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OOC: post with Larry's approval and help in how the shadow worked. And for spotting the grammatical errors. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Events from more than ten years ago (tying in Plaxica’s story with that of the Lord of the Forums games):
Although not many know it, in the deepest corners of every person’s soul a faint shadow exists. For the very large majority of people this shadow has no influence on their lives and they shall never know what influence could have taken them over. For, when encountering a person of great lust or desire, and sometimes evil that shadowy seed can take on a life of it’s own and can become a part of the greater Shadow Influence, the objective of which has ever been hoping to find a way into our world.
Long had the Shadow Influence been trying to find its way into the peaceful Forums known as Ironworks.
The man known as Larry Silverfall is only the latest in a series of many whom the Shadow had tried to use for its own purposes. Many have been taken over by the shadow and most did not even realize it. For the way the Shadow works is that it does not show its presence, rather it uses the desires of the influenced person and amplifies them so that the dominated victim works towards the Shadow’s own purposes. Later, when the Shadow Influence has gained enough power, it would then be manifest in a physical manner, and begin to work its newfound slaves into building up its position, and preparing to take over Ironworks.
More than ten years ago, before the tragedy of Larry Silverfall, the Shadow found a man. A man, who harboured a hatred against a family who generations ago had had a conflict with his. This man had originally been a mage schooled in the arts of dark magic and manipulation. The Shadow saw its chance and seized it. Hittokap did not even know it, but his destiny had been changed forever. As days turned into months his hatred only grew against the hated family, and not a year had passed before he was already settled in his plans against them. Through his dark allies he learnt that the family was now vast and that moving against them would probably have to start in a small secluded town where one of them was the mayor.
The first two times he sent assassins after the son of this mayor they failed miserably. The first time they got the wrong kid and the second time they struck when the boy known as Plaxica was away. Both times the assassins paid with their own lives for their failure in extremely painful deaths, the ideas of which Hittokap could not have imagined a year earlier. The Shadow Influence was already greatly at work within him. No matter what he did now he was never going to be able to lose it’s influence.
Waking from a very vivid dream in which the Shadow Influence told him what to do, which he then thought he himself had thought up Hittokap seduced the wife of the mayor with dark magics and then told her to poison her own husband.
But what did the Shadow want with going after this one specific family? What was its objective? Its ultimate goal at all times is of course total domination over Ironworks, but how was exterminating a family going to help it?
The Shadow wanted a base of operations, a place from where it could spread its influence outwards, until nothing could stop it. The small town was secluded enough and no strongholds of good forces were anywhere nearby. By the time the news of the Shadow’s takeover reached any of these strongholds it would be too late. The Shadow would have constructed an unassailable base and all attacks would have been futile.
But luckily for the forums of Ironworks this was not what happened. Although the mayor, the father of Plaxica was successfully pushed to death through the poison his dominated wife administered him Plaxica managed to escape. The priest who helped him escape paid dearly for it. Hittokap had sent his owl to follow the young man and then set out to clean up the situation in the small town. But all had gone wrong. The day her husband had died Plaxica’s mother had started to struggle against the domination and finally she managed to break the spell with her will. Realizing what she had brought about she committed suicide, but before she did so she told Plaxica’s uncle about everything she had been through.
The uncle, furious about all these unnecessary deaths, went to see the mage alone. Hittokap had not been prepared for him and he had never been good in close combat. Seeing the miserable failure that Hittokap had just brought about the Shadow abandoned him to his doom and Hittokap was easily defeated.
After that the Shadow set out in search of a new person whom it could seduce with the promise of power…
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