The Undead Kings

There are five of them. Their names are Xanthak the Lich King, Ramses The Damned, Lord Talex the Hand Of Death, the Archmage Wophat and Khalandar the Cursed. These five were the Elite of Thera from the time that Virigoth and Shadowspawn ruled the lands. Wophat was given Caranduin to rule by Virigoth, Ramses was in charge of the deserts, Xanthak was given a city called Myran Dammel, as well as Talex was involved with the underdark and Khalandar was the King of S'handor. They were born of the Dark Scourges that spawned the undead armies from the Nexus. They would terrorize the mortals and dieties alike. It did not take long for Khalandar to convince the others to try to overpower Lord Virigoth himself. There was a great war, and it might have been won by the Kings if they hadn't quarreled with each other. They turned on each other and tore the lands apart with their great destructive powers. Xanthac and Wophat were particularly powerful and with their dark magics both caused their cities to sink into the earth and trapped them. Virigoth used this opportunity to seal them in forever. Talex, Khalandar and Ramses were left over and they reveled in this change in tide. They turned their attention back onto their vendetta against Virigoth. With two of their number reduced, they were greatly weakened in their abilities.

The peoples that they terrorized before had grown stronger and went unnoticed by the Undead Kings. Eventually, the mortals brought forth their own heros. Athaekeetha, Raght, and Palison worked together and destroyed the remaining Kings, one at a time. Upon each defeat, Virigoth cursed and entombed each in turn. Ramses was the first to be defeated since his powers were the weakest. Talex was more difficult to conquore and required the whole of the Elven army to defeat. To this day, a legion of Elves guard the doorway to his prison. Khalandar was then the only one left to reckon with. Virigoth prevented the mortal heros from interfering to make sure his battle went undisturbed. The skirmish was easily won and Virigoth spared his life, but bestowed a curse upon Khalandar to never leave his city.