-the great one: life is a complicated entity, It is characterized by its broad and comprehensive meanings which can create paradoxical Aspects and for that it requires a great amount of knowledge, wisdom and strength to master it a little, we already are sick of the stories of the dawn of great men in history which you can say they have a nice amount of them and trying to bear it with meaningless things such as luck or false hopes and childish hopes will lead to a hard path and the results will be more than catastrophic...

  Darius decided to get on his way into a better life and its direction was the creepy great forest where monsters are taking it as a domain. But it wasn't a big deal because he used to live among them when he was 16 plus He always proclaimed the monster is better than humans: monsters as well as animals are mindless creatures , their cruelty came from their aggressive nature not like humans who choose to be cruel. They have the choice to show empathy, saying gentle words or putting down their swords but they unfortunately don't. At least, these are the people he knew.

  He finally found a good spot where he can stay on and it was a large trunk above in a massive tree: it's very rare to see a monster that attacks in the air and the others usually stay below waiting for the prey to fall down or don't even notice him. He slept that night and in the sunrise of the next day, he took his axe and went to hunt some monsters to eat and to find some water to drink but there is one more thing, he went to cut a tree and split it to pieces so he sculpt them after with the every shape he want and if he got lucky and didn't got caught, he may sell them to people who denies the Prohibition of the art of sculpting, it's a risk worth taken. No one can and wants to live on the monsters's hard and bitter meat as well as a lot of other resources he can't let go off like fire orbs who lights the fire camp. Sarcastic isn't it? The fire kingdom citizens cannot light a flame on their own.

  He finally after time, completed sculpting these statues of him and put it on his leather bag to take it to the pit street: where sell, buy, and exchange the illegal items such as weapons, herbs and also these prohibited things like what he holds.

  This village were on the top right of izirum city gate where you can find its rusty wooden gate and it's dirty river in its right. It has no guards on its gate and also it's houses were so old in away that you think that it will collapse anytime but here where the commerce took place: each one of these homes have a symbol in there doors that determine its merchandise like a symbol of a sword for a weapon shop, a flower for the herb shop and the flame of Ignis for the statues shop he was looking for and that really show the relationship between this village and religion. after all, here we can find most of the criminals, slave's sellers, gangs and of course the fallen ones running from their Duty of repentance like daruis...

  After sometime, he managed to find a shop and so he knocked his door. The door were opened slightly in a way that you can only see the owners eyes and then the merchant asked him what he wanted, he opened his sack a little in a way that he can see what's on it and so he opened his door to let Darius come in and took it the basement where he were able to see all kinds of statues and when he showed him the statues. The merchant were impressed of the quality and Mastery of sculpture is evident on the statues which shows his talent on sculpting, after all and besides his 3 years working for the great temple, when he was living on the forest so long ago he was making them on the shape of monsters he slaughtered...

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  A 2 months had past, and Darius made a lot of deals with this merchant. Also he went some days to the caves on the forest where he can loot the corpses of foolish bounty hunters and arrogant monster's slayers from the legion he was in until the crisis happened 3 years ago and also he sometimes went to harvest some herbs for making some potions and powders he can also sell. You can say that Darius knows truly a lot about this forest from the years he lived here under its shadows.In short, he tried to put his knowledge into action and he's truly making something good out of it but someday, when carried his sack full of statues and went to the same shop again, he found someone who were looking passionately to the ones that Darius made in a big drawer. It seemed like a man the merchant trust, leaving him alone with his things. It's an act you rarely see here. The merchant introduced him to the other as the one creates the beauty out of wood which made the anonymous shake his hands with both. The man kept gracing his pieces calling him "golden hands" which obviously made daruis feel disturbed.

  Anyway, he managed to sell these statues but the man seemed eager to have a drink Darius and he wasn't a downer.

  They went to a nice inn nearby to talk where the man ordered the most expensive wine they have for him and Darius.

  He's name was Jakob barrelheim, the son of Einar the shepherd of barrelheim which this place was in.

  Anyway, they kept chatting about the statues and how they were good and how his a prodigy and all but suddenly, he mentioned a A party he was involved in and how much they loved his sculptures and were eager to meet him. To be honest, daruis wasn't all disturbed: he seemed to like the feeling of being appreciated for things he makes, he missed this feeling so much until he was about to cry in the inn and with a big joyful smile he accepted his request. The reunion of the party is tomorrow night vekkar street which wasn't much far from here...

  He was all excited about the party. he bought some good clothes, went to the river to take a shower and went to a nearby mountain in the forest to gather some flowers to make a smelly perfume.

  The night finally started and Darius went there right in time where was a lot of people, more than he ever imagined. He was happy to know that all these people fell in love with his sculptures and was even more happier when everybody applauded when Jakob introduced him at the start of the party and a lot hand Shaked him. Everybody were well dressed: we're talking about The finest silk was used to make dresses, and the rarest hides from the rarest beasts in the Great Forest were used to make suits.

  The party were full of nobles and the great men of this civilization from all the kingdom and under the low music of pianos and a lower light, daruis had a nice taste of wine that he'll remember a long time but suddenly, the music stopped and Jakob stranded on the stage.

  After that, Darius felt anxious when he started talking: he started talking about Paradoxes in religion.

  he began to talk about the tyranny of the church and the intellectual oppression of the people by them. he started talking about the royal family's propaganda that made themselves gods for being descended from the Ignis lineage while they were also descended from his lineage.

  Then he knew he wasn't in a party, he was in a cult.