EVE-62: Umbra

He’s the first and last king to have ruled over the village. He’s the first ruler about who survived some clear evidence and records. He was a tyrant who wanted control over the whole world. He started by killing all the beasts in the forest and conquering the deer. Because he had to not be invisible to conquer other species, he used a cream that he put on his gems to stop the magic flow (but this also made his sphirix disappear. But he was so heartless and did that so many times as he didn’t care anymore). He also did the same thing to all his warriors that due to the stress became soulless corpses with no will to live. This way he started killing everything around the forest and taking over the land.

The healers sought for a way to stop him by asking the ancestors, but they wanted to protect the king instead of the village (the legend says that the previous queen loved him as her own kid, and protected him from the stars).

But his reign lasted only for 150 years, so he didn’t have time to conquer much. His reign ended suddenly when he got murdered by one of his servants.

The legend of his death sounds like this:

The legend says there was a castle servant during King Umbra’s reign. When she looked at the village and saw the misery the grifix were living in, or at the poor warriors that almost lost their soul in the torture their king got them through, and had no more will her heart was broken and a great rage grew inside her heart. She soon came to hate the king for what she was doing to the grifix and the forest.

One night, she went to feed the war prisoners, a bunch of deer. When she saw how awful they looked after the tortures the king got them through, how thirsty and hungry they were, she couldn’t take it anymore. The fury inside her became uncontrollable and she lost all senses. She ran to the king’s room unnoticed and entered. While the king was sleeping, she took a sharp knife and stabbed his heart, killing him instantly.

After that, she came back to her senses. But seeing what she has done, a unbelievable terror surrounded her mind. She jumped on the window and filed away as fast as she could, terrorized by her crime.

Dark clouds covered the moon and a sudden wind started blowing her out of the sky. A storm started out of nowhere, one like has never been seen before. A huge thunder stroke across the sky and hit her right in her gems. She lost consciousness and fell from the sky. The ancestors punished her for her unforgivable crime. A dark curse laid now upon her.

When she woke up, her wings and sphirix were gone. She dragged herself into a cave and laid there barely breathing. She knew that what was worse was next to come.

She was cursed to relive the night when she killed the king every single night in a dream she could not wake up from, and could not avoid falling into, for an eternity. Even now, over 1000 years later, she’s trapped in the same curse, being lucid only during the day, and reliving the worse day of her life during the night.

They say that no filly should adventure in that part of the forest during the night, for The Cursed Grifix, overwhelmed by her nightmare, will mistake them for the king and stab them with her long claws.

After that, the village lived 5 days of terror, not knowing what was going to happen with them. In the fifth day, a new grifix was born and the healer at that time said that she will be the next queen. Her name was Rosa. The healer grew her to be the next queen and took care of her to not have such tyrannical thoughts as the previous king.