Drachenfels, Constant: Constant Drachenfels, the Great Enchanter. It can be presumed that both his names are either affectations or creations, since, according to his final thoughts in the novel of the same name, the Enchanter has been alive for fifteen thousand years. According to passages within Drachenfels, the Enchanter survived by swapping bodies and amalgamating new flesh into his own corpus. The Great Enchanter always wore an iron mask which concealed his mismatched features, taken from various of his victims over the millenia.
Drachenfels was first defeated by Sigmar Heldenhammer at some unspecified date. Nonetheless, he returned and in 1851 (Empire Year) sacked the Bretonnian city of Parravon and slew the father of Genevieve Dieudonne, amongst others.
In 1937 (Empire Year), Drachenfels approached the court of Emperor Carolus, claiming to repent his evil deeds and inviting the Emperor and his Electors to a great feast as his first gesture of repentance. The Great Enchanter betrayed their trust, of course, and trapped them as living statues at the banquet table and tortured their families to death before them whilst they starved to death. This became known as the Poison Feast.
In 2477 Oswald von Konigswald, eldest son of the Elector Count of Ostland, gathered a small band of adventurers and assaulted the Great Enchanter's fortress, Castle Drachenfels and allegedly slew him. 25 years later, Oswald assembled the survivors (bounty hunter Anton Veidt, former Bandit King Rudi Wegener, the dwarf Menesh and Genevieve Dieudonne) for a play based on their adventure, during which Drachenfels returned and was finally put to rest before he could complete the renewal of his body by the playwright, Detlef Sierck and Genevieve.
Source: Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil
Submitter: Simguinus
Hive World Terra