INTRODUCTION
Odina, island of the Dark Hunters. All Dark Hunters are either recruited through willingness or by force. Usually it was the latter. Slaves, vagrants, and thieves coerced into joining the organization because they had nothing left to live for … besides themselves. Population: Numerous and varying from day to day. It all depends on members or prisoners being killed for various reasons: Not divulging information, selling the treasure that was to be collected, killing another Dark Hunter, or trying to abandon the organization after one has joined it.
The primary enforcer of all these rules was a fiend known as the Shadowed One. His true name has been lost (on purpose) through the annals of time and has never been said for thousands of years. This charismatic and temperamental ruler of the island of Odina has risen the population of Elite Dark Hunters from zero to six in the span of 100 years. This is the story of how it happened…
On an island far from Odina, the sun set low in the air. It almost looked as if the caldera of the volcano that took up half of the island was cradling the ball of fire in the sky. Nothing much was going on that barren rock that was called an island. Waves crashed to shore and the smell of the water mingled with the acrid stench of the mountain's smoke that occasionally revealed itself once in a while. A large fortress on the island's other half, a twisted offspring of the volcano bred from magma and stone, loomed over the thousands of slaves constructing a sea vessel that was weeks away from completion. Several huts dotting any available space left on the island could be seen from any angle, all of them seemingly made of solid magma.
Yet… Before the slaves, the magma huts, the twisted fortress, and the vessel, however, there was the Makuta, a race of beings assigned to certain islands. They were supposed to create Rahi beasts to populate it, but as of late, the Makuta have been operating in a more sinister manner. One of the Eyelanders caused the Makuta to flee the island and that Eyelander in turn became Leader. This is his story.