A/N: Feels like I haven't updated this story for a while now. I have been focusing on the main story that I completely ignore it. Never mind about that, at least I am updating it. Unlike the others so far, this seems to be an opening passage to a "fictionalised" Fairy Tale that is quite popular with the inhabitants of the World of Remnant. You wanna see? Well, let's get on to the story then. Oh yeah, there are MAJOR SPOILERS that lean towards the main story. Be advised about that, okay.
Dark Souls: Tales of the Other Embers
Three
A Time before Remnant
The land of Remnant wasn't as it used to be.
Long ago, there was a time before the Brothers had made their presence. A time when it was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of grey crags, Archtrees and Eternal Dragons. But then there was Fire, and with it came disparity.
Heat and cold.
Life and death.
And, of course.
Light and dark.
Then, from the Darkness, numerous beings found the Souls with a powerful presence within the flame.
One inherited the power of death.
Another, along with its followers, also inherited the power of chaos.
But the most powerful of them all inherited the power of the sunlight.
With their newfound abilities, they challenged the dragons. Despite the advantages, they were defeated by the three beings after one of their kind betrayed them.
After the war and the extinction of the Eternal Dragons, the three began an age. The Eternal Age of Fire.
A Flame that even has its limits.
Fearing of the Age it had created, the Being of Sunlight sacrificed himself to the Fire to prevent the Darkness from creeping into the land. Although victorious, it didn't come at the cost of every being cursed with immortality. And so, to extend the Age, he created a prophecy.
A Prophecy that tells a Chosen One to link the Fire.
And so, linking… After linking… After linking… After linking… After Linking.
The flame has been artificially relinked numerous times, and the world has become inhabitable. The Immortality Curse sees no end.
When the Chosen One from the dying days of the Age of Fire abandons its duty, Four Chosen Ones again awakened to fulfil the task. Yet only one had taken responsibility.
The Devourer of Humans and Gods who envisions the inevitable Darkness.
The Watchers of the Dark who took oath on a wolf's blood.
And the Lord of a Profaned Capital.
All of whom had abandoned their duty.
Due to this, out of desperation, a bell had rung again. This time, to awaken beings from Ash. Those who were deemed weak to link the Fire.
They had only wanted to seek Embers…
One of those happens to have awakened in a cemetery of Ash.
Unnamed and buried without anything.
He is simply known for many deeds.
Both good and evil.
He would be the one that determines the fate of the World and the Age of Fire.
He is simply known...
As THE Ashen Knight.
A/N: That's one way to open a Fairy Tale story. I wonder who is the 'Ashen Knight'? Guess it will get figured out soon.