Crimson Blackwind

In-Game Skin for Sunflowerboy\_ (Crimson Blackwind)

### **Beginnings**

Crimson Blackwind was born by the coast of an island in the unclaimed territory near the southeastern region of Eldham. Life was simple, but interaction with other people besides his parents was rare. Crimson would mainly farm throughout the entire day, but he also enjoyed exploring and hunting. He would explore nearby forests and venture far out into the oceans to find new areas for him to search. He would occasionally find uninhabited areas from which he would take and use items, but only after making sure that the place was abandoned.

### **The Venture Into the Forest**

Crimson, who was 16 at the moment, had explored for weeks and had found a particularly large forest, but unbeknownst to him, the forest was magical, for when he entered it, the exit seemed to have disappeared. He searched for hours upon hours on end to find the way he had come from. It seemed as if the forest was infinite, for he ran in a straight line but he was yet to find any exit. Almost like an alternate reality, he walked everywhere but it just seemed like an endless maze. 4 years later, Crimson sees somewhat of a doorway back into reality, so, with all his strength and courage, he dashed for the door, not looking back. Once he made it out the doorway, he turned around to see that the forest was gone and he was in a land he had yet to discover, because he had yet to discover that a single step he took in the forest equaled five steps in the normal world.

### **A Brand New Start**

In the new area, he scanned his surroundings, in which he saw a snowy, and mountainous area that was home to the city of Kingston, the capital of Rhineland. He went around asking locals about his whereabouts, in which he found out he had reached the northwestern region of Eldham. Crimson settled in Rhineland, but he had yet to forget his, probably worried, parents that were seemingly halfway across the world. This conjured great darkness inside of him as he felt that his actions and explorations had led him into the forest as if it were a punishment from the gods.

### **Healing Physically, Hurting Mentally**

Months pass and Crimson is now 21 years old, he still lives as a hunter and farmer, he's taken a particular liking to hunting in the wild, due to his merciless ways. He's gotten pretty lucky to get powerful weapons and armor that he uses to improve his hunting skills. One day, he sets out on a long adventure from home to find neighboring nations and towns. He runs into a few but doesn't find anything interesting in them. He runs into a particular city in which he finds a random local, and an evil voice inside of him tells him to kill the local. He does as the voice wishes and he slays the citizen and leaves without a trace. Crimson Blackwind lives every day with the dark voices in his head telling him to do despicable things, every day growing louder and more evil. Crimson has left his merciful ways and steals from and kills anybody who isn't affiliated with him. The voices in his head control his actions, whether it be to kill, steal from, or trick people that he finds in his searches. Many people don't yet know about Crimson's dark secrets for he tries to keep his vile ways a secret. Crimson usually never returns to the areas that he steals from or kills people in due to the feeling that he might get caught or captured. He is, however, very respectful towards places of worship and religious areas, meaning he refrains from ever stealing or killing in these lands, even if the voices say otherwise. His actions are cooperative with the voices in his head, but he has yet to know what caused this voice from telling him such things.

### **The Blackwind brothers**

As time passes, he lives life normally, among others in Uzhon, but that all changes when a familiar face arrives in town in search of him. His brother, Cobalt Blackwind, has come to Uzhon in search of his long-lost sibling, who he thought had abandoned him at an early age. A brutal battle broke out in front of his home, arrows flying and swords clashing, between two experienced fighters. This went on for some time before Cobalt stopped fighting him, he started yelling at him for having abandoned him so long ago. Crimson explained his story to him and persuades him to take out his anger on other people, making him a bandit alongside his brother. A few months pass and the brothers venture out into unknown lands, stealing from any person they could. But this tyranny didn't last for long . . .

### **The Disappearance**

The Blackwind brothers were traveling through a valley when they fell into a ravine, this great fall sent them to the depths of a huge cavern. Fortunately, they fell into a subterranean lake, barely saving them from the fall, and were able to make their way into an area of the cave where they could set up camp safely. They tried to formulate a plan to get out of this cave, but nothing they did seemed to get them near the small hole at the top. They stay in the cave for months, surviving off of rations that they brought along with them and whatever they could find in the mineshaft they found. One day, Crimson, who is now 23 years old, decides to map out the mineshaft, trying to find an alternative escape from the cave. After hours of searching through the seemingly endless mineshaft, he found an exit, but now was his time to decide. He had left his brother back at camp, not knowing he was going to find an exit, and the trip back would take him a while to arrive at his camp. He had to decide between saving his brother or leaving him behind, but he came up with a solution. He had brought a rope with him, so he traveled backward on the surface to find the hole he had once fallen into. He called out for his brother from the surface, to which he was met with no response, so he called a few more times. A faint "Crimson?" was heard in the distance. As Crimson kept calling for his brother, Cobalt's responses got closer and closer, until they finally see each other. Crimson drops the rope and ties the other end to a nearby tree, and Cobalt successfully escapes the cave along with his brother.

### **The Return**

As Crimson and Cobalt make their way back to Uzhon, basing their path on pure memory, they arrive to find a reformed city, with plenty of changes in the landscape and the buildings. Among these changes was one that Crimson didn't like, his house was demolished. As he looked at the remains of his house, he remembers all the valuables that he had left in his chest, which he now realizes were taken from him while he was gone. Crimson and Cobalt were now presumable dead men. They disguise themselves and walk around the city, asking locals about what they have heard regarding Crimson and Cobalt Blackwind. "The Blackwind Brothers? They have been dead for months, tale says that they got what they deserved after stealing from so many people." says one local. That's all they needed to hear, the city of Uzhon has mostly forgotten about them. Frustrated, Crimson goes into the forest and sets up his own civilization, he called it Tyranis.