Hibiki



Born in the rice patty village of Yoma in the center of The Boarderlands, the child of Wataru and Satomi would have many auspicious moments throughout his life. The child, Hibiki, would first rise to prominence at a young age, literally. The village was made up of dark mountain drwarves, a faction of the noble line expelled from the underground strongholds centuries ago for reasons no longer spoken about. However, being of pure dwarf blood, Hibiki grew nearly twice the height of a common dwarf. In his adolescent years, Hibiki began exhibiting magical abilities. Content with his life in Yoma, he opted to use his abilities to help the village grow and prosper, becoming their Mayor. Until Lord Cinnabar came.

Cinnabar was recruiting people for his entourage, and word of Hibiki's magical abilities reach the blood painted castle. Cinnabar had Hibiki's legs cut off and told to heal himself, which he did. As Lord Cinnabar was in need of a combat healer, he instructed Hibiki to join his fledgling entourage; refusal would be the murder and raising of the entire village of Yoma. Hibiki "willingly" joined the entourage.

To increase his magical abilities as part of the entourage, Hibiki enrolled in The Alchemist Guild, a school of magic headed by Prince Morgil of House Phoenix. For years Hibiki studied under his teacher Aemeli until achieving the status of Archmage and becoming an Alchemist Guild teacher himself. But this had changed Hibiki. His association with the cruelty of now Arch Duke Cinnabar, the wickedness of Prince Morgil, and Dragon, and vile and murderous agent of House Phoenix that befriended Hibiki, had changed him... corrupted him. Hibiki still publicly excelled in his job as a teacher, and was faithfully by the side of Cinnabar in all conflicts, but in secret, Hibiki was murdering bystanders for sport, scalping and devouring dozens of bodies.

Hibiki was barely in control of his actions in private, looking for any excuse for free time to give in to his bloodlust. He found hope in the guiding light of a knight named Rebecca Silver of Chimmeron. Hibiki sought out her virtue to save him from himself. Then, in an act of universal cruelty, Rebecca Silver was married off and permanently reassigned out of The Realm.

Now, alone with his own demons, Hibiki knew he could not keep up the front of a normal member of society for long. So before the charade was discovered, he killed some bystandard with similar body type as he, then dressed the body in Hibiki's clothing and set the body to be found at the Festival of Yoma, faking his death, now running wild and free in shadows, feeding on living beings to further his dark desires.

There are those that say Hibiki returned some time later, wearing similar clothing and casting comparable spells and wielding a bigger umbrella and acting mostly the same, but forgetting some details of previous encounters or conversations here and there. Be assured, that was not Hibiki... no one knows who or what that creature was.