Editing Darklord (section)

===Abdul the Damned===
Darklord of Aljaugasba. Long ago on a far away world, a peasant boy was born in the great city-state of Aljaugasba. Abdul Iben Azed had one thing going for him: from an early age, it was evidenced that he was a powerful [[psion]], with mighty telepathic abilities. So the city's ruler, Sultan Amuraba, bought Abdul from his parents, had him gelded, and forced him to become a eunuch advisor, sworn by tradition to forsake all aspects of a normal life and instead devote himself to serving the sultan and the people of his city-state.

If taking a powerful [[psion]], gelding him, then commanding him to be your slave-advisor sounds like a recipe for disaster, then congratulations; you're smarter than Sultan Amuraba.

Abdul was trained in the most prestigious academies, and became one of the greatest diplomats and advisors that Aljaugasba had ever seen. Unfortuantely, the vizier's experiences led him inevitably to corruption. Unable to pursue normal vices, he instead embraced the only vice that he could - power - whilst coming to resent and envy the normal people around him. Consumed by bitterness and megalomania, Abdul broke his sacred oaths and crushed Sultan Amuraba's mind to his own whims, creating the brutally enforced morality code that lives on in Aljaugasba to this day as "Amuraba's Code". Vicariously attacking those who dared to enjoy such pleasures, Abdul strangled the flow of commerce, breeding panic and resentment amongst the nobles of Aljaugasba - eventually provoking the most corrupt of them to follow the Sultan's debauhed and depraved son, Prince Iben Amar, in a plan to assassinate his father.

In a masterful combination of planning and luck, the Prince struck when Abdul's powers were exhausted after a day of having controlled the Sultan. With a knife at his throat, Abdul immediately turned on and killed his former master, reckoning he could simply control the son in turn, only to inadvertently set himself up to take the blame as the true traitor. Before Abdul could reveal the Prince's complicity in his father's death, Iben Amar struck off the vizier's head, and unwittingly promoted him to the role of Darklord.

Abdul now exists as a psionic [[ghost]], his life essence bound within a heart-shaped ruby that adorns the sultan's scepter. Now only able to use his powers on foreign-born targets, Abdul can only watch and weep as Aljaugasba gleefully embraces the same decadent pleasures that he tried so hard to stamp out, an impotent shade who can do nothing. Worse, he is compelled to protect his slayer to preserve his own existence, for if the ruby is shattered, then Abdul the Damned will finally perish.

When Abdul wishes to close his domain's borders, blinding storms encircle both the land and the sea, transporting any who try to flee back into the domain's interior.