ShadowEnd

> Watch the sunrise... it'll be your demise..
>
> -ShadowEnd

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## **Introduction**

ShadowEnd is the central antagonist of Reenchanted Twilight, and is the primary source of all black magic. He is who Sato and the gang must stop from

With origins shrouded in mystery what is known about him comes from ancient sources and myths surrounding the origins of Ancestral Magic. This is because he was originally concealed in a large crystal hidden in the catacombs of Oak Spirit.

## **Biography**

### Origins

From the mythology and history books surrounding Magic, its speculated that ShadowEnd has a connection to the story of The Prince and the Hosts, the agreed upon creation myth of the origins of Magic.

The legend goes that millions of years ago on Earth (presumably the Paleogene period) , when the world was at an enchantment peak, the first humanoid users of magic had a deep connection to the seven planets of the solar system. Attuning to magic with the virtues humanity exalts as well as the dreams people have at night.

With this new power they would be referred to as The Hosts with the host attuned to the planet Jupiter being considered "the prince" of them all. However white magic was not the only form that was possible with an enchanted world. One king, against the advice of the hosts and everyone else, would use black magic to indulge in his depravities and obtain power, eventually corrupting him into believe *he* should be not just king of his own kingdom, but of all magic and dreams, and would attempt to overthrow and kill the hosts.

He would fail and be defeated by the hosts, and for such treachery, would be sealed within a crystal for all of eternity, completely powerless. Before being sealed and banished, he would lay a curse on all of magic, proclaiming that he would forever deceive people into using black magic and indulging in depraved vices to gather more power, and when he had gained enough, would free himself from the crystal, and get his revenge. Declaring himself to be the "King of all Nightmares."

### Cast down

After being contained into the crystal, the hosts would disappear along with all of magic after millions of years as the Earth entered a Disenchantment Period. Many powerful wizards and witches would create pocket dimensions to keep magic alive until the Earth became reenchanted again.

One coven of wizards would discover the crystal lost in the middle of the untamed wilderness. Feeling the evil energy they'd lock the crystal up deep within underground catacombs, using Ancestral Magic they knew to add a permanent contingency seal upon the crystal.

To keep the knowledge of magic alive, wizards would take many families and groups with them to educate their children about magic, to prevent anyone from attempting to use black magic, they would never allow it to even be uttered and leave it vague, to where many didn't even believe black magic was real, only the oldest of wizards would know about it.

### Deception and lies

While imprisoned, ShadowEnd would obtain just barely enough power to have a psychic connection with people. Exploiting peoples' worst habits and vices was not enough.

To make up for this, he would communicate with one young wizard on the verge of death after being attacked. She would live and continue her studies of a new magic, at the cost that she serve him, and however long she served under him, would be how long she would continue to live when she's free from serving him.

Fearing her own looming mortality. she would corrupt not only the new magic she had discovered before her murder, but those around her, to give herself more time.

### Events of Reenchanted Twilight

Years later, ShadowEnd is still imprisoned in the crystal to this day, but with the arrival of a student who appears attuned to the same magic as the girl he "saved" so long ago, his power grows.

Once he is free he plans to drown not only the magic world, but Earth as well in an endless crimson sunrise which no living thing will be able to survive.