Character Bio: Pastor Nox

So, the Bubonic Plague has resurfaced in China. I was going to wait a while on this bio, but given recent events I thought it would be appropriate to profile the main "villain" in Nightmarescape:

Pastor Nox

Nox lived during the initial European outbreak of the Black Plague. Originally, he ministered to the poor on the streets and eventually became interested in medicine, becoming a physician. He plied his trade along with his ministering for some time before the outbreak of the plague. 

Though his mind was worn away by the dread contagion before death, Nox remembers the sights of death and despair that permeated the streets of his home city.  He can not recall the location, but to this day remembers the faces of the dead and dying.  His efforts were valiant, but the continued exposure to such horror and sorrow eventually broke his sanity. In a bout of madness, he began worshiping the plague and turned his newfound spirituality upon those he ministered. Out of fear and desperation they heeded his call and in no time, he had a band of fanatical followers and flagellants. Nox and his congregation traveled far and wide preaching their new twisted gospel. To them, the plague was not a punishment for sin, but a boon from Heaven to remove the pure and righteous from the purgatory of Earth while the rest of humanity remained behind to rot. Nox eventually succumbed to this "blessing" and found himself in the Nightmarescape with a very special ability...he could psychically communicate with those whose minds and bodies had been destroyed by disease.  He named his band of followers the Afflicted and took to conquest of the Nightmarescape.

For centuries he has waged wars and made unlikely alliances with the hope of making it back to the world of the living so that he may infect all of mankind with deadly contagions. Upon dying they will remanifest in the Nightmarescape under his control. In his mind, this will be his utopia where humanity shares a single vision that he rules. It will be the end of conflict and suffering. 

This vision is what drives him. Nothing will stand in his way. Centuries have passed and his power continues to grow with each soul that finds itself victim of a fatal disease. He is ancient and implacable. His followers are eternally hungry and willing to assent to his every command. All he needs is access to our world and life itself will be damned.