Voormas

Euthanatos X Mage Information

Voormas, Grand Harvester of Souls, is a corrupt Euthanatos mage who has fallen to Jhor. Most Euthanatoi consider him barabbi, although he has technically has the opposite goal of most Nephandi: he desires to eliminate the concept of death, both his own personal death and the eventual Telos of the Tellurian. He ran (and still runs) the Consanguinity of Eternal Joy. Voormas memetically poisoned the very concept of Necromancy a long time ago in order to hasten the downfall of the Cycle of creation. This is why many organizations which use necromancy decide they "need" to tear down the Shroud.

Appearance

Voormas is a withered, ancient man of South Asian descent who hobbles on a cane made from a child's skull and spinal column. When violence or high ritual calls, he becomes the Shivasakti Ayavatara: a 10-foot-tall, six-armed androgynous creature that combines the attributes of Kali and Shiva. Its black iron body, fangs and taloned hands make quick work of lesser enemies, but he takes few chances with other mages. Spells cast from a screamed mantra, burning lotus, skull or sword dispatch them.

Personality

Voormas wanted to claim an aspect of Shiva and join mystically with Kali, the Black Mother. His gods are not those loved by Hindus, but more brutal and ambivalent beings. To him, this union comes about at the resolution of the Kali Yuga, the Armageddon. Voormas had few personal interests save morbidity. During the times before to the exposure of the corruption of the House Helekar, he spent a great deal of time meditating, studying magick, travelling about the Shard Realm "testing himself," scrying potential threats to the Euthanatos and directing the mages of the Chantry. Occassionally, he handled and assassination himself if the target was worthy or powerful.

To most, Voormas would seem to be totally insane. This may or may not be true, but it is undeniable that he is brilliant, paranoid and evil. Voormas hopes more than anything else to be accepted before it comes time for his own "Good Death". During his times as the leader of House Helekar, no one knew it, and it is doubtful he knew conciously, but Voormas began to fear his own death.

His final goal is to never die. As a god, he will crush crush Death and Fate and replace them with universal laws more to his liking. Yet he sees phantoms everywhere, proclaiming his demise. Yama taunts him; and Voormas will only know peace when he kills him. The souls of the Pasupatta Astra already worship him in anticipation of the unchanging Age to come, and the Nephandi are his most insistent foes. To Voormas, those facts confirm the righteousness of his cause.

He uses heretical Tantric magic along with his own unique necromancy. His spells work on the premise of self-deification: claiming the divine attributes that are rightfully his.