My name? Black… it was Theophil Black. It still is… I remember that.
Everything else is…foggy. My past is concealed behind shades and like a simulacrum eludes me when I try to take a hold on it. The future is uncertain at the best. And the present is grim, dark and full of twisted nightmares.
Who was I? I keep thinking about it during sleepless nights while I clean my guns and carve protective symbols into my gear to keep me safe during the daytime.
I still don’t know who I was but I started to feel a strong sense of certainty: I had a purpose in my life. I have worked for the benefit of everyone, of that I am certain. To protect the good, honest, simple folk of the land. I worked in the shadows serving my country fighting evil wherever it reared its foul head…
And that’s it, nothing more. A name and a purpose to live by. But judging by the current situation this seems more than enough to keep me going on.
Every night I spend in my cell - which once used to hold prisoners now serves as my shelter - I hear creatures moan and shriek outside in the dark. And I hear, even feel the fear of other survivors. They huddle together in their own cells, families or what is left of them. Children cry and keep asking their parents when the monsters will go away. Moms or those who couldn’t bare to leave a poor orphan behind shush the kids promising that everything will be alright and the monsters will indeed go away.
But they won’t. A bitter taste fills my mouth as I brood in my lair and measure how desperate we are and how little my efforts weight in this war. I’ll go out in the morning to search for others who might have been as lucky as us and can still breathe.
I promised the captain that I will go North tomorrow to reach the nearest town. Alone. He trusts me which could be flattering but I can’t remember if I used to be a vain person. If he asks me I’ll go, he is a good man who only wants the best for this rugged company of ours.
But what can a lone man do against tides of horrors? That will surely be tested and revealed tomorrow.
I fumble in my inside pocket above my heart and my fingers touch a familiar shape and material. It’s warm, and not from the heat of my body. I pull it out and raise it close to my face, bleary-eyed I blink as I try to focus. Only a single oil lamp outside in the corridor is trying to keep the pitch black of the night at bay, it is dark in here.
As I gaze on the palm-sized object, slowly a circle of runes appear on its surface glowing with orange light and the name Ignaffar emerges from my hollow past.
A tired, gritty smile creeps onto my face.
“Tomorrow they will burn.” I say quietly. I take a deep breathe and a murmur a silent oath to myself “I will purify this land or die trying, that I swear.”
Heh… I got carried away a bit.
Well greetings to everyone!
I’m really happy to be here. I was eyeing the game for years now and it was on my wishlist. Now with the new expansion and the sale I bought the original game but after shortly I started my first character I realized I have to start a gunslinger Inquisitor so I bought everything what is in the GD pack. And it’s just… awesome.
I have a standard profile or “backstory”: Loved D2, but D3 was an epic letdown, loved Titan Quest, still like POE but somehow I just get fed up with it.
I love ARPGs, dungeon crawlers, Roguelikes, standard CRPGs. Basically everything with RPG in it.
So anyway I just wanted to say hi. It is great to be here and I wish great time and unique loot-rain to everyone.
