Memory.
Such a simple word. Six letters working together to bring the past into the present, through the realms of the mind. It is hardly given much thought by the majority of the populace in its day to day dealings. What threat, after all, could such a simple firing of cranial nodes pose to government, empires, or kingdoms?
History is rife with what memory can do. Memory can burn, love, hurt, heal, kill, revive, destroy, and create! Countless wars, countless acts of love, all attest to the power of memory.
What would happen if memory is given power? Memory, already a powerful force, could become, in the wrong hands, a Destroyer, an Armageddon, a force no being can endure.
But put that power into the hands of a hero, a champion for the innocent, a rescuer for the helpless, and it becomes another entity entirely. It becomes an energy that no evil can possibly dream to overcome. Darkness would have no chance of survival, whereas before it had a possibility of conquest.
How does one attain this power? What possible force of nature could super-charge memory with enough raw energy to become this game-changer of a weapon?
For millennia, race after race, species after species all passed away, seeking to discover this secret. Forces for good, waves of evil, all failed. A general balance kept, of course, but each generation passed away, giving path to a new one to fail at discovering this ultimate source of eternity.
Thus, the pattern was kept, a cycle instituted to keep both forces at bay.
Until, one day, a hero found the secret. One pure of heart, despite the years of war, stumbled across an ancient weapon, used for the purposes of evil and destruction. The weapon of shadow, empty of purpose, brake the universal expectations of it. Thus, the secret was found, and the hero became the ultimate warrior…