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Delandel Hyth is a man of endurance and sheer willpower. the blessed ritual required to destroy the foul artifact.
He is a zombie that retained everything during his That is when they struck: vampires, necromancers, fiends;
transition from life to unlife: even his paladin powers. The the combined forces of the Orders hated foes brought
radiant energies of his faith are at war with the necrotic together for one concentrated assault to wipe out Suns
energies that animate his body, causing endless agony. Dawn.
Still he persists, because he must. This is his story. The artifact could not be allowed to fall into the enemys
hands: the horrors unleashed would spell doom for the
world. As the battle began, Delandel was ordered to hide
Background the artifact deep in the catacombs below, which he did
Delandel dedicated his life to protecting innocents from
with great reluctance. When the paladin returned, he
the evils of his land. He was a paladin of the Order of
found his brothers and sisters dead, and his foes ready
Suns Dawn, a group of worshippers of Pelor dedicated to
to greet him.
the annihilation of undead and necromancy, most notably
No amount of torture could get Delandel to divulge
opposing the powerful vampire families that preyed
secrets of the Order. When his foes finally got bored of the
upon human civilization like cattle. Delandel served the
paladin, he braced himself for the release of death. His
Order with distinction for decades: his name was known
captors had other plans, however. Instead of letting him
throughout the land, spoken warmly by the villagers he
die, they transformed into that which he hated most: a
saved and spat out like a curse by the vampires he hunted.
sentient undead creature. Then Delandel was bound and
The Order of Suns Dawn met its abrupt end on the
locked away, cursed to exist in this wretched state forever.
night of one of its finest victories. The paladins had just
defeated a large gathering of the Cult of Orcus and retrieved
an artifact of terrible evil. They returned to the Orders Appearance
headquarters, a stronghold in the mountains, to perform Delandel is a zombie: his body is an animated corpse
with rotten flesh, some of it sloughed away revealing dirty
bone underneath. Unlike ordinary zombies, however, he
isnt a mindless creature that shambles forward clumsily
while groaning about brains. He carries himself like a
noble gentleman; his figure is always straight and proper.
Delandels eye sockets glow with a golden, radiant light. As
a zombie with clear signs of intelligence, his appearance
is all the more unsettling.
The undead paladin wears the golden full plate armor
that is distinctive of the Order of Suns Dawn. The symbol
of Pelor, a blazing sun, is engraved on its front. The fiends
left Delandel in his armor when they locked him away so
that hed always be reminded of what he once was and
everything he has lost.
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