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Kings bounty the legend companions1/30/2024 By 862 AE, the Kournan army had been reduced to a struggling rebellion, an alliance of fugitives led by a single renegade warmarshal: Turai Ossa. He proclaimed himself the nation's sovereign, beginning an era of tyranny and oppression. Over many months, Joko drove back the armies of Elona, growing stronger with each victory. A unified Elona might have stopped him there, but the princes of Vabbi hid, and the Istani Sunspears proved too few and too divided to halt the lich's relentless assault. With Vabbi under his control, Joko began a ruthless and systematic conquest of the rest of the nation, piece by piece. His victories and eventual subjugation of the province earned him the sobriquet Scourge of Vabbi. With lightning-fast raids, Joko captured wealthy estates, driving his enemies before him. He cautiously infiltrated the unsuspecting province through the Vehjin Mines and caught Vabbian defenders by surprise. Intent on conquering Vabbi and using its riches to make himself even more powerful, Joko began the next stage of his campaign. Joko later reanimated Sahlahjar as his court jester, forcing the former king to serve him forever in death. Shortly after the deal, however, Sahlahjar's citadel was overrun by the Awakened who killed everyone, including the king. When the new king was suddenly forced to lead a kingdom and face Joko's impending assault, the inexperienced Sahlahjar gave into his fears and cut a deal with the lich: in exchange for serving Joko, he asked his people to be spared. The king of Sahlahja resisted Joko's advance for years until he died and was succeeded by his son, Prince Sahlahjar. In 860 AE, Joko commanded hordes of Awakened followers raised from ancient tombs and made his move to expand his territory. The rivalry between the two now undead tyrants continued. Some time after Thorn's death circa 825 AE, Joko discovered much to his disappointment that Thorn lingered on as a spirit lord in the Mad Realm and that death had not changed the Mad King's horrid personality-or his puns-to be any more bearable. In these early years, Joko feuded with Mad King Thorn of Kryta, with some squabbles nearly escalating into a full-scale war. Whether Joko ever approached the djinn, who would only grant a wish once every hundred years, and what he may have asked for if he did, remains unknown. However, scriptures found in at least one of the coffers turned out to be instructions to find a powerful wish-granting djinn in the Forum Highlands. At some point he had seemingly discovered forbidden scriptures of the fallen god Abaddon and eventually sealed them in coffers which were hidden deep within the Vehjin Mines. The earliest known mention of Joko with a date is in 757 AE, when he constructed the Bone Palace in the Desolation, a sulfurous wasteland where only demons and the undead could survive, although he had discovered a way for the living to enter this area unscathed. This path would eventually lead him into becoming a lich. Joko eventually left to pursue the path of the necromancer elsewhere, believing that his teacher had nothing left to offer him. Enraged at Zuri challenging him for the premiere place by their teacher's side and for daring to question his skills, Joko resorted to stabbing Zuri in the back, killing him. According to The Diary of Palawa Ignacious Joko, the 17-year-old Joko viewed his fellow necromancer student Zuri as his first true rival. Joko eventually began studying necromancy. The young Thorn challenged Joko to a pun contest much to the latter's horror, and the pranks escalated into a clash between the two youths, the first battle to take place between the future lich king and Mad King. Viewing the young Thorn ripping wings off of flies as amateurish for not utilizing torture to its fullest extent, Joko secretly taught the prince what creatures would survive torture and be of use afterwards, with the wording suggesting that Thorn should direct his sadism towards his servants instead. In his youth, he accompanied his mother on her diplomatic tours and visited Kryta where, while suffering from boredom, he met with young Prince Oswald Thorn who was already showing signs of violence. Joko written by young "Iggy", however, Joko appears to have been the son of an Elonian diplomat (with the province of origin unknown) in the eighth century AE. Mad King Thorn's Lunatic Courtiers, however, suggest offhand that Palawa Joko and King Thorn knew each other in life.Īccording to the Private Property of P.I. Joko himself has presented various contradictory arguments on his origins, claiming to be the last of the Primeval Kings as well as having lived so long ago that the fig leaf was in style. The past of Palawa Ignacious Joko remains elusive regarding his life before becoming undead and during his early years as a lich.
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