Prince Ushoran
Prince Ushoran was the younger brother of Queen Naferata and the Lord of Masques, Celebrations, and Festivities in the great city of Lahmia. When his sister had drunk the Elixir of Life and became immortal and allowed her husband to do likewise Prince Ushoran had been expected to be allowed to jion them in immortality. But in a fit of childishness his sister forbade him the drink thus forcing him to endure mortality.
Incensed by his sisters petty need to keep out of her elite cadre Ushoran decided to teach her a lesson, and claim only what he was due entitlement as a Prince of Lahmia. Ushoran stole her precious Elixir and entered into that same state of great un-life without her help, becoming a first vampire and founder of the Strigoi Bloodline.
This incensed his sister who saw his actions as an affront to her authority and she spent the following centuries seething at the insult and planning her revenge. Persecuted by his sisters anger Ushoran sought out a place where he could build his own kingdom and show his sister how to rule free from petty squabbling and foolish politics.
His dreams were realised when he came upon the valley of Strigos and its capital of Mourkain, where Kadon already ruled as a priest-king and had taught the people to worship Nagash as a god. It was a simple matter to replace Kadon with himself and to replace their worship of Nagash with worship of his vampire line. Kadon had been a cruel and vacillating king; Ushoran brought his people order and prosperity, and they welcomed him for it. He even restored Abhorash’s principle of the vampires only feeding upon criminals and enemy captives, so once again, the people would have nothing to fear from their immortal masters.
Soon, the kingdom of Strigos was vast and powerful. Ushoran then sent word to his four other brethren, welcoming them to his new vampire state, where they would be free to feed and live luxuriously, just as they had back in Nehekhara, safe from the hand of Nagash.
But to his sister Neferata, this seemed like just another insult. Her interloper brother would dare to presume his empire greater than her own (though it certainly was) or that he might ever rule over her.
The Queen saw at last her chance to get her revenge. She slaughtered Ushoran’s messenger and at once spread rumours to the other bloodlines, assuring them that Ushoran either meant to enslave them all, or worse, sell them out to the reborn Nagash.
After two hundred years of living with their guilt over abandoning their master and their fear of his revenge, the vampires had grown bitter and insular. Each bloodline blamed the others for their betrayal and scattering but was prevented from acting on this because of the taboo against harming their own kind. When Neferata gave them a target and a reason to break this pact, the pent-up fury of the other bloodlines exploded in an orgy of violence. They sent mortal armies and vampire assassins to that kingdom to destroy the interloper once and for all.
The human armies sent against Ushoran’s kingdom were a rabble, but they came from all sides and with an unceasing dedication fuelled by Neferata’s get. Strigos was beset, and in turning back the tide, the prince was distracted at a critical time, allowing his kingdom to be ravaged by an immense tide of greenskins, no doubt also instigated by Neferata’s agents. The prince rushed back to defend his capital, and the battle raged at those gates for days on end. Strigos was beginning to turn the tide when the orc shaman broke through Ushoran’s wards and slew the great prince with a terrible magical blast.
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