Vax'ildan - Champion of Ravens

Death comes for all things in their time. It is the will of the Matron of Ravens that no being, no matter how heroic or how powerful, shall escape their rightful place in the hereafter. Yet when his sister Vex’ahlia died in a sunken Issylran tomb, Vax’ildan demanded that the goddess of death release her claim on Vex’ahlia’s soul—and claim his instead. Inscrutably, the Matron of Ravens acquiesced to Vax’ildan’s demand. He donned the Deathwalker’s Ward, a Vestige of Divergence imbued with the Matron of Ravens’ power, and the legendary armor of her previous mortal champion. In time, Vax’ildan too came to be called her champion, and returned to life from death more than once—even enduring utter annihilation by the Whispered One and strangulation by an Archfey. All these deaths were permissible for the Matron of Ravens’ champion, since the threads of fate that bound Vax’ildan to her service had not yet run their full course. But they inevitably did. Vax’ildan bade farewell to all the people he held most dear in the wake of the Whispered One’s defeat, and vanished into the eternal embrace of his god. In the years since, his returns to the world he once knew have been rare and fleeting. The Champion of Ravens is not Vax’ildan, though Vax resides within him. He is a loyal arbiter of the ineffable providence of death itself. He appears at times as a wrathful angel, masked and surrounded by a storm of raven feathers, bringing an end to those who would pervert the sanctity of oblivion out of greed or fear of the unknown. All fear the end, in their own way. Some fight it, delving into magic that delays the inevitable by making a mockery of both life and death. Others lash out, hurting people around them in smaller ways. But those whose fears are greatest are met by the Champion of Ravens, whose kind soul soothes and shepherds the fearful beyond the veil of the mortal world.