religious observance, Driksis and Solantis return to their tribe for a rite of passage, and Lorna heads to Arcton to secure a build site for their new guild hall. Though Emeth never wore the silver scaled armor, thanks to his comrades armor and his hair they began to be known as The Silver Dragons.

After the group shrank they traveled to an ancient forest where they encountered a Tarrasque. The colossal monster fought them and killed Bobo. Emeth broke the crystal that was possessing the creature and, saddened by their loss, the group made camp. In the morning they found a cabin and while his allies were distracted, Emeth brokered a deal with Malcolm, the sorcerer that lived there, that he would revive Bobo if within a month Emeth killed Marcus Dawning, who Emeth had befriended years ago during his travels, and brought him his head. After Bobo was revived Emeth was unsure of his mental state, so he gave him a necklace with a powerful explosive in the gem.

They then traveled to Amaranthia and helped Sherman on a mission he was given by Marcus to retrieve a legendary blade. Sherman's rival Dante was angered by not being selected for the task. After finding the sword and leaving it to be repaired they ventured into a cavern to investigate rumors of shady individuals lurking there, and in the cave they found a mark of Tharizdun. Emeth and Sherman both recognized it and Emeth took Bobo with him to see if the weapon smith was alright. They returned to see the shop in tatters with no sign of the sword and a dead smith. They immediately doubled back and arrived to see their comrades in combat with some Tharizdon worshipers. After they were defeated, Dante emerged and explained his planned betrayal.

Emeth took Dante's betrayal personally as he saw Dante's life as being similar to his with the exception of the church that took him in did not kill his parents, enslave him or mistreat him. After vocalizing his anger, Emeth knocked Dante into a wall so hard that he collapsed the cavern in on him. They returned to Marcus and informed them of what had happened before returning home.

A few days later, Wolfie got a letter from his family informing him that his adoptive father had died and there would be a funeral held for him. For support, the group attended with him learning that his parents were quite well off. Emeth decided to take the opportunity to gather some information about Wolfie's family, learning that his father earned his money as a Dragon Slayer, and that he killed exclusively evil dragons. He also discovered that Wolfie's cousin Roy was a spoiled child, and didn't care much for Wolfie. Later on during the service, Emeth saw that Roy challenged Wolfie to a duel, but he had archers and intended to cheat. Luckily Emeth, with the help of Xander, killed the archers, the fight was made fair again by Xander crippling his foot and Wolfie emerged victorious. Unfortunately, Emeth was not able to find Roy, despite being severely injured.

Emeth mended the evil bauble he had taken from the Tarrasque and a voice spoke to him. The voice introduced himself as Griffith, the son of Maloron. After conversing with Griffith for a while, he learned that this Demon was actually good, unlike his father. In a mission that soon followed, Sherman was defeated and kidnapped by a deathknight. With the help of Griffith, the group was able to track down the whereabouts of their friend. Terandious arrived at their guild to offer whatever assistance he could as well. After successfully freeing him from his crystal, Griffith offered to help save Sherman. At the deathknights hideout, they discovered his identity was actually Dante, albeit more deformed and rough looking. Seeing that he was in a bit of a bind, Dante escaped using his shadow after attacking Emeth.

After some time passed, Emeth snuck back into Amaranthia and approached Marcus about the assassination. They devised a plan and Emeth was given a fake head to give Malcolm. On his way back he found a sylph bloodied on the side of the road so he brought him to Griffith at the new guild hall. While he was gone they had announced their departure from Sabretooth and formed their own guild which Emeth named the Fate Slayers.

As he continued home he also discovered the body of a young elf girl. He felt that a death so young was unjust and decided to revive her the same way he did Xander. After the ritual he learned her name was Yvette and she was a bit vulgar in her mannerisms. He welcomed her into the Fate Slayers and she accepted though she wasn't obedient to Emeth.

After continuing their adventures they were contacted by Adlar and the Sons of Truth about a problem they had and Emeth begrudgingly brought along his comrades as well as Ventus, the now conscious sylph. They assaulted the keep that held one of Emeth's old friends and rescued him. Ventus had proved his merit and Emeth invited him to join the Fate Slayers. On the way back to the guild Ventus, Bobo and Wolfie all left to their own devices.

When they returned Emeth was elected as the first guild master and began a hiring spree. The following morning, the guild received an unofficial job request, meant to root out some vampires in a nearby city. Emeth, Xander, Yvette, Sherman and Lucian all left for the city while Griffith stayed behind a kept watch. When they made it to the city, they were met by a man named Victor, who introduced himself as a local vampire hunter. The group managed to kill a small group of vampires, and found the entrance to their caves. Victor opted to stay behind and wait until sundown, when the vampires would gather. Sherman and Lucian slept in the inn, while Emeth and Victor rested atop the inn with X and Y watching from nearby.

After Emeth had passed out, he awoke next to Sherman on a stone slab, with X and Y nowhere to be found. The two could hear Lucian calling from a room nearby, and stopped a vampire from turning him. As they made their way through the caves, finding their equipment along the way, they came across Victor giving a speech to a large group of vampires. As it turned out, he was actually a vampire lord. As the group took out the vampires, a group of deathknights then blocked their way as Dante arrived killing Victor. He gifted Emeth with his skull ring, and left again.

While leaving the caves, they found a man dressed like Victor looking very confused. He introduced himself as Charles, and Emeth offered him a job as the guild chef with an alarming signing bonus. As the group continued back towards the guild, they made a pit stop in Nater, as Emeth wanted to pay Veronica a visit. While speaking with her and her son Zack, he also offered the two jobs as the guilds accountant and blacksmith respectively, also with high signing bonus'.

When they returned to the guild, the new employees quickly got to work. They learned from Griffith that not only had Maverick committed suicide, but that the demonic remains of Maloron Emeth sold were being used to revive him. The next day, the guild held a funeral for their previous guild master, and made way to stop the resurrection. During the funeral, Lucian asked for relationship advice, which Emeth helped to the best of his abilities. At the same time, Wolfie and Bobo returned with a gnome, who offered to work as the healer of the guild for free.

On the way to Maloron, the group stopped at an enchanter in Amaranthia and upgraded their equipment, as well as hired the enchanter for the guild. When they got to the resurrection site, Emeth had Ventus scout the situation learning that they had hostages. Opting to leave Sherman, Lucian and Griffith outside, the rest of the group went in to stop the ritual. They took out the cultists, though Emeth was surprised that his newly enchanted weapons didn't seem to work as expected on them.

After the last of the cultists fell, a giant pillar of black flame erupted from a dish in the center of the room, and the elf they had brought along turned out to be a black demon in disguise. After calling the others into the room, Maloron emerged from the flames. He quickly killed Griffith, and prepared to kill the others before Lucian attacked him clawing out his eyes. As the others were leaving, Emeth quickly grabbed Lucian's mindlink earring, as well as an enchanted necklace he had found before exiting himself. They were able to just barely seal the cave as they left, and made way to warn Marcus of the on coming demon threat.

On the way there, Emeth started to hear a voice in his head commenting on his immortality. Emeth and the voice started conversing, and it introduced itself as Davina, a spirit bound to the necklace Lucian had. After discussing things for a time, Emeth learned that Davina had the ability to look at the past, present and future of the person wielding the necklace using its power. Emeth was shown a vision of Tyria being possessed by a powerful force. After speaking with the spirit for a while, Emeth decided to help her find a body of her own. After getting requests on the bodies general looks, the group continued onto Amaranthia.

After warning Marcus, he set up his clerics to ward the city, and sent The Fate Slayers back to the guild via teleportation. When they arrived, Jeff informed them that there was a group of new recruits. As they moved in to greet them, they found Dante and his band of deathknights had bound their employees. As they began speaking, and unknown man appeared in the room and decapitated two of the deathknights, while pulling Veronica and Zack away from them. Veronica seemed to recognize the man as Michael Stoneskin. They decided to work together under the notion that 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' and then Dante and the others left.

After the incident with Dante, Ventus later killed Jeff for allowing him in, which Emeth accepted as long as he cleaned up his mess. Not long after, they hired a new receptionist, a succubus named Belira. The following day, the group began testing their new recruits. Much to his surprise, one of the recruits was a Kohanim like he was. Emeth met with them all, and split them into groups based on their goals in the guild. He also learned from Isaiah, the Kohanim, that he knew his father before they left Mecha. He also informed Emeth that he was saddened by his fathers death, and wanted to get to know his only son.

After splitting up the groups, Emeth started roaming around the city of Arcton, hoping to make a good connection between the city and the guild. He helped out a few jewelry shops with break ins and thefts, as well as offered an internship for one of the shop owners to study as an enchanter. After doing that, he managed to track down a body fitting the description Davina gave him, and discovered that the woman and her husband were part of a cult being hunted. Emeth also ran into Lorelai, the woman Lucian needed relationship advice for, when Davina informed him that Lorelai and Lucian engaged in a sexual encounter, but she didn't know she was already married.

After hitting a dead end with discovering who killed the woman, Emeth opted to start his ritual. He brought the body to a secret room in the guild hall, and began to transfer the spirit to the body. Once the transfer was done, a purple gem fell from the necklace and grew tendrils that wrapped around her neck. She had a great deal of trouble walking, but discovered she could levitate and decided to do that instead. They also discovered that she was a psion, and that the purple gem was a psicrystal.

After deciding to have Davina pass as a new recruit, he then decided with the help of the other members of the guild who was allowed to join and who wasn't. The only two who weren't accepted were James, due to his arrogance and Steven, for his lack of experience. Emeth was concerned about Steven, and suggested that he join the city guard. After returning to the guild to ask Isaiah for his help with Davina, he discovered that the two had already introduced themselves, and he was already prepared to help her learn her psionic abilities.

After separating the recruits to their respective bunks and sending them on a test mission, they others set out for the assault on Maloron, who was attacking Amaranthia and failing. On the way there, Ventus asked if Emeth could figure out what happened to his sister, and Emeth discovered that she had been killed where Ventus thought she had been lost. He brought Ventus to the location and explained the situation to him, however that seemed to set him off as he attacked Emeth and knocked him out. Terandious arrived to help, and Emeth tried to help Ventus cope, but wished to simply be left alone. He later met up with Emeth and the others and requested to officially join the guild.

The group then met with Dante and mounted their attack. It was a hard fought battle, but they managed to bring the demon down. As expected though, Dante revived the demon as his thrall. Though Emeth used all his resources to stop the two from escaping, it proved in vain. They proceeded to inform Marcus of what had happened, and requested a cleric return with them to make the guild hallow ground. When they arrived back at the guild, they discovered that the recruits had been successful in their mission, but that they had a strange occurrence. Isaiah mentally explained that he believed Davina killed a bandit using a powerful psionic ability, and was having a nervous break down as she didn't intend to do it.

After speaking with Davina and calming her down, Isaiah suggested spending some time personally training her and helping her cope. The following morning, Emeth and Ventus met with a group of nobles and Marcus, including Edmond Shieldheart, Michael Stoneskin and Alexander Hammerhome, the king of humanity. The group decided the best way to mount their attack on Dante, who had appeared and was suspected to carve a path straight to the Fate Slayers guild. They planned to meet against Dante about half way near Wolfie's family home. After finalizing their plans and battle strategy, the nobles took their leave to prepare their forces, as Emeth did the same.

During this short period of waiting, Emeth discovered some more of Davina's psionic abilities and discovered that Gizmo had died and left a rod of holy destructive energy which Ventus quickly claimed. Not long after, Terandious and Lorna arrived to help with the fight, though Ventus attacked her quite quickly. After giving her a moment or two to explain herself and checking some of her facts, Ventus agreed to leave her be.

The guild and the nobles forces soon gathered with Dante's moving castle looming in the background getting ever closer. They formulated a quick plan and Ventus set out on his own, using the rod to decimate Dante's army, with its three shots he managed to eliminate Maloron, and all of the Necromancers in the army. Soon the group entered Dante's castle and made a plan once they were given Dante's supposed location a few floors up by James whom had been feeding misinformation to Dante's forces. Ventus snuck up the side of the tower as Emeth teleported a group onto the same floor, but Dante wasn't there. There was a attic above them and they could hear Dante talking to Roy. As soon as the attic door was opened Ventus released obscuring mist filling both layers with thick fog. Ventus started attacking quickly and notified Emeth of his location. Emeth finished off what was left of Dante by removing his head, though it was still laughing for a short time.

An orb that had been sitting on a table the floor below began to glow and pulse, and when other party members were unable to destroy it using holy weapons, the group began to retreat as its pulse waves began to destroy nearby buildings and geographical formations. With the help of Marcus, the guild soon discovered that normal enchanted weapons would damage it so everyone began to hail arrows on it till the group was able to destroy it. Once the orb was destroyed, Emeth searched the remains of the castle only to find a woman who was with child.

Post Dead War
After Dante's death, Emeth and Marcus hid Dante's wife and son so they could live on and the Silver Dragons were each rewarded handsomely for protecting the world. The dragons separated as Wolfie left to rule his city, and Lorna had decided to rule Arcton, which she renamed Karning, Sherman returned to lead the Dawnguard, Ventus collected all of the sylphs of Unitas and departed the continent on a floating island, and Emeth continued with his work as guild master with Xander and Yvette at his side and, thanks to information he had gleaned from a conversations with Davina, he knew where to go to find Tyria. He sent word to the Sons and marched on her location with the help of some Amaranthian soldiers. After a hard fought battle they finally succeeded in Emeth's millennia long goal of crushing the church of Zaurus and saving Tyria.

Once he had rescued Tyria, he told her what he had been through to find her and confessed his love to her. She eventually warmed up to the idea of being with him and they split their time between the Fateslayers and the Sons. After a few years they decided to move the Fateslayers hall to Crombern and appointed a new guild master. After seceding the position he and Tyria moved the Sons to a secure location and began to pursue a new goal, uncovering all the secrets that Laochradom had to offer.

Years passed and they eventually were wed and began to focus on different things. Tyria devised a way for Emeth to share his memories so she could remember some of her past, and Emeth focused on spreading the network of Sons across the continent. He made sure to avoid The Eternal Forest, as thinking about his only friend, Verdana, brought him only guilt. Eventually Tyria had made a way for she and Emeth to share memories by enchanting his blood, turning it gold. Emeth had also used his alchemic and psionic knowledge to devise a way to see through the eyes of anyone else who had shared his blood. This became the basis for the sons as every member would be a new set of eyes for Emeth and at the same time he would share with them a key piece of information that they sought.

Time passed and they perfected the process and began to focus on legends, gods and relics, with Tyria specializing in relics and Emeth specializing in lore. After a few hundred years, Emeth finally discovered where Tyria's family was and they traveled for a time to find them along with Xander and Yvette. On their journey they stopped often to try and stop some catastrophe or another and rumours began to circulate again of the Golden Eyed Silver Haired Omen. After meeting with Tyria's family they return home to see that the Sons had grown in the decades that had passed. At his return, Emeth decided to keep his appearance secret as well as that of his friends. He began traveling across the world alone killing those who began worshiping the Omen, as they were all evil in his eyes.

While Emeth returned, Tyria had perfected a complicated method of teleportation that would allow Sons to access the hold from anywhere in the world. In his time alone, Emeth had realized how much he depended on his family and how much family meant to him, so he and Tyria decided to have a child and not long after, their daughter Nephesh, meaning life, was born. He spent time playing with her whenever he was home but new cults took him away often enough.

One night, during his work looking into legends and rumours he discovered that Terandious's daughter was spotted. He rushed to meet her as he had not seen either of Terandious's children since their births. But when he arrived he found that she had been spotted because she had been killed. Using his pendant, he traced the situation back to a dragon named Auren Blackhide. When he found Auren he confronted him, only to discover that Auren had wed Terandious's daughter and they had had a daughter about Nehesh's age named Sylanna. Auren revealed that he had killed his wife because she refused to allow him to raise their daughter to join Brimstone, a guild of dragon slaying dragons that he had formed. Emeth, realizing the strength of Auren, used his psionics to trick Auren long enough for Emeth to flee with Sylanna.

Unsure of his decision, but resolved, he brought Sylanna to Tyria after putting his polymorphing earring upon her and introduced her as his daughter, knowing that young Sylanna was listening. This upset Tyria greatly but Emeth refused to admit the truth as he knew that Tyria would have rathered leave her to die than risk their safety and the safety of their child. A few years later, surprisingly, Tyria gave birth to their second daughter, Deror, named for her grandfather to mean liberty, and Emeth was overjoyed. With her birth came peace as Tyria had eventually discovered on her own, the circumstances of Sylanna's birth.

The three girls grew up very differently. Nephesh had begun to compete with Sylanna for her father's affection and threw in Sylanna's face that she was his illegitimate child. Sylanna however, simply wished for Tyria and Nephesh's acceptance. Nephesh demonstrated an affinity for psionics at a young age and Emeth began to teach her how to use and channel them. But when Sylanna showed proficiency with magic, Tyria was not there to teach, instead Emeth taught her unarmed combat. Deror was different though. She would aways strive to be different than her sisters. When their parents taught them about history and culture, Sylanna and Nephesh fell in line and listened carefully whereas Deror rejected her parents teachings.

Xander had also begun teaching Nephesh about Emeth's history as she planned to succeed him as leader of the Sons. Noticing that Deror felt neglected, Yvette decided to help train her strength as she hoped to make a name for herself one day rather than skulk in the shadows as Emeth did. Noticing Sylanna's depression, Emeth began to take her on missions with him, even introducing her to his old guild, The Fateslayers. Emeth repeated this vicious circle until Sylanna was forty, and he felt it was time she learned about her mother. He explained everything to her and after he had she was silent for a time but then thanked him for taking her in and calling her his daughter.

After that he noticed that Nephesh and Sylanna slowly began to get along more, but on the other hand Deror became more and more rebellious. On her 40th birthday, she decided to abandon the Sons and her family and departed the continent in search of adventure. Shortly after her departure, Tyria gave birth to a boy named Esher, meaning happiness. They again raised him this time with the help of Sylanna and Nephesh.

Years passed and one day Emeth stumbled upon the legend of Mount Unity. As he skimmed it he realized that it may have detailed away of accessing some legacy that The First had left behind. They began to excavate major parts of the mountain but they never found anything. However, one night, Emeth awoke with a start as he had lost track of Tyria and couldn't see through her eyes. He rushed to the mountain and saw the site of the vision Davina had shown him hundreds of years prior.

He immediately understood what had happened. He tried every manner of spell, power or ability, but he couldn't find her. He began a desperate chase to find her. On his search he found a young woman who had given birth to a half demon child, the product of a rape. He tried to calm her, but his own desperation dulled his diplomacy, and it was all he could do to stop her from killing her child before she killed herself. He took the child in, named him Theorem and forged him a polymorphing earring to make him appear human.

As he and Theorem traveled hunting any clue to Tyria's location, they were tracked down by Yvette and Sylanna. They explained that they were sent to find him and that Xander and Esher were looking for Tyria, and Nephesh led the Sons. Emeth explained what was happening and they relayed it to Nephesh. But shortly afterwards, they discovered a connection between Tharizdun and Mount Unity. The only way Emeth would be able to get close enough to the church of Tharizdun would be to prove his absolute loyalty to them.

To that end he shed his name and adopted the moniker Ahava, meaning love, to remind himself of why he was doing what he was doing. Then he swore them all to secrecy, and left for the last known location of Tharizdun worshipers.

When he arrived at the house of the Eventides, Dante's descendants, he realized that they had grown in strength since last he visited. When he arrived he changed his shape to look as young as Theorem, and enlisted in the Eventide army. As they rose through the ranks they caught attention and within a decade were part of the royal guard. Emeth was able to befriend Lady Lucille Eventide, and in due time even helped deliver her daughter.

In doing so, he was named her godfather and was placed in charge of raising and guarding her. He spent the next two decades raising her as best he could while still adhering to his character and Lucille's wishes.

One day, Lucille sent for them and ordered them to make their way to Shepherd's Run, the capital of Dondar. There they were to pretend to be an innocent member of house Snowpeak and her servant. She was to get as close to the king as possible and he was to support her in her efforts.

Reclaiming Unity
Unfortunately, A couple of months later, Mount Unity collapsed and a terrible plague began spreading throughout Dondar. To make matters worse, The king was killed by elves and the entire continent was armed to the teeth in preparation for war. Emeth didn't believe the Eventides capable enough to cause something on this magnitude and directed his suspicion elsewhere.

Rumours began to spread about Pelor having failed the people and before Emeth could stop it, the Eventides overthrew Amaranthia and renamed it Duskhaven. After the city fell, he was called on by Lucille to join the Blackthorn as an elite member...