User:Double Fury/Training

The large man grabbed this torn, and weak man by the throat, lifting him up to look upon his face. The stranger appeared to Beau as beyond a threat to him... It was clear to Beau that this man would fatefully end his life. He didn’t kill him, but stood and released Beau to crash against dead earth.

"Why should I not kill you…?"

Was his question, and Beau replied, all in effort to grovel for his life. He was stopped mid-crying and was told, "If you value your life... You already know what I'm about to say," and was left alone again...

As he hid, a hermit in the Sketti forests, he lived off the land until he was able to search for the man whom spared his life; the dark God-like man who reached to him with a grip only death holds and spared him. Altruis- this man’s name- could "see" Beau before he could come within mortal seeing distance. Beau’s old-world skills of tracking were off-put by the beasts of the new world hunting him down; but, the near-death experience was either to lead him to death itself, or a new life.

As Altruis lead him across the landscape to the vastly untouched lands of Nagrand, Beau was left to encounter him on an open field. He was engaged in open combat with nothing but his own hands against this demonic god, and fell to the earth multiple times, bleeding in his own blood. Finally, he was unable to continue, and was left in ruins.

Beau was denied any training by Altruis, although his arrogance committed him to continuously plead, until the point where he would be beaten until he lost consciousness. Eventually, Altruis smiled down on him, and held his hand. It had been a test; he knew Beau had been through a mortal’s anger, which had blinded him to most pain; but these recent events were a test of his will to survive, the mortal’s ability to continue to live.

His many tests were of defeating simple opponents, to multiple, and even the greater demons of the land. Until he was asked to complete his first test... It was to create chaos upon the old training grounds of the Illdari demon hunters.

As time passed rapidly, Beau learnt of the old tradition painfully. Becoming fully aware of what he had attempted to cheat, he had to take powerful vows of magical binding. Shattrath had now become the central point of the Outland for refugees and the Horde-Alliance struggle to re-take the dying world.

Beau’s next test was of his own. To return to his home world, and purge it of its impure beings. To slaughter all those opposed to the living...