Darksaul

You would like to hear my story...well where to begin. I was born on the Hour of Ronan, on the Eve of the Reunion, in the year 5044. I never knew my father. My mother, who has passed from this realm shall remain nameless for I will have no other have the power of her true name, was a kind mother. For a darkelf that is. She was chased from our home because many whispered that the child in my mother's womb was a demon spawn. It is true. My father is someone I have never met but I do look forward to the day that I will have enough power to summon him to my side and make him serve my in a way that I know he shall hate, serving me for the good of the land. Ahh I am getting ahead of myself am I not. Back to the beginning. My mother herself was a truly powerful sorceress. She had summoned my father from a name she had found in an old writing. She intend to use his powers to help her rise in power. My mother was ambitious. But he was to powerful and broke through her signs of warding. But instead of taking her soul he gave her mine. I will never know why he did, and neither did she. But for whatever reason, I am the results of that unholy union. We could never find any place to call a home, for where ever we went somehow the people found out our secret and chased us out of town. So we live outside of towns, in caves, trees, whatever he could find. And she taught me the ways of magic. And I learned. She taught me the evils of humans, of dwarves, and of giant men. She taught me to hate above all the elves of the surface world. And I learned. But I had doubts. How could every race be so evil? How is it that we were the only "good" race? But time after time when we were chased from a town for what I could see, as I was only a child, for no reason, how could I not believe her words? She taught me how to take care of myself, how to fight with a blade and more importantly with my mind. And I learned.

For many years it went this way, she taught, I learned. Until one day she sent me out of what at the time was our home, a cave high in the mountains somewhere, and told me to fight for myself for one month, if I came back then I was ready for the next step, if I didn't then she had no need for me anyway. So I left, and I survived. I came back to my home, at the end of my ordeals, much wiser and much stronger. When I entered our home I knew at once something was wrong. I could still smell the faint coppery odor of blood. And how could I not, it was everywhere. Cave floor, cave walls, mostly it was around...a circle of warding on the floor. I guess once again, in a search for more power she summoned a demon that was far to powerful for her to control.

I took what I could from what was my home, and left. I knew many spells but I didn't have the power to focus on them. So that is how I found Ekodus, or should I say he found me. I was hunting, if hunting you could call it, blood bursting rats and waiting for them to bleed to death so I could cook them, when I saw him. It was the first time I had really seen a human. My first thought was to kill him, for he was evil and would only try to harm me if he found me. And how could he not he was walking right to where I was hiding. So I prepped my spell and waited for the right time to strike. As he drew close I sprang up and released my spell, and to my amazement, it did nothing. I thought my life had come to an end, for my spells had never failed me before and I had no time to prepare another one before he could strike. And the he did the most amazing thing. He smiled at me. He wasn't even suprised that I was there. "Come now" he said "Why do you attack me when I have done nothing to you?" I was stunned. He didn't attack me. He didn't grab the huge sword I saw was on his back and strike me down. He looked at me, taking everything in at once, from my torn and tattered robe, to my dusty and dirty face and skin. "Been on your own for a while now haven't ye?" He asked his voice full of concern. I nodded dumbly, unable to find my voice. "Come on then, no point in hanging outside in the cold, I have a cabin not far from here. You are welcome to stay tonight, get warm, eat some food other then rats, and take a bath." And he turned and walked away, not bothering to see if I followed, he knew I would. As soon as my mind started to work again, and I could persuade it to get my feet to work I ran after him.

His cabin was small, but is was warm, and dry, and he had food prepared already. More then he could have eaten alone. To this day I wonder if he was sent to me, if he new I was there. I guess I always will. He watched me as I tore into the food that he had prepared, I ate like a man who hadn't eaten for months, for I truly hadn't, not like this. He slimed knowingly and waited. After I was finished he asked "Anything else?" And I could see that I had eaten almost all of his food. I felt ashamed. I tried to stammer an apology but he laughed it away. "Come on now laddy, it was only food, I have more and besides I will live tonight without it but I am not sure if you would have." And that is when my life truly began.

Ekodus taught me how to make it in this world, not alone but with friends. He taught me what races where evil and that none of the ones my mother taught me where inherently evil, but that there are evil people in every race. He taught me about honor, about loyalty, and most importantly about friendship. He taught me the ways of Ronan, about the other gods too but I clung to his words of Ronan, and his battle against the dark gods. He taught me that we all have choices in life. We can chose to be good, to give to the younger, to help the weak, to be strong for others and to always do what is right. It is harder then being evil, to take what you want and who cares who you hurt. He taught me about the Code, "Protect the weak, Stand up for what is right, even if it is hard. Never lie cheat or steal, that is for lesser men. It is not enough to say that you won't be evil it has to be fought where ever it is found." After a few years with him he has sent me out to live my life and to make a name for myself. And I will do so, in the way that he has taught me, with courage, dignity, honor and with my friends.