Re: Crucible of Storms: Skyforge
Aleks took a deep breath before he began, "Before I begin, I apologize because I know that you wanted to rest but this may take some time to explain. And before I forget, Mr. Cannon, I am going to need to speak with you before we leave here, as well," he nodded at the gentleman.
"My name is Aleksandr Kai-Amari Nigil, and over two hundred years ago my father, a Nephandi by the name of Lysias, apparently that some call the Despoiler, after spending years of torturing me because I was a Sleeper, my father decided that my eighteenth birthday would be the best time to sacrifice ninety-eight other Sleepers and I to tear a hole into the Abyss. He would have succeeded if not for my mother having cast a spell upon me after foreseeing the future evil my father would do. I had Awakened and my father's ritual was undone. Skip ahead two hundred years and I awake from a mystical stasis in the Sorcery Collegium of one, Headmaster Fenwick, we would find out later that he and Archmagister Tomlin were working for Bael-Shiva a.k.a. his vessel Jadesong Fire. The headmaster sent me with Khione to Prince Eurus's court on a request to assist the Prince. While en route, I made the foolish decision to take the Sine Amduscias which by extension bound me to Bael-Shiva," Aleks paused as he remembered how masterfully he had been played and it angered him.
It was a couple seconds before he began again, "The Prince would cater to my ego in the guise of pretending that I had saved him from a horde of demons, which I had but only because he played grievously injured. I joined his court as a knight cementing my bond with Bael-Shiva unbeknownst to me because I was caught up in the fantasy of being a hero. He then charged me, his new Storm Warden, with finding the sorceress Lamia. It was in that pursuit that we came across your niece," he said while looking at the Archmagister and nodding in his direction before he turned to Michael "that was looking for your daughter, Jenea. This led us to Dis-Tera where we were to fight a demon-god named Balor. We had begun fighting him when we found out that he was Samael and then Kara and Dawn showed up. Kara had tried to sell your soul... errrr shade self, whatever... and Dawn to Samael to get her soul back. She attacked me but Dawn sided with Khione, Kirin, and I to help take him down. He was reborn stronger and Dawn sacrificed a portion of his soul so that I could activate my Godslayer and together we all vanquished Samael." Aleks omitted the part about Kara taking in the remnant, hex, and essence because he had learned enough to know what that meant. He knew that Kara had assumed the mantle of Samael when she ate him, and he could have told the Archmagister at that moment, but it would have caused them to go after her, and after what Dawn had done for him... for Khione, he could return the favor, in part, by sparing his friend from having to defend herself from an onslaught of people trying to take down one of the Asmodei. And if Aleks ever saw her again maybe he could seek out her help if she was still in a position to grant it.
"It was at about that point that I had started to doubt my prince. While you were dangling in that Black Cathedral, Rurik. Kara... the hell cow, bartered with Jaecin to have you and her resurrected. We convinced Kara to abandon her deal for your's and Dawn's existence, to fight Samael which allowed her to get your soul freed and resurrect you. Apparently, you were a great teacher to Kara so she had your resurrection worked into her deal with Jaecin. You were 'unconscious' but that is how I met you and know you. Once you were resurrected, we went to find Dawn's pieces of soul and to find Lamia. That was when we had learned that Eurydice had, had Dawn killed to gain access to his graving for her and Astaroth's Black Array to rest alongside your daughter Jenea's, the Yggdrasil. It was revealed to Dawn through Devil Sight that you, Michael, and the Queen had completed the 'Vellum Project'. It was at a juncture when apparently you told the Queen that Jenea was enough and that no other girls needed to be sacrificed. We also found out that Bael wanted Dawn to assassinate the Queen and her son Daniel, but not Chalice, in his name. That is how I know Dawn. That is why I want to save your daughters Michael and my friend Ethan. That is how I know you Rurik. If Khione and I hadn't fought Kara and Samael, she was planning to sell you to Samael but he didn't even have her soul to begin with," Aleks relayed all this information without going into either Kara's new identity or any subsequent information unless it became pertinent to do so.
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