User:Selenium/Kyosai

Kyosai Sirin, son of a tailor, whose father had been killed in action, grew up running around the glades, climbing the mountains, fishing at brightwater lake, and so on. When he was about eight years old, he was sitting on the island in Brightwater Lake, and saw a priest fishing with just the pole and string. When he asked what the priest was doing, he said, "Fishing is relaxing, but it is not my wish to harm any living thing." Kyosai shrugged and started a conversation with the priest, and he managed to make friends with him. The man's name was Lucian, and he taught the young boy about the ways of the Light. Soon enough, him and his younger brother were priests of Lordaeron, him, a High Priest. Kyosai Sirin, a former High Priest of Lordaeron, served the light, and was a man of honor. When the plague came, two of the paladins that had been corrupted attempted to murder him, and when he called on the light for help, it was gone. He killed the paladins at the cost of his own life, and while he was dead, the voice of Sylvannas spoke to him. She said, "Kyosai, you can't rely on the light any longer, instead, let shadow be your guide, and be a shadow priest of the Forsaken." When he heard this, his soul was still burning with hatred towards the scourge and paladins, and his rage turned to flame, as he now serves the Forsaken as a vicious fire mage with an intense hatred towards alliance. It is a wonder how he still holds his mind, and honor.

For the twelve years that Kyosai had been studying the Light, he had always remained true and honorable to its teachings and the ruler of Lordaeron Castle. He lived a fair life, and never got angry at anybody. That is...Until the time of the Plague. Two corrupt Paladins had become corrupt, and decided to kill the citizens of Lordaeron. Their first target was Kyosai, a bad mistake.. In the middle of prayer, he was backstabbed by the Paladins, and fell to the ground, a pool of his own blood quickly surrounding him.

The Paladins assumed he was dead on the spot, but he turned slowly around and watched them attempt to exit the room and kill the next innocent. In the middle of a doorway, a wave of ice swept across the floor, freezing the Paladin's feet to the ground. They begun to remove the spell, but suddenly their minds went blank. A large fireball burnt through them both, and then Lucian, followed by a skilled Mage of Lordaeron, stepped through the doorway, pushing aside the scum. Lucian began to heal him, as the Mage stepped up to him, and asked "Are you all right, Kyosai?" Finding himself completely restored, he answered "Yes...Thanks to you two, anyways." The mage had already known what Kyosai was thinking. "The Light in this world is fading quickly, that is why it has betrayed you, why you were not offered any protection from those fiends. If you still wish to be a Priest, then so be it. But if not, come with me, and I will teach you the ways of the Magi, as Lucian told me you're an excellent pupil. My name, by the way, is Cairn Sirin.

Kyosai's eyes grew wide to hear his father's name. "How!? I thought you had died in battle!" "Almost, my son...Almost...But who do you think helped me up other than Lucian? Now come...Let us begin our training in Lordaeron's Mage Guild. Kyosai lived ten more years, and became an intermediate Mage, and then was killed by the plague, in Lordaeron's last moments. While he was dead, he could only remember the sound of footsteps, the crackling of fire, screams of agony, and his own maniacal laughter. Then he heard the voice of Lady Sylvannas, she told him: "Kyosai...I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have been serving the Lich King's army...But you've been defeated at last, and now I may bring you back into this world. I'm sorry, but we need your help, and unless you want to kill innocents again, we'll have to destroy you, or recruit you." At that moment, his soul burned with hatred, hatred for the Scourge, for Paladins, for anything Light, and his eyes almost turned to flames entirely. "I will join you, Sylvannas Windrunner...To take my vengeance."