Daen's Drowish Temple
Welcome, you have stumbled upon the Temple, The Drowish Temple. This is my land, and I am Daen. A NightmareWinder by nature, one part of a whole, I am the evil side of my twin, Taen DreamWeaver....
((None of this will be in any clear order, to keep it safe..))
This is our story.....
In the begining there was one, The changling child known to all as Taen. She had no last name, no parents and no family. She came intothe fishing village wearing little more than rags. She had a gift. The changling child could see things, she could influence dreams, she could summon. She was not like the other children in the fishing village, she was strange, she was Drow.
Taen was adopted by a low fisherman, she hid her ablities, she tried to become a real child. She failed. Taen's older brother was Emien, he was mortal, human, he had a good heart. Taen was the aprentice of Anskiere, the wizard, the Storm Warden.
Her village though, was destroyed, Anskiere taken prisoner by an Evil witch, Telgath. Not only was Anskiere taken, but her brother Emien was taken as well, and he became evil.. He was killed. Taen wandered in despair until finally she stumbled upon Lycosia...
She made friends quickly, with many people, Shadera, Gatan, Daniel Starfire, And Xanpha... to name just a few. She was liked by all, and loved by many. Then... one day Taen went crazy...
THE BIRTH OF DAEN!!!!!!
Taen's mind was not right, and she began to remember. She had locked the memories away, she had hid them form herself, but a friend convinced her that she had to know, she had to remember who she was, or she wouldn't be anything at all. Soshe knocked down the walls inside her mind and began to remember...
Taen lost control, and became Daen. In this transformation, she was soulless, longed to kill, wanted revenge. Daen was savage and she was desperate. Daen in her anger, wanted to destroy everything, including herself, but she knew shecould not kill herself without killing her Twin as well...
She knew what had to be done....
Daen found an elemental and challened it one day to a duel. She only won by chance. The elemental, being fire, was afraid of water, Daen had lured it over a pond and was about to douse it when the Elemental gave up, pronounced her the victer.
In exchange for her win, the elemental gave Daen one wish... that wish, was to be free from her twin forever...
Daen awoke on a stony ground, pain lancing through her body. When she opened her eyes she saw herself, but knew it was not herself that she saw. She was finally free.
Daen suffered, she had no soul, all she had were the memories. All those things Taen had hidden, became everything that Daen was. Her life was all consumed with killing, and she made that her lives work.
While Daen went off on her evil spree, Taen became more settled. She gave up her fight, and was married. She had children, one of which, Dame, came from the future, and told her that she would have six children. This has not yet come to pass. But Dame has a younger brother, who is 8 as the twins write this. His name is David, David DreamWinder. He is a product of love, and has become like his mother, and aunt. Bringing together that which cannot be any longer.
Taen created Anduin some time during Daen's rath. Anduin was a demon, a Gargoyle. She was summoned to protect Taen and her friends, but made a deal with Daen instead. She attacked them all viciously. Until Daen finally came to her sences and stopped the creature.
Taen, in attempting to lock to demon back where it belonged, fell through the portal she herself had created, and was lost inside the demon realm. No matter how hard Daen tried, she could not free her sister, and her newfound soul was in torment.
Then one day, as Daen and her familiar, Orion the cat, were walking around in Liliea, they saw her. Taen was crouched low to the ground, her head held in her hands screaming...
That is our story... this is where we leave off...
"He who knows the truth, knows lies..."
DAVID'S STORY....
David, son of Taen DreamWeaver and Kane, is the youngest of two children. He hasn't seen his older brother Dame since the day he was born. David was born outside of the Mystic Tavern in Lycosia. The first person he saw at his birth was his aunt Daen, and he took an instant liking to the strange woman who so resembled his mother. When his mother disappeared he went to live with Daen, in the Temple. He does as she bids, strengthening his mind and body at all hours of the day and night. It is a happy childhood for him, without parents. Even though his father is still alive, he has never met the man, and from what his aunt tells him, does not wish too...
Well... that seems to be about it for the sisters story... for now anyway... we shall see how long that lasts....
THE CHANGELING.
The changling is actually Taen in her first form. She was known as the Changling child as I have said. When The Changling first entered Lycosia, no one knew who she was. She didn't talk much, and didn't actually know her way around. She wore a heavy silver cloak and a silver/white dress. She wore white satin slippers, carried no weapon but the dagger that she had at her waist. Her firest friend was Shadera, and then she met Xanpha.
Xanpha was married, but that didn't stop Changling from admiring, and even liking him. He was the one who helped her become Taen, her true self. Before The Changling became Taen however, she was also friends with one, Nicholas LoneHeart, who she was, strangly, madly in love with. He dissappeared for quite awhile, and in that time Changling had become Taen, had married Hurri_Kane, also known as Kane, and had met her future son Dame.
When Changling met with Nicholas again, he was old, having aged much faster than she did, and he was crippled, but still sh eloved him. It was a sad meeting and an ever sadder parting. Changling learned alot form the people she met in Lycosia, and she formed lasting bonds with them all.
But one, she treasured more than the rest, and that was Xanpha. Xanpha Fireheart was her friend, her teacher, her love. He made her remember, all of her past that she had kept so tactfully and artfully hidden for most of her life, he had made her remember everythign she had forgotten. One day, on her birthday, when she went around doing a Drowish tradition and giving out presents to her friends Xanpha had come to her with a gift. He gave her an amulet to ward against evil.
She wore the amulet until Daen was born, and then it mysteriously dissappeared. Taen had her suspicions, that Daen had taken it, but the mystery is still unsolved....
I suppose that is enough for now...
TAEN COMES BACK....
Daen sat alone at the Temple, looking into the circle where Taen had disappeared. She remembered as if it were yesterday, Taen standing there, holding a book and a candle, casting Anduin back into the demon realm where she belonged, when suddenly Anduin did the impossible. She leapt out of the circle and grabbed Taen dragging her screaming back into the circle and dissappearing with her. Daen was paralized with fear and could do nothing.
Daen looked up slowly, her eyes filled with unshed tears and saw to her amazment the circle glowing fire red. She stood in shock and suddenly Taen was there, on her knees before her sister, her clothes torn and bloodied.
She looked up, a crazed look in her eye and screamed a blood curdling scream that echoed throughout the temple. Daen pulled her sword, but then Taen calmed, her eyes going just off normal. "Please sister, spare me, I have returned but they," Taen spat the words in anger, hatred, and malice. "They control me now, stay away, keep the children away, I fear for their lives, as I do yours." Taen ran from the temple, and that was the last Daen saw of her.
ASIMILATION...
Taen was back, after almost a year of being gone, and she was strange, different, more, evil. She was taken over, by the demons that had held her hostage for so long. There were three, all inside, and they all wanted to kill.
Taen went on a rampage, to satisfy the Demons inside, she killed people that had trusted her, people that had cared, but that was not enough, the Demons wanted more, They wanted Daen back...
Taen attacked Daen and Gatan one day while they were hanging around some willow grove or other. Daen did not want to hurt anyone, while she and Taen fought, and she knew what she must do, so she transported Taen to the Drowish Temple. She locked Taen into the blood circle, the circle that the Demons cannot cross.
She was meditating one day, when others suddenly came into her Temple. She warned them agaist speaking to her sister, she warned them against going near the circle, some did not listen, some paid with their lives.
Gatan held the others back, Eric was there, watching, David was there watching, Daen knew what must be done... and she finally did it. After asking Gatan to care for the youngster, and telling Eric fianlly that she loved him, she steped into the circle, her arms open to her taunting sister. They embraced, and while they embraces a flash of blinding light, and their combined screams filled the air.
In the place of the sisters lay one. One who's eyes and face were more like David's. Half of her eye was white, the other black, her hair was the same, her body was covered in nnscars, she was naked, she was cold, she was unconsious, but she was alive.
A tattoo covered her stomach, two halves broken in the middle, coming together at her navel. The sign of the reunited sisters. Her name.. ((well i can't figure that out yet...))
ANDUIN STONEHEART...
Anduin Stoneheart is the demon that Taen summoned from the Demons Realm. She is a little more than that however. Anduin made her first appearance in Lycosia rather strangely. She feel through the roof of the Mystic Tavern. Anduin stands about six to seven feet tall, her entire body is made form stone, thus the name StoneHeart. She has a wingspan of just over eight feet, and two inch talons on the ends of them, where her fingers should be. She also has arms, which i must admit is strange, but struck me as something i should do.
She wears little or no clothing, but thats okay because she is made of stone, there really isn't much to see anyway. Her most memorible moment, in my mind, was when she fell through the roof of the tavern, after looking around for Taen and Gatan. She did not manage to find them there, but in there place she found a pregnant vampire, ((Don't ask me how it happened, I didn't know vampires could get pregnant)). Anduin strolled, as well as a beast could, up to the woman and looked her in the eye, asking if she could place her hand on the womans abdomen, presumably to fel the baby. The woman agreed and Anduin being the malicious beast that she is, said goodnight... She flicked out three inch long claws and attepmted to put her hand through the womans belly, to kill the child no doubt.
The vampire's husband though, had been watching, and he shot Anduin with some sort of a gun, it broke off a part of one wing, and even though she's made of stone, IT HURT!.
Now the story says that Taen had fallen through the portal, but if you ask Anduin, or Taen's Demonic Jailers, they will tell you this version of the story. Taen had created the circle, but the circle had been broken in one place, right at Taen's feet. As she was casting Anduin back into the, well you could say the Pits of Hell, Anduin reached out with her unbound hands, ((which was a mistake on Taen's part)) and grabbed the front of her Tunic, dragging her kicking and screaming into the Void.
They locked Taen into a cell, made of blood and bone, and left her there in the dark. Now naturaly since Taen is a Drow she shouldn't be afraid of the dark, but she is, she was born in the dark but grew in the light... All that was heard throught the time she was imprisoned, and no one really knows how long this was, were the screams of the tortured souls, and the laughter of the Demons.
When Taen was let go, three or four demons, ((i still haven't decided yet.)) took residence in her body. They are not in control all the time, but when their master orders something done, the demons show themselves and all that is Taen, all that is her good and mercy, is locked away inside fo her heart, while the Others take over and do as they are told.
No one yet knows a way to stop this...
DEFINITIONS:
A DreamWeaver is one who can see into peoples dreams. Not only their dreams but their psychyies, a dreamweaver sees the good in people, and helps it along. A dream weaver can also create a shroud. They can create anything they wish and lay it like a mist in peoples mind, making them believe what they created because to the people they affect it is real...
A NightmareWinder is a little different. I suppose an acurate way to describe it is to say that it is the complete opposite of a DreamWeaver. A NightmareWinder creates gore, and hatered. A NightmareWinder specializes in war, death and destruction. They spread fear throughout many. And instead of healing and helping people to live, they create nightmares so horrid that they scare their victems to death...
A DreamWinder is the combination fo the two, the symbiance. A DreamWinder has the power of good and evil in his hands, instead of just one or the other. He can do many great things, or many evil ones, according to the way he is disposed at the moment...
MORE TO COME!!!!!!!!!
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