Of Deneamus’s followers, there was one who stood out above the rest. The daughter of Raera and a mortal woman, this sorceress was the most powerful magician in all the known lands. In these times it was not entirely unheard of for gods to produce children with mortals, but that has since been banned by the elements. As with Mokuran and dragons, many illegitimate children were claimed to be half-gods.
Asaís’s abilities left no doubt as to her origin, she possessed a skill in magic only bested by the gods. In her service to Deneamus, Deneamus revealed to her how to become immortal. In return, she was to stay loyal to Denamus after ascension. The good gods (Eremore, Kivan, Kasde, and Volos) caught word of Asaís’s deal with Deneamus and protested to Vokra to prevent Asaís becoming a minor goddess. Vokra, still hurt by the loss of his wife to the last time the good gods were in power, denied their initial claims. The good gods then sent a strike force of three legendary mortals to stop and kill Asaís before she was able to complete the spells to travel to the immortals’ plane. The strike force defeated many of Denamus’ and Asaís’ minions and traveled far into the wastelands northeast of the Windsweep Mountains. Long before this quest this land was the burial ground of the millions killed at the end of the loss of innocence, but the adventurers nor any other mortal not a priest of the Keeper of the Dead knew that.
The adventurers reached a giant palace made of Anaran bone, it’s location now lost in time. Upon entering, they saw Asaís standing before a portal, the one she would pass through to complete her deification once it was sufficiently prepared. Asais was still marking runes on the bones comprising the frame, seeming to be halfway done. The adventurers rushed the palace, but a legion of undead sprang from the floor itself, hindering the crusaders. They had no trouble destroying them, but for each that was slain, another took it’s place. As the Crusaders of Good tarried, Asais finished the final preparations and cast the spells upon the portal of bone. Through it she stepped and stood before the four elements. They deemed that since she passed through a portal of bone and used undead to ensure her ascendency, she would be the minor goddess of undeath. With that she was whisked away to the plane of immortals with her new powers. She gave her legion of undead facing the crusaders significantly more power, and they soon overwhelmed the band of three. The adventurers were maimed and knocked unconscious. Asaís’s mortal disciples swarmed them and replaced their blood with a magical embalming fluid, killing them and immediately bringing them to undeath and serving Asaís directly. Asaís now had a tool with which to directly affect the world, and a legion of undead to back them.
Vokra allowed Asaís an unusual amount of power, for her minor god status, so incensed he was with the good gods’ attempt to directly disobey his orders. The good gods immediately shunned her, and convinced many Neutral gods to shun her as well, bringing to light her first act as goddess to enslave three noble warriors with the curse of undeath. Even Kerithen shunned her, his excuse being he needed to keep Lamerie on his good side, although many believe that Kerithen honestly was abhorred by the notion of undeath.
Asaís soon became Deneamus’s lover as she was dedicated to him before immortality and still loved him now that they were closer to equals. Deneamus still lusted for more power, despite Asaís’s contention. After what seemed a perfectly happy get-together, Asaís left the power hungry God of Shadow. She was consoled by the Keeper of the Dead, a somber and melancholy man. Asaís whispered into his ear that she really wanted godhood to meet the Keeper, and she wanted to cheer up the God of Death who kept with his thankless job.
The God of Death, confused by love that had never struck him before, went along with Asaís and soon fell in love with her too. Death and Undeath stayed together for quite a while. But Asaís’s love was actually a deception to give herself access to the realm of the dead. Behind the Keeper’s back, Deneamus was slowly converting the souls in the Land of the Dead while Asaís kept the Keeper at arm’s length. These souls were slowly becoming shades, twisted souls who would serve only Asaís and Deneamus. After some time, the gods’ reckoning of time being far different from our own, and they cared little for it’s passing as it didn’t mark anything for them, all the souls in the Land of the Dead had been converted to shades. The Keeper of the Dead felt a large pang as all of his charge suddenly disappeared from his land. He fought himself out of Asaís’s arms, and rushed to his land. Asais brought her three undead crusaders from the mortal plane to the land of the dead and they attacked the Keeper of the Dead with the army of shades behind their backs. Death was able to kill the crusaders and flee the hordes of his twisted followers, but was severely wounded in the fight. He fled back to his bedchambers where Asais was waiting. She kissed all his wounds then passionately kissed him on the cheeks. At the end of the kiss, the Keeper slumped over and died. Asaís screamed and dropped him, and Deneamus scooped up Death’s corpse, gaining for himself the dominion of Death.
Eremore inspected the powerless corpse upon the knowledge of the Keeper’s death. She found that poison had been applied onto the lipstick and it’s effects were enough to slay the wounded god. Asaís was quickly brought to trial before Vokra. Since no one’s fingerprints were on the Keeper’s death but Asaís’s, she was stripped of her immortality and domain and placed in a chest and dropped into the sea between Mesara and Ishinal.
