Post by Sir Nichtmar on Apr 20, 2011 12:12:11 GMT -5
The Day Telemachus Died
I write this today because I feel part of me is slipping away.
When I was young and dumb I left Torranmar to find my parent’s killer. When I came to the mainland I found something else. I was jumped by orcs and left for dead. With the stab wound to my chest I surely would have died, but a dark wizard came and saved my life. What I didn’t know at the time was that he shared part of his essence with me.
I lived. I went to Mittelmarch and joined the guard. Eventually the dark wizard entered my life again as an enemy. Telemachus was his name and he used our bond to turn me against my friends. He was stopped. Then years later he re-surfaced and melded with a demon. He was destroyed by Lady Elestirne, Banith, and the sacrifice of Tatsumura.
That day he died, I felt it. It was like being stripped of your blankets on a cold night. My care for things changed. Hesitation to kill an enemy no longer exists. History and information is bleeding from my brain. Memories once etched in stone are now filled with nothing. I am Dragoon, I am Knight, I am Ogre, I am Nichtmar, this I know.
I write this today because I feel part of me is slipping away.
When I was young and dumb I left Torranmar to find my parent’s killer. When I came to the mainland I found something else. I was jumped by orcs and left for dead. With the stab wound to my chest I surely would have died, but a dark wizard came and saved my life. What I didn’t know at the time was that he shared part of his essence with me.
I lived. I went to Mittelmarch and joined the guard. Eventually the dark wizard entered my life again as an enemy. Telemachus was his name and he used our bond to turn me against my friends. He was stopped. Then years later he re-surfaced and melded with a demon. He was destroyed by Lady Elestirne, Banith, and the sacrifice of Tatsumura.
That day he died, I felt it. It was like being stripped of your blankets on a cold night. My care for things changed. Hesitation to kill an enemy no longer exists. History and information is bleeding from my brain. Memories once etched in stone are now filled with nothing. I am Dragoon, I am Knight, I am Ogre, I am Nichtmar, this I know.