Fun Lore about Archaon the Everchosen, From Be'Lakor's mouth.

[Daryl]

According to the Daemon Prince Be'lakor, Diederick's(Archaon's given name) fate was guided by the powers of Chaos since before his birth. Be'lakor sought to create a perfect champion to bring about the next age of Chaos, one whose body Be'lakor would itself assume when the time was right. Be'lakor claims to have "interceded" on the child's behalf several times, without which he never would have been born or else died several times over:

1. His mother's husband, Roald, arrived home in time to prevent his wife's rape by the Norse raider;

2. His mother, Viktoria, aborted her unwanted child and cast it to the waves;

3. Diederick caught a fever and died under Father Dagobert's care;

4. Diederick was kicked in the head while tending Oberon in Sieur Kastner's service and died soon thereafter;

5. Diederick died when a priestess of Shallya tried, unsuccessfully, to extract the warpstone sliver from his head;

6. After learning that he was the prophesied Everchosen, Diederick hanged himself rather than become so;