Beginnings:
Caradoc was a captain in the army of the Trinovantes, a Britannian tribe allied with the Romans. He originally came to Athens on a mission to secure control of their rival tribe, the Catuvellauni. He was betrayed by his lieutenant and prevented from succeeding by the Athenians.

Foremost among those who were instrumental in stopping him were Cervesus, Quinlax and Xxenos, who led him a merry chase before Quinlax killed him in combat. Witnesses to Caradoc?s death claimed that the body disappeared as a voice was heard to say, "He is mine".

The Return:
Many months later, after most had forgotten the strange event at Caradoc?s death, the Sorceress Adie admitted to the Athenians that she and her partner Drasnian had accidentally opened a portal to the underworld during one of their magical experiments. This caused wave after wave of undead creatures to attack the city, eventually being repelled with the help of the bone-hilted daggers imbued with divine fire that Adie provided.

This was not the end of it however. Adie later admitted that it was not just mindless creatures which escaped through the portal - a human soul had been somehow ripped out while they were trying to close it. Not knowing the full story, Adie could only impart some images and impressions that led the Athenians to believe that Caradoc had somehow returned.

This belief has since been proved fact, as Caradoc himself has taunted various defenders during brutal undead invasions of the city. His purposes remain unclear, but many have admitted to hearing strange voices before being attacked by the undead. Pooled information shows that these attacks have been synchronised, occurring at the same times to people all over Greece, Midgard and Egypt.

While no one person seems to be the focus for these attacks, Caradoc does seem to retain his anger and enmity for those who were instrumental in his death, or connected in any way to his life. He killed Quinlax and Xxenos after taunting them, but still he reveals nothing of his purpose.

Following yet another attack on the city, Caradoc himself appeared and began to attack Asantewaa with magic while Anika and Moiria watched helplessly, unable to intervene. During the fight, a beautiful woman with black hair appeared and was heard to exclaim, "Caradoc, you go too far!" before hitting him with some strange power that knocked him away from the area.

The woman revealed herself to be Zandramas, and witnesses are sure that she is the source of the voices that have been heard before attacks. Zandramas revealed nothing, she merely summoned a wave of pure darkness and killed the three defenders where they stood.

Things seemed to settle down after that, with only minor undead attacks and no further overt appearances by either Caradoc or Zandramas. But recently members of the male population of Athens have been struck with visions and dreams that depict a beautiful dark haired woman in torment. Faint whisperings keep asking for help "or all is lost" and midnight black roses have appeared in the Palace gardens (rose arbor) and at the Peiraic gate.

Only the women seem to be exempt from these "visitations" and nobody is sure who or what they are about. In an effort to find out, a group of Athenians made the decision to go into the Underworld to see if they could find any answers to the many questions. They first went to Hades' castle and tried to call upon the God for aid, he was heard to answer; "This it not of my doing mortal, I will not help you."

The group then received a vision of a stake wreathed in flame near a stalagmite and they located the area only to find that the ropes which had held the woman were broken with no sign of the captive. Caradoc then turned up and announced that the woman is his, as is her power. It seems that Caradoc twisted the woman's compassion and humanity and used it to weaken and control her. Caradoc then flew into a rage when Lugotorix and Cassivellaunus were mentioned and summoned plague fiends to attack the group.

Once the fiends were defeated, the group left the Underworld and returned to Athens. Later on, witnesses at the gate spoke of seeing a vision of bone runes falling but not landing, accompanying this was a feeling that something bad is going to happen.