Shadowbringer wrote:a boogeyman, a baba yaga, the scary story told around campfires that brings a chill up your spine even if you don't believe. it is the thing that every land, every culture, has a story for—a name for.
shadowbringer.
a name that makes some roll their eyes, and others pray that the legends never ring true. it's a name that even the fiercest of demons fear.
legend has it ly'khiem, the father of demons, created it carefully, meticulously. before the siege upon the heavens, before his destruction, this was the contingency plan. if the siege failed, ly'khiem needn't worry, for the shadowbringer would one day surface in all it's dark glory and set things in motion—it would encase the lands in darkness.
since ly'khiem's destruction, it has only been seen a few times. shadowbringer has no form of its own, no recognizable body, no features, no indication of its presence, but you'll know. oh do you know. the death and destruction it leaves in its wake is unmistakable.
there are those who don't believe, who are certain it's naught but a story concocted to scare the children and keep them in line. it's never been seen of course, never been present for more than a short period of time, but legend tells of a time when the shadowbringer will surface like never before, it tells of a time when it will be unmatched, indestructible, when it will sweep a darkness across the lands that no light could ever penetrate. humans, demons, angels—no creature will be safe from its wrath.
it is the shadow, the dark. it's the apocalypse, ragnarok, the end of all things. it will snuff out the light.
whether you believe the ghost stories, or think they're simply tales meant to frighten, the warning I give you is this:
it's only a story until it's not.