Angel Stories
May 5, 2012 0:19:09 GMT -5
Post by Kender Bard on May 5, 2012 0:19:09 GMT -5
Branyk the Wrathful - Angel of Soahc
(Trigger Warning for mention of rape)
(Trigger Warning for mention of rape)
A Naurorod-born Fire, Branyk moved to Flux after being exiled from his clan for murder which he had committed in a fit of hate and rage. Once in Flux, he naturally found his calling amongst the Wrathful and rapidly moved up through their ranks until he was the head of the entire path. It seemed nothing could penetrate the rage he constantly seemed embroiled in... Until he met a Rondian priestess by the name of Carissa who had come to Flux in pilgrimage.
He found her beautiful, but scorned and insulted her at every turn. Whatever Carissa saw in Branyk, however, it was enough to let her weather his caustic remarks while she applied a steady and gentle stream of compassion and friendship. Branyk's rage died down bit by bit until he had become utterly tamed by his beloved. With her, he traveled around Naruta, feeling that for as long as Carissa was at his side, Branyk would be able to keep his temper in check.
The two spread word of Soahc and managed to reap many converts. Tragedy befell the Soahcian couple one day, however. On the road to Humontis, the pair were ambushed by a large number of bandits and brought back to their cavernous hideout. There, they beat and bound Branyk and forced him to watch as they violated his beloved again and again, finally ending her cries of anguish and prayers to Soahc by slitting her throat. In that moment, Soahc touched Branyk and he became filled with a fury so potent and profound that it burst the bounds of his own body. Enacting a living miracle, Branyk was able to access the Fire of his sign despite being unable to touch it. His whole body filled with Fire energy and with a shouted curse to the heavens themselves, he exploded as a living fireball of pure rage, wiping out every bandit but one instantly in the cavern, immolating himself with the body of his true love, and turning the whole cavern into melted stone.
The one bandit to somehow survive the inferno managed to escape as far as a farmland village on the edges of Humontis. He told his tale of Wrath made flesh and fire. Once the story had passed, he collapsed and his own body went up in flames as if Branyk and Soahc had simply stayed the hand of wrathful vengeance until the tale could be told. And told it was, spread from person to person until it reached back to Flux where Branyk was canonized as one of the greatest Wrathful to ever live.