The Lore of Pyromancer Eden
Eden always liked fire. Since he was little, he was passionate about seeing the ways he mold the fire. He noticed that its color and intensity varied depending on the matter that was burned.
At the age of five he burned dead animals to distinguish the different flames according to the beast that burned. Then he decided to burn live animals.
At age seven he burned his parents alive. He watched, stunned and dumbfounded, as the flames consumed their bodies and their home. His neighbors still remember that boy standing, watching the fire. Nobody could explain what was the reason for the smile on his face.
Nobody blamed him, everyone believed that he was one more victim of the fire. A wizard named Ulysses took pity on him and took him in. A small beast that lived in Ulysses' basement, a topaz slime, approached Eden attracted by his magical power. Seeing that the little boy had a talent for magic, the old wizard decided to teach the boy.
Eden learned fast and furious, and when old Ulysses wasn't looking, he enjoyed mastering the pyromancy under the watchful gaze of his slime. He grew up and soon became a young master capable of creating and mastering fire, conducting alchemical studies and experiments in secret, housed in an abandoned forest cabin. He kidnapped living beings, such as cattle or pets, which he mutilated and consumed their parts with different types of flames to study all the nuances. When animals were no longer useful to him, Eden began experimenting with people.
He learned to make the Dragon Firework, a powerful weapon capable of creating an explosion many meters away in a few seconds. One day, when he was practicing with that weapon, its explosion was seen by Ulysses. Going to see what happened, he came across Eden's lair and his wicked experiments. The two wizards clashed, and Eden managed to overcome old Ulysses by reducing his skeleton to ashes, without showing the slightest bit of regret. Then he took his things and left town.
He went from city to city, offering his knowledge in pyromancy in the different universities that were there, and always found work as a teacher. In his spare time, he kept experimenting. His laboratory was guarded by igneous traps and fire elementals. Nobody wondered why there were so many students who "dropped out" in the middle of the year.
The End of Pyromancer Eden?
Axel was a promising young man, a member of the family that ruled the city, a nephew of the governor. Humble, modest and gentle, he wanted to use his magical arts to help the people.
He entered the university to learn to master regenerative magic, under another name to avoid favoritism and demand the same as the others in his studies. He acquired a forged identity and posed as a young farmer with no family.
Eden saw that young man and believing that no one would miss him, he kidnapped him. He started playing as he always did by burning small parts of his body until Axel fainted from all the inscrutable pain. Eden healed him so he could keep playing with him a little longer.
When word spread that a member of the ruling family disappeared, an investigation was opened and Eden was caught. The investigation team got horrified that Axel was not the only one, but many more experienced a worst fate. They found out an unspeakable amount of pots filled with ashes from past experiments.
He was arrested and locked up, sentenced to death. However, the death sentence was not carried out, as the governing clan had Eden transferred to the palace, and in their dungeons, the wizard was tortured in many different ways, by order of the governor.
The tourture started with screams of begging for merciness. He tried so many forms to ask for forgiveness. However, the tortures keep going. Suddenly, Eden had a realization as he was being tortured with fire. He understood that the pain is a vital element of any being as it reminds that they do exist.
More tortures were done to Eden. Yet, every time he experienced pain, he was smiling with a hollow look. The governor, realizing that, decided to schedule the death for the very next day.
The topaz slime sneaked into the palace the previous night of the scheduled death. His familiar melted his shackles, and escaped from the cell.
He decided to go to the forst to begin his journey to find a fire magic that will be able to not only burn the meat, but reach his soul and burn it. His new belief pushed him to travel with the purpose of finding, if it existed, a flame such as this one: the Sacred Flame.
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