The Book of Legends

Tome III: Genesis of the Shadows

...And so, it started; the skies dimmed, the fires grew pale and every shed of light turned gray and cold. In the thriving village of Ikalea the people ran fearful in the murk, desperately searching for the last rays of the now sleeping sun. At last, the prophecy had come true, the day in which the sun would fall in an endless slumber had arrived... The birds took agitated flight, not expecting the night, fleeing for their lives, it wouldn't be long before the night stalkers arrived and preyed on both man and beast...
Meanwhile the elders spoke in secrecy. They knew it was their responsibility to leave the village and seek a way to restore the day, a way to bring the withering sun back to life. The four of them discussed for long, they knew it wouldn't be an easy journey and the four of them were not enough for the great task ahead. They also knew the plants would die, the animals starve and their people would eventually fall into the shadows of the past unless they accomplished their task.

The names of the Great Four have long been forgotten but their titles remain engraved in both our past and our future... The leader, the founder of the guild; The Dawnbringer; was to lead the others into greatness, it was him who was destined to bring the rays of sun to the great plains of Ikalea at least once more before leaving this world. His right hand, The Seneschal of the Light; would bring hope where the darkness had consumed it, where people had already surrendered and embraced death, with hope came bravery and with bravery new recruits willing to join the cause. And together, the Guardian of Dawn and the Warden of Dusk would fend off the fiends spewed by the perpetual gloom, fighting back to back against Beasts unknown to any man and facing as one the Demons unspoken of even in the Holy books...

These legendary men set out to find new companions, people of great strength that would lend their arms to restore the celestial balance. With every loss they mourned and with every new companion they grew stronger. With the Great Four it had started and with the Great Four it would end... The Black Sun Guild was formed in the first hours of the eternal night...


Courtesy of Cabetardo, former Black Sun Member and historian of the Guild.