Yrus Felbrood
A Scourge On Virosia
Yrus Felbrood was a Bassyrikin whose name is now reviled by history. In the final years of the Great Navigation, after the Dwarves had discovered and developed the use of Mythral crystals and their magical uses, he worked towards unlocking greater powers that were beyond the traditional reaches of Virosia. He used his blood's ties to Bassyr to infest what is now the Yrchin Wilderness, and what was then the Seraelen Valley, with a ravenous, horrific Bassyric demon known as a Scrisalin. You are deaf to her, Felbrood. There are limits. You must understand this. Limits! And if Virosia herself is screaming for you to stop, you must listen. Alas; my breath, now, is wasted. Could you have heared her or I, it would have never come to this. - Ilmas Vaegath This outbreak led to the destruction of the most well developed elven Mythrael Orchards, and nearly the ruin of all of Virosia in an event now referred to as the "Yrchin Scourge". Before this took place, however, Felbrood was a sartor that practiced techniques undeveloped and often considered terrible. He learned from mages of every lineage and was left wanting for more, for a style of sartorcraft that harnessed who he was - intrinsically. He sought the power that lie in his blood. Indeed, there was great power to be drawn, and developed the first ways to reach into The Selvedge, drawing power from The Veil beyond. He worked The Veil of Bassyr and its effects have been felt in Virosia ever since. From a citadel built beneath Virosia, he worked a great spell into existence - one that took a great number of other Bassyrikin to weave. His spell, however, was not without cost and great preparation. He worked for years tainting the earth of the now Yrchin Valley with malicious toxins of alchemical creation. His life work began to take fruition. Thus, he and the other eight casters took place across all edges of the valley, Felbrood at the center, within his Bassyric citadel. Where his students stood, victims they became to his magic, and their blood saturated the earth like venom to a weakened host. He infused the earth with such volumes of Bassyric blood, and channeled The Selvedge of Bassyr to truly make the blood - for but a brief instant - Demonic. And from it, Scrisalin poured. Crawling from the earth and all of its crags, wretched, many-legged atrocities ravaged and multiplied. Felbrood knew not what the result of his magic would be. Corruption? Change? Most certainly. But infestation was more than he could have ever hoped for. He earned the name Felbrood thusly. What remains now is the Yrchin Wilderness, a desolate land, perceived by The Virosian Realms to be abandoned by all good. The ruined land, still saturated with the ichor of Bassyr, is now home to those deemed undesireable by the Realms. Likewise, Demons roam this land in higher numbers than anywhere else in Virosia by far, seemingly spawning from the earth in hoards from time to time - the magic of Felbrood's spell still lingering.Felbrood's Rise
Felbrood was driven by the desire to learn. To be at the forefront of what was possible. For a great time, this proved to create an astounding Sartor; a prodigy of his time, Yrus would stop at little to expand and push the boundaries of the Veil. The barrier, however, he named the Selvedge. In early experiments performed using his own blood, he discovered a form of Sartorship that would prove entirely different from traditional methods. The power shone in spectacle foreign, distinctly not of Virosia to his estimation: the veil of a separate world. This selvedge wondered in such spectacular fashion that he finally found a focus. His studies were broad and ranging before this point, and his fixation would create a maddening in him that stirred for a great time. He began to bend all efforts for more information, and it was the one subject he could not pursue. Not forbidden by any man, elf, talii or dwarf, but by his bindings to Virosia. He formed allies across the world, stretching in every direction for a lead that could inch him closer to what powers existed elsewhere. To have power, however, was not his goal. Merely to have access to what was available, and the capacity to make the choice to use it for what it was. Felbrood loathed limitation.Felbrood's Downfall
Yrus Felbrood's decline was due mostly to himself. After the completion of his spell, he felt finished. His life's work had manifested, and he knew the destruction of all of Virosia was just a matter of time. Many were after a solution to the infestation, and very few even knew there was a heart of this scourge. Most people only knew of the atrocities of its edges, and could only concern themselves therein. The Saendaaran Elves, however, knew the depths of the scourge, and through an event known as the Abhorrence discovered a way to destroy scrisalin in great numbers. Ilmas Vaegath, one of the migrants of The Waning, was a Scarsan and alchemist that developed a potion capable of turning elven blood into a flammable oil that burned endlessly against the flesh of Demons. But she could not defeat Felbrood without help. To puncture the heart of this, she needed companions. She gathered a group composed of the finest warriors and sartors she could find. Her pursuit took years, and before they could succeed, they created a weapon that could destroy Felbrood himself: Mhyralite - Edge of Starblood in elvish. He had become so demonic himself, only an etraline blade could pierce his flesh.A Cursed Lineage
Yrus Felbrood cursed Bassyrikin to a life of resentment from all other people, no matter how evil. Despite many Bassyrikin having done great deeds in their lives, to this day it is a very difficult life for these people as a result of what he did. Many do not dare tread into larger cities as strange and malicious looks is the kindest world they would be greeted by; more likely they are met with sharp steel in their necks while walking the streets.
In rural areas it is much the same. More suspicious folk in rougher areas might even mistake them for demons in their own right, fleeing or assaulting them outright.
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