Nox Ferrum

”In this garden of crimson, there will be only silence.”

The Embraced Child.On the evening of a Lunar EclipseHe was born to family of magically gifted individuals, but not even magic would not be able to prevent what was going to happen. The child was born weak and had faint breath, the Doctors had estimated that he had possibly hours to live on. Disheartened and disappointed, his father would leave the room with a heavy heart.As for the child’s mother, her love for her baby was vast and unending, the thought of losing her beautiful boy so soon nearly shattered her heart and if medicinal means could not help and magic too risky on the young body, she would have to just take those risks.What followed next was unknown besides Mother and Son, but when the child’s father would return, he came back to his wife deceased and his son, crying with the strongest set of lungs that he has ever heard a child have.. . .As the years passed, Nox Ferrum would grow under the strict guidance of his father and the finest tutors that money could afford, teaching him in the ways of strategy, organization, and manipulation, but there was one field where this ‘teaching’ was the most harshest…Combat.Nox was born with special purpose, his family was a rising power in the world and with his father growing older, he was meant to be the one that ruled when he came of age.Yet, this did not come without a cost. His family was divided and everyone had their intrigues and wants, especially with their own intent for the child…They wished to know secrets employed by his mother at the moment of his birth and her death, but all attempts of even getting close to him were denied by his father.This left Nox feeling quite alone, spending many of his hours tending to his mother’s garden, but also gave him time to train on his own volition and it would be here that he personally discovered many secrets about himself…His mother was never truly gone. Not in a living sense, but something else…The years would pass until the eve of his grand ascension was coming, as is tradition, Nox was to make a weapon that would be not only an extension of himself, but act as a symbol of his status. He was gone for nearly an entire day’s worth of time and when he returned, his entire Bloodline was horrified at what they saw.The young heir, wielding a horrible scythe and channeling diabolical magics..It would be here that he revealed to them all the truth, that his mother, in her desperation to save him, first she tried to pray to the Heavens to save her child, to provide succor in this most desperate hour, but when she received only silence, she went to another option and conducted a ritual that would channel her life essence into his own in a bargain to a powerful demon. The creature saw the potential that this boy had within his body and accepted the pleading mother’s offer.He would embrace the child, unifying his mother’s spirit and his own essence to the young baby, saving his life and strengthening his magical abilities and his body to greater heights…He also revealed that he knew the twisted games of political intrigue that has long plagued this family and how much of it damaged their goals.If he was to rule in this family, there would need to be vast changes in practices and traditions…Starting with a change in Hierarchy.Century old stones of the Nox family estate ran red with blood as the weapon that they had forged turned on them.As for his father, in the last moments, he came to realize the grand folly of his way, which was that the treatment of his son wasn’t going to lead him down the path of leadership, but only gear him towards chaos…He met his death with a single tear running down his cheek…By the end of the massacre, now freed from familial obligations, he would be left to his own devices…Now, he rules with an iron hand over the nation that his family allowed to be trapped in a mire of tedious political schemes and tiresome corruption.All the while, he has to endure something else.A strange desire that gnaws upon him like a cancer, whispering thoughts of destruction and darkness within his mind, but also giving contrasting words of kindness and compassion..He would have to figure out the source of these words within his soul and make a decision for himself.To ignore or embrace the silence?

On the day of his birth, he was born too weak to live, but his mother was a powerful mage with vast knowledge and in an act of desperation and love, sacrificed herself to save her child...

No good deed goes unpunished, such was the case of Nox's mother, having offered her own soul to greater powers in exchange of keeping her son alive. A mighty being saw this as an opportunity and would take this bargain, but his mother was crafty and this deal was actually a lure to seal herself and the fool demon into her son, ensuring Nox's safety, but also his growth...The creature manipulated everything from within since the King began his rule, whispering words of destruction to replace those of benevolence, of darkness instead of safety to his people. As if trying to turn the land of the living into the dominion it once ruled.

When embracing those that were sealed within, Nox becomes a Diabolical figure of darkness and power, reaping both lives and the souls of his enemies in great amounts..

Nulla LuxA Kingdom that was once beautiful and prosperous, filled with luscious lands and fields of majestic flowers from across the spectrum of colors that seemed to shine brightest during the night. As the nation grew, the people began to revere the moon as a symbol of divinity, even offering prayers due to having great military victories and moments of cultural advancements under the night sky.All of this would seem to change when the original royal bloodline was ended.A political incident left the old King and all of his heirs murdered with only the mysterious family of Nox to take up the throne and calm the masses.The Nox family were under constant superstition and scorn, being accused of many things such as causing uprisings among the other nations to incite wars and many assassinations within the homes of their allies.This only worsened with the King they had on the throne was a man of unyielding cruelty and his faculties being divided and hoarded as bargaining chips for power of his own family, having given them positions of power.Corruption was spreading through the air like the miasma of plague and disease that littered the city’s streets for decades.Until the King made his possible greatest mistake, he married a wonderful woman and they were about to have a child. . .On the day of Nox Ferrum’s birth, he was cursed and hated by the people, being born under a Lunar eclipse which was seen as a sign that the child would bring great disaster to both the nation and the world.It would seem that the people’s suspicions were correct.The Prince was always destined to be a monster and nothing else, fearing him even as he conquered their nation’s enemies— of which, there were many. He was raised to be the King’s hammer to a solution and everyone could see it. . .Everyone, except the royal family, too preoccupied in their games of politics and personal intrigue that they failed to see the beast they had made, until it turned its fangs upon them.The people never cared for the King and even seemed to celebrate at the death of the royal family as a whole, thinking that Nox Ferrum would, despite all evidence to the contrary, be the shining figure that would save this nation and cleanse the stagnation and desolation that has weighed them down.In his own way, he did exactly that. Cleanse the nation in a blistering inferno that is. . .In the years that followed, the ‘King’ has turned the nation into a desolate killing floor.Crime is not tolerated and punished with extreme prejudice, religion and all forms of worship have been forbidden with an even worse in comparison to crime.There would be no superstition, no prayers offered to anything besides one another and the blades that they hope would try to kill their King, but that did not mean they grew weaker as a result. . .In his twisted way, Ferrum has cleansed corruption after a rather gruesome display of every single noble that did not pay their tithe to the nation, bodies found spiked along his castle walls, and their enemies have not dared to try and invade for their armies vanish upon entering their borders.There were even rumors that the King unleashed creatures beyond mortal horror on to this land in the name of furthering the nation’s growth, for what purpose? He will not say.The nation turned into an abyss and the night sky was no longer seen as something of reverence, but turned into a symbol of fear due to the possibility that their King was wandering the streets to ensure his populace was obeying his decrees and weed out those who seek to only be a hindrance to the nation.