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Durion's Legacy
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Forenote: This is not necessarily meant to entertain, but to tell a more serious, dark story, in a shortened form (yes, this is the shortened form and it's still fairly lengthy in description.) Also, it is a work in progress, so while I accept constructive criticism openly, don't be too harsh 
Lastly, this is directly related to my character, Thalion Rissien, and my soon-to-be alt character, Theren. It is the story of how they came to be who they are, and what they are.
Lastly, this is directly related to my character, Thalion Rissien, and my soon-to-be alt character, Theren. It is the story of how they came to be who they are, and what they are.
Durion Rissien: a Corrupt Elf, a darkblood and a heretic. He is practically the living embodiment of evil. At a young age, he was raised by his passive, uncaring parents. He murdered them for their negligence when he reached the age of seventeen. These were the first two of many horrible deaths he would cause
Durion was a torturer of the innocent. Over 150 years old, he all but destroyed the entire family of Thalion Rissien save Theren, whom he took in as his son, and Thalion himself, who is unfortunately known as Durion's great grandson.
Durion had a "game" planned, a method in his manipulation and destruction of the Rissien family, through which he would cause chaos and suffering not only in the family, but outside it as well. To keep it a narrow family, he would take one offspring of each generation and take him or her in as his apprentice at a young age. Before too long, the apprentice would quite willingly and eagerly kill all but one of their siblings. Then, Durion would dispose of the apprentice one way or another. This way, there would always remain only one branch of the family.
Durion swept a beautiful Wood Elf off her feet and married her, the poor girl being clueless of the evil work she was being used for. They had three children, all male. Then, after a few short years, Durion killed his wife, and secretly trained his youngest son as his apprentice, whom had grieved the most after the tragic "accident" that had killed his mother. Once at the age of seventeen -- the same age at which Durion murdered his parents -- the boy, named Tarailil, killed his older brother, the second-born son, whom had been very cruel to him in childhood. However, Durion "hadn't done well enough" in his training, and poor Tarailil realized the folly of his actions. He committed suicide -- due to some subtle manipulation on Durion's part (reverse psychology) -- leaving only the eldest son.
This eldest son, named Lafessthar, grieved through the tragedy of the deaths of his mother and brothers, completely oblivious to Durion's involvement. But he lived on, and married another Wood Elf, whom he had four children with -- two male and two female. When the eldest son was twenty and the youngest daughter twelve, Lafessthar's wife was fatally injured in an "accident" involving a "mis-fired" arrow while Durion was "visiting." Durion did not show very much remorse, but did enough that nobody suspected the murder as being intentional. Regardless, Lafessthar grieved very much. Two years later, he caught a fatal illness. Durion came to him on his deathbed, and told him the whole truth: he told him about all that he had done and what he planned to do, and as a final stab at his heart, Durion stabbed him through the heart. In Lafessthar's last moments, Durion whispered to him: "There is nothing you can do to save them." Durion covered this up by telling the rest that Lafessthar had asked him to, and he had done so out of mercy.
Durion dispatched Lafessthar's sons and daughters in just as twisted a manner. This time he took in the eldest son, Therque, who was by this time approaching the age of thirty. Again through manipulation, Durion turned his new apprentice into a sadistic torturer who proceeded to kill his sisters in a most gruesome manner. Therque spared his brother, the thirdborn child named Cyyr. Then Therque asked Durion to kill him the way he killed his sisters, seeking to know his sisters' pain. A deception had occurred, though. Durion killed Therque as requested, believing his reasoning to be caused by his deep insanity. However, Therque had shared the same strength of his uncle that was claimed by Durion. He realized what he had done, and he warned Cyyr of Durion's hidden acts of horror against the family. With tears in his eyes, he gave Cyyr possession of his bastard half-elf child Theren, and his last words to his brother were, "I'm sorry." Therque sacrificed himself to give his brother the advantage of Durion not knowing of the deception.
At this time, Theren was still an infant, and Cyyr's son, Thalion, was only five. Durion discovered the deception a short while later, after crossing paths with Theren's human mother. Enraged by this, he broke his method, knowing Cyyr may have figured it out by now and be ready to defend his children. Instead of targeting one of the children directly, he mentally broke down Cyyr's wife, driving her to kidnap Thalion at the age of ten and bring him to Durion. Cyyr saw that it was too late to help his love, and killed her both out of mercy and to protect Theren. He never found out where Thalion had been taken to.
Durion now secretly manipulated the innocent five-year-old child Theren, secretly meeting with him and telling him lies of his father that drew the confused child to question Cyyr constantly about what had happened. Eventually, Cyyr could no longer bear the almost-daily reminders of the acts he had failed to prevent against his family, and ended his own life. Theren, traumatised by this and not understanding it, was taken in by Durion as his son. Durion viewed Theren as holding more value than his past apprentices, and truly did care for him. Theren soon became as wicked and twistedly evil as Durion, all of his childhood innocence taken away from him. On a sidenote, Durion never was able to convince Theren that the gods did not exist, and accepted that his son did not share the same heretical views as him.
Now, this entire time, Thalion was serving as Durion's slave, enduring torture from Durion, and eventually a cloaked Theren as well, commonly. But no matter what they tried, Thalion did not give them the begging or cursing they wanted. He would scream in pain when they cut him or lashed him, but he never spoke and almost never even looked at them.
After almost ten years of enduring this, Thalion's fire elemental awoke within him, and it showed in his eyes as orange flecks that burned like hot embers when they tortured him. One day, while Durion and Theren were torturing him, lashing at him with whips, demanding him to speak, they were so enraged at his continued insolence that they did not realise that Thalion's bindings were growing weak from use. Three words slipped out of Thalion's mouth with surprising strength from the spirit that now aided his rage: "Damn you both." With this, Thalion broke free of his bindings, finding the strength and will to escape with his life as Durion and Theren stood practically in shock.
I will edit this and add more later.
