The Bastards of Light
In the year AC'16, during her travels through the Cthonic Remains, the demigod prophetess Zell foresaw a great darkness that would threaten the existence of the realm of Mag Duinn. During this time, the mounting evils would be challenged by a group of heroes. These mythical heroes were known as the 'Bastards of Light'.
Prophecy
The daughter of the Goddess of Prophecy Fedelm, Zell, self exiled herself to the Cthonic Remains, where she worked ethereally to bring the Domain out of the dark ages. During her travels, when she encountered the isolated realm of Mag Duinn, she immediately received a vision of great struggle against a force of darkness.
When the moon at last opens its eye, its borrowed light shall fail, and a living darkness shall sweep the lands beneath it. In its place shall rise the engines of wretched evil. The crown shall pass to another brow, leaving one abandoned to the wheel of fate, when the heart of the goddess is pierced by an ethereal thorn and her wrathful blood feeds the earth.
From that cruel fertility shall corruption flower. Three and three souls shall blacken, while three hidden hands turn the spindle of doom, twisting sacred power into wicked design. From their weaving shall come the cord by which the realm is dragged toward ruin. Through their works, the new king shall ascend, and his endless reign shall leave him lord over naught but ash and sorrow.
Yet against this rising dark shall stand The Bastards of Light, reborn in a land that remembers only night. Untouched by corruption, they shall dance through the blight with a strange and terrible innocence, blind to the snares of wicked men. Though strangers to one another and unchosen by fate, they shall stand as one against the coming design, that hope might yet return to the soil.
The Seven
As news of this prophecy began to spread across the realm, a number of wise men: poets, philosophers and mystics took up the call, pledging their lives to stepping into the roles of the Bastards of Light, serving as a stalwart against the approaching darkness. Among them were Toynbee, Foucault, Rilke, Kierkegaard, Daas, Leary and a Kenku musician by the name of Pica Pau took up the mantle as the incorruptible Bastards of Light. Upon taking their oaths, the group adopted humble robes and hoods that would obscure their identities.
Corruption
One of the seven, the white crow Pica Pau, was brought to ruin by a young woman named Graça Corvinho, who poisoned the birdman's blessed heart with black magic tainted by The Mycelial Thread. This targeted assault on the group was aimed at their very soul - as Pica represented the purity of soul.
As such, the Seven fell into deep contemplation, eventually returning with the sad realization that they were not the warriors of light foretold in the prophecy. Before giving up their life's work, they sought two things: to find the true Bastards of Light, and to stop Pica's rampage before he brought destruction to the entire realm.
