Comets in the skies heralded their foul presence, and those who stood against them were either slain outright or suffered the lingering agony of being pierced by their black arrows.Įventually, the Avatar was summoned back into Britannia by the combined efforts of the hero's friends, who had managed to rally despite their persecution by Blackthorn and his Oppression. The Shadowlords thereafter took to haunting the eight cities which had been dedicated to the Virtues, warping the minds of those within as they spread the virulence of their signature sins. The triad then worked upon the person of Lord Blackthorn, the noble who had assumed the regency in British's absence – perverting his soul and twisting his interpretations of the Eight Virtues, such as that he declared martial law, enforcing morality by the sword. On the surface of Britannia, they wrought a citadel known as Stonegate, binding the daemon Balinor to serve as guard. These beings spread their evil quickly, attacking the sovereign Lord British as he journeyed through the Underworld on a voyage of discovery and thereafter imprisoning him in the dungeon Doom. From this union of mortal cruor and Mondain's magic, the Shadowlords were born:įaulinei, Shadowlord of Falsehood Astaroth, Shadowlord of Hatred and Nosfentor, Shadowlord of Cowardice. Amid this insanity, he slew the three members of his crew, spilling their blood upon the shards. When the ship of one Captain Johne, known as the Ararat was pulled into these underground depths by a chance maelstrom, the mage found the remnants of the gem, and their dark power drove him to madness. These pieces of evil resurfaced when a confluence sealing of the eight dungeons and of the magics used to raise the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom created a vast underground network beneath the realm, allowing wayfarers to finally reach the bowels of the Underworld where the shards lay buried. When this occurred, three shards of the jewel fell into the Sosarian earth, festering beneath the soil for years before coming again to light. The Shadowlords have their origin in Mondain's Gem of Immortality, which was shattered by the Stranger that the hero might slay the enchanter.
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