Lathiari And Kyrina 2
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Title: Lathiari and Kyrina 2
Author: Cear Dallben
They were vilified, lost all social status they had gained to that point. The council still kept them in the fold, but their dreams of wielding true power within it faded.
Lathiari and Kyrnia sold their family estate to fund their experiments. They built a tower on the coast and hired on two servants to deliver them the supplies they would need. They had no use for the outside world. All that mattered was the work, which they were still unable to make a breakthrough on.
Until a humid summer night, when they happened upon what they believed was the missing element. They removed their mother’s body from the chamber that had guarded her from the elements and began the process.
Lips and teeth curled around the words of power as reagents gave up their energies weaving a fine spider web mist around their mother’s motionless form.
With a ragged intake of breath, Alinae opened milky eyes and viewed a world she thought left peacefully behind. Her throat cracked as a scream drug its way from her chest. Lathiari attempted to hold his mother down as Kyrnia spoke soothingly into her ear. To no avail they attempted every means to calm down the furious wailing. Hours passed, and Alinae finally had the means to speak.
With a voice worn rough through years of silence she said, “My body…my life…thou hath returned none of these things to me…thine pathetic magicks have rendered me thus…a crippled vessel of passions long faded…a pain that every section of my body screams…a death, desperate to reclaim me…how dare thee interrupt such blissful sleep with this mockery of form…thou wilt never taste the glories thine hearts hath dreamt…mine power is ereby resolved to see you cursed…forbidden to walk amongst others…feared, and hated.”
Deep sobs left their mother’s body, a wailing mournful sound that cut through their resolve like the hottest steel. Lathiari and Kyrnia glanced at each other, and accepted their destiny. They cut their mother into many pieces, and burned all of them, save the eyes, which they had fashioned into necklaces they wear to this day.
Their mother’s words had renewed their purpose. They wished to see their experiment succeed, be easily reproducible, no matter the cost. Someone would purchase their magnificent breakthrough, the council would have to notice them, and the world would have to respect them. So what if the petty rabble turned their invention to the creation of abominations, the truth is in the act…and the act was now achievable.
As their experiments grew more detailed, and their subjects for vivisection became closer and closer to humanoid, they hid their experiments from the Mage guild.
When the guild discovered that the two had been “researching” on the corpses of fallen soldiers, they were ordered to cease all experimentation. Appeasing the council by stating they would no longer use human subjects for their experiments, they abandoned Magincia once and for all and moved to a small estate located outside of Yew.
All of their prejudices about the mainland were verified; the crowds, the stench, the creatures roaming the countryside. They felt the world would be better off if perhaps the population was controlled as tightly as herded sheep. However, they had not turned their back on their well-intended studies. The bitter pill of their Mother’s death still drove their research forward. It was at this point that they stumbled upon the ancient dark magicks of Necromancy.
This proved to be an irresistible shortcut to their goal of providing simple non-intrusive methods of manipulating inherent life forces. {Although this reporter hath never seen Necromancy practiced, I have been told it is the most foul and crude of all the sorcerers arts.
May the virtues protect us if it ever comes to common usage in our fine land} They continued their research on corpses, but, as the forces of the magicks they worked began to take hold of their impatient nature, they started to capture evil humanoid creatures. This lead to the capture of rogues, then the elderly, then the infirm, and then lost children.
Their greed to control life knew no bounds. They began to experiment on themselves, using the stolen life forces of the subjects they waylaid to enhance their own abilities. Their love grew deeper, the body count grew higher, and the blood…well, there was never enough blood.
At long last the Yew council discovered these activities, and received the mandate of Lord British himself to banish these two from civilization. When they went, en masse, to route the pair, they found Lathiari and Kyrnia gone from the abode. Being a relatively superstitious lot, they left the house as it stood. Afraid of the knowledge that might lurk inside. To this day people had heard tales of the Brother and Sister’s return…only now has it come to pass.