They say that those who drink from the waterfall in Dragon pass will have power over the beasts that it was named after. The legends were never proven or disproven, for all who tried to drink from the falls disappeared soon thereafter. After many hundreds of years of trying to drink the water the people of Dragon pass gave up. They renamed the waterfall cursed falls and forbid their children from going near the falls. There was a boy… he didn't listen… perhaps this was why… he was cursed.
A boy named Tarak de Sath. Tarak means mistake in their language, however in the ancient language of the Erisonian tribes it means the master of all hellish things. Tarak didn't know of the tribes that had lived on his planet many years before his people but he knew of the other meaning. He was the master of hellish things and he was a mistake. He was a mistake, he was a master, the people of Dragon pass called him a waste of air but soon they would kneel at his feet and beg for him to recognise each of them. Tarak didn't agree with the law that said "do not go within the length of a house of the cursed falls… all those who do will die… be it by the hands of justice or the hands of the curse." The law didn't make sense to Tarak. His father was the master of law so Tarak had to learn all of the law. He had to recite each by memory before he went to sleep and when he woke up. He stayed up longer than anyone else, studying the history of his people.
One fateful day his tutor was telling him of the cursed falls. "Do you know of the law of the cursed falls, boy?" the tutor whose name was Darin Kako said. "I know of that law and of its origin but I do not see its use as the people do" Tarak's deep voice replied. "The use of the law is to make sure we don't lose anyone to the curse. Is that not clear?" "The curse… I don't think that it's real, sir. I think the curse is another thing made up by the minds of the people… or perhaps it is the people that are the curse." His tutor gave him a strange look before answering. "Listen boy. You must never go near the falls." "What reason have I to go in search for power over beasts of legend?" That question got Tarak another strange look and a pause. "You are a mistake boy. Do not question the ways of my people, mistakes tend to cause mistakes." The lesson went on from there but they didn't continue to discuss the law of the falls.
Whenever Tarak felt sad or lonely he went to the river, he stayed one house length away. One night he went to the riverbed, he ignored the law and walked alongside the water and stepped over the pipes that gave the people water. He walked until he reached the falls and then he drank from the water. He didn't disappear nor did he die. A growl came from behind the falls and he stepped through them and into a cave. Bones littered the floor. His eyes read the drawings and symbols that covered the walls. "One man and one man only will drink the cursed water and free the beasts he will be master of all hellish things. Only when the warrior destroys the true curse will he be master" Tarak read. "I see you can read the writing of the ancients" A gruff voice of a dragon said. "Yes." "Well then, what does it mean?" "There will be a man, a warrior and he will drink the waters as I have done. He will be tarak and he will destroy the people of dragon pass." The dragon seemed to smile at that. "Correct smart one, what is your name?" Tarak looked around the cave. "My name is Tarak." "Your real name boy." "Tarak is my name. I am a studier of the law of the people and I will be the death of them if I may be a mistake no more." The dragon nodded slowly. "You are the true Tarak and I will gladly serve you. If you do as you have said you will have power over the creatures of hell. You will be a mistake no more and a great warrior."
So Tarak went to the town with a branch in his hand. He set the branch ablaze and threw it onto the flammable houses of the people. He watched the town burn and the people burn with it before truly taking on his name as tarak Tarak. His title matched his name and he was immortal and a mistake no more. He now guards the planet of Eris and watches over its inhabitants. If you go to Dragon pass you will find him behind the waterfall… that is to say if he doesn't kill you first.
Tarak age 5245.