Thread: Hidden Princess (VM and Google)

He was human though Konrad Aurilian had not had the appearance of a human in quite a long time, two centuries old he had learned to change his shape when he had been only fifty years old and since then had made a habit of changing shape every decade or so... sometimes more often but only when he got bored with his current appearance. A few years before his skin had been a dark purple and he had grown tentacles from his face but now he preferred the shape that humans would equate to a demon, the red hair, horns, tail... everything but the cloven hooves just because of how they would scuff any hardwood floors and really were just a pain in his ass to balance on. He was one of the most powerful sorcerers in the world, born human and born with a talent for majicks that had gifted him with a great deal of power and influence in the world. With the powers he had gained he had been able to extend his life for more then twice its natural limits but he wasn't immortal and with the power he had been born with... well he didn't have much longer. Of course that wouldn't for him, there were methods to achieve immortality but the half life of an undead did not appeal to Konrad in the least and so he was seeking a separate method. A few years before a prophecy had reached his ears, that with the blood of a particular elven princess, hidden away in the castle of her father and disguised as just another girl, he would be able to achieve true immortality and perhaps even ascend to god hood. Of course it had to be that one particular princess, Elves may be long lived but they were not truly immortal and without her then he wouldn't be able to stay alive much longer... but by finding her he would become a god, to do what so few humans had been able to do and ascend properly. The invasion of the right kingdom had taken only a few days, settlements had gone silent, smaller keeps had fallen, and before the guards had even known what had happened his warriors had been in the walls. There was only a small problem with that plan and that was the death of the king... the princess had not been found and Konrad had intended to use the king to locate his daughter but with the old man dead it appeared that the princess had vanished. Of course she had not left the city, the majicks that Konrad employed would be able to detect her outside of the city walls but within them... within the powerful warded stone and the runes etched into the earth itself... she could not be detected by his powers. Of course the warding spells and runes of concealment could be undone, but that would take time and until then anyone who left the city would be searched... she would not escape him. Less then a day after the city had fallen Konrad walked into the throne room that had so recently seated the king, lounging on the comfortable throne and looking out at the wall around him, the tapestries that hung and would need to be replaced... this city would become the seat of his worship once he became a god and he would make this castle into his temple... a monument to his own greatness. A gesture to one of the guards that stood nearby, a massive beast in armor of black iron, bred for strength and durability rather then intelligence, and that guard bellowed towards other guards that waited outside of the doors. The captives had been gathered there for him, the city guards had of course all been locked away or just killed but the women of the palace, the beautiful young women, servants and ladies in waiting, they all had been rounded up and assembled outside of the throne room. Konrad had allies who would enjoy such prizes, to add to their own harems but first Konrad would have his choice from among them. His own sizable harem was far away, in the capitol city of his own expansive kingdom... and he might be more then a man but he still had the cravings and desires. The doors slowly opened, narrow eyes watching as the captured women were brought before him, a pointed tongue slowly tracing over his lips, wondering which of these elven beauties would best serve him.