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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:55 pm
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Recently... Ka has joined the demon-hunter pride, met Farlest again and the two of them have had cubs. Those cubs are growing up fast, and learning the duties of the ranks they will hold as adults in the pride.
In the Past... Ka'hmesh originally came from a small group of lions who lived in the deep desert. They were not precisely a pride, but more of a loose group that stayed together for convenience of hunting and companionship. They had no true leaders and the members drifted in and out as they pleased.
Quite some time ago, Morifaer, the god of demons, somehow learned of this pride, and also of a treasure hidden in an oasis close to where the group roamed. No one he found, however, could tell him what his treasure was or how it was hidden. Not even exactly where. This frustrated the god, and he decided that if he could not find this treasure, then no one else should be able to either.
To this end, he began systematically killing off most of the desert-dwelling lions. However, young Ka'hmesh caught his eye for some reason. Rather than killing him, Mori instead bound Ka to his service with a cursed tattoo. Ka had also attempted to defend his mother from Morifaer and had earned a slash across one eye. Morifaer made the resulting scar into a tattoo as well.
In specific, the curse bound Ka to the oasis where the treasure was supposedly hidden, as guardian to it. Mori sent several of his underlings to train Ka'hmesh in combat and in how to kill, then eventually left him along ... simply bound to that oasis until his death.
Enter Farlest. Farlest was also a god, one of Morifaer's children. Farlest was the god of empathy - and was also more or less under his father's control, though this control was because of threats to Farlest's younger siblings. Morifaer decided one day that Ka needed checking up on, and so he sent Farlest to do that job.
However, when Farlest met Ka, the two became friends very quickly - and more on Far's part ... though he didn't say anything to Ka. Rather, Farlest began working out a way to break the curse binding Ka'hmesh to that oasis. He wanted the other free, and by his side.
Morifaer got wind of this and came to stop his son, but Farlest stood up to his father and fought him. In the midst of the fight, Farlest realized that he wasn't going to win. And so he gathered all of his energy into a final assault ... and at the same time reached back toward Ka with power - and broke that curse. Farlest's last desperate attack injured Mori enough that he retreated. But Far was dying ... his wounds too severe.
And there was nothing at all that Ka could do for the young god who had given him his freedom. Nothing but stay and keep vigil until Farlest was gone .... and then leave the place that Far had freed him from and try to live his life as he thought the god might have wanted him to from that point on.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:58 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:00 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:13 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:17 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:52 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:54 pm
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