Blighter

Flesh Blighter, Broken servant of the Cinder King.

Blighter was once Elenessa, a high engineer-priestess of the Shin'Zeni triumvirate of crafter gods—the Builder, the Maker, and the Crafter. When Shreya—then a famous Kalithari warrior—won her favor during a knights tournament, their romance became the stuff of poems and song. The Cinder King rose in the East and began his march, and Elenessa was Chosen by the Crafter, whose worshipers practice the great craft of alchemy. Once she was Broken, the craft itself became tainted. Now its practitioners eventually corrupt and become monsters themselves.

Blighter is a pale, hooded, leather-clad figure with dark hair and green eyes. She bears alchemical seals on her gloves and bandoliers of chemicals about her body. Blighter tends to have a macabre sense of humor, for example sending congratulatory notes to The Legion after missions, using undead former Legionnaires as couriers. Where she lacks raw power, she substitutes a deadly intellect, divine understanding of Craft, and a brutal cunning. Her full title is Flesh Blighter, also called the Foul, Corruptor of Flesh, and Plaguebringer. The troops tend to just call her Blighter.

HORROR THEMES

Body horror. Surgery and science gone wrong. Toxic gasses and the horrors of trench warfare. Troops oozing pus and disease. Bodies knitted together in disturbing ways. Limbs and organs where they shouldn’t be. Open sores. Bolted-on parts.