Ordinary World
Atlus, 23, was born in his hometown called, Sentinel. Sentinel was a town that had an abundant supply of fish. He was born on 17th January 1517, a year when a special Dark Oracle Eclipse occurred. This eclipse occurs every 755 years and is when all planets are aligned, causing imaginary world, Dearth, to be blocked from the Sun by Mercury. There would be complete darkness on Dearth for approximately 10 minutes and if there were to be any childbirth, the child would be born with a special power, which at first is unknown to everyone. Atlus’ power was to be able to control the elements of water, but initially did not know how to use it.
Also on 17th January 1517, Bringer was born in his hometown called Scrouge. Scrouge was a town that had an abundant supply of oil and was very rich. He was of the same age as Atlus and his power was to be able to control the elements of fire and being able to withstand any amount of heat.
Call to Adventure
Even though Atlus had a power, he did not know how to use it. 9 years after 1517, intruders came to attack Sentinel to take over its fishing port. Not knowing how to use his powers, Atlus watched helplessly as his town was attacked, leaving its villagers either wounded or dead. Fortunately, Atlus managed to escape and went to the City of Lorencia, a place where people train their powers and learn how to control them.
The intruders were ninjas and assassins from across the pirates’ ocean and were out to seize every hometown that would be profitable to them. Bringer’s hometown was no doubt, also being seized and taken over, so he fled to Lorencia too.
Meeting with the Mentor
In the City of Lorencia, there were 5 regions: North, South, East, West and Centre. A guardian was assigned to each of the regions to protect and keep it in order. The centre region acts as the headquarters and only King Lich, the master of many disciples, oversaw the centre region. In the City of Lorencia, Atlus and Bringer came together to train and became sworn brothers. Both of them were two of the rare few that were able to withstand King Lich’s tedious trainings and eventually became his disciples.
Crossing the first Threshold
On one fateful day of 1537, King Lich put Atlus and Bringer to a battle as part of their training. Even though it was just a normal training, it changed both the lives of Atlus and Bringer. Both their powers were put to the test, and Atlus won. King Lich was pleased with Atlus and Bringer became envious of him, thus yearning for more power so as to prove that he was in every way, better than Atlus.
Bringer decided to resort to evil ways to boost his powers. When Atlus knew that his brother wanted to leave Lorencia to the dark side, he was worried tried stopping him but ended up in a duel, leaving Bringer lying on ground, defeated. Bringer was not disheartened but instead set his mind on leaving and swore that after 5 years, he would come back for revenge.
Tests, Allies, Enemies
(How Bringer made a comeback and went back for Atlus)
Since that day on, Bringer and Atlus went separate ways. Bringer then met a guy called Bile who told him he could help him increase his powers tremendously. To explore greater heights of powers, Bringer was told to soak himself in a ‘Black Blood’ bath for 13 days and nights without any interruptions. Meanwhile, Atlus was also undergoing intense training with King Lich as he was getting old and needed to impart all his powers and skills to someone trustworthy. After 13 nights, Bringer managed to achieve his goal in boosting his powers. However, Bile warned him he was too in the same situation before, but evil took over him and he kept killing innocent people. The only way to stop was to decapitate his arms. But Bringer was confident that he could control his powers. So Bile continued to train and took care of him.
Approach to Inmost Cave
Bringer started secretly guarding the City of Lorencia by defeating hellhounds, ninjas and assassins. In the meantime, King Lich died and handed over the city to Atlus. Atlus had a strong instinct that Bringer might be back, because whenever he reaches the destination to fight off the enemies, he would end up just finding badly burnt corpses. Days passed but Atlus still could not find Bringer, so he decided to lure him out by deploying his own troops to act as the enemy.
Ordeal
Finally, on the 5th year, when Bringer was supposed to get revenge, they met again. While Atlus wanted to reunite with Bringer, Bringer recalled his motive in defeating Atlus. Flames spewed out from Bringer’s surroundings and the forest became ashes. Atlus was quick-witted and wanted to use his water elements to shield himself away from the heat but instead could not catch up with Bringer. His water shield was rapidly evaporating and he ended up badly burnt and injured.
Atlus fled back into the City. Knowing that Bringer would came back for him, he activated the city’s defense set-up, which shields the city and prevents anything from entering by turning it temporarily invisible. He then locked himself up to heal and recuperate.
Reward
Just then, he remembered that before his master died, he left a book of self-defense techniques for him in case of any emergency. Knowing that he would be off no match to Bringer, he quickly went into training and practiced self-dense techniques for 21 days.
The Road Back
21 days have passed; Atlus emerged stronger than ever before, prepared to have the final fight with Bringer. The city’s self-defense set up system was deactivated. Then, it was but the City’s birthday, when a massive celebration was held. Everyone was enjoying himself or herself; the sound of laughter, the smell of liquor… and suddenly “BOOM!” a loud explosion was heard. Immediately, Atlus knew that Bringer had come. The citizens went straight back into hideout, knowing that a battle was about to start.
Resurrection
Atlus’ newly learnt defense techniques were a tremendous help and he was able to catch up with Bringer. But upon that… Bringer became more intense and started losing control. His eyes started turning blood red, and overpowered Atlus. Atlus risked and tried to injure Bringer. Bringer’s arm was slit. Black flames started appearing everywhere as he unleashed his ultimate power; anything he sees would be set to flames and could not be extinguished. Atlus could only avoid Bringer’s sight and try to shield himself from the flames. Using his quick-wits, he observed that blood was trickling down Bringer’s eyes and realized his powers were coming from there. So he started blurring Bringer’s view by producing mist. After Bringer cleared his vision and turned to wear Atlus was, Atlus had 2 tiny stones in hand. Bringer’s eyes were shot and he became blind.
Return with Elixir
Even though Bringer injured Atlus, Atlus still saved Bringer and brought him back alive. He also managed to protect Lorencia against the hellhounds, demons, ninjas and assassins.
Bringer was taken back to Lorencia to be treated and taken care of until he was completely healed. But nonetheless, the evil would always have no good ending, thus, Bringer became blind for life and was reduced to being an ordinary villager.
Atlus, with the help of the city’s people, managed to bring back the other hometowns that were being seized by the assassins and intruders at first. Knowing that Atlus had defeated Bringer, the enemies became afraid and decided to sign a peace treaty with him. The City of Lorencia had then become a safe place; hence, Atlus stepped down from his position to return to Sentinel, where he originally came from.
Module: Hero, Myths and Legends
Written By: Alicia Ho
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