Ordainers

Ordainers were powerful Demons of the Essaence who would most often serve The Unlife in some fashion. They were considered fallen demigods who would often rule over whole planes of existence, with the power of forcing anyone they killed to serve them for all eternity. They were "fallen servants of the Lord of Fate" who "now serve those who feed their appetite for death and destruction." Known as "Death Watchers" (Erlini: "Vog Muylari"), they would "ordain" a foe by tearing the soul out of its body, utterly destroying it. They had the power to immolate themselves in either fire or ice, blasting it out from themselves. The most powerful and unruly would sometimes become banished to the Void.

Famous Ordainers included Kharuugh, servant of Lorgalis; Shu'raax, bodyguard of Kadaena; and Maleskari, Demon Lord of Death and Undeath. The symbolism under The Graveyard is partly based on them, including all of the above mentioned qualities. Though their categorization is not self-consistent across Shadow World and Rolemaster. Ordainers do not exist in modern Elanthian history, but specific ones have occasionally been referenced out of context.