Hello everyone. This is the beginning to my first story on . And when I say beginning, I mean a taste of what is to come. This will be an AU, seeing as I don't really know Morzan's backstory and I'm just making this up. You might be wondering why this prologue is so short and it's because I'm unsure of whether anyone else has done a Morzan origin story before. I couldn't find any and I would like to be sure that my idea is different from any existing stories. Thank you very much and enjoy this snippet of a story.

~Magnus

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: The End

As a general rule, people die in rather unpleasant ways; there is simply no dignity in death. Kings and peasants alike die, writhing in pain; finally equal in the last death throes. Even with his elongated life, Morzan the Cruel could not cheat death as Brom drove his sword into his stomach.

The first thing Morzan felt was shock followed by a sharp searing pain that seemed to vibrate and strike every fiber of his being. A hazy veil dropped in front of his eyes and his mind floated, the pain becoming fainter as his body crumpled to the ground, his bloodied hands clutching the familiar blue hilt of Brom's sword. In a way, it was fitting for Brom to be his executioner; after all, he had helped make Brom the man he was today. His actions, for better or worse, had transformed the small superstitious boy he had met countless years ago into a hardened warrior. But best of all, Brom would be the one to paint him in the desired light.

Death by Brom's hand ensured that he would die the monster he was always meant to be; that the prophecy of his birth would come true. He was born amidst a pool of blood and suffering and he would die that way too.

Morzan stared into Brom's brown eyes; even through his eyesight was failing, he could see that Brom's eyes were cold and hard like his own. Morzan threw his head back and laughed at the sheer absurdity of it all. Morzan died with blood gurgling in his throat and Misery by his side.

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