Brotherhood Of Druids
Sometime after the rise of the
Great Kingdom, around the beginning of King Milo's reign, there began
secret meetings of a druid brotherhood in secret. King Milo
never
knew of this brotherhood, and very few citizens knew of it either.
It's founder was a man named Icabod, who turned out to have been not
fully human, but part
vampire. It was believed by
later scholars in the Great Kingdom that this Icabod character had
traveled from the realm of darkness into the land of the living with
the
help of Zall, god of war and the mystics of the green mountains.
Icabod was, in reality, one of the fallen messengers that had been
created by the Spirit of the
Green
Shadow. He fell with Zall, Xa, Bac, Si and the thousands of other
messengers/spirits created to do good. Banned to the realm of
darkness, Icabod (or his true
name,
Xexxon) spent nearly one thousand human years trapped in the realm of
darkness, plotting his revenge. Then, Zall came to him one day and
had a dark mission for
him.
Xexxon jumped at the chance to be free, and accepted Zall's mission.
Using dark magic, Zall called upon the most powerful mystics from the
underworld, and they
sensed
his call. Some of the mystics were afraid and fled, but were captured
and killed for their dissobedience. The remaining mystics used their
dark magic to
bring
both Zall and Xexxon into the land of the living. Once there, Xexxon
was sent to the Great Kingdom under the cover of darkness wearing a
hooded cloak. He was
not
noticed because he was using strong magic. Once Xexxon was within the
belly of the Great Kingdom, deep beneath a hidden chamber inside the
castle dungeon, he
secretly began calling on
followers telepathically to join his evil cause. These followers were
common, ordinary folks. Citizens of the Great Kingdom that no one
would
have suspected anything from. By day, they were husbands, fathers,
brothers, sons, farmers, peddlers, and bakers. By night, they caused
all sorts of terror and
problems for the poor citizens
of the kingdom. They would steal, swindle, start fires, commit
terrible acts of vandlism and worst of all, spread untrue rumors
about
the
good, hard working citizens. These events mainly went unnoticed by
the complacent king Milo, who seemed to have other interests, like
filling his pockets with
gold.
This
brotherhood went into hiding during the barbarian captivity. Most of
the members, including the long lived Icabod/Xexxon, traveled to the
southern town of Vido
where
they tried to blend in. They stopped practicing magic until the new
kingdom was formed under king Chad, then traveled back to the Great
Kingdom to cause more
trouble. By this time, there was
a new up and coming druid named Zed who was threatening to over throw
Icabod and the whole brotherhood. But when Icabod exposed
Zed's
trechery, Zed started a new secret organization called Zedion. This
group only lasted a few years.
As
for the brotherhood of druids, a particular druid named Ebeneezer
soon joined the group and ended up bringing down the whole
organization along with Icabod.
Icabod
was destroyed in a fire after a battle broke out within the walls of
the castle during a seige to try and sieze the kingdom for
themselves. While Ebeneezer
esacaped, most of the other
druids were captured and imprisoned or banned from the kingdom. Only
one druid was executed because he tried to kill king Chad. Chad
survived. The Great Kingdom also
survived the brotherhood of druids. No other brotherhood of druids or
and other kind of dark wizards ever rose up again with in the
kingdom. As for Ebeneezer, he
attempted to ressurect Icabod using magic and digging up the skull of
his former master. But in the end, the spirit of Icabod destroyed
Ebeneezer in a fire, the same
way Ebeneezer had killed Icabod.
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