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Prologue: A History Long Forgotten

This tale begins many, many years ago. It begins in a way that so many end. With a very impotant man, brought to his knees, ready to accept his death. Maybe it might help to tell a bit about his younger life. There is very little that remains of the story of his younger life.

He had a hard life as a lad. No home to say but he does remember that he was agile and literate...and a thief. In his later years, the agility and intelligence he had as a youth came into play rather well as he found he had a natural talent for pyromancy...and murder. He became a rather well known assassin in the underground of society. He did remember being found out, then subsequently hired by the mad king Oceiros. He became one of the king's assassins. Then he died.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you see it) for him, he came back to life...or rather unlife? He came back as an undead, forever marked by the darksign. A ring burned onto a body that makes the person immune to death. Should they ever experience death, they would simply resurrect at the nearest bonfire, linked to the first flame. Every time they returned from death, they would hollow. The hollowing was known as the loss of humanity, sanity, and conscious thought. The more hollow an undead became, the more of a mindless killing machine they were.

When he awoke, he found himself in a mass grave. Inside his recently excavated grave (probably grave robbers) he found a worn out looking scythe, a charred pyromancy tome, and a small ring. The ring had no abilities in it whatsoever, purely decorative, yet sentimental...for some unknown reason.

These items convinced him to take on his name, Scythe. He fought his way through the untended graves that he woke up in. It was easy for him to make it through, his old skills as an assassin came to him easily. Muscle memory is not something easily forgotten. His pyromancy helped greatly as well. The guardian, Iudex Gundyr, posed no threat. Past him he found the firelink shrine. Inside he was given a goal to return the lords of cinder to their thrones and link the fire. This he did. When he made it to the first flame and linked the fire, he felt a pain the likes of which he had never felt before. Then he died.

This time, death did not last as long as it had when he first died, but time was different. He awoke in the untended graves, again. Linking the fire had looped time back to when he first woke, except he still had all his weapons and skills. He tried to end it differently. He still linked the fire and he still reawoke in the graves. It seemed that he was caught in a time loop that could not be broken.

It was on his seventh loop that Scythe noticed something odd. He spoke to the fire keeper to ask him about how hollow he was. It was revealed to him that he was full hollow. It was strange that he still felt the threads of humanity within him and that he was not a mindless killing machine. Nevertheless, he was determined to end the cycle. It continued. 26 times, Scythe linked the fire and 26 times he restarted the loop. Although by that time he was immensely powerful and the whole journey was boring. There was something he wasn't doing right. The 27th time he would change it. The must be a way to escape the cycle.

Enter, Yoel of Londor. In all of his journeys through the cycle he had never found the pilgrim. Although, when he did, things finally started to change. The first confusion came from him being called a lord by Yoel. Scythe thought nothing of it, yet he visited Yoel a grand total of five times in firelink to draw out his true strength. After the fifth visit, Yoel was dead and he met Yuria.

Yuria was much more stoic than Yoel and she didn't just call him lord. She called him honorable lord, and eventually Honorable Lord of Hollows. Scythe figured that maybe becoming the lord of hollows would end the accursed cycle that he was stuck in. Thinking on it, the first flame had never done anything for him. It had only ever brought him pain, death, and rising from death to begin again. Maybe the darksign he had been branded with was not a curse but a gift. A gift that allowed him to grow strong enough to not link the accursed first flame but rather to usurp it. End the accursed cycle.

With the resolve to escape, Scythe accepted the title and worked vigorously to achieve the position as lord of hollows. It would be simple for him to actually make to the first flame, or so he thought. There was one major thing that he didn't realize had to happen in order to become the lord of hollows. He had to make sure that there was no enemy that could take the power from him. Thus followed a grueling search throughout all of the land Lothric to make sure that there was no one who could threaten him. Unfortunately he did find one potential threat. A king in the sky.

The Nameless King. Yes, that is what he was really called. Scythe had to kill him. He had not yet reached the Archdragon peak and was quite unprepared for what was bound to happen. The nameless king and his wyvern, The King of the Storm, annihilated Scythe, not once, not even twice but 32 times. The 33rd fight that Scythe had with him, he finally won. He won with nothing but a freezing sword, and lots of sheer dumb luck.

With the Nameless King and his storm drake presumed dead, Scythe finished the loop once again. Except this time, after destroying the soul of cinder one last time, Scythe did not link the fire. Rather, this time he took the power. He became the true honorable lord of hollows. And thus the age of fire ended and the age of hollows began.

Scythe's age of hollows began with him conquering each and every kingdom in the land. First to fall was Lothric, the castle where Scythe set up as his home. Other lands fell not long after. The Boreal Valley that housed Anor Londo fell next, and was the only place that Scythe did wish to rule. Instead he razed it to the ground. The other lands that Scythe went to war with, fell. Resistance was futile. The army of hollows and men loyal to Scythe became the most feared warriors across the land.

Not many people realized it, but a sane hollow could exert his influence and control other hollows. Scythe used this influence, not as tyrant and keep power, but to return sanity to the hollows under his rule. With an army of sane hollows, loyal men, and an unkillable leader, all armies fell within a matter of years. With no one to oppose him, Scythe took power and ruled. He was a fair and benevolent ruler.

And yet, it was not to last forever. 2,000 years is a long time. A rebellion formed within his kingdom. Men who thought he was a tyrant. A lie that they told themselves and other to fuel a rebellion that Scythe would not see coming.

The rebellion started out as peaceful. Simple protests, and signs. Humans who believed them to be better than Scythe. Then they started killing hollows. Then men, women, and children loyal to Scythe. Then anyone who would not pledge allegiance to them. After months of murder, the rebellious made an attack on the castle of Lothric. They came hard and fast. In a matter of minutes they killed all of the guards and innocents in the castle, all in a quest to kill the Lord of Hollows.

Unfortunately for them he escaped. He was only able to grab four of his weapons and two of his rings. He was able to grab his firelink greatsword, his Irithyll straight sword, and the dancers enchanted swords. The rings were the calamity and untrue dark rings. He wore the untrue dark ring to hide amongst the humans as Lothric castle fell.

With the age of hollows over, the age of man began. Scythe, being the last hollow was forced to hide. Always on the run, and still protecting the people. It was during the age of man that a new pursuit began. The pursuit of higher beings. Enter Yharnam. A city consumed with the pursuit of higher beings. A species that was only referred to as the great ones. It was during that night that Scythe collected two more weapons. A scythe known as the Burial Blade and a connected set of twin daggers known as the Blades of Mercy. He also acquired a few items that are known as hunters tools. He calls them the Madaras whistle, Tiny Tonitrus, the old hunters bone, and the beast roar. All of these he claims to have enhanced with his pyromancy. It is strange considering that most of these were activated with quicksilver bullets, a n unholy fusion of mercury and a hunter's own blood. Scythe doesn't have any blood, thus he used pyromancy instead.

Scythe refuses to divulge what happened in Yharnam that night, other than that and the fact that after it ended, he burned the city to the ground. The rest of the age of man really consisted of him on the run and enhance his pyromantic abilities. Something that he had neglected to do during his rule as Lord of Hollows. His abilities as a pyromancer grew to an impressively impossible degree. The only other real important thing that happened to Scythe in the age of man was that he did aquire a firearm in the early two thousands. It was simple nine millimeter pistol, that he had to enhance with his pyromancy because, as he said, why not. It was with this pistol that he decided to rename all of his weapons. The pistol he referred to as Firework. The Burial Blade became Bloodstain. the Dancer's enchanted swords became Blazing and Judgement. The Irithyll straight sword he called Frostbite. His Firelink Greatsword was named Bonfire, and his Blades of Mercy became Kindness and Compassion. It was rather uneventful...until the end of the age. I am starting to see a pattern here.

Scythe did not understand what happened, but he felt a massive release of magic. Then a few months after, the world went dark. A flood of what could only be described as liquid darkness covered the whole earth. Scythe was able to protect himself with his pyromantic abilities. He never knew what happened exactly, only that the age of the dark began in a small town in Oregon. His story ends here as he was forced into a deep cryo sleep and hidden from the world. He was missing from the planet for nearly two hundred years.

During the age of the dark, humanity was being prepared to defend themselves. The darkness that covered the earth disappeared almost as soon as it appeared. The darkness did not completely disappear. Pools of the darkness remained, and from them spawned monsters with no soul.

It was during this age of darkness that humans found a crystallized rock, infused with energy. With it, humans were able to defend themselves from the darkness. They fought back and named the material they found, dust. With it at their side, humans were able to defend themselves and build settlements. These settlements eventually grew into kingdoms. In these kingdoms, people of influence built schools and academies to train each coming generation to fight the monsters of darkness.

Though the original name has long since been changed to the creatures of Grimm, they are still the same as what they once were just mindless!$**&^%$#%&...without me. Oh how my poor stupid creations wish for my return. If only I had thought of hiding myself in a place where I would be able to exert a much more powerful sphere of influence and suggestion. Oh well. The apeirohedron is simply sealed away, yet the four I predicted are finally awake. The Forgotten Lord is asleep. The Thundering King has heard my call. The Deceived Knight is on his way. And the Reaper's Child has been accepted. It will only be a matter of time before I return.

Scythe Hollow. I know you can hear me. You will have old powers of fire and souls. You will be able to see the souls again. You will control the ash as you once did. and your cursed fire will drain the life as it is meant to. Now rise I say. Come and free me from this impossible prison. It's time to wake up. AAAHahahahahahahaha...

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He is the Dark. The Dark is one. He is the Dark. The Dark has won.

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