Zartrach, the deceived
Vanio: “Can you tell me about another one of my lives?”
Amanoth: “No.”
Vanio: “…Please?”
Amanoth: “You’ll fall asleep again.”
Vanio: “It was one time!”
Amanoth: “…”
Vanio: “I promise I’ll stay awake.”
Amanoth: “…Promise?”
Vanio: “Promise.”
Amanoth: “Alright, but if you fall asleep I swear…
ahem…
198 million years ago, not long after Vaylnn’s time, there was another incarnation. Zartrach. Zartrach spent his early existence fighting and stealing, akin to others of his kind, though he grew up especially sour. Forever called a “Freak” or “Beast”, he hated those calling him such, and he hated the world which cursed him so.
He wanted more.
So Zartrach ran from all civilization he knew and consulted his mind and all the thoughts within. He tried to learn why he was seen as a beast, and if he truly was one. His thoughts, ever so helpful, told of what he truly was: the incarnation of a god. And so, armed with this knowledge, Zartrach began his way back to cities and people, where he began informing them of what he was.
No one believed him, of course.
So he had to show them.
He’d show them all.
A great display of magical power for them all to bow down to, the world would kneel before him!
And with great casting of a spell he knew nothing of, all his people knew at once he was a god, and all his people at once, saw their end.
The very ground on which he stood, ruptured by his strength, and a great, cold, storm began to brew from the fallout of it all, as Zartrach felt his own might zapped away as well.
He couldn’t help but wonder what led him to believe that he was a god, when one burst of his divine might left him dead.
And so, merely 11 years after his existence, Zartrach came to an end, on a cold, miserable, lifeless planet which had once cursed him.”
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Surprisingly, Vanio had actually stayed awake the whole time, fascinated by Amanoth’s story.
Vanio: “Can you tell me more about your lives?”
Amanoth: “…Maybe later.”
/uw Feel free to interact with Amanoth & Vanio, but Zartrach can't be interacted with
