Astaroth The Horned Devil

After The Monarch sacrificed himself in vain during Piyu's Call in attempts to solicit her help, the Lonely Bone of The Monarch was carried outside The Primordial Lands where it was forgotten by the travelers. Even though the soul of The Monarch had died inside the Maw of the Glutton, the Monarch's Heart clung to the Gnawed Bone by both flesh and spirit; the refusal of life to part from this world evident as the bone sprouted calcified roots that began to spread through the vegetation and disturb the ground. On the eve of the Water Bearer's Super Moon, a translucent ivory butterfly fluttered above the staked, mineralized bone that had begun to shape-form into the hilt of a blade, scatterin...View all