The Bishop's Albatross
Suggested Music: Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children - Beyond the Wasteland
An ancient evil plots to destroy Creation. It lives just beneath the veil of Creation, toiling endlessly in the Underworld, forever sealed away. It is a being of such unimaginable malice and power that even its own master sealed it away inescapably. The First and Forsaken Lion is the first and greatest of the Deathlords, but because of punishments levied by his Neverborn master, He Who Holds In Thrall, the Lion remains largely cut off from Creation. He is forced to watch as his younger brethren make strides in the overworld. This has not slowed his planning however. Plots centuries old crowd at the gates of the underworld, waiting eagerly to spill onto Creation and destroy it the moments these gates are opened.
The Bureau of Heaven is not blind to the threat of the Deathlords. They have even gone so far as to train one of their own number, Black Ice Shadow, as an expert in undead and necromantic matters. They have trained many more in the arts of defeating these creatures, that they may stand ready when the day comes that the forces of Darkness burst forth from outside of Fate to ravage Creation.
Recognizing the threat posed by the First and Forsaken Lion, the Gold Faction of Sidereals has groomed a warrior from his birth to crush the Deathlord and his forces. Unfortunately, as the extent of Abyssal knowledge regarding Bureau and Sidereal operating procedures becomes clear, the possibility of an internal leak seems ever more plausible. Internal blame for these leaks often falls on those most familiar with the Deathlords, and as a result, those best-equipped to defeat the Abyssal threat are often prevented from doing so by the very organizations that created them.
Disaster has stricken, a prominent Sidereal master is dead, and Heaven's agents head southward with little notion of what to expect. They may find a once-noble warrior on a bloodthirsty rampage, driven off the edge by attempts to control him, or they may find evidence of betrayal by one of their own. The weeds of corruption have become entangled in the Loom of Fate, and it is the task of Heaven's agents to uproot them.
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