Revengeby
JusticeHunger, a horrible thing. Yet also a thing which may provoke the smallest being into becoming something bigger, in some cases much bigger. Some hunger for knowledge, some for power, some for strenght and some hunger for... food. Not food for the spirit, the world or anything highly philosophical, but just plain food.
One such being was Crag Lack, a Barbarian boy taken prisoner by the Wizards of the Bracada Desert. He had served them loyally for many a year, had even liked it. But that was before his kind old Lady, Carmine, was killed by a band of adventurers for no apparent reason. She had been a kind lady. Work days consisting of 16 hours and food 6 times a day. The new master was quite horrible and liked to call himself Gavin Magnus and people either said ”m’Lord” or ”your Majesty” to him. The old man had him working for 6 hours a day, in a horrible place called school, and served him food 3 times a day, while Gavin’s cat got food 5 times a day. Naturally this wasn’t acceptable for the young barbarian, and he grew sulky, bad tempered and plotted revenge. Thus many years passed, and the boy grew into a man.
The overlords of the universe, the so called Ancients, heard about Crag Lack and his thoughts of rebellion and immediately recognised the danger. They sent a SHELTEM unit towards Bracada Desert with one mission. Protect Gavin Magnus at all costs.
Crag Lack, unaware of the Ancient’s discovery, had finally discovered what to do. One night he had seen a half man, half lich sneaking through the streets and had walked over to it. The halfman, who later told Crag his name was Gauldoth, surprised to see a Barbarian, didn’t kill him, but just shrunk him and use fragments of hot iron and toxic fumes to make him tell him his name and his general thoughts about Gavin Magnus and his empire. To Crag Lacks surprise Gauldoth didn’t tell Gavin Magnus any of this, but had promised to contact him later regarding a way of getting revenge over Gavin Magnus. And so Gauldoth had done. Now Crag Lack was only waiting for the signal, which would tell him that Gauldoth had disabled the protective charms. and then he would get his revenge.
Crag Lack waited for years. He rose in Gavin Magnuse’s ranks, and eventually became head of the royal guard and could eat all he wanted, but he never forgot the injustices of the past.
One bright sunny day he saw the sign, and did what he had to do. He found Gavin’s cat, killed it, flayed and partered it, and then he threw it into Gavin’s private stew. As Gavin Magnus ate his stew later that day, Crag Lack entered the room with something in his hands and placed himself in front of Gavin. Then he promptly threw the flayed skin of Gavin’s cat on the floor, pointed at the stew and started to laugh. He was still laughing, when he was hanged for high treason and murder.
Some say Gavin Magnus never got over the shock. On the day of the cat’s funeral Gavin Magnus swore that he would do whatever necessary in order to eliminate evil from the world. Four days later the sword of Armageddon and the sword of Frost collided and Gavin Magnus fled to the new world, where he heard rumours of a giant crystal.
The SHELTEM is still said to be travelling and most likely will for some time, since those pesky adventurers choose the Pit over Celeste, and thus the inter galactic railway still remains unconnected to Antagarich.
