Ebon Skull Archives: Anton Veneficus, The Demonic Tutor
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This is reposted from OES documentation for the pleasure of the Atlantic Community. Story by Anton Veneficus of OES.
My estate, my family’s estate of seventeen generations is located in the searing and humid climate of Trinsic in almost fog bound obscurity along the hidden valley’s mountain. I had seen it once in my youth when I was perhaps two or three years old, Sarai, my mother took me there in my youth to hide from the virtue zealots of Moonglow when they first discovered our true nature. You see my family is one of remarkable heritage, designated and identified by the small claw like witches finger we have joined to our pinkies. This malformation is a result of the Pact made with the first Veneficus and the dying demon-lord known as Niabock. This pact produced the prophecy of the chosen Veneficus…
It was my mother the scholar and mage in employment with the Lycaeum inscribing and researching in the occult and esoteric texts of the darker arts. She was there of her own bidding and she had the secret to hide, the witch’s finger, since it was imperative that the virtue fanatic scribes of Moonglow did not discover her true past before she discovered the ritual she sought she lived an obscure masquerade of lies.
After three years in employment with the Lycaeum, she had discovered the text that she had been seeking and hurriedly took it to her private quarters to inscribe it. She knew it would take another year to gather the components for the ritual so time was of the essence. Storming up to her quarters with the text in hand, she opened her door and a dark figure sat on her bed. It locked eyes with her and her heart melted under his hypnotic gaze. She slowly closed the door and let “Lichdom: Volume I” by Azalin the Lichlord fall to the ground as she succumbed to the strangers fiendish charms. When the stranger disrobed, she was not at all surprised to see a pair of black wings unfold embracing her into the darkness.
This was her family’s destiny as preordained by the seventeen previous generations of Veneficus witches and warlocks. The succubus would come to impregnate a Veneficus witch creating the heir that would fulfill the dark pact made by Bastion Veneficus with a strange fiend. The son would then research and create the ritual that would free the fiend from his imprisonment in Sosaria.
When she awoke after the night of passion with the stranger, she found herself imbued with an accelerated pregnancy and the text that she had found previously had disappeared with the mysterious stranger. She quickly locked her doors and turned away all who came to wake her, telling them that she was ill and would need rest this day. That evening she went into an excruciatingly painful labor giving birth to the cherubic looking child.
That child was me… The necromantic son of the essence of Niabock and now I move forward to ice isle to seek out the Ebon Skull and the realities behind my true nature. With each passing day the voice of Niabock gets stronger and stronger in my head whispering to me that I am the Demonic Tutor, the one to restore my father’s body back to his spirit.
Anton Veneficus
The Demonic Tutor