Plagueheart

Apollyon Plagueheart
A necromancer of the Cult of the Damned, Plagueheart is chiefly known for his influential leadership of the sect of the cult mostly situated outside of Stormwind. For brief periods of Stormwind history, he was the most sought after and wanted criminal of his time.

He inspired many of his contemporaries to follow down his path of worship - and, after his initially death and fall, especially in creating splinter sects of the Cult

Plagueheart played an instrumental role in the attacks on Sentinel Hill, Darkshire, and Lakeshire - which were assaulted by hordes of undead gathered from nearby graveyards.

Background
Plagueheart, once known as Epion, was born on a farm to two parents just outside Northdale, which lay in the northernmost reaches of Lordaeron. However, his father died shortly thereafter from an illness. His mother was devastated, but endured. She had to hire help, though, to continue the farm. When Epion grew up, he began to help out at the farm, and so knew the meaning of hard work: every morning, he would rise with the servants to tend the animals and grow the crops, from sunrise to sunset.

And when he neared his coming of age — and, with his father gone, would eventually have to choose someone else to apprentice underneath — hard times struck their little farm.

Prices on crops increased and, now, his mother needed him at home to help. Or else they would lose everything. But Epion’s continued presence on the farm did little to stop the inevitable – they lost the farm, unable to justify staying on it.

At first, they tried to not give up hope, even going as far as to move into another’s home in town, but even then his mother grew tired of the Crown’s lethargic apathy towards their plight, and became ever angry.

An oddly dressed preacher visited their town one day with an astounding proclamation of a new religion — one that offered an ideal society, away from the travail; but, most importantly, immortality. His mother was taken in by the preacher’s charisma and his astonishing promises, and — so — she willingly joined his congregation.

It wasn’t until Epion’s mother was entrenched in this preacher’s new religion that she realized that it wasn’t at all as it first appeared: they were planning terrible, terrible things. Treacherous things, even. They intended to hurt people to bring their vision to its realization.

His mother wanted out — she tried to escape, and so fled to the town hall, where she attempted to expose the preacher’s insidious plans to the mayor and the town council. But even they were under the sway of the preacher, Kel’thuzad.

In the dead of night, when his mother was packing to flee town… she was murdered by a close family friend, Diodor, whom had helped run the farm for some time. Their son, Epion, and his other siblings were asleep upstairs — unaware that their mother’s body was bleeding out onto the hearth, and that a friend had done it…

Awaking the youthful Epion at noon day, Diodor lamented of his mother’s assassination, explaining further that it was by the Crown’s hand that this had been done. Infuriated greatly by this, and being goaded still further by Diodor, Epion then willingly accepted the family friend’s offer and joined the Cult of the Damned. From then on, Epion — who would later be christened Plagueheart — followed the congregation that his mother once did.

Current Whereabouts
Plagueheart's current whereabouts are unknown; however he was last seen by the Argent Crusade in Eastern Plaguelands, leading a group of cultists and Scourge from the Plaguewood.