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John Abernathy used to be a charismatic gentleman.
From a young age he would captivate people with his unique eye-color.
However, there was a dark secret behind it. John's father was a shady man who made a deal with a higher being.
Something not even an average mind could comprehend. Whatever it was, the entity offered infinite power to protect the settlement of Glenvale at the time.
After accepting such power, he chickened out, and the power was then passed on to John but with a caveat.

The caveat was that in exchange for power, the entity desired souls.
Since John's father had failed, all memory of him had been wiped after he died shortly after.
On top of this, his descendants would bear purple eyes to remind everyone of the deal he made.
A long road of suffering was paved with good intentions.

At 18, his powers surfaced. Instead of hiding them, he embraced them-
much to the dismay of the townsfolk who accused him of sorcery (which was highly frowned upon).
The authorities captured him, and attempted to have him locked up,
but a blast of power surged from him, giving the group of people apprehending him power as well, along with curses.
Hence, Glenvale's first necromancers..

After fleeing from his captors, he studied into his magic more.
At first, he even attempted to use it for good.
Around this time he met his wife, Abigail and had two children, twins.
Sadly, Abigail did not make it. After the death of his wife,
he sought to find a way to bring her back- digging deeper to the root of his power.
People began to notice this and he needed a distraction-
He created a hotel for one and all to stay!

The ploy worked. Maybe even a little too well.
He became very wealthy after that.
To flaunt the wealth and prosperity he earned from such a grandiose hotel, he decided to have extravagant parties.
For the first time, the entity spoke to him.

"Be rid of these party-goers, for I hunger for their souls."

The voice in his head became stronger with each party that passed until he could not contain it any longer.
He had reached his breaking point and screamed for it to go away. It did not.
As he screamed a blast of power surged once again throughout the ballroom.
Knocking down the chandelier and injuring guests who were also given power, but something backfired.
They were not cursed. Hence, Dead End's first witches.

As he screamed, a man in a dark cloak had walked up to the stage where John was.
It was said the entity transformed into a silhouette of such a man and stabbed him in the back before the memory of such a monster was wiped away.
All the people remembered was John laying in a pool of blood on the stage.

He awoke in a crypt.
He used the sewer system to get back to the hotel, his hotel, seeing its name changed to Dead End.
His children were older, taking care of things as he would,
but he wouldn't dare put them through the emotion strain of seeing him as a rotting corpse.

He sought refuge deep within the hotel's walls.
Somewhere no one, not even his children could find him.
Since then, he has found ways to become more and more powerful.

After all 3 of his family members died, he 'cursed' three objects that would create a shadow of dark magic and occult energy over the entire town.
Deep within Nightshade forest, he turned the berries of a nightshade tree pure white for the pure and kind nature of his wife.
Inside an old factory, a machine that's been long dead- ready to awaken- to represent the twin who loved machinery and to guild things.
At the other side of town, a lone hibiscus flower accidentally turned cold by the touch of death,
supposedly a kind gesture to the twin who enjoyed plantlife.

With these three objects hidden in their respective places,
he even went as far to use pieces of his very soul to keep them hidden
and to hopefully reap revenge on the one he believes murdered him.