Application!Kingdom: Undead
Name: Despair
Position: High Deathmage
Skill: Close combat. He's helpless with long ranged stuff.
Appearence: You know Darksiders, right? Think Death from that, but with just a black hood on his head, instead of the weird hairdo. Don't know Darksiders? See anything else section.
Personality: Polite, but very cruel.
Backstory: I figure Deathmages need a particularly epic backstory?
Jack Speller was a very average person. He grew up on a farm in the human kingdom, mostly minding his business. However, he and his twin brother were a little bit troublesome. They often roughhoused, fought, and argued. When they weren't fighting each other, they were messing around with other people, pulling pranks, all that great stuff. As they grew up, they changed very little.
Jack became a little more responsible growing up, just enough to earn his fathers trust. He inherited the farm as his brother went off to find his fortune in other ways. Jack's unruly behavior soon disappeared as he sat alone on his farm, tending to the crops and animals. Jack loved his life, and wanted nothing more than to be alone, farming all day long.
Until 'He' came along. When Jack got news of 'Him', he feared for his, and others, safety. So, he went off with a large portion of the money he had made farming, and had a simple set of armor made for him. He then went off into battle, wielding his great-great-grandfathers sword. He had very little training, so was put in the back lines, where he wouldn't have to fight and get slaughtered. However, Jack's bravery got the better of him. He attempted to join in the battle. It did not end well.
As Jack charged an undead warrior, he was cut in half with one slice. His blood, among many others, splattered across the battlefield, his dead upper half no longer gripping the sword he had stabbed into the undead at the last second. One of 'His' Deathmages, looking across the battlefield, saw potential in him, or at least in his dead body. So, the Deathmage took both halves of his dead carcass to re-animate.
Wanting to experiment, the Deathmage re-animated his body separately, sculpting a new upper half and new lower half from pure darkness. He put the new upper half on Jack's old lower half, and the new lower half on Jack's upper half. Jack's two new bodies awoke, with no memories, only knowledge of cognitive functions. (Walking, killing, just the basics) So, they were sent off to training, down in the lower valleys of the Shadow mountains.
They trained for a few weeks there, but some of the heroes raided the training camp, taking the trainees and instructors by surprise. Everyone fought valiently, but quite a few were ripped to shreds, including Jack's upper half. Jack's lower half, having no memories of his previous body, did not mourn at all. He was dead after all. Why should he care about his upper body? So, Jack's lower body kept training harder and harder.
Jack's lower half, adopting the name Despair, became much more powerful as time went on, training and training. Eventually, 'He' put Despair on the front lines, as he was a killing machine, but wasn't sure if Despair was ready to become a Deathmage yet. Despair did not disappoint. He killed people like a kid eats candy, taking a great pride in his work. And so, 'He' finally decided to make Despair a Deathmage. However, unlike the other Deathmages, he preffered to keep his scythes, leg armor, and hood.
Despair made sure he always did his best, dedicating his un-life to 'His' cause. He made sure to kill anyone 'He' wanted dead, and made sure to do it quickly, efficiently. To this day he works as 'His' second in command, obeying every order without hesitation.
Weapons: His two scythes which he keep at his side, as they fold up. He is very versatile, and can use any close range weapon he gets his hands on.
Anything Else: He is a cake? As for the Appearence, tale a gander at this video. It also shows his fighting style. Warning: video has large amounts of blood and/or gore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdrQGTdllY