Vulkare the Collector of Skulls

Vulkare the Collector of Skulls

Exactly when Vulkare lost his humanity and pledged his allegiance to the Dark Lord Azearth has been lost to time. Legends are a bound that he had once been known as Sir Greyth and had been a Knight of Pelador many hundreds of years ago. Stories were passed down that he had been the noblest of all knights and beheld the purest of all hearts. Legends state that the King of Pelador had established an order of knights to guard the eastern pass and keep the Dark Lords at bay.

For such a dangerous task that would test the purity of a man the King needed a knight he could trust above all others to not be corrupted. It came to no one’s surprise that the King would choose Sir Greyth above all others. According to the same legends Sir Greyth held his post honorably for many years and even to his credit personally slain many Dread Knights who attempted to raid Pelador.

Even the rumors and legends do not speak of what brought about Sir Greyth’s downfall. The Royal Archive of Pelador only acknowledges that an Order of Knights was created to guard the eastern pass but does not mention any members of the order or what became of them. All that is known for sure is that a knight of Pelador knelt before the Dark Lord Azearth and what rose back up was Vulkare the Collector of Skulls.

Imbued with strength beyond that of any mortal man, Vulkare became the very thing of nightmares. To prove his loyalty to his new master he led a raid on Pelador and personally claimed the heads of two Dukes, 1 Earl, and two dozen Barons. Azearth was so pleased with his new servant that he rewarded him with Astraer, a sword imbued with the spirit of a demon. With his new sword Vulkare would claim thousands of heads for his master. He was said to be unmatched in combat and no one was safe from his blade.

The great Drugan Warchief  Wargurk decimated the realms of six Dark Lords slaying each one before meeting Vulkare in single combat outside of Azearth’s castle. The Collector of Skulls collected one more easily slaying the Drugan Chief with his Demonblade. To humiliate his fallen opponent he cut his tusks off and had them attached to his helm.

One time a group of 8 pious and devout Great Knights swore before the King of Pelador that they would personally deliver Vulkare’s corpse to the King. Vulkare made sure that all eight of their skulls were returned to the King of Pelador to show the futility of such acts. In the end it took no less than King Airodak, said to be the greatest of all Peladorian Kings and the finest swordsman of all time, to finally end the terrible butchery of Vulkare the Collector of Skulls. At the Battle of Broken Tree the two warriors fought an epic fight that lasted for nearly an hour before Airodak used Vulkare’s own demonblade to behead him.

Some rumors state that Azearth captured a necromancer that brought Vulkare back from the dead. Such things are just rumors though and should not be taken seriously…