Beginning, and motivations
Added Thu Jun 24 16:14:29 2004 at level 1:
Muarghat was born in an isolated village deep under the River Ernin, Muarghat was born in an isolated village deep under the River Ernin, Kemberhold outside of Galadon. Tribal legend held that the villages founder was once a great warrior, one of the whispered Haters of Magic.This warrior, Kemberon, was also a devout follower of the winged Phoenix, or so said the chronicles. Eventually, though, his spiritual beliefs and his war against magic clashed, and he departed the Haters and even active worship of the Phoenix to found his own village, which came to be known as Kemberhold. Based upon his beliefs, that all magic was an agent of evil, and that evil must be stopped at any cost, he and a few of his brothers of the storm began to make their own war against magic and the darkness they saw spreading across Thera. They all worshiped the Phoenix, too, but after centuries their worship became so isolated that they lost even their deitys name, knowing him only by the bird that arose from the ashes It was to this environment that Muarghat, son of Dhavren, was born. For centuries, since the founding of Kemberhold, there had been no true contact with the Haters of magic. Indeed, the Wave Knights of Kemberhold were rarely seen on the surface world, emerging from their watery fortress only to assault the drow, or to fight the errant enclave of magi. Indeed, the people of Kemberhold became incredibly isolated, yet in this isolation they found security. Muarghat was born and raised knowing deep in his hart that evil must be wiped from Thera, that the foul tortures, oppression and corruption caused by darkness in their hearts had to be stopped. He knew, too, that magic was simply an agent of evil, that even the most outwardly pious and rightous mages were, in their tainted hearts, working to spread evil across the land. So, like any young man of Kemberhold, he trained. In time, he became a Wave squire, serving one of the greatest knights of the Hold, his father Dhavren He saw battle, too. Countless fights and raids were staged during his training, from an attack on a duergar Clan to the razing of a magis keep. But when it became time for Muerghat to take the vows, to become a full Wave Knight, he knew in his heart that his dedication was too strong to be content with the periodic raids conducted by the Knights of the Hold. No, though it saddened his family, and indeed all of Kemberhold, he left on the day he became a knight. He left to dedicate all of his life to fighting for the values of Kemberhold, to combat the spread of evil across Thera, and to destroy the evil taint of magic that had corrupted so many lives.