Name: Shirley Xu
Email: mirative@gmail.com
Come to the dark side, we have cookies!
Hey there! I’m thinking of trying this out because it looks pretty cool. It’s my first time doing this, and I’m on school break until I go abroad to Germany in February, so I think this would be cool to try out
Bio (copied here for convenience): Sterborn was originally the royal assassin, hired by king Psemi to protect his kingdom. He was very successful, and while his identity and role were kept secret, he was pivotal to the kingdom’s prosperity, as he was able to stop any rebellion from every taking place and was treated to bountiful rewards from the king.
One day, however, Sterborn heard rumors that the king was about to have him assassinated by a younger assassin-in-training. Sterborn doubted the rumors, saying that there was no way the king had any desire of replacing him; however, one day, on a mission requested by the king, his hiding location had been booby trapped. His legs were tied with rope and pulled upwards from under him, breaking his spine at the waist and rendering him paralyzed.
The following day, Sterborn was notified that he had been replaced with a younger member of the royal court who was previously unknown to him. Furious, he set out to seek those who started the rumors and to thank them and apologize for doubting them. Furthermore, he seeked to avenge the king for his actions. He struggled to move, but with his dexterity, made it into the village.
He searched around the town, wondering where the rumors had originated. His search led him to an old house inhabited by an old woman, whome the village deemed insane, who spent her time brewing potions. She admitted that the prophecy had started as the result of a vision from a soothsaying potion she had brewed, and wanted to prove that she was no longer insane, so she tried as hard as possible to anonymously pass the rumor onto him. She then said that as recompense, she would give Sterborn a potion that would “allow him the harness the powers that could turn life into earth”, so that Sterborn could take his revenge.
Desperate to get back at the king for what he had done, Sterborn quickly drank the potion and gained the powers of decay and decomposition. His body transformed to accomodate his new abilities, and took over his mind. From then on, Sterborn only had one purpose: to reduce life to the ground as life had done to him.