The Early Days
Title: The Early Days
Author: Arda Windson
I dedicate this text to
Dr. Jill Ashcroft, a
lass with a life that
was too short, but she
left many who loved
her. She did give me
the courage for this
text.
It will be written
in the third person,
for it is easier for me
to put to paper and
remember as such.
Arda was borne many many, many years past. His first memories are as a small lad in the streets of the city of moonglow. One day when looking for food an old man did come to him and told him he would give a roof over his head and food in his stomach if he would do chores for him and assist in his experiments.
Not knowing what he was getting himself into, he agreed. The old man did say mystic words and from the ground arose a red moongate. To the young lad it seemed as if the yawning maw of a great beast or a opening to hell. It was the latter, for after he entered the gate he was trapped inside of the tower of the old man.
In the years that passed, the young lad suffered much torture and saw many fearful sights, The old man turned out to be one known as Vermillion, he was a very evil and corrupt alchemist and mage. Although Arda did suffer much, he did learn much as well, for during the early mornings or the late nights when his master was sleeping or deep in a trance or other such task, the lad did sneak off to the study of the old man, to read in his spellbooks and journals of alchemy. He knew that if he was ever caught it could be the death of him but the choice was to either die in servitude or die in an attempt at escape.
On one fateful night, the old man did have Arda help him in drawing a summoning circle. He gathered the needed suplies for the circle and the old man did set about conjuring a great daemon. But as fate would have it something went awry with the binding of the beast and it did break free of the circle. It did grab the old man by the robe and spouted off that while he attempted to make him his slave, The daemon would make sure that for that offence, the old man would suffer an eternity of slavery and servitude. Seeing his chance to escape, young arda did run to the study, where he had hidden runes, and reagents, and did spirit himself from that place. He did vow that he would forever remember the name of that daemon, Nazool, Nazool the dark.
Arda then did set forth to the great Library, this was in the days when the lady Mariah was curator of the Lycaeum. She did help Arda track down how he might have come to be here. She did suggest that he did visit the city of Wind. Mayhaps the great mages of that city would be able to help him in his task. Arda returned one time to his tower of hell, to remove all of value, both arcane and mundane. He did find someone to buy some of the treasures gained and did find place to store the rest.
With that done, He did
set of for the forest
of samlethe, But that
is another story......
