*Billions of years earlier

  A seventeen year old boy with a red cloak thrown over his shoulder and hands tied with a rope is being escorted by two knights and thrown into the middle of a giant pentagram. After waiting for hours kneeling on the rough stone the pentagram was carved in, the boy sees the king emerging from the shadows in front of him.

  “You claimed you could control it, so you can keep it…  but not here.” Announced the king as flames formed around them revealing thousands of shamans, in cloaks similar to that of the boy’s, standing completely still, surrounding the place of the ritual.

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  The king continued “For our safety, wipe all his memories of our family, in order to get rid of va-” the king couldn't finish as the boy screamed

  “It's a simple curse, it can be tamed!”

  The king, without a word, raised his left arm. An arm, made of flames rose from the ground below the boy, grabbed his face and slammed it into the ground.

  Satisfied, the king continued “...to get rid of Vampiric Shadow, banish it, along with Maiden to The Fields of Despair…  that's all.” All of the surrounding shamans bowed down as the pentagram lit up with pink flames reaching as high as the eye can see. When the flames vanished so did the shamans, and the boy was gone. All that remained in his place was the rope used to tie his hands.

  The ritual was successful.