https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2e8lnqwwk
Cold wind washed over the forsaken, Northern landscape as it did every other day... yet something stirred within these lands. A closer look taken, a figure seemed to be pushing ahead against the winds, surging deeper and deeper north by the minute. With robes fluttering, (Shi) trecked across the landscape, shivering violently as he approached a monolith of a black wall... one made of obsidian
The figure was not alone however, no, looking more closely into the blizzard a form could be just barely seen besides him, that of a Harbinger, and more notably Shae’tan. Although it’s trail left no imprints, and it’s armor near perfectly blended into the landscape, the presence of it always was palpable, especially to that of Shi. “Just a bit further child... the end nears...” it stated ominously
Entering the caldera of obsidian, Shi near froze from what was seen... the sculpture of a dragon head that one stood dormant no longer had the placated disposition as previous visits. Instead, within its mouth glowed a viscous magma, pouring down from the mouth as blood from a wound, a figure standing within the open maw
“Master” Shae’tan called forwards, stepping onto the corrupted bridge and taking a knee as Shi hung back upon the same bridge. “What have you brought me this day...” he growled in a subhuman voice, gravely and unnaturally old. With that, Shae’tan stepped backwards, allowing Shi to advance forwards, who repeated the same action of kneeling with the aid of Shae’tan’s taloned gauntlet.
“You seek power? Immortality?” Setherien spoke in the same monotone, eyeing the two below, “I can grant you this wish... but I ask for one thing in return.” he concluded with a slight hiss. With a bow of his head, Shi spoke lightly, “Anything sir...”, carrying a nervous, and devout tone in his voice. “You shall serve me until the end of times...” Setherian began, “But with the world in my grasp, I control even time itself, I control the chain of events. You will serve me eternally... And if you betray me, you will live the last of your days in agony between this world and the next, until I deem you are worthy of being expelled from existence.” Setherian stated in almost a business like tone, clawed hands clasping afront of a blood red armored skin.
“O-of course my lord...” Shi chocked out, bowing his head as if those words were enough. “Very well... let the ceremony begin. I have not spoken these words since the day I laid the order of the Golden Lance to waste. This is a good day... this signifies the fall of Anthos and the beginning of my reign over the mortal races. From this day forwards, you shall serve me eternally, purified from the bounds of flesh and the constraints of mortality... Shi, Loche Faelcyn” Setherien started, raising his hands as a crimson and blue light over took his eyes, drakaar fire forming within his grasp.
With those words, a northern flare was visible as the flames, contrasting the cold about them, enveloped Shae’tan and Shi, screams of agony and pain rising from the Mortal as Shae’tan watched from the side, seeing a black mist slowly... ever so slowly leak from the being as it was reduced to ashes. Still within the wrath of Setheiren’s purifying blaze, Shae’tan took but a small blood shard from it’s robes, flapping in the flame as if they were wind upon the outside of the caldera, and held it towards the now roasted Shi. As if by magnetic attraction, the smog arising from Shi’s corpse filled the blood shard, giving it a neon red glow... only visible as the flames finally receided.
With a sidewards glance to Setherien, Shae’tan effortlessly launched the shard towards the drakaar, Setherian catching it without issue. “See him fit for a set as soon as possible. this one has a lot to learn.” Shae’tan stated poignantly with a bow of its head, turning about on its heel, before setting back out into the freezing cold, but one other blood shard in its grasp, “We’ve one more to find yet...”.
Its proverbial eyes opening, Orokana stared out from within the confinement of a rust colored helm, made of the same material as that of the original Harbingers. At once, voices filled its collective mind, a chaos like no other that could be sustained by no mortal... yet Orokana seemed to be, numb, to the pain. Not just pain, emotion, love, hate, empathy... it was the perfect tool, and that it realized as it stood, form near weightless as it surveyed the inside of the cavern, seven Harbingers, the Keeper, and Setherien himself creating a semi-circle about its position, and at once, it realized that this... is where it belonged.
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