Her memory of the events at the temple was later erased she didn’t know how she survived the fall, half-mad and possessed by the ghosts of her mother and the others. Unfortunately, before the resurrection could be complete, Alexia was defeated by her uncle’s agents and fell off the platform.Īs Alexia passed through the swirling energies, the loose souls seized her as a vessel. The souls of the Corvis Coven were extracted by the Temple’s great machine when Alexia placed the Witchfire in the receptacle. Once she has used the machine resurrect her mother and the other members of the coven, she plans to turn her attention to the evil magistrate Borloch and Oberen, whom she had previously learned to be Borloch’s collaborator in the trials a decade ago.Īlexia led an army of thralls to attack the Cyrissist temple, completely overcoming the resident priests who relied too heavily on secrecy and unbreakable doors for protection, and were not equipped to defend the temple against so many determined interlopers. Instead, she saved Lexaria for a special treatment in the Cyrissist Temple of the Incomplete Axiom, the location of a great machine that can take the witches’ souls imprisoned inside the Witchfire and reinsert them into their old bodies. After Alexia escaped, her army of undead collapsed into inert bones.Īlexia decided not to reanimate her mother’s corpse in the same crude way as the others. The wizard Vahn Oberen tracked Alexia down to the church and attempted claim the Witchfire for himself after Alexia entered her mother’s tomb, but failed to get through her thralls. Her plan is to steal the Witchfire, escape, and use it to restore the entire coven fully to their former selves. In the chaos, Alexia visited the church to steal her mother’s corpse and the Witchfire, accompanied by some of her strongest creations as well as the four zombified coveners she already rescued. That experiment was put down and the souls returned to the blade.Īmid the Longest Night festival, a time of excess and celebration when the streets are packed with revelers, a horde of walking dead rose up from the undercity to assault Corvis and wreak all manner of havoc. Her first misguided attempts to bring back her mother resulted in animating the coven as walking corpses, eager to bring death to the living. Among the graves plundered was the site containing four members of the Corvis Coven. In 602 AR, Alexia conducted a series of grave robberies around Corvis. Alexia vowed her mother and the others who were set up and executed would live again to have vengeance – revenge on Borloch who orchestrated the trial and revenge on Corvis which she considers a wicked city. Years later, Alexia began to formulate her revenge. There is little question that she harbored both a growing obsession with her dead mother and a growing ability in the sorcerous arts, which she appears to have concealed from her uncle. Nearly every night she woke screaming from terrible nightmares, often calling out the names of her mother and of Magistrate Borloch, among others. Alexia was profoundly affected by her mother’s death: she became withdrawn, despondent, and refused to have anything to do with other children. The Church of Morrow likely believed that Dumas would have a positive influence on Alexia and subvert any possible sorcerous taint passed to her by her mother. Inside the tomb is the magical blade Witchfire used in the executions.Īfter her mother’s death, Alexia was sent to be fostered by her closest living relative, Prelate Dumas. Her granite tomb serves as a warning to all that Corvis will not tolerate the black arts. Lexaria was buried in a special repository on church grounds in the graveyard of the very cathedral watched by Father Dumas. She managed to sneak away into the woods where she witnessed the executions personally. Pandor Dumas, Lexaria’s brother-in-law and a Morrowan prelate, tried to shield Alexia from the harsh realities of the trial and execution, but Alexia was an intelligent, willful child. When Alexia was seven years old, her mother and her coven were arrested and sentenced to death by Magistrate Ulfass Borloch, an ambitious man of low character. In those days, during the rule of Vinter Raelthorne IV, the line between witch and sorcerer had become blurred, and any born with this power could be accused of communing with the forces of darkness. Her mother was the leader of a witch coven who used their sorcerous powers in secret for the betterment of the community. Alexia Ciannor was born in 586 AR to Lexaria Ciannor in the city of Corvis.
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