Character information:

Name: Montel (last name forgotten)
Gender: Male
Species: Lich
Age: About 700 years
Height: 6ft.
Weight: 168lbs.

Alingment: Neutral
Alias: Necroman

Specification: Undead/Mystic

In twelfth century France lived an aspiring and brilliant young peasant boy named Montel. Living near what is today the city of Lyon, he was given away as an apprentice to the local priest, also a healer and alchemist, under who's care and tutelage did Montel grow up into a skilled physician. It was in 1348 when a terrible plague swept across Europe, causing the deaths of untold people. Montel's village was struck hard by the wave of death; almost the entire village was devastated, leaving himself as the only survivor. Despite frequent contact with infectees and the contaminated conditions, Montel would not contract the disease.

In grief, Montel trekked across Europe, coming upon death and decay all around, montel tried to help those in need with his physician skiils and prayer, but the plague was relentless.

During his travels Montel came across a wise and skilled alchemist named Victor Steltzin, who'd travelled far from the east to study the plague. Accompanying the more eperienced Victor, Montel recounted how the plague, despite all the instances of being potentially subjected to it, had not affected him in the slightest. Intriegued by his new companion's tales, Victor took a sample of Montel's blood.

Using the sample, along with herbs, fungi and other variuos materials, melded together with power Victor claimed to have learned from various mystics throughout Europe during his many travels, Victor created a potion, which he tested on an infected individual in the first inhabited town they came across. To many peoples' amazement, the potion healed the individual in only days. Victor came upon the conclusion of Montel having an odd immunity to the plague. However, due to the superstitions of the time period, the local clergy deemed Victor and Montel servants of the devil trying to convert the village to evil with their "dark powers".

Becoming close friends, Montel accompanied Victor to the east, to the Ural where the wise man conducted research and experiments on alchemy and various magics. There were specigic tomes and scrolls which Montel was intrigued by, but Victor requested not to look too much into, warning that said tomes contained knowledge on powers humanity must never grasp, for the good of its future.

After nearlt ten years, spending them travelling and gaining further insight for the studies, after one expedition, the two returned to their home in the Ural, to be greeted by someone already inside their hidden abode. The being was a man, much to the two alchemsit' surprise, he was nude and carried a sickly vibe to him,

"Where is the book of the master?" he asked with an impatient, yet humored tone, the being assuming strange stances, seemingly cracking his own joints to bemuse the two while at random intervals his tongue lashed out from his mouth like a serpent's.

Not knowing what he meant, Victor attempted to send the uninvited guest on his way, but suddenly a black tendril pierced Victor's torso. Trying to save his mentor and friend, Montel was met with similar results, another tendril piercing into his hand and shortly after being knocked out with the same appendage.

After regaining consciousness, Montel found his best friend Victor decapitated, and his arm was tuning a sickly, putrid shade of black. He attempted to treat the arm with all the various methods he knew, but eventually Montel was forced to cut off his own forearm, as the black ooze began to spread. Having grown desperate, Montel looked into the forbidden arts, vowing revenge on the creature that attacked and killed his friend, confident that he would be able to resist the temptation of the black arts, Montel delved into the forbidden tomes and magic.

Utilizing necromancy, by gathering bits and pieces of dead animals and even sapiens/humans (depending on which Universe) to create and graft a new forearm. He also utilized a vial containing the ooze that infested his old arm to pinpoint the creature’s position, leading him back to Europe.

Eventually he came across the monster, having ransacked and utterly destroyed a village in the outskirts of modern France. The creature identified himself as Id, messenger of the Old One. He’d used his master’s power to disembody Victor’s soul and bound it to Victor’s own skull, allowing him to torment the man’s spirit in an attempt to attain information on the alleged Necronomicon, a tome of ultimate darkness Id would need to reawaken his master.

In rage, Montel attacked Id, vowing to destroy him and reclaim Victor’s skull. It is here where Montel revealed exactly how much of the dark tomes he’d learned, utilizing foul, evil magic of necromancy and illusion in an attempt to kill Id. Eventually Montel impaled Id on a bone spike sprouting from Montel’s monstrous arm’s wrist, the creature seemingly melting into black ooze. Thinking that Id was defeated, Montel recovered Victor’s skull and calmed his soul. However, Victor was ashamed and mortified at what had become, having all but destroyed the village he was fighting Id in, killing a multitude of its inhabitants, only to raise them as undead to assault Id further. Montel took it in stride, claiming that he was in control of his new powers and that casualties were inevitable when fighting evil as powerful as Id.

Though confined to his skull, Victor was able to peer into Montel on a spiritual level, realizing that Montel was in fact in control, but only twisted by the great power he now wielded. To counteract the corruption, Victor absorbed half of it into his skull, turning himself into a conduit of dark energy, but only Victor himself by his own consent could tap into this power.

Sadly, Montel was beset by surviving villagers and the forces of a local lord. Deeming Montel a servant of evil, he was doused in holy water and shackled, afterwards placed into a stone coffin and buried under the ruined church, hoping the purity of the place would keep the “demon” in check. Victor’s skull, however, came into possession of a German aristocrat named Rafer…

Years later, during an expedition, the coffin where Montel was placed was discovered by Kaspar Rafer, thanks to the aid of the Eye of Apep. Upon opening the coffin and removing the bottle of holy water from his now decayed husk, Montel was revived, his dark powers allowing him to resume living as a lich, a corpse with his soul still bound to it. Montel went into a berserker rage, the memory of his imprisonment quick to resurface, ending up killing several of Rafer’s cohorts before finally subduing the crazed undead with his own magic. With Montel restrained again, Rafer brought him to his lair inside his estate.

It was here when Montel heard the call of a familiar presence. It was Victor, his skull being among one of the many artifacts hoarded by Rafer in his magical research. Victor, having remained insightful and inquisitive despite his condition, was able to vision Rafer’s machinations by scrying the entire estate due to the magical presence and through Rafer’s minions. Montel realized how his recklessness with his dark powers caused his imprisonment and helplessness in being unable to help Victor, begged for forgiveness from his best friend.

With their forced circumstances, both being undead creatures, Victor formulated a plan to escape Rafer and to go out and find Necronomicon, his plan being the destruction of the dark tome. Using the powers within his own skull, Victor gave Montel the needed strength to overcome Rafer’s wards. Montel snuck off with Victor’s skull and managed to escape Rafer’s lair, a pocket dimension created inside his actual estate.

Now in the twenty-first century Montel and Victor (his skull being chained to Montel’s belt to make sure the two would not be separated) set out to find Necronomicon before those of Id and Rafer, all the while Victor being at constant tabs of not letting Montel’s corruption take hold. Throughout their travels in the moderns world, Victor could simply not help but insist Montel to help those in need. After various battles with criminals and other underworld scum of the world, Montel became a modern legend dubbed “Necroman”, recognizable for the dark outfit, covered face, black suit and moss-green cloak.

Powers and abilities:

“Arm”: Montel, after losing his arm thanks to Id, grafted to himself an artificial arm of flesh and bone using necromancy. The arm’s primary power is the amplification of strength, having strength rivaling that of meta-sapiens/humans. It has long fingers tipped with sharp claws that serve as a primary offensive method, but its most remarkable ability is the ability to sprout bony growths. Said growths usually sprout from the wrist or knuckles, being utilized as projectiles or stabbing weapons. Montel can even sprout growths long enough to be used as separate melee weapons.

“Necromancy”: Upon delving through the dark tomes Victor had hoarded to keep the world safe from them, Montel gained the ability create life from death itself. He can raised dead corpses with dark energy to serve as minions, as well as using various bits of flesh, bone, among others, Montel can customize his arm in various ways. However, due to Victor’s urging, Montel rarely uses these abilities to appease his friend.

“Negativity Blasts”: Using dark powers fueled by his emotions, Montel can fire bolts of negative energy to inflict varying amounts of damage.

Due to being undead, Montel doesn’t need to eat, sleep or breathe. Also his dead body allows him to bypass the limitations of mortals. He can never tire and can use his powers without fear of self-destruction.

Victor further allows Montel to amplify his dark powers two-fold, but only at Victor’s consent. Victor can also scry, find places, items and people as well as in emergency fire similar negativity bolts as Montel from his skull’s eye-sockets.

Inspirations include: Hamlet (on part regarding Victor), Spawn and Teron Gorefiend from Warcraft.

Ineteresting note: Necroman was orignally a Halloween costume concept of mine back in 2009. ^^