Erek-Hus

First Lich, King of Terror
Ages ago, during the Dawn War, Io faced a terrible primordial called Erek-Hus, the King of Terror, on a blasted otherworldly continent half shattered from a century of conflict. With a primordial-wrought axe of adamantine the size of a mountain, the King of Terror split Io from head to tail, neatly cleaving the deity into two pieces and planting the seeds of life and death in the Middle Worlds. Faewild and Shadowfell were thus first drawn together with the Middle Worlds, and Erek Hus made aware of the power of death. Having mastered that power he transformed himself into the undying First Lich. At the end of the Dawn War he was banished by the gods to the mountain of Everlost which rose from the center of a great forgotten continent called Hatheg-Kla, in the Abyss, but he never forgot the Middle Worlds, the Faewild, and the Shadowfell. "'The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods. There is unknown magic on Hatheg-Kla, for the screams of the frightened gods have turned to laughter, and the slopes of ice shoot up endlessly into the black heavens whither I am plunging… Hei! Hei! At last! In the dim light I behold the gods of earth'""--Unknown"