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Lithka
Empress Lithka, last sovereign of the Vlaak Empire, continues to exist as an undead creature long after the fall of her people. She toils within the Imperial Crypt, working steadily among the piles of eldritch machinery, books of magical theorems, and alchemical apparatuses that clutter her inner sanctum. Despite devoting her every moment to occult research, her forays into unwholesome avenues of magical inquiry are always hindered by her persistent madness. Lithka’s brilliant mind was ruined by a disordering insanity born from the traumatizing ritual that transformed her from a living Vlaak royal into an undead lich. Lithka is usually lost in a fog of madness, delirium, and repressed memories, but her rational mind sometimes reasserts itself, granting her fleeting moments of clarity. During her brief lucid phases, Lithka schemes of returning to the world above and reclaiming her place as empress of all she surveys. If she were to regain her sanity, Lithka would be a grave threat.
• Appearance: Her alien, corpse-like form is shrouded in the remains of a once-sumptuous gown.
• Personality: She behaves as if she still presides over an empire at the height of its power.
• Motive: She plots to remake the world in her own image to begin the second great age of Vlaak civilization.
• Flaw: Her mind is not what it was—she scrounges through the pieces of her fragmented memories seeking coherence.