Story Idea (Apprentice to Darkness?)
Bek’dal stared his accusers hard in the eyes, hand tightening on the pommel of his sword and spoke softly, but bold.
“If my life is of no value to my friends, then it is of none to me.”
Then, with one swift, fluid motion, he drew his sword, reversed grip and rammed the blade into his chest. As Bek’dal fell to his knees, both hands on the hilt, he stared at the men seated around him, never wavering, his eyes screaming defiance as they sat in shock, unable to take in such a sudden and rash event.
As the blood seeped out onto the floor, it filled the arcane designs of Death, the Goddess who presides over the Hall of the Condemned)
As the light faded from his eyes, the temple shook. And he changed (was transformed). Flesh turned to shadow and his eyes, casms of flame.
The quote above will of course be changed (being an actual quote and not quite in context), but this passage is a copy/paste from my word document that I wrote right when i got got the idea. The feeling of betrayal, that is what I wished to convey. As you can guess the idea at the moment is that he is wrongfully accused of a crime, a grievous crime, that those of his Order who commit it are punished by death. As he stands on the symbol of Death herself, he kills himself, wishing vengeance on them with shame as one who is sentenced to death escapes under their watch. However, by committing suicide, in such a reckless manner, with his blood covering the symbol of Death he is claimed by her, as her slave, her most powerful servant (he was very powerful and skilled in life, with strong blood and refined as the most elite of the elite of knights and warriors). She transforms him into a completely unique and terrifying creature: a Death Knight. He gains many names, but all are passed down in infamy in fear as he becomes Death's most terrible tool, kept in torment and reminded everyday, every hour by the Bloodstone that adorned the hilt of his sword. Before his transformation it was of the most precious and clearest crystal, but filled with his blood when the blade pierced his heart. Death, then, fills it with all of his sins and crimes, including the atrocities he is forced to commit. However, after some time he buries the sword with the bloodstone, as the torment grows too much, and after a 1000 years of (something) he begins, subtly, becoming a guarding for the people of the continant, finding those who start to find themselves on the wrong path and uses his many abilities.
The actual story, however, will be on one young man, the only young man in the Age like Bek'dal (name subject to change) was in his: Herowraught. This young man begins as the Knight did, innocent, good, but heading toward the Death's Knight fate, almost to exactness. The Death Knight finds him, for the boy finds the Bloodstone, which is the beginning of his Fall... and salvation, for it is the Bloodstone that can throw off the cycle. The book(s) (as of now) will be about the Knight's persuit of the boy (who is joined by his friends who were with him when they find the bloodstone who do not know the Knight's intentions or true history, just the horror stories from ages long gone and the fact that the Death Knight uses all his powers to find the boy, which many are not unlike necromancy and the like, being endowed with these powers by Death herself), then his training of the boy, to become a Hero (better name needed) so he does not end up like himself, and their battle against Death as she attempts to both capture the boy once she finds out about him (which may or may not be during the persuit). There is also a woman in white that I haven't quite figured out how I want to integrate her into the story as of yet.
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