Editing Salem

Salem is a problematic character - a villain from the early days of the [[Companions of the Rising Sun]]'s adventuring career, who kept turning up, with an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. As a [[Apparitions to Zombies#Lich Spawn|lich-spawn]], he also implies a much greater threat - that of his master and creator, theorized by the Companions to be no less than [[Shinn the Sorcerer]]. He is furthermore himself a [[sorcerer]] of no small power, specializing in the dark arts.

[[The Curse of Salem|After]] [[The Return of Salem|several]] [[Return of the Return of Salem|encounters]] with him, the Companions believed him vanquished forever when they captured his phylactery and delivered it to the [[Hunters of the Dead|Order of the Light of ORB]] for safekeeping in [[the Zoo]]. There, he was used for study and training purposes, systematically being destroyed and regenerating. 

However, the Companion's belief turns out to have been premature, as, when [[Glory Exultation|the return]] of the [[Holy Temple]] disturbed the wards locking the undead in the Zoo, [[Return of the Return of the Return of Salem|Salem was one of the leaders of the break for freedom]], accompanied by some potent allies. He himself had grown in power, wielding much more potent spells and strategies, and sporting as well a bodak's eye grafted in place of his own, which came complete with death gaze.

After a long fight in the tunnels of [[Mt. Daneasus]], he was again vanquished and his phylactery recovered, this time destined to be destroyed.

[[Category: Villains]]
[[Category: Undead People]]
[[Category: Dead People]]