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The Heart of Shadows
Thursday, 04 September 2008
Its funny...How many people have brazenly walked up to me and told me how grateful I should be to them for helping start the Imps, have claimed foundership for it.

For a guild everyone supposedly hates they are more then happy to try and claim it. Eager in fact to say they created it.

Senile old fools!

I will write down here the history and creation of the Imps...Just so the truth is known. The Imps were created by no one but myself and Hayate. It was our dream...our creation.

I was new in the lands and like most if not all the people back then..I arrived through a portal, Like most back then Valorn was not, is not my home country but unlike most i didn't come to fight a demon for slaughtering my family, for killing, wiping out my village in the middle of the night leaving me for some unknown reason the sole survivor. No...I came for the simple reason of escaping my past. I am a thief, always have been, always will be. an honorable one...but one all the same. But more then that..I was an assassin for hire in my old lands..I was the best...and i was filthy flaming rich. I had made too many enemies, stepped on too many toes..a habbit of mine it would seem. I had learnt that a land far from my own was looking for adventures to help reclaim a land overthrown by it enemies. I figured...heck, a new start..why not. Naturally there was a catch...there always is. By entering the portal you lost all strength and skills, all possessions one had so far acquired. I figured it was a small price to pay for my life...something I doubted i would have if i stayed where i was....so off i went I still miss my money though. and my treasures...Oh well.

So there i was, weak, dressed in nothing more then rags covered in muck, battering at rats in a slime filled stinky sewer when i started up a conversation with a pretty woman who was waiting for a rogue to come open a sewer grate for her. Her name was Marriana. We chattered for a while...a long while and eventually she said i looked terrible..I said yeah and I smell worse. she laughed, took me to the fountain outside the Building of Glass and introduced me to a young man named Hayate. He was friendly and full of banter and was apparently Marriana's equipment officer. he got me all equiped up just as marriana came back and handed me a form, passed me a quill and told me to sign it. i did and became the fourth or fifth member of a new guild called The Guardians of a New Age. Hayate and I hit it off right from the start..he was so serious or so he seemed and I was my typical...mayhem maker. he was drawn to me like a moth to flame..didn't take me long to realise that underneath that serious veneer he was just a big a hellion as I was. I managed to drag him into all sorts of trouble. Took him to places he knew we were to weak for. I said so? think of the adventure!..he would end up at a life monument and I'd end up rolling in the dirt laughing. Neither one of us was above level 12 yet.

I remember i was on my quest for the IRN shield and was lost in the swamp. I searched and searched for the entrance to the crocodiles lair...finally found it after days, weeks, months of searching and getting continously lost. I battle my way through the giant turtles and vipers, past the uglies mire hag i had ever seen, got down into the lower tunnels...and realised i needed a torch. i couldn't see a darn thing. of course i was in communication with Hayate at the time..and he burst his seams laughing whilst i turnt the air blue with cursing. i wasn't ammused.

we had many discussions on preofessions Hayate and I. He rom the very begining wanted to be a Enchanter. i had no idea. at the time I was seriously considering going cleric. Hayate always laughed when I said it. I thought I would have been an excellent one. i would help people. heal them, tend the gods. We were....big on helping people back then.

Anyway. can't remember where i was. Zombie celler maybe. anyway i stumbled upon a treasure chest. My heart beat a little faster in excitement and old memories...but no..I wanted a new life here. I had turn't a new leaf. I told Marriana about my chest and asked her if she knew a rogue who would be willing to open it for me. She said yes so i stored it in the bank and continued on my wayThings had been getting busy in the GNA Arlanna the Keen was searching for a scepter of Morning Light and Demelza a world reknown cleric had just recieved her UW. The GNa was throwing her a party and we had sworn to help find this mysterious scepter. I was completely clueless as to who these people were, had no idea what a scepter of morning light was nor an UW. But whatever i was a good lad and would help were i could. We were signing people up daily and I was at every sign up. I was the first to greet them. i bought then lemonade or ale. food. i kept them entertained and had them all convinced to sign before Marriana even got there. I was a dran good member and believed in my guild.

But i was faceless. non noble...didn't even know what noble meant. i knew nothing of guild chat, didn't know how Gchat kept members in touch, built relationships. I did it the hard way and was learning that being a nice guy got you used. That being facelss meant you were a no body. Hayate was learning the same, though mainly he felt he was getting used by Marriana. She expected us to recruit, to be her rocks, expected Hayate to look after the noobs. we weren't even lvl 15 yet and got no suport for ourselves. It all came to a head when finally Marriana sent me a rogue for my TB...I was lvl 14 Hayate had joined the ranks of the Enchanters 3 gays earlier. we were sitting in the glass tavern talking about professions. i was still thinking cleric. I would have liked trying enchanter but Hayate and i spent so much time together i didn't want him to feel as if I was crowding him and i felt becomeing an enchanter might do that...take away some of his thunder so o speak. So cleric...why..because i still liked the idea of helping people, i was a little in awe of people such as Urkki and Demelza. I thought they were great...but at the same time..I also thought being able to heal myself would save me sooooo much plat. That idea used to make my eyes glow...being a vleric could make me rich! I told Hayate....he pissed himself laughing

It was at that time Ansalan stepped out of the shadows, a wry smile on his lips and laughter in his eyes. he said Marriana had sent him, had just signed him up and tha she told him I had a tb to open. I felt honoured and humbled...Ansalan seemed...intimidating back then, mysterious and a l;ittle threatning and dangerious. he made a joke about my clerical aspirations and said if my real reasons to becoming a cleric was to save on money and not from any real devoitness then maybe i should go warrior. i sneered at the thought and said they were right. changing leaves was a stupid idea... i was what i was and it was rogue for me.

he popped the tb and low and behold...a crystaline shard. Now...I had promised Marriana that if she found me a rogue i would split what ever the chest contained 50 50 with the guild. I knew a shard sold for about 1.2k and 1.5k...but I had promised Marriana half and thought he trade marke would take too long. so i priced it with jeffry and he was willing to give me 500plat for it.

I would be selling at a loss and anyone who knows me how much that idea kills me...but I had promised and thought Marriana would want the money now. and being a lvl14 noob...250plat was alot of money to me and figured what the hell. surely she would be happy with that. I told Hayate and Ansalan and Ansalan straight away said no....if i was willing to sell it for 500p he would buy it. I looked at him with narrowed eyes and figured he would probably buy it from me and sell it on trade for its proper value. its was a good business plan and something I would have done. I needed money now and so we made the deal.


Well didn't the bos dung hit the ceiling in guild. everyone was screaming at everyone. calling Ansalan all kinds of names. being non noble I had absolutly no ifea what was going on or being said. ansalan left the guild..or got kicked out. he came to me and apologised i said what for whats going on. he said he had ripped me off and owed me cash. i called him a moron and told him a deal was a deal. marriana had her 250 p and so did I he had his shard. whats done is done. aparently not. ansalan the honourable fool had sold the shard and being the genourous dimwit he is had given t 1k he had gotten from it to the guild. then when thebos dung flewhe was suppose to give more plat as recompensation to the guild and plat ti me. He said he would give it to me and had every inention of doing so. i slapped him, told him he was a rogue and to stick some metal down his spine. he laughed, hanked me for reminding him what he was and took me to temple.

Hayate finally come to me and asked what actually happened between ansalan and i..Had he tricked me into giving him the shard. he was the only guild member to do so. The only one who bothered finding out the facts. enough was enough. He and i decided to get he hell out and start our own guild.

He was lvl 18, I was 15...we were and are ambitious.. we did it. we got the form from humbold and left the guild that day

for the next week we slved out guts out trying to raise money for he guild. alanna Sylverhaven and amon blackfyre gave us 100p between them. ansalan gove us 500. Hayate and I farmed 2k...then one day. ectremly frustrated and angry i atacked the monsters at the farm for marcs and mards on end i slaughtered them there headless hens, the gobblers and the stinking mallards. until low and behold i got hree tbs one after the oher i was lvl 16 hayate was 20. I popped them open and found a well made dagger, a demon shield...and a scepter of morning light with three charges. I yelled and screamed with joy. hell i danced on the spot (and fell into that stinking duck pond(

I put the scepter up for sale for 6k...every man and his dog tried to talk me down...hell one crafty old rogue..a weapon tinker no less offered me a crappy upgrade on my stinking rapier...tried to tell me thats the best price i'd get. Please...darn fools had no idea who they were dealing with. i was and am the greatest darn rogue to ever walk these lands....well okay maybe not the best...but I was definitely up the top with the others. I am Seragil Shadowsong. just ask me..I'd tell you.

But it was neither my bartering, manupulative skills, nor my charm that sold that scepter. I believe it was the kindeness of one man. hayates sponsor and mentor. a guy I shall never forget, someone i haven't forgotten and will do anything for, though he probably knows it not. No...I won't say their name...darn sticky beaks! He said he had no need for a scepter as he all ready had one and asked why I wanted such a price for my scepter..It was after all very high. he asked if I would bring it down at all...he said i was after all only lvl 16 and certainly didn't need 6k I told him my and Hayate's dream. he smiled and said he thought I was too young...too inexperianced to run a guild. especially me, hayate was fine though still a little too green. He asked us to join his guild. to wait and grow before we took on the responsibility. he said he had no doubt that in time and with experience we could do it. I told him I wanted my own home, a place where i didn't have to conform to the wishes and goals of another. he smiled and said he understood. he wished us luck and the gods blessings.

When i looked in my pack I had 6k and no scepter....I think I actualy cried. shhh don't tell anyone....I had not thought to find such kindness...such generousity in these lands...oh don't get me wrong...people helped people here...everyone made a big song and dance about it...but their help came with a price tag...or boasting rights. They did it for prestige..as coin. they liked to wrack up how many they had helped, how much it cost and would point out how generous they were...what model citizens. their attitudes help form me into what I am today.

His generousity shocked me to the core. rocked my foundation...and helped me become who I am today

The next day we bought our creation form. hayate asked me what we should call it. I picked the Unholy Imps..for fun, for individuality...to break the mold names where chosen for. he picked the Order for unity, for family. To make us a clan. As for Leadership...I sure as Hades didn't want he job. I know my faults. i have absolutly no diplomacy skiils. i have no patience for politics and absolutly no tolerance for my fellow Valornians. he made friends easyily. had made friends with many other well reknown guild leaders. was great at rubbing shoulders, patient, kind and forgiving. You better believe I pushed him into it.

So The Order of Ubholy Imps was born. we signed up Amon and Alanna on the spot..even bought their resignation forms from humbold and danced when Marriana lost another two members. we then stole Lucas and her and her guild foldee a couple of days later. Bye Bye GNA..Long Live the Imps!


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