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[[File:Acererak S1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Acererak's remains as shown in module S1.]] '''Acererak''' is the typically-unpronounceable name [[E. Gary Gygax]] bestowed upon THE [[Lich|LICH]] (no, not [[Vecna|that]] one) in [[S1: Tomb of Horrors]], technically a demilich in that module. He's called "The Devourer" after his self-portrait in that module. *erRRp* [[Bruce R. Cordell]] two decades later, in ''Return to the Tomb of Horrors'', laid out the backstory (with Gary's blessing): Acererak, the [[cambion]] son of one Tarnhem, a balor [[tanar'ri]] (''sic'': ''Return'' is 2e), and a human woman he'd raped, lived a long life doing dark arts. Somewhere in the multiverse ([[retcon]]ed as part of the [[Ethereal Plane]]), the man found Moil "The City That Waits" - which no less a horror than [[Orcus]] had ripped off the planet Ranais - now floating in its very own demiplane, gravitationally "above" the Negative Material. Later Acererak, nearing death himself, chose to become a lich. He set up his own tomb, in that swamp which (later) separates the [[Scarlet Brotherhood]] and more civilised folk. This tomb is, in the remake, Acererak's gateway to Moil. As a lich, Ace rediscovered Moil still floating around the multiverse, so he went there and recruited the local [[undead|deadites]] to build his new, ''real'' tomb of horrors: the Fortress of Conclusion. During the 2e adventure, the party learns Ace is going for an Apotheosis - to pick up where Orcus left off. (Again: 2e. But ''late'' 2e. Orcus is here going by "Tenebrous"; he's handled [[Dead Gods|in inferior work]].) This act would merge Ace's consciousness with the negative energy plane and thereby ''become'' the negative energy plane. Yes, that dimension/plane which is the source and power for all undead. Let this sink in: he'd control ''all undead across the multiverse''. As an aside you'd think that might annoy all the other factions involved in undead; not least Ace's former mentor/bestie [[Vecna]], who is concurrently [[Die Vecna Die|plotting his own route to godhood]] although, good Lord, not nearly as ambitious. (Maybe he can blow off Not-Orcus-In-This-Edition.) Want an alternative to the ending we got? Refigure that conclusion to GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF THE FORTRESS OF CONCLUSION so that the party cleric can commune with... ''anybody''. Saint Cuthbert's dog if s/he has to. Meanwhile Ace has filled the Fortress ''and'' Moil with traps partly because he's a dick like that; also because the higher levels adventurers attain, the more potent are their souls to fuel his Apotheosis. Here the heroes get to foil Acererak's plan - in fact, even to destroy his phylactery. To much rejoicing by literally everybody else ever. But, wait for it . . . In the third of 3.5's ''[[Tome of Magic]]'' that's actually good, Acererak returns as a [[Vestige]] for the [[Binder]] class. Somehow the Devourer shows up alive, or undead?, again as the [[BBEG]] of [[Tomb of Annihilation]]. His new plan is to create a god he can control instead of becoming one himself using a "soulmonger" to suck up the souls of the dead all over the world and also slowly kill those who previously died and came back and use those souls to supercharge an [[Atropal|aborted god fetus]] into a full god. *deep breath* In this adventure Acererak is depicted as a lich instead of a demilich. {{Template:Spoilers}} So according to the ''[[Doomed Forgotten Realms]]'' supplement, the whole thing with the Tomb of Annihilation was an elaborate ploy to clear the way for [[Vecna]] to manifest in the Forgotten Realms mostly unopposed. Acererak's lich body was a disposable clone of sorts made by Vecna to allow the elder lich purchase in Toril without alerting many of the big-name do-gooders on the planet. ==Gallery== <gallery> Acererak vecna comic.jpg|Before starting on the path to lichdom. Acererak open grave.png Acererak ToA.jpg|From the cover of ''Tomb of Annihilation'' Acererak 5e.jpg Acererak Atropal 5e.jpg|Him with his previously mentioned aborted god fetus. </gallery> [[Category:Roleplaying]] [[Category:Undead]] [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]
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