"To understand reality is to step upon the path of magic. To influence reality with this knowledge is it's practice. Just as the dragons breathe the very elements they find themselves most at home in, so too may the mortal races learn and be altered. However, this shall not be without cost or penance. Look now, mortals, upon the bodies of each of your newborns from this day forward. Should a child be born with the mark of Fate, a divine symbol at the base of their neck, deliver them to the temple of the deity that has claimed them. There will be no refusal, upon pain of death. They are to be Champions, agents of the gods they shall be bound to. Each god, regardless of morality, will be granted one at any given time. Until their dying breath, they will be bound to service. As the gods have given you their greatest power for protection, so too shall you relinquish your greatest souls to them." -Decree of Aum, God of God's, heard by all sentient beings and repeated three times in the year 7638 B:E, recorded across all known societies at the time, and several discovered since. ....... Felidrus is many things. Insane is not one of them. He knows it. Whatever he has in him, it isn't him. It's just hard to hear the voices of the spirits when something else keeps whispering in the darkest corners of his mind. This is the tale of The Champion of Suffering, and why the title is far more agonizing for the mental and spiritual toll it inflicts than the physical. When the truths you learn of existence have the ability to warp your very being, just how much anguish and torment can you take before you become something... irredeemable?