In the age before kings, when the world was still wet with the blood of fallen gods, the first Reaper's Fang was forged—not by a smith, but by a betrayal
The blade's origin is carved in the flesh of the dead, whispered in the ruins of the Hollow Court, and etched into the nightmares of those who have held it
Its creator, Vorian the Artificer, was no ordinary smith. A scholar of the old blood-magic, he sought to craft a weapon that could kill the divine. His patron, the Hollow King, demanded a blade that could sever a god's soul from its flesh.
But Vorian was no fool. He knew such power required a sacrifice beyond mortal means.
On the night of the Blood Eclipse, Vorian gathered seven souls:
A knight for strength,a poet for memory,a thief for cunningness a sick child for innocence
a traitor for an insatiable hunger for the blood of the divine
a corrupted priest for faith in the wrong thing and his own wife
One by one, he slit their throats over the molten steel, their screams crystallizing into the blade's edge
When the sword cooled, it did not shine. no like a black hole It absorbs the light around it
The Hollow King being the first test subject vorian named it Reaper's Fang-the first of its kind.
Vorian the Bloodless
The sword's first master was its creator. Vorian used it to butcher the old gods, carving their divinity into his own flesh. But the blade's hunger was insatiable. It demanded more than gods—it wanted kings.
When Vorian refused, the Fang turned on him.
His final act was to sunder his own soul, binding part of it into the blade to weaken its thirst. He died a hollow man—his veins empty, his body unrotting.
The Hollow Dynasty
For centuries, the sword passed through Vorian's bloodline:
Isolde the Mourning Queen – Used it to execute her enemies, only to hear their voices in her dreams. Drowned herself in a river of ink.
Cedric the Shattered – Split the blade's power into seven lesser Fangs, hoping to dilute its curse. The swords only grew hungrier
Marius the Silent– Never spoke a word after drawing it. His last written note: It eats the tongue first.
The Fall of the Hollow Court
The dynasty ended when the last heir, a boy of twelve, burned his own kingdom to ash.
The Fang had whispered to him in his father's voice ,the Blade Became a Curse.the sword's true corruption began not with its forging, but with its first betrayal.
A knight named Rylan the Oathbreaker stole the Fang, believing he could wield it without consequence.the blade showed him visions of his dead lover, promising resurrection if he fed it a hundred souls
Well he did.
She returned-wrong.
Her skin was cold. Her eyes were full of teeth. Rylan begged the sword to take her back.
It laughed after making him dive into the world of insanity
,after Rylan's madness, the blade splintered its own legend.
Some say it duplicates itself, appearing in multiple hands at once. Others claim it rewrites history, making men forget its past wielders,Others claim it derails destiny
But all agree on one truth:
The Fang remembers every kill.
And it hungers to repeat them once again.
Aethon's Father
The man Aethon knew as a simple soldier was, in truth,had fallen prey of this sword with a strange will,falling captive of the swords curse, slipping in and out of madness,put an end to the misery by commiting suicide , thinking that that will silence the sword.But blades like this do not stay buried now, the sword calls thi aethon showing him the strange vision
It shows him visions of the past—not to guide him, but to tempt him
You could be king," it murmurs. *"You could be a god and escape the death of a mortal body
The Blade's Final Secret
Beneath the layers of blood and myth, the Fang's true purpose** remains:
It was never meant to kill gods.
It was meant to replace them.
And Aethon is its final vessel to rule the multiverse.