Hello, Pax.
Did I scare you?
You found this book, and when you opened it, it was addressed to you with a na known only to you and a few. Freaky, right?
I'd be spooked too!
Don't worry, your identity as a Soul Stealer is safe with , but now that I have your attention…
As the sole inheritor of this book, read it well.
Read the story of the noble King Ixion…
But first, a little ssage to you.
Your father… he's a weird guy.
He doesn't talk about you much — at all, really; he scorns you in fact. Your very existence makes his blood boil.
He loves your sister, though, because your sister is actually his.
Ah! Did I shock you?
Your doting mother was a filthy cheater.
How deplorable!
Then again, you were probably more shocked at the ntion of a father.
After all, you hold no mory of him.
I don't know what that terrible man did to be cursed like so, but his na and history are forever lost, unable to be reclaid. Even if you rembered him, you'd simply forget again.
You'd even forget you'd forgotten!
But enough about him, let's get onto sothing way more interesting.
That key you've been searching for…
I can help you find it, but the most I can provide is a hint. Interpreting it and obtaining the key will be up to you…
Look down at the stone in your hand and focus on what's right but feels wrong.
Within yourself you'll see an empty void.
That hole in your heart is due to ti's twine unwinding.
Unravel and search, but the source will never be found — or perhaps fated to be found and lost again. That past beca the present, the present forever and now.
Don't look back, but go back safe and sound. To the place where you've forgotten.
The key will be there, held by sothing lost.
…
Now, I don't know what any of that ans myself, but good luck!
And, rember, a heart of a monster does not an you possess the mind of one!
Trust , I would know.
As they say, I have the heart of a human but the mind of a monster!
Ah, but finally, it's ti for the true preface.
The preface of , Ixion the greatly terrible!
I'm no hero, I think you'll co to see that pretty clearly as you read, but everything I've done and will do, I've done with a purpose.
Not that the purpose was particularly noble.
Though I am noble in my pursuit, therefore it shall be described so…
Maybe the ans don't justify the ends. Maybe the ends aren't even justifiable if the ans were ethical.
After all, I've sworn to destroy the world!
See! I'm an awful man!
Who can call themselves noble after claiming such a diabolical plot!
Ah… how pitiable I am.
A specter walking amongst three worlds, unknown to one.
I walk a path of lonely darkness.
But how I decided to tread my path, and why I'll take the steps I've yet to take.
Oh, you'll see. If you decide to keep reading, of course…
You'd better! Else I will haunt you!
Perhaps even literally!
In any case…
You'll see the story of a child of war. One who grew up to wage a war in turn — a war waged through the sacrifice of innurable Souls.
Yet, each Soul sacrificed by my hand will be one more the Scourge will be unable to claim.
You'll learn how a king who wished for solace seeks it at a dreadful cost.
Listening to the screams and pleas of his people as he rcilessly slaughters them…
You'll learn how feigned madness turns into true insanity.
I'll learn that one as well.
Ah…
I don't want forgiveness for my sins.
Nor do I want my actions to be lauded.
I simply want my story to be rembered by soone.
Even if soone knows nothing of my legacy or the people nad.
Even if that soone is one with their own fair share of blood on their hands.
After all, mory of must live on if I am to finish my final quest.
***
Ixion put down his quill and looked at the nonsensical words he'd strung together from a sense he'd never make.
'Blasted!'
He'd written about how awful a man he was, but Ixion was aweso and venerable!
…
'Ah…'
'I'm tired.'
Nothing had even started. His plans in their nascent state. He'd done little of his necessary, terrible actions.
'But I'm already tired.'
Was Ixion really the right choice for this? The right person for this job?
'Oh, Walker of Fate...'
'What made you choose to do your bidding?'
Why was Ixion chosen to commit these abhorrent acts?
Why not pick a man already mad?
Why pick the Hollow Crowned King?
Well, he was asking a question he very much knew the answer to…
Hate.
Ixion hated this world, so he wouldn't mind destroying it.
Ixion also hated the Scourge, so why not destroy them too while at it?!
Not to ntion…
Ixion possessed the strength to see the world to its end.
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