In the endless white expanse two figures stood.

"So do you understand your mission mortal?"

"Yeah, so, you're really not gonna help me?"

"Yes now it is time for you to go"

I felt a tug and then everything vanished, reality slipped and fell, it folded and cracked and then settled. I felt myself being pushed and then there was light, blinding light but it was probably my eyes not adjusting. So this is what it felt like to be a baby huh? weird. I suddenly felt myself being picked up and carried by a large pair of hands only to be flipped upside down and then sma AAAAgh! what in the---oh wait they were just checking if I can breathe properly but damn that hurt. I was suddenly moved again but this time to a smaller more slim pair of hands, my mother, I presume. 

The woman held me and nused me for a while and suddenly I was lulled to sleep.

Felicia POV

I held the frail child in my arms, he was so small, so very small yet he housed strength, I felt it. He soon fell asleep and I then picked him up and passed him to Daira the nurse maid. Daira was a large woman, bigger then most men, she wasn't beautiful, given her barbarian heritage but she followed orders quickly, thoroughly and well, she spoke in a weary voice "Mistress we must now conduct the affinity test for the young lord before he wakes" I nodded. It was best to conduct affinity tests for children while they were asleep as they subconciously tap into their affinity and it is to diffucult to get them to understand when they are awake.

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I summoned a golem and had him carry me and the child to the rune room. We walked in and daira quickly took her position and began channeling her mana into the spell circle while I moved the child into the centre. We were a noble house so we had many of our own facilities yet my husband was off participating in the war and my sons were asleep, so only I could witness this. I left him in the centre and stepped back and waited. As the mana seeped through the runes it arrived at the child only to extinguish and fade into him and then, his affinity formed above him. An affinity is a persons allignment with specific energies and can take a visual representation like fireballs for fire and stormclouds for lightning. The image took the shape of.....Hell, that was what I saw, a land of fire and brimstone, filled with blood and bone, infested by demons, enshrouded by darkness, sealed by unholy horrors and corruption. This was only the first level of the tower of my sons affinity. They increased in violence and horror as you looked lower and lower only to end in the abyss, the eterenal void, the true end of everything even divinity. Marks bgan to take form on the childs stomach and move up to his arm, they were a sickly blue and formed strange pattens and were of a strange origin. 

Diara had fainted long ago, I simply watched as the child opened its eyes.

Kurse POV

I opened my eyes to find myself in a different place and to see my mother standing shocked and her moth agape. Then she moved at the speed of someone you wouldn't expect to have just after giving birth, she grabbed me, not gently by the way and rushed through the gigantic mansion full of marble halls. She slammed open a door and ran into the woods and then looked at me after we'd gone about 30 minutes of running and said "forgive me child for you are cursed and do not belong in the house of light and are hereby disowned and deat to me, the clan and the world" then she dropped me and ran off.

In my first day of life I lost my mother. This began my journey to power, to complete his mission and served as my lesson of what kind of world I was in.