Post by Uathach Blackmantle on Jan 17, 2006 15:38:20 GMT -5
Uathach's Father:
Her father is X'atru Blackmantle [Cambion warrior and planeswalker, Godsman, and ex-Blood War assassin.]. Once a mindless slave of the Blood War and his Marilith general, he fled from the battlefields of the Grey Waste and sought refuge in the Cage, after a mortal warrior showed him mercy by not ending his wretched life.
Experiencing a sudden, unexpected change of heart - mercy and freedom were concepts unknown to him - he eventually fell in with the Believer's philosophy, and married a fellow Godsman, a blind Elf woman who wasn't repulsed by his hideous appearance or his bloodsoaked history and demonic ancestry. She taught him kindness and compassion, and love, again all alien concepts. Her unconditional love healed the rift in his dark soul, torn open by the horrors of the Blood War and the cruelty of his uncompromising marilith general.
But the elf woman fell pregant to twins. Though X'atru wanted a family, he knew that the birth of his children would kill his beloved wife.
As expected, when the twins were born, the elf died. Worse, the birth of Xune, the first of the twins, killed the mother, leaving Uathach trapped inside her mother's womb. X'atru, driven into a frenzy by grief, was forced to make a terrible decision to save his unborn daughter...
Thus Wraith was born into death.
Ever since the birth of his daughters, X'atru has been on the run, taking refuge in various Godsman safe-houses scattered throughout the Cage, and the Outlands. From contacts and allies he was soon lanned that other Cambions from the Blood War had come looking for him, with orders to "forcefully enlist" him back into the war effort.
His daughter was abducted from the crib at 3 months old, and left to die outside the Gatehouse. He returned to reclaim her, but she'd already been adopted by a childless, respectable couple of good standing. He figured this was better for her, and after another year of running, he left Xune in a friend's care. The other twin later joined the Doomguard...
What happened to X'atru largely remains a mystery, since he's always on the move, keeping a low profile to avoid discovery. But he did leave clues scattered across the Cage [a Sensory Stone containing the Twins' births in the Public Sensorium of the Civic Festhall, a sizeable legacy for his daughters filed in the Hall of Records , in addition to a few contacts and friends who know of his whereabouts, and if he's still alive.]
X'atru also maintains a small keep on some backwater, isolated Prime World.
Though X'atru knows he may never see his daughters again, he at least wants his emotionally vulnerable children to find each other, and finally know peace with what family ties they have left...
Her father is X'atru Blackmantle [Cambion warrior and planeswalker, Godsman, and ex-Blood War assassin.]. Once a mindless slave of the Blood War and his Marilith general, he fled from the battlefields of the Grey Waste and sought refuge in the Cage, after a mortal warrior showed him mercy by not ending his wretched life.
Experiencing a sudden, unexpected change of heart - mercy and freedom were concepts unknown to him - he eventually fell in with the Believer's philosophy, and married a fellow Godsman, a blind Elf woman who wasn't repulsed by his hideous appearance or his bloodsoaked history and demonic ancestry. She taught him kindness and compassion, and love, again all alien concepts. Her unconditional love healed the rift in his dark soul, torn open by the horrors of the Blood War and the cruelty of his uncompromising marilith general.
But the elf woman fell pregant to twins. Though X'atru wanted a family, he knew that the birth of his children would kill his beloved wife.
As expected, when the twins were born, the elf died. Worse, the birth of Xune, the first of the twins, killed the mother, leaving Uathach trapped inside her mother's womb. X'atru, driven into a frenzy by grief, was forced to make a terrible decision to save his unborn daughter...
Thus Wraith was born into death.
Ever since the birth of his daughters, X'atru has been on the run, taking refuge in various Godsman safe-houses scattered throughout the Cage, and the Outlands. From contacts and allies he was soon lanned that other Cambions from the Blood War had come looking for him, with orders to "forcefully enlist" him back into the war effort.
His daughter was abducted from the crib at 3 months old, and left to die outside the Gatehouse. He returned to reclaim her, but she'd already been adopted by a childless, respectable couple of good standing. He figured this was better for her, and after another year of running, he left Xune in a friend's care. The other twin later joined the Doomguard...
What happened to X'atru largely remains a mystery, since he's always on the move, keeping a low profile to avoid discovery. But he did leave clues scattered across the Cage [a Sensory Stone containing the Twins' births in the Public Sensorium of the Civic Festhall, a sizeable legacy for his daughters filed in the Hall of Records , in addition to a few contacts and friends who know of his whereabouts, and if he's still alive.]
X'atru also maintains a small keep on some backwater, isolated Prime World.
Though X'atru knows he may never see his daughters again, he at least wants his emotionally vulnerable children to find each other, and finally know peace with what family ties they have left...