Lord Vendrick and his brother, Lord Aldia, lead warriors to vainquish the Four Great Ones and found Drangleic over their graves. The curse eventually started affecting the people of Drangleic. While Vendrick started researching souls, thinking those were the solution, Aldia took another path and started researching the First Sin done by the Lord of Light many years ago.
Aldia learned of the dragons and how they used to rule the land. Thinking the dragons needed to come back to break the curse, he started experimenting on citizens to uncover the secrets of life itself. Following his experiments, malformed beasts started roaming the halls of his manor. His last experiment on humans enabled him to create the Forlorn, beings who lost their corporeal form.
Meanwhile, Vendrick was visited by a very beautiful woman, Nashandra. She warned him of the threat that were the Giants and counseled him to cross the seas to defeat them and claim their powerful souls for his own. Interested at the idea of collecting powerful souls for his research, Vendrick went ahead with the plan. He made Nashandra his queen and they crossed the seas to wage war against the Giants. Vendrick brought back some Giants and gave some to his brother, Aldia, so he could help research their souls. He soon found how to create Golems with the power he found. To show his love for his queen, Vendrick had the Golems build a castle where she wanted. Knowing where the Throne of Want that she coveted was, she made Vendrick build the castle over it.
When the dust settled, Vendrick learned of the experiments his brother had been doing on his subjects while he was gone. Not at all agreeing with this method, Vendrick decided to condemn Aldia to his manor. With no more subjects to experiment on, Aldia decided to use the Giants his brother had given him. Thinking he could recreate a dragon with their powerful souls, he tried, but failed. In the process, he transformed into a giant charred head and that was the last the outside world heard of him.
When Nashandra told Vendrick that with fire a true king could harness the curse, Vendrick tried to feed the Flame with small souls to try to stop the curse. Others around could see his countenance growing darker with each passing day. The Giants soon landed on the norther shores and set siege to the castle to claim back the invaluable prize he had stolen from them. Knowing he was running out of time, Vendrick left the war to go to the Throne of Want to use his great soul and hopefully stop the curse. He was followed by his queen and learned of her true nature. She was a fragment of Dark, craving souls. After learning of how he had founded his kingdom, she came to him to get him to defeat the Giants so she could claim their strenght as her own. But upon learning of his mission, she decided the First Flame and his Great Soul were far better prizes to covet.
Fearing what she would do if she claimed the Great Soul and the First Flame, Vendrick quickly fled through the King’s Passage to shut himself away in the Undead Crypt. He knew the Looking Glass Knight, who stood in the King’s Passage challenging warrios that wanted to prove themselves, would prevent anybody from following him. Velstadt, being the loyal knight that he was, followed the King and placed himself at the entrence of Vendrick’s tomb to defend it. Over time, Vendrick, circling his crypt, always on the fence, slowly started being reduced to a mere shell of what he once was.
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