Ember

Ember was the first Emperor of the Borrowed Land, sometimes called The Charnel Ground King. Ember was born to HER by another colonist, and became the only Terran descended human to have access to magic after HER disappeared.

After HER's disappearence about 5 years after terraforming the Borrowed Land, Ember was raised by a small group of colonists. As he grew up, he was educated and influenced to become ruler of the colonists on the Borrowed Land. This, at least in part, caused him to become the tyrant he would eventually manifest as.

Ember's first display of tyranny was displayed when he ordered the population of the town Sclera in Iris to desert the city and move to his own capital of Fovia, about a hundred miles away across the Pupil. The population of the town refused to move, and so he enacted his famous First Rule: "Any being who refuses to obey the spirit of any request by Ember or any entity Ember chooses to act through will instantly turn to ash and be scattered across the continent of Ash." The entire population of four thousand was spread across the continent. This law was the first example of a permanent spell being used by anyone besides HER. Permanent spells are now almost all lost, with single use spells being the vast majority of spells available to magic users.

Ember's tyranny grew with the First Law, and in the 16th year after the colonists arrived on the Borrowed Lands he founded his Palace, a square mile building in which he kept his harem. From then on Ember devoted the years until his savage assassination traveling from town to town spiriting away young women to his harem, and consistently abusing them. His assassination by Moss, one of his favourites, in PL55, marks the end of his reign. After his assassination Ember's harem is set free - but the children born from them become able to use magic.