Editing Darklord (section)

===Dr. Dorothy Hemphyll===
Darklord of Immerabt. This female human alchemist could in many ways be considered a mirror to Dr. Mordenheim of Lamordia. Like him, she was born a scientific prodigy who had neither time nor patience for religions and matters of faith. When she was twelve, Dorothy's mother died in childbirth giving birth to a son, something Dorothy blamed upon both the local priest - for he had both refused to allow Dorothy to be present at the birth, despite her knowledge of herbs and medicines, for her lack of faith, and proven unable to save Lady Hemphyll's life with his limited divine magic - and her father, for he had listened to the priest.

This became the cornerstone of Dorothy's growing loathing for religion, something that grew ever stronger as she aged. She went abroad to study medical sciencies, [[transmuter|transmutation magic]] and [[alchemist|philosophical alchemy]], always seeking to refine her medical skills. She also visited the dark, seedy corners of society: brothels, dog-fighting arenas, drug-fueled parties and other such realms that further convinced her of the absence of divine intervention.

The kicker was when she met and fell in love with another medical student of noble ancestry; Hermann Leawly. Despite her feelings, she refused to marry him, for that would require submitting to a religious ceremony she wanted nothing to do with. But he bent under the pressure from his traditional family and returned to their home, something that enraged Dorothy, who now derided him as a weakling.

After a long, bloody war, a terrible plague gripped her homeland, and Dorothy came up with an idea for a new method to care for the terminally ill. She purchased an abandoned penitentiary on a small rocky island and converted it into a sickbay, hiring the best healers she could find (so long as they weren't divine spellcasters). One of those she hired was Hermann. She became ever-more obsessive, pushing her followers brutally, and gaining the first attention of the [[Dark Powers]]. When she perfected her prototype life support mechanisms and began abducting the terminally ill from her hospice to install them in the devices, trapping them at the brink of life and death in a state of constant, unrelenting pain, they grew anticipatory. But it wasn't until she got drunk at a party celebrating her newly produced plague vaccine, and revealed to Hermann her monstrous experiments, injecting him with concentrated plague serum and deliberately waiting for him to reach the still-incurable terminal stage of the disease before strapping him into one of her hideous living death machines that they seized her and transformed goal island into Immerabt.

Dorothy's curse is three-fold, and could be a considered a blend of Mordenheim's and Azalin's. Though she is well-aware of the fact that the local industries of Immerabt are poisoning the population, her attempts to plan and execute social projects to counter the pollution invariably fail due to being rejected or ignored. Secondly, she is kept so busy working her daily job that she cannot devote the time to furthering her understandings of magic and alchemy, preventing her from attaining the greater power she needs to pursue her goal of the ultimate curatives. Finally, she is unable to invent a vaccine to cure those suffering from the terminal effects of the plague, which means she cannot cure Hermann, who remains bound and suffering in his life-support in the depths of her sanitarium.

Unlike many darklords, Dorothy has no inherent abilities that make her unkillable, although her disease-bearing touch and biomechanical golem guards make her a force to be reckoned with in combat. She can regenerate, but she's vulnerable to fire.

If she wishes to close the borders of Immerabt, violent storms with strong winds and heavy rain surround the archipelago, whilst the waters boil with mutated [[shark]]s and other aquatic predators.