Objective: Hang in there
Location: Rangoon forest
Allies: None
Enemies: Chains!
Post: 1/20
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With the premature death of Anja Aj'Rou, the Primeval crumbled in turmoil as war-mongering warlords contended for title of Host Lord and the throne of Bastion. Their ambition and arrogance knew no boundaries; Anja's body was still warm when they began to tear apart what she strived so hard to build. The first in line was the Arbiter of Bastion, Aj'Rou's body guard, personal confidant and the executor of her will. Warlords feared him, for he was a colossal in size, dexterious with bladed weapons of the old. The legend was he once ripped the head out of a traitor's shoulders at Anja's command, without much strain. Shadowmane was a threat mainly because he had the allegiance of the Anja's armies, his stoicism and dedication painting him as iconic in the eyes of Primeval's troops. He could, if he didn't lack such appetites, take the soverignity of Ravelin and rule with an iron fist, obliterating any resistance from warlords across Primeval space.
However, Einar was unfit for a leader, his antisocial nature and inherent bestiality rendering him incapable of grasping the intricacies of politics. He was driven by the purest of instincts, akin to those of animals. He thus felt they were coming for him, an entire legion of assassins who would chain him once again and send him off across the galaxy to some forsaken slave pit for the remainder of his days. Death, in their opinion, was an unfit punishment for loyalty to former Host Lord. He would return to the grime and slime Anja erected him from, to a purposeless existence under a sky littered with unknown stars. It took more than twenty men to pacify the Valkyri, together with several tranquilizers shots, before he was transported offworld and into the unknown. He had woken up on board some defunct starship belonging to slavers, only to be put back to sleep with a potent blow to the head.
Unknowingly, he was sold to a dark man who called himself a Sith Beastmaster, who had purchased him upon hearing of Einar's peculiar abilities, namely his ability to fully heal any wound in record time. He then shipped the Valkyri to Rangoon VI, where he would be a test subject in a series of horrid experiments. However, the beastmaster knew not of Einar's secondary gift, the commandment of creatures of the wild. Now, the beasts roamed free and a terrible fate befell the beastmaster, as he was unable to control animals who were now subjugated to Einar's will.
Shadowmane was chained to an time-worn tree, cables stretching his arms up, above his head, like he was hanging from a cross. His skin was covered in a atrocious mixture of blood and grime, with nothing more than a raggy loincloth covering his brawny form. Muscles were flexed in a constant spasm, as the position he found himself in did not allow for his tendons to relax. His extremities were numb in pain, but he showed no signs of affliction. Instead, Einar's head was dipped foward, long dark mane obscuring his face from which sweat dripped to the grass below. Shallowly breathing, he swung as the wind run past his body, carrying his scent into the forest, towards the creatures he aimed to command. In his mind, but a single thought.
Revenge.