PRIHELM's REALM..
A BRIEF HISTORY on what makes
Prihelm's Mind tick....
Long ago ,when I was such a runt, I had lots of dreams about the good things in life..
But as is everything in the world I discovered the shadows that are within the minds eye as well. Tahawas is the home were I be from,also she is the largest of the great mountain peaks in the range of rocky jaws that lay north of the "Misty Borders". I remember traversing her mighty cliffs and sitting attop her infamous steeple,just to watch her cut the clouds that moved about her lofty heights. The people of the "village with no name" whom resides about half way down the slops have named her,as I have also named my sword,," Cloud Splitter"..For no winds nor storm can break her.
"Cloud Splitter"
"Cloud splitter " showed me many things in my youth, good, strength,power,endurance and yes even wickedness. I remember the villagers and all the stone they would crush then smelt in there furnaces to produce the steel.To imagine the world and all its glorious warriors have almost completly been suited in glittering armor because of the harvest of her ores. She is also the mother to all the Swords,hammers and axes that have marched on to the eastern and southern borders to Make war in the name of peace.
"Cloud Spliter also showed me something else,fear,...The day I was born on the mountain there was another birth taking place on the cliff side of Her giant mass ,were the sun does not reach its shadowy side. We are not allowed to talk about the people that live there for they are wicked. This person that was forged or created is my exact opposite,and raised the same way, to oppose everthing that I was told was right.
One day when I was 12 the dark child walked into our "village without a name ",without fear.He walked in alone and he was after me to finish me off. Without hesitation all the villagers tried to defend me,including my father Lighthelm, they lasted but just a few moment before they were all slaughtered.The elders in town managed to secure an escape route for me and we journeyed 3 days , about half way down the slopes of the mountain to the Monestary,also known as "The Paladins Hall"..There My life changed and I was given a cause..
When I first saw them,,the Mighty Paldins I thought they were Gods unto themselves but latter found that they were as humble as monks.They trained me in the arts of healing and showed me how to sense an evil presence..Learning edict,duty,chivalry law was the hardest part for me. As for the art of Steal,,,I chose my weapons and proceded to train hard for 15 years and was finaly allowed near the monestary.
Then I was 28, I awoke one morning to find the monestary had been evacuated,only a note left to me a few days latter would reveal that they went off to the Ogre Wars and would never return. I am the only survivor of this Guild,and it saddened me greatly. The next day I entered the inner temple and saw the amulet of Torm on the alter. I proceded to place it around my neck , it felt as if it was ment to be, I looked at its shape, it was a golden circle with Torms open gauntlet within..At that moment the silence was shattered and Torm spoke to me directly in visions and illusions. Torm said,"Take up your sword for me and make it an extension of my arm. Leave the good beings alone and those who try to be good,,as for the wicked and horrible things of the land ,,,strike upon them my anger as
the Worms strike down the theif who enters there lair." Then he passed before me the visions of the "dark child" , my opposite and others like him and they hurled Paladins and priest into the primordial flames and they rose the dead from there graves making them do there every whim. Each with a Dark Vorpal Blade they swore to kill me. Torm continued to speak "As for these ,these you will hunt down as they hunt for you,and you will reserve your anger ,not for the beast that lurk beneath the ground,nor for the chaotic things about,,but you will find A FURY within you when you encounter them that you see here .I will hold you up in the battles with them and you shall scourge them in there places so that I may harbor and set sail my wrath upon them in the next life" Then I dared not look up to him while he spoke but listened intensly as he continued..." I call these your birth enemie,you were born to remove them,man calls these ANTI-PALADIN.,,,,Become a shard of light,a flame of all that is good and werever you go bring justice and law for I am he ,Torm diety of Justice."and with that a great thunder shook the temple to the ground and as I was outside looking at the ruins,Torm spoke once more and said,," As long as you are alive I need no stone temple,I will send others to you that need to worship in a building for you are now my devoted temple." Then I lived in the land for one year and encountered the party I am now with.. ...................signed Pihelm.....