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Backstory of the Shadow Wraith armor
Chapter 1: Armor of Shadows
By the Year 144 NT during the last quarter of the [[Great Uprising ]] the human kingdoms continued to make advances against the [[Ageless]], but a number of smaller kingdoms still without major alliances were struggling and often found themselves unable to hold their lines in the war. An unnamed nobleman from the kingdom of Rinn commissioned from the greatest craftsman of their kingdom, Zeikel Taeryl, the creation of a sword, shield, and a helmet hewn and forged from the rarest metals fallen from the skies and a set of armor cut and sewn from the hide of a creature most all people of the era believed to be nothing more than a myth. It is not known how this eccentric nobleman came to possess the materials he brought to Taeryl, but it did take several heated negotiations to convince Taeryl to eventually accept the commission.
Zeikel Taeryl had the tools and knowledge to work with [[seryll]], but the hide he was given to work with was something far outside of his usual work materials. He considered his tools to be among the best anyone could possibly make, but the hide stubbornly refused to cooperate as his tools would bend and break in the attempt to work with it. Even his best scissors and knives would dull in a single pass. Several times Taeryl sent boxes of broken tools to the nobleman who commissioned him as a statement of the sheer exasperation at what he was being asked to do.
It was not that Taeryl hated the challenge, in fact he relished it, and was looking forward to the day he could present this work on completion, yet he still had to contend with the simple fact that his tools were not going to get the job done and knew that some form of new metallurgical process would be required to improve the tools he was using. The nobleman, listening to the troubles that Taeryl was encountering sent a squire to The Foundry of Mt. Riverhorn to the distant east as Taeryl had heard a few rumors concerning a new method of mixing metal ores to form a much stronger metal.
It is said that all of the people of Zeikel Taeryl’s troop that contributed to the items creation, including Taeryl himself, fell unnaturally weak and died soon after the armor’s edification ceremony. Not long after their deaths, the nobleman that commissioned the set was found dead in his house as was the squire that retrieved the scrolls from the Forge Masters at Mt. Riverhorn. Their deaths ensured the dark secrets of how the Shadow Armor and it’s companion shield and sword were actually created would be taken from the world and into the grave.
To Be Continued...
