RE: Black Zenith [Adventure RPG / Chapter Three: Forgotten Whispers]
04-07-2013, 04:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2013, 05:34 PM by chimericWilder.)
With the group further down the hallway, Thunderpaw waves his hand to call a pause. "Now that we're out of earshot from the soldiers, there is something our ruins exploration party should know. Our objective remains the same; find information, seek relics. But there's more to it than that. A lot more. I think its time we discussed it in full."
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"My aversion to telling the full story is not out of distrust; rather, out of fear of the truth. Here lies a cult, hellbent on destroying the kingdom as we know it. Within its legion lies men and monster alike, with countless allies and shadow minions. Its highest-ranking all wield shadows as their weapon, and leave darkness instead of corpses. This is not an army of man; there isn't a single civilization responsible, no prize to be gained. Their leader isn't even human."
"A tear in the world, born of void and thirsting to consume everything. A Wyrm, if it could even be described as such. Long ago it devoured the world, the entirety of it. Heroes used a great light and kept it from ending existence, but not before it took their own. And yet, I doubt it simply ended there. Legend tells of our second sun, a great light, slowly growing dimmer over time. Now it acts as a void in itself, stealing the light of the sky. What was its bane I suspect now acts as our end."
"So how do we stop it? I honestly don't know."
"All we have are a few subtle hints. Aven'sera, a relic the cultists were after for one reason or another. She holds light that banes the dark, we just need to figure out how to use it. There's also the remnants of the brothers of arms; the ones that fought and fell before our journey. They certainly hold secrets we may need to stop this thing. However, as of now there is no escape. Everything we know /will/ be destroyed if we fail. It isn't the kingdom or a continent on the line. If we die, the world dies."
"It's surely some grim shit we got ourselves into. Steel yourselves. This journey's only just begun."
"My aversion to telling the full story is not out of distrust; rather, out of fear of the truth. Here lies a cult, hellbent on destroying the kingdom as we know it. Within its legion lies men and monster alike, with countless allies and shadow minions. Its highest-ranking all wield shadows as their weapon, and leave darkness instead of corpses. This is not an army of man; there isn't a single civilization responsible, no prize to be gained. Their leader isn't even human."
"A tear in the world, born of void and thirsting to consume everything. A Wyrm, if it could even be described as such. Long ago it devoured the world, the entirety of it. Heroes used a great light and kept it from ending existence, but not before it took their own. And yet, I doubt it simply ended there. Legend tells of our second sun, a great light, slowly growing dimmer over time. Now it acts as a void in itself, stealing the light of the sky. What was its bane I suspect now acts as our end."
"So how do we stop it? I honestly don't know."
"All we have are a few subtle hints. Aven'sera, a relic the cultists were after for one reason or another. She holds light that banes the dark, we just need to figure out how to use it. There's also the remnants of the brothers of arms; the ones that fought and fell before our journey. They certainly hold secrets we may need to stop this thing. However, as of now there is no escape. Everything we know /will/ be destroyed if we fail. It isn't the kingdom or a continent on the line. If we die, the world dies."
"It's surely some grim shit we got ourselves into. Steel yourselves. This journey's only just begun."