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THE NIGHT OF

THE SCREAMING UNICORN

The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane

Volume 1 or 3 possibly 10

No, you don't have to read this series in order, so it doesn't matter.

by

EelKat Wendy Christine Allen

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No matter where you go in the world, every one knows the story....

Once upon a time there was an evil Faerie King turned Necromancer who hated Elves, lead his armies marching across the world slaughtering every Elf in every village he passed. When he grew old, he murdered his 13 generals and turned them into Liches, then he commit suicide to turn himself into a Lich too. Together the Lich Lords continued their reign of terror, slaughtering Elves across the planet.

One day they arrived at a village where resided a powerful wizard. As they did everywhere they went, the Liches slaughtered the Elves. Every last one.... except the wizard, who somehow survived.

Now the last of the Moon Elves roams the world in search of the Liches who killed his people. Becoming ever more powerful, learning all he can, becoming the world's most feared and most powerful wizard.... a Lich Hunter hell bent on vengeance, out to save the world and destroy the monsters who destroyed his people…

No matter where you go in the world, everyone knows this story, and yet, no one knows the truth....

Once upon a time there was a sad and lonely Elf, cast out by his people for being too different, too emotional, too liberal, too accepting of non-Elves, too willing to accept half-Elves as valuable members of society. Cast out of his society, left to die in the desert. He was rescued by a tribe of Demons who taught him their ways and their magic.

When his Demon “family” was killed, he returned to his real family, only to be treated far worse than he had been before. Beaten, tortured, mutilated, traumatized, cut off from the Elven hive mind, and left hanging upside down in a tree in the forest, bleeding to death, used by his own people as bait to catch an evil Elf Eating Faerie King.

The King of the Faeries - a vicious war lord, found the gutted Elf hanging in the tree and took pity on a wounded Elf wizard and nursed him back to health. For 30 years they lived together. The two became lovers.

For an Elf and a Faerie to be lovers was forbidden by Elf law. The Elves viciously attacked and tortured them both. Mortally wounded, the Faerie King commit suicide to end his suffering rather than linger on in agony for weeks. Devastated, the Elf used the magic he’d learned from the Demons to resurrect the Faerie King as a Lich.

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And now the Elf, a Necromancer with a Lich at his command, unleashed the Lich on the Elves to punish them for killing his lover. With every Elf dead, the Lich escaped from its bottle, not returning to its Necromancer.

Now, Quaraun, the last Moon Elf, The Pink Necromancer, driven to the brink of insanity, murderer of the other Elves, roams the planet, a Lich Hunter, not hunting Liches to kill them and save the world, but rather searching for his undead lover that they may be reunited, caring nothing for the world or anyone in it, desiring only to be with his lover once again.

Serial killer, time traveller, builder of the Twighlight Manor.... these are the Adventures of Quaraun the Insane.

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Lich Hunter Quaraun had recently acquired the map of the Elf Eater of Pepper Valley, leader of the Lich Lords. Rumours say that the map will only go to one place: the home of the infamous Elf Eater.

The Elf Eater made the map to ensure that he would never become lost. If not in the hands of the Elf Eater himself, the only thing the map will do is lead whoever carries it to the Elf Eater.

Quaraun has been using the map, in hopes it’d take him to the Lich that killed his people. Quaraun’s plan was to have the map lead him to the Lich and kill the monstrous undead beast, in hopes that by killing the leader, all the other Liches would die, same way it did when killing the lead vampire. Quaraun has killed the Lich Lord twice now, but each time his soul escaped and went into hiding while his body regenerated.

It takes 100 years for the Lich to regenerate, and Quaraun had never seen a Lich between its regenerations before, so the pink robed Elf had no idea what to expect from an unregenerated Lich. No one had ever seen a Lich between regenerations, but many suspect that the Lich reverts back to whatever form it had in life. This troubles Quaraun deeply, for in life, the Elf Eater of Pepper Valley had been his lover BoomFuzzy.

They say that when an evil person dies, his soul is doomed to return as a vampire, but should that evil man commit suicide, he comes back instead as a Lich. For 200 years Quaraun was torn apart by the fact that BoomFuzzy had killed himself, and that BoomFuzzy had returned from the dead as a Lich.

Quaraun could not bring himself to admit that BoomFuzzy was evil. The situation was made harder for him, in that he, like everybody else, had believed BoomFuzzy to be an Elf and yet, the Lich Lord was a Phooka. BoomFuzzy had fooled them all.

Of course. Quaraun couldn’t bring himself to admit that he was evil, either.

Now Quaraun had the map that should take him to the unregenerated Lich, believing if he killed it between regenerations it would stay dead.

However, after 300 years separated from it's rightful owner the map with a mind of it's own has become bored and childish and has spent the last several months leading Quaraun on a wild goose chase from one monster's lair to the next.

Now, frustrated with the map, and seriously wounded from the monster it had last led him to, all Quaraun wanted to do was head back to his Elven homelands in top of the world at the Arctic Deep North. But a few miles South of the Deep North, the map suddenly sprang to life and begins demanding Quaraun side track off the main road to take it to The Screaming Unicorn Tavern at The Forest of No Return.

When Quaraun refused to obey the map's wishes, a monstrous storm shows up out of nowhere and forced him to take shelter in a tavern, that is far bigger on the inside, and has no windows to match the outside.

Too late Quaraun realizes he's walked into the trap of a psychotic, shape-shifting Elf Eating Trickster Faerie who knows every detail of Quaraun's life.

Quaraun suspects the map has finally taken him to its rightful owner The Elf Eater of Pepper Valley, but the creature before him is no Lich. And Quaraun finds he can not bring himself to kill the beast while not in its regenerated Lich form. Worse, are the long forgotten memories of a past lover, BoomFuzzy, who commit suicide 300 years ago and has far too many similarities to the creature that calls itself The Screaming Unicorn.

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