Drakkwall
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The Forests of Greenfawn
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It was a bright sunday morning and the paladin Charles Sunbringer was standing on the square, pleading for the people to listen to his words, ansd soon enough he had all their attention.
"Listen people of Georgia, while I may be a Paladin of Light, a warrior of the good and righteous, I cannot dare to say, that I chosed this life. I had no choice in what I was to become as a child, as I was blessed by Tharmas it was decided by my family and the Order of Light that I was to become a paladin without a real choice. And yet the Order of Light speaks of the free choices of man and the gift of own will, yet they make me into a paladin, without even asking me if that's what I wanted."
He waited for the murmurs, gasps and shouts, where they asked why being a paladin was a bad thing, ended and then spoke up again.
"I was raised from day one to be a Paladin, I wanted to play with other children, but I was told to read, learn swords and ettiques. I had no real childhood, or life, the Order of Light, and my family, controlled my every day life, limiting me to only this path, without options. The only time I can remember enjoying myself is being trained in the works of a merchant before I had to learn the paladin arts again."
"At my ceremony to becoem a paladin, I was paralyzed by magic to keep me from protesting and declining the powers of Thalmas, I was sent of todangerous quests, killing evil and the likes, for the Order of Light, to make sure the people knew the Light was still there. But I can tell you, darkness broods in the heart of the Order of Light itself. I have seen it and now I will let it become clear, I shall let the truth come free. I was their puppet, their mascot, made to give you people a bright view of the Order, to show how they cared for you."
"And yet I have seen the sickest of acts, andn w I cannot bear carrying these emotions and secrets inside anymore... The High Priests of the Order of Light, have intentionally planted seeds of darkness to give themselves a reason to exist, as without darkness, they won't be paid by the king for their services for the kingdom. They have declared innocent women witches, just to claim their families' riches, among them my niece, Jessica Starbringer. They have tortured innocents for the enjoyments of it, killed to keep their own names clean and raped women, men and children in their own sick pleasures. But the breaking point was this night..."
As he spoke tears were running down his eyes, and in the shocked masses a band of the Order of light's paladins came rushing with swords, screaming at him to remain silent, among them one fo the high Priests, panic on his face.
"There was a young halfling peasant girl named Lily, she was a sweet girl, helping her sick grandmother every day getting water and food. The none day she didn't come, I was asked to find her as I passed by, I tracked her, and I came to the Temple of Light, and to the private quarters of High Priest Douglas of Fouven. I was petrified with shock, disgust, revolt and anger... Her dead body laid on the sheets, raped even after her body had cooled, pieces of her flesh cut off, her entire stomach cut open ,her entrails removed, and her breasts tore apart like bad fruits. And on his table, drinking her blood like wine and eating the roasted meat gotten from her corpse, was High Priest Douglas. And by this I say, that the Order of Light, does not exist, only... the Order of Sin."
There was dead silence, it didn't just limit itself to the square, but to the entire town, it was dead silent, but then the fat man who was the High Priest Douglas, who was the priest with the paladins running for Charles on the large platform, shouted out in panic. "Lies! All Lies! how dare you accuse a High Priest, let alone the Order of Light itself! For such vile acts!?"
"Here's all the proof I need. Her grandmother, she made me swear to show this to the people, to show your true face, it is the least I can do, for her and her lost granddaughter." He spoke solemnly, tears running down his face, pulled out a bag and threw it onto the ground in front of the High Priest, and there was a scream as when the bag was opened, it revealed the mutilated corpse of Lily, the personal holy daggers, used for sacrificing their own blood, of the High Priests, only one pair existed in the world for one priest, and they were deeply buried in the young girl's cold corpse, bearing the name Douglas of Fouven on their blades, nobody but a priest could touch those weapons as they were bonded to the priest's blood.
"I, Charles Sunbringer, hereby dismiss myself from the Order of Light, now the Order of Sin, I turn my back on Thalmas, the Light God who let his own religion fall into the darkest of pits, and I hope that you all burn in the pits, for all the lives you have exploited, tormented and ended in your sins. And let the world, see your true colors." Tearing off his holy symbol the paladin crushed it in his hand and drew off his mantle, tearing the symbol on it apart
, before throwing it over the corpse of Lily. He then pulled out his sword and impaled it on the stone platform, the paladins that had gone with the High Priest were puking in their own helmets, they were innocents, just believing in the light, but there was no light in these lands, not any more.
"I grant you, Douglas of Fouven, one last chance to leave this place, alive." The shaking priest looked up at the powerful paladin whose crying eyes began to shine with pure white power, his blade igniting into pure white flames. "I shall use the power of your own god, and if his power is merciful on you, the you shall leave to face your shame in life, but if not, then you shall burn in the pits of the nine circles of hell."
"Nonononon! No please. There's some mistake! I am not dark! Anyway who cares about a halfling freak!? I follow the light! I-"
"Let this blade decide if you are true or not, SMITE EVIL!!!!!!" The blade shone with a brilliant light that shone like a thousand suns, the Paladins bowed to the light, their bodies unharmed, but the High Priest, his skin boiled, his bvoice screaming in intense pain, blood gushing out of his eyes, skin ripping apart from fat tearing itself apart as flesh went rotting and boiling. Soon enough he was a screaming skinless thing, begging for it to end, but the unforgiving eyes of Charles Sunbringer, shone even brighter and the light intensified and the High Priest's pained wails screeched through the city until his corpse was nothing but a pile of sludge on the ground, his holy daggers, melted into a pile of molted gold and silver.
The light ended and the paladin turned towards the silent masses and spoke. "I shall leave these lands, using the treasures I've earned in my service, to prepare ten large ships fit for over one hundred thousand people. I shall sail to a new world, to start anew, and make a home for everybody, no matter their race, no matter their gender and no matter their status. Everybody shall be given the freedom of choice, nobody shall be forced to follow another's will, working together is the key, and while it might be needed for some to follow orders to do the work, so do not remember that the ones taking the orders are the ones doing the work you cannot do. Poor and rich shall not be given privileges, being rich won't save you from a blade or give you food without working or paying for it. And there shall be no overtaxing of commoners, or adventurers, as the payment of a job should not be taken apart until nearly nothing remains, it will only cause suffering and less moral."
"And so I ask, all of you, to consider this offer, in two weeks, I shall leave with my twenty five ships, and take everybody who wants to come with me to the new world, to Greenfawn, and to a new life. I shall be at the harbour for the next two weeks, so pelase, spread the word, and tell what I have said, people share their knowledge, it is what makes them people." The paladin then walked off towards the harbour, his flowing hair in the wind, the bag he was carrying, tied up in the bundle of his mantle, and gave it to an old halfling woman, who hugged him, both of them crying before he left for the harbours, the old halfling taking her daughter's remains to the family's graveyard in the northern lands.
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It was a bright sunday morning and the paladin Charles Sunbringer was standing on the square, pleading for the people to listen to his words, ansd soon enough he had all their attention.
"Listen people of Georgia, while I may be a Paladin of Light, a warrior of the good and righteous, I cannot dare to say, that I chosed this life. I had no choice in what I was to become as a child, as I was blessed by Tharmas it was decided by my family and the Order of Light that I was to become a paladin without a real choice. And yet the Order of Light speaks of the free choices of man and the gift of own will, yet they make me into a paladin, without even asking me if that's what I wanted."
He waited for the murmurs, gasps and shouts, where they asked why being a paladin was a bad thing, ended and then spoke up again.
"I was raised from day one to be a Paladin, I wanted to play with other children, but I was told to read, learn swords and ettiques. I had no real childhood, or life, the Order of Light, and my family, controlled my every day life, limiting me to only this path, without options. The only time I can remember enjoying myself is being trained in the works of a merchant before I had to learn the paladin arts again."
"At my ceremony to becoem a paladin, I was paralyzed by magic to keep me from protesting and declining the powers of Thalmas, I was sent of todangerous quests, killing evil and the likes, for the Order of Light, to make sure the people knew the Light was still there. But I can tell you, darkness broods in the heart of the Order of Light itself. I have seen it and now I will let it become clear, I shall let the truth come free. I was their puppet, their mascot, made to give you people a bright view of the Order, to show how they cared for you."
"And yet I have seen the sickest of acts, andn w I cannot bear carrying these emotions and secrets inside anymore... The High Priests of the Order of Light, have intentionally planted seeds of darkness to give themselves a reason to exist, as without darkness, they won't be paid by the king for their services for the kingdom. They have declared innocent women witches, just to claim their families' riches, among them my niece, Jessica Starbringer. They have tortured innocents for the enjoyments of it, killed to keep their own names clean and raped women, men and children in their own sick pleasures. But the breaking point was this night..."
As he spoke tears were running down his eyes, and in the shocked masses a band of the Order of light's paladins came rushing with swords, screaming at him to remain silent, among them one fo the high Priests, panic on his face.
"There was a young halfling peasant girl named Lily, she was a sweet girl, helping her sick grandmother every day getting water and food. The none day she didn't come, I was asked to find her as I passed by, I tracked her, and I came to the Temple of Light, and to the private quarters of High Priest Douglas of Fouven. I was petrified with shock, disgust, revolt and anger... Her dead body laid on the sheets, raped even after her body had cooled, pieces of her flesh cut off, her entire stomach cut open ,her entrails removed, and her breasts tore apart like bad fruits. And on his table, drinking her blood like wine and eating the roasted meat gotten from her corpse, was High Priest Douglas. And by this I say, that the Order of Light, does not exist, only... the Order of Sin."
There was dead silence, it didn't just limit itself to the square, but to the entire town, it was dead silent, but then the fat man who was the High Priest Douglas, who was the priest with the paladins running for Charles on the large platform, shouted out in panic. "Lies! All Lies! how dare you accuse a High Priest, let alone the Order of Light itself! For such vile acts!?"
"Here's all the proof I need. Her grandmother, she made me swear to show this to the people, to show your true face, it is the least I can do, for her and her lost granddaughter." He spoke solemnly, tears running down his face, pulled out a bag and threw it onto the ground in front of the High Priest, and there was a scream as when the bag was opened, it revealed the mutilated corpse of Lily, the personal holy daggers, used for sacrificing their own blood, of the High Priests, only one pair existed in the world for one priest, and they were deeply buried in the young girl's cold corpse, bearing the name Douglas of Fouven on their blades, nobody but a priest could touch those weapons as they were bonded to the priest's blood.
"I, Charles Sunbringer, hereby dismiss myself from the Order of Light, now the Order of Sin, I turn my back on Thalmas, the Light God who let his own religion fall into the darkest of pits, and I hope that you all burn in the pits, for all the lives you have exploited, tormented and ended in your sins. And let the world, see your true colors." Tearing off his holy symbol the paladin crushed it in his hand and drew off his mantle, tearing the symbol on it apart
, before throwing it over the corpse of Lily. He then pulled out his sword and impaled it on the stone platform, the paladins that had gone with the High Priest were puking in their own helmets, they were innocents, just believing in the light, but there was no light in these lands, not any more.
"I grant you, Douglas of Fouven, one last chance to leave this place, alive." The shaking priest looked up at the powerful paladin whose crying eyes began to shine with pure white power, his blade igniting into pure white flames. "I shall use the power of your own god, and if his power is merciful on you, the you shall leave to face your shame in life, but if not, then you shall burn in the pits of the nine circles of hell."
"Nonononon! No please. There's some mistake! I am not dark! Anyway who cares about a halfling freak!? I follow the light! I-"
"Let this blade decide if you are true or not, SMITE EVIL!!!!!!" The blade shone with a brilliant light that shone like a thousand suns, the Paladins bowed to the light, their bodies unharmed, but the High Priest, his skin boiled, his bvoice screaming in intense pain, blood gushing out of his eyes, skin ripping apart from fat tearing itself apart as flesh went rotting and boiling. Soon enough he was a screaming skinless thing, begging for it to end, but the unforgiving eyes of Charles Sunbringer, shone even brighter and the light intensified and the High Priest's pained wails screeched through the city until his corpse was nothing but a pile of sludge on the ground, his holy daggers, melted into a pile of molted gold and silver.
The light ended and the paladin turned towards the silent masses and spoke. "I shall leave these lands, using the treasures I've earned in my service, to prepare ten large ships fit for over one hundred thousand people. I shall sail to a new world, to start anew, and make a home for everybody, no matter their race, no matter their gender and no matter their status. Everybody shall be given the freedom of choice, nobody shall be forced to follow another's will, working together is the key, and while it might be needed for some to follow orders to do the work, so do not remember that the ones taking the orders are the ones doing the work you cannot do. Poor and rich shall not be given privileges, being rich won't save you from a blade or give you food without working or paying for it. And there shall be no overtaxing of commoners, or adventurers, as the payment of a job should not be taken apart until nearly nothing remains, it will only cause suffering and less moral."
"And so I ask, all of you, to consider this offer, in two weeks, I shall leave with my twenty five ships, and take everybody who wants to come with me to the new world, to Greenfawn, and to a new life. I shall be at the harbour for the next two weeks, so pelase, spread the word, and tell what I have said, people share their knowledge, it is what makes them people." The paladin then walked off towards the harbour, his flowing hair in the wind, the bag he was carrying, tied up in the bundle of his mantle, and gave it to an old halfling woman, who hugged him, both of them crying before he left for the harbours, the old halfling taking her daughter's remains to the family's graveyard in the northern lands.
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