Role

Chapter 24

I gigantic cloaked figured quickly swam through the dark streets, looking
over its shoulder, seeing the hunters not far behind. For the thousandth time
Arrna cursed herself for being born a Firestorm. She had lost count on how
many times she had been chased out of towns by mobs now.

For as far back as she can remember her family had been hunted by their kin.
Now, it was only Arrna left. Her mother and father had died twenty years
earlier as a mob managed to catch up with them when the village had found out
who they were, they had actually managed to live normal lives for almost ten
years before the village found out... They put up a fight which managed to get
Arrna to escape, sacrificing themselves for her.

It all started with Arrna great grandfather, Endugu Blueweed. A shaman within
the coral palace and advisor to the king. As most men with power, Endugu was
tempted of even greater powers, but unlike most storm giant he caved in to
his desires. Coming in contact with dark queen Mergulla, Endugu was promised
infinite powers, and gave into this. The lords of the light striped him of
his powers, but somehow Endugu managed to keep that quiet, and continued to
give the king and queen advice on how to run the empire of storms. His advice
only followed his own and queen Mergullas plans. And it all ended as the
great lords stepped in and thwarted his plans right after he had managed to
poison the most beloved King and Queen the empire had seen for two thousand
years.

In his final hours he realized that he had been set up by Mergulla from the
beginning, as he was desperate he used his dark powers to kill the guards and
as a fitting ending he used what powers he had left setting each of
Mergullas followers homes on fire, creating a powerful storm of dark fire,
roaming through the waters. Queen Mergulla did most likely enjoy the chaos
that her former follower caused, but it did thwart a few of her plans, and as
she appeared in the waters outside the palace, glaring at Endugu as he stood
on his balcony, she pronounced a curse to his name and with it, naming he and
his kin Firestorm, for them to be cursed throughout time bringing misfortune
to anyone around him.