Adrenurket

____Imperials are said to be secretive where their dead are concerned, and Adrenurket is no exception. Indeed, some even refer to him as The Deadwyrm; whispering that he is an undead being, resurrected for some unknown purpose.

____Eerily, Adrenurket has never denied these rumors, preferring to smile menacingly and roll his eyes so far back that only the sclera shows when anyone dares to ask him of his current -or prior- state.

____Of all the Ringmasters, he is the most aloof. Where the others may move about on the ground or in the skies, the massive Imperial soars at such a height that he is not readily visible from below. When he does descend, it is often at night, and often with such speed that the resulting sonic booms ring like the tolling of a church bell.

____Still, Death is hardly a permanent thing on Sornieth.

____In time, something awakened the deceased Imperial; some strange power from beyond was pulling him back to life, and several other Imperials left on the battlefield as well. Calamity might have followed had not the other Imperial corpses been incinerated on the spot with such an intense fire that not even bones were left.

____A further burst of fire incinerated even the ashes, and for a time, the reanimated Imperial drew ragged breaths as the air itself had been consumed by the flames. Shortly however, he recalled that the dead need not breathe and turned to stare at the one who had cast the flames.

____One might have expected the reanimated dragon to be angry at being dragged back to life as part of an experiment, and one might have expected said dragon to be even more furious to find out that the dragon who had orchestrated his return to the world of the living had been working alongside the dragons responsible for his demise in the first place.

____And yet the Imperial who became known as Adrenurket was strangely accepting of the revelations. His reasons have remained his own every since, though academics whispered that it was due to the altered mental state that seems to afflict every Emperor. Adrenurket is clearly not Morkalus any longer, and when anyone with knowledge of his life asks him of that time, they are at best ignored.

____Ever since his revival, Adrenurket has been Pentarax's "voice" in the group known as The Ringmasters. An elite group of performer-assassins, they are a dangerous force, and Pentarax long sought some way to keep them under his claw. The deadwyrm has proven particularly successful in this regard. He may not be the leader of the group, but his word among them is respected and none dare cross his path or stand against his will when it is asserted.

____Curiously, the nearly acrobatic Imperial has even fit in well with the group, forming an unusual friendship with the Wildclaw known as Anak. They are among the best close-range fighters in the group, and have not yet failed in any mission.