So a while ago, and back when World of Warcraft was still in the early WotLK days, my friend and I planned to do a comic about our two nightelf druids: Vore and Clio Encognito(who later helped spawn the original little Ieyhiye demon you know now!).

This guy was Clio's Ghostly Skull noncombat pet, Mar'duk the former half-troll/nightelf rogue/assassin(who was an inspired version of my OC Waruul, since I thought I'd never get around to reviving my own story.) Why is he different then regular ghostly skulls? Well the original part of the story went:

(Takes place in Duskwood)Marduk was a master rogue on a mission to assassinate, Clio attempts to stop him after overhearing the contract being made and he in kind tries to kill her. When he almost succeeds(despite taking heavy injuries himself) she attempts to flee and comes across a bloodelf paladin by the name of Malkus who helps her in the end to chase him off or kill him. But before he leaves he makes sure to poison Clio which at the time put her in a deep hallucination where she meet an unfriendly cat spirit who possesses her and causes momentary laps of sanity from then on using her cat form.

Unfortunately his own wounds draw everything hungry and undead in duskwood to him which quickly ends his life.

No, there are no easy walk backs to one's body in this story either.

Anywho, later Marduk awakens to Clio buying him on one of her insanity trips from a crazy warlock in the dalaran sewers and is now soul bound to her with no recollection to who he is. Only thing he does remember his the druid and her paladin friend and that they had something to do with his death. Malkus tells her to keep him as this is probably the lights way of payback for his previously evil ways.

Marduk is impatient, hotheaded and the ever diligent asshat to Clio who in turn takes it like water on a ducks backside(He IS her pet after all so she doesn't think it could get any more humiliating.), however when she becomes possessed he is unusually compliant(though still a tad bit sarcastic) and less talkative as it tends to intimidate him.

He usually is seen "wearing" his skull as a head with a small ghostly body, or as a Worg bearing the scars Clio and Malkus gave him before death.

His story has changed since we recently revamped the story but I wont ruin anything here.~ ;P

Other then being a ghostly skull and set in the WoW universe, Marduk is completely (c) me.

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