Necro Harbinger (Heralds of the Lich Lords)

Steel Realms
Lich Lords

The Lich Lords of the Fallen North employ few Heralds or rely on any functions related to them – they are purely expansionist and have no interest in diplomacy or surrender.

The Necro Harbingers are essentially the nearly unused herald corps of the Lich Lords. They treat with the living rarely, certainly not in battle or conflict to expand their domain. The few harbingers that are known, have been around for thousands of years and though they are obscure, well known among the herald circles of the north. By all accounts, these creatures appear to be minor Liches in service to their lords, and likely nobles of the fallen north with a great knowledge of history. The Lich Lords seem to have assembled three of these, one for the Northern Hinterlands, one for the Dark Lands, and one for the Northern Hearthlands. They typically travel with a retinue of dressed corpses (in a mockery of soldiers) that are most used as a shield. Additionally, a platoon of bleach white skeletons that typically wield all metal spears. Nothing organic lasts long around them and their aura, so a ‘baggage train’ often follows at a distance with fresh clothes.

The Death Advocates

In some rare cases, these Heralds have been used (unsuccessfully) to enter a region to tell its inhabitants to their impending doom, the finality and inevitability to death, and that they have come to offer the eternal peace. In exchange for the promise not to have their corpses animated to attack relatives in neighboring regions, they promise a quick and painless death with shared ritual. Only a few towns and settlements have taken this option in recorded history, and having known that they were without aid and facing certain annihilation.

Harbingers

Their real names are not known and long lost to history.

High Lord of the Broken Skulls

The Necro Harbinger of the Dark Lands

Lord Chamberlin Surekill

The Necro Harbinger of the Northern Hinterlands

High Lord 7 Deaths

The Necro Harbinger of the Northern Heartlands

High Lord Seven Deaths stands almost 2.5 meters tall, is gaunt and his skin is light grey. He has a haughty bearing, as he towers above all and looks down at them is a permanent unblinking stare of disdain. His hair is in limp curls of grey, his eyes black. Around his neck he bears a holy symbol of his masters, the Lich Lords. He is adorned with dull and dingy – but expensive and ancient – jewelry. He wears a robe that is a heavy one made of leather. In his left hand he holds an orb.

The robe is made of human skin. The orbs flies and has a spike that he controls, and can defend him.

Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic