For many years the stone's evil magic spread troughout the land and corrupted it's people, making them power-hungry, paranoid, spiteful, and blinded them with greed. It was that greed and lust for power that drove more and more people to begin practicing the darker magics to try and attain all that they desired and yet didn't deserve. Very few people chose to remain in the light, and they were shunned and looked down upon for their fierce loyalty to all that is good and pure, Entholia was in desperate need of heroes.
It was at that time of bleak desperation that one man rose up in the face of the terrible darkness that had befallen his people, shunning instead those who were weak enough to fall prey to the wicked power that gripped the land, that warriors name was Abbadon Aldarian, the champion of all who remained in the light.
Abbadon united the seven kingdoms and led their armies against all those who had fallen to the ways of black magic eventually tracing the evil magic back to the dark stone which was destroyed.
Trough his great deeds, Abbadon's name became known to everyone in Entholia as the name of the greatest of all heroes.
The war ended and the stone's black magic was defeated, but the seed of evil had already been planted within the sould of the once innocent Entholians and there it festered, the world would never be as perfect as it once was.
As a reward for his heroic deeds, Abbadon was taken to the palace and given a power second only to the king's own, he was also given the hand of the kings second daughter, Princess Enalla.
Two years after Abbadon and Enalla were married, the princess gave birth to Abbadon's first son and heir, Asmodeus Aldarion. three months later the palace oracle had a vision of a strange blindfolded man urgently whispering to him, warning him of the future, making a prophecy...
The Prophecy:
" The only son of the greatest of all shall bring about the end.
The golden throne shall fall and the damned child shall rule.
Shall all the kingdoms shall fall, darkness shall triumph."
There was no doubt amongst the populace that the prophecy spoke of Abbadon's child, his only son Asmodeus, but even so they couldn't bring themselves to kill the boy, to betray Abbadon so absolutely after all he had done for them, so instead they prayed for the prophecy to be wrong, for Asmodeus to grow up to be pure and happy.
A few months after the prophecy was made, Abbadon learned that Enalla was once again with child, another son, and a combination of joy and dread filled his heart, for he too knew the prophecy 'there shall be no other...', and he felt confident that he could defend his realm against any evil that rose up so long as it wasn't one of his beloved children. It seemed like the merciful gods had heard the Entholian's prayers, the prophecy had been broken....
At the third year after the birth of Abbadon's second son Dagon, both of his young sons began displaying strange behaviors and abilities,
No one was sure what to think anymore, could the prophecy be correct, would one of Abbadon's sons really bring about the end of Entholia? The king decided not to give his grandsons any reason to want the world to end, so he ordered Abbadon and Enalla to keep them away from the corrupted world outside the palace walls, and he made sure they would have all they would ever need or could ever want in order to live happily.
The boys were made to believe that the world was as perfect and beautiful as the palace, the more they grew the more they wanted to explore this Utopia; and as their repeated requests were continuously denied the more the began to wonder why. One day, in their early twenties, they decided to stop wondering and to go see for themselves what the world was like and to figure out why they were not allowed to see it.
One night the two brothers snuck out of the palace and ran off to a nearby village,throughout the night the boys realized that they had been fed nothing but lies their entire lives, and that the world was nothing like they were made to believe it was; people sufferes, went hungry, were killed, stole, commited adultery, this was not the utopia they had always thought it was.
Asmodeus, being the oldest and most level headed of the two brothers took it pretty well, he thought it was all done so they would be protected from the horrors of reality and felt he understood his elder's decisions; Dagon however couldn't believe his eyes, at that moment something in him snapped and he decided that if the world was not perfect then he would make it perfect. He would create that dream of Utopia his parents had always spoke of a reality, but in order to do that he first had to rid the world of all the liars, all the criminals, of every unpure thought and action.
Asmodeus tried to talk some sense into his heartbroken brother, but Dagon didn't listen, didn't want to listen. As soon as he returned to the palace he began slaughtering everyone who crossed his path, he killed the guards that kept him from going outside the palace all this time, he slaughtered the maids who had confirmed every lie his parents told him, he murdered his friends who fed the deception, he locked up the parents who kept making up all those lies, and he completely wiped out the rest of the ruling family who were the only things standing between him and the golden throne of Entholia. The only one who was spared Dagon's wrath was his brother, Asmodeus, who had also been deceived by the lies.
Dagon invited his brother to help him make the world a Utopia, but Asmodeus could not accept the evil Dagon had committed, no matter what the reason, there was no way Asmodeus could justify Dagon's actions, it became clear to him that Dagon had to be stopped.
While Dagon was busy conquering the neighboring kingdoms and instilling his new rules and regulations, Asmodeus fled the palace grounds and formed a rebellion.
Two years after Dagon had overthrown the royal family, and taken control of the golden throne of Entholia, along with the two closest kingdoms, Anaphar and Nictaros, Asmodeus's rebel forces raided the Entholian palace and attempted to assasinate Dagon, but their attempt resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the rebel forces. All those who had taken part in the raid of the castle were wiped out without a trace. As for Asmodeus, after the crushing of the rebellion Dagon couldnt bring himself to order the execution of his brother so he was damned and banished from Entholia.
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Sitting quiet and bored, within his newly obtained throne room was the overlord of the golden throne of Tristram, Dagon Aldarian, the son of the hero of heroes Abbadon Aldarian. The throne room itself was enormous, it had no windows and it was lightened and warmed by exactly one-thousand torches which burned with a rather strange silver-white flame.
The unnecessarily big throne room door opened and a sudden breeze of cold air put all one thousand torches out two by two. Now only the brightly glowing white iris' of Dagon's eyes were the only things that could be seen in the darkness that swept through the throne room. The hurried footsteps of many men and the clattering of iron were the only sounds that broke the intense silence.
"Treasoning against your king..." Dagon tsked, idly waving his hand, instantly relighting all one-thousand torches "...Why do you try so hard to ruin my Utopia brother?" The light from the torches revealed a small army of knights; villagers of all ages and sexes, rogue warriors and strange looking human-like creatures, this army was led by a single hooded man.
The man removed his hood as the torches were lit, as Enuma had already deduced, the hooded man was none other then his brother Asmodeus Aldarian. Asmodeus glared at his brother with hate filled eyes, "You are no king of mine, and you lost the right to call me brother when you slaughtered my family." He took out a sword and pointed at Dagon "You are nothing more then a traitor and a murderer, and your so-called Utopia exists only in your head. You refuse to see the truth, and Utopia never was and never will be, especially if you remain on that throne!"
His mouth set into a stern line, "That is why you must be removed, and we are here to do just that."
Dagon stood up from his throne with an eery smile and hissed "Is that a fact?" Dagon's head pulsed painfully as he gazed at his one beloved brother, everything was a blur and in his head echoed loud, ear-shattering screams. A few seconds later his awareness was back in the throne room, Dagon hadn't moved an inch from where he stood, Asmodeus was on his knees gasping for breath and everyone else was gone without a trace.
"You still live..." Dagon observed, but he noticed that Asmodeus was slowly transforming into a crippled old goblin like creature "Look at yourself you pathetic fool, you could have ruled by my side and instead you choose to foolishly defy me, let this be punishment for your deed, from this day forward you will live a lonely life deep within the mountain, lonely and without love, feared and hated by those you once fought to save." He set back on the golden throne and said quietly "Now run monster, and get out of my sight."
Without a second thought the creature fled the throne room, shedding crystal tears of grief, it fled to a mountain cage where it will dwell for all enernity lest it is freed from its curse by a pure heart who can see past the grizzly exterior and love the man imprisoned within that ghastly creature's heart.
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Dagon Alderian is a powerful overlord of the the realm of Entholia, and he rules from the largest and strongest of all the kingdoms, the man who controls the golden throne controls most of the world. Dagon has already conquered Anaphar and Nictaros, two of the six regions of Entholia other than the royal city. The kingdoms that have not yet been conquered are gathering their forces to attack and destroy Dagon before he does the same to them. The people who live in kingdoms already conquered by Dagon are forming another rebellion but their spirits are quickly fading at the ever present reminder of their first failure at ridding themselves of Dagon, the banishment of their leader Asmodeus, and the imprisonment of their hero, Abbadon.
Amongst the people there are some who see things the way Dagon does, and they join the rebels only to sabotage them from the inside. Some of the people in powerful positions are benifitting from the new regulations and think that it would be best if Dagon is allowed to continue his conquest, they believe that it would be much better to join him then be destroyed by him. Most of the people are afraid of Dagon and they go about their lives trying not to attract too much attention to themselves
The strongest warriors of the land are gathering, trying to improve the spirits of the people, give them courage and unite them to defeat Dagon.
But can they do it?
Amongst the people there are some who see things the way Dagon does, and they join the rebels only to sabotage them from the inside. Some of the people in powerful positions are benifitting from the new regulations and think that it would be best if Dagon is allowed to continue his conquest, they believe that it would be much better to join him then be destroyed by him. Most of the people are afraid of Dagon and they go about their lives trying not to attract too much attention to themselves
The strongest warriors of the land are gathering, trying to improve the spirits of the people, give them courage and unite them to defeat Dagon.
But can they do it?
