Rejoice! Rejoice, noble lords and ladies, meek citizenry and low-born peasants! Rejoice, one and all – Sumeros Summerking has returned! Archregents stand proudly atop their battlements, humble serfs dance merry jigs, and loyal subjects take up arms with fire in their hearts, for his radiance blankets the land once more.
Bow deep and low, for you are in the presence of Ushoran, the Mortarch of Delusion, the most august and revered monarch in all the Mortal Realms.
Ushoran is a being of most regal nature, known by many epithets. He is the Lord of Masques, the First Exemplar, Sumeros Summerking, the Sombre Paladin – he is Ushoran the Bold, finest blade of the Mortarchs.
Once the greatest and noblest champion of Nagash, Ushoran was brought low by some cruel twist of fate, transfigured into a swollen goliath afflicted with an unquenchable thirst. It took the combined might of the other Mortarchs to subdue their cursed comrade and return him to their master.
Nagash, in his beneficence, sequestered Ushoran within a mysterious temple named the Shroudcage – doubtless to heal his faithful servant. Yet vile rumours had already begun to spread that Ushoran’s sophistication and fair countenance had never been anything but a mere illusion, masking the visage of a blood-mad ghoul of unimaginable power.
Those lay eyes on Ushoran are welcomed by a most grand and dignified form. A fine crown of bone sits atop his brow, gifted by the Undying King and set with a glittering gem vitrified grave-sand. Upon his broad shoulders is draped an elegant cloak trimmed with finest ermine, decorated with a cornucopia of baubles and trinkets. In one hand, he holds the ornate sceptre of his office, and at his hip hangs the sanctified chalice from which flows crimson wine of great vitality and magic.
This fine pomp and storied history matters little to the barbaric Dawnbringers, who find themselves assailed by the forces of Death on two fronts in Dawnbringers Book IV – The Mad King Rises. In Aqshy, the crusade runs afoul of Lauka Vai’s Vengorian Courts, and in Ghyran it marches deep into Ushoran’s domain of New Summercourt.
A slave to valiance and propriety, Ushoran extends hospitality to all who enter his kingdom, imploring guests to participate in extravagant feasts. Trauma has not impinged his sense of gallantry and virtue, but the limits of his magnanimity are being tested – which may spell disaster for the Twin-Tailed Crusade…
The Mad King Rises is the next chapter of Dawnbringers, bringing exciting plot developments, rules for every Death faction, and the return of Triumph and Treachery, a battlepack in which multiple players vie for success.
Ushoran has not arrived without the appropriate pomp and pageantry – he is trailed by a magnificent entourage befitting one of such redoubtable standing. Click through to the preview hub to meet the rest of the splendid Flesh-eater Courts.
