- Character description(src)
Corvik was a nephalem. Silent, and originally pale-skinned, she was an accomplished huntress, her knives easily able to take down her prey, and had the greatest skill in stalking unseen when compared to her peers. Due to her madness, her skin turned a mottled red.[1]
Biography
The Hunt
In the early days of Sanctuary, during the time of the Firstborn, Corvik rode in the company of Bersarik, Helgrotha, and Gratian. No animal could escape them, and the four were as close as blood-kin. While their prey met death, neither they nor any other nephalem had died in these early days. They dwelt in a golden city on Sanctuarys western continent.
On what would be their final hunt, Bersarik led them on a hunt to slay aurochs. After three days of preparation, they left the golden city in which they dwelt, and travelled into the lands of the north. Whilst in the mountains, they were attacked by flying creatures similar to Blood Hawks. The creatures were slain, and they continued their journey. Reaching the steppes, they tracked the aurochs' trail. They tracked the herd for five days before coming across them. They planned to separate one from the herd.
The plan worked, initially, and they cornered their prey, but they were attacked by Ahduma, the aurochs' queen. She slew Gratian, and got the aurochs to safety. Corvik and the others were shocked, for in these early days, death was an alien concept to the nephalem. After standing in silence, they realized that they were no different from the beasts that populated Sanctuary, that they too, could be slain. As the moon rose, Helgrotha declared that she would go to the place where death could not find her. Corvik doubted that death could be so evaded, for as she looked at Gratian's corpse, she believed that they all carried death somewhere within them. However, she kept these thoughts to herself, and accepted Helgrotha's parting embrace.
A short time later, Bersarik declared that he would hold their makers to account for making them mortal. Telling him that angels and demons were more powerful than Ahduma, Corvik took out her knives, and reached into Gratian with her fingers and blades. She searched for the secret place where he had carried his death with him, but could not fid it. Defeated, she instead fashioned his splayed bones and cords into a sword which she named Severian. She entrusted it to Bersarik. Bersarik thanked her, and asked what she would do after they parted. She responded "there are questions I would put to death. But first, I must find the camp of our hunter." Bersarik did not know what she meant by that, but neither did she want him to. Looking at Corvik, stained in Gratian's blood, Bersarik suspected that she had already traveled some distance down a very different road from he. Regardless, they bid their farewells.[1]
Death
"It is the only power that matters. It is the power I have sought and worshipped these many years. It is the power I will master, and then I will rule over even those who made us."
- Kalmor and Corvik(src)
Years passed, and Corvik built herself a temple near a village, where she abducted numerous nephalem and carved them up, seeking mastery over death, and in so doing, power over her creators. The causeway to the temple was decorated with the skulls of nephalem and animals alike, and the land itself sickened. Kalmor, upon confronting her and her actions, suggested that she did not commit such acts to master death. Rather, she did them to master her fear of death. And now that death had come for her, perhaps she was afraid.
Whatever the truth of the matter, Corvik attacked Kalmor. During the fight, Kalmor told her that he'd slain Bersarik, and she asked what had become of Severian. He explained that the blade he was wielding had been Severian. That it been remade. Looking closely at the sword, and recognizing its linneage, Corvik lowered her knives and asked, "Gratian?" It was the opening that sealed her death, as Kalmor swung the blade, nearly cutting Corvik in two. She lay there, and as tears washed some of the dark stain from her eyes, she whispered her last words...
"I am afraid."[1]
Legacy
Kalmor, feeling no pity for her, dragged her body out into the open, leaving it for carrion eaters. No-one knew exactly what had happened, but the pass where Corvik's temple was located remained a haunted place for generations after, avoided by all save the foolish and those drawn to evil.[1]