A Monster Inside 1.01 – Prologue

The Undying Prince

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A Cultivator is composed of three aspects: the first he displays to the world, the second he shows to his family, and the last he reveals only to himself.

–ASBJÖRN MAKI, PERSONAL JOURNAL

Time had a way of bending men and their creations into circles.

The citadel of Hjörtur still stood centuries after the Third Apocalypse. Weathered but unbowed, the ancient remnant of a more glorious past jutted out of the side of the Rin Mountain range like black jade out of an untouched glacier. Once a stronghold of the Sorcerer-Kings of old, it now stood guard against the sorcerer’s monstrosities and the tribes of Dökk that existed to the north.

Within Hjörtur’s smallest inner courtyard an odd-looking leaf held Asbjörn spellbound. Black spotted when it still should have been green, it twirled in the air as it floated towards the ground. Queasiness settled in…

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