Editing Mortemdefieir Titan

{{Tabs|tab1=Info|tab2=Appearances}}{{Infobox_character
|aliases =*Old One 
|affiliation = *[[Liskaldreth]] (''Formerly'')
|species = *[[Draconic Titan]]
*[[Drakes|Drake]] (''Formerly'')
|gender = Male
|status = {{Status|Deceased}}|occupation = Warrior
|residence = *[[High Passes]]
*Liskaldreth (''Formerly'')
|first appearance = *[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/08/14/the-roots-pt-3/ The Roots (Pt. 3)] (''Via [Palace of Fates] simulation'')
*[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/08/16/the-roots-pt-4/ The Roots (Pt. 4)] (''Official Appearance'')
|name = Mortemdefieir Titan
|image=Mortemdefeier_titan-by-olento.png
|caption1=Mortemdefeir Titan by [[Fanworks/olento|olento]]
|age=20000+}}

The '''Mortemdefieir Titan''' is a Draconic Titan from the [[Liscor's Dungeon|Walled City of Graves, Liskaldreth]]. It is one of two Mortemdefieir Titans that was sealed underneath the [[High Passes]] behind the First Doors twenty thousand years ago.

==Appearance==
[[File:TitanBattle-by-mg-scaled.png|thumb|Titan Battle by [[Fanworks/mg|mg scaled]]]]
The Mortemdefieir Titan stands at 40 feet tall<ref name=":0">{{VERef|10.25 MG}}</ref> and bears [[Drakes|Drakish]] traits. His hands have seven fingers each. While dismembered, he is eyeless and his flesh is so rotted that that it is green and black, and the only recognizable Drake trait are the decayed neck spines on its head.<ref name=":1">{{VERef|The Roots (Pt. 4)}}</ref> As his bodyparts reassemble, he gained healtier-looking traits, such as regrowing his scales, which resemble scale mail.<ref name=":2">{{VERef|10.27 GMG}}</ref> Reasembled, he still resembles an extremely rotten Drake, although with digitigrade legs and long jagged neck spines extending down his back.<ref name=":4" /> 

==Personality==
Even after millennia of isolation and madness, he still looks down on what he deems inferior species, such as levelless Trolls, and kills them as a matter of course.<ref name=":4" />

==Chronology ==
Before the creation of the [[Mother of Graves]], the Mortemdefieir Titans were former Drakes reconstructed by Liskaldreth as an attempt to match [[Dragons]], made with rituals on par with level 70 [Alchimagus]. This Titan was subserviant to the Mother of Graves while she was protected by her three guardians: [[Skinner]], [[Snatcher]] and [[Stalker]].<ref name=":0" /> He was likely one of the worst and cruelest of them, a war criminal of the Draconic Titans, sent into the deeps to make war against the [[Dwarves]], the [[Trolls]], and the [[Gnolls]].<ref>{{VERef|10.28 N}}</ref> At some point, the Titans were dismembered and sealed away underground, near the [[Kingdom of Deep and Song]]. He went mad over the millenia he was trapped.

=== Volume 10 ===
During the battle of the Winter Solstice, the fight between [[Zeladona Ischen|Zeladona]], [[Cauwine]], [[Silvenia Ettertree|Silvania]], [[Czautha’qshe]], [[Rhisveri Zessoprical|Rhisveri]], and [[Visophecin]] unleashed a devastating slash across [[Izril]] north of [[Liscor]]. This slash damaged the door sealing the titan, allowing most of it to escape. One head, torso, arm, and leg of one titan and the arm of another made their way through the Troll kingdom, seeking to reassemble. The Trolls were unable to destroy or permanently stop the limbs, and so approached the [[Flooded Waters Tribe]] for aid. [[Rags]] was unable to destroy any limb either, but knew they had to be or the Titan would destroy her tribe.<ref name=":1" />

Rags and [[Mrsha du Marquin|Mrsha]] used the [<nowiki/>[[Palace of Fates]]] to learn more about the Mortemdefieir Titan and formulate a plan to kill it while avoiding a catastrophic outcome.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" /> Rags eventually settled on the following plan: exploit the meeting of the Titan's leg and the second titan's arm to expose their cores, ambush them with a group of elite Goblins, [[Ogres]] and Trolls to destroy the cores and kill the limbs, leaving the titan weak enough to be destroyed by [[Teriarch]] without too much risk.

Rags managed to destroy the leg's core. However while she was executing her plan, the force of the [[Halfling (Moon)|Halfling on the moon]]'s descent caused tremors that collapsed tunnels and made the titan rush to reassemble in response to the danger. This turned Rags' ambush into a deathtrap as she would not be able to escape the head and two limbs hunting her. She was saved by an alternate [[Rags (Student)]] from a simulated timeline leaving the [Palace of Fates], who used her Skill to get the [[Forgotten Wing Company]]'s aid. The Great Company unleashed its wall spells through the Skill, killing the leg and forcing the other two bodyparts to flee. The Forgotten Wing then informed [[Pallass]] of the danger.<ref name=":2" />

After reattaching his disembodied limbs together, the Mortemdefeir Titan emerged from the High Passes, and was confronted by a united force of Pallass' 2nd Army, Goblinhome, [[Teriarch]], and the Frost Wyvern Lord.  Despite the coalition's best efforts, the Mortemdefeir Titan escaped underneath the High Passes, after detonating three of his seith cores as a distraction.<ref name=":4" /> Soon afterward, the escaped soul of an alternate Az'Kerash from the Palace of Fates was drawn towards the Mortemdefeir Titan. Both weakened, they agreed to meld their souls together to become one unified being, the Necromancer Titan. However, they were confronted by the core members of the Tribe of Dreams, led by a future Goblin Lord Rags. Bringing down the cavern roof, Rags and her tribe destroyed the last seith core. While the Necromancer Titan managed to escape outside, he was killed by the remaining members of the Tribe.<ref>{{VERef|10.36 - Pt. 2}}</ref>    

== Powers and Abilities==
The Mortemdefieir Titan can cast Tier 6 spells without preparation, reanimate the dead, fashion a blade out of corpses, and create plagues and swarms of insects as a byproduct of its killing aura. It is highly magic resistant, such that even sustained bombardment from a [[Walled Cities|Walled City]] can barely force it to regenerate. He is a match for [[Teriarch]] in combat, thanks to its Skills and high speed regeneration. It can control its own flesh to make it malleable and fit through cracks in the earth,  form smaller hands, or detach parts of itself to create undead minions.  

His regeneration is fueled by [[seith]] cores within its body. These cores are as big as a Hobgoblin's torso, able to be moved inside the titan's body, and due to the Titan's magic resistance need Tier 6 spells to be damaged, making it preferable to break them through mundane force.<ref name=":0" /> These cores can also use death magic to defend themselves, such as casting [Deathbolts], creating whips of death, and send waves of death magic of such force that they can not only dissolve incoming spells but send them back as a necromantic version. In desperation, he can also create a death field that will even kill and reanimate the Titan's own insects, but they can only do so once and the expenditure of magic leaves them weaker. The Titan can also detonate his own cores in massive explosions. Destroying the cores removes its ability to regenerate, but does not kill it.<ref name=":2" /> He can fashion a second body from a seith core with dead bodies as material.<ref name=":4" /> 

In a dismembered state, it is much weaker but still highly dangerous. The rotten flesh fallen from its bodyparts can still create insects, and it leaks and can expel poisonous and diseased ichor from itself. His heart can drain life from anything that comes near if they don't have [Deathward]. The fingers from its arms can dislocate and even detach to attack independently, and sprout red strands of sinew from its claws which will target the brain of its victims. Most dangerous of all is the head, which can still cast freeform magic and hear the thoughts of people nearby.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

Even once it is definitively killed, his remains can create plagues and lesser monsters.<ref name=":3">{{VERef|The Roots (Pt. 5)}}</ref>

===Classes/Levels===

*[Apotheosis of Undeath, the Herald of the Breathless Age] Lv.56
**Class changed after alternate Az'kerash fused with the Titan

===Skills:===

* [Arise, Legions of the Damned]
* [Emergency Healing]
* [Graceful Dodge]
* [Hammer of the Heavens]
* [I Pierced the Walls in Hate]
*[Lightspeed Reactions]
*[Spew Minion]
*[Spoils of the Dead: Fit for My Hand]
*[The Blood Festers, and Rots]
*[The Walls of My Prison Broke]

===Spells:===

*[Bound Spell: The Dragonfly's Net]
*[Drain Life]
*[Ray of Annihilation]
*[Ray of Oblivion]
*[Smog of Toxins]
*[Swarm of the Locust King]
* Magical rune with visual trigger that causes bleeding
* Unknown spell that creates magical scythe

===Weaknesses ===
When two bodyparts meet to reassemble, they expose their cores to synchronize them, shielded only by the swarms of insects they created. They are even more vulnerable if the limbs are from two different Titans, as the two intelligences will attempt to subsume one another, leaving their cores exposed for longer.<ref name=":0" />

Every destroyed core reduces the dexterity and coordination the assembled body's limbs have.<ref name=":4" />

Despite its impressive regenerative abilities, a powerful enough attack can still leave its body in shock and prevent it from regenerating temporarily.<ref name=":4" />

He has poor eyesight after his eyes rotted away.<ref name=":4" />

==Trivia==

*"Mortemdefieir" translates to ''Death Defiler''.<ref name=":0" />
*It is implied that he leveled only twice during his twenty thousand-year imprisonment behind the First Doors.<ref name=":4">{{VERef|10.31 – Pt. 2}}</ref>
*Curiously, despite being a former Drake, he's never been described as having a tail.
*When merged with a version of Az'Kerash he was the 13th Herald of the Breathless Age.

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