A Tale of Two Brothers
Twelve thousand years ago, the Realm of the Eternal Sun was created by the magic of the First Fire. The First Fire was what the event was called when the sun first bathed the universe with its warm and golden light and embrace. And from the First Fire, all life came into being.
The first children born into existence were the Bewilderbeast Adam and his wife Eve. They would later be known as King Star and Queen Twilight respectfully. From them would descend the direct line of the Royal Holy family. All kings would be known as the strength to deal with peril, while the queens would be the ones to lead in spiritual matters.
Their home The Realm of the Eternal Sun rapidly thrived under their reign. It was said Adam's wisdom was only equal to the love of his people. It was also told if Adam was the sun, his wife Eve was the heavens he resided in. They were each other strength, and their love was as strong and unbreakable as the endless heavens themselves.
Adam and Eve had been blessed to have two sons whom they named Joseph and Haman. The brothers were only two years apart in age but were thick as thieves when they were children. It seemed the family was destined for great things for themselves and all to come in the future.
But as the brothers grew older, things begin to change. While Joseph was insightful, merciful, and a righteous soul, his younger brother Haman was narcissistic, lazy, and indifferent.
It was not uncommon for Haman to break the rules for the sake of 'fun". By the time Haman was twelve, he had gotten into the habit of pummeling others when he didn't get his way. He would also steal from them and keep their most precious things like trophies. He had no qualms about lying to his parents about his disrespectful behavior and seemed to start fights simply because he enjoyed them.
King Adam and Queen Eve tried to be good parents. They didn't spoil or favor either of their sons. They were firm but compassionate and did their best to make sure there was excellent communication. They did their best to teach their children ethical, moral values, along with the value of hard work.
The would let their children fall but also allow them to learn to pick themselves up again. Everything they did was in the hopes they would raise their children to be respectful, honorable, and hard-working people.
But no matter what they did or how good parents they were, their youngest believed with all his soul that his parents favored his older brother and were grossly unfair to him. That they should do what he wanted when he wanted it. That because he was a prince, he didn't need to work for anything it should be handed to him on a silver platter.
Haman never liked or understood those excellent parents don't reward you for bad behavior. Or in life, things are only worth something if you put forth the hard work and effort to achieve them.
That no one, no matter their station in life, is exempt from being punished and disciplined for their misdeeds. That there are always consequences to your actions. That it's a parents' job to set rules and limits to avoid becoming a selfish, lazy immoral brat hopefully.
Sadly Haman never understood any of these concepts and ideas. He would always view himself as the most important person ever, and that power is what made someone strong that he was above showing common courtesy and that other's feelings matter.
Given these warning signs, the family should've been prepared for what happened that tragic day. However, they didn't realize that pure evil lived among them, and they pay a high price for it.
On the eve of Joseph's twenty-first birthday, his brother enacted his evil plot. At three in the morning, the first murder in the Realm of the Eternal Sun was committed.
Haman snuck into his parent's room, and the term bloodbath didn't even begin to cover what happened in their bedroom. No-one was quite sure what drove Prince Haman to commit the murders, but it was overkill.
Each of his parents had over seventy stab wounds, some even postmortem. But he didn't just stab them. He also beat them at the same time to the point their faces were no longer recognizable. But even that wasn't the most gruesome part of murdering his parents.
No, the worse thing he did only amount to one word. Ghoulish. He skinned their bodies before he ate his own parent's flesh and drank their blood. This unspeakable crime was done in just two hours.
Then Haman had gone to kill his brother, but Joseph's bride Mary had been awoken by the murders. She alerted her husband to be. So though they couldn't save the King and Queen, they managed to protect themselves and everyone else.
In honor of their parents' memory, Joseph didn't take his brother's life. He wouldn't do an eye for an eye. Instead, he banished his brother to live for the rest of time in the Pit of Black Flames.
The Pit of Black Flames was the polar opposite of the Realm of the Eternal Sun, and only the evilest beings called that location home. But no one had any idea that this one crime and an act of mercy would come back to bite them in the ass.
If they only knew...