Reverend Doom

Biography

Doom was an orphan. His parents died in a plague that went through when he was small and, to care for him, the town council apprenticed him to the local gravedigger. For years he served, learning the ins and outs of the physical and spiritual side of dealing with death. He learned about his god, the patron of death, from the gravedigger. But the gravedigger’s worship always seemed a bit hollow, a little too rote. One night Doom picked up the sacred text the gravedigger kept on the small shrine in their shared chambers and read it. He became shocked and dismayed at the disparity between the soft platitudes his guardian parroted and the dire truths uncovered in his god’s scriptures. That night the gravedigger, his home, and Doom’s entire life burned to the ground as he set off to become the god of death’s most faithful servant ever.