Countless lifetimes ago, there was a land named Everoc where a fortress named Syrupleaf firmly planted its roots in the glacial ice. Its denizens were dwarves, Armok’s most sturdy creation. They were strong beyond compare, relentless in their alcoholism, and short enough to squeeze through the cracks of the mountain.
However, the demon Holistic Detective, once a dwarf herself, was spiteful of the species she used to be a member of. Once a denizen of the dwarven fortress Headshoots, she was corrupted by demonic influence and became a twisted monster, slaughtering her people and turning stone to ash. Accounts vary as to her appearance, but she is most often described as a skeletal dwarf with rotting flesh clinging to her bones and eyes whose irises and pupils are replaced with burning black holes.
Now, not quite a demon and not quite a dwarf, Holistic Detective raised an army of creatures whose sole purpose was to devour the creatures that Holistic herself once was. She swept them across the land and they destroyed all that happened to fall in their path, but they were stopped at Syrupleaf.
Armok by now was intrigued with the creatures the former dwarf with godlike powers created. Armok was the creator of creators, god of gods. Dwarves worshiped gods and gods worshiped Armok. When Armok grew bored of worlds, he smashed them then built anew, but never before had he seen such as Holistic Detective. The Spawn of Holistic seemed unstoppable, but were halted momentarily at Syrupleaf. Slowly Syrupleaf did crumble, and Holistic claimed victory. Life was exterminated. Armok was intrigued.
Then the half-dwarf challenged the demons, making alliances that would eventually lead to victory and doom through deceit. Armok watched her rise to the ruler of the world and her failure at the very end. Obsidian encased Everoc as a result of the battles and left Holistic’s treacherous vanquisher alone on a lifeless planet for all eternity.
Armok was not satisfied with this result however, and gathered up the pieces of Holistic Detective and brought her back to life, transforming her from a skeletal embodiment of corruption to the dwarf of incomparable beauty she had once been.
Armok gave her a choice, to cease to exist as he once more reforged the world, or to create at his side as he made a new world. Armok lusted for the fresh, bloody battles that her spawn had given him and wanted more.
Holistic Detective agreed and provided spawn in worlds after, adding features that she couldn’t previously with new power granted by Armok. Sometimes the dwarves would win, sometimes the Spawn, but the dwarves soon became the clear victor.
Eventually Armok started to grow bored with her as well, putting less and less effort into each new world, until he finally got sick of Holistic. He struck her with a curse to slowly turn her back into the demon that she was before, saying that if she couldn’t provide him with excitement once more, she would perish with the world in her old, skeletal form.
So Holistic, faced with destruction, made the spawn once more, adding contagions to their bite and other horrors to the world. She accepted the challenge, determined once more to win.
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