Editing Darklord (section)

===Commander Hernando Mouriros===
Darklord of Mictlan. Born into poverty, Hernando Mouriros was the son of a simple laborer; a brutal drunkard who savagely beat his wife and children. Hernando's mother died birthing Hernando's younger sister when he was ten, and six months later, his father took another wife, which pushed the embittered youth over the edge. Only the city guard's intervention kept Hernando from being beaten to death by his father, and he repaid their mercy by throwing himself into their ranks.

Despite his background, Hernando's rise was meteoric, and he soon graduated from the city guard to the Imperial Army, and from there worked his way up the ranks to captain. When the Holy Empire launched its great crusade, Hernando flung himself into the slaughter, eager to showcase his loyalty and win wealth and power for himself. He became renowned for his uncompromising nature, devious tactics, draconian authority over his men, and utter lack of mercy towards the "pagans" he battled.

After ten years of crusading, he was called back to the Empire and charged with leading the first expedition to conquer the newly discovered jungle realms beyond the Sierra Acora mountains. Hernando was honored - and the discovery of the distinctly [[Aztec]]-like native cultures, with their bloody [[theocracy]], only fueled his desire to succeed. When the first natives they met offered them peaceful greetings and a tribute of gold and gems, Hernando took the offerings and then launched an attack anyway, slaughtering the natives down to the last child - the act that finally earned him his position as Darklord.

The curse of Hernando Mouriros is similar to Vlad Drakov's: he yearns to conquer Mictlan and bring it to heel, but he is handicapped from doing so. Not only are his forces outnumbered and demoralized, but the agonizing immortality that allows them to defeat superior numbers carries its own curse; one soldier randomly dies permanently whenever Mouriros' forces conquer a city, and so their numbers shrink as he gains closer to achieving his goal. Whilst he doesn't lose his own forces if an allied force of natives conquers a city, the natives have no real respect for Hernando and constantly betray him for no reason he can determine. His own self-discipline and authoritarian control, once his greatest strengths, have become crippling weaknesses; he can't adapt to the ever-shifting chaos of life in Mictlan. The random nightmares he has of being a hapless child at his brutish father's nonexistent mercy merely adds insult to injury.

A rarity amongst Darklords, Hernando ''isn't'' protected from death, unlike his men. But, if he were to be killed, then his body would burst into enchanted, inextinguishable flames that would ignite anything they touch (although these secondary fires could be extingiuished normally). It's unclear how long Hernando's corpse would burn for, but the wildfires it would cause would almost certainly lay waste to vast swaths of Mictlan in the process.

If Hernando dies, the most likely candidate to replace him as Darklord is the cruel, unhinged high priest of [[Huitzilopochtli]], Cuxi Yapanaque.