Balorbane: Introduction
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Balorbane: Introduction
Here is a tale for the telling. As near to the telling of it as I can remember.
A dark story of a black Mastiff and a Raven; in whose spirit or likeness did they roam the haunted moors?
Bleak and very little populated, a small community of farming people managed to scratch a living from its barren face. Upon such a scene, the only thing anyone should have to deal with is the elements...but there were other events...strange events.
Four brothers, Stickles by name, ravaged the countryside. Attempts to arrest them by human means failed.
A supernatural force takes form in the shape of a black Mastiff, known as The Hound, and its companion, The Raven. Each had its own reason for being rid of the Stickles.
The curse heightens as winter draws nigh with its cold winds and snow covered landscape. “Does good put an end to the wicked, or evil lend a hand to destroy itself? Does a Witch perish in an untimely death, or will she remain alive to torment her tormentors?”
“The seed of the Balorbane, where does it come from, what does it want - who is the last bearer of this evil Bane?”
As far as I can remember, this story does have an ending…or does it? Is it still out there, somewhere upon the moor? Will his shadow follow the innocent as the pale sun sets?
Beware the Balorbane!
- Writer
