The Dread Army of Ixhasa

The oldest of the empires is now the greatest threat to the other eight.

History
When the world was new, Old Ixhasa rose, a solitary jewel of civilization in an untamed wilderness. Unmatched was Ixhasa in all endeavors and fields of study: art, medicine, magic. There was but one frontier they had not conquered: death.

In his hubris, Ulix, the so-called Eternal Emperor, built his Great Pyramid atop a Nexus—a place where three ley lines intersect—and tapped the power therein to bring eternal life to Ixhasa. But the Nexus festered and erupted, geysering negative energy up through the Great Pyramid and liquefying the land about it. The Great Pyramid—and the heart of Ixhasa—sank beneath the waves of a new ocean. Ixhasa—or at least that incarnation of it—was no more.

But Ulix had, in a way, succeeded in his quest to conquer death. The negative energy hemorrhaging from the wounded Nexus permeated the population that had sunk with the pyramid. Thousands of years later, the Ixhasans awoke anew as the Dread Army, the Empire of the Dead. When they took their first steps ashore, they found their empire gone, overtaken by squatters and invaders, pretenders all. Enraged and possessed of the unending endurance and might of the dead, Ulix commanded his army to retake their conquered lands.

The inclusion of the Ixshasa in the Council of the Nine Empires to discuss sending a group to search the Omniverse for the Fruit of Life started as a courtesy only. The other empires assumed the dead would care little about the death of the lands of Countermay and that they might even oppose the search for a cure to the decline of food availability and drinkable water. Strangely, the Ixshasa supported the quest and have even offered to send a delegate to aid in the search for the fruit for reasons unknown to any but the undead themselves.

Colors
BONE WHITE and ICE BLUE

Faction Composition
They are all undead from an ancient empire. They are mummies, rather than zombies, and their decay is usually symmetrical. They are intelligent, organized undead, proving that not only do they not look like zombies, but they don't act like them, either. Rarely, a person from another empire will be chosen to join the ranks of the undead. The reasons for this choice are often political, but not always clear. The methods of creating the undying are unknown to all but the Ixshasa, but despite the victim retaining all memories and skills of their former life, the converted always forsake all vows from their lives in service of Ixshasa.

Being undead, the Ixhasans didn't need to eat. In the most recent war, Ixhasan soldiers burned fields and blighted crops as they stormed Countermay to starve out the living inhabitants.

Notable Players
This is the Legacy's faction.

Fictions

 * The Gift and Truth