Character Development => Character Stories => Topic started by: Raven on April 27, 2020, 18:21:07 PM
Title: "Hell Schatten", a Licht brotherhood eulogy by Coeus
Post by: Raven on April 27, 2020, 18:21:07 PM
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Cain and Abel... Romulus and Remus. Power and love throughout history, agents of unfathomable power, and the instrument of our ascension or fall… This tale was no different, the story of the lover, the defender, and the judge. The tale of when the light has fallen to the endless shadow, the eternal ouroboros of the Hell Schatten.
“A tree branch is a strange thing, discarded and serves no purpose in the natural order, forsaken and more importantly weak & fragile, easy to break under any stress yet when you strand them together, united; they can make damns that hold whatever the mighty water current can throw at it”.
This was the tale of the Hell Schatten. Branches in a world of gods and monsters. Ironically, The Three Musketeers of this bleak world. The forsaken Elmar, the lover of this tale, our Athos. Leopold, the judge and without any denial or doubt, he’s our Aramis, a man who hesitates between his duty calling and his fondness for women and scheming. At last, we have our defender, Garet the D'Artagnan of this tale, a man who just wanted to have his family whole again.
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"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one that crumbles from within, that's dead. Forever."
Before I start on the end, let me tell you the beginning of our little branches, united from birth against the harsh reality of this world, since the days of yore they knew that they either rise together or they fall together and they did…in a way, survived the cruel childhood in a forsaken orphanage of a country in ruins…answered to the call of duty and justice, some even died for it…twice.
Their eyes opened to the horrors and the truth of this world but it didn’t falter them, they didn’t decide to go quietly into the night, they didn’t fall without a fight like the rest of the masses. They stood back, they fought; reaping epic victories and tragic losses.
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Do you recall my example of branches, I lied...; Even the mightiest branches united still crack un the constant weight of the world and to maintain the structure you need to move and so they did. Their journey cost more than they ever imagined and more than they endured but that’s what it means to be human, however insignificant they might be, They still fought, They sacrificed and eventually they found a way to win regardless of the cost…that road took the best among them, Elmar the kind and its place came Naumtaehnsheanami, the angel of the rising tide, taking its body but not its place.
That was the beginning of the end… It wasn’t much but they had each other, they loved and cared one another and Leopold never possessed to the strength to let go of Elmar, made himself believe that whatever that being is, that he was family and in time even Garet started to warm up to him; Shaumaten, the angel of falling wind or Elmar for simplicity sake…was a being from a time unknown to them, maybe the beginning itself, maybe even older but still he was a being of kindness and compassion.
His touch meant healing and life itself, his smile and light were the haloes of a literal angel but we all must remember that even the devil was once an angel. Leopold was a man on a mission, the mission of righteousness, to stand a judge to every injustice, every horror, every smile and tear then deliver his unbiased and final decision as to the inevitable arbiter of their existence yet let’s not also forget that he was a man, a man who dared to love, dared to smile and dared to help….he was a human and a good man till the bitter end. And finally, Garet, the middle child of this group.
There’s not much to say regarding him, he was a man that life has dealt him a shitty hand, over and over. A man burdened by his failure as a brother, as a guardian to the point he decided to dip himself into hell itself to have the power to save his family and brothers. “So how did it end?” It all started with a dream…a whisper in the back of Elmar’s head that stirred a powerful emotion within his immortal flame, the most dangerous emotion in the whole cosmos “Love”. Everything has a connection to someone, somewhere but to Elmar’s kind, that statement was taken literally…His old lover, the angel of rising tide…quite the pair, the angel of the falling wind and the angel of the rising tide.
Love, the place where the falling angel meets the rising fear. So he went forth to answer the unending call for love, leading him the city of love itself “Paris” where he searched the catacombs of Flambeau, the timeless castle of Burgundy yet little did he know that he was a thread being woven by powers that goes beyond our understanding, Vistar the mocker of Ariel, the angel of the sphere and the gardener of the eternal moon, he played Elmar like a fiddle with his love…as we all know, love is the death of duty.
Indeed, it was the beginning of the end but before I foretell how it all went down, how the Hell “Light in german” met the Schatten “The shadow” and truly became an ouroboros devouring its own tail for eternity. The thorny flower of love started to bloom within the endless stormwall of Elmar’s hear yet it wasn’t pure nor unrequired but simply a tool by Vistar to push the angel of life itself to create a vessel worthy enough to hold the old gods themselves, that task meant one thing; To violate everything he ever believed in, preached or loved, a path that had to lead him astray into the endless spiral of torment.
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Torment is the greatest of all warriors. What it doesn’t destroy, it alters beyond recognition. An angel of kindness turned spiteful and full of hatred, leeching on the last few rays of hope & love given to him by his Eternal dominator. The die was cast and his plan to create a perfect vessel, codenamed C.A.S.T.O.R “Combat Assimilated Special Termination Operator”, fooling everyone on its purpose but like I was saying before, for every light there’s a shadow and vice-versa, and in this tail the light was Garet. While Leopold was busy handling the never-ending task of stabilizing the god-forsaken town of Angel pine from the endless hordes of the damned.
Garet was on the hunt, following Elmar from the shadows, watching, waiting for his time to move. Yet sadly Garet’s greatest mistake was that he underestimated Elmar when he planned to take him down on his own in the darkness to ease up on his brother’s pain, for he knew that from all the people on this planet, there’s 2 he can never judge, he can never condemn. Leopold too was blinded by love and who can blame him. “I pity you” Those were Garet’s last words as a man who gave everything, he had to strike down his brother but he just couldn’t shoot that face and he fell. Looking at the waves of the San Fierro beach under the night’s stars looking at the impossible line in the horizon as his time draws near.
Every memory he had, every laugh with his brothers, his greatest achievements chased by it … the impossible line where the waves conspire. Where they return and that was his ending, an unknown corpse on a beach. The news traveled to Leopold who drowned his sorrows in the only way he knows how (Redacted). From a judge to an avenger to his own brother’s trail, leading to one simple conclusion as his eyes opened to the truth and the larger play at hand. Castor, Garet, Elmar, and the dead bodies in his wake, everything made sense to him.
for the first time in his life, Leopold wanted to be wrong, wanted to be mistaken but the truth was laid naked before him…there was no other way. His brothers, their lives were forged in their unbreakable bond. A bond that withstood the great horrors of this world and brought forth the reign of Hell Schatten.
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Born from the depths of unity and love, rooted in the bond of trust, our bond emerged out of the chaos. As it grew, so too did the might of the Imbued. We aimed to create a world of peace, a world of prosperity. A world that lives in the shadow and safety of the great Chillad mountain, a mountain that has come to be the graveyard of countless damned! Now, on that day, that power was to be tested! The Celestial, Elmar, seeks to destroy all that they have wrought. And in that mountain, where it all began, everything ended.
As Elmar confronted Leopold who gathered all his powers and knowledge far and wide to match a celestial in combat, an impossible battle yet he prevailed as even the night sky itself glowed with the white rays of heaven itself, banishing the night once more as the perverted might of heaven & hell itself descended upon them, returning them to the start dust they that once were.
“Goodbye, brother.”
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Title: Re: "Hell Schatten", a Licht brotherhood eulogy by Coeus
Post by: Iron on April 27, 2020, 19:54:07 PM
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Title: Re: "Hell Schatten", a Licht brotherhood eulogy by Coeus
Post by: $kull on April 27, 2020, 21:26:59 PM