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Sometimes [[Zek]] would drink from his chalice, consuming souls to amuse himself, but most souls in the chalice were sent back to the world as undead. Conjured by evil necromancers, these poor creatures were forced to live as slaves until they died again and were returned to the chalice - where they suffered renewed torment. These souls were reborn countless times, never resting, always in anguish.
[[Vol]] hated his brother and vowed to destroy him and free the souls trapped in his chalice. But despite [[Vol]]'s power, he could never stop his brother. For countless centuries they battled, but it was only during the [[God War]] that he managed to gain the upper hand.
[[Vol]] and [[Dreva]] fought side by side against [[Zek]], finally overpowering him. In a moment of triumph, [[Vol]] took [[Zek]]'s chalice and dumped it out, pouring countless tortured souls into the aether. "Your reign is over, [[Zek]]. I will take your stolen souls back to the sea. Surrender to me. Surrender to death."
But [[Zek]] was a cunning god and he knew how the battle would play out. He had reserved his mightiest avatar and his most powerful scions, and he brought them into the battle. For a brief moment they fought against death itself, and of course they were quickly destroyed. But the moment of distraction gave [[Zek]] time to reclaim the chalice.
[[Zek]] poured into the now-empty chalice a piece of his own power: the power to capture souls and bring forth the undead. And then he hurled the chalice into his hidden dimension, known as [[Acur]], the dark dimension of Angst, which most gods could not perceive. For even though [[Zek]] was a selfish god who was terrified of his own demise, he refused to give his brother the satisfaction of removing undeath from the world. Another god would come.
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