Orswald Codswiddle

Though he had siblings, in his mind he was the only true child of his parents. They did not show him any favoritism, except in his imagination, and they did not realize the extend of his problems until after he had gone out adventuring and ugly stories about him began to filter back home.

They went and retrieved him, trying to help him with all their magic and advanced technology. But he managed to fool those assessing his mental state about just how far from their passive ideals he really was and escaped without setting off alarms from the safe haven where they had restrained him.

He stole one of the few ships capable of not only space travel but also travel between the various dimensions and parallel universes. Not needing any crew, he killed the people tending the ship so that they could not tell who had taken it and left. It was a very long time before it was realized he was the one who had done this evil deed, and by that time, he was long gone.

He went through many dimensions and universes, hopping around in a random order, trying to find what he thought he needed as well as removing any chance of being tracked. The time alone was not good for him as he went even deeper into himself. Those he met found him a charming man, and the majority of them never knew how evil he truly was.

After many decades, he found a dimension in a universe that was blocked from most of the others that suited him. It was chaos personified, and those who survived there grew horrendous warriors to defend them from the continuous chaos that surrounded them. He learned how to create the warriors, called skurgin, from other intelligent creatures and attempted to conquer and control a small corner of this universe. Unfortunately for those he met later, he was unable to conquer even a tiny part of the small corner he wished to rule, so he left.

It took more wandering over many centuries before he stumbled across a species that he would be able to twist into the skurgin he felt he needed to conquer the greater part of a galaxy before contacting those he had left behind to show them that he was better than them all. His creation of the skurgin, though, caught the attention of the Moms. They sent agents to destroy the evil creations and to hunt down their creator, but Orswald always managed to elude them. The Moms enlisted the help of the Trackers to find him, and he moved further away from them to begin his work again.

Leelah was sent to investigate, and she met Orswald. She did not discover his ability to create the skurgin as she intrigued him. He thought that maybe he had met his destined mate and he sought to woo her. They did have fun together, but ultimately they parted ways. While Leelah thought they had parted friends, he took it as a personal affront that she had rejected his desire to marry her. Furious, he set out again to find a place where he could grow an army of skurgin, with his first objective being to destroy Home, where the Moms lived.

He found Jynsoerth, with its medieval life, and settled into a desolate corner to once again grow his army. Small parties, whether they were adventurers, traders, or ogre raiding parties, found themselves in the metal rooms of his ship. They thought they were dead and in hell as they endured the painful, tortuous process that turned them from intelligent beings into the huge, almost invincible, skurgin.

A Tracker named Raya arrived accidentally through a portal that crossed her trail as she tracked something else. She was highly intelligent, but very innocent of basic social interaction as she had been trained to find things out on her own in places that very rarely had intelligent beings. She found herself in a Keep full of contented, busy people, and set about learning about the place she had landed in as she sensed the presence of something her people sought above all other things.

After many personal misadventures, Raya found a skurgin. She immediately sent a message to the Moms about it. They sent Leelah to stop the maker, pulling her from a personal rest time. When she found who the skurgin maker was, she was dismayed, as she had thought Orswald to be a good friend.

Willum, Gadamir, Lissa, and Skychaser went with Leelah when she went to stop Orswald. Though she would have preferred to take him alive, she was forced to kill him. Willum and Gadamir both castfinal rites on his dead body, sending his soul to be judged. She left Jynsoerth, taking his body and his ship with her to Home.

On his death, his family knew of his passing, and that it had been violent. They set out to find the one who had killed him, intending to punish the one that had taken him from them.