Stenn De Manteau

Early Life
Stenn De Manteau was born as Stenn Von Cloak on a ship in the Islands of Tortuga to a Ryzani father and a woman from the far east, Stenn spent his early life as any normal child from a noble merchant house. From an early age Stenn enjoyed history, archaeology and anything to do with the unknown, from magic to studying the void. As a young adult Stenn studied in Yimmer Aldal in the fields of cryptic history and esoteric sciences where he discovered the void and started to study it to discover what the possibilities of it could be.

Studies
During his studies Stenn learned that his house was attacked by the new rulers of the land that the Stenn family lived in and his entire house was slaughtered and manor was removed from the face of the earth by the lord of the nation where his family resided in order to consolidate power over the land. Enraged with the loss of his family, Stenn put his studies of his youth behind him and focused solely on the pursuit of spycraft, sabotage, and poisons, anything he could use to destroy the King that killed that destroyed his house. For years Stenn worked his way into politics through proxy nations and lands as first a diplomat of a vassal nation and eventually working his way up to be adopted by the very King that ended his house.

Using his new found power he laid in wait for a number of years playing his part taking a wife, having a son and learning the craft of Necromancy, waiting for the day when he could exact revenge on his adopted father. One day while he was attending court the King looked over to Stenn and pulled out an old tome and smiled at Stenn with a wicked grin, “You have been deceiving me Stenn, I always knew that one of the children of the noble families had escaped and now I know who.” With that the King tossed the book at Stenn’s feet opening it Stenn realized it was a surviving copy of his houses linage with names and paintings of every member updated to a few days before his house was destroyed. Looking up from the book and to the King, Stenn frothed with anger and lunged a concealed dagger at the King missing any vital areas before fleeing, collecting his family and removing himself to the country of Lorent in the town of Lumaire.

Tragedy
For a while things were calm in Stenn’s life, his family was happy and safe but this was not to be forever. One night while Stenn and his family were asleep an assassin sent by the king invaded his home and attacked his family, killing his wife and son but only wounding Stenn. Stricken with grief Stenn poured himself ever more into his study of Necromancy, as well as going back to the studies he had abandoned years ago in the occult magics. Over the years Stenn grew more and more powerful using his powers in Necromancy to extend his life with the ultimate goal of bringing back his family.

While Stenn was working on the resurrection of his family he also worked towards getting revenge on the King that killed them, Stenn used a magic that in his youth he swore he would never use and called upon the power of the void removing the King and the entire town from the face of the world sucking it all into the void never to be seen again. After the destruction of the King, Stenn went around the world removing any mention or memory of the King and his kingdom from the face of Rathnir and the world at large. Three hundred years later Stenn, went to the graveyard and preformed a resurrection spell on the graves of his wife and son, the one for his wife failed as he could feel her soul, warmly touching his face her soul happy where it had gone. Saddened and thinking the spell had failed and he would never get his family back Stenn stood up to walk away before he heard a noise, and saw a sickly green glow from the grave of his son, as he watched a hand rose from the grave and Anton clawed his way out alive, sort of. Stenn had brought his son back but only in part, Anton had become a sort of undead that Stenn had no knowledge of. Embracing his son he brought him back to Lumaire.

After the reresection of his son, Stenn deviled into his necromantic studies researching how to prolong his life. Upon the discovery an old tome worn by the sands, Stenn stumbled onto the process of turning himself into Lich. Finding this book Stenn worked through the process of turning himself into a Lich but there was one problem, he had to collect an enormous amount of souls. Stenn wasn't a killer, so he found another way to gain souls, he would skulk around battlefields collecting the souls of the fallen in battle. His methods of collecting proved ineffective as the ones killed weren't killed by his hand, Stenn found a way around the problem by becoming a great weapons forger and selling weapons to both sides of every conflict, after a few wars Stenn had more souls that he would ever need. The process was strenuous and he almost died more than once but Stenn pushed through the process and achieved Lichdom.