Freeworld: New Team Member on Developer Team!

~Draconus

To give you a sample of the up coming story here is the full new storyline:

The Story:

What was once heaven is now hell. Darkness covers our once beautiful land. There is nothing left now but the stench of death. The few of us that are left fight and squabble amongst themselves. What good is a king when there is no land to rule over? What honor is there left in this land? Hoarders, robbers, murderers and psychotics are all that is left on this dead rock. It is a cruel irony to think that all this bloodshed was caused by one night of infidelity. Our once great King Giocatore had an illegitimate child; an heir to the throne with only half his blood royal. The Queen Evrae pregnant with a true heir to the throne was furious that this child would take the throne instead of her own. She ordered for the child to be banished, and cursed the boy to a life of pain and suffering.

Years passed and the child named Scuro grew; his life was riddled with cruelty and suffering inflicted upon him by the invisible curse of the queen. He knew his fate was to be a desolate loner cursed for being born. This evil he lived with changed the innocent child to a wicked man. In his abandonment he became twisted from his anger and through the darkness he learnt the art of death and with this he used his powers to return to his father in the Grand Citadel of Cielo to request what was rightfully his.

His arrival was known throughout the kingdom. Scuro cut down anyone in his way, spilling blood and spreading pain. He craved to own what he was denied. Marching right into the throne room of the ageing King Giocatore, and demanded that his father would give him his crown. Although Giocatore was happy to see his long lost son, but in his heart he knew if Scuro became King he would destroy the kingdom that Giocatore loved so much. He offered Scuro a deal to make him a prince of princes but he could never become king. It would mean a life of paradise without the burden of a crown. The prodigal son was enraged with the King's offer; it was an insult to all that he had suffered. Scuro vowed vengeance upon the land when the moons align.

Queen Evrae sent her son Prince Arco to find Scuro and kill him before he could fulfill his evil plan. But unfortunately for the Prince, he was lost in the wilderness. Mean while Scuro had returned to where he first learnt the dark arts. Using once more the evil inside of him, he crafted his revenge. But not by the sword did he wield his fury, but by writing. He poured all of his malice, hatred and spite into a dark spell book. Each page filled with arcane workings of a forgotten time.

Not even the king's best advisors could predict when the moons of our world aligned. But one day the sun did not rise, and our world was thrown into chaos. The cursed Scuro's pure hatred for this world brought forth the void. They came and they destroyed our great armies, they consumed our crops and they tore down our once great cities. They nearly wiped us from this planet. But none had so hard as the inhabitants of Grand Citadel of Cielo. While the Citadel burnt to the ground, The King and Queen lay slaughtered in the throne room. And to this day the land is still scarred where Cielo fell. Those that were not slain in the initial onslaught of the void were left cut off and secluded from the rest of the world. Not much is known about what happened to the Scuro, after the spell was cast. Legend has it, what he saw in the void turned him insane.

Retrieving the dark spell book and reversing the spell is the only way to stop the void, but who of you are powerful enough to contain this pure evil? Our fate is in your hands. So what will you become? Will you join the rest of the maggots in this world by murdering your brethren for gold with no value, or will you join the hopeless crusade against the void and try to squash these messengers of death. Will you return this world to safety? Will Seregor ever win its freedom?