Centuries ago, the brutal General Po was known in every valley of the Sang-La Mountains for his ruthless treatment of anyone who stood in the way of his mission. It didn't matter if they were soldiers, royalty, monks, or peasants -- if they tried to stop him from conquering Sang-La's sacred sites and claiming them as shrines to himself, he skewered them on his butcher's blade and left them on display as a warning to others. Unfortunately for the General, this mistreatment of the dead had dire consequences. The unburied corpses he left in his wake were extremely displeased that they had not been given proper funerals, and their agitation attracted the corruption seeping into Newerth from All Hells. Infected by the corruption, the dead became reanimated as jiangshi -- corpses who subsist off the qi, or life force, of the living, and they tracked General Po, their numbers growing as he continued his campaign of slaughter. Only when he had converted one hundred sacred area to shrines -- and killed hundreds of innocents in the process -- did General Po rest and call for a massive ceremony to celebrate his obvious greatness. When the torches were lit and the banners unfurled, the General found that his adoring crowd was entirely jiangshi, come for vengeance. They surrounded the tyrant and slowly drained his life force, dragging the agony out as long as they could, then left his corpse intact to ensure it would join them and wander eternally, undead and insatiable.
Devourer
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