Berig     Created on Monday, 15 August 2005 15:09  
  Vaughn  
 
My life until around the 25th year of Yuri's reign are a blur to me, a darkness was always in the distance.  I was not sure what it was or why it was there...I just knew it was there.  I could not tell if I was running to it to do battle or to join it in it's quest to envelop the world.  I wondered the kingdoms for many years unsure of my place learning all that I could but never really sharing who I was....you see...I didn't know who that was, so how could I share it?  All this learning was for the ability to one day, somehow, learn what this darkness was that I saw.

The seer's in many villages were unable to tell me what it was that was consuming my thoughts.  My mind was filled with questions, constantly running through my mind when I came across Elysse in the halls of the LostKingdom clan.  For the first time in many years, I felt at ease speaking with someone.  She told me a story of her family and their battle against people possessed by jealousy.  This began to trigger some memories in my own mind, a single name came to my lips...M'Keshic.  While continuing to speak with her about her own people's plight, my memory suddenly rushed back to me...

....M'Keshic was an old man that had known me from a very young age.  He saw something he had not seen in quite sometime, a heart not affected by greed or lust for power...but a desire to protect.  We began training hard for the next 5 years in a variety of techniques.  One day after finishing a quest for M'Keshic, I found my teacher sick on the ground.  He was weak but spoke softly of a great darkness coming from the east.  He reached for his staff to pull himself up, but he just fell to the ground again.  With eyes closed to the light, he simply said, "They will need you in the east."  With that my teacher passed away...I grabbed my rucksack and left my village, not sure where I was going.

My mind filled with these memories and that was when I knew why I had come to these kingdom's...there was a darkness coming here and we needed to be prepared.  The next few years, Elysse and I grew closer before eventually we were married in the 43rd year of King Yuri's reign.  At this time  I was welcomed into the Kendari family to protect my wife from whatever is to come.