Editing Darklord (section)

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'''Viktra Mordenheim''' was born the daughter of a minor noble family, as well as a natural prodigy in medicine - she taught herself anatomy as a child, and by the time she was a teenager she held a doctorate ''and'' had been appointed as a preeminent researcher at a local university. For all her genius, however, Viktra was arrogant, not to mention completely lacking in empathy, compassion and moral qualms. To her, medicine was just a way to sate her burning curiosity about the secrets of life. Also, she hated magic, regarding it as as "stealing the powers of otherworldly beings and cheating the laws of nature", and thus inferior to '''SCIENCE!'''

In the best Frankenstein tradition, she grew obsessed with the idea that she could not merely mend the sick, but actively create and even improve upon life. So she began hiring the services of bodysnatchers to provide her with fresh human cadavers for her research. This is how she met Elise; amazingly, the cold, aloof methodical surgeon and the beautiful but reckless and spontaneous body snatcher became infatuated with each other, and the two women's relationship swiftly changed from professional to personal. When Elise contracted an incurable wasting disease, Mordenheim became obsessed with saving her, and her experiments increased in numbers - she also began having living victims actively kidnapped for her experiments. Through countless murders, resurrections and remurders, Viktra honed her knowledege. Finally, as Elise fell into the deep sleep that marked the final stages of the disease, Viktra poured everything she had learned from a thousand deaths into saving a single life, crafting and installing the Unbreakable Heart: an artificial super-organ.

But just as she was stitching the fabulous device into place, constables burst into her lab, accusing her of being behind the recent string of kidnappings and murders. In the struggle, the lab caught fire and flooded with acrid chemical smoke: Mordenheim's last vision was of Elise rising from her table, a golden light glowing in her chest where the Unbreakable Heart had been installed.

When Mordenheim came to, she was in a strange, icy realm called "Lamordia", where she was hailed as the greatest genius ever, but there was no sign of Elise.

Viktra's torments largely center around Elise and the Unbreakable Heart; she can neither recreate the Heart on her own, but nor can she find Elise to study it again. Secondary to this curse is that she is showered with the love, respect and attention of Lamordia, whose people view her as a luminary savior; to Mordenheim, they are incomprehensible, and she loathes their constant distractions from her work.
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