Spirit of the Woodlands
Title: Spirit of the Woodlands
Author: Takhin
My mother was a
Priestess of
Takhesis. She was
captured in a battle,
and help prisoner in
the High Clerists
Tower. There, she
fell in love with a
young knight, Sir
Rodham Nikor. They
renounced their Gods
and Professions, and
Rodham freed her the
day of her execution.
They lived in a shack
in the woods, and
thats where I was
born.
I was named after Takhisis, the Goddess of Darkness. I did not follow my mothers path, however. I became a Pristess of Chislev, the Goddess of nature and the forest. I lived by her code. My father was found in the woods by a Knight of the Sword, and it was the knight's sworn duty to kill my father. Soon afetr, my mother died of grief. On her deathbed, she told me that I had a half-brother. He was a knight of the lilly, a Knight of Takhisis. I set out to find him. I saw a glint of blue in the air, and noticed the blue dragon. Somehow, I knew it was my brother. His dragon started pulling into a dive, and I watched it land. That s when I noticed an odd blue portal. He steped through it besore I could call out to him. I ran through the portal, and my world fell apart. I saw the portal slide shut behind me.
My brother was sailing through a void and into another portal. It closed before I got to it. All around me, I saw these odd portals opening and closing. Then I saw it. My salvation, and my downfall. A black portal. I slid through it, and came face to face with the creature called "The Guardian." He stared at me, and I knew I was going to die. All of a sudden, time froze. My Goddess, Chislev, spoke to me. She told me that I had to go back through the black gate and I would see a blue gate ahead of me. I was to enter it and find a man named Dalamar. He would help me find my brother. She also said that as I passed through the black gate, I was to speak the ultimate Cleric spell. It would rob me of my powers, bbut it would close this black gate and keep the guardian trapped in this relm. I did as she said. As I passed through the black gate, I spoke the incantation. I felt my powers slip away, and saw the gate close. Just before it closed, I heard the Guardian scream and he vowed revenge on me.
A blue gate opened and I fell into it, and into the vast woodlands outside of Britain. There I met a young man named Ng. He was not well, and he was prone to fits of homicidal rage. I found him after he had just killed a family. He did not know that he had killed them. I showed him, and he was so overcome with guilt that he took out his dagger and plunged it into his chest. I screamed and pulled the dagger out. He started to die, and I would not let him. I called to Chislev for help, and felt the familiar tingle. She was with me once again. I healed Ng, and took his dagger. This I looked deep within his mind, and found about his psychosis.
He was abandoned as a child, and was raised by wisps. He suffered a horrible blow to the head, and that was when he developed the psychosis. I reached deep within him, and healed what I could. He awoke, and shoved me aside. He groped for his dagger, and then he noticed that I had taken it. He started to go into another fit, and I feared for my life, but then he calmed. All was well after that. Then it came, the dream. I saw my brother dying. I set off immediately, without even thinking of Ng. I made my way to the city ov Vesper, where I met a man clad in blue robes. He said that he knew my brother, and he took me to him. I lived in Cove, and met my brother Tasselhoff. I told hime the words that he longed to hear, that he was loved, by me and his mother.
His soul was finally eased. Many weeks later, I traveled to Moonglow. There, among the crowd, I saw Ng. We embraced, and told our stories. How he had become a theif, how I had found my brother. He agreed to come live with me in Cove. Finally, my family was complete.
