Part 1: Clotho (The Weaver)
"My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. You heavenly powers, since you were responsible for these changes, as for all else, look favourably upon my attempts, and spin an unbroken thread of verse, from the earliest beginnings of the world, down to my own times."- Ovid, Metamorphoses
Everyone has a story, no matter how obscure his or her place in history. This fact is well known and widely ignored. In many cases, a life story is left unexamined because the person starring in it, quite frankly, just isn't very interesting. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever written a bestselling novel about a man who has an average childhood, finds steady work in an average job, raises a normal family with no spectacular failures or phenomenal successes, gets his retirement fund together and retires at the standard age, grows old with no incredible good health or horrible diseases, and dies a natural death. It sounds cruel to say it, but an average life is average for a reason. The middle of the bell curve is never particularly interesting. This doesn't mean that the average, ordinary person is a bad (or even dull or boring) person, it just means that a book will probably never be written about them, and no movie will ever showcase their life.
Others could be well known if they wished to be. However, due to reasons of their own, they shun the limelight and embrace obscurity. It is obvious why some wish to avoid the public eye, but those who avoid fame don't have to be evil. Evil hides in the darkness, but that doesn't mean that those who wear sunglasses and sunscreen at the beach are really vampires in disguise.
There is a third reason. Winners write history. This is a fact of life. If it seems unfair or depressing, too bad. In any major conflict, the losers are left in a position less than ideal for arguing their viewpoint. Sometimes this is good. No one really wants to read any alternative Nazi history book praising Hitler's final solution. Sometimes this is bad, though. Good people can be silenced too. And killing evil before it can offer explanation ends one threat, but does nothing for the rest.
It's a lot like trying to kill fire ants. You need to know how they operate to kill them (of course, fire ants are far harder to kill than the darkness of the human heart, but the comparison is valid).
In other words, you've gotta read the story to know how it ends. You can skip ahead, but the effect just isn't the same.
Shall we begin?