Hector the Wretched

Hector the Wretched was a necromancer and minor historical figure in the Kingdom of Stromgarde, where he split from the Tower of Arathor's mage order in the pursuit greater temporal power and raided the Barrow Plains to create an army of the dead, with which he waged the brief-lived Skirmish of Dead Heroes. Seen in some circles as a remarkably Khel'thuzad-esque figure, he was nonetheless largely incompetent as a sorceror and was swiftly defeated by the Legion in 187KY, though his name resurfaced as one of the numerous accounts that prompted the Kirin Tor and the Tower of Arathor alike to ban the study and practice of Necromancy in their halls. By all accounts, he was unable or unwilling to embrace undeath himself, and died completely when his head was struck from his shoulders for the crime of making the dead walk, which conveyed on him full outlawry under the old laws of the Arathi Highlands.

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OOC Notes

 * While the Scourge were the first major rise of the dead, there is no evidence or reason to believe that there was no experience with other undead risings throughout the history of Azeroth. With the practice of necromantic magic known as far back as the War of the Ancients by demons and the Troll Wars by human sorcerors,